On this day in 1976 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Oregon, 27-10. The Bears led 10-3 entering what would be an explosive fourth quarter. Joe Roth threw two TD passes in the game’s last 15 minutes, one of 33 yards to future NFL star Wesley Walker. Another future pro, place kicker Jim Breech, added his second field goal of the day. Roth, who would die of cancer four months later, connected on 18 of 28 passes for 208 yards.
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UNT beats the spread, but loses to Navy 27-24. UNT switched QBs last week to Cal's former QB target Chandler Rodgers. Rogers played well, but not well enough to win. Ja'Mori Macline - who burned Cal - remains in the top 10 in the FBS for yards per catch.
I went to the game with the missus b/c a friend of hers routinely goes & invited us to join, nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but rather different vibes from the Coliseum as you might expect
ACC watch: Clemson beat Wake 17-12; #5 FSU beat VA Tech 39-17; Jack Plummer finally beats Notre Dame 33-20; #14 UNC smokes Syracuse 40-7, BC beats Army 27-24 in the last seconds, NC State holds off Marshall 48-41 after going with a new QB. And it's week 6 and Virginia played [checks notes] FCS level William & Mary. Then again, W&M were previously ranked #9 in FCS.
I haven't talked to my sister who lives there, but I bet she's happy about that. I've heard her rail about Big Ferentz before so I'm sure she has no love for Little Ferentz.
On a side note, my son really likes the movie Pulp Fiction, except that he has only seen the censored version that they show on TNT. So, as far as he is concerned, the scene is:
Jules: "What? What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in what?"
Brett: "What?"
Jules: *BANG!* "ENGLISH MY FRIEND, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?!?"
mostly a normal stay-at-home weekend with minimal amount of house work.
since i am in DC all this coming week for work, just tried to hang out w/ wife/child.
Sat night went to a sitar concert (Anoushka Shankar) w/ child in Brooklyn. they surprisingly really enjoyed it. was even inspired to start a South Asian club at school after connecting to some part of their ethnic heritage.
got in 3 consecutive bike rides as well, so that was good too.
Lovely and still ongoing. Being a bank, we get Columbus Day off (no indigenous people for us). Saturday night I went to a TriDelt reunion with about 60 women from my class and the three classes ahead of me -- super fun, lots of people I hadn't seen in 35 years.
I did not realize until relatively recently that Columbus Day is viewed by Italian Americans as an Italian American day akin to like St Patty’s for the Irish. Maybe they should just discard Columbus Day and make two different holidays - a Native American one and Italian one?
Only if Congress does nothing, which admittedly is possible. We need of some sort of massive investment trust like CalPERS but for the general public. Companies have to give some percentage of equity to it. Can also make investments like CalPERS. Proceeds used to fund UBI distributions.
Not over yet. My union local gets Indigenous Peoples Day. Other locals at EBMWU do not get this holiday.
Mrs. Slug visited her mom this weekend. I stayed home with the animals and took care of myriad tasks while she was away.
Also tried to get flu shot and COVID vaccine at Kaiser Richmond. Drove out there, parked, and made my way to the hospital entrance while a "sympathy strike" was going on on the adjacent sidewalks. I'm about 30 feet from the entrance when a security officer with a Napoleon complex shows up and announces with a smirk on his face that the "hospital is in major lockdown to keep those other people out" while pointing in the direction of the sympathy strikers. And he said it with a gleeful tone, like he had won some sort of victory. What an arse.
Not over yet, it's a three-day for schools. Went to Memorial Stadium Saturday night. Visited a cousin yesterday who lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Nice trip. This after watching my favorite English soccer team notch a big win. Heading to the gym soon. So far so good.
I saw two such students on my walk with Tigger and Oliver about an hour ago. Happily riding a scooter, one in front while the other hung on as they glided sidewalks.
I was in Wisconsin all of last week and ended in Chicago. It was extremely hot until all of the sudden Friday felt like a winter.
Anyway at the observatory in John Hancock Tower I saw a guy in UC Berkeley sweatshirt so I asked if he went to Cal, and he said yes. He asked if I did too, and I said yes and he gave me Go Bears! I should have initiated the Go Bears. He also said he graduated a quite a while ago, but it was only 2016.
Hah. I was on a walk last week and was wearing a Cal sweatshirt. Another guy noticed it and we talked briefly. Turns out he had graduated a couple years before me in the mid-70s. Now, he and I could have safely said quite a while ago.
A Haunting in Venice (theater 16/19 WB). A went for a full Hercule Poirot weekend. It's a tasty little snack of a movie, executing fine on good source material. A two-hour escape. It's the best of the three Kenneth Branagh adaptations of Hercule Poirot stories and continues the trend of great casts exposing one so-so actor (Tina Fey, this time versus Michelle Pfeiffer and Gal Gadot).
Murder on the Orient Express (Hulu 14/19 WB). Good but not great. Beautifully shot. It's exactly what I'm looking for in a murder-mystery. Twists and turns, colorful characters, wonderfully textured wardrobe/set. Swept me away for 2 hours. A solid B.
Binge watched two seasons of Shetland on BritBox this weekend.
Good stories, but seasons 4 and 5 are six episodes each. This is a departure from earlier seasons where a story usually was covered in two episodes.
Each season covers one story originating with a particular event (murder). But there's never just one. And there are multiple stories within the bigger story. It's sprawling, but you can keep track of what's going on.
Ok, Scootie was right about the last bit of the book Tomorrow , and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- has a weird plot point about 2/3 or 3/4 of way through that was kind of unnecessary and sort of lame. I think she just didn’t know how to end the book. Lesson learned for me not to recommend a book before fully finishing it!
it took a few days before i read some reasonable explanation as to why, and that just an opinion piece in the NYT.
so Hamas pulls off it biggest coordinated attack in forever to destabilize Saudi-Israeli relations? and at the risk of getting annihilated as retribution for attacks?
This is one of those situations where I can only say "everyone is terrible." Hamas is terrible and helping nobody's cause. Israel's heavy-handed conservative government is sure to go insane in retaliation. It's only going to get worse all around.
For some reason, this conflict drives home the stupidity and futility of war. It's the ultimate flail and it's so fucking costly. Maybe I got to this point because of all the other wars I've read about in my lifetime, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. What a monumental waste.
JFK Jr expected to announce run as an independent in order to shave support from Biden to help GOP. This comes a week after Cornel West also declared his candidacy as an independent.
CAL
"I think we have a squatter in the basement"
"We don't have a basement"
https://twitter.com/mischiefanimals/status/1699155683902718087
[MPolo] #2 Cal stages a thrilling comeback victory over #3 USC 10-9
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/8/mens-water-polo-no-2-cal-comes-back-to-beat-no-3-usc.aspx
[MPolo] #2 Cal loses again to #1 UCLA 14-11
https://calbears.com/news/2023/10/7/mens-water-polo-shorthanded-no-2-bears-topped-by-no-1-ucla.aspx
Cal falls 52-40 to Oregon State
https://writeforcalifornia.com/p/cal-oregon-state-college-football-who-won-2023
On this day in 1976 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Oregon, 27-10. The Bears led 10-3 entering what would be an explosive fourth quarter. Joe Roth threw two TD passes in the game’s last 15 minutes, one of 33 yards to future NFL star Wesley Walker. Another future pro, place kicker Jim Breech, added his second field goal of the day. Roth, who would die of cancer four months later, connected on 18 of 28 passes for 208 yards.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
I was at that game!
I’m pretty sure I, too, was.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Oregon - as a team - has an 81% completion rate, averages 9 yards per catch, averages over 330 yards per game passing, and has a 17-1 TD:INT ratio.
That's statistically obscene. An embarrassment of passing riches as it were.
Who do you think wins between them and Washington? I haven’t watched enough of either to have an informed opinion.
50/50.
Not enough data.
No bet from me.
Central Arkansas falls behind 30-6 after 3 quarters. Then then score 32 points in the 4th quarter to win 38-33
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401540187
UNT beats the spread, but loses to Navy 27-24. UNT switched QBs last week to Cal's former QB target Chandler Rodgers. Rogers played well, but not well enough to win. Ja'Mori Macline - who burned Cal - remains in the top 10 in the FBS for yards per catch.
I went to the game with the missus b/c a friend of hers routinely goes & invited us to join, nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon, but rather different vibes from the Coliseum as you might expect
#24 Fresno State falls to Wyoming 24-19
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401532591
FCS #3 Idaho smoked Cal Poly 42-14 and it wasn't even that close as Idaho went to their backups with 4 minutes left in the 3rd period.
https://www.ncaa.com/game/6155237/boxscore
ACC watch: Clemson beat Wake 17-12; #5 FSU beat VA Tech 39-17; Jack Plummer finally beats Notre Dame 33-20; #14 UNC smokes Syracuse 40-7, BC beats Army 27-24 in the last seconds, NC State holds off Marshall 48-41 after going with a new QB. And it's week 6 and Virginia played [checks notes] FCS level William & Mary. Then again, W&M were previously ranked #9 in FCS.
Colorado comes from behind to top ASU 27-24
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401524026
UCLA comes from behind to top Wazzu 25-17
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401524028
Laiatu Latu was a wrecking ball. Dude may have locked up his 1st round draft prospects
Mario Cristobal declines to kneel the ball down, earns one of the most bone-headed losses caused by a coaching decision in college football history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XraPQwBPBb0
Cristobal apparently doesn't want to learn. He did the same thing vs. Stanfurd in 2018 and lost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0F7ZOPjWVU&t=499s
Reminder: Baylor could have won by taking a knee, but this happened vs. UNLV in 1999
https://twitter.com/stunnanumba11/status/1711001094703256060
Michigan beats Minnesota 52-10. MN QB completed 7 passes: five to his team for 1 TD, and two to Michigan for 2 TDs
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4432722/athan-kaliakmanis
Iowa wins 20-14 behind the arm of Deacon Hill who went 6 for 21 for 110 yards 1 TD and 1 INT... against Purdue . This is my favorite weekly graphic
https://twitter.com/SickosCommittee/status/1710818451277672493
Little Ferentz is in trouble.
I haven't talked to my sister who lives there, but I bet she's happy about that. I've heard her rail about Big Ferentz before so I'm sure she has no love for Little Ferentz.
USC tops Arizona in triple OT 43-41
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401524025
"Special" teams
https://twitter.com/CFBONFOX/status/1710900581051637833
What a shambles that was
Na
_ na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye
BARTLET: NaCl, C.J.
C.J.: I'm sorry, sir?
BARTLET: Table salt. [gives the bill back to Dolan] Send it back.
What’s a swear-word alternative that you use?
what the chicken!!
but i still say WTF quite a bit too.
DARMOK
My mother used to refer to tailgating drivers as “on my donkey.” 🫏 I didn’t notice the euphemism until I was about 30.
Frack instead of fuck, a legacy of Battlestar Galactica
I still call douchebags juiceboxes thanks to the DBD.
Pat McAfee: Juicebox extraordinaire
"Scratch", as in "Mother scratcher".
On a side note, my son really likes the movie Pulp Fiction, except that he has only seen the censored version that they show on TNT. So, as far as he is concerned, the scene is:
Jules: "What? What ain't no country I ever heard of. They speak English in what?"
Brett: "What?"
Jules: *BANG!* "ENGLISH MY FRIEND, DO YOU SPEAK IT!?!?"
Does he also know "Yippie Ki Yay Mr. Falcon"
Ha! No, he hasn't seen Die Hard yet, though I think that's more of a parental failure on my part.
You have to show him the best Christmas movie of all time!
What the freak. Shazbot. Dookie.
Mr. CG uses holy poop, usually while watching the Bears.
Nanoo nanoo.
Alternative?
What do you speak of? When I was 5?
PRO
Brock Purdy and George Kittle have pretty good games, humble the Cowboys 42-10
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401547354
Brocky Purdy 2023 stats after 5 games: 98/136 (72.1%) 1,271 yards 9 TDs, 0 INTs
lol
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1711011490676036031
Good bot
https://twitter.com/surrender_idx90/status/1711092926896349523
End of the Ravens vs. Steelers game was bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwIyS_3Hq7E
#FireFarhan
How was your weekend?
mostly a normal stay-at-home weekend with minimal amount of house work.
since i am in DC all this coming week for work, just tried to hang out w/ wife/child.
Sat night went to a sitar concert (Anoushka Shankar) w/ child in Brooklyn. they surprisingly really enjoyed it. was even inspired to start a South Asian club at school after connecting to some part of their ethnic heritage.
got in 3 consecutive bike rides as well, so that was good too.
Still going as I've got Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day off. Starting a new job tomorrow.
Yay new job! (I hope)
It's better than no job!
Still reeling from my momentary bout of Fernandomania Saturday night
A nearly guaranteed 1-5 finish never looked so good!
Lovely and still ongoing. Being a bank, we get Columbus Day off (no indigenous people for us). Saturday night I went to a TriDelt reunion with about 60 women from my class and the three classes ahead of me -- super fun, lots of people I hadn't seen in 35 years.
Thanks for the invite, Scootie.... ;-)
I did not realize until relatively recently that Columbus Day is viewed by Italian Americans as an Italian American day akin to like St Patty’s for the Irish. Maybe they should just discard Columbus Day and make two different holidays - a Native American one and Italian one?
I would love to go a Tri- Delt party. I hear they’re wild. 😉
Too short! When is AI going to take my freaking job already????
interesting article about jobs in the AI era written by a friend of mine.
i like the AI psychotherapist job
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-new-jobs-for-humans-in-the-ai-era-db7d8acd
and here is link to a pdf in case you dont pay $$ to WSJ
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r6Lj6vNJm_pB8pyafF_RQ8y4GlbtRc6B/view?usp=sharing
also, didnt Jamie Dimon recently say something like "the next generation will live to 100+ and work 3 days/week"?
What he's not telling you: most of those people will die in poverty because Social Security won't be nearly enough.
Only if Congress does nothing, which admittedly is possible. We need of some sort of massive investment trust like CalPERS but for the general public. Companies have to give some percentage of equity to it. Can also make investments like CalPERS. Proceeds used to fund UBI distributions.
Best glimpse into the future I have seen:
The Expanse
Jobs are extremely rare, so most people are on a welfare system. Damn you, AI and Malthusian population explosion.
Not over yet. My union local gets Indigenous Peoples Day. Other locals at EBMWU do not get this holiday.
Mrs. Slug visited her mom this weekend. I stayed home with the animals and took care of myriad tasks while she was away.
Also tried to get flu shot and COVID vaccine at Kaiser Richmond. Drove out there, parked, and made my way to the hospital entrance while a "sympathy strike" was going on on the adjacent sidewalks. I'm about 30 feet from the entrance when a security officer with a Napoleon complex shows up and announces with a smirk on his face that the "hospital is in major lockdown to keep those other people out" while pointing in the direction of the sympathy strikers. And he said it with a gleeful tone, like he had won some sort of victory. What an arse.
Otherwise, my weekend was fine
Not over yet, it's a three-day for schools. Went to Memorial Stadium Saturday night. Visited a cousin yesterday who lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Nice trip. This after watching my favorite English soccer team notch a big win. Heading to the gym soon. So far so good.
I saw two such students on my walk with Tigger and Oliver about an hour ago. Happily riding a scooter, one in front while the other hung on as they glided sidewalks.
I was in Wisconsin all of last week and ended in Chicago. It was extremely hot until all of the sudden Friday felt like a winter.
Anyway at the observatory in John Hancock Tower I saw a guy in UC Berkeley sweatshirt so I asked if he went to Cal, and he said yes. He asked if I did too, and I said yes and he gave me Go Bears! I should have initiated the Go Bears. He also said he graduated a quite a while ago, but it was only 2016.
Hah. I was on a walk last week and was wearing a Cal sweatshirt. Another guy noticed it and we talked briefly. Turns out he had graduated a couple years before me in the mid-70s. Now, he and I could have safely said quite a while ago.
Were you around to see the marathon on Sunday?
I came home on Saturday so I didn't see the Marathon. I guess it was more of last week than the weekend stuff.
You never know these days when to say Go Bears, but it's certainly nice when you can.
The Go Bears exchange reminds me of church…
“And also with you.”
DBD AV CLUB
A Haunting in Venice (theater 16/19 WB). A went for a full Hercule Poirot weekend. It's a tasty little snack of a movie, executing fine on good source material. A two-hour escape. It's the best of the three Kenneth Branagh adaptations of Hercule Poirot stories and continues the trend of great casts exposing one so-so actor (Tina Fey, this time versus Michelle Pfeiffer and Gal Gadot).
I liked it. Solid date movie with the wife. I thought Tina Fey was fine, and Kelly Reilly (Rowena Drake, the mom) was the weak link amongst the cast.
Murder on the Orient Express (Hulu 14/19 WB). Good but not great. Beautifully shot. It's exactly what I'm looking for in a murder-mystery. Twists and turns, colorful characters, wonderfully textured wardrobe/set. Swept me away for 2 hours. A solid B.
I'll wait until tomorrow to address.
Binge watched two seasons of Shetland on BritBox this weekend.
Good stories, but seasons 4 and 5 are six episodes each. This is a departure from earlier seasons where a story usually was covered in two episodes.
Each season covers one story originating with a particular event (murder). But there's never just one. And there are multiple stories within the bigger story. It's sprawling, but you can keep track of what's going on.
Ok, Scootie was right about the last bit of the book Tomorrow , and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow- has a weird plot point about 2/3 or 3/4 of way through that was kind of unnecessary and sort of lame. I think she just didn’t know how to end the book. Lesson learned for me not to recommend a book before fully finishing it!
OUR DESTABILIZED WORLD
Hamas attacks Israel. Hundreds dead. Israel declares war.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/08/6-things-national-security-israel-hamas-conflict-00120544
it took a few days before i read some reasonable explanation as to why, and that just an opinion piece in the NYT.
so Hamas pulls off it biggest coordinated attack in forever to destabilize Saudi-Israeli relations? and at the risk of getting annihilated as retribution for attacks?
When Tehran calls, they pick up the phone
This is one of those situations where I can only say "everyone is terrible." Hamas is terrible and helping nobody's cause. Israel's heavy-handed conservative government is sure to go insane in retaliation. It's only going to get worse all around.
For some reason, this conflict drives home the stupidity and futility of war. It's the ultimate flail and it's so fucking costly. Maybe I got to this point because of all the other wars I've read about in my lifetime, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. What a monumental waste.
Kevin McCarthy says he’s willing to return as House speaker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/09/house-republican-speaker/
He's a power addict and a glutton for punishment.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Juicebox from Stanfurd is pissed that Biden didn't predict Hamas' surprise attack
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1711152879279436151
JFK Jr expected to announce run as an independent in order to shave support from Biden to help GOP. This comes a week after Cornel West also declared his candidacy as an independent.
https://apnews.com/article/cornel-west-president-independent-green-party-2024-57dd7dbc0bccc10ea866005663398823
Suspect RFK Jr is much more likely to hew off Republican support than Democratic support if he runs as an independent. Give it a go, crazy man.
This is what the polling shows. Democrats are already done with him, but Trumpy Republicans like his conspiracy-theory jib.
I think you meant RFK, Jr. JFK, Jr would be the zombie candidate, no?
https://66.media.tumblr.com/8444a97d4c8e0df2b69df32f5f79affc/tumblr_ne10khuGrE1rmvfheo1_500.gif
Show me where in the constitution it says you need to be alive to be president 😀
Lolol
GOP's two fragments leaning toward Scalise and Jim Jordan as their Speaker candidates
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4244261-senate-gop-divided-over-race-to-replace-mccarthy/
Reminder: Jim Jordan is a monster
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1711069930651591105
In yesterday's WaPo, Jennifer Rubin makes the argument that so-called GOP "moderates" could stop this nonsense if they could find a spine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/08/republican-moderates-agenda/
She's right.