Here is a picture of some graffiti by “John” in my hotel room. The breakaway rebels in America were under the second president and now fighting their former allies - France. England also fought against France, standing alone after Napolean defeated England’s former coalition members.
That was my worry too! Would have been so shocking because Prince, despite all the sexuality in his music, seems very much the last guy to act like that.
YouTube is an incredible resource for DYI home projects. I've learned everything from basic plumbing to installing/repairing drip lines. I almost always look there first before calling a professional.
i need to install a 220v plug so i can charge my Volvo EV. seems excessive to pay $1000+ to do something straightforward like adding a new plug into electrical box.
That is one I researched online when installing my charger, I figured I could probably do it myself, but messing with my 200amp box made me nervous so I ended up finding someone to install it for ~$800. It does look rather straightforward though, especially if you have a short run from your box to your charger location.
Yeah I agree. Especially if you're adding a 220V plug. Plus you might need to get a larger panel or more power from the electric company when adding a car charger.
I will do small things like I added a plug up the wall by extended above an existing outlet when I wall mounted the TV. I also routed the HDMI cables up there as well.
That's why I probably wouldn't attempt to do anything furnace or water heater related. Maybe I would try changing out the water heater but I would never attempt to replumb the exhaust.
So I bought my house in April and have done a number of projects with the house. It is challenging and pricey but a lot of fun and rewarding. Somewhat even addictive. I don’t really have any hobbies so this has filled a hole in my life.
I would love to hear what other are doing with their homes.
We've lived in our house since 2016 and only in 2020 did we start doing numerous projects on a regular basis (probably because we were 1) planning out projects and 2) still financially recovering from buying a house).
2020: painted downstairs living room, painted and wallpapered the downstairs bathroom, converted a spare bedroom into cf-98's room in anticipation of her birth (painting, wallpapering, furnishing), turned the formal dining room into a play room, built a chicken coop in the backyard, created a bike workshop in the basement
2021: put in new floors downstairs, refurnished my office, painted Mrs Bk97's office, refurnished the mud room, organized the basement with a bunch of storage racks, built two 4'x8' raised garden beds
2022 (planned): repaint all the shutters on the front of the house (they're faded from the sun), reseal the upstairs shower, paint all the remaining walls downstairs, install a new backsplash in the kitchen
Thanks to covid, we've had plenty of time inside to get things done. But it's not too bad when stretched out over the course of a year. We did most of the work when we felt like it, rather than scheduling specific projects at specific times. I think that made it much easier, since we were motivated when we decided to do each project.
When I bought my first house back in '05 in upstate NY, the first thing I did was throw about $4000 into the front yard....I had a large grassy yard and added a white vinyl picket fence, and a stone pathway to the front door from the street. Instant curb appeal.
My friends and I started putting our expenses into Splitwise yesterday for our New Year's trip...so we discovered yesterday that one of the restaurants forgot to charge us for our drinks!
Heh, recently the missus and I went out and the server let us know that she accidentally gave our tab to another table and that they paid it and left already. Their bill was a fair bit less than ours, so she said we'll call it even if we paid their tab instead. We ended up getting several drinks for free.
GGGrrrrrr... I've eaten there twice, never again. First time it was a bit of a wait for our reservation, they were nice, glass of wine, food was good, second time it was a 45 minute wait, and they were not apologetic at all - and with a young hungry kid in tow, that is so not cool.
One other suggestion, not so much a restaurant, but the Cooper-Molera Adobe at the end of Alvarado Street was restored and opened up in the last few years. It is really nice, has a cafe in it, a brewpub.
Nearby, the Alvarado Street Brewery is nice. Used to be a movie theater when I was a kid, so is a big space with a kind of industrial feel and nice beer garden in back.
We also went to Schooners in Monterey, which was good, but maybe not groundbreaking. In Carmel, we went to Treehouse, which was fine but not something I'd necessarily travel for. We'd considered La Bicyclette but couldn't get a reservation.
I have never heard of Splitwise before, so I went to go check it out. If I understand it correctly, it's essentially a running ledger of who owes whom. I can see where this would come handy - group vacations and things like that. Perhaps it's just me, but I've notice that female friends tend to do precise transactional calculations. "Oh, you had the expensive apps and drinks and I only had a salad". But my male friends are like "I'll get this one" and we fight over who pays next. And "I'll get you next time" is a promise. There's a social stigma to alligator-arming on going for the check and you get quickly called out for doing it. In Singapore, somebody got the nickname "Gator".
i think it less about expensive and cheap contributions to dinner, but great for things like a multi-family ski trip that we just went on.
one person paid for house, another for airport shuttle, group dinners split 10 ways .. mostly large expenses but still needing some accounting. stuff that you would otherwise need a spreadsheet for, but here is a nice app to do it for you.
it also gives you the option to split equally, by percentage, by share, by exact amounts.
Ok, since you like Splitwise, I'm coming here to complain. I feel like a major selling point of Splitwise is doing the "simplify" at the end, so instead of a bunch of little transactions, it's...simplified. But one of my friends decided to "pay me" before all the expenses were put in, AND he sent me money using Venmo WHICH I DON'T HAVE, so now all the calculations are going to be messed up. (I think it can be deleted on Splitwise, at least...)
2nd President. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the 6th president
JQA involvement as a US Senator, then ambassador to Britain during the War of 1812, and his subsequent terms as Secretary of State meant that he was a strong diplomat. He used the US federal might to strong arm Spain into ceding Florida to the US. He later negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty, which conceded some territory in Texas back to Spain in exchange for what would later become Oregon, Washington State, and Idaho. Despite it's name, the Monroe Doctrine was built upon principles created by Adams. Depending on if your perspective, the Monroe Doctrine created a lot of opportunity or misery as it formalized American influence over the entire Western hemisphere.
I agree with this but it didn’t take long to turn aspirations into reality as it did set the stage for US intervention in Latin American starting with the Mexican-American War.
The first time I went to Germany I was surprised how much graffiti I saw on the train ride from the Hamburg airport to the city of Hamburg. Germany hadn't struck me as a country that would have much graffiti.
I was an anthro major and my friends would tease me that it was not a real major. At graduation the program listed the titles of our senior theses and one girl’s was called “Shithouse Graffiti”. My friends loved it, still tease me about it
FET: I took two very different anthro courses and loved both of them. One was a physical anthro course that was all about human evolution from australopithicus to homo. Quizzes and tests often consisted of identifying species and eras by features of skulls (brow ridges, tooth size, etc.). Fascinating stuff. The other class was all about cultural domain analysis, statistical methods for measuring and quantifying elements of culture (i.e., how do you measure differentiation in related concepts, ideas, or objects?).
I still think regularly about the facts and methods I learned in those classes.
Once saw the following, in, I believe, a Wheeler stall: "Grout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. Kurt Vonnegut's fictional character Kilgore Grout. Nothing like pan fried Rainbow Grout." That's all I remember, there were more.
I think with the introduction of 10 new major characters, every character gets a little bit of short shrift. Gemma Chan is ridiculously attractive, but I'm not sure she holds up to carrying an entire movie. A lot of exposition is cut out (normally good - but this time I think needed) - there's a couple of deleted scenes on Youtube that would have helped with connecting the dots.
It was really pretty - but I think it still suffers from the Marvel last act problems AND it feels like the quipiness is stapled on instead of integral to the characters.
In the end I thought it was fine, but not an upper half MCU movie.
Mid-80's cult classic Clue has been making the rounds on Showtime...I watched again yesterday....actually a pretty fun and silly flick. I remember seeing it in the old Rockridge #2 movie theater tucked off Broadway across from Oakland Tech HS. Man, my folks took me to some total '80's classics there...Top Gun, Romancing the Stone, Iron Eagle...
I went on a hot date there with some random frat boy to see Prizzi's Honor but we ended up making out quite a lot so I've only seen about half the movie.
Such a weird spot for a theater. They converted that theater into apartments. I have friends that live there and every time I visit them I point out that it's where I saw Action Jackson.
Remember the Cyber Ninja's lawyer who applied to get out of the case because he wasn't getting paid - and certainly not because he is getting absolutely crushed in the case - was denied by the judge to be removed from the case. So the lawyer launched a personal attack on the judge in order to try and get himself disqualified from the case. That's a bold move, Cotton.
Nets looked good at Bulls. If all three of those guys are healthy I don’t see anyone taking them down in the East. A Dubs-Nets finals would be cool! Though Suns are obviously in our way too
Do you remember when Cal beat Ole Miss in Oxford? Cal hung on after John Rhys Plumlee replaced potential first rounder QB Matt Corral. Plumlee carved up Cal running for a big 47 yard then handing the ball off to get a TD. Cal punted after four plays and Plumlee got the ball back down by 8. Plumlee went 7 for 7 for 82 yards and another two runs for 6 more yards. The last pass went to eventual 2nd round pick Elijah Moore, who was stopped on the 1 yard line. 4th and goal from the 1, Plumlee did a QB sneak and Weaver stuffed him for no gain. End of game.
Well, Plumlee remained a backup in 2020 and then became a WR in 2021 but was way down the receiver list. He went to the portal and has transferred to UCF to compete for the starting QB job.
I enjoyed that trip. So much kudzu. Good effing food though, that place we went to in the forest in the abandoned little town after the game was phenomenal
Both wins over Ole Miss were great. I actually find the win at Memorial much more impressive as we were mostly able to shut down DJ Metcalf and AJ Brown. That was a fun game.
i trolled some UCLA info and the thought is that Azz leaving was a requirement for UCLA to give Chip the extension he was looking for. Extension expected to be signed in 3..2..1.. Garbers should've stayed one more year. His nemesis is gone haha
Could regret not striking while the iron is hot. He’s not beating Stroud again and losing Hutchinson & that OL, things could be 8-4 again real quick in Ann Arbor...
The NFL will always have HC openings and they have shown that NFL owners will always give any former white NFL HC retread a 2nd and 3rd chance, let alone one that had success and went to a SB. Harbaugh will have a HC job in the NFL waiting for him if and when he wants it.
See Adam Gase, Doug Marrone, Norv Turner, Chip Kelly, Eric Mangini, etc.
Why the F a team would hire an old retread like Jim Caldwell, Dan Quinn or Leslie Frazier over Eric Bieniemy, Brian Daboll or Byron Leftwich is beyond me.
I feel like Caldwell deserves another chance. He took the Colts to the SB and he is the most successful coach in Detroit over the past 2 decades. Firing him for Patricia was a mistake.
Ya, he probably got a quick hook in DET...he did get them to the playoffs. But he's 66 years old - the guy should be playing rounds of golf in FL, not making the interview rounds. Wouldn't you much rather roll with a dynamic young offensive mind like Byron Leftwich? I would.
What do you guys think our O will look like next year? I cannot remember a year when we lost our starting QB (Garbers) and arguably our best WR (Remigio) and RB (Brooks) all at the same time. Plummer seems promising but does he have anyone decent to throw to?
If Musgrave returns, more of the same. A couple decent games, a couple eye-gougingly bad games, and a bunch of games where Cal puts together 1-2 prolonged scoring drives and spends the rest of the game going 3-and-out.
I do not understand the Xs and Os as well as many of you guys, but I got the feeling watching Musgrave this year that he wanted to spread things out with the vertical passing game like they do in the NFL, but had a hard time grasping that we had neither the QB nor the wideouts for such an approach. Meanwhile, our Oline and RBs did pretty well but he was slow to resort to them.
Absolutely no idea. A lot will depend on if Musgrave is back but I predict the OL will be a disaster. Plummer should be serviceable and the young WRs get a chance. Not worried about RBs, lots of serviceable players and talent there
yup...he hasn't signed an extension either. So we can hope they are running the contract out but knowing Wilcox and what a stiff he is, Musgrave will be back until we're told otherwise
Daltoso... but Craig is a cripple, have to think a medical retirement is on the cards although I havent heard specifically. There are some decent pieces there but very unproven with multiple players having to step up in order for the line to be decent. I'll believe it when I see it
also, Apr 15 is during our kids Spring Break. not sure what we are going to do. ideally my daughter gets into some colleges that she wants to visit, so that would be the time ...
The alleged rapist formerly known as Prince...
https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1481674049310896129
Give the royal title posthumously to Prince instead.
Dearly beloved…
We are gathered here today…
I was a bit worried at first that this story would be about Prince the musician being a rapist.
(I mean, he was a rock star in the 80s so it's entirely possible.)
That was my worry too! Would have been so shocking because Prince, despite all the sexuality in his music, seems very much the last guy to act like that.
Prince? I wouldn't think so.
I wouldn't either, but at one time I would have said the same about Bill Cosby. You never know.
True, you never know really, but you can feel like you do. I was sure Michael Jackson was a pedophile, before there was proof.
oh wow...kinda surprising but good on the Queen.
Romanesco
Great sauce for meat! (and veggies)
Also, this reminds me, SF lost a great Spanish eatery during the pandemic: Barcino RIP
But it got a good one in return -- hello Red Window!
Not near the Opera :(
This is the definition of First World Problems.
DBD Homeowner Projects
YouTube is an incredible resource for DYI home projects. I've learned everything from basic plumbing to installing/repairing drip lines. I almost always look there first before calling a professional.
anyone do any electrical things?
i need to install a 220v plug so i can charge my Volvo EV. seems excessive to pay $1000+ to do something straightforward like adding a new plug into electrical box.
That is one I researched online when installing my charger, I figured I could probably do it myself, but messing with my 200amp box made me nervous so I ended up finding someone to install it for ~$800. It does look rather straightforward though, especially if you have a short run from your box to your charger location.
That is to say, most DIY mistakes at home result in headaches and delays, electrical ones can end in sudden, painful death.
Yeah I agree. Especially if you're adding a 220V plug. Plus you might need to get a larger panel or more power from the electric company when adding a car charger.
I will do small things like I added a plug up the wall by extended above an existing outlet when I wall mounted the TV. I also routed the HDMI cables up there as well.
Yes, I'm totally cool with dealing with 110v outlets, lighting fixtures, etc, but once the panel is involved I'm likely to ask a professional.
or slow, peaceful deaths in your sleep during a house fire
That's why I probably wouldn't attempt to do anything furnace or water heater related. Maybe I would try changing out the water heater but I would never attempt to replumb the exhaust.
or you might survive but with painful injuries.
^^this^^
So I bought my house in April and have done a number of projects with the house. It is challenging and pricey but a lot of fun and rewarding. Somewhat even addictive. I don’t really have any hobbies so this has filled a hole in my life.
I would love to hear what other are doing with their homes.
We've lived in our house since 2016 and only in 2020 did we start doing numerous projects on a regular basis (probably because we were 1) planning out projects and 2) still financially recovering from buying a house).
2020: painted downstairs living room, painted and wallpapered the downstairs bathroom, converted a spare bedroom into cf-98's room in anticipation of her birth (painting, wallpapering, furnishing), turned the formal dining room into a play room, built a chicken coop in the backyard, created a bike workshop in the basement
2021: put in new floors downstairs, refurnished my office, painted Mrs Bk97's office, refurnished the mud room, organized the basement with a bunch of storage racks, built two 4'x8' raised garden beds
2022 (planned): repaint all the shutters on the front of the house (they're faded from the sun), reseal the upstairs shower, paint all the remaining walls downstairs, install a new backsplash in the kitchen
Wow, that’s a lot.
Thanks to covid, we've had plenty of time inside to get things done. But it's not too bad when stretched out over the course of a year. We did most of the work when we felt like it, rather than scheduling specific projects at specific times. I think that made it much easier, since we were motivated when we decided to do each project.
When I bought my first house back in '05 in upstate NY, the first thing I did was throw about $4000 into the front yard....I had a large grassy yard and added a white vinyl picket fence, and a stone pathway to the front door from the street. Instant curb appeal.
i gotta do something about my front yard, all i've done is let the grass die
Same here. The grass isn’t dead…yet. It might make it through the summer and then I need to do something with the front and backyards.
My friends and I started putting our expenses into Splitwise yesterday for our New Year's trip...so we discovered yesterday that one of the restaurants forgot to charge us for our drinks!
Heh, recently the missus and I went out and the server let us know that she accidentally gave our tab to another table and that they paid it and left already. Their bill was a fair bit less than ours, so she said we'll call it even if we paid their tab instead. We ended up getting several drinks for free.
nice!
Where did you go?
We spent the weekend in Monterey, and that particular restaurant was Hula's
Was it any good? I've always found it weird that Monterey doesn't have a lot of decent places to eat, but Carmel has tons.
You should try Monterey’s Fish House on Del Monte. You are right that Carmel has more upscale places, but Monterey does have some good ones.
I am a Monterey High grad - alma mater of Herm Edwards and Leon Panetta. Go Dores!
GGGrrrrrr... I've eaten there twice, never again. First time it was a bit of a wait for our reservation, they were nice, glass of wine, food was good, second time it was a 45 minute wait, and they were not apologetic at all - and with a young hungry kid in tow, that is so not cool.
Fuck'em
Ok then!
One other suggestion, not so much a restaurant, but the Cooper-Molera Adobe at the end of Alvarado Street was restored and opened up in the last few years. It is really nice, has a cafe in it, a brewpub.
Nearby, the Alvarado Street Brewery is nice. Used to be a movie theater when I was a kid, so is a big space with a kind of industrial feel and nice beer garden in back.
Oh and fuck the Carmel Padres! 😀
We also went to Schooners in Monterey, which was good, but maybe not groundbreaking. In Carmel, we went to Treehouse, which was fine but not something I'd necessarily travel for. We'd considered La Bicyclette but couldn't get a reservation.
I really like Hula's, especially the lilikoi pie.
i like Splitwise .. and free drinks are always good
I have never heard of Splitwise before, so I went to go check it out. If I understand it correctly, it's essentially a running ledger of who owes whom. I can see where this would come handy - group vacations and things like that. Perhaps it's just me, but I've notice that female friends tend to do precise transactional calculations. "Oh, you had the expensive apps and drinks and I only had a salad". But my male friends are like "I'll get this one" and we fight over who pays next. And "I'll get you next time" is a promise. There's a social stigma to alligator-arming on going for the check and you get quickly called out for doing it. In Singapore, somebody got the nickname "Gator".
i think it less about expensive and cheap contributions to dinner, but great for things like a multi-family ski trip that we just went on.
one person paid for house, another for airport shuttle, group dinners split 10 ways .. mostly large expenses but still needing some accounting. stuff that you would otherwise need a spreadsheet for, but here is a nice app to do it for you.
it also gives you the option to split equally, by percentage, by share, by exact amounts.
Ok, since you like Splitwise, I'm coming here to complain. I feel like a major selling point of Splitwise is doing the "simplify" at the end, so instead of a bunch of little transactions, it's...simplified. But one of my friends decided to "pay me" before all the expenses were put in, AND he sent me money using Venmo WHICH I DON'T HAVE, so now all the calculations are going to be messed up. (I think it can be deleted on Splitwise, at least...)
(He knows I don't have Venmo. He just forgot.)
since the money was sent prior to the settling of accounts that money is forfeit
sounds like mostly a complaint about your friend!
Indeed! This like a yelp review.
yes, i'm absolutely complaining about my friend. still love splitwise.
TBB friend= zero stars
yes and yes!
John Adams
2nd President. His son, John Quincy Adams, was the 6th president
JQA involvement as a US Senator, then ambassador to Britain during the War of 1812, and his subsequent terms as Secretary of State meant that he was a strong diplomat. He used the US federal might to strong arm Spain into ceding Florida to the US. He later negotiated the Adams-Onis Treaty, which conceded some territory in Texas back to Spain in exchange for what would later become Oregon, Washington State, and Idaho. Despite it's name, the Monroe Doctrine was built upon principles created by Adams. Depending on if your perspective, the Monroe Doctrine created a lot of opportunity or misery as it formalized American influence over the entire Western hemisphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams
eh, "formalized"? Given our lack of power then, it was more aspirational than real.
I agree with this but it didn’t take long to turn aspirations into reality as it did set the stage for US intervention in Latin American starting with the Mexican-American War.
We are overdue for the Adams Memorial.
Graffiti
On the wall above a Doe Library urinal:
"Shakespeare before leaving"
Cross-post with the minor league gherkin jerkin' topic.
The first time I went to Germany I was surprised how much graffiti I saw on the train ride from the Hamburg airport to the city of Hamburg. Germany hadn't struck me as a country that would have much graffiti.
American culture is a spray painted dick on the walls of the hallowed halls of Western culture, love it. USA! USA!
I felt the same way the first time I took a train in Geneva. Though TBF it was a lot more on the street art side of things than basic tagging.
I was an anthro major and my friends would tease me that it was not a real major. At graduation the program listed the titles of our senior theses and one girl’s was called “Shithouse Graffiti”. My friends loved it, still tease me about it
That sounds like a paper that Professor Dundes would love.
FET: I took two very different anthro courses and loved both of them. One was a physical anthro course that was all about human evolution from australopithicus to homo. Quizzes and tests often consisted of identifying species and eras by features of skulls (brow ridges, tooth size, etc.). Fascinating stuff. The other class was all about cultural domain analysis, statistical methods for measuring and quantifying elements of culture (i.e., how do you measure differentiation in related concepts, ideas, or objects?).
I still think regularly about the facts and methods I learned in those classes.
Yes! first one was with Tim White? Dude knew his stuff, great class
I took that cultural anthropology class. It was one of the most difficult courses I took! That it was in my last semester didn't help.
both my parents were Anthro grads at Cal and worked at the Lowie/now Hearst museum for years. My dad has some funny stories about that place
, American
Still the best George Lucas movie?
I'd say so.
At the middle school where I taught we once discovered some graffiti on a urinal. To tag a place where people urinate takes real dedication.
I read that last word as "defecation" and I know I'm not alone in doing so.
To defecate in a urinal certainly takes real dedication.
That's someone who dares you to make eye contact while they're doing it.
Back in the day, it seemed like Dwinelle had the cleverest graffiti.
Epic content.
Seen in many toilet stalls -
"GROUT IS GREAT!"
Once saw the following, in, I believe, a Wheeler stall: "Grout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. Kurt Vonnegut's fictional character Kilgore Grout. Nothing like pan fried Rainbow Grout." That's all I remember, there were more.
Grout Expectations
DBD Not Official Financial Advice
DBD Test Kitchen
Had Asian udon noddles & veggies (including Napa cabbage) last night.
What are European udon noodles like?
Like Asian noodles, just taller.
whiter
packing way more "heat"...allegedly. Always some outliers I suppose
They call it spaghetti.
One could use them in place of pasta I guess...
DBD AV Club
watched eternals because it's now on disney+. gorgeous movie with gorgeous people but i thought the story left a lot to be desired
I liked it more than I expected to. Don't quite understand why it was the worst-reviewed Marvel movie.
I think with the introduction of 10 new major characters, every character gets a little bit of short shrift. Gemma Chan is ridiculously attractive, but I'm not sure she holds up to carrying an entire movie. A lot of exposition is cut out (normally good - but this time I think needed) - there's a couple of deleted scenes on Youtube that would have helped with connecting the dots.
It was really pretty - but I think it still suffers from the Marvel last act problems AND it feels like the quipiness is stapled on instead of integral to the characters.
In the end I thought it was fine, but not an upper half MCU movie.
ya agreed other than the usual dumb reasons
Mid-80's cult classic Clue has been making the rounds on Showtime...I watched again yesterday....actually a pretty fun and silly flick. I remember seeing it in the old Rockridge #2 movie theater tucked off Broadway across from Oakland Tech HS. Man, my folks took me to some total '80's classics there...Top Gun, Romancing the Stone, Iron Eagle...
Wow, you're probably the only other person I know that has seen Iron Eagle. And I've seen all 4 of them. NOT a humble brag.
I went on a hot date there with some random frat boy to see Prizzi's Honor but we ended up making out quite a lot so I've only seen about half the movie.
That's ok, it's not that good of a movie.
Such a weird spot for a theater. They converted that theater into apartments. I have friends that live there and every time I visit them I point out that it's where I saw Action Jackson.
Vanity was a Canadian treasure
Watched Spiderman last night because No 2 and 3 wanted to watch. I enjoyed it.
Our Crumbling Democracy
Remember the Cyber Ninja's lawyer who applied to get out of the case because he wasn't getting paid - and certainly not because he is getting absolutely crushed in the case - was denied by the judge to be removed from the case. So the lawyer launched a personal attack on the judge in order to try and get himself disqualified from the case. That's a bold move, Cotton.
https://twitter.com/DillonReedRose/status/1481357337466048512
Construction workers who become politicians can sometimes have bad takes on how science works.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1481446345579843585
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treig_Pronschinske
more fun in Wisconsin! https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/high-schoolers-could-take-gun-class-under-gop-bill/article_23195943-c612-5142-b827-7ea5ba4b2367.html
Can't get past the pay wall. If gun control can't happen, I guess people should know how to handle them properly and safely?
He is ambidextrous. That could be useful to citizens.
Trump is eyeing the White House and wants a more compliant Senate for when he gets there
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/13/trump-senate-midterm-gop-control-526991
Today in Omicron
Lot fewer exposure notices at school this week for my kids. (Knock on wood)
There are so many kids and teachers already out around here that there just aren't that many people left around to get sick or test positive.
There are signs that the current wave is at or near its peak in the US. (Yes, also knock on wood.)
@fewer testing@
ugh...less testing.
Pro
Unsolicited gherkin pic
https://awfulannouncing.com/twitter/portland-pickles-end-mascot-takeover-after-tweet-that-can-be-misinterpreted-as-a-disturbing-image.html
"Shakespeare before leaving"
Only 14 NFL teams have natural grass. How and why this is a product, I don't know.
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/lays-golden-grounds-football-stadium-dirt-potato-chips
Chipto, the next crypto.
hahaha
Nets looked good at Bulls. If all three of those guys are healthy I don’t see anyone taking them down in the East. A Dubs-Nets finals would be cool! Though Suns are obviously in our way too
And damn the Grizz look good too. Ja is playing extremely well
Other College
Do you remember when Cal beat Ole Miss in Oxford? Cal hung on after John Rhys Plumlee replaced potential first rounder QB Matt Corral. Plumlee carved up Cal running for a big 47 yard then handing the ball off to get a TD. Cal punted after four plays and Plumlee got the ball back down by 8. Plumlee went 7 for 7 for 82 yards and another two runs for 6 more yards. The last pass went to eventual 2nd round pick Elijah Moore, who was stopped on the 1 yard line. 4th and goal from the 1, Plumlee did a QB sneak and Weaver stuffed him for no gain. End of game.
Well, Plumlee remained a backup in 2020 and then became a WR in 2021 but was way down the receiver list. He went to the portal and has transferred to UCF to compete for the starting QB job.
https://twitter.com/RivalsPortal/status/1481651715841552396
We were there! A bit nervy at the end.
I enjoyed that trip. So much kudzu. Good effing food though, that place we went to in the forest in the abandoned little town after the game was phenomenal
I think that was the day after the game, maybe? I thought we did the Atomic Cafe after the game.
thought we did that the day before. Whatevs, was good
I think, actually, you are correct.
Way too nervy at the end...almost gagged it.
Both wins over Ole Miss were great. I actually find the win at Memorial much more impressive as we were mostly able to shut down DJ Metcalf and AJ Brown. That was a fun game.
that trip was so much fun and i got entirely too drunk wandering around after the game
You were incredibly well behaved in the AirBnB, tho. Newellbany’s the maniac that daggered us on the deposit!! ;-)
Jerry Azzinaro "resigned" yesterday at fUcla. Chip has also lost his 2 co-OCs this offseason. And his buyout goes to ZERO on sunday.
Buh-bye. Though it seems kinda late in the hiring cycle. Who is still out there that hasn't been snapped up? I guess Urban...
WFC exclusive, URBAN MEYER TO fUCLA!
i trolled some UCLA info and the thought is that Azz leaving was a requirement for UCLA to give Chip the extension he was looking for. Extension expected to be signed in 3..2..1.. Garbers should've stayed one more year. His nemesis is gone haha
interesting...
Jim Harbaugh 'more likely than not' to stay at Michigan over pursuit of NFL return
https://247sports.com/Article/Jim-Harbaugh-more-likely-than-not-to-stay-at-Michigan-over-pursuit-of-NFL-return-180469027/
Could regret not striking while the iron is hot. He’s not beating Stroud again and losing Hutchinson & that OL, things could be 8-4 again real quick in Ann Arbor...
The NFL will always have HC openings and they have shown that NFL owners will always give any former white NFL HC retread a 2nd and 3rd chance, let alone one that had success and went to a SB. Harbaugh will have a HC job in the NFL waiting for him if and when he wants it.
See Adam Gase, Doug Marrone, Norv Turner, Chip Kelly, Eric Mangini, etc.
Why the F a team would hire an old retread like Jim Caldwell, Dan Quinn or Leslie Frazier over Eric Bieniemy, Brian Daboll or Byron Leftwich is beyond me.
I feel like Caldwell deserves another chance. He took the Colts to the SB and he is the most successful coach in Detroit over the past 2 decades. Firing him for Patricia was a mistake.
Ya, he probably got a quick hook in DET...he did get them to the playoffs. But he's 66 years old - the guy should be playing rounds of golf in FL, not making the interview rounds. Wouldn't you much rather roll with a dynamic young offensive mind like Byron Leftwich? I would.
@He can also always become the quarterbacks coach at Cal.@
Cal
What do you guys think our O will look like next year? I cannot remember a year when we lost our starting QB (Garbers) and arguably our best WR (Remigio) and RB (Brooks) all at the same time. Plummer seems promising but does he have anyone decent to throw to?
If Musgrave returns, more of the same. A couple decent games, a couple eye-gougingly bad games, and a bunch of games where Cal puts together 1-2 prolonged scoring drives and spends the rest of the game going 3-and-out.
I do not understand the Xs and Os as well as many of you guys, but I got the feeling watching Musgrave this year that he wanted to spread things out with the vertical passing game like they do in the NFL, but had a hard time grasping that we had neither the QB nor the wideouts for such an approach. Meanwhile, our Oline and RBs did pretty well but he was slow to resort to them.
Hope for the best and prepare for terrible.
Absolutely no idea. A lot will depend on if Musgrave is back but I predict the OL will be a disaster. Plummer should be serviceable and the young WRs get a chance. Not worried about RBs, lots of serviceable players and talent there
Is it possible Musgrave isn’t back? A little late in the cycle to get rid of him and get a new OC.
It's possible that they could run out the clock on his contract, as it expires on January 31st.
yup...he hasn't signed an extension either. So we can hope they are running the contract out but knowing Wilcox and what a stiff he is, Musgrave will be back until we're told otherwise
I wonder if they have a handshake agreement with a new OC and are just waiting for Jan 31.
I know Mettauer transferred, did we lose other OL starters to graduation?
Daltoso... but Craig is a cripple, have to think a medical retirement is on the cards although I havent heard specifically. There are some decent pieces there but very unproven with multiple players having to step up in order for the line to be decent. I'll believe it when I see it
New DB transfer incoming...
Who? Hopefully a safety.
CB from Colorado
Mekhi Blackmon? He's from the Bay Area. Rising RS-Jr. 2 to play 2. Was a starter at CU.
yes, he's already in the student directory apparently. Grad transfer
Oh. Nice. He's quite good.
https://youtu.be/HNGXsgLRkXU
my campus event on Jan 28 has been postponed to Apr 15. i am still going to make my trip to SF/Tahoe though ..
- havent been "home" in a while
- i have a bunch of other meetings on and around campus
- ski trip w/ HAG
also, Apr 15 is during our kids Spring Break. not sure what we are going to do. ideally my daughter gets into some colleges that she wants to visit, so that would be the time ...
Go Bears!!! But that was a rough night last night.
Fucking refs