In one of my daughter’s classes (3rd grade) there is a new student from Egypt. My daughter’s teacher told me that my daughter took up the initiative to sit next to the new student and goes over all the schoolwork with her one on one after the teacher explains it to the class.
my younger daughter in 10th grade got accepted to an intensive art program at their HS which requires going to school an extra period early for the next 3 years.
their drawings and sketches are really good and they seem to have some legit artistic and creative talent that no one else in the family seems to have.
additionally, there is an autocad/architecture track at our HS that they are enjoying and seriously considering as a career.
One daughter is a special ed teacher for pre schoolers and the other is a social worker. Both have MAs. Couldn't leave one out when it comes to bragging.
Our sweet 14.5yo pit mix is still kicking strong. She has slowed down considerably, but still has some spunk and every check up the vet tells us she's the healthiest dog for her age that they've seen. Just this morning she helped calm down a Pomeranian that had escaped from his home and was running around the park free. She used to be a little dog reactive, but just sat there calmly while he sniffed her face allowing me enough time to put a leash on him and call the owner.
you are not allowed to show up w/ a fancy new bike. in fact there are strict rules about the vintage character of your bike. i had my first bike restored to meet the requirements.
By “bici eroica” we mean road racing bicycles built before 1987 with steel frame (including some aluminium exceptions like ALAN and VITUS with screwed or glued joints). Shift levers must be on the frame's oblique down tube (but also pre-1980 bar-end gear shifters are allowed) and pedals must have toe-clips and straps.
Speaking of cheese, I'm in Wisconsin right now for work. The hotel I'm staying at has Pac12 network plus all 6 Pac12 regional channels. Watched Cal-Arizona game in 60 min. last night.
in Wisconsin there used to be a law (not sure stiil) that if your restaurant served apple pie, you were required to offer the option to have a giant slice of cheddar cheese melted on top.
[Warriors] "These things happen. Nobody likes it, we don't condone it, but it happens," Myers said. "Draymond apologized to the team. Jordan was there in the room. ... As far as any suspension, punishment, fine, we will handle that internally." - GM Bob Myers
Saw a video clip of the punch. Looks like they were standing around between plays and draymond strolls over, I guess they say something, JP two hand shoves Draymond, and Draymond punches him and he goes down.
Yeah, the video changed my mind a bit about the scuffle, Dray could have easily shoved him back and let the team break them up, but that was a straight face shot. Hoping they get it resolved internally and the hatchet gets buried. Not a good look for Dray.
Nyheim Hines concussed on the third play of the game. I gotta imagine that no team doctor will risk sending a player back out this season who is wobbly after what happened to Tua.
Remember the list of documents that Judge Cannon wanted seal that was accidentally exposed to the public? Bloomberg news figures out that the main one - the medical record - was that stupid 2015 doctor's note that Trump dictated to him and was already publicly released as a publicity stunt. You may recall that the note said ""If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency". Again, it proves that Cannon is a partisan hack who is not qualified to be a judge.
Not really sure why Wilcox is in there at this point, I mean he is under .500 as a head coach. Does Colorado really want 5-7 seasons? OTOH if he goes we can hire TT making someone on the boards here very happy.
That person will claim it is him that convinced AD to hire TT. He will also claim that the writer of 247sports read his suggestions on this blog and came up with the idea.
Good match-ups with mostly bad teams, but I'd take Rutgers, Houston, Nevada, and UNLV. It's generally accepted that a home team gains a 3 point advantage, which makes the CSU/Nevada game a pick-em. This seems odd given how bad CSU is.
Nevada did allow an Iowa team to score nearly 30…FWIW.
I’d absolutely take UNLV & 6.5…Houston just lost to a Tulane squad with its 3rd string QB, tho he looked markedly better than Cal’s 1st stringer, again, FWIW. Nebraska shouldn’t be favored over anyone, should they?
[WTEN] Cal's double's team that I watched lose to the #3 Wake Forest doubles pair went to the Consolation Bracket at the ITA Championship. Cal plays in the Consolation Semis vs. a very good #5 Tennessee pair today. Cal has to be underdogs.
I noticed that the match next to us was #15 UNC pair vs. #46 Michigan's Brown/Miller. Miller & Brown were physical specimens and beat the higher ranked UNC pair. Yesterday, Brown/Miller destroyed the #3 pair from Wake Forest that beat Cal. Today, Brown/Miller beat the #2 pair. They advance to the Finals tomorrow.
[MSOC] Bears (3-3-4, 1-2-1) tie Oregon State (4-3-2, 1-1-1) in the 53rd minute off team-leading Ibrahim's fifth score of the season. He was red-carded in the 71st minute, so it got a bit squirrelly at the end and Cal held onto the tie.
I have a "Chill Sack" giant bean bag. It's got torn up foam cubes in it instead of beans. It's alright, but the experience of sitting in a bean bag chair is distinctly less comfortable as a 50+ year old. Not having a neck/back supported right gets uncomfortable after a while.
I always thought of bean bag chairs as something that old people imagine that young people like, and so will throw into a dorm common room or similar space. And then in reality everyone just sits on the sofa like the regular humans that they are.
HSB, head of data science at Vox Media, bought this classically round beanbag chair from Yogibo for his teenage daughter’s room. She uses it as a casual lounge chair, a place to read, or a change of scenery for working on her laptop.
Both Trolio and HSB own and love this lounger-style beanbag chair. “We have it in our family room and someone can lie/sleep on it during sleepovers or a couple people can sit on it at a time,” says HSB, calling it extra-comfy with the only downfall being that it’s impossible to get up from. “I actually have to roll myself onto the floor and then stand up. That is why I never get out of it,” he says.
Brag about one of your kids
My kid got offered a full ride scholarship to USC*
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* - South Carolina
My kid is getting better grades at Cal than I did.
In one of my daughter’s classes (3rd grade) there is a new student from Egypt. My daughter’s teacher told me that my daughter took up the initiative to sit next to the new student and goes over all the schoolwork with her one on one after the teacher explains it to the class.
My son is 2 years old and he is a very happy and loving boy.
non-joke version.
my younger daughter in 10th grade got accepted to an intensive art program at their HS which requires going to school an extra period early for the next 3 years.
their drawings and sketches are really good and they seem to have some legit artistic and creative talent that no one else in the family seems to have.
additionally, there is an autocad/architecture track at our HS that they are enjoying and seriously considering as a career.
One daughter is a special ed teacher for pre schoolers and the other is a social worker. Both have MAs. Couldn't leave one out when it comes to bragging.
My son got his MBA when he was 21. (Just a few days before #22)
Sure impressed Dad.
My daughter has been in swim lessons since she was 3 months old, she turns 5 on November 10th and she is a great swimmer and fearless in the water.
Me brag? That's their job appointment.
they are amazing like their dad!
Do fur babies count?
Our sweet 14.5yo pit mix is still kicking strong. She has slowed down considerably, but still has some spunk and every check up the vet tells us she's the healthiest dog for her age that they've seen. Just this morning she helped calm down a Pomeranian that had escaped from his home and was running around the park free. She used to be a little dog reactive, but just sat there calmly while he sniffed her face allowing me enough time to put a leash on him and call the owner.
Something Tuscan
Raiders.
They ride single file to hide their numbers
Luke: These are the same Jawas that sold us R2 and 3PO.
Ben Kenobi: And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
i like how Boba Fett became friends w/ them and learned how to use their stick-weapon-thing
Gaffi stick
Olive Garden
The sun under which Diane Lane is sitting.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328589/
L' Eroica .. a classic bike ride in Italy primarily on the white gravel roads of Tuscany
https://eroica.cc/en/gaiole
you are not allowed to show up w/ a fancy new bike. in fact there are strict rules about the vintage character of your bike. i had my first bike restored to meet the requirements.
By “bici eroica” we mean road racing bicycles built before 1987 with steel frame (including some aluminium exceptions like ALAN and VITUS with screwed or glued joints). Shift levers must be on the frame's oblique down tube (but also pre-1980 bar-end gear shifters are allowed) and pedals must have toe-clips and straps.
Wagon wheel
The song of this name by Darius Rucker is a love note to Raleigh, NC
...it's actually an Old Crow Medicine Show song that was covered by Rucker. IMHO it is a superior version as well.
Some many of them broken on the Oregon Trail video game
i remember this infomercial about cheese from the lead photo. it was one of the better fun snippets of TV from my childhood.
in fact, a "hunk of cheese" has been one of my go-to snacks over the years.
not an infomercial. it was part of schoolhouse rock.
when my 10-gallon hat is feeling five-gallons flat, I hanker for a hunka cheese.
wasn't it? now I'm not sure. same graphical style.
Time for Timer...so different (humble apologies, HSB!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xRv9ZQOCPo
but to me an infomercial is like the a Ronco product. Whereas this was like Snippets.
Rank the cheese
I like them all. Sliced smoke gouda is great with roast beef sandwiches. I regularly buy fontina to slice up and eat with Molinari and Sons salami.
Havarti for me.
I wouldn't pick that one, ok but best ever?
i love cheese of all varieties. if i had to pick one, i'd say smoked gouda.
Speaking of cheese, I'm in Wisconsin right now for work. The hotel I'm staying at has Pac12 network plus all 6 Pac12 regional channels. Watched Cal-Arizona game in 60 min. last night.
Okay cheese. Gouda
That's lucky that they had Pac 12 network and the satellite channels.
Yeah, better than what I get in California
in Wisconsin there used to be a law (not sure stiil) that if your restaurant served apple pie, you were required to offer the option to have a giant slice of cheddar cheese melted on top.
it is quite tasty despite how strange it sounds.
Just looked it up. Looks like it's a myth.
sounds divine.
I've heard that but never tried it.
PRO
Buck Showalter puts his own spin on coach-speak
https://twitter.com/chelsea_janes/status/1578148685615140866
WR Cole Beasley suddenly retires
https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1577693672333877249
His QB should too
[Warriors] "These things happen. Nobody likes it, we don't condone it, but it happens," Myers said. "Draymond apologized to the team. Jordan was there in the room. ... As far as any suspension, punishment, fine, we will handle that internally." - GM Bob Myers
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34741511/warriors-draymond-green-apologizes-fighting-jordan-poole
Saw a video clip of the punch. Looks like they were standing around between plays and draymond strolls over, I guess they say something, JP two hand shoves Draymond, and Draymond punches him and he goes down.
https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/07/draymond-green-video-punch-jordan-poole-practice-golden-state-warriors/
Yeah, the video changed my mind a bit about the scuffle, Dray could have easily shoved him back and let the team break them up, but that was a straight face shot. Hoping they get it resolved internally and the hatchet gets buried. Not a good look for Dray.
Colts beat Broncos 12-9. 8 FGs attempted. No TDs. 4 INTs.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401437762
Nyheim Hines concussed on the third play of the game. I gotta imagine that no team doctor will risk sending a player back out this season who is wobbly after what happened to Tua.
https://twitter.com/theMMQB/status/1578181142313771008
this was fun/painful to watch.
Wilson had two chances to win the game, blew it both times.
on the other hand when the Colts were about to tie it up, i figured they would get sacked, run out of time and lose. that did not happen.
Fun? - it was so boring bad, so bad, so grossed - UGLY!
Colts had no business winning that game….Wilson threw just a killer INT…so bad.
I still can't believe he threw that pass. Would have been better just eating the ball for a sack.
MLB playoffs ..
is this the first year w/ the 3-5-7 games series? glad they got rid of the one-game wild card thing.
Yes, though it was also done as a one off in 2020
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Fox News' Laura Ingraham threatens America with a good time
https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1578212141873741825
Drunk Uncle Rudy to jail tomorrow?
https://twitter.com/DonLew87/status/1578235460794699776
Nah. 'oh look, here's the check I should have mailed'.
Can't wait to see the perp walk.
Remember the list of documents that Judge Cannon wanted seal that was accidentally exposed to the public? Bloomberg news figures out that the main one - the medical record - was that stupid 2015 doctor's note that Trump dictated to him and was already publicly released as a publicity stunt. You may recall that the note said ""If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency". Again, it proves that Cannon is a partisan hack who is not qualified to be a judge.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607638733/doctor-trump-dictated-letter-attesting-to-his-extraordinary-health
DOJ to Trump: please return the rest of the files
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/trump-white-house-documents-mar-a-lago-justice-department/index.html
State of Montana spends $300k to redesign their state library logo because it's too rainbowy. Ah, that's better.
https://dailymontanan.com/2022/10/06/saving-our-state-one-logo-at-a-time/
Herschel Walker on Monday "It's all lies that I paid for an abortion. And what my son said is all lies. And if I did, it's nothing to be ashamed of."
Herschel Walker on Wednesday "I don't know that woman."
Herschel Walker yesterday "Oh, that woman. Yes I remember her. But God has forgiven me and I have mental health issues, so I should be forgiven."
[NYT] US Senate races:
Toss-ups:
GA (Warnock/Walker, D-incumbent)
NV (Masto/Laxalt, D-incumbent)
PA (Fetterman/Oz, R-incumbent)
WI (Johnson/Barnes, R-incumbent)
Leans-R
FL, NC, OH, UT
Leans-D
AZ, CO, NH
I think NYT is wrong about NC. It's a toss-up.
It's a helluva drug
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1578192060028309510
Elsewhere in college
Film sessions with Coach 30 - UCLA vs. UW
https://twitter.com/MrGo30/status/1578147050721464320
Damn!
LOL! That was great.
hahahaha
Sicko Committee top 25
https://twitter.com/SickosCommittee/status/1578154405949423616
247Sports has an article on who they say will replace Dorrell. They put Wilcox and Troy Taylor in there.
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Colorado-coaching-search-Dave-Clawson-Justin-Wilcox-among-top-candidates-analyst-says-194801223/#194801223_1
Please take Wilcox. He will make a great MWC or Big12 HC once Colorado goes to one of those two conferences.
Not really sure why Wilcox is in there at this point, I mean he is under .500 as a head coach. Does Colorado really want 5-7 seasons? OTOH if he goes we can hire TT making someone on the boards here very happy.
.500 is an improvement for CU. Please take Wilcox
He doesn’t leave for likely a boatload more $$$ at his top-15 legacy-alma mater, but sure, he’ll bolt for a full rebuild in Boulder….please.
We’re stuck with him.
Exactly my thought, too.
Yeah agree.
They'd have to pay his buyout/break up fee.
Colorado hired Karl Dorrell, so who knows what they might do?
They hired Karl Dorrell bc Karl Dorrell lives in Boulder.
We should buy Bob Stoops a house in Berkeley…
Solid reasoning.
That person will claim it is him that convinced AD to hire TT. He will also claim that the writer of 247sports read his suggestions on this blog and came up with the idea.
Today's games:
Nebraska (-3.0) @ Rutgers
Houston @ Memphis (-2.5)
CSU @ Nevada (-3.5)
UNLV @ SJSU (-6.5)
all are night games
Good match-ups with mostly bad teams, but I'd take Rutgers, Houston, Nevada, and UNLV. It's generally accepted that a home team gains a 3 point advantage, which makes the CSU/Nevada game a pick-em. This seems odd given how bad CSU is.
Nevada did allow an Iowa team to score nearly 30…FWIW.
I’d absolutely take UNLV & 6.5…Houston just lost to a Tulane squad with its 3rd string QB, tho he looked markedly better than Cal’s 1st stringer, again, FWIW. Nebraska shouldn’t be favored over anyone, should they?
Nebraska still has a talent advantage over Rutgers but Rutgers has the coaching advantage. I would take a Rutgers and the points in this game.
@oh no, what if I get caught in traffic near Piscataway@
If you do, its unlikely its due to the Nebraska-Rutgers game.
CAL
Dr. Bertozzi thanks UCB Chemistry after winning her Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
https://twitter.com/CarolynBertozzi/status/1578093223301378048
Go Bears!
[WTEN] Cal's double's team that I watched lose to the #3 Wake Forest doubles pair went to the Consolation Bracket at the ITA Championship. Cal plays in the Consolation Semis vs. a very good #5 Tennessee pair today. Cal has to be underdogs.
I noticed that the match next to us was #15 UNC pair vs. #46 Michigan's Brown/Miller. Miller & Brown were physical specimens and beat the higher ranked UNC pair. Yesterday, Brown/Miller destroyed the #3 pair from Wake Forest that beat Cal. Today, Brown/Miller beat the #2 pair. They advance to the Finals tomorrow.
[MSOC] Bears (3-3-4, 1-2-1) tie Oregon State (4-3-2, 1-1-1) in the 53rd minute off team-leading Ibrahim's fifth score of the season. He was red-carded in the 71st minute, so it got a bit squirrelly at the end and Cal held onto the tie.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/6/mens-soccer-cal-ties-oregon-state-1-1.aspx
[WSOC] Cal (7-3-3, 2-2-0) beats Wazzu (8-2-2, 2-1-1) at home 2-1 by hanging onto a 2-0 lead after the 34th minute. Next up vs. UW @ home on Sunday.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/6/womens-soccer-bears-claim-victory-over-cougars.aspx
TIL: UC Berkeley post-docs have a union. They protested yesterday.
https://twitter.com/UAW5810/status/1578179786983190528
i am in the lecturers union at Cal. it is separate from all the other unions.
Just back from the hospital, now the proud owner of a pacemaker. Even more prepared for whatever Cal football dishes out.
live long and prosper!
Good luck with it! Less chance of cardiac arrest when watching the offense.
Good luck with that! I started on BP and cholesterol meds yesterday.
I've been taking chol meds for a year
bean bag chairs
I have a "Chill Sack" giant bean bag. It's got torn up foam cubes in it instead of beans. It's alright, but the experience of sitting in a bean bag chair is distinctly less comfortable as a 50+ year old. Not having a neck/back supported right gets uncomfortable after a while.
Liked when I was a kid - never liked even in HS.
I always thought of bean bag chairs as something that old people imagine that young people like, and so will throw into a dorm common room or similar space. And then in reality everyone just sits on the sofa like the regular humans that they are.
i was quoted in the Strategist for my review of the Yogibo chairs
https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-bean-bag-chairs.html
HSB, head of data science at Vox Media, bought this classically round beanbag chair from Yogibo for his teenage daughter’s room. She uses it as a casual lounge chair, a place to read, or a change of scenery for working on her laptop.
Both Trolio and HSB own and love this lounger-style beanbag chair. “We have it in our family room and someone can lie/sleep on it during sleepovers or a couple people can sit on it at a time,” says HSB, calling it extra-comfy with the only downfall being that it’s impossible to get up from. “I actually have to roll myself onto the floor and then stand up. That is why I never get out of it,” he says.
Now they owe you a free one