we bought a used Subaru WRX. it is amy first time owning one. i learned to driving one in HS by driving around in HeyAlumniGo's Nissan Sentra.
i remember that you are supposed to also park while the car is in gear. is that a CA thing because of all the hills or general good advice all the time?
where we live in NYC suburbs is pretty flat for the most part so i rarely use the parking brake on our automatic, and w/ the stick i have just been leaving it in neutral along w/ the parking brake.
Good idea to always leave it in gear when parked. Parking brakes can fail, and a rolling unattended vehicle is rarely a good thing, particularly when it can usually be easily prevented.
Yes I agree with this. Put it in 1st or reverse. On a downhill slope I put it in reverse and uphill I put it in 1st.
In my apt building in Hillsboro, the parking lot was sloped, I believe such that the water drained to the middle and then into a drain. I parked and left it in neutral, probably because i had the engine running for something reason for 10-20 seconds. I turned the engine off but didn't have the parking brake pulled up super tight. My roommate came back and said, I think your car rolled down into the middle of the road. Sure enough, I hadn't pulled the e-brake very tight and it slowly rolled into the middle of the parking lot.
Same thing happened to my mom once when I was a kid. We got home, she parked in the driveway, and a few minutes later someone rang the doorbell to say that the car had rolled into the road (harmlessly, thankfully).
Congrats! What year? I have a 2016 with 71k miles and it's been a fantastic car. It made me genuinely look forward to my commute to/from work, but now it's mostly retired from commuting duty since covid.
I always leave it in gear when parked. It's helpful for the 1 in 1000 times that I forget to pull the handbrake when parking.
My current main house does not have a good enough return in the rental market, plus has a bunch of hidden liabilities (eg, HVAC, siding, roof, paint) that I don't want to own when they go.
Does she expect you'll use her, or did you already let her know you were planning on using her? Just curious what her reaction was if you had to let her know why you wouldn't be using her.
I haven't really been watching college football, but every week I hear about a ridiculous Texas game. I really should start watching at least their games.
Miss St now really has the full experience of the pirate. And he threw players under the bus and said he's going to purge malcontents. Does that include the QB that threw for a record (?) in the first game?
And even with the safety, it wasn't like his players did anything to earn the safety. The long snapper snapped the ball way over the punter's head and he had to kick it out of the end zone.
Baylor has already had to postpone the game against Oklahoma St, into December due to yet another Covid problem. I haven't seen what is supposed to make the situation in Waco appreciably different in 2 months time.
Vandy only had 56 scholarship players due to Covid losses in their loss to South Carolina (played in a downpour that doubtless caused more respiratory distress). The SEC minimum is 53. The Commodores hope to be well enough to go to Columbia on Dec. 12.
Good work. I hold a few thousand shares in a clean energy etf that has shot up in value this year. I've doubled my initial investment. Too bad (or maybe not) I'm holding for the long term.
The Las Vegas Raiders’ unreal 40-32 win at Arrowhead Stadium over the Kansas City Chiefs was huge for several people on the Raiders’ sideline.
Let’s look at five people who contributed to this important victory — and how they forced the first loss of the reigning Super Bowl champions this season.
Derek Carr:
This wasn’t quite the Steve Young “monkey off my back” moment but this was a gigantic achievement in Carr’s career and definitely one of his biggest wins.
Carr was 0-6 at Arrowhead Stadium going into this game. And it started badly as the Chiefs went out to a a 14-3 lead and Carr threw a terrible interception to set up a touchdown. Yet, Carr settled down and made all the throws he needed to make. He answered a lot of questions as he threw for 347 yards and three touchdown passes.
If Rays fans were looking for an easy, stress-free first game, then sorry to tell you, folks, this is not the Championship Series you are looking for. Blood pressure will be sky-high for the next four-to-seven days, and this first game was just an aperitif of what we have waiting for us.
Blake Snell took the Bump Day nod for the first game against the Houston Astros in the ALCS (sorry, I know you know what we’re watching, but I get a lot of joy out of writing a recap for the Rays being in the ALCS). He was up against Framber Valdez, and a healthy Astros lineup with a massive chip in their shoulder.
Astros load the bases in the 9th after scoring to make it 4-2, but the Blue Rays pitching and defense is just too much, and take a 2-0 lead in the series. Make it 61 in a row when leading after the 7th. (I've heard pitching and defense wins in the post-season.)
Blue Ray (how good did those jerseys look?!) fans are used to it. That was their 21st 1 run game so far this season, and they have won 16 of them. Mostly because of their deep pitching staff and defense. That win extended their streak of not losing a game they have had a lead after the 7th inning to 60 in a row.
Astros have left 21 on base so far, more than their total number of hits. But then the Rays staff hasn't allowed an inherited runner to score so far this post-season.
I never watch any video of limbs getting broken like this. Was he rolled up on or something like that? The last one I really remember watching, because it was real-time and there was no warning, was the Napolean McCallum knee in the Raiders/9ers MNF game.
The Los Angeles Lakers have done it. With a 106-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, they have brought the longest and most taxing season in basketball history to a close, and are officially your 2020 NBA champions.
With their 17th title, they have now tied the Boston Celtics for the most championships in NBA history.
This one was a bloodbath almost right from the start. Frank Vogel gave Alex Caruso the first start of his playoff career, and the move gave the Lakers a spark of energy, especially on the defensive end. Their help and rotations were much crisper than they were in Game 5 — or, really, at any point in this series — and they were leading by 8 points at the end of the first quarter.
UGH..really wanted the Lakers to lose. They got lucky. Missed having to play the Clippers, Bucks. At least during the regular season those teams played better than they did in the playoffs. I would've loved to have seen the Lakers play them.
The next season in the Western Conference is going to be crazy with the Warriors back to full strength, the Clippers, Nuggets, Jazz, Blazers Thunder all presumably improving. The East is no slouch either with the Heat, Bucks, Celtics, Nets, Sixers, Raptors... the last three NBA champions are all right in the middle of a major dogfight.
Yeah, that's why it was so weird that the Clippers players seemed a bit nonchalant about blowing their chance this year. You think next year is going to be any easier?
Atlanta doesn't get their 5th shutout of the postseason, but they do hold LA to 1 Hernandez solo HR, and pound 3 of their own, and take game 1 5-1. Buehler finally pitched an extended amount very well, but overall, the Braves proved for the 2nd time today that pitching and defense wins in the post season.
ugh that was an ugly 9th inning. The only pitch he missed against the leadoff hitter was middle-middle. And that was a very good take on the slider on the previous pitch.
Just looking at the latest Coaches Poll while I eat lunch. Cal with seven votes, just ahead of Washington, Stanford, and LSU. But one vote behind Liberty. What is going on in this world?
i actually have a genuine question about Columbus day. not that i think it is among the most important for things that could and should be a national holiday or am attached to it in any way.
Columbus is a "celebrated" as the discoverer of America even though he only landed on some random island and clearly there were plenty of people living here before he supposedly discovered it. if it was not him, it would clearly have been discovered by some other European and more or less the exact same sequence of events would have followed.
is the complaint that we should not have a holiday celebrating European "discovery" and somehow elevate the fact that it was only after white people got here that it somehow mattered?
going to try to read what is out on the internet in the meantime ...
There are various theories on who got to the Americas first. Could have been the Phoenicians, perhaps the Egyptians, a Roman grain ship that got blown off course, and of course, the Vikings
FET: I went to a Sun Bear park in Asia, which started off nicely. But at the very end, they had a few bears in outside cages that restrained them on their backs because they were harvesting bile from them. They sold the bile in the gift shop. I fucking cried seeing those poor bears and now I regret posting this bear gif.
Going back up to Tahoe this weekend for a couple of weeks. Gonna hang out in the Kings Beach Safeway since the bears should be in peak hibernation-prep mode right now.
Mars at opposition. Only 38 million miles away. If you have a telescope, now is the time to check out the red planet. Features such as the dark spot Syrtis Major and the southern polar cap are obvious.
DBD AV Club
Driving a stick
we bought a used Subaru WRX. it is amy first time owning one. i learned to driving one in HS by driving around in HeyAlumniGo's Nissan Sentra.
i remember that you are supposed to also park while the car is in gear. is that a CA thing because of all the hills or general good advice all the time?
where we live in NYC suburbs is pretty flat for the most part so i rarely use the parking brake on our automatic, and w/ the stick i have just been leaving it in neutral along w/ the parking brake.
Good idea to always leave it in gear when parked. Parking brakes can fail, and a rolling unattended vehicle is rarely a good thing, particularly when it can usually be easily prevented.
Yes I agree with this. Put it in 1st or reverse. On a downhill slope I put it in reverse and uphill I put it in 1st.
In my apt building in Hillsboro, the parking lot was sloped, I believe such that the water drained to the middle and then into a drain. I parked and left it in neutral, probably because i had the engine running for something reason for 10-20 seconds. I turned the engine off but didn't have the parking brake pulled up super tight. My roommate came back and said, I think your car rolled down into the middle of the road. Sure enough, I hadn't pulled the e-brake very tight and it slowly rolled into the middle of the parking lot.
Same thing happened to my mom once when I was a kid. We got home, she parked in the driveway, and a few minutes later someone rang the doorbell to say that the car had rolled into the road (harmlessly, thankfully).
yeah luckily the parking lot is rather narrow. rolled back about 15 feet.
Congrats! What year? I have a 2016 with 71k miles and it's been a fantastic car. It made me genuinely look forward to my commute to/from work, but now it's mostly retired from commuting duty since covid.
I always leave it in gear when parked. It's helpful for the 1 in 1000 times that I forget to pull the handbrake when parking.
we got a 2016 w/ only 31k miles on it. super fun to drive. i just drove it about 1500+ miles in the last week on a trip down to western NC and back.
too bad it was raining, but i meant to drive the Blue Ridge Pkwy on the way back.
The BRP up from Asheville is well worth the time. I would like to do the lower portion down into Tennessee, as it's allegedly even more beautiful.
For some reason I thought you had a VW GTi.
Atoms has a GTi
That I knew.
If Cal goes to the Rose Bowl, I vow to ______________
I could type anything because @I fully expect to never see Cal in the Rose Bowl@.
true, but we are going at any cost!!
It's much easier for me now. I can drive.
...attend in person, dead or alive.
Sort of a "weekend at Bernie's" thing.
Wish any of my descendants who go to Cal good luck.
Attend the Rose Parade and see the Cal band marching on Colorado Avenue.
Buy some new Cal fan gear!
consider going.
Return from the dead.
Walk
Today in Covid19
Very good visual on CV19 infection rates of red vs. blue states
https://dangoodspeed.com/covid/total-cases-since-june
A friend of my real estate agent posted a social media picture of their 20-person movie night. No masks. All sitting packed together.
I hope it was a good movie, but it immediately cost her about $45k and will probably cost her over a hundred thousand.
meaning you won't be using her for your new house?
She immediately lost two houses. Buying the new one, selling my current main house. And I won't use her on any other future properties beyond that.
That's what I figured. For some reason I was thinking you were going to hold onto the old house as a rental.
My current main house does not have a good enough return in the rental market, plus has a bunch of hidden liabilities (eg, HVAC, siding, roof, paint) that I don't want to own when they go.
Does she expect you'll use her, or did you already let her know you were planning on using her? Just curious what her reaction was if you had to let her know why you wouldn't be using her.
Elsewhere in college
If you work hard, you too can return to the top 25 after six weeks like USC
https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
Why for the love of god do people do this? Presumably only to get people annoyed
Are you referring to ranking teams, or just ranking USC? (I will concede either case does frequently annoy a lot of people.)
The latter. I know that they replaced more assistants after last season but Clay Helton is still at the wheel overall.
It's an excuse to rank ASU right before we beat them.
OU beats Texas in 4OT in a very entertaining game. Ehlinger tried to do everything and almost succeeded. OU's skill-positions have tons of speed.
I haven't really been watching college football, but every week I hear about a ridiculous Texas game. I really should start watching at least their games.
OT was fun and then we were all blessed with this
https://twitter.com/southernbellsu/status/1315031730668134400?s=21
that's pretty close to Surrender Cobra.
SEC is the new Pac-12 after dark
Kentucky 24 - Miss St 2: The Pirate's QBs throw 6 INTs
Alabama 63 - Ole Miss 48: Saban accuses Ole Miss of stealing his signs
LSU loses to [checks notes] Missouri. Wut?
Ole Miss
https://twitter.com/D1scourse/status/1315311528921440257
There are few things more glorious than when a team finishes with only 2 points.
Miss St now really has the full experience of the pirate. And he threw players under the bus and said he's going to purge malcontents. Does that include the QB that threw for a record (?) in the first game?
And even with the safety, it wasn't like his players did anything to earn the safety. The long snapper snapped the ball way over the punter's head and he had to kick it out of the end zone.
Leach should not have left the Palouse
I watched the tail end of that Ole Miss game, it was tremendously entertaining
Baylor has already had to postpone the game against Oklahoma St, into December due to yet another Covid problem. I haven't seen what is supposed to make the situation in Waco appreciably different in 2 months time.
247Sports: Vandy-Mizzou game postponed
https://twitter.com/247Sports/status/1315734948129779713
Vandy only had 56 scholarship players due to Covid losses in their loss to South Carolina (played in a downpour that doubtless caused more respiratory distress). The SEC minimum is 53. The Commodores hope to be well enough to go to Columbia on Dec. 12.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Georgia early voting today, in a blue county:
https://twitter.com/AndyPierrotti/status/1315679588693966849
Sen. Mike Lee, who recently tested positive with Covid, spoke at the Senate Judiciary committee with no mask.
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1315659965865103360
Party of raging assholes
I mean the GOP doesn’t have a monopoly on electing sad and broken people but I think they have cornered the market on batshit boors
Do'h
Moving in reverse direction. Economy = Fail. Stock market gains accelerate. Will Nasdaq hit 12,000?
I am so glad that my 2020 contributions to my investments occurred before the stock market went on its rocket trajectory.
One of my funds holds Ring Central, Zoom, and Microsoft as the top three holdings. It has indeed rocketed.
Good work. I hold a few thousand shares in a clean energy etf that has shot up in value this year. I've doubled my initial investment. Too bad (or maybe not) I'm holding for the long term.
PRO
Raiders recap: 5 key figures in huge win over Kansas City Chiefs
https://www.silverandblackpride.com/2020/10/11/21511933/raiders-kansas-city-chiefs-derek-carr-win-recap
The Las Vegas Raiders’ unreal 40-32 win at Arrowhead Stadium over the Kansas City Chiefs was huge for several people on the Raiders’ sideline.
Let’s look at five people who contributed to this important victory — and how they forced the first loss of the reigning Super Bowl champions this season.
Derek Carr:
This wasn’t quite the Steve Young “monkey off my back” moment but this was a gigantic achievement in Carr’s career and definitely one of his biggest wins.
Carr was 0-6 at Arrowhead Stadium going into this game. And it started badly as the Chiefs went out to a a 14-3 lead and Carr threw a terrible interception to set up a touchdown. Yet, Carr settled down and made all the throws he needed to make. He answered a lot of questions as he threw for 347 yards and three touchdown passes.
Rays 2, Astros 1: One down, three to go
https://www.draysbay.com/2020/10/11/21512228/tampa-bay-rays-houston-astros-recap-october-11
If Rays fans were looking for an easy, stress-free first game, then sorry to tell you, folks, this is not the Championship Series you are looking for. Blood pressure will be sky-high for the next four-to-seven days, and this first game was just an aperitif of what we have waiting for us.
Blake Snell took the Bump Day nod for the first game against the Houston Astros in the ALCS (sorry, I know you know what we’re watching, but I get a lot of joy out of writing a recap for the Rays being in the ALCS). He was up against Framber Valdez, and a healthy Astros lineup with a massive chip in their shoulder.
Good. Hoping Houston loses is the only rooting interest I have left in the MLB playoffs.
Astros load the bases in the 9th after scoring to make it 4-2, but the Blue Rays pitching and defense is just too much, and take a 2-0 lead in the series. Make it 61 in a row when leading after the 7th. (I've heard pitching and defense wins in the post-season.)
And hitting is hard when you don't know what's coming...
Go flappy bois
Blue Ray (how good did those jerseys look?!) fans are used to it. That was their 21st 1 run game so far this season, and they have won 16 of them. Mostly because of their deep pitching staff and defense. That win extended their streak of not losing a game they have had a lead after the 7th inning to 60 in a row.
Astros have left 21 on base so far, more than their total number of hits. But then the Rays staff hasn't allowed an inherited runner to score so far this post-season.
😱 Dak's ankle. 😢 And his reaction knowing he's done
I never watch any video of limbs getting broken like this. Was he rolled up on or something like that? The last one I really remember watching, because it was real-time and there was no warning, was the Napolean McCallum knee in the Raiders/9ers MNF game.
yeah, it was a freak think with a defender falling on his ankle while he was scrambling. Just one of those things... horrible injury though. Ugh
All I saw was people on Twitter saying “don’t look” so I didn’t.
very Thiesmanesque
I also seem to remember the front page of the sporting green showed a picture of the break.
Lakers dominate Heat to secure 17th championship as LeBron James wins Finals MVP
https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2020/10/11/21512168/lakers-vs-heat-final-score-nba-finals-game-6-championship-lebron-james-anthony-davis
The Los Angeles Lakers have done it. With a 106-93 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA Finals, they have brought the longest and most taxing season in basketball history to a close, and are officially your 2020 NBA champions.
With their 17th title, they have now tied the Boston Celtics for the most championships in NBA history.
This one was a bloodbath almost right from the start. Frank Vogel gave Alex Caruso the first start of his playoff career, and the move gave the Lakers a spark of energy, especially on the defensive end. Their help and rotations were much crisper than they were in Game 5 — or, really, at any point in this series — and they were leading by 8 points at the end of the first quarter.
UGH..really wanted the Lakers to lose. They got lucky. Missed having to play the Clippers, Bucks. At least during the regular season those teams played better than they did in the playoffs. I would've loved to have seen the Lakers play them.
The next season in the Western Conference is going to be crazy with the Warriors back to full strength, the Clippers, Nuggets, Jazz, Blazers Thunder all presumably improving. The East is no slouch either with the Heat, Bucks, Celtics, Nets, Sixers, Raptors... the last three NBA champions are all right in the middle of a major dogfight.
Yeah, that's why it was so weird that the Clippers players seemed a bit nonchalant about blowing their chance this year. You think next year is going to be any easier?
And I forgot about the Mavs.
ATL Falcons fire General Manager Thomas Dimitroff and Head Coach Dan Quinn
Atlanta doesn't get their 5th shutout of the postseason, but they do hold LA to 1 Hernandez solo HR, and pound 3 of their own, and take game 1 5-1. Buehler finally pitched an extended amount very well, but overall, the Braves proved for the 2nd time today that pitching and defense wins in the post season.
ugh that was an ugly 9th inning. The only pitch he missed against the leadoff hitter was middle-middle. And that was a very good take on the slider on the previous pitch.
Kershaw drama on tap for tomorrow.
Joe Morgan dead at 77
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30100016/baseball-hall-famer-joe-morgan-dies-77
Rest in peace, Joe.
https://www.mlb.com/video/morgan-shuts-door-on-la-c13062873
This is '82 vs Terry Forster isn't it...
On a whim I looked up MLBers from Oakland. Pretty good list. RIP Joe.
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Baseball_Players_from_Oakland#:~:text=These%20baseball%20players%20%28MLB%29%20were%20born%20or%20raised,by%20A%27s%20and%20spent%20much%20of%20career%20here
49ers crushed by hapless Dolphins...
https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/_/name/sf/san-francisco-49ers
Yikes. The Niners are basically signing guys off the street to play cornerback right now, something that did not go unnoticed by the Dolphins.
The bigger worry is that Jimmy G now looks awful.
"Jimmy G does not look awful"
- Scootie, probably
https://twitter.com/kathycastro/status/1315418309592928256
Jimmy G is a handsome devil who is not good at football.
Still handsome as ever!
SUCKIT NINERS
Patrick Laird came in at safety, had one tackle
I'd guess Gerald Alexander, our former ace secondary coach, has moved him mostly to defense
Dolphins didn't exactly look anything close to hapless.
Niners did
https://www.espn.com/nfl/game?gameId=401220269
Jared Goff mostly has his way against a bad Washington Football team secondary, throws for 309 yards and two TDs.
#TinyHands TD spike hahaha
I don't watch the local team much but did see that. You could see Goff smiling under his helmet when he blew it. The announcer even commented.
Next up for the Rams is the Niners on next Sunday's Football night in America.
I’ve been waiting all day for Sunday Night....big fan of Carrie Underwood....
CAL
Just looking at the latest Coaches Poll while I eat lunch. Cal with seven votes, just ahead of Washington, Stanford, and LSU. But one vote behind Liberty. What is going on in this world?
TIL Liberty is now an FBS team. And apparently they've been in FBS since 2018.
in a complete coincidence (nothing to do w/ football) i was in Lynchburg VA this weekend on my way back from NC
Liberty's four opponents have thus far combined to win a single game.
Go Bears.
Megan Rapinoe speaking right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-It21QZAmzE&feature=youtu.be
Is today still Columbus Day
i actually have a genuine question about Columbus day. not that i think it is among the most important for things that could and should be a national holiday or am attached to it in any way.
Columbus is a "celebrated" as the discoverer of America even though he only landed on some random island and clearly there were plenty of people living here before he supposedly discovered it. if it was not him, it would clearly have been discovered by some other European and more or less the exact same sequence of events would have followed.
is the complaint that we should not have a holiday celebrating European "discovery" and somehow elevate the fact that it was only after white people got here that it somehow mattered?
going to try to read what is out on the internet in the meantime ...
Also it started as an Italian-American pride thing
and was a way for Italian-Americans to be accepted as "white"
I think it’s the “everything that happens afterwards” part that puts people off.
There are various theories on who got to the Americas first. Could have been the Phoenicians, perhaps the Egyptians, a Roman grain ship that got blown off course, and of course, the Vikings
It is at my company which is why I'm sitting on my butt on the sofa right now.
Gotta love the banking calendar.
Federal also
Indigenous Peoples Day
Is that still a thing?
our kids have the day off from school and i have the day off from work. so maybe it is a thing.
Federal holiday baby
Is that a real or a fake bear? Doesn’t look quite real, but looks too good to be a fake too.
It's real, but it is from a tourist attraction in Asia where... uh... animal welfare values are different.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6831931/Shocking-footage-shows-bear-forced-walk-hind-legs-tourists.html
FET: I went to a Sun Bear park in Asia, which started off nicely. But at the very end, they had a few bears in outside cages that restrained them on their backs because they were harvesting bile from them. They sold the bile in the gift shop. I fucking cried seeing those poor bears and now I regret posting this bear gif.
Going back up to Tahoe this weekend for a couple of weeks. Gonna hang out in the Kings Beach Safeway since the bears should be in peak hibernation-prep mode right now.
"Asia where... uh... animal welfare values are different."
That's putting it mildly.
Mars at opposition. Only 38 million miles away. If you have a telescope, now is the time to check out the red planet. Features such as the dark spot Syrtis Major and the southern polar cap are obvious.
Someone tell drumpf that Mars is at opposition, he will go on a twitter tirade about it.