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Do any of you have opinions or insights into the Alameda County V and W measures?

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Looking at the people who opened the work email I just sent and the people who actually clicked the links within. One person's email address is hosted on something called cougarnet! (I think it's for the University of Houston)

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Anyone from CyberBears?

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What's for lunch?

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Ended up being pork and chives wontons.

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soft boiled eggs and toast.

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Leftovers: chicken curry, kebabs, steamed veggies

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Pastrami sandwich with Swiss cheese.

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Leftover slice of pizza and a hard boiled egg.

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Salad.

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Same here. Had a tad too much ranch dressing.

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...and it was good

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I'm too carnivorous to believe that salads are ever good.

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A nice helping of chicken breast and parm always helps.

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I used to do either spinach with vidalia onion dressing, roasted almonds, and dried cranberries with 1/2 a grilled chicken breast, or a chicken caesar salad for lunch at work. Bring everything in and mix it in the office.

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wife and i had a mini lunch date. we were supposed to go to the local brew pub that has good burgers and beer on tap but it was unexpectedly closed on Mon.

we ended up at a new local healthy food chain called Green Life. nothing special but tasty grain bowls and things.

iced tea is a poor substitute for local draft beer.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Probably a sandwich

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...and it was good

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instant pot lentil curry soup and rice.

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Instant pot curry and rice here. I'm still tinkering with the dish though.

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the secret to instant pot curry dishes seems to be some lime or lemon juice at the end. things go from Meh, to MMMM.

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Hm, I never would have thought of that, but I might give that a try.

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I don't know if it works for regular curry soup type things.

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Ooh good tip. My parents have a lemon tree, so I've done some preserved lemons. They're a nice addition in a variety of dishes! https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/03/how-to-make-preserved-lemons.html

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I ended up making lemonade each week with the lemons we had. I love the Santa Cruz Lemonade as well as the Hubert's lemonades so I tried adding blackberries and raspberries and it was pretty good. Also tried Mango but that didn't go as well. The Santa Cruz Mango Lemonade is better than mine.

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Cactus Taqueria...on College

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Dude buys literal man-cave. Turns it into an $1,200/night AirBnB.

https://beckhamcave.com/

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The phrase "man cave" really annoys me and I'm not quite sure why.

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The phrase or the concept?

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both

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This sounds like a romance novel euphemism for Posh Spice’s naughty bits

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pqtm

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"one-night minimum stay"

I guess you can't use it for a love hotel by-the-hour

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modern problems require modern solutions

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Trump called a waiter into a top secret meeting because he wanted a milkshake

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/biden-revamp-fraying-intel-community-430090

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i can't even find words for how awful i feel about this whole thing for the last 4 years.

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Biden does Cookout rather than KFC because he's not an idiot.

https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1317931051877126144

https://cookout.com/menu/

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Speaking of, if you haven't watched "White Guys' First Black Cookout" on YouTube, you have to watch.

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If only he ordered a burger or a hot dog so the nation could criticize him for his choice of mustard.

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DNI Ratcliffe: Let's be clear, it is not that it is not not Russian disinformation.

https://twitter.com/QuintForgey/status/1318166732419235841

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Twitter blocks tweet from Trump's science advisor because of the lack of science

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-donald-trump-health-us-news-b57a7b140a5c39af3f7f526e6de60953

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jfc. how hard is it?

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"Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases."

Well this makes sense

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Furdie hubris...

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Furdies not satisfied with causing both the Great Depression and the Great Recession; they seem dead-set on causing another major recession.

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Today in Covid19

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Elsewhere in college

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Matt Corral, the guy that nearly rallied Ole Miss back vs. Cal, lost to Arkansas. That'll happen when you throw 6 picks.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401237108

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he was the starter against Cal. Not the rally-er

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He looked pretty good vs. 'Bama

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What happened to the rally-er. Is he a backup? I guess he did well because we weren't prepared for a change in QB style.

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Looks like he's thrown 2/2 for 17 yards this year and that's it.

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MS State gets no points in first half. KJ Costello gets benched in 2nd half. TAMU wins 28-14

https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore?gameId=401237112

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O how the mighty have fallen!

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Clemson scores 52 in the first half. And in a moment of mercy bordering on disrespect, Clemson plays their punter at QB.

2nd string QB out with an injury. 3rd string got hurt during the game. 4th string played. 5th string is on the scout team and preserved redshirt.

https://twitter.com/Fattysbeerworks/status/1317547814461886464

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i thought redshirts were basically irrelevant this year

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Pet hair. If no pet, your own hair

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My hair has never been this long, so this is the first time that I'm not living with any women, but I still find random long hairs all over the place and in the shower drain. It ain't cute.

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Every time I empty out the vacuum there's enough hair to build a small dog/cat.

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I shed a lot. Also, my brother is planning to get a kitten, so I assume the amount of hair on our surfaces will only grow.

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Make sure to get a litter robot.

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And teach the kitten to ride it.

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You want me to pet my hair? Ok. Now what?

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Yes? What about it?

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i got a haircut this weekend. does that count?

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Me too. Actually my sister cut it because I am reticent to go to Supercuts although they are open.

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i have had the home clipper cut a couple times.

last 2 times i went to my regular barbershop.

everyone wearing masks and they are not doing "riskier services" like the Russian hot towel shave, which i really like.

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Your pet's 2020 campaign slogan

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I will put my paw on a bill restoring all missing testicles.

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meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

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Don’t come near me unless I say so

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*Occasionally sighing loudly for no reason*

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You’re in my chair...

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Chew baby chew

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we have three:

old cat: "stfu, I'm sleeping"

2 yr old cat: "I promise lap sitting and random running spazzes"

1/5 yr old cat: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

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Don't care how

I want it right meow

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You get a nap! You get a nap! Everyone get a nap!

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PRO

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Packers end up giving up 38 unanswered points. That ended up being ugly. Rodgers carved up the Bucs in the first two drives. The Bucs don't doo much. Rodgers has a pick 6 on a pretty good play by the CB. Next drive, on the 2nd pass, tipped slant route for another INT, returned to the 3. Bucs score. GB goes inept on D. Such a strange game.

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i saw that first INT. that looked very uncharacteristic because he was mostly looking at the WR the whole time.

but overall, the rest of the game the TB defense put a lot of pressure on him.

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yeah he was that's true. I think I watched most of the first half.

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49ers race off to a hot start against the Rams and hold on for a 24-16 victory

https://www.ninersnation.com/2020/10/18/21522425/49ers-race-off-to-a-hot-start-against-the-rams-and-hold-on-for-a-24-16-victory

The 49ers couldn’t have scripted a better opening drive. They ran it early and often, got the ball into their playmakers’ hands, and let them do the work. Deebo Samuel, George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk, and Raheem Mostert all played a part as the Niners used screens and jet sweeps to march down the field for an opening touchdown. That gave the 49ers a 7-0 lead. The defense was lucky to have a Jared Goff miss, but that’s football, as they forced the Rams to punt on an opening drive for the first time all season.

A costly miss by Jimmy Garoppolo to George Kittle on second down put the offense behind the sticks on the second drive, which forced a Niners punt. Goff was off to a miserable start as he went 1-for-6 for 17 yards. The 49ers weren’t getting a ton of pressure, but the coverage was great early on in the game outside of one play. The Rams punted on their first two drives.

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Pretty bad game for Goff.

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surprisingly the '9ers defense kept them off balance and out of their typical rhythm.

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The 49ers absolutely had to win to keep their season alive, so they were going to throw everything at the Rams. The more desperate team can have an advantage.

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What? Tons of dropped balls.

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Also some he just plain missed.

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Cody Bellinger home run wins NLCS Game 7, sending the Dodgers back to the World Series

https://www.truebluela.com/2020/10/18/21522051/cody-bellinger-home-run-julio-urias-legend-dodgers-game-7-nlcs-pennant

The Dodgers never led the NLCS, and never led in Game 7, until the seventh inning on Sunday night, when Cody Bellinger launched a tie-breaking home run that helped beat the Braves, 4-3.

Bellinger’s home run gave the win to Julio Urías, the third Dodgers starting pitcher of night, who pitched three perfect innings to close out the game for his fourth win in four appearances this postseason.

Urías allowed one run in eight innings in the NLCS, and has a 0.56 ERA in 16 innings this postseason.

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Sigh. The only team better at blowing playoff games than the Dodgers are the freaking Braves.

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They couldn't both blow it totally in the same series.

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They tried, they tried.

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And then he popped his shoulder out when he did the forearm smash.

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Enrique is a strong man.

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After the last out there was a shot of Dave Roberts in the dugout with his hands on his head. It almost looked like he was thinking he couldn't believe it.

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that was a tough series. Just about all the games were competitive except for game 3. It was tough after being down 3-1.

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Dammit. 2020 strikes again. Let's go RAYS!

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Fear not: Dodgerfreude is most satisfying when it's WS Dodgerfreude.

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I wonder if it will take a game or two to get used to Globe Life field. It's harder to hit HRs there and the weird bounces in the corners. Dodgers have played 10 straight games there now.

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Plus a couple of games there in the regular season.

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Just glad the Asstros are out.

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Though I was not pulling for the Astros, if they had won I would have been happy for Dusty.

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That seems to be a popular sentiment. Lots of folks around here have said the same.

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Lots O' Giants fans, sure.

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In a way, yes. But in another way, I hoped the Dodgers would beat those cheating bastards.

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GBBR

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