Ira Michael Heyman was born in 1930 in New York City. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, and in 1951 from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth he joined the Theta Chi men's fraternity. After serving as a U.S. Marine Corps officer during the Korean War, he entered Yale Law School, where he became editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following his graduation in 1956, he served as a law clerk for Judge Charles Edward Clark of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then from 1958 to 1959 he was a clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren. He joined the law faculty at Berkeley in 1959, and he became Vice Chancellor in 1974. He was named Berkeley's sixth Chancellor and served in that capacity from 1980 to 1990.
I ordered 8 yards of compost and am spreading it onto my lawn now. On the positive side, it is amazing how easily it just disappears into the the grass. On the negative side, I breathed in a lot of manure dust yesterday.
We bought a rotating composting bin several years ago and I don't think we've generated more than a cubic yard of compost. Now we toss everything we'd put in the composter (fruit/veggie scraps) to the chickens and they have their own, highly effective means of turning it into compost.
last time we got a large Amazon box or something else it came w/ compostable peanuts as the packaging. you just toss them on your lawn and they are supposed to dissolve away in the rain.
in retrospect it probably was not Amazon, but i cant remember what company.
Building an ADU out of my beat up one-car garage. I began the process in April 2020, and hope the project is finally completed by the holidays. The City of Santa Barbara is an absolute nightmare to deal with…just dreadful.
Yeah, I'm like you, far, far rather bike somewhere than run - and I think the longest I ran must have been when I was a kid in England (didn't have a good bike).
Did the JFK 50 miler in 1998 with the spouse of a friend. I dropped out of two earlier tries at 50 miles. One I was in first place by about twenty minutes but got really dehydrated and was aware that I was veering a bit going down the bike trail so when I got to the 40 mile aid station I packed it in.
14 miles for one of our high school training runs. This is back when cross country races were only 2 miles. 10 miles in a race, though I ran it as a training run also.
10k, but mostly when I ran I stuck to 5k (mostly because about halfway through was when the endorphins kicked in, and that way I at least knew I was being consistent)
in middle school (JM in Moraga) often the fog would be so think in the mornings that we would cut our laps short around the field because you could only see about 1/3 of the way across.
we would loaf around in the middle for a bit and them emerge out of the fog looking tired and winded. i dont doubt that the coaches knew what was going on ...
1 mile, plus about 5 feet. Almost died. A certain football coach subsequently replaced decided everyone on the football team had to run a mile on the track in 6 minutes or less, even though most football plays involve running ~40 yards or less, and none over ~100 yards, at a time.
I like Dusty. Cubs fans sometimes blame him for Prior and Wood getting injured but Prior’s injuries were from freak accidents and Wood had arm issues in high school. I don’t really think he was Tom Thibodeau, running D Rose into the ground. He is a good manager and great toothpick flipper
Big game week my frosh year (maybe), we were on some reunion lunch play fest (straw hat band) where we hit three or 4 alumni groups in an hour, and Ira Mike was at all of them also, at the last one he is pretty loaded and comes out to where we were getting ready to go in and gives the student director a huge hug and says how much he loves the band.
The Economist dubbed Liz Truss the Iceberg Lady, predicting that her career would have the shelf-life of said greenery. As a play on that, tabloid Daily Star started a streaming channel seven days ago pointed at a head of iceberg lettuce with a blonde wig and googly eyes on it. Indeed, the actual unfridgerated Daily Star lettuce outlasted Truss, who resigned as PM
In the short term it's about interest rates and fuel costs. The chaos from the "mini budget" fucked with the value of sterling, increased interest rates (in a country where most people get variable rate mortgages), and increased the cost of borrowing for a government that was talking about covering the cost of gas etc. for domestic consumers. So with my family, I'm worried about my retired relatives having a cost of living crisis and my cousins have a more, ah, precarious housing situation (I don't think they. have significant mortgages but they're not made of money)
Also, they have massively devalued the pound with all this fuckery, and in a country where they have to import nearly everything, and which is already experiencing 10.5% inflation, that brings some real pain.
As far as fuel costs, previously energy bills have been capped at around £2K/year. The cap has increased to £3500 for the next several months, and then is expected to rise to £5350 by Q2 next year. In a country in which the average income is around £31K, that's pretty painful.
yeah, one cousin and her husband have something like proper jobs, but my cousin A is one of these guys who strings together all sorts of random stuff & I'm concerned about him being able to keep the heat on.
Liz Truss will now hold the record for shortest stint as UK Prime Minister. 44 days, if I've counted correctly. That assumes her resignation is effective today.
US District Court David Carter ruled that Eastman emails need to be turned over to the J6C because they prove that Trump knew that Georgia voter fraud allegations were false and that he signed them as material evidence in cases he brought to court. This will help the Fulton County case against Trump. It also furthers a potential Obstruction cases by the DOJ once the J6C is done with him.
ICYMI: Remember the Mueller investigations that implicated that Trump was linked to Russia and benefited from their assistance over 10 times, but was then led into a ditch by the GOP. Trump was so angry at being embarrassed that he had the Inspector General probe the Mueller investigation. He was then pissed again when the IG found nothing wrong, so he sinced Bill Bar to appoint a special prosecutor - John Durham - to investigate the investigation. That recently concluded and turned up nothing. Marsha Blackburn says that the Special Counsel Durham's case has disintegrated because [checks notes] Hillary is that just that good.
[Imperial March plays] Stanfurd Graduate School of Business is having Peter Thiel be their keynote speaker for their "Academic Freedom Conference" - an anti-woke conference
Former UCLA student Christian Secor - who founded the "America First" group at UCLA - got 42 months in jail for storming the Capitol and other offenses. His sentence was lighter because he was only in his 20s and didn't hurt anyone.
I still don't care for the conference change for SC, and at the same time the Pac12 hasn't been doing anything in the meantime to demonstrate that the conference management is improving.
It's not. Not meaning to run down George Kliavkoff, but the Pac-12 has looked remarkably weak. For decades, the Pac-12 has been content to maintain the status quo instead of trying to improve the media rights situation. This has undercut their hand and allowed power to flow unchecked to the SEC, the Big Ten, and the ACC. It's also undermined USC's interest in remaining in the Pac-12. Ever since ESPN has moved towards college football hegemony, the Pac-12 has dithered. Result: fewer afternoon slots, more games relegated to late afternoon/evening slots, degradation of Pac-12 profile and presence in the national sports media.
The Big XII is in a marginally different position. They're also screwed as things stand now because they're losing their two anchor institutions in the athletic landscape - Texas and Oklahoma. The only thing they have going for them over the Pac-12 is geographic location.
A match-up today against ACC cupcakes Georgia Tech and Virginia. I have no idea how GT beat Pitt. If GT doesn't win today, they may lose the rest of their schedule.
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years early in my career. GT is well regarded for engineering and technical stuff, required competitive SAT scores to get in. Emory was a bit more selective but that's the expensive private school. They also have decent business, law, and medical education.
App State falls behind 14-0 to lowly Georgia State. They come back in the second half thanks to four turnovers by the [checks notes] Panthers. Mountaineers win 42-17.
He had a crazy bomb in the 2015 NLDS for the Cubs that hit the scoreboard at Wrigley. He’s a really nice player, good work ethic and clubhouse guy. I wish the Cubs had held onto him
Remember when the Russians got caught doping their star Olympic figure skater and the powers-that-be still allowed her to compete and then they didn't award medals because nobody knew who won? Yeah. They still don't know.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Cody’s bookstore.
The Golden Bears have played the University of Washington 100 times, (the Bears have only faced Stanfurd and U$C more often) the Huskies lead the series 55-41-4. Two of the ties came in seasons in which the Bears went unbeaten —1924 and 1937. The other two came in a 6-1-1 season (1904) and a 7-3-1 campaign (1968). The Huskies once had a nineteen-game winning steak against Cal, from 1977-2001.
Pappy Waldorf owned the Huskies, beating them nine times in ten tries.
Cal trivia fun fact appears on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.
The '91 game against UW (which was effectively for the Rose Bowl) is still one of the best games I've ever seen live, period. I long for the days when Memorial is nearly full for pregame and the crowd stays until AFTER the game is over in order to applaud the players for their game play after a loss.
Until the 1991 games against UOP (86-24, Cal), the 1973 game against UW at Cal Memorial was the highest scoring game in Cal football history. The final score was 54-49, Cal (103 total points). It was a thrilling game to watch. I don't remember how many lead changes, there were, but there were more than a few. As I recall, the winning score was on the penultimate possession.
The 1937 game with UW was a scoreless tie. It was the only blemish in the record of the Thunder Team, which was considered to be national co-champions with Pittsburgh..
DBD Home Improvement
Going to do some small, pre-winter jobs this weekend: clean out the gutters, paint the trim on the porch pillars, mow the lawn one final time.
I ordered 8 yards of compost and am spreading it onto my lawn now. On the positive side, it is amazing how easily it just disappears into the the grass. On the negative side, I breathed in a lot of manure dust yesterday.
We bought a rotating composting bin several years ago and I don't think we've generated more than a cubic yard of compost. Now we toss everything we'd put in the composter (fruit/veggie scraps) to the chickens and they have their own, highly effective means of turning it into compost.
last time we got a large Amazon box or something else it came w/ compostable peanuts as the packaging. you just toss them on your lawn and they are supposed to dissolve away in the rain.
in retrospect it probably was not Amazon, but i cant remember what company.
Need about 10 gallons of clay, for my workers to install.
Building an ADU out of my beat up one-car garage. I began the process in April 2020, and hope the project is finally completed by the holidays. The City of Santa Barbara is an absolute nightmare to deal with…just dreadful.
ADU = amphetamine distribution unit?
Accessory Dwelling Unit…
But with the incredible length of time and increased costs, it may have to be an amphetamine distribution unit to pay for the accessory dwelling part!
alternative dwelling unit
which could still be a amphetamine distribution unit
I'm not ruling it out
What is the longest distance you have ever run?
Probably not more than 5 or so miles. I've always found running to be dull; I'd much rather be on my bike.
Yeah, I'm like you, far, far rather bike somewhere than run - and I think the longest I ran must have been when I was a kid in England (didn't have a good bike).
14 miles. The longest I hiked was Mt. Whitney from base to top and back again in about 15 hours covering 26 miles and 6500 feet of elevation gain
Did the JFK 50 miler in 1998 with the spouse of a friend. I dropped out of two earlier tries at 50 miles. One I was in first place by about twenty minutes but got really dehydrated and was aware that I was veering a bit going down the bike trail so when I got to the 40 mile aid station I packed it in.
10K. best race time was about 40 mins when in HS.
12 miles, got through quite a few podcasts on that run
2 miles give or take. Hate running with the heat of a billion suns.
14 miles for one of our high school training runs. This is back when cross country races were only 2 miles. 10 miles in a race, though I ran it as a training run also.
A little over 14 miles, around the Presidio and GG Park, just felt really good, didn’t want to stop
10k, but mostly when I ran I stuck to 5k (mostly because about halfway through was when the endorphins kicked in, and that way I at least knew I was being consistent)
Chicago marathon in 2017
Attaboy
in middle school (JM in Moraga) often the fog would be so think in the mornings that we would cut our laps short around the field because you could only see about 1/3 of the way across.
we would loaf around in the middle for a bit and them emerge out of the fog looking tired and winded. i dont doubt that the coaches knew what was going on ...
1 mile, plus about 5 feet. Almost died. A certain football coach subsequently replaced decided everyone on the football team had to run a mile on the track in 6 minutes or less, even though most football plays involve running ~40 yards or less, and none over ~100 yards, at a time.
Bay to Breakers. Ran it maybe 5-6 times.
i figured there would be more marathon runners ..
but maybe they live on west coast, go for a long run, and then get on DBD later in the day!
12 miles
Bay to Breakers .. 7.5 mil or so. senior year at Cal.
we use to train the fire trail going up behind Strawberry Canyon.
at some point i gave up on running. maybe could run 2-3 miles on treadmill or around the block if necessary
Dusty Baker
There are many origin stories about the high-five, including that he invented it. At the very least, he is responsible for popularizing it in 1977.
Father of Darren (Cal Baseball '18-21). Darren spent last season split between high-A and AA ball.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=baker-004dar
Villain for defending cheaters
Hero for leading the Giants to the NLDS three times (1-2 in NLDS).
He burned a fatty with Jimi Hendrix
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dusty-baker-astros-manager-jimi-hendrix-janis-joplin-1234610628/
All around good dude. Wish he wasn't with the Astros.
This
I like Dusty. Cubs fans sometimes blame him for Prior and Wood getting injured but Prior’s injuries were from freak accidents and Wood had arm issues in high school. I don’t really think he was Tom Thibodeau, running D Rose into the ground. He is a good manager and great toothpick flipper
I'm still rooting for him. Don't care if he happens to be with the Astros now.
IRA
Glass
Big game week my frosh year (maybe), we were on some reunion lunch play fest (straw hat band) where we hit three or 4 alumni groups in an hour, and Ira Mike was at all of them also, at the last one he is pretty loaded and comes out to where we were getting ready to go in and gives the student director a huge hug and says how much he loves the band.
Could also be Irish Republican Army. Or Individual Retirement Account.
"Nice to meet you...Ira."
- Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
The Economist dubbed Liz Truss the Iceberg Lady, predicting that her career would have the shelf-life of said greenery. As a play on that, tabloid Daily Star started a streaming channel seven days ago pointed at a head of iceberg lettuce with a blonde wig and googly eyes on it. Indeed, the actual unfridgerated Daily Star lettuce outlasted Truss, who resigned as PM
https://twitter.com/dailystar/status/1582986201325527041
If she's looking for work we could use a new offensive coordinator and from what I've seen of Ms. Truss, she's pretty offensive.
all her plays would go to the right and backfire
Hahahahaha! A good Liz Truss as Cal OC joke. This is why I DBD! 🤣
As poorly as things are going in our crumbling democracy, at least we aren't them...
It's extremely funny if you don't live there, but I am a bit worried about my family in the UK tbh, given the economic mayhem
Can you explain this to me and why this is so worrisome?
Is this worrisome on a scale of trump bad or just Brexit bad.
In the short term it's about interest rates and fuel costs. The chaos from the "mini budget" fucked with the value of sterling, increased interest rates (in a country where most people get variable rate mortgages), and increased the cost of borrowing for a government that was talking about covering the cost of gas etc. for domestic consumers. So with my family, I'm worried about my retired relatives having a cost of living crisis and my cousins have a more, ah, precarious housing situation (I don't think they. have significant mortgages but they're not made of money)
Also, they have massively devalued the pound with all this fuckery, and in a country where they have to import nearly everything, and which is already experiencing 10.5% inflation, that brings some real pain.
As far as fuel costs, previously energy bills have been capped at around £2K/year. The cap has increased to £3500 for the next several months, and then is expected to rise to £5350 by Q2 next year. In a country in which the average income is around £31K, that's pretty painful.
I never realized that wages in the UK are so low compared to the US.
Lord, have mercy. Those numbers are not good.
yeah, one cousin and her husband have something like proper jobs, but my cousin A is one of these guys who strings together all sorts of random stuff & I'm concerned about him being able to keep the heat on.
Liz Truss will now hold the record for shortest stint as UK Prime Minister. 44 days, if I've counted correctly. That assumes her resignation is effective today.
US District Court David Carter ruled that Eastman emails need to be turned over to the J6C because they prove that Trump knew that Georgia voter fraud allegations were false and that he signed them as material evidence in cases he brought to court. This will help the Fulton County case against Trump. It also furthers a potential Obstruction cases by the DOJ once the J6C is done with him.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/19/judge-trump-signed-court-document-that-knowingly-included-false-voter-fraud-stats-00062577
"Your honor, we broke into the Capitol to protect the Capitol Police from us."
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1582770848054013952
ICYMI: Remember the Mueller investigations that implicated that Trump was linked to Russia and benefited from their assistance over 10 times, but was then led into a ditch by the GOP. Trump was so angry at being embarrassed that he had the Inspector General probe the Mueller investigation. He was then pissed again when the IG found nothing wrong, so he sinced Bill Bar to appoint a special prosecutor - John Durham - to investigate the investigation. That recently concluded and turned up nothing. Marsha Blackburn says that the Special Counsel Durham's case has disintegrated because [checks notes] Hillary is that just that good.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1582768151758254081
I am still amazed at how many layers of BS that can be used to hide from justice
Sick burn
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1582889854441902080
https://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/1583077679439695872
I literally hooted.
pqtm.
hahahaha
Only the best candidates.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/arizona/articles/2022-10-19/gop-candidate-for-arizona-college-district-suspends-campaign
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
[Imperial March plays] Stanfurd Graduate School of Business is having Peter Thiel be their keynote speaker for their "Academic Freedom Conference" - an anti-woke conference
https://cli.stanford.edu/events/conference-symposium/academic-freedom-conference
Imperial March plays ... i like this
Former UCLA student Christian Secor - who founded the "America First" group at UCLA - got 42 months in jail for storming the Capitol and other offenses. His sentence was lighter because he was only in his 20s and didn't hurt anyone.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/19/1129912913/a-former-ucla-student-was-sentenced-to-over-three-years-in-prison-for-capitol-ri
For what it's worth, yet another nugget of media speculation
https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/status/1582889020933435394
I still don't care for the conference change for SC, and at the same time the Pac12 hasn't been doing anything in the meantime to demonstrate that the conference management is improving.
The Pac10 is acting as though it's a certainty that the Pac10 will break up. So, let's get on with it.
It's not. Not meaning to run down George Kliavkoff, but the Pac-12 has looked remarkably weak. For decades, the Pac-12 has been content to maintain the status quo instead of trying to improve the media rights situation. This has undercut their hand and allowed power to flow unchecked to the SEC, the Big Ten, and the ACC. It's also undermined USC's interest in remaining in the Pac-12. Ever since ESPN has moved towards college football hegemony, the Pac-12 has dithered. Result: fewer afternoon slots, more games relegated to late afternoon/evening slots, degradation of Pac-12 profile and presence in the national sports media.
The Big XII is in a marginally different position. They're also screwed as things stand now because they're losing their two anchor institutions in the athletic landscape - Texas and Oklahoma. The only thing they have going for them over the Pac-12 is geographic location.
A match-up today against ACC cupcakes Georgia Tech and Virginia. I have no idea how GT beat Pitt. If GT doesn't win today, they may lose the rest of their schedule.
Is Georgia Tech a decent undergrad education, or better for grad school? Obviously I have little knowledge of how things work there.
Pretty sure they are accredited for both.
I would hope so hahaha. Maybe Cal should bring aboard Paul Johnson and run the option
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years early in my career. GT is well regarded for engineering and technical stuff, required competitive SAT scores to get in. Emory was a bit more selective but that's the expensive private school. They also have decent business, law, and medical education.
i think they are legit good academically both undergrad and grad school.
A match-up today by Fun Belt leaders Troy (5-2, 3-1) and South Alabama (5-1, 2-0). USA is a 3 point favorite. FYI: South Alabama is in Mobile, AL.
App State falls behind 14-0 to lowly Georgia State. They come back in the second half thanks to four turnovers by the [checks notes] Panthers. Mountaineers win 42-17.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401426353
PRO
ICYMI: Watch Kyle Schwarber turn on this pitch. Notice Darvish's reaction as Schwarber effing mashes it.
https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1582548383125815296
He had a crazy bomb in the 2015 NLDS for the Cubs that hit the scoreboard at Wrigley. He’s a really nice player, good work ethic and clubhouse guy. I wish the Cubs had held onto him
He was here for less than a full season but he was a fan and clubhouse favorite.
He hit a couple third deck bombs when he played for the Nats. Also struck out a lot.
Remember when the Russians got caught doping their star Olympic figure skater and the powers-that-be still allowed her to compete and then they didn't award medals because nobody knew who won? Yeah. They still don't know.
https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-beijing-doping-skating-1dc4f695cda0ef286ecdd1701c7701fb
I haven’t watched the Olympics with any sort of intent in a long time.
we watched the first ever rock climbing event at the Olympics in the summer quite intently given that both daughters are on a climbing team.
as for the Russian figure skating drama. sadly, i think that the woman's life/career/etc are in shambles from what i read recently.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by Cody’s bookstore.
The Golden Bears have played the University of Washington 100 times, (the Bears have only faced Stanfurd and U$C more often) the Huskies lead the series 55-41-4. Two of the ties came in seasons in which the Bears went unbeaten —1924 and 1937. The other two came in a 6-1-1 season (1904) and a 7-3-1 campaign (1968). The Huskies once had a nineteen-game winning steak against Cal, from 1977-2001.
Pappy Waldorf owned the Huskies, beating them nine times in ten tries.
Cal trivia fun fact appears on DBD every Tuesday and Thursday during the football season.
The '91 game against UW (which was effectively for the Rose Bowl) is still one of the best games I've ever seen live, period. I long for the days when Memorial is nearly full for pregame and the crowd stays until AFTER the game is over in order to applaud the players for their game play after a loss.
Still the best loss I've ever been to.
same .. those moments are what keep the Cal fandom alive for me despite years of dismal performances.
there were so many students packed into the student section that no one sat the entire game
That definitely was the loudest I've heard Memorial. It was amazing.
That's a surprisingly good win percentage for us considering how good they have been and we are Cal.
Until the 1991 games against UOP (86-24, Cal), the 1973 game against UW at Cal Memorial was the highest scoring game in Cal football history. The final score was 54-49, Cal (103 total points). It was a thrilling game to watch. I don't remember how many lead changes, there were, but there were more than a few. As I recall, the winning score was on the penultimate possession.
The 1937 game with UW was a scoreless tie. It was the only blemish in the record of the Thunder Team, which was considered to be national co-champions with Pittsburgh..
Yup, probably cost us being undisputed national champions.
Dude loved that bowtie.