When No 1 was in Paris for his fellowships he lived by Place d'Italie. There were a couple of fresh markets and he could buy inexpensive everything every couple of days. Fish, veges, fruit (good but not comparible to Ca), meat, etc. Was pretty amazing. I went with him a couple of times to buy stuff for dinner that night.
traitor daughter and UW boyfriend are in Rome this fall. they are taking an Italian food and food culture course that is more about sustainability and civic rules than actually cooking or eating.
sounds like many of the same themes as the article.
one homework assignment is to avoid going to grocery store for a week. only shop at public markets.
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. - California men's tennis freshman Winston Lee completed play at the Jack Kramer Collegiate Invitational over the weekend at the Jack Kramer Club.
Lee, the lone Cal representative, continued his blazing start to the season, finishing with a 3-0 singles record. Lee defeated players from Pacific, Santa Barbara and Cal Poly over the weekend. His win over Cal Poly's Luc Hoeijmans marked his 10th singles win of his collegiate career.
LOS ANGELES – The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-5) fell in its final regular-season road match of the 2025 season to No. 2 UCLA (20-1), 18-12, on Sunday at the Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
RALEIGH, N.C. – The California volleyball team won its first set against NC State on Sunday but dropped the next three as the Wolfpack (11-11, 4-8 ACC) took down the Golden Bears (6-16, 3-9) 20-25, 28-26, 25-19, 25-19 at Reynolds Coliseum.
Today's game was the first meeting ever between Cal and Virginia.
RB Kendrick Raphael scored three touchdowns for the second consecutive week, rushing for a pair of scores while catching his first career touchdown pass as well. Kendrick has at least one rushing touchdown in each of Cal's last five games and a total of nine over the past five contests. Raphael finished with 13 rushes for 46 yards as well as career highs of four receptions and 66 yards receiving.
LOS ANGELES – The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-4) dropped a road contest to No. 1 USC (16-2), 12-9, on Saturday at Uytengsu Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
The California women's basketball team officially opens its 2025-26 season on the world stage as it faces No. 19 Vanderbilt in the Oui-Play event in Paris at Adidas Arena on Monday at 11:30 a.m. PT.
I am interested to see the Puff Morris debut. I expect she can score, but how well will the offense develop with this roster; the Bears need a true point guard, able skillfully to distribute the rock to multiple 3-point shooters.
i was scoreboard watching while watching WS. i saw that Ws were up 7 points or so w/ just a few minutes left. when i checked the final score the Pacers had won by 5.
The lone silver lining to come from the Golden State Warriors bite-sized road trip is this: it’s over. Two days after losing by 10 to a Milwaukee Bucks team that was playing with Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Dubs stumbled late in the fourth quarter and loss to a woefully shorthanded Indiana Pacers team in search of their first win of the season.
After Indiana trailed by as many as 11 points in the fourth quarter, Jackson's 3-pointer with 1:09 left gave the Pacers a 109-107 lead. Butler dunked to tie the score at 109-all, but he failed to convert a three-point play.
Will Smith caught more innings than any other catcher in a single World Series, and his 11th-inning home run gave the Dodgers their first lead of Game 7, and clinched a second straight championship with a 5-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday night and into Sunday morning at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Aunicorn led off the game with a single and then trotted out to the mound to pitch the bottom of the first. Another pitcher won Games 2, 6, and 7 of the World Series, throwing 17.2 innings along the way. A catcher set a record, squatting behind the plate for 74 Fall Classic frames and ultimately ended the series by hitting the final go-ahead home run.
Just as everyone feared or sneered, the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions. Again. In what some forecasted as a harbinger of doom, the sinister strategy of employing the best baseball player on the planet along with a generous number of his nearly equal peers proved effective. It’s not fair, some people will say in the coming months about the fact that the team broadly believed to be the best ultimately won it all.
Dodgers. The most evil teams are those in the largest media markets - Yankees and Dodgers. Each of those teams have a hapless foil in the same market (Mets and Angels).
Rinse and repeat with Chicago and until last year, the Bay Area. Just another reason to despise John Fisher.
For this Giants fan, it was an amazing World Series. Really, it doesn't get much better than Game 7. I only wish that Toronto had defeated the Dodgers.
He was amazing. This ESPN article on what led up to game 7 has a background on his trainer. No weights. Sounds like lots of core strength and flexibility.
I am no athlete, but whenever I go to Tokyo, I get a massage therapy to fix my body. I don't really know what it means, but my therapist says all of his techniques are the teachings of samurai medicine.
Yada ends every post on the website with the same two sentences: "I hope you have a good day today. Don't forget your childhood and pursue your dreams!"
Yamamoto said he wanted to pitch but he had no confidence if he could really pitch. He asked his trainer to make it possible and Yada did. He calls Yada "sensei" which means teacher.
It also showed how Roberts had zero trust in the relievers.
Flight delays linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown continue, with this past weekend marking the worst for air traffic control staffing shortages since the shutdown began, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Aviation Administration operations plans.
Between Friday morning and Sunday night, there were 98 “staffing trigger” reports at FAA facilities, meaning air traffic controllers had to alter operations to keep the airspace safe with fewer people working.
The alterations can include rerouting planes or delaying flights when there are not enough controllers to handle the normal workload.
COMMENTARY: this is only going to get worse before it gets better. And another source (www.rawstory.com) reports that Duffy threatened to "shut the whole thing down" referring to commercial air traffic.
There is no plan other than to terrorize people with dire consequences. Sounds a lot like, "The beatings will cease when morale improves!"
Holiday travel is not the thing you want to have being a clusterf**k because there are no air traffic controllers. It's one thing if it's the airlines screwing up: that's expected. But delays or cancellations because of a lack of ATC staff brought on failure to pay them? Very bad idea.
I've got to fly to Lisbon the Mon after Thanksgiving and No 2 is leaving Tues morning. I'm wondering if my flight is going to get screwed up. I may try to fly through Toronto instead of EWR or IAD.
Yeah me too. Usually I leave a day earlier so that I have a day buffer for travel issues and also sightsee. But I wasn't about to leave on Sun after thanksgiving.
the custard apple and chikoo are 2 things also that i had while spending summers in India while growing up. i didnt know the English words for them until much later.
turns out that chikoo are so exotic that the English word is chikoo.
I only wanted comment that there is a car not far from Casa de Slug that has a license plate that reads - 8 DURIAN. I see it often when out for a walk with our dogs.
I've tried it once. I thought I might be able to eat it but I had to spit it out. The combination of the horrible smell and the texture (maybe like raw chicken) was a no go. Almost 30 years ago a coworker bought one from Oakland Chinatown and brought it into work. The Indonesian boss and a different coworker had gone to Indonesia for a business trip and they had it. The boss has always loved it but the different coworker, who is white, had never had it but ended up loving it so someone bought one for all of us to try. I just couldn't do it.
VIVE LA FRANCE
nice French food article today
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/french-frozen-food.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.QltH.Ut_lJsa9fJvf&smid=url-share
Among other things, Paris went to great lengths to preserve its fresh food market tradition
Paris embraced the “15-minute city” ideal — that everyone should be able to reach life’s essentials within a short walk or bike ride.
When No 1 was in Paris for his fellowships he lived by Place d'Italie. There were a couple of fresh markets and he could buy inexpensive everything every couple of days. Fish, veges, fruit (good but not comparible to Ca), meat, etc. Was pretty amazing. I went with him a couple of times to buy stuff for dinner that night.
traitor daughter and UW boyfriend are in Rome this fall. they are taking an Italian food and food culture course that is more about sustainability and civic rules than actually cooking or eating.
sounds like many of the same themes as the article.
one homework assignment is to avoid going to grocery store for a week. only shop at public markets.
So much easier to do this in Europe than in the US.
and bonjour @Sgbear
CAL
[MTEN] Bears Shine on Global Stage
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/2/mens-tennis-bears-shine-on-global-stage.aspx
ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. - California men's tennis freshman Winston Lee completed play at the Jack Kramer Collegiate Invitational over the weekend at the Jack Kramer Club.
Lee, the lone Cal representative, continued his blazing start to the season, finishing with a 3-0 singles record. Lee defeated players from Pacific, Santa Barbara and Cal Poly over the weekend. His win over Cal Poly's Luc Hoeijmans marked his 10th singles win of his collegiate career.
[MPOLO] No. 4 Cal Falls To No. 2 UCLA In Final Road Test
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/2/mens-water-polo-no-4-cal-falls-to-no-2-ucla-in-final-road-test.aspx
LOS ANGELES – The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-5) fell in its final regular-season road match of the 2025 season to No. 2 UCLA (20-1), 18-12, on Sunday at the Spieker Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
[VB] Cal Falls In Four At NC State
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/2/volleyball-cal-falls-in-four-at-nc-state.aspx
RALEIGH, N.C. – The California volleyball team won its first set against NC State on Sunday but dropped the next three as the Wolfpack (11-11, 4-8 ACC) took down the Golden Bears (6-16, 3-9) 20-25, 28-26, 25-19, 25-19 at Reynolds Coliseum.
[FB] Postgame Notes: No. 15 Virginia 31, California 21
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/1/football-postgame-notes-no-15-virginia-31-california-21.aspx
Today's game was the first meeting ever between Cal and Virginia.
RB Kendrick Raphael scored three touchdowns for the second consecutive week, rushing for a pair of scores while catching his first career touchdown pass as well. Kendrick has at least one rushing touchdown in each of Cal's last five games and a total of nine over the past five contests. Raphael finished with 13 rushes for 46 yards as well as career highs of four receptions and 66 yards receiving.
[MPOLO] Bears Suffer Defeat To Top-Ranked Trojans
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/1/mens-water-polo-bears-suffer-defeat-to-top-ranked-trojans.aspx
LOS ANGELES – The No. 4 California men's water polo team (14-4) dropped a road contest to No. 1 USC (16-2), 12-9, on Saturday at Uytengsu Aquatics Center in Los Angeles.
[WBB] Cal Tips 2025-26 Season In Paris Against No. 19 Vanderbilt
https://calbears.com/news/2025/11/1/womens-basketball-cal-tips-2025-26-season-in-paris-against-no-19-vanderbilt.aspx
The California women's basketball team officially opens its 2025-26 season on the world stage as it faces No. 19 Vanderbilt in the Oui-Play event in Paris at Adidas Arena on Monday at 11:30 a.m. PT.
I am interested to see the Puff Morris debut. I expect she can score, but how well will the offense develop with this roster; the Bears need a true point guard, able skillfully to distribute the rock to multiple 3-point shooters.
PRO
Warriors blow lead (Fri night) in Indi.
i was scoreboard watching while watching WS. i saw that Ws were up 7 points or so w/ just a few minutes left. when i checked the final score the Pacers had won by 5.
Warriors stumble against shorthanded Pacers
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/warriors-scores-results/104635/warriors-pacers-steph-curry-pascal-siakam-aaron-nesmith
The lone silver lining to come from the Golden State Warriors bite-sized road trip is this: it’s over. Two days after losing by 10 to a Milwaukee Bucks team that was playing with Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Dubs stumbled late in the fourth quarter and loss to a woefully shorthanded Indiana Pacers team in search of their first win of the season.
After Indiana trailed by as many as 11 points in the fourth quarter, Jackson's 3-pointer with 1:09 left gave the Pacers a 109-107 lead. Butler dunked to tie the score at 109-all, but he failed to convert a three-point play.
https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401809999
WORLD SERIES
Championship parade going on right now.
GBBR
remind what that means? or link to DBD glossary ...
Go Blue, Boo Rishi
EDIT: weird that I remember that, at all.
Apparently Rishi showed up either at the tailgate or the one next door. GO took a picture and I think Rishi noticed the CGB guys and left.
Newest DBD dictionary.
https://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/f/2014/9/16/6282461/dbd-9-17-2014-dbd-dictionary-again
this was the key explanation that i was missing. that Rishi is a Giants fan.
A exclamation to show support for the Dodgers baseball club, while deriding the Giants baseball club (of whom Rishi is a fan).
GRBB
Will Smith home run completes Dodgers Game 7 comeback to win another World Series
https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/107051/dodgers-world-series-will-smith-yoshinobu-yamamoto-game-7
Will Smith caught more innings than any other catcher in a single World Series, and his 11th-inning home run gave the Dodgers their first lead of Game 7, and clinched a second straight championship with a 5-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday night and into Sunday morning at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
If the Dodgers are bad for baseball, why was the World Series so much fun?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/02/los-angeles-dodgers-world-series-payroll?CMP=share_btn_url
Aunicorn led off the game with a single and then trotted out to the mound to pitch the bottom of the first. Another pitcher won Games 2, 6, and 7 of the World Series, throwing 17.2 innings along the way. A catcher set a record, squatting behind the plate for 74 Fall Classic frames and ultimately ended the series by hitting the final go-ahead home run.
Just as everyone feared or sneered, the Los Angeles Dodgers are champions. Again. In what some forecasted as a harbinger of doom, the sinister strategy of employing the best baseball player on the planet along with a generous number of his nearly equal peers proved effective. It’s not fair, some people will say in the coming months about the fact that the team broadly believed to be the best ultimately won it all.
Dodgers win WS after an amazing back-n-forth game 7. i think even the haters and casual fans were happy w/ the way the series played out.
Hater here: can confirm; that was an absolute classic
Great series, shame the evil team won.
which team is more evil? Yankees or Dodgers? since they were in the WS last year.
i imagine most would say Yankees ..
Dodgers. The most evil teams are those in the largest media markets - Yankees and Dodgers. Each of those teams have a hapless foil in the same market (Mets and Angels).
Rinse and repeat with Chicago and until last year, the Bay Area. Just another reason to despise John Fisher.
Most people would still say Yankees, but the Dodgers are on their corner now.
For this Giants fan, it was an amazing World Series. Really, it doesn't get much better than Game 7. I only wish that Toronto had defeated the Dodgers.
Yamamoto was insane. How is that possible?
He was amazing. This ESPN article on what led up to game 7 has a background on his trainer. No weights. Sounds like lots of core strength and flexibility.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46813024/world-series-2025-clinching-night-mlb-champions-clinching-night-yamamoto
i liked how much of Japanese success is based on age-old principles and teachings that are pretty simple
I am no athlete, but whenever I go to Tokyo, I get a massage therapy to fix my body. I don't really know what it means, but my therapist says all of his techniques are the teachings of samurai medicine.
Yada ends every post on the website with the same two sentences: "I hope you have a good day today. Don't forget your childhood and pursue your dreams!"
Yamamoto said he wanted to pitch but he had no confidence if he could really pitch. He asked his trainer to make it possible and Yada did. He calls Yada "sensei" which means teacher.
It also showed how Roberts had zero trust in the relievers.
POLITICS
[CNN.com] Worst weekend for air traffic controller staffing since start of shutdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/us/worst-weekend-air-traffic-control-staff-hnk
Flight delays linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown continue, with this past weekend marking the worst for air traffic control staffing shortages since the shutdown began, according to a CNN analysis of Federal Aviation Administration operations plans.
Between Friday morning and Sunday night, there were 98 “staffing trigger” reports at FAA facilities, meaning air traffic controllers had to alter operations to keep the airspace safe with fewer people working.
The alterations can include rerouting planes or delaying flights when there are not enough controllers to handle the normal workload.
COMMENTARY: this is only going to get worse before it gets better. And another source (www.rawstory.com) reports that Duffy threatened to "shut the whole thing down" referring to commercial air traffic.
There is no plan other than to terrorize people with dire consequences. Sounds a lot like, "The beatings will cease when morale improves!"
I'm assuming they'll figure something out by Thanksgiving weekend, otherwise that travel is going to be bad.
Holiday travel is not the thing you want to have being a clusterf**k because there are no air traffic controllers. It's one thing if it's the airlines screwing up: that's expected. But delays or cancellations because of a lack of ATC staff brought on failure to pay them? Very bad idea.
I've got to fly to Lisbon the Mon after Thanksgiving and No 2 is leaving Tues morning. I'm wondering if my flight is going to get screwed up. I may try to fly through Toronto instead of EWR or IAD.
Maybe we'll know in short order if that will be the case. I wish you luck and hope your travel plans are not disrupted.
Yeah me too. Usually I leave a day earlier so that I have a day buffer for travel issues and also sightsee. But I wasn't about to leave on Sun after thanksgiving.
WEIRD FRUIT
the custard apple and chikoo are 2 things also that i had while spending summers in India while growing up. i didnt know the English words for them until much later.
turns out that chikoo are so exotic that the English word is chikoo.
Mangosteen are delicious, although the texture is not amazing.
I only wanted comment that there is a car not far from Casa de Slug that has a license plate that reads - 8 DURIAN. I see it often when out for a walk with our dogs.
I've tried it once. I thought I might be able to eat it but I had to spit it out. The combination of the horrible smell and the texture (maybe like raw chicken) was a no go. Almost 30 years ago a coworker bought one from Oakland Chinatown and brought it into work. The Indonesian boss and a different coworker had gone to Indonesia for a business trip and they had it. The boss has always loved it but the different coworker, who is white, had never had it but ended up loving it so someone bought one for all of us to try. I just couldn't do it.
we used to eat something similar to durian in India but everyone called it jackfruit. when i had jackfruit in Vietnam, it was perfectly fine.
so now i am thinking that it was durian all along in India.