Leaving for Lisbon for work in a few hours. Going through IAD. Anyone have any restaurant suggestions in Lisbon? Going to try to always eat outdoors if possible. Though it looks like rain M-F while I'm there, which kinda sucks. I've got Friday afternoon - Sun to explore.
Had a conference that was supposed to be in Lisbon in 2019 but postponed due to the pandemic. Hosted virtually by a European online conference company in 2020. So I never made it to Lisbon.
This event was first scheduled in Mar 2020. Then rescheduled optimistically in Mar 2021. Then when Seoul didn't get rid of their quarantining for Sept, it was moved to Lisbon.
in 2019 the Boston conference publicized the coming year's Lisbon conference. (I got the year wrong in the previous message.) They showed a lot of pictures of Lisbon telling how wonderful it was. Oh well.
Been tracking this one all week, it's very doubtful it will make landfall as anything more than a tropical depression (only 2 hurricanes have made landfall in CA recorded history), but it's interesting to watch as a potential peek into the future as the ocean continues to warm.
Hoping it dumps a bunch of rain though, Saturday is day six of 14 of no outdoor watering for 40% of Southern California with multiple wildfires raging and triple digit temps for over a week. It'll be in the low 80's for the 7 day forecast following Saturday....can't wait.
Hurricane Kay will more than likely break up before it reaches SoCal but I do think we will see a fully intact hurricane reach SoCal within our lifetime.
I think we will begin to see tropical storms/depressions reach SoCal and probably a couple fully intact hurricanes reach SoCal in our lifetime. The combination of sea level rise and sea level warming make it more likely. I was at a FEMA meeting in Reno last month and I brought this up to FEMA reps and they kind of just shrugged me off.
Totally agreed, there was a climate report a couple years back that forecasted LA having Cabo's climate by 2050. If that happens there will be plenty of rain, but a shrinking barrier to stopping storms. A strong eastern Pacific storm season combined with an El Nino year could be catastrophic. Long Beach and points south will probably get it the worst, but a society built with flexible wooden structures probably won't stand up well to hurricane forces winds. This was in the back of mind as a reason for moving out of a home that was ~6ft above sea level and 200yds from the back of a very large marina
The FEMA meeting I brought this up in was a closed door meeting to discuss potential impact and threats of climate change on tribal lands in SoCal.
While everyone in the room focused on earthquakes and fire, I brought up the threat of prolonged heatwaves and a hurricane. Both of those were glossed over so everyone could continue to discuss wildfire.
I can assure you we are not ready to capture as much of the rain water as possible. SoCal has built all of its infrastructure to move storm water to the ocean as quickly as possible.
Talked to my brother last night who's on vacation. He got a text from his next door neighbor who said it was 116 at their house in the Sierra foothills the other day.
Talked to my brother last night who's on vacation. He got a text from his next door neighbor who said it was 116 at their house in the Sierra foothills the other day.
Queen Elizabeth has always looked pretty spry to me. But when she was visited by Liz Truss as the new PM, I thought "oh no, she looks really awful". Well, she has apparently taken a turn for the worse and her family has been called to her side. May her final moments be filled with grace.
Apparently BBC1 has halted all regular programming until 6pm. Sounds grim.
What a tumultuous couple years for the UK: EU withdrawal, the (probable) passing of the Queen. It will be a very different landscape in 2023 than it was in 2015.
My sentiments exactly. I will add that it's likely that none of us who frequent the DBD have ever seen the coronation of a new British monarch, not even an old timer like me. That, at least, will be interesting.
The previous two Kings Charles had rather, shall we say, turbulent reigns.
Charles I was executed at the height of the English Civil War (1649).
His son, Charles II, lived in exile for about 9 years before the Restoration in 1660. Charles II died in 1685 four days after suffering an apoplectic fit.
It's been 337+ years since England, Scotland. and Wales has had a monarch named Charles. I say England, Scotland. and Wales because Ireland didn't join the UK until 1801 and then most of Ireland seceded in 1922.
New PM just referred to him as Charles III, so maybe.
Interesting to see the automatic changes made - Dukedoms of Edinburgh merges with the crown, title of Prince of Wales is now vacant, William is automatically Duke of Cornwall.
Hope that it takes less than 20 minutes to find a stream of the game. Trying to find a stream for one of the P12N regional networks is quite the endeavor. It should be easier to find this week's game since it's on the main P12N channel.
CBS scoreboard has a live play by play feature which is pretty good, gives you the down, distance, and a text description of each play. On cbs.com ncaa scores live. Every FBS/Power 5 team is covered. I follow this when I can't see a game on TV or stream it,
The Giants lost 7-4 to the Dodgers on Wednesday…but, like, who cares? The season isn’t really about win-loss records, us vs them, or those arbitrary run totals anymore. September 2022 is just the start of the 2023 preseason for our San Francisco Giants. Yeah it’d be nice to beat the Diamondbacks in the division standings, but who looks at those anyway?
Honestly, embarrassing for the Dodgers that this game was tied in the 8th inning. Taking two-games out of three instead of a series sweep? The heat’s getting to them.
Max Muncy and Justin Turner each hit three-run home runs to lead the Dodgers over the Giants 7-3 in Wednesday’s series and homestand finale at Dodger Stadium.
After a great renewal of the rivalry in last year’s season series that extended to the first playoff matchup between these two storied franchises, this season things kind of took a step back which doesn’t necessarily mean these were just regular games by any means, but it hasn’t been exactly the same.
What pretty much everyone expected mostly happened. After a 107-win season, and a division title that ended the Dodgers reign over the West, the Giants have taken a step back in 2022, and simply haven’t been able to put up a real challenge for back-to-back division titles, while the Dodgers have mostly maintained their recent pace.
Nope, not at all. Tedford panicked and started an injured Longshore over Riley. I think we win that game and a few more that season with Riley as our starting QB. Probably end up 8-4 with Riley starting the rest of the season.
Seems like there's definitely enough room in there to pick up 2 more wins with a healthy Riley starting (and a lot of talent around him). Maybe more than that.
I try to block out as much of the second half of that season as possible but the two games that seemed like we would have a won with Riley at QB that I vividly remember are ucla and Big Game. USC was close but I doubt Riley plays well enough in those elements to beat USC. What were our other two conference losses? ASU and UW? I can’t remember how close those games were. I can’t believe we got swept by all the other California schools that season.
Ah yes, the UW game where we kicked off to start _both_ halves. I remember Longshore played pretty well in that game, so that probably still would have been a loss.
UCLA and Big Game were close enough to win. USC also close, but who knows how that goes in the bad weather. I think that ASU game was within reach too . . . we were ahead but handed the game to ASU with 2nd half interceptions.
And UW was surprisingly not that close, but I wonder how motivated the team was at that point. A lot of guys seemed to be checked out. If they hadn't just suffered a string of dispiriting losses, I think they play better.
I like Wilcox's defense. I like that we don't necessarily have a dedicated NT and that we easily switch from 3-4 to 4-3 to 4-2-5 to whatever best defends against a given offense.
DOJ is now following the money. Federal Grand Jury investigation on Trump's Save America PAC. The PAC has $100m and it can be spent however Trump wants but cannot be used willy-nilly if he declares as a Presidential. At the heart is that Trump has waffled saying whether he is a candidate or not and therein lies the DOJ's fishing expedition.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Power Bar.
The Bears opened the 1939 season by defeating UC Davis by the unusual score of 32-14. They ended the season by defeating Stanfurd by the unusual score of 32-14. They only won other game that season but not 32-14.
(Cal trivia fun fact will appear on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.)
CNN's Bernard Shaw passes away from non-Covid pneumonia.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/media/bernard-shaw-obituary/index.html
Remember him especially from the Gulf War reporting from Baghdad.
The Pac-12 is throwing a house-party. What is each school doing at the party?
USC is the life of the party, but three hours into the party suddenly grabs UCLA's hand and goes to a better/private party down the street.
Utah's bringing soda (non-caffeinated, of course) and playing family-friendly board games
While handing out CTR rings.
Oregon is running late to the party because they can’t decide what outfit to wear.
Stanford is drunkenly shout-pitching a new start-up.
But nobody's around to hear it.
Boulder's bringing the weed, ASU is manning the keg out back
Washington is having a boat party
Wazzu is bringing the booze, but they’re gonna drinking all before they get there
hahahahaha
USC and UCLA are off somewhere else doing something else.
Arizona is playing basketball in the driveway…again.
pqtm
DBD Travel
Leaving for Lisbon for work in a few hours. Going through IAD. Anyone have any restaurant suggestions in Lisbon? Going to try to always eat outdoors if possible. Though it looks like rain M-F while I'm there, which kinda sucks. I've got Friday afternoon - Sun to explore.
let me check on the Lisbon for you. have some friends who live there.
Then on Fri I fly to Chicago for some football game, then Sun-Fri in Philly to see No 1.
Had a conference that was supposed to be in Lisbon in 2019 but postponed due to the pandemic. Hosted virtually by a European online conference company in 2020. So I never made it to Lisbon.
This event was first scheduled in Mar 2020. Then rescheduled optimistically in Mar 2021. Then when Seoul didn't get rid of their quarantining for Sept, it was moved to Lisbon.
in 2019 the Boston conference publicized the coming year's Lisbon conference. (I got the year wrong in the previous message.) They showed a lot of pictures of Lisbon telling how wonderful it was. Oh well.
Apparently, paintings of giant women helps creates some pretty amazing capital appreciation
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/79124-Lake-Club-Dr-Indio-CA-92203/18060481_zpid/
The last house you'd want to end up in on psychedelics
Yikes!
Indio is basically an extension of Palm Springs so I’m not surprised by this at all.
I think not.
Weather
Hurricane Kay is coming and will affect [checks notes]... Southern California.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPEP2+shtml/070242.shtml
Been tracking this one all week, it's very doubtful it will make landfall as anything more than a tropical depression (only 2 hurricanes have made landfall in CA recorded history), but it's interesting to watch as a potential peek into the future as the ocean continues to warm.
Hoping it dumps a bunch of rain though, Saturday is day six of 14 of no outdoor watering for 40% of Southern California with multiple wildfires raging and triple digit temps for over a week. It'll be in the low 80's for the 7 day forecast following Saturday....can't wait.
There was some rain in the LA basin this morning and we got a couple sprinkles here in Glendale, so fingers crossed it keeps coming.
Can't wait.
Hurricane Kay will more than likely break up before it reaches SoCal but I do think we will see a fully intact hurricane reach SoCal within our lifetime.
Nerding out over Kay sent me down this rabbit hole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_hurricanes
The two that have made landfall in Socal as tropical storms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_California_tropical_storm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Kathleen
I think we will begin to see tropical storms/depressions reach SoCal and probably a couple fully intact hurricanes reach SoCal in our lifetime. The combination of sea level rise and sea level warming make it more likely. I was at a FEMA meeting in Reno last month and I brought this up to FEMA reps and they kind of just shrugged me off.
Totally agreed, there was a climate report a couple years back that forecasted LA having Cabo's climate by 2050. If that happens there will be plenty of rain, but a shrinking barrier to stopping storms. A strong eastern Pacific storm season combined with an El Nino year could be catastrophic. Long Beach and points south will probably get it the worst, but a society built with flexible wooden structures probably won't stand up well to hurricane forces winds. This was in the back of mind as a reason for moving out of a home that was ~6ft above sea level and 200yds from the back of a very large marina
Of course they did. They don't want to cause panic or undue consternation over something that might not happen.
The FEMA meeting I brought this up in was a closed door meeting to discuss potential impact and threats of climate change on tribal lands in SoCal.
While everyone in the room focused on earthquakes and fire, I brought up the threat of prolonged heatwaves and a hurricane. Both of those were glossed over so everyone could continue to discuss wildfire.
Damage and disruptions aside, I hope SoCal is ready to capture as much of the rain water as possible.
I can assure you we are not ready to capture as much of the rain water as possible. SoCal has built all of its infrastructure to move storm water to the ocean as quickly as possible.
Talked to my brother last night who's on vacation. He got a text from his next door neighbor who said it was 116 at their house in the Sierra foothills the other day.
Talked to my brother last night who's on vacation. He got a text from his next door neighbor who said it was 116 at their house in the Sierra foothills the other day.
QE2
The Onion serves up a little slice of journalism
https://www.theonion.com/note-do-not-run-until-fucking-queen-is-dead-or-people-1849511595
Queen Elizabeth has always looked pretty spry to me. But when she was visited by Liz Truss as the new PM, I thought "oh no, she looks really awful". Well, she has apparently taken a turn for the worse and her family has been called to her side. May her final moments be filled with grace.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62836057
Apparently BBC1 has halted all regular programming until 6pm. Sounds grim.
What a tumultuous couple years for the UK: EU withdrawal, the (probable) passing of the Queen. It will be a very different landscape in 2023 than it was in 2015.
Doesn’t the BBC have some sort of coverage plan for this?
My sentiments exactly. I will add that it's likely that none of us who frequent the DBD have ever seen the coronation of a new British monarch, not even an old timer like me. That, at least, will be interesting.
Cugel has seen at least a dozen.
Oh you, but that does remind me of a good Sandman episode.
pqtm
It is time to retire the whole monarchy thing.
You could sell tickets to the mayhem of the UK trying to write - well, “write” - a new constitution
I am the antichrist, I am an anarchist!
London Bridge is down. The Queen has died.
https://www.royal.uk/
oh wow.
Now it’s time for Chuck to shine!
Nearly go-time for the world's oldest intern
BBC just announced her death.
King Charles on the throne
The previous two Kings Charles had rather, shall we say, turbulent reigns.
Charles I was executed at the height of the English Civil War (1649).
His son, Charles II, lived in exile for about 9 years before the Restoration in 1660. Charles II died in 1685 four days after suffering an apoplectic fit.
It's been 337+ years since England, Scotland. and Wales has had a monarch named Charles. I say England, Scotland. and Wales because Ireland didn't join the UK until 1801 and then most of Ireland seceded in 1922.
The Monty Python song about Oliver Cromwell and Charles is a somewhat humorous take on the period.
New PM just referred to him as Charles III, so maybe.
Interesting to see the automatic changes made - Dukedoms of Edinburgh merges with the crown, title of Prince of Wales is now vacant, William is automatically Duke of Cornwall.
Now he can get all that grocery revenue
A Game of Thrones. I wonder who he will pick as his Hand.
hahaha
There was prior speculation that he would pick George as his regnal name instead of Charles.
The coward didn't pick Aethelred II.
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/dbd-09-05-2022-winchester/comments
That seems like a downgrade to me, but then again I didn’t just become king
TEETH
[Dentist, to me as a kid] "You need to brush more"
[Dentist, to me as a young adult] "You need to brush more"
[Dentist, to me as a middle aged man] "You brushed too much"
What?!?!?!
I'm getting a lot of, use sensodyne to protect the teeth under the receding gums.
You can bid on Ty Cobb's dentures now.
https://catalog.scpauctions.com/TY_COBB_S_WELL_PRESERVED_AND_PERSONALLY_USED_DENTU-LOT52366.aspx
Yuck.
Has anyone ever seen this movie?
Yes
Would you recommend it?
I don't remember if it was good, but it was deeply disturbing
Without looking it up, what does Memorial Stadium's south end zone look like?
Sparsely populated, no matter the opponent
...except Ohio State
Jagged in the aisle between Sections K and KK.
Covered in tarps like a low rent stadium. Embarrassing
Lots of fans dressed as empty seats.
With or without the new seats above South Tunnel?
What's your plan for the UNLV game?
Hope that it takes less than 20 minutes to find a stream of the game. Trying to find a stream for one of the P12N regional networks is quite the endeavor. It should be easier to find this week's game since it's on the main P12N channel.
I'm just seeing Pac-12 Bay Area with Guy Haberman and Shane Vereen.
Try to watch in Lisbon.
They're 8 hours ahead of PDT, right? 10pm kickoff certainly beats some of the alternatives.
yeah that's what I'll probably be doing. I should've brought a chromecast. forgot.
not too difficult to find illegal streams, you just have to be ok with some crap on your screen and clicking away.
I've got Pac-12 network so I'll just use that. I do have a site I use to watch blacked out Dodgers games.
Gonna eat at the WFC tailgate.
Go to Memorial Stadium and watch it.
Exactly
Obsessively check phone updates while I'm roped into cabin activities in Idaho.
CBS scoreboard has a live play by play feature which is pretty good, gives you the down, distance, and a text description of each play. On cbs.com ncaa scores live. Every FBS/Power 5 team is covered. I follow this when I can't see a game on TV or stream it,
So CBS scoreboard does a better job than Joe Starkey?? I guess that isn't that hard.
Hope we win by 28.
Probably watch bits of it on my phone on the Pac 12 app
Watch it at home
Aren't you in the Bay Area?
No, I live in SoCal.
PRO
Two people escorted out of US Open for... [checks notes]... a haircut.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-open-tennis-2022-quarterfinals-haircut-kyrgios-khachanov/
A's lose to the Braves, 7-3
Villar shines, just not bright enough
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/9/7/23342100/mlb-recap-giants-dodgers-david-villar-clayton-kershaw-max-muncy
The Giants lost 7-4 to the Dodgers on Wednesday…but, like, who cares? The season isn’t really about win-loss records, us vs them, or those arbitrary run totals anymore. September 2022 is just the start of the 2023 preseason for our San Francisco Giants. Yeah it’d be nice to beat the Diamondbacks in the division standings, but who looks at those anyway?
Honestly, embarrassing for the Dodgers that this game was tied in the 8th inning. Taking two-games out of three instead of a series sweep? The heat’s getting to them.
GBBR
GBBR
Max Muncy, Justin Turner each hit 3-run home runs to lead Dodgers over Giants
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/9/7/23341918/max-muncy-justin-turner-home-runs-clayton-kershaw-dodgers-giants
Max Muncy and Justin Turner each hit three-run home runs to lead the Dodgers over the Giants 7-3 in Wednesday’s series and homestand finale at Dodger Stadium.
After a great renewal of the rivalry in last year’s season series that extended to the first playoff matchup between these two storied franchises, this season things kind of took a step back which doesn’t necessarily mean these were just regular games by any means, but it hasn’t been exactly the same.
What pretty much everyone expected mostly happened. After a 107-win season, and a division title that ended the Dodgers reign over the West, the Giants have taken a step back in 2022, and simply haven’t been able to put up a real challenge for back-to-back division titles, while the Dodgers have mostly maintained their recent pace.
Muncy...ownage.
GBBR. I saw a screen shot where someone updated the Giants wiki to include Max Muncy as an owner.
GBBR
I have thoughts about this.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/united-states-usa/story/4740999/usmntatlanta-united-defender-miles-robinson-arrested-for-misdemeanor-over-$5-shot
For those into golf, Morikawa and Homa added to President's Cup team. Two of twelve U.S. team members are Bears.
PICK
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/dCt7CSG6--2-C-6fDIvmOZwOsTY=/0x19:455x322/920x613/filters:focal(0x19:455x322):format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/imported_assets/1053179/the_interception_medium.png
And just like that, fUCLA has another pick 6 against Longshore. Too soon?
Longshore had more picks than TDs in the 4th quarter in his Cal career.
*barfing*
Pain-killing med wore off then.
He shouldn't have been playing.
Nope, not at all. Tedford panicked and started an injured Longshore over Riley. I think we win that game and a few more that season with Riley as our starting QB. Probably end up 8-4 with Riley starting the rest of the season.
Seems like there's definitely enough room in there to pick up 2 more wins with a healthy Riley starting (and a lot of talent around him). Maybe more than that.
I try to block out as much of the second half of that season as possible but the two games that seemed like we would have a won with Riley at QB that I vividly remember are ucla and Big Game. USC was close but I doubt Riley plays well enough in those elements to beat USC. What were our other two conference losses? ASU and UW? I can’t remember how close those games were. I can’t believe we got swept by all the other California schools that season.
Ah yes, the UW game where we kicked off to start _both_ halves. I remember Longshore played pretty well in that game, so that probably still would have been a loss.
UCLA and Big Game were close enough to win. USC also close, but who knows how that goes in the bad weather. I think that ASU game was within reach too . . . we were ahead but handed the game to ASU with 2nd half interceptions.
And UW was surprisingly not that close, but I wonder how motivated the team was at that point. A lot of guys seemed to be checked out. If they hadn't just suffered a string of dispiriting losses, I think they play better.
Stomp 'Furd
We easily win Big Game with Riley. If Tedford just inserted Riley for the second half we win that game.
That is maybe the most frustrating Cal loss I attended - with my sister!
The whole thing was soooooooooo frustrating.
I was at that game in the Rose Bowl in 2007. It was brutal.
NOSE
tackle or lack thereof.
I like Wilcox's defense. I like that we don't necessarily have a dedicated NT and that we easily switch from 3-4 to 4-3 to 4-2-5 to whatever best defends against a given offense.
https://enose.jpl.nasa.gov
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
DOJ is now following the money. Federal Grand Jury investigation on Trump's Save America PAC. The PAC has $100m and it can be spent however Trump wants but cannot be used willy-nilly if he declares as a Presidential. At the heart is that Trump has waffled saying whether he is a candidate or not and therein lies the DOJ's fishing expedition.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1118946905/trump-pac-money-fec
SF Board of Supervisors decriminalized psychedelics. I wouldn't be surprised if some people starting acting really weird in the City.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgya43/san-francisco-decriminialized-shrooms
....well that would be a first
Fetterman agrees to debate Oz
https://whyy.org/articles/pa-governor-election-2022-fetterman-will-debate-oz-this-fall/
DBD AV CLUB
She-Hulk is lighter than light. But fun.
This show seems to be making some people very angry. I'm not sure how many of them understand that She-Hulk has always been a jokey character.
Really? Strange...
No, not Strange. He has two movies; he can get his own series if he wants.
Yeah, those were good.
the amount of things that the people who are angry over understand I'd wager is like zero.
Late to the party on this one but the missus and I started watching The Americans last night. After the episode we're hungry for more.
OOOOOooooooOOOOOOoooo - You're sort of lucky, it's a great show.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Ohhhhhh...
https://twitter.com/CycloneLarry69/status/1566872769501036544
Per Reddit, the exhaustive list of FBS teams that are expected to lose every game due to being an underdog via FPI strength-of-schedule ranking:
Colorado
Per Grace Raynor at The Athletic, Dabo gets a giant 10 year extension. It comes with an Anti-Alabama poison pill.
https://twitter.com/gmraynor/status/1567873541231546369
If Bama wants him, they'll have no problem paying the extra buyout.
ICYMI: Christopher Brooks ran for 135 yards against USF. Also, USF kinda sucks
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401415612
Who?
McClellan Castles.
You mean that huge TE that was lining up at the X spot on Saturday?
BOOOOOOO
BYU hates gays. 8% of BYU students have self-identified as LGBTQ. Therein lies the conflict. But there are also good people who try to help.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/byu-lgbtq-students-tensions-reaj/index.html
BYU hates black people and gays.
I will never feel bad for LDS.
CAL
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Power Bar.
The Bears opened the 1939 season by defeating UC Davis by the unusual score of 32-14. They ended the season by defeating Stanfurd by the unusual score of 32-14. They only won other game that season but not 32-14.
(Cal trivia fun fact will appear on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.)
What’s unusual about getting 16 safeties to win a game? Iowa wins by safety all the time.
I believe the Davis game was 12 safeties a TD and two-point conversation. The Big Game was thirteen safeties and two field goals IIRC.
Go Bears!!
[WSOC] Bears play Fullerton on the road tonight.
https://www.fullertontitans.com/sports/w-soccer/2022-23/boxscores/20220908_v3dm.xml
Does anyone know what the Cal sections are at Notre Dame stadium?
Sections 114-121
Thx! I've been away from DBD for a while, so apologies as I'm sure this has previously been asked & answered.
It actually hasn't - but there's like three text chains I'm a part of that have asked - and I'm not even going to the game.
I do!
Thank goodness someone knows...