Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles include protectors and guides for humans, and servants of God. Abrahamic religions describe angelic hierarchies, which vary by religion and sect. Some angels have specific names (such as Gabriel or Michael) or titles (such as seraph or archangel). Those expelled from Heaven are called fallen angels, distinct from the heavenly host.
One of a variety of words that caused confusion when our daughters were born and it emerged that my wife and I were not using the same words to describe infants' accoutrements, because when would I have had a reason to learn them?
"Angels and Visitations", an excellent short story collection by Neil Gaiman. It has one of my favorite stores ever, "Chivalry", about an old lady who finds the Holy Grail in a thrift store.
Gaiman also has a murder mystery novella, set in Heaven about an Angel being murdered. Titled "Murder Mysteries", it is ironically NOT in the above compilation.
Los Angeles of Anaheim. Used to be owned by cowboy Gene Autry. Growing up in LA during the late '70s and '80s, I always loved that fact and the fact that going to the "Big A" was always a fun alternative to Dodger Stadium for a game.
Started watching 'Cabinet of Curiousities' on Netflix. It's a horror anthology, with noted directors each overseeing one standalone episode. Decent cast, decent production values. The stories are fine little horror short stories with the right amount of blood and gore. 14/19.
After avoiding it due to meh reviews, I watched Loot on ATV+. E1 is good and then it goes more simple (which was the slam). But then picks up on the back 9. In a Lasso-y way. Altho less believable, based on the socio-economic power of the various players.
I got a chance to see the film discussed in the following WaPo article at the Kennedy Center last evening. It's not in release or streaming for now, only being shown as part of some film festivals. But file the title away and go see it if it is later released. A terrific little film.
The source of the "woke furries needing litter boxes in school bathrooms" admits he made that shit up, which is easy when you're a piece of shit yourself.
There will be divided govt, no policy anymore, just theatrics. Get ready for the Hunter Biden hearings! We’ll find out if he pays for coke and hookers with his credit card or with cash. He seems like a doofus so I assume the dark web/bitcoin route is too much for him to figure out. Your tax dollars at work, baby!!!!
I agree. But more in the "why are people going nuts about this?" category is Judge's Race to 62 (or whatever it was). I keep seeing ads on SBNation(?) about a book or show the follows the chase.
So, what, he has the 5th highest HR total in a season? (Note: I'm not bothering to look it up.) Why does the AL record mean anything special? Besides him being a Yankee, so #Interest.
It’s primarily a product of the Yankees and the tie-in with Maris. If Judge is hitting 62 for the Rangers, they’re not cutting in on Monday Night Football to show AB’s.
BERKELEY – California women's soccer clashes with rival Stanford in the regular season finale this Friday at 3 p.m. at Edwards Stadium. The game will be aired on the Pac-12 Network.
The Bears boast a 10-4-5 overall record and a 5-3-2 record in conference matchups as they enter the final week of the regular season. Cal currently holds a four-game unbeaten streak and has shutout its two most recent opponents.
Last week, the Bears hosted Colorado and Utah to kick-off the final three-game stretch of the season, all of which are taking place on Cal's home turf.
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2022-23 regular season when it hosts Vanguard Thursday night inside of Haas Pavilion.
SAN DIEGO – Cal men's tennis junior Ryder Jackson fell to Wichita State's Kristof Minarik in his singles opener of the ITA National Fall Championships on Wednesday at the Barnes Tennis Center.
In the round of 32, the Golden Bear lost to the Shocker, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. Jackson moves on to the consolation draw and plays Harvard's 39th-ranked Harris Walker on Thursday at a time TBA.
SAN DIEGO – Two California women's tennis doubles teams began play in the ITA National Fall Championships on Wednesday, with both – Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm as well as Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel – dropping their round of 32 openers at the Barnes Tennis Center.
Wiersholm and Alsola, who captured the doubles crown at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships on Oct. 18, lost to Texas Tech's Metka Komac and Cristina Tiglea, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8, on Wednesday.
In a night match, Thiel and Richardson lost to UCLA's fourth-seeded Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle, 6-1, 6-4.
KAILUA-KONA, HI – The Cal women's golf team improved its team score by six strokes over the previous round and finished the Pac-12 Preview in seventh place Wednesday at Nanea Golf Club on the Big Island.
The Bears carded a 6-over par as a team in the final round, led by freshman Adora Liu's career-best round of 1-under par. Cal finished the tournament at 9-over par, one shot behind No. 19 USC.
Utah, predicted to finish 10th in the media poll, housed Westminster (MO) by 35 in their exhibition.
I tuned in on the game cast yesterday, and though I wasn't fired up like I was for the exhibition openers under Campanelli/Bozeman/Braun/Monty/Cuonzo, I was interested in seeing how things went, especially after Fox's bullschitt comments, and, more importantly, with the International trip they had. This team had organized practices and even a couple of games.
They come out and though I couldn't see it, it certainly seemed like just more of the same, with some different guys.
Fox's idiotic substitution patterns really prevent his players from getting into any offensive rhythm...it's like a HC icing his own kicker, but for the entire game.
There's absolutely nothing to get excited for until Fox is gone.
Because I'm old and remember him I had to look him up. He's also shown as on the faculty at a certain Butte Community College. Where have I heard of that before?
Does he have any eligibility left? Fox would undoubtedly shuttle him in and of the lineup, but maybe he could hit a shot.
My favorite was Fox lamenting "rushing" shots from last night....by rush, does he mean taking open looks that just happen to be early in the shot clock? Idiot.
The US should follow Mexico's lead and return to year-round Standard Time. The health benefits of permanent Standard Time are known. When our bodies and brains are aligned with the cycles of sunrise and sunset, we get more healthful sleep and we're in sync with the natural cues that help us regulate our body clocks, leading to less stress, fewer strokes and heart attacks..
Here's hoping that eventually California exercises its prerogative under the Uniform Time Act and reverts to permanent Standard Time. Were California to do that, it would put pressure on other parts of the United States to follow suit. Then we wouldn't need federal legislation to do what is reasonable and beneficial for the greater good.
I go back and forth, but in the end, give me late summer evenings.
I read the circadian cycle health thing the other day, but how do they deal with it in Norway (or the opposite) in Ecuador. They have way diff day-night cycles and have survived. The globe has diff cycles in diff places. I think we can handle it.
I also enjoy late summer evenings, but I realize it has a cost.
Ecuador straddles the Equator. Folks in that country are going to see very even amounts of daylight throughout the year. They probably do not observe DST or anything like it. This is also true of Hawaii, even if it is about 20 deg. of latitude north of the Equator. There's about 60 minutes difference in daylight between the two solstices.
Here, in the Bay Area at 37 deg. latitude there's a solid 5 hours difference in daylight between the two solstices. Other nations are abandoning DST (source: The Spectator (UK), 26 March 2022) -
– Algeria (last changed clocks in 1981); Brazil (1932); China (1991); Colombia (1993); Egypt (2015); Falkland Islands (2010); Hong Kong (1979); Iceland (1968); India (1945); Indonesia (1963); Iraq (2007); Pakistan (2009); Peru (1994); Philippines (1990); Russia (2014); South Africa (1944); South Korea (1988).
The EU is studying a possible end of DST observance.
Europe and North America are a sizable minority DST contributes to serious health issues because the body wants to adjust on a daily basis but our observance of DST interferes with that biological directive.
Busy day today. Throwing a 50th birthday for Mrs. SGB.
Happy b'day to Mrs SGB!
HBD to your better half.
Happy birthday to her!
Here! Here!
Other things happening on Planet Earth
Someone tried to assassinate Imran Khan. They shot him in the leg.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/asia/imran-khan-pakistan-rally-intl/index.html
Not the first time he’s been lbw
Dummy
Pommy term for a baby pacifier
One of a variety of words that caused confusion when our daughters were born and it emerged that my wife and I were not using the same words to describe infants' accoutrements, because when would I have had a reason to learn them?
in bridge, the person whose cards get turned up for all to see, opposite the declarer/highest bidder in the round
Crash test _____
A mild non-English insult (ie, as mild as "dummy")
I recently learned that Germans, like the Taiwanese, have a term for someone who looks/is very punchable
I didn't know the Germans and the Taiwanese know Twist.
Halo
I enjoyed the game. I still haven’t watched the series but the previews looked good. This is a video game that should be a successful movie series.
Mule
Clint Eastwood movie that was fairly good.
Mystic River
Two ____ for Sister Sara? Never saw it.
No, just The Mule. Just came out in the past few years, with Bradley Cooper and MIchael Pena. I enjoyed it.
So Clint has a one Mule movie and a two Mule movie. How many other people can say that?
A key character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.
Something you have learned to do the OPPOSITE because of something your parents did/experienced.
From my dad:
Don’t do drugs.
Hold a steady job and grow a career.
Go to college.
Did 1 and 3 ever collide?
“Oh, he can’t hear us talking!”
But I did.
Don't lie to your kids. They're smarter than you think they are and often know when you're telling them a lie.
Assume that a steady supply of new stuff means you’ve made it and can be happy
That’s really more my mother than my father
Angel(s)
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
"Angels and Visitations", an excellent short story collection by Neil Gaiman. It has one of my favorite stores ever, "Chivalry", about an old lady who finds the Holy Grail in a thrift store.
Gaiman also has a murder mystery novella, set in Heaven about an Angel being murdered. Titled "Murder Mysteries", it is ironically NOT in the above compilation.
Fields of the Nephilim... one of my fave Death Rock/Goth bands of the mid/late 80s
Los Angeles of Anaheim. Used to be owned by cowboy Gene Autry. Growing up in LA during the late '70s and '80s, I always loved that fact and the fact that going to the "Big A" was always a fun alternative to Dodger Stadium for a game.
Such a dump now though. Are there new stadium plans?
in America. Great play (I saw the HBO dramatization years ago.)
Great BtVS spin-off! 17/19 WB
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Apps State @ Coast Carolina. App favored by 3.0, O/U 64
UTEP @ Rice. Rice favored by 4. O/U 47.5
2023 Decommits:
ASU 0
U of A: 1
Cal: 3* (RJ Jones, Amos Talelele, Ahston Sanders)
CU: 2
Oregon: 0
OSU: 2
Stanfurd: 1
UCLA: 2
USC: 2
Utah: 2
UW: 1
WSU: 2
* not including Carson Mott, who may or may not ever had an actionable offer
He did not
At Dartmouth, you can earn a BA, BS, MS, MBA, or TB
https://www.wcax.com/2022/11/02/tb-case-reported-dartmouth-college/
Oregon going back to Cookies N Cream uniforms vs. CU
https://twitter.com/oregonfootball/status/1587957728378429445
DBD AV CLUB
Started watching 'Cabinet of Curiousities' on Netflix. It's a horror anthology, with noted directors each overseeing one standalone episode. Decent cast, decent production values. The stories are fine little horror short stories with the right amount of blood and gore. 14/19.
And after watching Bad Sisters (very good), I got sucked into rewatching 4/6 of S1 of Catastrophe. So good!
Bad Sisters is a dark story with a comedic twist; Catastrophe is the opposite.
Catastrophe is fantastic...they're a great pair.
Sharon Horgan is a treasure!
Catastrophe: finished rewatching S1 and 1st Ep of S2.
Forgot how abruptly nasty S1 ends, and how harsh S2 starts.
Also didn't realize the the therapist in Ted Lasso is in Catastrophe. Small role, and very underutilized.
She’s fantastic!
After avoiding it due to meh reviews, I watched Loot on ATV+. E1 is good and then it goes more simple (which was the slam). But then picks up on the back 9. In a Lasso-y way. Altho less believable, based on the socio-economic power of the various players.
I got a chance to see the film discussed in the following WaPo article at the Kennedy Center last evening. It's not in release or streaming for now, only being shown as part of some film festivals. But file the title away and go see it if it is later released. A terrific little film.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/15/neil-armstrong-film-family/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE4ODYwODAzIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY2NTkyODcxNCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY2NzEzODMxNCwiaWF0IjoxNjY1OTI4NzE0LCJqdGkiOiIzN2ZiNTY2My1mZjE5LTRhOGUtOWY4OC1kZjRlMDAwZDhlNDciLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZGMtbWQtdmEvMjAyMi8xMC8xNS9uZWlsLWFybXN0cm9uZy1maWxtLWZhbWlseS8ifQ.VamOEKoWqXcZm30Lv1CIS1_L-WOBI6QdIVaIpM35gBA
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Biggus Dickus?
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1587984629331623936
So, is he bigger or junior?
Ted Cruz angry that a grifter is not sharing his money, but is okay with that grifter calling his wife ugly
https://cablefreetv.org/ted-cruz-complains-that-trump-is-not-spending-100-million-to-help-republican-candidates-in-midterm-elections/
The source of the "woke furries needing litter boxes in school bathrooms" admits he made that shit up, which is easy when you're a piece of shit yourself.
https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/joe-rogan-admits-there-was-no-proof-behind-his-litter-box-in-public-school-story/
What an asshole
Which one?
I was thinking Rogan but I’m willing to heap scorn on others also
There will be divided govt, no policy anymore, just theatrics. Get ready for the Hunter Biden hearings! We’ll find out if he pays for coke and hookers with his credit card or with cash. He seems like a doofus so I assume the dark web/bitcoin route is too much for him to figure out. Your tax dollars at work, baby!!!!
PRO
RIP Ray Guy
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34939624/ray-guy-hall-fame-punter-raiders-dies-72
I can't believe he was 72. Damn, I'm old!
Gone way too soon.
Phillies, to put it bluntly, were smoked by the Astros*, combining for the WS first no-hitter. 5-0.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/world-series-no-hitter-four-astros-pitchers-combine-to-blank-phillies-in-second-fall-classic-no-no-ever/live/
While you never want to get no hit, especially in the World Series, combined no-hitters don’t have nearly the same ring to it.
Hearing Joe Davis go nuts for it yesterday was silly, imho. The whole thing about a no no or a perfecto is that it’s one pitcher doing it…
I agree. But more in the "why are people going nuts about this?" category is Judge's Race to 62 (or whatever it was). I keep seeing ads on SBNation(?) about a book or show the follows the chase.
So, what, he has the 5th highest HR total in a season? (Note: I'm not bothering to look it up.) Why does the AL record mean anything special? Besides him being a Yankee, so #Interest.
It’s primarily a product of the Yankees and the tie-in with Maris. If Judge is hitting 62 for the Rangers, they’re not cutting in on Monday Night Football to show AB’s.
No, I totally get that (literally). I just don't get it (figuratively).
Agreed...Damn Yankee.
CAL
Pac-12 Network highlighting Coach AT's program - Helmets4Helmets, head protection for kids with chronic epilepsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNDHVXyVEf0
Bid on sports memorabilia to support Helmets4Helmets
https://eventsavvyllc.tofinoauctions.com/h4h2018/catalog
[WSOC] Cal Set For Clash With Stanford
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/3/womens-soccer-cal-set-for-clash-with-stanford.aspx
BERKELEY – California women's soccer clashes with rival Stanford in the regular season finale this Friday at 3 p.m. at Edwards Stadium. The game will be aired on the Pac-12 Network.
The Bears boast a 10-4-5 overall record and a 5-3-2 record in conference matchups as they enter the final week of the regular season. Cal currently holds a four-game unbeaten streak and has shutout its two most recent opponents.
Last week, the Bears hosted Colorado and Utah to kick-off the final three-game stretch of the season, all of which are taking place on Cal's home turf.
[WBB] Bears Host Vanguard In Exhibition Thursday
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/2/womens-basketball-bears-host-vanguard-in-exhibition-thursday.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2022-23 regular season when it hosts Vanguard Thursday night inside of Haas Pavilion.
[MTEN] Jackson Opens ITA Fall Nationals
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/2/mens-tennis-jackson-opens-ita-fall-nationals.aspx
SAN DIEGO – Cal men's tennis junior Ryder Jackson fell to Wichita State's Kristof Minarik in his singles opener of the ITA National Fall Championships on Wednesday at the Barnes Tennis Center.
In the round of 32, the Golden Bear lost to the Shocker, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. Jackson moves on to the consolation draw and plays Harvard's 39th-ranked Harris Walker on Thursday at a time TBA.
[WTEN] Bears Start ITA Fall Nationals
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/2/womens-tennis-bears-start-ita-fall-nationals.aspx
SAN DIEGO – Two California women's tennis doubles teams began play in the ITA National Fall Championships on Wednesday, with both – Jessica Alsola and Katja Wiersholm as well as Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel – dropping their round of 32 openers at the Barnes Tennis Center.
Wiersholm and Alsola, who captured the doubles crown at the ITA Northwest Regional Championships on Oct. 18, lost to Texas Tech's Metka Komac and Cristina Tiglea, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8, on Wednesday.
In a night match, Thiel and Richardson lost to UCLA's fourth-seeded Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle, 6-1, 6-4.
[WGOLF] Bears Finish Seventh At Pac-12 Preview
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/2/womens-golf-bears-finish-seventh-at-pac-12-preview.aspx
KAILUA-KONA, HI – The Cal women's golf team improved its team score by six strokes over the previous round and finished the Pac-12 Preview in seventh place Wednesday at Nanea Golf Club on the Big Island.
The Bears carded a 6-over par as a team in the final round, led by freshman Adora Liu's career-best round of 1-under par. Cal finished the tournament at 9-over par, one shot behind No. 19 USC.
Beating a D2 team by 7. Shooting 38% from the field, 58% from the line, 11% from three. Cal basketball! Catch the magic!!!!
I prefer to look at Okafor's impressive statline, and that we had 7 blocks. I will willfully ignore everything else.
Last season, Chico State lost to UCLA 100-61
Utah, predicted to finish 10th in the media poll, housed Westminster (MO) by 35 in their exhibition.
I tuned in on the game cast yesterday, and though I wasn't fired up like I was for the exhibition openers under Campanelli/Bozeman/Braun/Monty/Cuonzo, I was interested in seeing how things went, especially after Fox's bullschitt comments, and, more importantly, with the International trip they had. This team had organized practices and even a couple of games.
They come out and though I couldn't see it, it certainly seemed like just more of the same, with some different guys.
Fox's idiotic substitution patterns really prevent his players from getting into any offensive rhythm...it's like a HC icing his own kicker, but for the entire game.
There's absolutely nothing to get excited for until Fox is gone.
I noticed former Cal great Russ Critchfield is part of the Chico staff.
Because I'm old and remember him I had to look him up. He's also shown as on the faculty at a certain Butte Community College. Where have I heard of that before?
Does he have any eligibility left? Fox would undoubtedly shuttle him in and of the lineup, but maybe he could hit a shot.
My favorite was Fox lamenting "rushing" shots from last night....by rush, does he mean taking open looks that just happen to be early in the shot clock? Idiot.
I wonder what a good coach could do with this roster?
gotta think of the positives. From 3, we have 8 out of 9 opportunities to get better! Think of the trajectory of the team if we can make that happen!
Oh man...
The end of Daylight Saving Time in 2022 is Sunday morning. Can't happen soon enough.
Mexico is ending DST with the option for border cities and towns to keep it. -
Mexico scraps daylight savings time except along border
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mexico-scraps-daylight-savings-time-except-along-border/2022/10/26/3d8406f6-553e-11ed-ac8b-08bbfab1c5a5_story.html
The US should follow Mexico's lead and return to year-round Standard Time. The health benefits of permanent Standard Time are known. When our bodies and brains are aligned with the cycles of sunrise and sunset, we get more healthful sleep and we're in sync with the natural cues that help us regulate our body clocks, leading to less stress, fewer strokes and heart attacks..
Here's hoping that eventually California exercises its prerogative under the Uniform Time Act and reverts to permanent Standard Time. Were California to do that, it would put pressure on other parts of the United States to follow suit. Then we wouldn't need federal legislation to do what is reasonable and beneficial for the greater good.
This is a subject about which I cannot muster a strong opinion. I’m broadly for earlier light in the winter but other than that
I go back and forth, but in the end, give me late summer evenings.
I read the circadian cycle health thing the other day, but how do they deal with it in Norway (or the opposite) in Ecuador. They have way diff day-night cycles and have survived. The globe has diff cycles in diff places. I think we can handle it.
I like it just the way it is.
I also enjoy late summer evenings, but I realize it has a cost.
Ecuador straddles the Equator. Folks in that country are going to see very even amounts of daylight throughout the year. They probably do not observe DST or anything like it. This is also true of Hawaii, even if it is about 20 deg. of latitude north of the Equator. There's about 60 minutes difference in daylight between the two solstices.
Here, in the Bay Area at 37 deg. latitude there's a solid 5 hours difference in daylight between the two solstices. Other nations are abandoning DST (source: The Spectator (UK), 26 March 2022) -
– Algeria (last changed clocks in 1981); Brazil (1932); China (1991); Colombia (1993); Egypt (2015); Falkland Islands (2010); Hong Kong (1979); Iceland (1968); India (1945); Indonesia (1963); Iraq (2007); Pakistan (2009); Peru (1994); Philippines (1990); Russia (2014); South Africa (1944); South Korea (1988).
The EU is studying a possible end of DST observance.
Most of Asia does not observe DST.
Most of Africa never did observe DST.
Most of South America does not observe DST.
(source: webexhibits.org http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html )
Europe and North America are a sizable minority DST contributes to serious health issues because the body wants to adjust on a daily basis but our observance of DST interferes with that biological directive.