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What’s your favorite beach in the Contingental US?
I'm sorry to have to bring this up but it's become clear that a lot of people here are overdoing casual Friday. Please let's be professionals. No shorts, no sandals and no tee shirts. Thanks everybody.
This reminds me. My wife took me to a restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for my birthday. We had a reservation but they didn't have a seat for us. They ended up putting us in the middle. All night long, waiters used my back and arm to navigate the corner. My wife told them it was my birthday, so they brough me a slice of cake with a big sparkler on it. They charged me for the cake and an extra $10 for the sparkler.
My BIL was in NYC this last week and said prices for food seemed to have gone up a lot since he was last there. Not sure where he went, but he said a burger was like $25.
I like Montara in Pacifica - the red crumbly cliffs are cool and kind of highlight the impossible vastness of the ocean. Feels like you are standing on the edge of the universe
Top: Bald Head Island's. There are no cars on the island and it's a pain to get out there via Ferry, so there's almost nobody on the beach. On the Southeast corner of the island, the beach comes to a little triangle point that points southeast - so basically you have the Atlantic Ocean around you for about 270 degrees around you. The beach is white powder and it's glorious. And since the point juts into the ocean, you can watch the sunset in the West.
i like mostly non-sandy beaches w/ little or no people
my favorite is Rialto Beach in Olympic NP that has all these piles of driftwood. you can walk a long time on the driftwood w/o even touching the ground if you were playing the "floor is lava" game.
Not sure I have one. Recently the most time I've spent on a beach is getting Oscar's fish tacos and eating at Pacific Beach and watching the sunset in SD. Other than that, I guess I never spent much time at the beach during my youth.
Huntington, mostly for nostalgia. I used to go there frequently when I was in high school and after I got my driver's license. Close second is Newport.
Newport is my top pick. My aunt and uncle used to have an amazing old house on a double lot with a big yard at 12th and Oceanfront, right between the piers. I have spent so many great days on that beach.
West coast fans tuned in for a 9 AM first pitch of Thursday’s game with a breakfast tray of granola, Greek yogurt and fresh fruit and ended it five and a half hours later surrounded by cups of black coffee and empty packs of cigarettes.
Two separate hour-long rain delays, three leads lost, 11 2-out RBIs, 10 walks, 21 strikeouts, 10 runs scored in the last two innings, four mid-inning pitching changes, three errors in the 10th—it was a marathon of a game, a beast of one who’s importance swelled, growing wild and unkempt like the hair of Chia Pet, the longer the rain fell.
Note to the Baseball Commissioner, your pandering to the limited attention span of idiots who do not appreciate the grit and gravity of real baseball has failed to abbreviate this slugfest.
There's no time limits in real baseball. Real baseball as though one slips into a timeless, Heavenly contest of man against gravity. Baseball is Heaven and you're the Devil to it, Commissioner.
I dunno, I love baseball but the sheer volume of pitching changes to random middle reliever specialists was getting mind numbing. Red Sox-NYY games in particular were unwatchable. I think the changes are good. The game has always been changing. I think if it ossifies, it dies
Measures to keep the game moving and reduce unnecessary (weather delays are not included) delay/dead time are not wrong, and not necessarily at odds with long games. No one minds long games if compelling, or at least relevant, to the outcome, events are ongoing. Its wasted time that people hate.
I've done plenty of "short" games in various sports that were still way too long, and marathon-length ones that no one wanted to see end.
Cross-Fit: It finally happened. Someone died during the the CrossFit Games as the 800m swim, which was last in a run/swim event. The victim played water polo for 10 years.
F1 Team Red Bull has investigated themselves in the alleged inappropriate behavior of their team boss and found nothing wrong. The whistleblower remains suspended.
Anyone else think NBC deciding to pick up coverage of the WBB semi-final at about half time, after much of the critical and determitive play has already occurred, MIGHT be sub-optimal?
Not that NBC's coverage has been anything close to organized and easy to plan or follow to begin with (seems to be generally the hallmark of a network using a random spray gun as a strategy).
I checked both, couldn't find it. That was the case with a USA MBB game. And they sure don't bother with an up to date where-is-it-now resource. Those needing to record events to watch later are out of luck. This is not a technology limitation, it is poor production work.
ICYMI: Cal junior Mykolas Alekna won silver in the discus. He did great and should have won, but Jamaica's Rojé Stona went out of his mind to throw his best ever and pip Alekna by about one inch
one of the more appealing pics in the DBD in a while.
Monday will be Andy just in tightywhities
I'm sorry to have to bring this up but it's become clear that a lot of people here are overdoing casual Friday. Please let's be professionals. No shorts, no sandals and no tee shirts. Thanks everybody.
VERY few have ever wanted to see me without my tshirt on.
I thought Panda's were much loved for their cute furriness and dad bod bellies.
I just saw a story of long lines at the recent return of giant pandas to the SD zoo.
Cute, cuddly, and playful.
People love naked Pandas. LOL
So just underwear??
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s question of the day.
Don’t you think sloths need a re-brand? Mustn't it suck to be named after one of the seven deadly sins?
How about Bradypod (pl: Bradypodon). It's their family name. It's Greek, meaning slow-footed. So, Tom Brady is Tom Slow.
Similarly, bradycardia is a slow heart rate. If you call it slothcardia it perhaps sounds more exotic.
Confirmed https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kxx_u67eUSA
It used to be bacon. What's the new food fad?
It will always be bacon.
Interactive dishes for TikTok: https://www.grubstreet.com/article/tiktok-took-over-the-menu.html
This reminds me. My wife took me to a restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for my birthday. We had a reservation but they didn't have a seat for us. They ended up putting us in the middle. All night long, waiters used my back and arm to navigate the corner. My wife told them it was my birthday, so they brough me a slice of cake with a big sparkler on it. They charged me for the cake and an extra $10 for the sparkler.
My BIL was in NYC this last week and said prices for food seemed to have gone up a lot since he was last there. Not sure where he went, but he said a burger was like $25.
$25 is a pretty normal price for a burger these days. I had dinner at Nopa last night, where a burger is $29 (+2 for TOMATO, +4 for bacon or avocado).
What’s your favorite beach in the Continental US?
Del Mar
I like Montara in Pacifica - the red crumbly cliffs are cool and kind of highlight the impossible vastness of the ocean. Feels like you are standing on the edge of the universe
I used to make out with my HS boyfriend there. Fond memories.
Top: Bald Head Island's. There are no cars on the island and it's a pain to get out there via Ferry, so there's almost nobody on the beach. On the Southeast corner of the island, the beach comes to a little triangle point that points southeast - so basically you have the Atlantic Ocean around you for about 270 degrees around you. The beach is white powder and it's glorious. And since the point juts into the ocean, you can watch the sunset in the West.
i like mostly non-sandy beaches w/ little or no people
my favorite is Rialto Beach in Olympic NP that has all these piles of driftwood. you can walk a long time on the driftwood w/o even touching the ground if you were playing the "floor is lava" game.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yym6RtpEa8HBFZ9E9
I’d say Zuma in Malibu. As a child and teenager I used to go there for bodysurfing, when staying up the hill with my grandfolks.
Not sure I have one. Recently the most time I've spent on a beach is getting Oscar's fish tacos and eating at Pacific Beach and watching the sunset in SD. Other than that, I guess I never spent much time at the beach during my youth.
Marina State Beach
Huntington, mostly for nostalgia. I used to go there frequently when I was in high school and after I got my driver's license. Close second is Newport.
Newport is my top pick. My aunt and uncle used to have an amazing old house on a double lot with a big yard at 12th and Oceanfront, right between the piers. I have spent so many great days on that beach.
i am in Newport right now. enjoyed a quick dip at Corona del Mar last night.
PRO
A's move the off-day to Vegas.
Giants defy God
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2024/8/8/24216502/mlb-final-giants-nationals-michael-conforto-mark-canha-rain-delay-defy-god-and-win
West coast fans tuned in for a 9 AM first pitch of Thursday’s game with a breakfast tray of granola, Greek yogurt and fresh fruit and ended it five and a half hours later surrounded by cups of black coffee and empty packs of cigarettes.
Two separate hour-long rain delays, three leads lost, 11 2-out RBIs, 10 walks, 21 strikeouts, 10 runs scored in the last two innings, four mid-inning pitching changes, three errors in the 10th—it was a marathon of a game, a beast of one who’s importance swelled, growing wild and unkempt like the hair of Chia Pet, the longer the rain fell.
Camilo Doval walking two and then blowing a three-run lead by serving up a homerun to the 8-hole hitter seems very... Giants
Camilo has not had me very Tranquilo this season. Every appearance is an Adventure.
It takes talent (?), or at least something more than luck, to get a blown save and a W out of the same outing.
Note to the Baseball Commissioner, your pandering to the limited attention span of idiots who do not appreciate the grit and gravity of real baseball has failed to abbreviate this slugfest.
There's no time limits in real baseball. Real baseball as though one slips into a timeless, Heavenly contest of man against gravity. Baseball is Heaven and you're the Devil to it, Commissioner.
I absolutely love the shorter games, I think it's best thing this commissioner has done. The Manfred Man, on the other hand...
At least Manfred Man isn't in the playoffs.
I dunno, I love baseball but the sheer volume of pitching changes to random middle reliever specialists was getting mind numbing. Red Sox-NYY games in particular were unwatchable. I think the changes are good. The game has always been changing. I think if it ossifies, it dies
I guess I’m being a staunch traditionalist.
And it is my hypocrisy, since I rarely watch baseball, let alone a full game from start to finish.
He's only doing what his mentor taught him to do with that mentor's example at the (checks notes) 2002 All-Star Game.
Who's Manfred's mentor you ask? Why, Bud Selig.
Measures to keep the game moving and reduce unnecessary (weather delays are not included) delay/dead time are not wrong, and not necessarily at odds with long games. No one minds long games if compelling, or at least relevant, to the outcome, events are ongoing. Its wasted time that people hate.
I've done plenty of "short" games in various sports that were still way too long, and marathon-length ones that no one wanted to see end.
Dodgers lose the off-day.
Rookie pitcher breaks kneecap on first pitch for Yakult Swallows
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240807/p2g/00m/0na/031000c
Cross-Fit: It finally happened. Someone died during the the CrossFit Games as the 800m swim, which was last in a run/swim event. The victim played water polo for 10 years.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/crossfit-games-athlete-drowns-texas/story
Reminder, “drowning doesn’t look like drowning.”
Try for yourself:
http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
F1 Team Red Bull has investigated themselves in the alleged inappropriate behavior of their team boss and found nothing wrong. The whistleblower remains suspended.
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/40777396/red-bull-employee-appeal-denied-horner-misconduct-case
Red Bull win the PR championship for not confirming *any* details of what seems like an open-and-shut case of sexual harassment, at least in the US.
The standards vary somewhat across the footprint that F1 covers.
49ers put Drake Jackson on reserve/PUP list, which means he is out for the 2024 season
Chi Chi Rodriguez has passed away at the age of 88.
Anytime I hear Chi Chi Rodriguez I can't help but think of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WmTsLO-hUI
I think of tiddies
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chichi#Spanish
I immediately knew the reference.
Well played, sir. Well played, indeed.
This clip and "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" are a couple of the two best clips from this show.
Oh, the humanity!
Same, here.
Now, it's more sports announcers trying to pronounce some of the Pacific Islander names. LOL
OLIMPIQUES
mens sport climbing >> Colin Duffy comes in 4th place after being in the lead after the bouldering round.
we know this kid since he is one of our daughter's best friend's boyfriend. came in 6th in Tokyo. still quite young ..
Anyone else think NBC deciding to pick up coverage of the WBB semi-final at about half time, after much of the critical and determitive play has already occurred, MIGHT be sub-optimal?
Not that NBC's coverage has been anything close to organized and easy to plan or follow to begin with (seems to be generally the hallmark of a network using a random spray gun as a strategy).
NBC definitely trying to get us all to pay up for Peacock. So annoying (but yet cool so much coverage was available there).
I jump back and forth on the channels so it must have been USA or E, but the whole game was on somewhere since I saw the beginning.
I checked both, couldn't find it. That was the case with a USA MBB game. And they sure don't bother with an up to date where-is-it-now resource. Those needing to record events to watch later are out of luck. This is not a technology limitation, it is poor production work.
ICYMI: Cal junior Mykolas Alekna won silver in the discus. He did great and should have won, but Jamaica's Rojé Stona went out of his mind to throw his best ever and pip Alekna by about one inch
https://olympics.com/en/news/lithuania-alekna-breaks-dads-olympic-record-paris-2024-discus
ICYMI: Cal alumna Camryn Rogers win gold in hammer throw
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/athletics/camryn-rogers-olympic-hammer-throw-aug-6-1.7286224
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-09/in-pictures-olympic-athleticism-at-paris-games/104188770
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Elon Musk says that Kamala Harris is "literally a communist" providing us with two more words that he doesn't know the meaning of.
Elon Musk is literally a dumbass
CAL
staying w/ a friend in Newport Beach. her dad played for Cal and drafted by the Warriors. she went to Cal herself too
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dueybi01.html
Wow 9 rounds way back then. I wonder if they had larger rosters. Although with maybe half as many teams, maybe they needed more rounds.
My football season tickets just arrived. This is the year! I'm brimming with August optimism.
I don't have season tickets, but plan to go to a few games. Miami will be my first.
I also received my tickets. Not quite the same when they're in the app and not a sheet of tickets.
Don't worry, September will soon be here to temper that optimism.
GO BEARS!!
Go Bears!!!
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