FET: When my kid was in 2nd grade, there was a project where the students wrote small stories about their families through drawings. One of my kid’s classmates wrote about her mom’s hobby of being a wine day-drinker. I knew that mom and she was mortified.
Worked at a chiropractor's office for two years in college. My primary job was loosen up patients before their adjustments on a traction table. While there are many quacks out there in the chiro business there are a handful of very good ones who genuinely care about their patients and help them recover from injuries. I no longer get adjustments because I haven't found a good one in LA, but Dr. Schmidt at Action Chiropractic in Santa Cruz is one of the good ones.
I've moved from mir poix to sofrito as a base aromatic. Kenji Lopez-Alt's advice of "if it doesn't take 40 minutes to make, you're doing it wrong" made the world of difference.
my takeaway from qunicy was wanting to change my name to that. (altho maybe there was a Sesame Street quincy...and the jack klugman character just piqued my interest because of the name.)
I did like the intern who fainted at "welcome to the world of forensics"
My dad was fighter pilot and flight instructor in the Marines for 20 years. I never had the slightest desire to join the military, nor the kind of scratch to ever consider private flight school.
I would LOVE to be a pilot. My kids got me a 1 hour introductory pilot flight for father's day. It's for the place at the San Carlos airport so I'll probably try and do it this fall. Unfortunately they don't offer the lessons on weekends so I'll have to find time during the week.
one of my good friends (and former bosses) told me that i had no goals. that i was like a jellyfish that just floated around in the seas going wherever the tide pushed me and that i had a remarkable ability to float above the garbage!
this is a funny story about our kids around 5 and 8 yrs old ..
older one asks younger one .. "what do you want to be when you grow up?"
younger one said .. "a mommy"
older one (who wants to conquer the world) says "you cant just be a mommy. you can be a mommy AND something else. you have to pick something else too."
she continues .. "look at mom, she is a mommy AND has a job (at Pfizer)"
as of now .. younger one is undecided, but it is more than "just mommy".
Watching "Under the Banner of Heaven" which I think is truly great, but I find super creepy (episode 4 last night) weird conversation with my wife, because she doesn't find it so creepy and said the first series of "True Detective" was more creepy. To me was creepy is the world they are living in, not just the killer. "True Detective" was in a normal world.
Also watching "Never Have I Ever" which is both fun and good, but I found episode 2 a bit too PC in an illogical way, which my wife just disagreed with - enjoy the show, but they should make things fake (watched 3rd episode last night).
The Black Phone (streamed on Peacock)….set in late-70’s N. Denver, it’s a horror/thriller/fantasy starring Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies (Upham from Saving Private Ryan) and James Ransone (Inside Man, Ziggy Sobotka - S2 The Wire). A titch disturbing, especially for parents of children out there in DBD-land, but all in all, not a bad little thriller. It also features an all-time great movie character played by young actor Madeleine McGraw, the precocious younger sister of the lead…she was great!
Trump suspects that the narc was a family member because the FBI knew which leather case to look for. It's funny that he doesn't know who it is because either a) a lot of his family probably hate him and b) he probably knows he goes announces exactly where he kept the nuclear secrets he wanted to sell to the Saudis
[NY Daily News] ex-CFO of Trump Org Allen Weisselberg is expected to testify against Trump Organization - but not anybody named Trump - as part of his plea-deal. I'd take this with a pinch of salt until confirmed, but it is interesting.
Oh shit. NY Times confirmed it. Trump Org is the main holding company for all of Trump's assets. Looks like some hotels and commercial properties are going to be for sale soon.
Gabe Kapler is out managed again, this time by Torrey Lovullo, as the Giants blow a 2-1 lead in the 8th and lose 3-2, courtesy of the eminently hittable Dominic Leone and his 4.50 ERA. This 2022 Giants team is an homage to bad baseball under the guise of “analytics,” from the top down, as pinch runner Mike Yastrzemski is picked off 2nd with 1-out in the B7.
The plight of being a Giants fan. Perhaps they should again try having the Guardians play for them.
The night before, when they won in the walk off, I was actually able to watch (MLB didn't actually block a meaningful game!), when I tuned in I was initially confused when I saw a team wearing what appeared to be Guardians uniforms, not SF Giant uniforms. Upon a closer camera shot, it appeared that Nike must have sent the wrong uniforms, and someone took an orange sharpie and hand drew an image of a bridge arch on the sleeve. But what appeared to be another team, after doing essentially nothing but pitch and play defense for 8 2/3 innings (glad they did that!) suddenly got 2 good at bats in a row, and won.
All this continues to reaffirm for me that very few involved with baseball knows what they are doing.
That and this coaching staff isn’t good at producing on the field results. This is starting to look more and more like Tedfords final season rather than his glory season.
CBS Sports Network could still try to bolster their offerings by complimenting their coverage of the Mt West...would still provide better distribution than the Pac-12 Network has.
Essentially they are the only game in town. And without competition the valuations tend to stagnate or decline. A hope is that the streaming providers - Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon will provide a counterbalance.
Kliavkoff is between a rock and hard place. ESPN is only bidding against itself and UO, UW, Cal and Stanford are getting antsy. Whatever deal we get, the conference will continue to be a house of cards just waiting to be tipped.
Multiple sources told ESPN that the board of managers briefly discussed the possibility of restructuring how college football is governed, with the idea presented of major college football potentially being governed outside of the NCAA. The most logical place for the sport to be run outside of the NCAA would be under the auspices of the CFP, which was discussed on the call. The CFP currently oversees the sport's postseason playoff and has contractual ties to other marquee postseason bowl games.
That is a terrible idea. If this goes through, Mark Emmert will have completely destroyed college football for everyone except for the 4-6 teams that vie for National Championship every year. He policies seem like a libertarian's wet dream.
I honestly have lost my passion for college football beyond Cal. Like, who give a damn when there’s no competitive balance yet these conferences scoop up more teams just to milk them dry. Also, the NFL has really improved the football product over the past few years so college ball doesn’t even have that now.
Emmert doesn't act in a vacuum, he does what his bosses (the institutions in the NCAA) tell him to do. The NCAA membership's lack of foresight and coordination caused this.
A source told ESPN that the general feel among the presidents and chancellors on the call was that the college sports leaders have left too much money on the table by not implementing a new playoff before 2026, perhaps as much as a half-billion dollars.
The surprise to me about that report re: revenues was that all the SC honks on twitter actually were more or less right about the value of what SC gave up for equal revenue sharing under Larry Scott.
Arizona's former starting QB Grant Gunnel transferred to North Texas after Sumlin was fired. Well, he didn't win the starting job as he couldn't unseat the incumbent Austin Aune. Get this... Aune is a sophomore who will turn 29 years old in three weeks because he played pro baseball.
Chiropractors
I'll leave this bit of irony here for you all to enjoy.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-bob-bonebrake-915175139
Worked at a chiropractor's office for two years in college. My primary job was loosen up patients before their adjustments on a traction table. While there are many quacks out there in the chiro business there are a handful of very good ones who genuinely care about their patients and help them recover from injuries. I no longer get adjustments because I haven't found a good one in LA, but Dr. Schmidt at Action Chiropractic in Santa Cruz is one of the good ones.
So a chiropractic fluffer? Good onya!!!!
Basically even used a "thumper", basically a two-handed back massager
So you were a thumper and not a fluffer.
Correct
Never met one.
DBD Cooking academy
I've moved from mir poix to sofrito as a base aromatic. Kenji Lopez-Alt's advice of "if it doesn't take 40 minutes to make, you're doing it wrong" made the world of difference.
https://www.seriouseats.com/spanish-sofrito
This is nuts.
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/woman-escapes-cuffs-in-cruiser-shoots-deputy-with-ar-15-oklahoma-suspect-injuries-handcuffs-arrest-arrrested
2 takeaways from this:
1. This escalated quickly.
2. Meth is a hell of a drug.
Also "we applied the handcuffs correctly" seems disingenuous.
Mesh caps
What did you want to be when you grew up?
When in grade school, a lifeguard. Later on, a coroner (I was a big Quincy fan).
ok, you just carbon-dated yourself! ;-)
my takeaway from qunicy was wanting to change my name to that. (altho maybe there was a Sesame Street quincy...and the jack klugman character just piqued my interest because of the name.)
I did like the intern who fainted at "welcome to the world of forensics"
Baseball player! In part because my dad named me after a baseball player.
Professional athlete and novelist. One to of two ain't bad.
what team are you on?
A shepherd, like Fletch
A Scotch-Romanian one at that.
A lawyer, then POTUS.
Growing up in San Diego meant a lot of school field trips to The World Famous San Diego Zoo, so I wanted to be a zoologist.
it would have been a better story if you wanted to be a giant panda.
If I’m going to be a panda, I’m going to be the Red Panda.
I really enjoy the red pandas at the National Zoo. Only problem is that they are inside most of the time so don't get to see them often.
Paleontologist. Dinosaurs, baby.
Doctor
Either a scientist or an artist
Astronomer.
A pilot.
Same here, then was told being colorblind was an obstacle.
If you want to be a pilot in the Air Force, you need at least 20/20 vision.
...and you can't have a history of epilepsy.
That was one issue I didn't try to be a fighter jock. Also because I'm easily susceptible to motion sickness so that's the main reason.
My dad was fighter pilot and flight instructor in the Marines for 20 years. I never had the slightest desire to join the military, nor the kind of scratch to ever consider private flight school.
HeyAlumniGo still wants to be a pilot i think
So does Atoms
I would LOVE to be a pilot. My kids got me a 1 hour introductory pilot flight for father's day. It's for the place at the San Carlos airport so I'll probably try and do it this fall. Unfortunately they don't offer the lessons on weekends so I'll have to find time during the week.
i didnt necessarily want to be an astronaut, but i wanted to design spaceships.
A baseball umpire. I firmly believed that umpires got paid in beer based on a Budweiser commercial I saw as a child.
And they have a beer gut.
At least I accomplished that part.
pqtm
Goals
one of my good friends (and former bosses) told me that i had no goals. that i was like a jellyfish that just floated around in the seas going wherever the tide pushed me and that i had a remarkable ability to float above the garbage!
this is a funny story about our kids around 5 and 8 yrs old ..
older one asks younger one .. "what do you want to be when you grow up?"
younger one said .. "a mommy"
older one (who wants to conquer the world) says "you cant just be a mommy. you can be a mommy AND something else. you have to pick something else too."
she continues .. "look at mom, she is a mommy AND has a job (at Pfizer)"
as of now .. younger one is undecided, but it is more than "just mommy".
DBD Island Getaway/Penal Colony
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/a-private-island-in-the-caribbean-sea-is-on-sale-for-less-than-the-average-house-in-america-take-a-look/ss-AA10Kofc
Ohhh.... Placido
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1118010206/placido-domingo-linked-to-criminal-ring-in-argentina-prosecutors-say
DBD AV CLUB
She Hulk: Attorney at Law - super fun! finally something that doesn't have to mean anything - just a half hour comedy.
Watching "Under the Banner of Heaven" which I think is truly great, but I find super creepy (episode 4 last night) weird conversation with my wife, because she doesn't find it so creepy and said the first series of "True Detective" was more creepy. To me was creepy is the world they are living in, not just the killer. "True Detective" was in a normal world.
Also watching "Never Have I Ever" which is both fun and good, but I found episode 2 a bit too PC in an illogical way, which my wife just disagreed with - enjoy the show, but they should make things fake (watched 3rd episode last night).
Even tho it is Fundamentalist, it’s nonetheless an awful look for the LDS Church…which is completely unfair.
It is impossible to be unfair to LDS.
The Black Phone (streamed on Peacock)….set in late-70’s N. Denver, it’s a horror/thriller/fantasy starring Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies (Upham from Saving Private Ryan) and James Ransone (Inside Man, Ziggy Sobotka - S2 The Wire). A titch disturbing, especially for parents of children out there in DBD-land, but all in all, not a bad little thriller. It also features an all-time great movie character played by young actor Madeleine McGraw, the precocious younger sister of the lead…she was great!
I want to watch this and it looks good. I do have a 4 and 2 year old, so you’re saying I should watch it with them?!?
See it on a day when they’re both being total pills…or wait until they’re 30.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump suspects that the narc was a family member because the FBI knew which leather case to look for. It's funny that he doesn't know who it is because either a) a lot of his family probably hate him and b) he probably knows he goes announces exactly where he kept the nuclear secrets he wanted to sell to the Saudis
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-aides-think-a-family-member-informed-on-him-to-the-fbi-because-agents-knew-where-to-find-a-specific-leather-case-report-says/ar-AA10NqTQ
Kared Jushner.
JFC, did he snort the entire country of Colombia?
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1560221666239811590
I watched with the sound off. Hilarious.
[I'm doing my part.gif]
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62585809
Trump’s Man in Arizona Might Get the Last Laugh
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/18/trumps-man-in-arizona-might-get-the-last-laugh-00052519
[NY Daily News] ex-CFO of Trump Org Allen Weisselberg is expected to testify against Trump Organization - but not anybody named Trump - as part of his plea-deal. I'd take this with a pinch of salt until confirmed, but it is interesting.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/ny-trump-org-cfo-allen-weisselberg-plea-deal-20220817-mpwvmurzpvccpiixf5sdo527yi-story.html
Oh shit. NY Times confirmed it. Trump Org is the main holding company for all of Trump's assets. Looks like some hotels and commercial properties are going to be for sale soon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/nyregion/trump-weisselberg-plea-deal.html
He has to testify in the trail against the Trump Organization - before - he is sentenced.
PRO
DeShaun Watson suspended for 11 games.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1560301588647882752
Better...
Should have been a season at a minimum.
Gabe Kapler is out managed again, this time by Torrey Lovullo, as the Giants blow a 2-1 lead in the 8th and lose 3-2, courtesy of the eminently hittable Dominic Leone and his 4.50 ERA. This 2022 Giants team is an homage to bad baseball under the guise of “analytics,” from the top down, as pinch runner Mike Yastrzemski is picked off 2nd with 1-out in the B7.
The plight of being a Giants fan. Perhaps they should again try having the Guardians play for them.
The night before, when they won in the walk off, I was actually able to watch (MLB didn't actually block a meaningful game!), when I tuned in I was initially confused when I saw a team wearing what appeared to be Guardians uniforms, not SF Giant uniforms. Upon a closer camera shot, it appeared that Nike must have sent the wrong uniforms, and someone took an orange sharpie and hand drew an image of a bridge arch on the sleeve. But what appeared to be another team, after doing essentially nothing but pitch and play defense for 8 2/3 innings (glad they did that!) suddenly got 2 good at bats in a row, and won.
All this continues to reaffirm for me that very few involved with baseball knows what they are doing.
A's win again! Beat the Rangers 7-2.
CAL
Joe Starkey to retire:
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/joe-starkey-retires-after-2022
That's the best news I've heard all day. Maybe all month. In 2023 I can resume listening to Cal football on the radio.
Who will confuse radio listeners during Cal football games? (But seriously, all the best to a legend.)
Meanwhile, Fire Starkey...
https://i.imgur.com/JQw5TgG.png
pretty much dead on
After 2022? Rose Bowl here we come!
Send Starkey and Joe Kapp out in style. I don't mean Joe Kapp is going to die (although I feel like he might be fighting God due to it)
Go Bears!!!
RJ Jones decommits. Louisville considered to be the main competitor.
https://twitter.com/GregBiggins/status/1560339432682561536
Well that blows, he was our top rate recruit.
What is it with all of these decommits?
When you’re on the fast track to Mountain West or DIII status, the wheels come off the wagon pretty easily…
Easily the nicest DIII stadium in the country
Nicest stadium, largest stadium and best facilities! We could be the Bama of DIII!!
That and this coaching staff isn’t good at producing on the field results. This is starting to look more and more like Tedfords final season rather than his glory season.
[MSOC] Bears are 2-0 in pre-season, beating Riverside 4-0 and Bakersfield 1-0. The finish preseason against UOP tomorrow.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/8/17/mens-soccer-cal-hosts-pacific-to-close-preseason.aspx
[WBB] Bears win!
https://twitter.com/CalAthletics/status/1560110592446279685
YEEEEEHAW!!!
https://twitter.com/CalFootball/status/1560047306224705536
Late-night snacker met with deadly force
https://www.9news.com/article/life/animals/steamboat-springs-bear-killed-home/73-4833fbda-0659-482d-a76
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Big 10 Nabs 1 billion dollar TV Deal, [breaking news]
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/sports/ncaafootball/big-ten-deal-tv.html
What will ESPN do, left out in the cold, decide to do??? Pony up for the Pac-12 rights?
Yes, but they are only competing against themselves now. It will be a small pony.
https://youtu.be/U4NjRLqSc2Q
CBS Sports Network could still try to bolster their offerings by complimenting their coverage of the Mt West...would still provide better distribution than the Pac-12 Network has.
Essentially they are the only game in town. And without competition the valuations tend to stagnate or decline. A hope is that the streaming providers - Apple TV, Netflix, Amazon will provide a counterbalance.
Kliavkoff is between a rock and hard place. ESPN is only bidding against itself and UO, UW, Cal and Stanford are getting antsy. Whatever deal we get, the conference will continue to be a house of cards just waiting to be tipped.
What would Sputnik give us in a media rights deal?
College Football Playoff board discusses possibility, potential of restructuring how college football is governed, sources say
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34414293/college-football-playoff-board-discusses-possibility-potential-restructuring-how-college-football-governed-sources-say
I used to care about college playoffs and AP preseason polls. I have lost any interest in them and don't care at all.
Multiple sources told ESPN that the board of managers briefly discussed the possibility of restructuring how college football is governed, with the idea presented of major college football potentially being governed outside of the NCAA. The most logical place for the sport to be run outside of the NCAA would be under the auspices of the CFP, which was discussed on the call. The CFP currently oversees the sport's postseason playoff and has contractual ties to other marquee postseason bowl games.
That is a terrible idea. If this goes through, Mark Emmert will have completely destroyed college football for everyone except for the 4-6 teams that vie for National Championship every year. He policies seem like a libertarian's wet dream.
I think the damage is already done tbh
I honestly have lost my passion for college football beyond Cal. Like, who give a damn when there’s no competitive balance yet these conferences scoop up more teams just to milk them dry. Also, the NFL has really improved the football product over the past few years so college ball doesn’t even have that now.
Emmert doesn't act in a vacuum, he does what his bosses (the institutions in the NCAA) tell him to do. The NCAA membership's lack of foresight and coordination caused this.
As usual, the SEC and Big Ten are driving this train. They stand to benefit the most from expanded playoffs.
@SHOCKING@ It's always been about the money.
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A source told ESPN that the general feel among the presidents and chancellors on the call was that the college sports leaders have left too much money on the table by not implementing a new playoff before 2026, perhaps as much as a half-billion dollars.
CBS Releases Preseason All-America Team. Nobody from Cal and only Oregon and USC represented on the first or second teams.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2022-cbs-sports-preseason-all-america-team-alabama-georgia-ohio-state-lead-with-most-honorees/
Alabama's Sorority Rush week is getting a Netflix special
https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/alabama-rush-documentary-officially-happening
Delta Delta Delta can I help ya help ya help ya?
SNL skit from the 2000's that I remember. Pretty funny.
So many good SNL skits. For yesterday's question about fake products, I thought about all the good SNL commercials, like Colon Blow, Schmitt's Gay.
Apparently, the open session of the UC Regent's session about UCLA/Big Ten was... interesting.
https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/1559998407497854977
The surprise to me about that report re: revenues was that all the SC honks on twitter actually were more or less right about the value of what SC gave up for equal revenue sharing under Larry Scott.
Apropos: from the Front Page
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/uc-regents-ucla-cal-big-ten-meeting
Terrifying.
Doesn't seem like the Regents can do anything about it...not even making fUCLA stop using Cal's fight song.
Division III for Cal?
Nooooooooooooo!!!
Well, we've never beaten Whittier College by more than 6 points.
https://calbears.com/sports/football/opponent-history/whittier-college/79
UCLA finally beat Whittier on the seventh try. The Bruins lost 103-0 in their first matchup in an era when scores were routinely 0-0 ties.
https://uclabruins.com/sports/football/opponent-history/whittier-college/256
This young USC lineman has earned his name. He has also entered his name into the transfer portal yesterday.
https://usctrojans.com/sports/football/roster/maximus-gibbs/12177
Arizona's former starting QB Grant Gunnel transferred to North Texas after Sumlin was fired. Well, he didn't win the starting job as he couldn't unseat the incumbent Austin Aune. Get this... Aune is a sophomore who will turn 29 years old in three weeks because he played pro baseball.
https://dentonrc.com/aune-to-start-followup/image_c7ce7400-b38f-5e49-bb85-65b4642ee7c6.html
https://www.milb.com/player/austin-aune-622108
That's like Carson Wentz playing in college
Carson Wentz has regressed to his college playing days.
Carson Wentz was better in college than he is now.
Meanwhile, NIU's Kyle Pugh graduated high school in 2014 and is still playing for the same team. He's an eighth year redshirt senior.
https://www.hustlebelt.com/2022/8/12/23301099/setbacks-comebacks-college-football-lens-8th-year-senior-kyle-pugh-niu-ilb-northern-illinois-huskies