mostly posting because i will be sad to finally let it go. probably have spend more hours on that bike than almost anything else except my bed in the last 5 years.
tried FB but it is mostly full of scammers. they say they are interested and have some excuse why their cousin will pick up the item but they will send you money later.
also tried the whole word-of-mouth and local channels first.
Scootie's judgement has previously been established as superior to most in most situations. This bit of information does not detract from that assessment.
Didn't miss it, but assumed there must have been overriding considerations, and the fact that its worked out for 31 years suggests it must have worked out pretty well!
I was living in Bordeaux with another American guy and we threw a party. My roommate had been saying how he really wanted to meet a French girl. One of the first ppl to come to the door for our party was a French girl so I welcomed her and then turned to my friend and said “C, she is French!” And they ended up dating for many years
My wife and I were quasi set up by her friend in college unbeknownst to us with the goal of getting rides off of campus to hook up with my then roommate. I say quasi because her approach was telling my wife "he really likes you" and then going to me and saying "hey she really likes you". We were aware of each other and found each other attractive, but I guess needed that push.
Uh, no I guess, with somebody new, but I didn't pick them, but a couple of years ago on 4th of July (perhaps drinking a bit too much) I convinced a young tenant to break-up with her crappy, sorta fake boy friend, which was good for her because she then found a really good one!
But sadly he died about 6 weeks ago in an auto accident.
Yes, but not on purpose. I introduced Danny and Cara (fake names, obvs). Months later, Cara told me they'd been seeing each other, which was a total surprise, because Danny was dating Alison. "I hope he picks me, though," said Cara. Compounding the surprise was the fact that almost everyone who met Danny thought he was into dudes.
Danny and Cara are now married, so he did, indeed, pick her.
yup, my friend who is the astro prof at Ball St us getting set up w/ the only other person we know in IN, who is my wife's college roommate who lives in Ft Wayne.
Watched the first couple of episodes of S2 of The Mighty Ducks, Game Changers. I was wondering how they were going to handle Emilio Estevez's firing. Interesting so far.
It was wood, and we put little nicks it in. I dunno, maybe we were especially aggressive with our quarters.
OK, fine. The rest of the story is that my brother and I were both home for a Cal game and our parents were out of town. We were both out of college with real jobs and whatnot and our dad joked "you kids don't have any wild parties, ok?"
But here's the thing: our parents never left us overnight with the house a single time growing up. Not once. So we called everyone we knew and had the party that we never got to have in high school. The kitchen table was among the lesser casualties.
Or maybe the table was made from a soft wood, like pine. You could easily put dings and nicks in a tabletop made from soft wood by bouncing a quarter off it.
Added observation: I see that you and your brother were simply making up for lost time.
The US Mint generated about $3b in funding via issuing the "States" coins - essentially getting Americans to collect them and not recirculate them thinking that they were somehow rare. And because of that success, you'll now start seeing American Women's Quarters.
My kids got at least a complete set of state quarters from my dad. No 2 and 3, as of a few years ago, still looked to see if some of the ones i had in the car were more rare state ones.
Everybody I work with here in upstate NY has an aunt/parent/grandma with a condo in Florida, so they go there all the time. But nobody seems to actually like it. I think they're all just unimaginative when it comes to vacations, or cheap, or both.
Much the same in Rhode Island and eastern MA, as I recall - to the extent that there are companies dedicated to moving stuff, especially cars, for the snow birds.
I had a friend who went to South Beach for a bachelor party. HUGE mistake. No club is interested in a pack of 15 dudes at any price.
Eventually, they sent the most charming among them to talk to a pack of girls and he offered to pick up the girls' cover and whole tab all night if they just pretended they were with his crew of fellas at the door (they'd be left alone in the club). The girls said sure and that was the only club the bachelor party got into the entire time and it cost them thousands of dollars.
Only been twice, once as a kid to Ft. Lauderdale and all I remember is the pool. The second was for a CTIA conference in Orlando and boy was that place a stinker. The Peabody did have a procession of ducks though.
Too hot, way way too humid, and then the terrible thunderstorms hit. It's the only place I've seen where the outdoor pool overflowed from torrential downpours.
It appeals to 2/3 of the eastern seaboard and the NE only because they are terrible for months on end in the winter.
I own more change in elevation than there is in the state.
Took our family vacation to Florida this past summer. Disney World --> St. Augustine --> Daytona --> Cape Canaveral --> Palm Beach --> Miami. Drove the entire trip. Other than the heat and humidity (which was oppressive at times), it was a lovely trip. St. Augustine was particularly nice with all of the pre-colonial history associated with it...and the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Not worth going to. Been there for the Citrus Bowl and that was enough. Though I do have a business trip to Miami in Dec which I'm looking forward to. Thinking of renting a convertible and driving to Key West. Turo has a bunch of Aventadors, Ferraris, and MacLarens. Though No 1 found an Alfa 4c that I could get. I was looking for a 6 spd convertible and they only had Mustangs.
I will have to say the Citrus Bowl trip with HSB was one of the best road trips. In the early 90s Amex had the student special where you could fly $99 on your side of the MS or $199 if crossing the MS. HSB had an AmEx so we did that but the closest we could get to Orlando was Pensacola. ATL didn't have flights either. So we flew to Pensacola, saw the US Navy Air museum, drove 8+ hours to Pensacola. A couple friends met us there and we did Epcot on NYE and then the game on NYD. And we smoked Clemson. Then had to drive back to Pensacola after dropping them off at the airport.
The smashing of Clemson was fun. Most Clemson fans thought Cal = UCLA, and were confused by Oski and the darker colors. I remember micman Ken Montgomery (*cough*) predicting the final score to be equal to the number of Nobel Prize winners at each school, 19-0.
the other benefit of Pensacola was that it was about halfway between New Orleans (Sugar Bowl) and Orlando (Citrus Bowl) and we didnt know yet that we were going to get screwed out of the Sugar Bowl by ND that year.
We saw all those Florida fans driving westbound with Florida flags. So we stopped off at a store and bought blue and yellow posterboard and made our own Cal signs for the car.
my in-laws live in Orlando and extended family scattered all over the state. while i never desire to go there, i can usually find something interesting to do while i am down there.
on my last trip to Miami, played some tennis, stayed in a South Beach hotel, and had some amazing Cuban coffee and pastries.
... floats in water [bread, apples, very small rocks, cider, gravy, cherries, mud, churches, lead]. If the woman weighs the same as a duck, then she is made of wood. The woman weighs the same as a duck. Therefore, the woman is a witch.
I remember the Late Night with Cal BB his freshman year. He won the slam dunk contest with a 360 and also had a chase down block, something he did many times during his career.
So, you're saying those words look correctly spelled to you, then?
I admit that they are spelled correctly. But I chose "occasionally" and "successfully" because they are unusual in the placement or frequency of double consonants.
Baffled as to why Francona would stick with Aaron Civale (5-6, ERA of nearly 5.00, and owned by the Yankees) as the ALDS Game 5 starter following Monday's rain out. Civale hadn't thrown a meaningful pitch in nearly 2 weeks and was eminently hittable. The game was over after 4 hitters.
You got your horse and former Cy Young Winner available on 3-days rest...Biebs must have really not been up for it.
The old adage is “score early, score often,” and in the San Jose Sharks’ case one out of two isn’t enough to scrape together a single win five games deep into the season. An inability to score more than two goals and a series of terrible second periods have led to a pattern of wiping out any lead the team manages with striking first.
Nico Sturm scored the lone goal of the first period, adding to another trend of the team’s fourth line somehow leading the offense. Linemate Evgeny Svechnikov, the other Sharks goal-scorer, kept it going with a tying goal in the second period, as the team quickly found themselves down 2-1.
It seemed like the Dubs were toying with them. Played even in first half and then put the hammer down on them in the 3Q like everyone knew they would, turning it into a laugher
Kuminga looked horrible offensively. Hopefully it was just the jitters and he relaxes. The last 6 min of the game looked like an all-star game. I think the Warriors last 7 baskets before the scrubs came in was 7-8 on 3s and the Lakers hit a bunch as well. No D. I think Wiggs hit 3 and Steph hit a couple.
Agreed, everyone but Kuminga looked good last night. It's also nice to confirm that the Lakers will likely not be contenders in the West this year. If they can stay healthy this year, this may be the deepest team the Warriors have had on the court. Investing in player development coaches and sticking to the "bridge to the next generation" plan looks to be paying off.
They don't need much from Kuminga - he's probably the 11th man in their deep rotation. Just keep developing and I'll start caring about his production in about 2-3 more years.
yeah, Kuminga will be a starter in a few years (or sooner, if Draymond is gone after this year or next). His offense was not good, but his defense was.
And he's still, what? 20? He'll be between 5 and 9 in the rotation in a couple of months (5 being the games when the starters rest).
selling my road bike on Ebay. i have never sold anything of real value on Ebay before
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175453802143
Wilier Triestina GTR with Campy components - 2017
mostly posting because i will be sad to finally let it go. probably have spend more hours on that bike than almost anything else except my bed in the last 5 years.
I've never sold anything on ebay. Bought plenty. Did you try CL or Facebook Marketplace? I wonder how many people go onto ebay to look for a bike.
tried FB but it is mostly full of scammers. they say they are interested and have some excuse why their cousin will pick up the item but they will send you money later.
also tried the whole word-of-mouth and local channels first.
Matchmaking... Have you ever successfully set up any of your friends?
I introduced my college roommate to my brother and they've been married for 31 years now.
The Furd brother? Why would you do that to her?
Scootie's judgement has previously been established as superior to most in most situations. This bit of information does not detract from that assessment.
AndyPanda missed the Furd confessions, clearly.
Didn't miss it, but assumed there must have been overriding considerations, and the fact that its worked out for 31 years suggests it must have worked out pretty well!
I was living in Bordeaux with another American guy and we threw a party. My roommate had been saying how he really wanted to meet a French girl. One of the first ppl to come to the door for our party was a French girl so I welcomed her and then turned to my friend and said “C, she is French!” And they ended up dating for many years
My wife and I were quasi set up by her friend in college unbeknownst to us with the goal of getting rides off of campus to hook up with my then roommate. I say quasi because her approach was telling my wife "he really likes you" and then going to me and saying "hey she really likes you". We were aware of each other and found each other attractive, but I guess needed that push.
Uh, no I guess, with somebody new, but I didn't pick them, but a couple of years ago on 4th of July (perhaps drinking a bit too much) I convinced a young tenant to break-up with her crappy, sorta fake boy friend, which was good for her because she then found a really good one!
But sadly he died about 6 weeks ago in an auto accident.
Yes, but not on purpose. I introduced Danny and Cara (fake names, obvs). Months later, Cara told me they'd been seeing each other, which was a total surprise, because Danny was dating Alison. "I hope he picks me, though," said Cara. Compounding the surprise was the fact that almost everyone who met Danny thought he was into dudes.
Danny and Cara are now married, so he did, indeed, pick her.
That is pretty wild!
Crazy. I hope your story gets made into a Hallmark movie.
Yes in college. They eventually got married. Then later divorced.
My wife is trying to hook up her college roommate after divorce with one of my perennially single friends.
HAG is happy that I am not trying to do the same!
Don’t worry about HAG. He’s got that TCU mom down the street. I hear she’s into butt stuff
oh now I need to know who is being setup. Is he a prof?
yup, my friend who is the astro prof at Ball St us getting set up w/ the only other person we know in IN, who is my wife's college roommate who lives in Ft Wayne.
yeah that's what I figured. Let's see how well that goes.
DBD AV Club
The Watcher on Netflix - Bobby Canavale, Naomi Watts and a bunch of actors with literally 1000 credits to their name.
I'm 6 out of 7 episodes in...it's ok - could go either way, depending on the ending. Keep you posted...
And the Wetcher and Wotcher...;-)
Canavale and Watts do wear same sharp looking outfits, I must say.
Watched the first couple of episodes of S2 of The Mighty Ducks, Game Changers. I was wondering how they were going to handle Emilio Estevez's firing. Interesting so far.
I've had it with these MFing snakes on this MFing plane!
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/snake-on-united-airlines-flight-newark/index.html
Quarters
...a great dive bar in Saratoga Springs, NY where Jimmy C hoisted a few in his day...
isn't that in, like, a strip mall?
I was never very good at flicking quarters off the table and into a pint of beer.
I ruined my parents' kitchen table playing quarters, once.
How is that possible?
It was wood, and we put little nicks it in. I dunno, maybe we were especially aggressive with our quarters.
OK, fine. The rest of the story is that my brother and I were both home for a Cal game and our parents were out of town. We were both out of college with real jobs and whatnot and our dad joked "you kids don't have any wild parties, ok?"
But here's the thing: our parents never left us overnight with the house a single time growing up. Not once. So we called everyone we knew and had the party that we never got to have in high school. The kitchen table was among the lesser casualties.
Or maybe the table was made from a soft wood, like pine. You could easily put dings and nicks in a tabletop made from soft wood by bouncing a quarter off it.
Added observation: I see that you and your brother were simply making up for lost time.
Quarters!
AT UCSC, we played with short juice glasses. Some of us were very good. Some of us were terrible.
The US Mint generated about $3b in funding via issuing the "States" coins - essentially getting Americans to collect them and not recirculate them thinking that they were somehow rare. And because of that success, you'll now start seeing American Women's Quarters.
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
I think some people liked the idea of being able to get a complete set just by keeping an eye on their change.
It's me, I'm people.
That totally describes me. There's no fun, really, in simply purchasing the set.
My kids got at least a complete set of state quarters from my dad. No 2 and 3, as of a few years ago, still looked to see if some of the ones i had in the car were more rare state ones.
Cookie Monster reminds everyone that his name is actually Sid.
https://twitter.com/MeCookieMonster/status/1580604727531692033
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_MUD16EIk (@ 35 seconds)
Florida
Everybody I work with here in upstate NY has an aunt/parent/grandma with a condo in Florida, so they go there all the time. But nobody seems to actually like it. I think they're all just unimaginative when it comes to vacations, or cheap, or both.
Much the same in Rhode Island and eastern MA, as I recall - to the extent that there are companies dedicated to moving stuff, especially cars, for the snow birds.
South Florida and Miami are fun.
I had a friend who went to South Beach for a bachelor party. HUGE mistake. No club is interested in a pack of 15 dudes at any price.
Eventually, they sent the most charming among them to talk to a pack of girls and he offered to pick up the girls' cover and whole tab all night if they just pretended they were with his crew of fellas at the door (they'd be left alone in the club). The girls said sure and that was the only club the bachelor party got into the entire time and it cost them thousands of dollars.
that sounds terrible
I have yet to set foot in that state.
Only been twice, once as a kid to Ft. Lauderdale and all I remember is the pool. The second was for a CTIA conference in Orlando and boy was that place a stinker. The Peabody did have a procession of ducks though.
Too flat, too hot for 80% of the year, and too weird.
Too hot, way way too humid, and then the terrible thunderstorms hit. It's the only place I've seen where the outdoor pool overflowed from torrential downpours.
It appeals to 2/3 of the eastern seaboard and the NE only because they are terrible for months on end in the winter.
I own more change in elevation than there is in the state.
Took our family vacation to Florida this past summer. Disney World --> St. Augustine --> Daytona --> Cape Canaveral --> Palm Beach --> Miami. Drove the entire trip. Other than the heat and humidity (which was oppressive at times), it was a lovely trip. St. Augustine was particularly nice with all of the pre-colonial history associated with it...and the World Golf Hall of Fame.
The missus is from Florida, specifically Auburndale which is near Lakeland. Left when she was 12 never wants to go near the state again.
Not worth going to. Been there for the Citrus Bowl and that was enough. Though I do have a business trip to Miami in Dec which I'm looking forward to. Thinking of renting a convertible and driving to Key West. Turo has a bunch of Aventadors, Ferraris, and MacLarens. Though No 1 found an Alfa 4c that I could get. I was looking for a 6 spd convertible and they only had Mustangs.
Oh and I guess the Florida game.
I will have to say the Citrus Bowl trip with HSB was one of the best road trips. In the early 90s Amex had the student special where you could fly $99 on your side of the MS or $199 if crossing the MS. HSB had an AmEx so we did that but the closest we could get to Orlando was Pensacola. ATL didn't have flights either. So we flew to Pensacola, saw the US Navy Air museum, drove 8+ hours to Pensacola. A couple friends met us there and we did Epcot on NYE and then the game on NYD. And we smoked Clemson. Then had to drive back to Pensacola after dropping them off at the airport.
The smashing of Clemson was fun. Most Clemson fans thought Cal = UCLA, and were confused by Oski and the darker colors. I remember micman Ken Montgomery (*cough*) predicting the final score to be equal to the number of Nobel Prize winners at each school, 19-0.
my Amex cards still say "member since 1991"
the US Navy Air museum was pretty amazing
the other benefit of Pensacola was that it was about halfway between New Orleans (Sugar Bowl) and Orlando (Citrus Bowl) and we didnt know yet that we were going to get screwed out of the Sugar Bowl by ND that year.
We saw all those Florida fans driving westbound with Florida flags. So we stopped off at a store and bought blue and yellow posterboard and made our own Cal signs for the car.
my in-laws live in Orlando and extended family scattered all over the state. while i never desire to go there, i can usually find something interesting to do while i am down there.
on my last trip to Miami, played some tennis, stayed in a South Beach hotel, and had some amazing Cuban coffee and pastries.
Man KW AirBnB places are a lot. I guess it makes sense. Looking forward to eating my way through Miami.
any drive to Key West in any car is well worth it. KW itself is nice, but the drive along the causeway is pretty spectacular.
maybe i'll come w/ you.
Sure. Come long and do the drive with me.
Not only is turkey the worst meat, it's going to be more expensive this year due to bird flu
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/18/turkey-prices-up-and-might-stay-that-way-due-to-avian-flu.html
If anyone is a devotee of Thanksgiving ham, Costco has Honeybaked Ham gift cards for $100 of value for $80.
Alternative is chicken.
...or almost anything
Duck
... floats in water [bread, apples, very small rocks, cider, gravy, cherries, mud, churches, lead]. If the woman weighs the same as a duck, then she is made of wood. The woman weighs the same as a duck. Therefore, the woman is a witch.
It's a fair cop.
Randy -
Hair always gelled to the point that a full basketball game resulted in barely one strand out of place
I remember the Late Night with Cal BB his freshman year. He won the slam dunk contest with a 360 and also had a chase down block, something he did many times during his career.
Is the cost of duck also affected by bird flu?
Bruh.
https://www.athomeinthecountry.com/catalogue/gifts-and-home-accessories-from-in-the-country-by-orchid-designs/all-for-the-country-home/duck-corkscrew.php
I'm not clicking that link
Dumb design.
I’m Jacks lack of self awareness
ok what am I missing?
What's a word that looks like it's spelled wrong?
tongue
(I often type tounge)
I always look at -ie- words and they just look wrong to me when I type or write them. Weird, friend, etc....
"Weird" is weird to me because the "ei" combination makes me think it should be pronounced as a long "i".
this is a UK usage but: catarrh.
The word itself looks like it is congested.
Bused
As opposed to "bussed", which is the past tense of "buss".
heh, my first thought was "what is boo-sedd?"
Diarrhea
aneurysm
the signature experience for Cal football fans
Rhythm
It is gonna get you
That's a word without one of the more commonly recognized vowels.
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Occasionally
Nope
???
Well, I'm NOT a good speller (generally) but the 3 I put "nope" to are strangely easy for me.
BTW, name four words that begin with "dw". Without looking it up.
I assume you don't mean names, but dwight, dwayne are two.
So, you're saying those words look correctly spelled to you, then?
I admit that they are spelled correctly. But I chose "occasionally" and "successfully" because they are unusual in the placement or frequency of double consonants.
Successfully
Nope
???
Necessary
Nope
Tent
Flood
PRO
DeSean Jackson is back in NFL
Baffled as to why Francona would stick with Aaron Civale (5-6, ERA of nearly 5.00, and owned by the Yankees) as the ALDS Game 5 starter following Monday's rain out. Civale hadn't thrown a meaningful pitch in nearly 2 weeks and was eminently hittable. The game was over after 4 hitters.
You got your horse and former Cy Young Winner available on 3-days rest...Biebs must have really not been up for it.
Sharks 2, Islanders 5: Terrible Twos
https://www.fearthefin.com/2022/10/18/23393877/san-jose-sharks-at-ny-islanders-lines-how-to-watch-tv-broadcast-streaming-channel-start-time-radio
The old adage is “score early, score often,” and in the San Jose Sharks’ case one out of two isn’t enough to scrape together a single win five games deep into the season. An inability to score more than two goals and a series of terrible second periods have led to a pattern of wiping out any lead the team manages with striking first.
Nico Sturm scored the lone goal of the first period, adding to another trend of the team’s fourth line somehow leading the offense. Linemate Evgeny Svechnikov, the other Sharks goal-scorer, kept it going with a tying goal in the second period, as the team quickly found themselves down 2-1.
Warriors beat Lakers. it was sort of back any forth in the first half but the Lakers seemed a little outmatched.
i was falling asleep in 2nd half and eventually went to bed when the lead hit 20 in the 3rd Q.
It seemed like the Dubs were toying with them. Played even in first half and then put the hammer down on them in the 3Q like everyone knew they would, turning it into a laugher
The most impressive thing is that pretty much all of the Warriors' young guys look really good. Wiseman seems to have made a leap.
Kuminga looked horrible offensively. Hopefully it was just the jitters and he relaxes. The last 6 min of the game looked like an all-star game. I think the Warriors last 7 baskets before the scrubs came in was 7-8 on 3s and the Lakers hit a bunch as well. No D. I think Wiggs hit 3 and Steph hit a couple.
Agreed, everyone but Kuminga looked good last night. It's also nice to confirm that the Lakers will likely not be contenders in the West this year. If they can stay healthy this year, this may be the deepest team the Warriors have had on the court. Investing in player development coaches and sticking to the "bridge to the next generation" plan looks to be paying off.
I just realized Kuminga is like Jaylen Brown while he was at Cal. Can't create his own shot, can't shoot 3s, and not a great defender.
They don't need much from Kuminga - he's probably the 11th man in their deep rotation. Just keep developing and I'll start caring about his production in about 2-3 more years.
yeah, Kuminga will be a starter in a few years (or sooner, if Draymond is gone after this year or next). His offense was not good, but his defense was.
And he's still, what? 20? He'll be between 5 and 9 in the rotation in a couple of months (5 being the games when the starters rest).