8.4% of Americans are unvaccinated against polio. Apropos: the US reported its first polio case in over a decade. If you travel abroad, the CDC recommends that you get a polio booster - which is only required once in your lifetime.
Cats (family felidae) are split between larger cats who roar (lions, tigers, leopards and panthers - sub-family pantherinae) and cats who purr (cougars, ocelots, bobcats, cheetahs, and uh, cats - sub-family felinae) there is only one cat who is stuck between purring and roaring, and that is the snow leopard.
the (online) scholarship is mixed. Some sites say they can roar (sounds like a chuff to me) and some sites say they can purr. They the physiology of other leopards but it seems like their vocalizations aren't quite as well defined - might also be because they're super rare.
Despite their size and weight, moose are very adept swimmers. They are able to swim for several miles and can even be totally submerged under the water for around 30 seconds.
Chris Pine (UC Berkeley, BA English 2002) and Michelle Rodriguez will star in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Honestly, D&D probably has negative equity value, so I'm thinking this film will not do well and go to streaming pretty quickly. That being said, my inner nerd likes that there is an owlbear, mimic, gelatinous cube, and an acid-spewing black dragon.
TIL: Chris Pine's wiki page says he was in Beta Alpha Psi business fraternity at UC Berkeley, which I doubt. I was an officer of BAP and you had to be an accounting major with a high GPA to be in it. Pine was an English major and far too handsome to be in it.
Saw the Melvins last night at Cornerstone in Berkeley. For dudes pushing 60, they still put on a fantastic show. The opener Helm’s Alee, one of my favorite newish bands, played a very Melvins influenced set. Sadly since it was the last show of the tour and the merch was basically non-existent, save for a lone 3XL shirt and some used drum sticks and a smattering of vinyl. 20/19 WB
Hey Students Bears and I had a lovely lunch in Manhattan yesterday. Lovely cocktail followed by various dried meats + white-carbs topped with fat and stinky preserved seafood delights. I took an hour-long train ride gently rocking me in the heat, which means I took a 4 hour nap afterwards. My sleep-eat-train-eat-train-sleep-eat-sleep day was pretty much a perfect day.
Wife made Chicken teriyaki last night with onions & orange bell peppers over udon noodles - very tasty - goofed and opened a boodle of Riesling - even though there was already one in the fridge - had for lunch, yum.
Also for $100 (+ gear or scuba fees) you can harvest up to 7 spiny lobster per day from Southern CA waters between Oct-Mar, making it much more affordable.
I have worked on some law firm insolvencies, and there are always a few key folks who, if they depart, will trigger a death spiral of reduced revenue and thus more departures which reduces revenue even more and so on until a chapter 7 trustee takes over.
Law firms are weird things but on some level I think that is true of any company. If some key engineers leave a tech company, key scientists leave a biotech, key bankers leave a bank, and so on, it can cause the company to crater. A company is just a legal fiction anyway; it ultimately does not and cannot exist without people.
It isn’t that we aren’t all replaceable, it is how easily is one replaced without any noticeable decline in productivity or importance within your organization. I would be very difficult to replace.
Inspector General of DHS has turned the lack of Secret Service texts into a criminal probe. Somewhere out there, Secret Service Director James Murray is sweating and is worrying about his retirement from the Service at the end of this month.
it's amazing to me that he's still trying this, that there's no effort to conceal the witness tampering, etc. He really is a low-grade aspirational mob boss
The GOP has censured Rusty Bowers (Speaker of AZ House of Reps) for refusing to let his party overturn the election, calls for his ousting in the primary because he testified for J6.
Rudy Giuliani ordered to appear in GA re: election tampering. Any bets that he fails to appear given that he failed to appear at his NYC order-to-appear?
I keep hoping that at some point one of these goons gets put away for basic non-compliance. If it's good enough for poor criminals, it should be good enough to seditionists, even if they weren't very good at it.
Yesterday, the State rested in its case against Steve Bannon. Today, Bannon's lawyers went with the no-defense strategy, calling no witnesses and went straight to closing remarks this afternoon. #BoldMoveCotton
Steven Miller and Steve Bannon being set adrift on an ice floe in the North Atlantic would bring me a lot of happiness. Launch Jared Kushner into space, but without a rocket. Just a giant slingshot.
GOP lawmaker who gave Jan. 5 tour wants to investigate Jan. 6 panel
(Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who led a tour of the Capitol complex on the eve of the riot and faced questions for it earlier this year, may soon chair the committee in charge of Hill security.)
[ESPN] Former Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel DFA'd by DBacks after he served up a ton of fat pitches against the SF Giants. 2.1 INN, 62 pitches, 8 H, 8R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 4 K. He was so bad that the Dback didn't even want him at the league minimum. Meanwhile, the White Sox are paying him $18m this year.
that was atrocious. I went to the Everton - Arsenal exhibition match this past Saturday and thought that was poor but within normal parameters. The game against Minneapolis was a flashing red light about how the team will cope with losing their best player over the summer.
Watched some of the Man City vs Club America last night, which Man City won 2-1, funny thing is (and better?) is how few fouls the refs call on exhibition games like this.
Hot take on Realignment: “… college football as we’ve known it for three decades— is on the verge of being eviscerated on three fronts. Networks are poaching the best brands. Universities are poaching the best coaches. Boosters are poaching the top players.” Just had to share this depressing but insightful quote from the Denver post. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/21/cu-buffs-big-12-pac-12-ncaa-realignment/
That’s just it! For schools like Cal and everyone outside of the SEC and now the BIG, we were never going to be competitive with them given the reality of big money 💰 in sports but now it’s been pretty much legalized. So it’ll be the semi pro teams affiliated with schools in name only versus the still real student athletes.
Buying a 2010 Mazda 3 hatch later this afternoon for No 2. It's got about 82K on it. Seems to be in very good condition with the usual maintenance required (fluids, etc). New tires and good brakes so nothing expensive. Small valve cover gasket leak, which I'll probably let my mechanic do since I haven't done one of those and we'll be driving it to Nashville in a few weeks. I'll take care of everything else (oil, transmission fluid, coolant, plugs, filters, etc).
Prices are outrageous for everything. Got it for 11750 which may be a little high but it's a 1 owner car that was basically driven around town.
Port of Oakland remains blocked due to trucker strike
https://apnews.com/article/california-oakland-traffic-shipping-f24020a01a1737752ca941ad96bbf340
8.4% of Americans are unvaccinated against polio. Apropos: the US reported its first polio case in over a decade. If you travel abroad, the CDC recommends that you get a polio booster - which is only required once in your lifetime.
https://apnews.com/article/polio-case-new-york-4c1e2512145a1d897982f27507259d83
Black Mirror "Metalhead" is now.
https://twitter.com/sonicmega/status/1549651495997476864
I liked that episode.
Hey, ladies. A way to man's heart is through his stomach... but you may want to start with his nose.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/velveeta-nail-polish-cheese-scented-nails-inc
Ah yes, cocaine.
Give the DBD an animal fact
Every male of the Australian marsupial mouse ("antechinus") dies after a giant gangbang due to corticosteroid poisoning due to competitive stress
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0016648080901227
That’s the way I hope to die one day.
Horseshoe crabs' blood is blue because it is copper-based, not iron-based.
More on Horseshoe crabs, since they're a favorite of mine. An extract of their blood is used for a very sensitive assay for gram negative bacteria.
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2021/09/29/covid-19-horseshoe-crabs-lal-william-sargent
NASA flew a version of this on the space station.
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20080023405
https://www.criver.com/eureka/from-horseshoe-crabs-to-the-depths-of-space
Cats (family felidae) are split between larger cats who roar (lions, tigers, leopards and panthers - sub-family pantherinae) and cats who purr (cougars, ocelots, bobcats, cheetahs, and uh, cats - sub-family felinae) there is only one cat who is stuck between purring and roaring, and that is the snow leopard.
What does the snow leopard do? Neither of those?
the (online) scholarship is mixed. Some sites say they can roar (sounds like a chuff to me) and some sites say they can purr. They the physiology of other leopards but it seems like their vocalizations aren't quite as well defined - might also be because they're super rare.
Horse can only breathe through nostrils yet has a lung capacity of about 60 liters compared to 6 liters for human
Despite their size and weight, moose are very adept swimmers. They are able to swim for several miles and can even be totally submerged under the water for around 30 seconds.
DBD AV CLUB
Chris Pine (UC Berkeley, BA English 2002) and Michelle Rodriguez will star in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Honestly, D&D probably has negative equity value, so I'm thinking this film will not do well and go to streaming pretty quickly. That being said, my inner nerd likes that there is an owlbear, mimic, gelatinous cube, and an acid-spewing black dragon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII#t=7s
TIL: Chris Pine's wiki page says he was in Beta Alpha Psi business fraternity at UC Berkeley, which I doubt. I was an officer of BAP and you had to be an accounting major with a high GPA to be in it. Pine was an English major and far too handsome to be in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine
Saw the Melvins last night at Cornerstone in Berkeley. For dudes pushing 60, they still put on a fantastic show. The opener Helm’s Alee, one of my favorite newish bands, played a very Melvins influenced set. Sadly since it was the last show of the tour and the merch was basically non-existent, save for a lone 3XL shirt and some used drum sticks and a smattering of vinyl. 20/19 WB
I like the Melvins...
DBD FOOD
Hey Students Bears and I had a lovely lunch in Manhattan yesterday. Lovely cocktail followed by various dried meats + white-carbs topped with fat and stinky preserved seafood delights. I took an hour-long train ride gently rocking me in the heat, which means I took a 4 hour nap afterwards. My sleep-eat-train-eat-train-sleep-eat-sleep day was pretty much a perfect day.
Wife made Chicken teriyaki last night with onions & orange bell peppers over udon noodles - very tasty - goofed and opened a boodle of Riesling - even though there was already one in the fridge - had for lunch, yum.
So... oodles of noodles with double-doobles by Cugels?
😂
If life was fair donuts would be good for you, lobster would be inexpensive and you'd never get neck freeze while eating ice cream.
Up until the mid 1800s lobsters were a sign of poverty and/or being a prisoner.
Also for $100 (+ gear or scuba fees) you can harvest up to 7 spiny lobster per day from Southern CA waters between Oct-Mar, making it much more affordable.
No wonder they're called the good ole days.
It's about the time to make my brother's birthday pie, which is mostly this: https://smittenkitchen.com/2018/04/triple-coconut-cream-pie/
Love Smitten Kitchen
REPLACEABLE
Mark Fox
I have worked on some law firm insolvencies, and there are always a few key folks who, if they depart, will trigger a death spiral of reduced revenue and thus more departures which reduces revenue even more and so on until a chapter 7 trustee takes over.
Law firms are weird things but on some level I think that is true of any company. If some key engineers leave a tech company, key scientists leave a biotech, key bankers leave a bank, and so on, it can cause the company to crater. A company is just a legal fiction anyway; it ultimately does not and cannot exist without people.
Pac 12
It isn’t that we aren’t all replaceable, it is how easily is one replaced without any noticeable decline in productivity or importance within your organization. I would be very difficult to replace.
Not me, not really. Not that I'm perfect on everything, but still.
in work terms, most of us
I thought this was going to be about the Beyoncé song!
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Michigan QB Cade McNamara hands a food tray to an inmate, who responds accordingly
https://twitter.com/chengelis/status/1550162939235147776
[ESPN] Georgia's Kirby Smart $112.5m / 10-years
https://twitter.com/ClowESPN/status/1550140114319319041
ACC Media Days 2022: Jim Phillips says 'everything is on the table' amid changing college football landscape
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/acc-media-days-2022-jim-phillips-says-everything-is-on-the-table-amid-changing-college-football-landscape/
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Inspector General of DHS has turned the lack of Secret Service texts into a criminal probe. Somewhere out there, Secret Service Director James Murray is sweating and is worrying about his retirement from the Service at the end of this month.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/dhs-launched-criminal-probe-destruction-jan-6-secret-service-text-mess-rcna39392
Brandon has La Rona
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/biden-tests-positive-covid-white-house-says-rcna39334
WI Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Vos said Trump called him last week to get him to overturn the 2020 election.
https://www.wisn.com/article/vos-says-donald-trump-called-in-another-push-decertify-2020-presidential-results/40656921#
it's amazing to me that he's still trying this, that there's no effort to conceal the witness tampering, etc. He really is a low-grade aspirational mob boss
He's such a 1980s "business person" too - all of his work is done by calling people up and yelling at them
Trumpy is unfamiliar with the concept of, "that ship has sailed."
J6 public hearing today, starting 4pm PT/7pm ET
UC Davis confirms what we already knew...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/19/one-in-five-us-adults-condone-political-violence-survey
The GOP has censured Rusty Bowers (Speaker of AZ House of Reps) for refusing to let his party overturn the election, calls for his ousting in the primary because he testified for J6.
https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1549710645473468416
John Fetterman is undefeated
https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1549785219598794754
[Chef's kiss]
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1549860966266851330
Rudy Giuliani ordered to appear in GA re: election tampering. Any bets that he fails to appear given that he failed to appear at his NYC order-to-appear?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-ordered-to-appear-in-georgia-trump-investigation/
He'll show up, but it'll be at the Georgia Landscaping Company.
Four Seasons Landscaping literally exists in Georgia
https://goo.gl/maps/kv27HoN8KVnKkvVM8
https://www.fourseasonslandscapes.net/
I keep hoping that at some point one of these goons gets put away for basic non-compliance. If it's good enough for poor criminals, it should be good enough to seditionists, even if they weren't very good at it.
Yesterday, the State rested in its case against Steve Bannon. Today, Bannon's lawyers went with the no-defense strategy, calling no witnesses and went straight to closing remarks this afternoon. #BoldMoveCotton
Steve Bannon in prison for a bit would bring me a lot of happiness.
Steve Bannon getting shanked in prison would bring me a lot of happiness
Steven Miller and Steve Bannon being set adrift on an ice floe in the North Atlantic would bring me a lot of happiness. Launch Jared Kushner into space, but without a rocket. Just a giant slingshot.
GOP lawmaker who gave Jan. 5 tour wants to investigate Jan. 6 panel
(Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who led a tour of the Capitol complex on the eve of the riot and faced questions for it earlier this year, may soon chair the committee in charge of Hill security.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/21/jan-6-riot-trump-capitol-00047018
PRO
People are still trying to kill Jack Bauer
https://twitter.com/sporza_koers/status/1550098770595028997
The Portland Pickles (college summer baseball league) commemorated the 1970 Florence Oregon dead whale dynamiting
https://twitter.com/picklesbaseball/status/1549998677212639232
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuaSY0cMK8#t=2m
Charlotte equalizes Chelsea 1-1 over two minutes into stoppage, wins on PKs 5-3 after Conor Gallagher executes terribly on a penenka
https://twitter.com/ChanceMissed/status/1549994357545222151
[ESPN] Former Cy Young winner Dallas Keuchel DFA'd by DBacks after he served up a ton of fat pitches against the SF Giants. 2.1 INN, 62 pitches, 8 H, 8R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 4 K. He was so bad that the Dback didn't even want him at the league minimum. Meanwhile, the White Sox are paying him $18m this year.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34273876/sources-ex-cy-young-award-winner-dallas-keuchel-dfad-diamondbacks-four-winless-starts
Thanksgiving is going to be a bit weird at the O'Neal household this year
https://twitter.com/JoshGerben/status/1549400360003031040
Who throws a fish? Honestly.
https://twitter.com/jmanuelfigueroa/status/1546245433214636032
That’s too funny. Looks like he was “injured” as well.
Edmonton Oilers' owner is accused of being a pedophile
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/daryl-katz-ballerina-sex-allegations-1.6526941
Minn United 4 - Everton 0
https://twitter.com/Everton/status/1549936694492889090
that was atrocious. I went to the Everton - Arsenal exhibition match this past Saturday and thought that was poor but within normal parameters. The game against Minneapolis was a flashing red light about how the team will cope with losing their best player over the summer.
Man, the Giants in outfield are pretty damn bad.
Last night was a microcosm of what it is to be a Giants fan.
Just turned on the TV and A's are on the mlb network. Looks like a nice day and there are some folks there but A's not doing much so far.
Watched some of the Man City vs Club America last night, which Man City won 2-1, funny thing is (and better?) is how few fouls the refs call on exhibition games like this.
CAL
UC plans to significantly increase enrollment throughout this decade
https://twitter.com/mzinshteyn/status/1549937942629470208
Go Bears!!!
ALL FOR ONE! All for one!
ONE FOR ALL! One for all!
WE COME TO FIGHT! We come to fight!
'TIL WE CAN'T FIGHT NO MORE! Til we can't fight no more!
LAY DOWN AND BLEED A WHILE! Lay down and bleed a while!
GET UP, FIGHT SOME MORE! Get up, fight some more!
GO CALI! GO CALI! GO CALI! GO CALI!
Hot take on Realignment: “… college football as we’ve known it for three decades— is on the verge of being eviscerated on three fronts. Networks are poaching the best brands. Universities are poaching the best coaches. Boosters are poaching the top players.” Just had to share this depressing but insightful quote from the Denver post. https://www.denverpost.com/2022/07/21/cu-buffs-big-12-pac-12-ncaa-realignment/
Doesn't seem like this involves Cal. Or about half the Pac, 12 or 10.
That’s just it! For schools like Cal and everyone outside of the SEC and now the BIG, we were never going to be competitive with them given the reality of big money 💰 in sports but now it’s been pretty much legalized. So it’ll be the semi pro teams affiliated with schools in name only versus the still real student athletes.
World's most powerful and weakest passports
https://thepointsguy.com/news/worlds-most-powerful-passports-revealed-2022/
DBD Auto
How about DBD Otto, instead?
https://c.tenor.com/WTs3inWXZp8AAAAC/airplane-movie.gif
Porter, Jr. Can JaMychal Green replace him?
Buying a 2010 Mazda 3 hatch later this afternoon for No 2. It's got about 82K on it. Seems to be in very good condition with the usual maintenance required (fluids, etc). New tires and good brakes so nothing expensive. Small valve cover gasket leak, which I'll probably let my mechanic do since I haven't done one of those and we'll be driving it to Nashville in a few weeks. I'll take care of everything else (oil, transmission fluid, coolant, plugs, filters, etc).
Prices are outrageous for everything. Got it for 11750 which may be a little high but it's a 1 owner car that was basically driven around town.