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Trunk

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Tree

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Drew

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Kobayashi

WR from Honolulu that graduated HS in 2016 with Tua Tagovailoa. Enrolled in Cal and redshirted his freshman year. Left after Dykes canned and Wilcox becomes new coach. Goes to Riverside JC, registering 4 caches for 27 yards over 6 of Riverside's 12 games in its 2017 season. He gets a PWO at Wazzu for 2018 where he is buried in the depth chart and no playing time. Drew leaves Wazzu and goes to [checks notes] Alabama. He is buried on the depth chart and doesn't see the field in 2019 or 2020. He does not take his sixth year, but does stay at Alabama for 2021 where he graduates with a General Studies degree in 2021.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-kobayashi-56566a1a6/

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Kobayashi Maru - something from the original Trek

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Jul 25, 2023·edited Jul 25, 2023

An echo of which shows up in Wrath of Khan.

"What do you think of my solution?"

- Mr. Spock

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Oh wow thanks for the details. I had forgotten about him, but I remember him well. I had no idea he played with Tua in high school.

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Joe

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Starkey - still fired?

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Cuppa...

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Jul 24, 2023Liked by SGBear

Roth

Never give up.

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Kapp

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Spivey

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Igber

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Montana

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Frank

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Burns.

A football coach (at Rutgers, by the way) and a fictional character (M*A*S*H).

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FRANK AND BEANS! FRANK AND BEANS!

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How’d you get the beans above the frank?

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My Dad

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Shorter. Watching him in the '76 Olympic marathon is what got me started in running.

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Sinatra

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Nancy

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Drew.

Much to my mother’s chagrin I ran down many flashlight batteries reading Nancy Drew mysteries under the covers (on a school night)!

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Speaking of Nancy Drew, has anyone else read Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson? Laughed so much this weekend with that one, probably my favorite read of the past few years.

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Sinatra

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These Boots are made for Walkin'

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Here's my weird flex of the day. Nancy Sinatra follows me on Twitter.

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DBD AV CLUB

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Jul 24, 2023·edited Jul 24, 2023

I am hunkered down at the cabin this week while the city of Santa Barbara wreaks havoc on the streets of my neighborhood, which led to the great rodent Armageddon of ‘23, now currently taking place at Casa de Chitwood…but anyways…

…in anticipation of seeing Oppenheimer next week, I finally watched Interstellar, Nolan’s previous foray into Sci-fi. I liked it, though as a History major and liberal arts guy that has avoided math and science like the plague, I really couldn’t understand anything more than the basic gist…all the minutia, which was apparently rather accurate according to smart people, was way beyond my paygrade (SWIDT?)….but I can just imagine the conversation that would have taken place between Ma and Nana Chitwood were they EVER to have seen this flick…yikes.

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I watched 65 on Netflix this weekend. This movie was terrible. Nothing memorable about it at all.

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Barbenheimer

apparently it is a thing to do to watch both back-to-back or in very short amount of time.

older daughter watched both this weekend and enjoyed them both.

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I had the tickets to do Barbieheimer - but ended up having to miss Barbie because I was stuck on the golf course and couldn't make it in time - ended up seeing Barbie on Saturday instead (and Oppenheimer on Thursday)

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Did she pay for both or just pay for one and sneak into the second?

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Oppenheimer

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No 1 and his GF and friend went to the Piedmont Theater to watch it. Didn't really like it, especially for a 3+ hour movie. Didn't help that the AC went out halfway through on one of the hottest days of the week.

He did say a big cheer happened when the campus was shown.

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It was so good. An epic biopic - the cinematogparhy and sound design were breath taking, very interesting story - and of course being a Nolan movie, the weaving timelines between the renewal of his security clearance and the cabinet post hearings. Lots and lots of UC Berkeley on-location shots (VLSB! Edwards Stadium! The Campinile! Prof. Lawrence!)

Edited to add - like almost all Nolan pics - Kitty (Emily Blunt) and Jean Tatlock (Flo Pugh) are underwritten but both actresses are immense. But Cillian Murphy has to be the leader in the clubhouse for best actor this Oscars; Nolan for director and Luwdig Gorresson for soundtrack - and production design and sound design and cinematography were all immense. I may have to see it again but right now it's in the running for my film of the year (Past Lives and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse are the other two)

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I'm so sure it will be great...

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Jul 24, 2023·edited Jul 24, 2023

The film works in large part because of Cillian Murphy who, contrary to my initial reaction to his casting, is letter perfect for the lead role. Mostly he has the face, that incredible face that told so much while keeping so many secrets. He also has the voice, which was so intelligent and interesting with its odd inflections. I can’t imagine anyone doing a better job.

I also felt like Nolan trusted the audience to draw their own conclusions about the man. It was not aggrandizing, apologetic or critical. It gave us a lot but left us room to think.

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Saw it yesterday. Highly recommend it to one and all. Anytime a film as multiple shots of the Cal campus you know it's going to be good. Disappointed that they didn't include a scene of the titular character attending a football game at Memorial Stadium.

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Barbie

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Way better movie than any movie about a plastic doll had a right to be. Gerwig and Margot Robbie teamed up to tell a poignant, emotional and wickedly funny story about growing up. Lots of themes inspired by Truman Show and Toy Story - but there was a list of 33 movies Gerwig talked about inspiring Barbie https://youtu.be/s2rNnOGfmv0

It was so so funny and so emotional. Not really a kids movie, but my screening had a ton of kids (It's not raunchy or anything but there's a lot of deeper themes and meaning that will go over younger kids heads)

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It's spread a little thin and some of the subplots and character arcs don't really go anywhere, but on the whole it was really quite fun. "Better than it has any right to be" is absolutely right. Margot Robbie should absolutely be Oscar-nominated for a very nuanced and versatile performance and Ryan Gosling is hilarious and giving it 110%.

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DBD Street Journal

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Booz Allen settles with the US Governmetn for $377m for overcharging over a 10 year period

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4111029-booz-allen-pays-377m-settlement/

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Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com in year 2000. He was replaced by Thiel. Welp, he rebrands Twitter as X because he's a melonheaded weirdo where nobody can tell him no.

This fake post made me lol.

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1683282922617315329

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SBC woke up one day & realized they owned AT&T while in the midst of trying to make SBC into a national brand. Someone in the C-suite dropped their ego & said words like 'why don't we just go with the century old name'? And millions of dollars in wasted branding were saved.

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It's almost a hollow X windows logo.

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If you are going to ditch the brand, why even buy it? Why not just start a new company?

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Same can be asked for HBO. Why drop HBO for Max?

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Elon's just trying to prove he can turn anything to shite.

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Woman who was a fake elector for Michigan says she is innocent because a) she thought she was just signing a sign-in sheet that was then copied against her will, b) thought she signing an affidavit that Trump won the election, and c) she was duped by lawyer into signing a document declaring she was an elector. This is a tiny article, but she claimed all three of these things happened:

https://deadstate.org/woman-who-faces-80-years-in-prison-for-fake-elector-scheme-says-she-was-duped-by-trumps-lawyer-into-signing-document/

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[WaPo] There is a text by Mark Meadows:

"In a text message that has been scrutinized by federal prosecutors, Meadows wrote to a White House lawyer that his son, Atlanta-area attorney Blake Meadows, had been probing possible fraud and had found only a handful of possible votes cast in dead voters’ names, far short of what Trump was alleging. The lawyer teasingly responded that perhaps Meadows’s son could locate the thousands of votes Trump would need to win the election. The text was described by multiple people familiar with the exchange.

The jocular text message is one of many exchanges from the time in which Trump aides and other Republican officials expressed deep skepticism or even openly mocked the election claims being made publicly by Trump, according to people familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the criminal investigation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/22/mark-meadows-georgia-election-results-2020-fraud-claims/

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A Lansing MI Catholic primary/middle school is arguing in court that its students shouldn't wear masks because it represent a violation of religious freedom, citing that masks shield faces that were create in God's image. By that logic, kids should go naked to school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/07/21/catholic-school-masks-image-god/

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That article is more than 2 years old. The school named in the article, Resurrection School, lost their case.

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PRO

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Sigh, A's lost at the end of the game. 😢

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Giants give the Nats their first 3-game sweep in 24 months.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401472517

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I was just reading the WaPo story of yesterday's game. For the series, Giants 0-17 with RISP and Nats were 14-32.

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Phillies lose 1-0 because of this...

https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1682915513695981568

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Good job by the runner who was busting ass with two outs on what should have been a routine play.

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Yeah, in today's game 50-50 chance he's just jogging to the next base...

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It should have been a routine play. It looks like it came straight out of Little League.

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Home Field "Advantage". England don't get a chance as Australia retains the Ashes

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/66279872?

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Jonas Vingegaard Part Deux

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/66285026

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ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE

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Let's see how Charlie Ragle and Beau Baldwin left Idaho State and Cal Poly respectively. They are now ST and OC/QB coaches at ASU.

https://twitter.com/BigSkyConf/status/1683493532907245568/photo/1

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Baldwin & Ragle both hold school records for lowest winning percentage in Idaho State and Cal Poly football history

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Along with Musgrave and Angus…yikes, Justin, just yikes.

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Crap gets deeper over in Evanston

https://twitter.com/ESPNRittenberg/status/1683300183285833728

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When checking the link I got my first glimpse of the Twitter X.

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"X never, ever marks the spot."

- Indiana Jones

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Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.: “That’s the Arc of the Covenant.”

Dr. Ilsa Schneider: “Are you sure?”

Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.: “Pretty sure.”

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[Roll introduction to Key & Peele East/West College Bowl Skit]

https://twitter.com/247sports/status/1682502704474779648

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