Oh Wow! I've been backpacking in that area a few times. West of Serene Creek, which drains Serene lakes, is Palisades Creek and Palisades Creek trail which leads down the Royal Gorge and one of the most spectacular stretches of River Canyon I've ever seen. Never been attacked by otters out there, though!
Stopped once by Berkeley PD for open container (not arrested, just had to pour it out) and arrested by Hong Kong PD for a crime I didn't commit. Spent the afternoon in handcuffs. And the time the cops showed up at a under-aged house party doesn't count because I escaped detention by jumping over the back fence and through the neighbor's yard
Flew from Ketchikan to Denver for fire assignment on incident team. Rented car to Steamboat Springs. Not used to higher speed un-impeded driving in late model car vs old pickup. Trooper pulled me over for going 90 on long downhill grade. I “explained” and got a warning.
My brother, a friend, and I once used a hunger walkathon as a training run. The finish was near the boathouse at Lake Merritt. Near the end we cut across in the middle of the street. An Oakland cop stopped us and lectured us on jaywalking. This was early on a Sunday morning when there was no traffic around.
Once when I was 19 I was stopped for hitchhiking illegally and once when I was 21 I was stopped by UC campus police for open container. No arrests though.
On this day in 2007 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State, 20-17. The win broke Cal’s three-game losing streak and raised their record to 6-3, they would not win again until the Armed Forces Bowl on December 31st. Statistical leaders for Cal were QB Nate Longshore who hit on 26 of 39 passes for 213 yards, RB Justin Forsett with 32 carries for 132 yards and two touchdowns and WR Lavelle Hawkins who caught nine passes for 78 yards. Forsett had seemingly iced the game with a 44 yard touchdown run with 2:42 remaining but the Cougs got a TD and two point conversation in the game’s waning moments. Cal recovered the ensuing onside kick.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
One of the more depressing wins of that era. WSU was not good and Cal should have blown them out, but Longshore couldn't complete a pass further than about 10 yards due to his gimpy ankle. The whole game was a grind.
Franklin TN mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson (R) blamed her 3:1 ratio loss in election to incumbent Ken Moore (R) on election fraud. I am sure her loss wasn't caused by her refusing to renounce support from neo-nazi groups, using white supremacists to keep reporters from attending open candidate forums, using the same white supremacists to vandalize the reporter's office, stealing someone's Facebook page image to claim they were supporters of her campaign, her past guilty plea to promoting prostitution in 1990, and her letter to the Nashville Airport hating them for promoting Juneteenth. She seems nice.
Speaker Mike Johnson remembers Isaiah 58:7 as "Share your food with everyone who is hungry except for the dirty poors" as he goes to war against Food Stamps
I prefer Golden State's "The City" shirts with the Bay Bridge on it to commemorate Oakland/SF connection. Having San Francisco in a wiggly line doesn't really do it for me.
After watching many of the division series and championship series games, I watched a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of the World Series. I don't care at all about Texas or Arizona, so I had no interest
I thought it was entertaining. Disappointing, since I was rooting for Arizona, mostly because of knowing Ryan Thompson, and its always nice when a kid from the neighborhood goes on to play in the World Series.
Let's check in on Jermaine Terry II. He's caught 2 passes for 10 yards and participated in 8 games. Last year at Cal, he had 7 catches for 41 yards for the whole season. I have no idea if his great vs missed blocked ratio has changed.
Troy beats South Alabama 38-10. South Alabama went 0-10 on third down. Troy's WR Chris Lewis was unstoppable - catching two different one-handed TD catches
at LSU, vs. Oregon, at Penn St is a brutal three-game stretch. And the final three games (at UW, vs. USC, vs. Fresno State) will be a disastrous gut punch if they lose all three
Yes. And I've probably told this story on the DBD before.
Boy Scout Troop 7 in Berkeley, sold Christmas wreaths, garlands, and centerpieces to help fund summer camp on Sawmill Lake in Placer County. Troop 7 had weekly meetings in the basement of St. Clements Episcopal Church near the Hotel Claremont. On the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving 1972, my patrol went to a part of Oakland not far from the church. We fanned out and went door knocking to make sales. We were driven there in a Checker Marathon by a parent, so we could get the entire patrol (6 boys) in the car without a problem. About 20 minutes into our foray, I was stopped by Oakland PD for soliciting after 6 pm without a permit. The entire patrol was rounded up, taken down to the nearest police station, booked and released back to our parents. Seems that one grouchy neighbor had called the cops to demand putting an end to our sales pitches.
We got mentioned in a Herb Caen column soon thereafter and were less than minor celebrities within Troop 7 for less than a minute.
Gang violence near Soda Springs ski resort
https://www.kcra.com/article/placer-county-serene-lakes-otters-attack/45729327
Oh Wow! I've been backpacking in that area a few times. West of Serene Creek, which drains Serene lakes, is Palisades Creek and Palisades Creek trail which leads down the Royal Gorge and one of the most spectacular stretches of River Canyon I've ever seen. Never been attacked by otters out there, though!
If you miss your flight, do you a) re-schedule a new flight, b) scream/cry at nearby staff, or c)...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/woman-arrested-after-running-onto-tarmac-at-canberra-airport/f56ec298-b959-46f2-9204-282092d14277
Have you ever been stopped by law enforcement?
Stopped once by Berkeley PD for open container (not arrested, just had to pour it out) and arrested by Hong Kong PD for a crime I didn't commit. Spent the afternoon in handcuffs. And the time the cops showed up at a under-aged house party doesn't count because I escaped detention by jumping over the back fence and through the neighbor's yard
Every time I go into the office...
because I have to show my id to the police to get through security to drive over to my office.
Flew from Ketchikan to Denver for fire assignment on incident team. Rented car to Steamboat Springs. Not used to higher speed un-impeded driving in late model car vs old pickup. Trooper pulled me over for going 90 on long downhill grade. I “explained” and got a warning.
My brother, a friend, and I once used a hunger walkathon as a training run. The finish was near the boathouse at Lake Merritt. Near the end we cut across in the middle of the street. An Oakland cop stopped us and lectured us on jaywalking. This was early on a Sunday morning when there was no traffic around.
Jaywalking laws are, by definition, pro-automobile justifications for lessening driver responsibility for pedestrian death and injury.
Once when I was 19 I was stopped for hitchhiking illegally and once when I was 21 I was stopped by UC campus police for open container. No arrests though.
Drop
, Chocolate
It is non-standard industry-term for a chocolate chip.
bear, a ferocious Australian creature that hides in trees and drops down onto unsuspecting passerbys below
how very Australian
Coolin' on the corner on a hot summer day
Just me and my posse and MCA
A lot of beer, a lot of girls and a lot of cursin'
22 automatic on my person
Got my hand in my pocket and my finger's on the trigger
My posse's gettin' big and my posse's gettin' bigger
Some voices got treble, some voices got bass
We got the kind of voices that are in your face!
"The" aka the crescendo of an EDM song.
Hypebeast
(Marketing sneakers through artificial scarcity)
I don't remember this part in Jurassic Park
https://www.iflscience.com/ice-age-woolly-rhino-genome-reconstructed-from-fossilized-hyena-poop-71381
It will be in the upcoming sequel, Pleistocene Park.
One of two ladies lost her bag after leaving it on top of her vehicle that was going 17,900 mph
https://scitechdaily.com/spacewalk-snafu-astronauts-lose-tool-bag-in-orbital-oopsy/
DBD STREET JOURNAL
Jeff Bezos moves today from Seattle to his new $79m mansion. He also owns the mansion next to it, which cost $68m.
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-indian-creek-billionaire-bunker-miami-private-island-tour-2022-12#one-of-the-more-surprising-details-i-learned-during-the-tour-was-that-purchasing-property-in-indian-creek-does-not-guarantee-admittance-into-the-neighborhoods-ultra-exclusive-golf-club-16
Come on, Jeffrey, you can do it
pave the way, put your back into it
tell us why, show us how
look at where you came from, look at you now
A nice visualization of his wealth: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Sam Bankman-Fried - the son of two Stanford law professors - was found guilty on all charges of fraud and conspiracy. He will get sentenced 3/28/24.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/business/ftx-sbf-fraud-trial-verdict/index.html
I was only surprised by how little time it took for the verdicts.
CAL
On this day in 2007 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Washington State, 20-17. The win broke Cal’s three-game losing streak and raised their record to 6-3, they would not win again until the Armed Forces Bowl on December 31st. Statistical leaders for Cal were QB Nate Longshore who hit on 26 of 39 passes for 213 yards, RB Justin Forsett with 32 carries for 132 yards and two touchdowns and WR Lavelle Hawkins who caught nine passes for 78 yards. Forsett had seemingly iced the game with a 44 yard touchdown run with 2:42 remaining but the Cougs got a TD and two point conversation in the game’s waning moments. Cal recovered the ensuing onside kick.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
One of the more depressing wins of that era. WSU was not good and Cal should have blown them out, but Longshore couldn't complete a pass further than about 10 yards due to his gimpy ankle. The whole game was a grind.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Franklin TN mayoral candidate Gabrielle Hanson (R) blamed her 3:1 ratio loss in election to incumbent Ken Moore (R) on election fraud. I am sure her loss wasn't caused by her refusing to renounce support from neo-nazi groups, using white supremacists to keep reporters from attending open candidate forums, using the same white supremacists to vandalize the reporter's office, stealing someone's Facebook page image to claim they were supporters of her campaign, her past guilty plea to promoting prostitution in 1990, and her letter to the Nashville Airport hating them for promoting Juneteenth. She seems nice.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gabrielle-hanson-claims-she-lost-tennessee-mayoral-race-due-to-election-fraud/ar-AA1jhjmQ
Speaker Mike Johnson remembers Isaiah 58:7 as "Share your food with everyone who is hungry except for the dirty poors" as he goes to war against Food Stamps
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/02/mike-johnson-snap-crisis-00124843
PRO
[NBA] Nike's City Edition jerseys
https://andscape.com/galleries/nike-unveils-city-edition-uniforms-for-nba-in-season-tournament/?view=grid
I prefer Golden State's "The City" shirts with the Bay Bridge on it to commemorate Oakland/SF connection. Having San Francisco in a wiggly line doesn't really do it for me.
Wemby outduels Durant as Spurs beats Suns 132-121
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/38806167/spurs-victor-wembanyama-outduels-durant-booker-drops-38-win
The least watched World Series
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38804549/world-series-was-least-watched-fall-classic-tv-history
After watching many of the division series and championship series games, I watched a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of the World Series. I don't care at all about Texas or Arizona, so I had no interest
I really enjoyed this world series. The games were high scoring and snappily paced. I didn't care who won. Marcus Semien is incredibly hot.
Also enjoyed this World Series. I rooted for Texas because of Bruce Bochy.
That is all.
I thought it was entertaining. Disappointing, since I was rooting for Arizona, mostly because of knowing Ryan Thompson, and its always nice when a kid from the neighborhood goes on to play in the World Series.
It was a good series! But the Rangers and D-Backs are not viewership draws, to say the least.
It was! More folks should have tuned in.
Agent texts the wrong Byron Young
https://theramswire.usatoday.com/2023/11/01/rams-raiders-byron-young-nfl-draft-moment-name/
Hey SF Giants fans - if you're wonder what Will Smith has done since he left the Bay Area - he's won 3 consecutive World Series rings
https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/31549/will-smith
Twins Pull Dick
https://puckettspond.com/posts/twins-news-dick-bremer-retirement-details
DBD AV CLUB
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Tell me, sweetie. How did you catch pneumonia?
https://twitter.com/rodger/status/1719542568285876284
MACtion!
Let's check in on Jermaine Terry II. He's caught 2 passes for 10 yards and participated in 8 games. Last year at Cal, he had 7 catches for 41 yards for the whole season. I have no idea if his great vs missed blocked ratio has changed.
https://osubeavers.com/sports/football/stats/2023
I wonder if the guy that came from Oregon State has caught any passes this season for us
JT Byrne has been in 3 games and had no catches
https://calbears.com/sports/football/roster/j-t-byrne/22454
Thanks. It looks like OSU won the trade then.
But that's such a disappointment from Terry.
Troy beats South Alabama 38-10. South Alabama went 0-10 on third down. Troy's WR Chris Lewis was unstoppable - catching two different one-handed TD catches
https://twitter.com/RealD_Jackson/status/1720414269475365143
ACC Action: Duke kicks the winning FG with to time left after having to use their 3rd string QB due to injuries
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/401525539
The game winning FG was made possible by this stupid, dumb, bone-head penalty by Wake Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nems8d0IAvA
That's way worse than Belli's hit on John Paye.
Fuck you, Pat Flood.
ICYMI: a terrible Akron team scored 21 points in the 4th quarter to beat a terrible Kent State 31-27
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401532436
Look at this travesty
https://twitter.com/nocontextcfb/status/1720176087135900004
at LSU, vs. Oregon, at Penn St is a brutal three-game stretch. And the final three games (at UW, vs. USC, vs. Fresno State) will be a disastrous gut punch if they lose all three
The three shortest plane rides on that schedule are to Seattle, Lincoln, and Baton Rouge.
They also have flights to Honolulu, University Park, PA, and Newark, NJ.
Realignment sucks.
Finishing the season against Fresno State. Wow. Really?
It's the Notre Dame(-USC) effect.
I think Tedford has Fresno State fired up for this game.
It’s at the Rose Bowl so Tedford will more than likely lose that game.
Maybe Mack Brown will try to get UNC to play UCLA instead of Fresno State.
ICYMI: A possum invaded the field after the 1st quarter of the TCU/TX Tech game
https://twitter.com/jasrifootball/status/1720227053906108811
Tech beat Sonny Dykes 35-28
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401525879
That possum's face as it was being dragged away is the same face Cf98 makes when she doesn't want to get ready for school in the morning
Yes. And I've probably told this story on the DBD before.
Boy Scout Troop 7 in Berkeley, sold Christmas wreaths, garlands, and centerpieces to help fund summer camp on Sawmill Lake in Placer County. Troop 7 had weekly meetings in the basement of St. Clements Episcopal Church near the Hotel Claremont. On the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving 1972, my patrol went to a part of Oakland not far from the church. We fanned out and went door knocking to make sales. We were driven there in a Checker Marathon by a parent, so we could get the entire patrol (6 boys) in the car without a problem. About 20 minutes into our foray, I was stopped by Oakland PD for soliciting after 6 pm without a permit. The entire patrol was rounded up, taken down to the nearest police station, booked and released back to our parents. Seems that one grouchy neighbor had called the cops to demand putting an end to our sales pitches.
We got mentioned in a Herb Caen column soon thereafter and were less than minor celebrities within Troop 7 for less than a minute.
Reply fail.
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