I had a business dinner recently with 8 French people and 1 other non French person. At one point, French fries got brought up as a sharable dish...the Frenchies just called them "fries". I found it quite funny
I watched a lot more cycling ten years ago. The main news sites have more paywalls now so I started to lose track of the personalities of the riders—which of course means paying for a subscription seems less important.
I am happy to live in a time when Turner Classic Movies exists. A never ending source of films of all varieties. (This was not a paid endorsement, I'm just a big fan.)
Really enjoying Mr Inbetween…just finished S2…some powerful episodes, very poignant. A real surprise of 30-minute Aussie show.
Also, finished ep 4 of American Gigolo on Showtime…the opening credits are set to Blondie’s “Call Me” and are great!! It got me thinking about how the opening credit montage can really improve the enjoyment of a show by getting you in the right mood…
What are some of your favorite or more iconic opening credit sequences over the years? There are soooo many…in no particular order:
I recall having read an article about a study that claimed people who swear are actually smarter than average. Not that this excuses losing your shit, just sayin'.
I find I keep it well down into the single digits most of the time, 0 in some settings, but at a certain level of frustration I can immediately shoot up to 18-25, when I run out of patience.
There was a window when my children were growing up when I was close to zero at home and around a five overall. But before and since I'm a fifteen/sixteen. Nineteen during Cal games.
My next adventure is trying to make Christina Tosi's "Crack Pie". It is essentially a "chess pie". Chess-pie is a traditional Southern custard pie and it is easily my favorite pie. However, this recipe doesn't include her secret ingredient - freeze dried corn powder. It's expensive at about $36/pound. Tosi's recipes are notorious for being difficult to perfect.
Shooting the moon hangs over every hand. Either someone is trying to shoot the moon or trying to prevent it. As you probably know, the second trick is usually when the the enterprise starts in earnest as it is usually verbotten to bleed on the first trick. And you can't lead hearts until hearts have been bled. But you can lead spades on the 2nd trick. If the Queen of Spades is considered a "heart" because she's worth 13 points, then a hand can get crazy really fast. I've seen a number of variations on play because different people view the Queen of Spades differently.
Back when Windows for got networked with Windows for Workgroups, they had a network Hearts game. We used to play every day during lunch at my first job, along with Descent and Heretic. One day we lost power before lunch so one coworker grabbed a deck of cards and we went up to Picantes and played analog Hearts.
played a couple of weekends ago during a cabin getaway. first time in some time. I'm usually on the winning end, but got skunked in the one game that we played!
i used play in grad school and it was fascinating.
the idea is that other people are playing the exact same hand as you multiple times, so you can compare scores as opposed to saying it was good or bad luck what cards you were dealt.
i might have .75 master points or something from going to a tournament in L'ville a long time ago.
This reminds me of a rule that has since been written out of the NCAA Football Rule Book. It used to be that after a team scores a TD or a FG, the team that was scored upon had the choice of receiving the kickoff or kicking off.
I was yelling, in the stands at the 1990 Big Game for Cal to do just that after Stanf*rd's last touchdown. With 12 seconds left. Why? Because Stanf*rd was behind and everyone knew that an onsides kick was coming up. Cal could have squelched that by kicking deep, forcing Stanf*rd to march about 50 yards to have a chance at a game winning FG.
Instead, all it took was a bad roughing the passer call by Pat Flood to give Stanf*rd position to make the game-winning FG.
If you have a kicker who can drill the ball high and long on kickoffs from the 35, why the hell not? Especially if you're down 3 or less with time running out.
At one point, I recall the AFL requiring the team that just got scored on to kick it back to the team that scored if they were still down by more than I think 2 tds. It was an early attempt to keep games close.
If you've got an emeritus professor who is basically hanging on to teach one class and does stuff like name the person with the lowest test score every time, you can do better.
Trump gave a 240-page petition to Clarence Thomas in the hope that SCOTUS will block DOJ from accessing classified docs seized from Mar-a-Lago. Straight to Clarence Thomas. Not to anybody else. Clarence Effing Thomas. Whose wife may have participated in trying to overturn the election on behalf of Donald Trump. Nothing unusual about that. Nope. That's totally normal.
Sickening to see Trump bobbing and weaving around the law and the DOJ. He simply can't be held accountable for seemingly anything. The longer the shenanigans go on, the more danger to our democracy, which I would give only a 50% chance of surviving at this point.
Trump proved with the Inside Edition fiasco in 2016 that it didn't kill his chances to win. This is really no different. Bombshell revelations and accusations are unlikely to sway anyone. It might keep some folks away from the polls, but I would guess that's a small sliver of the electorate.
Yes, but on the other hand when Roy Moore had a massive scandal drop before his election, he managed to lose ALABAMA as a Republican. So these things do still matter.
The base does not turn away, but softer support can disappear (including people deciding to stay home rather than vote for the scandal-plagued guy).
This term, the Supreme Court is hearing a case about whether Alabama’s newly drawn congressional maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race. In a seven-district state, the new maps included only one majority-Black district even though the state has a population that is more than one-quarter Black. The groups challenging the maps say that because it would be relatively easy to draw a map with two majority-Black districts, the state is legally obligated to do so. But Alabama Republicans countered by arguing they don’t have a requirement to use the plaintiffs’ maps, because creating a second majority-Black district would violate other race-neutral criteria used in redistricting.
...
Over the past few decades, Section 2 has primarily been used as a weapon against a practice known as racial gerrymandering — where lawmakers spread minority voters across state and federal legislative districts, or pack them into districts, in a way that made it impossible for those groups to elect the candidates of their choice. (We previously reported on how Section 2 reshaped North Carolina as part of “The Gerrymandering Project.”) In many ways, the case in Alabama is a textbook example, according to Franita Tolson, an election law professor at the University of Southern California. “A decade ago, we would have said that this is a clear Section 2 violation,” Tolson said. “African Americans didn’t get the number of seats they were entitled to. Very straightforward.” The panel of lower court judges who heard the case earlier this year — which included two Trump appointees — agreed.
But several experts, including Tolson, told me that they don’t expect the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority to take this tack. That’s because the court has grown increasingly hostile to the Voting Rights Act over the past few decades. The timing is not a coincidence. Roberts, who has been chief justice since 2005, has been critical of the law — and Section 2 — since he was a young government lawyer in the 1980s.
49ers lose their second left tackle. Niners will either turn to 2nd year player Jaylon Moore or Daniel Brunskill. Brunskill was a former walk-on at SDSU and UDFA.
Even with the QB issues, Sunday v NY Jets was a game they gotta win…the vaunted Pittsburgh D, sans TJ Watt, allowed Zach Wilson to march 65 yards in the final 3 minutes for the victory. THAT was more telling than the Pickett v Trubisky mess…thought Pittsburgh should’ve dealt for Garoppolo in off season, as he’d have been a good fit. They had zero interest tho.
Speaking of the Giants. QB Daniel Jones injured his ankle during the game. Backup Tyrod Taylor also exited the game with a concussion. If Jones and Taylor can't suit up, it'll be Davis Webb against Aaron Rodgers this Sunday.
As the baseball historians on the Brew’s social media team found, over the past 100 years the surest sign of an economic downturn has been a Philly-based baseball team winning the World Series. It happened in 1929, 1930, 1980, and 2008. On Monday night, the Phillies clinched a playoff spot for the upcoming postseason.
The Dodgers took the field for the next to last time on Tuesday night in a game against the Rockies, with really not a lot to play for beyond individual accomplishments. Chief among them Julio Urías gunning for the ERA crown, and Freddie Freeman’s battle with Jeff McNeil for the National League batting title in the NL.
Urías once again showed tremendous consistency, but the final result was an uneventful 5-2 loss to the Rockies, LA’s third straight defeat.
The Dodgers’ Cy Young candidate took the ball for his last start before the playoffs, and with the announcement that he was going to make a somewhat abbreviated start due to the nature of the game, the goal was simply to keep him fresh and healthy for hopefully a long postseason run.
what are the chances i get a job at a quantum compute company now that the secret is out?
i have 3rd or 4th round of interviews w/ a trapped ion quantum place next week, called IonQ. they need a person who knows machine learning to help stabilize their decoherence problems. i just need to figure out how the physics works before figuring out how to apply ML algorithms to it ...
the place is right near U of Maryland, not far from NASA Goddard. it would be a remote software job, but i would probably still need to show up once a month or so to rub up next to the actual computer. maybe they will let me duct tape something together since that was my specialty in grad school!
still a ways to go w/ interview process, but staying extra hopeful on this one
[WTen] Oh snap! The Bears Alsola & Wirsholm are playing the first round in the ITA Women's All American Champtionships right now, like a mile from my house! I gotta go cheer them on!
[WGolf] After 2 days, Cal's Annika Borrelli is 3rd, 5 strokes behind the leader at the Blessing Collegiate Invitation in Fayetteville, AR. Cal is 7th out of 11 as a team.
Tell the DBD a joke/riddle, but tell it using Sean Connery's pronunciation.
Boo the neighbor
https://www.ky3.com/2022/10/05/halloween-display-paying-homage-stranger-things-hold-after-complaints/
Sounds like jealousy.
Eff that noise.
If I owned that house, I'd tell the neighbor to fuck off.
Something French
Fronch fries. Fronch dressing. Fronch toast. And to drink... tada... Peru.
Just watched that movie again…the K-12, Champ!
La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beaute
Luxe, calme et volupte
Beautiful poetry by Chucky B before he descended into syphilitic madness.
My lady friend
letter
I had a business dinner recently with 8 French people and 1 other non French person. At one point, French fries got brought up as a sharable dish...the Frenchies just called them "fries". I found it quite funny
Bulldog
Onion
le tour de france
while i watch a ton of pro cycling these days, le Tour remains among the best of cycling still in terms of riders, heritage, scenery ...
I watched a lot more cycling ten years ago. The main news sites have more paywalls now so I started to lose track of the personalities of the riders—which of course means paying for a subscription seems less important.
Open
Toast
Kiss, bread, fries, watch the
DBD AV Club
I am happy to live in a time when Turner Classic Movies exists. A never ending source of films of all varieties. (This was not a paid endorsement, I'm just a big fan.)
Really enjoying Mr Inbetween…just finished S2…some powerful episodes, very poignant. A real surprise of 30-minute Aussie show.
Also, finished ep 4 of American Gigolo on Showtime…the opening credits are set to Blondie’s “Call Me” and are great!! It got me thinking about how the opening credit montage can really improve the enjoyment of a show by getting you in the right mood…
What are some of your favorite or more iconic opening credit sequences over the years? There are soooo many…in no particular order:
1. Miami Vice (OG)
2. Peaky Blinders (early seasons)
3. M.A.S.H.
4. The Wire (S1)
Thoughts?
The Sopranos
Sanford and Son
Call Me was the theme from the original AG movie.
I’ve been meaning to see it for years actually…Lauren Hutton is quite popular in the Chitwood house, ever since Once Bitten…
All In The Family
Laverne & Shirley
Star Trek (OG & TNG)
Ironside
Hawaii Five-O
that original Hawaii Five-0 theme song goes *hard*
True, very true. Kinda crazy show.
Succession. Welcome Back Kotter. WKRP in Cincinnati. Twilight Zone (the original).
The Mighty KRP!
W KRP!
Game of Thrones
M*A*S*H had at least 5 or 6 different instrumental versions of the music in the opening sequence over the span of 11 seasons.
West Wing
House of Cards
Cheers
I liked Cheers, but a rather long one.
The Wire
the Rockford Files, Simon and Simon, Sanford and Son, the Jeffersons, Magnum PI
On a 19 point scale, how much do you swear? (0 = 😇, 19 = 🤬)
Some people say that swearing is a crutch for a lazy mind. I say fuck those people.
Motherfucker is the best word in the English language. So malleable, expressive, and emphatic.
I usually add a mothafucker to make sure these ignorant motherfuckers hear me.
I use it for em-FASS-iss
I recall having read an article about a study that claimed people who swear are actually smarter than average. Not that this excuses losing your shit, just sayin'.
20ish.
Cal football games I’m usually at a 20. Non Cal football games I’m usually at a 4.
Maybe not the same numbers, but definitely the same distinction.
25/19
Kinda like 11 on your amplifier.
I've been trying to tone it down to like 11 - 12, but when I'm annoyed or have had a couple of beers, it's 19
I find I keep it well down into the single digits most of the time, 0 in some settings, but at a certain level of frustration I can immediately shoot up to 18-25, when I run out of patience.
Never 0, too low, but not ever as 19 all day, that's wearing some days.
0
30
There was a window when my children were growing up when I was close to zero at home and around a five overall. But before and since I'm a fifteen/sixteen. Nineteen during Cal games.
i would be closer to 15 if not for being married
in reality more like 9
some days: 0; others 7 to 11. Nothing on the Uncut Gems level
1 around my son. 18 anywhere else.
Impressive! I can drop to like a 9 maybe around the kids but anything lower requires too much effort for me
2-3
Wool
Fun fact: steel wool gains weight when it burns
https://i.imgur.com/tOlQXbI.gifv
The iron turns into iron oxide (rust), so it gains weight as it absorbs oxygen atoms
Brass
monkey, that funky monkey
Oh man, that song and Girls are so bad IMO, cause me to change station immediately
I can't stand Beastie Boys in general. They feel like the epitome of white shout-rap.
Sabotage is one of the best songs and music videos of all time.
What? not one of my all times fave, but they have some good songs too.
Licensed to Ill is fun (for its time) but I understand the antipathy.
The albums after that are quite good. Very diff vibe.
No sleep til Brooklyn
I think the smartest thing they did was not release too many albums
Ring. Like the ones that used to be at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk carousel.
Somewhere at home I have a ring from the Beach Boardwalk carousel.
Does the carousel no longer have the rings? Those were the best.
balls
A great non-corrosive metal for marine applications, slightly lower than bronze and stainless steel due to its softness.
Rail
DBD cooking academy
My next adventure is trying to make Christina Tosi's "Crack Pie". It is essentially a "chess pie". Chess-pie is a traditional Southern custard pie and it is easily my favorite pie. However, this recipe doesn't include her secret ingredient - freeze dried corn powder. It's expensive at about $36/pound. Tosi's recipes are notorious for being difficult to perfect.
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/crack-pie
And also overly sweet
Messed up
This. This is what’s messed up. This happened to my neighbor 3 doors down from me yesterday morning.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-hits-101-homicides-man-killed-as-police-respond-to-catalytic-converter-theft
That's fucked up.
That's horrific. They already had the cat, why shoot him as they're leaving?
Should have confronted them a little better prepared to deal with a criminal element that has demonstrated no regard for anyone else.
appalling
So sorry to see that dude
That is messed up. Very, very sad. So damned unnecessary.
Damn, that is very, very bad.
:(
A card game
There are so many, but I'll just mention Hearts.
Some of the most memorable times I've been playing cards have involved Hearts.
indeed. i "wasted" a good fraction of my freshman year playing Hearts.
it is, of course, hard and fun when you are playing people that are really good at it. but when i am not, i usually try to shoot the moon every time.
Shooting the moon hangs over every hand. Either someone is trying to shoot the moon or trying to prevent it. As you probably know, the second trick is usually when the the enterprise starts in earnest as it is usually verbotten to bleed on the first trick. And you can't lead hearts until hearts have been bled. But you can lead spades on the 2nd trick. If the Queen of Spades is considered a "heart" because she's worth 13 points, then a hand can get crazy really fast. I've seen a number of variations on play because different people view the Queen of Spades differently.
Back when Windows for got networked with Windows for Workgroups, they had a network Hearts game. We used to play every day during lunch at my first job, along with Descent and Heretic. One day we lost power before lunch so one coworker grabbed a deck of cards and we went up to Picantes and played analog Hearts.
Pedro, which nobody who didn't grow up in the city or on the peninsula has never heard of.
Grew up in Oakland. Have heard of it but know nothing about it.
now I'm intrigued...gotta look that up
Golf - Probably the most frequently played game with my grandpa
Gin Rummy & Gin - Fun, quick (Rummy) and easy to explain for people new to the game
Cribbage
Mrs Slug and I get into it from time to time.
how'd I miss cribbage...it's the best!
played a couple of weekends ago during a cabin getaway. first time in some time. I'm usually on the winning end, but got skunked in the one game that we played!
It's been a staple for generations.
For a while, Mrs Slug would visit me at work for lunch on Wednesdays. We would play a full game of cribbage.
that sounds nice! I need to teach Ms MoriBear the game
“Egyptian Rat Screw” was a popular (and interminable) camp game.
I forgot about this one and no longer remember how it's played, however I do remember playing it at summer camps throughout the 90s
Kings on the corner. Used to play with my grandma, rest in peace.
Pinochle. My dad played it, so I learned it after he died. Played it a little with a couple of housemates at Cal my senior year.
Sabacc, the game that Han Solo played against Lando Calrissian to win the Millennium Falcon. You can buy it from Disney. Fairly easy and lots of fun.
Michigan rummy. Used to play with grandparents. A unique game (needs two decks), but playable for kids.
duplicate bridge.
i used play in grad school and it was fascinating.
the idea is that other people are playing the exact same hand as you multiple times, so you can compare scores as opposed to saying it was good or bad luck what cards you were dealt.
i might have .75 master points or something from going to a tournament in L'ville a long time ago.
Elsewhere in college
Bruh.
https://kslsports.com/493731/cottonwood-high-school-wins-football-game-in-most-bizarre-way-possible/
This reminds me of a rule that has since been written out of the NCAA Football Rule Book. It used to be that after a team scores a TD or a FG, the team that was scored upon had the choice of receiving the kickoff or kicking off.
I was yelling, in the stands at the 1990 Big Game for Cal to do just that after Stanf*rd's last touchdown. With 12 seconds left. Why? Because Stanf*rd was behind and everyone knew that an onsides kick was coming up. Cal could have squelched that by kicking deep, forcing Stanf*rd to march about 50 yards to have a chance at a game winning FG.
Instead, all it took was a bad roughing the passer call by Pat Flood to give Stanf*rd position to make the game-winning FG.
FTFY
Pat FUCKING Flood
If you have a kicker who can drill the ball high and long on kickoffs from the 35, why the hell not? Especially if you're down 3 or less with time running out.
I remember seeing an NFL team do this, I think. It is an interesting rule.
At one point, I recall the AFL requiring the team that just got scored on to kick it back to the team that scored if they were still down by more than I think 2 tds. It was an early attempt to keep games close.
NYU sacks o-chem professor because students said he class was too difficult.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/04/opinions/nyu-chemistry-professor-student-complaint-filipovic/index.html
apparently he was also a notorious asshole
That article comes across as someone trying to force a larger narrative onto an incident where the dude probably should have been let go.
If you've got an emeritus professor who is basically hanging on to teach one class and does stuff like name the person with the lowest test score every time, you can do better.
You had better do better. And should have already.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Toodumb Dixon's polling continues to sink. It's about abortion.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2022/10/04/poll-where-michigan-voters-stand-on-governor-race-1-month-before-election/
Trump gave a 240-page petition to Clarence Thomas in the hope that SCOTUS will block DOJ from accessing classified docs seized from Mar-a-Lago. Straight to Clarence Thomas. Not to anybody else. Clarence Effing Thomas. Whose wife may have participated in trying to overturn the election on behalf of Donald Trump. Nothing unusual about that. Nope. That's totally normal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-intervene-in-mar-a-lago-documents-case-00060300
Thomas oversees the 11th circuit, where the case is being litigated. It would have been highly unusual to submit it to anyone else.
All the same, fuck Clarence Thomas (and Donnie).
Sickening to see Trump bobbing and weaving around the law and the DOJ. He simply can't be held accountable for seemingly anything. The longer the shenanigans go on, the more danger to our democracy, which I would give only a 50% chance of surviving at this point.
Trying - I actually doubt this will work at all.
Rand Paul (R-KY) was a no-show to a televised debate vs. Charles Booker. The debate will likely not be rescheduled.
https://www.lex18.com/news/decison-2022/sen-rand-paul-declines-to-debate-charles-booker-in-u-s-senate-race
Seems like Georgia will be similar.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/welp-first-scheduled-debate-between-161026787.html
Warnock/Walker race is incredibly close
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/georgia/
I wonder if the current abortion revelation and Christian Walker Twitter confessions will hurt H Walker.
I think enough bad looks. Even for R women in a count.
I doubt it.
Maybe a little.
Trump proved with the Inside Edition fiasco in 2016 that it didn't kill his chances to win. This is really no different. Bombshell revelations and accusations are unlikely to sway anyone. It might keep some folks away from the polls, but I would guess that's a small sliver of the electorate.
Yes, but on the other hand when Roy Moore had a massive scandal drop before his election, he managed to lose ALABAMA as a Republican. So these things do still matter.
The base does not turn away, but softer support can disappear (including people deciding to stay home rather than vote for the scandal-plagued guy).
The stupid and obstinance runs deep within Georgia and the Georgia GOP.
Beto O'Rourke poses with some horse jockey
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1577483425711276037
Did the jockey spit on him or does he only do that to former Cal grads?
New SCOTUS term started two days ago. Some important stuff being looked at
The Voting Rights Act is once again in jeopardy
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/supreme-court-kill-voting-rights-act/
This term, the Supreme Court is hearing a case about whether Alabama’s newly drawn congressional maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race. In a seven-district state, the new maps included only one majority-Black district even though the state has a population that is more than one-quarter Black. The groups challenging the maps say that because it would be relatively easy to draw a map with two majority-Black districts, the state is legally obligated to do so. But Alabama Republicans countered by arguing they don’t have a requirement to use the plaintiffs’ maps, because creating a second majority-Black district would violate other race-neutral criteria used in redistricting.
...
Over the past few decades, Section 2 has primarily been used as a weapon against a practice known as racial gerrymandering — where lawmakers spread minority voters across state and federal legislative districts, or pack them into districts, in a way that made it impossible for those groups to elect the candidates of their choice. (We previously reported on how Section 2 reshaped North Carolina as part of “The Gerrymandering Project.”) In many ways, the case in Alabama is a textbook example, according to Franita Tolson, an election law professor at the University of Southern California. “A decade ago, we would have said that this is a clear Section 2 violation,” Tolson said. “African Americans didn’t get the number of seats they were entitled to. Very straightforward.” The panel of lower court judges who heard the case earlier this year — which included two Trump appointees — agreed.
But several experts, including Tolson, told me that they don’t expect the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority to take this tack. That’s because the court has grown increasingly hostile to the Voting Rights Act over the past few decades. The timing is not a coincidence. Roberts, who has been chief justice since 2005, has been critical of the law — and Section 2 — since he was a young government lawyer in the 1980s.
Sounds like holistic admission processes that consider race will be verboten now
PRO
Jason Mendoza is inconsolable
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34731582/former-jacksonville-jaguars-qb-blake-bortles-says-quietly-retired
49ers lose their second left tackle. Niners will either turn to 2nd year player Jaylon Moore or Daniel Brunskill. Brunskill was a former walk-on at SDSU and UDFA.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34726477/san-francisco-49ers-lose-second-starting-left-tackle-two-weeks-colton-mckivitz-miss-two-months-mcl-sprain-knee
The Kenny Pickett era has started in Pittsburgh
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34724839/pittsburgh-steelers-list-rookie-kenny-pickett-atop-quarterback-depth-chart
Gonna be some ups and downs.
Even with the QB issues, Sunday v NY Jets was a game they gotta win…the vaunted Pittsburgh D, sans TJ Watt, allowed Zach Wilson to march 65 yards in the final 3 minutes for the victory. THAT was more telling than the Pickett v Trubisky mess…thought Pittsburgh should’ve dealt for Garoppolo in off season, as he’d have been a good fit. They had zero interest tho.
Chicago Bears K Badgely made all 4 FG in their 20-12 loss to the NY Giants. He was cut. NFL is a cold, cold business.
https://twitter.com/BearsPR/status/1577070497786994689
Speaking of the Giants. QB Daniel Jones injured his ankle during the game. Backup Tyrod Taylor also exited the game with a concussion. If Jones and Taylor can't suit up, it'll be Davis Webb against Aaron Rodgers this Sunday.
Impressive that he's hung around in the league this long. He didn't even throw his first (non-preseason) NFL pass until last season.
[USWNT] Portland and Chicago owners step aside from decision making as their teams get implicated in abuse probe
https://www.wralsportsfan.com/portland-thorns-owner-steps-aside-as-u-s-soccer-stars-call-for-change/20507383/
Abuse probe affects US Curling team too as the Soccer Commissioner at the time is now the Curling CEO.
Judge hits #62
https://twitter.com/TalkinYanks/status/1577451053607329792
Gotta respect the fan that tried the low-route to try to snag Judge's ball in case it wasn't caught.
https://twitter.com/ChampionPicks/status/1577452545336672256
This guy got Francisco Lindor's HR ball
https://twitter.com/KingKaiser718/status/1577599388523921409
Am I right that #2 in the AL (maybe even MLB?) only has something like 35 HR. To be that far ahead of the rest of the league is just remarkable.
Pretty good reception for Judge by Texas Rangers fans.
from the Morning Brew newsletter i get
As the baseball historians on the Brew’s social media team found, over the past 100 years the surest sign of an economic downturn has been a Philly-based baseball team winning the World Series. It happened in 1929, 1930, 1980, and 2008. On Monday night, the Phillies clinched a playoff spot for the upcoming postseason.
Good Gawd.
From a few days ago: pro fishermen caught cheating by stuffing lead weights in their fish: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/03/1126570725/fish-weights-walleye-competition
The embedded video is wild.
Padres beat the Giants, 6-2.
Julio Urías finishes strong, but Dodgers offense is lacking in 3rd straight loss
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/10/4/23388682/julio-urias-era-title-dodgers-offense-welp-rockies-recap
The Dodgers took the field for the next to last time on Tuesday night in a game against the Rockies, with really not a lot to play for beyond individual accomplishments. Chief among them Julio Urías gunning for the ERA crown, and Freddie Freeman’s battle with Jeff McNeil for the National League batting title in the NL.
Urías once again showed tremendous consistency, but the final result was an uneventful 5-2 loss to the Rockies, LA’s third straight defeat.
The Dodgers’ Cy Young candidate took the ball for his last start before the playoffs, and with the announcement that he was going to make a somewhat abbreviated start due to the nature of the game, the goal was simply to keep him fresh and healthy for hopefully a long postseason run.
A's down Angels 2-1 in 10 innings. Shea Langeliers walks with the bases loaded, picking up an RBI in the walk-off win.
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/10/4/23385417/los-angeles-la-angels-oakland-athletics-mlb-baseball
Uh Yay!
CAL
Happy Nobel week!
physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pioneering-quantum-physicists-win-nobel-prize-in-physics-20221004/
what are the chances i get a job at a quantum compute company now that the secret is out?
i have 3rd or 4th round of interviews w/ a trapped ion quantum place next week, called IonQ. they need a person who knows machine learning to help stabilize their decoherence problems. i just need to figure out how the physics works before figuring out how to apply ML algorithms to it ...
the place is right near U of Maryland, not far from NASA Goddard. it would be a remote software job, but i would probably still need to show up once a month or so to rub up next to the actual computer. maybe they will let me duct tape something together since that was my specialty in grad school!
still a ways to go w/ interview process, but staying extra hopeful on this one
Good luck! As an added benefit, you'd become another member of member of W4C mid-Atlantic! (well, once a month)
I have the old Cal vs Stanford Nobel tshirt that an old CGB-er made.
I assume it needs to be updated over the last 10 years.
i am pretty sure Stanford and MIT are ahead of us nowadays.
Fake news.
Go Bears!!!
[WTen] Oh snap! The Bears Alsola & Wirsholm are playing the first round in the ITA Women's All American Champtionships right now, like a mile from my house! I gotta go cheer them on!
We are getting overwhelmed by Wake Forest.. lost the first set 6-2 and we just had our serve broken in the second set.
They lost 7-5 second set. Too many unforced errors into the net.
[MGolf] After the second day of the Blessings Collegiate Invitational, Cal's men's team improved from last to not last.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/4/mens-golf-bears-jump-two-spots-at-blessings-collegiate-invitational.aspx
[WGolf] After 2 days, Cal's Annika Borrelli is 3rd, 5 strokes behind the leader at the Blessing Collegiate Invitation in Fayetteville, AR. Cal is 7th out of 11 as a team.
https://calbears.com/documents/2022/10/4/BCI_Player_Results_2.pdf
https://calbears.com/documents/2022/10/4/BCI_WTeam_Results_2.pdf