Hey, Dikshit. You destroyed your career and face up to 40 years in prison for insider information that only netted you $450k. No, really... they guy's name really is Dikshit.
My brother told me about this not long ago. I guess it's about ten miles from his condo. There's a parking lot nearby that my brother said he uses when they go snorkeling. Can't see the Bezos house because it's behind a wall.
No matter how often I've seen a SpaceX launch, I still watch them when it pops up on my youtube feed. I'm still amazed every time that they can get the first stage to hit a postage stamp in the ocean hundreds of miles away. I also love to watch the starship attempts.
Both grandfathers, grandma, and uncle were in the navy. One other uncle and one of his 3 sons served in the army. A good friend from HS joined the army and another high school friend and high school baseball teammate joined the navy.
I thought about it for about 5 minutes in high school. I graduated HS in 2000 so if i did join I probably would have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
My uncle - the slick one who gambled and always had get-rich-quick schemes - claimed he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam. I found his discharge papers. He was a quartermaster. He recently died. His sister-in-law (my aunt) thinks he went to Costa Rica to fake his death to get loan sharks off his back. While I don't believe her, I wouldn't say it is not possible.
Military service used to be compulsory in Taiwan, so my dad and almost all of my male relatives served for varying stretches of time. The veterans of the American military that I know are mostly Air Force.
Took the Traveling V there last summer on the Coast to COVID...despite being a sugar faced, 13 year old senior vizsla at the time, she traversed the rocks incredibly well and I snapped a solid pic of her at the iconic spot on the water, with the lighthouse in the background.
Like most National Parks, it is incredibly pretty, tho as a native Californian, I prefer the majesty of the parks west of the Mississippi...Yosemite & Yellowstone, of course, but Crater Lake, Lassen and Rocky Mountain, Canyonlands, etc....Acadia just can't compete with that!! ;-)
Lunenberg - a quaint little town just south of Halifax where we stayed for a week working remotely after the bike trip. great food, people, chill vibe https://goo.gl/photos/FZJp1x6HrsGE1nPp8
Maine - Acadia NP is very small and very bisy but a very nice little spot and great place to get lobster rolls
My mother in law's summer place is about 30 miles from Acadia as the crow flies and about a 90 minute drive - turns out "you can't get there from here" isn't just a joke in Maine.
A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. Though the choice was criticized, it became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and remains one of his most popular and enduring works.
Acadia was the former French colony that included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI), plus parts of Maine and Quebec. The residents were mostly dirt-poor farmers from central-southern France, which made them culturally different than neighboring colonies - especially the Puritans to the south.
The Seven Years war broke out - which spilled over into the New World as the "French and Indian War". 270 British Redcoats plus 2,000 New England militia attacked Fort Beauséjour, which was right across the border from Fort Lawrence. The fort was defended by 162 French Marines and 300 Acadian militia.
The British used the Acadians defense of the fort as an excuse to deport all they could catch. They caught about 11k of the 14k, leaving only 2,600 remaining residents in the entire colony. The vast majority of those who were deported were sent to New England, with one third being sent to England and France. About half died in transit.
The French gave the territory of Louisiana to Spain after the 7 Years War and it remained Spanish for four decades. The Spanish governor of encouraged the immigration of the deported Acadians. About 2k Acadians took him up on that offer, settling mostly nearly Louisiana. So Louisiana has it French, Creole (mix of west African, French, Spanish, and indigenous), and the tiny population of culturally Southern French from Acadia. People from Acadia (French: Acadie, noun: Acadien)
I like learning about how to distinguish Cajun from Creole for Louisiana. Some rules of thumb I've seen are "if it has tomatoes, it is Creole, if it doesn't, it might be Cajun" and "Creoles cook three chickens for one family and Cajuns cook one chicken for three families."
Obviously, I have no idea if they are true or not, but they are interesting to think about.
For me the most memorable joke that I ever read in the Heuristic Squelch had to do with Hole. It was the era of constant Top Ten lists (from David Letterman) - i have like 10 Cal top ten list tees.
Anyways it was top ten reasons Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
and the number 1 reason was
Wife's Hole too popular.
Woof. But 27 years on its the one Squelch joke I remember.
At the time I wondered if I took a dislike to her because I was being sexist about how women in public should behave, but as far as I can tell she is disagreeable by any standard.
Vegetarian nachos for lunch. Chips, cheese, Impossible Meat made into taco "meat", vegetarian refried bean, pickled jalapenos, sour cream, salsa. Could be the unhealthiest vegetarian food I've ever had, but quite delicious.
Last night had the favorite of the three new vegetarian dishes my wife has added to the rotation. Indian spiced roasted cauliflower, chickpeas, orange bell peppers & onions served over pearl couscous with yogurt and cilantro chutney (spicy!) on the side.
Reached for the trusty Riesling to tame this spicy beast.
I wrote the Acadia post because I'm making Jambalaya for dinner. I've prepped the homemade chicken broth and have fresh local NC shrimp. I knew that my wife's mother's family was ethnically French from "Acadia" and spoke French. So I called my MiL this morning. I found out that she's not Acadian. She's Northern French (Champagne) and her family emigrated from France to Canada not too long ago.
This movie needs to be remade, but as Brewster's Billions. The old premise now seems quaint based on current prices.
"A minor league baseball player has to spend $30 million in thirty days, in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity or tell anyone about the deal."
My friend (who got me to watch Dune, is into Foundation) – that I'm been pestering about For All Mankind for months – finally started watching it. He just wrote: "I have to say I’m really hooked. Not so interested in Foundation anymore…!"
After he watched S1E1 the other day, he wrote, "Sorta makes me wish [Ronald D] Moore was doing Foundation."
it is verklempt-y at points! [Side note, I was about to put in Hole thread something about Donut Holes not being Holes or xxx, but couldn't come up with the xxx (since they are donuts)]
I won't ask which scenes, since don't want to spoil anything for anyone. But the various rescue scenes are all edge-of-the-seat great!
I have rewatched S1E6 to E10, and S1E1 (since there's a fun call back in S2E1), but not S1E2 to S1E5. Was good seeing this, and thinking about what happens to the various characters in the hallway.
I'll need to do a run thru S1 at some point, but ATV+ has too much interesting new stuff. Tonight is new Foundation, Invasion, Acapulco, and S3 of Dickinson! At least there's no Dubs tonight...those make Thursday night "which show to watch" decisions harder :-)
Did he have the same lawyer as Rittenhouse? (I didn't actually watch the Rittenhouse testimony video but saw a reddit video intro without sound and assumed he was crying because he was sorry).
I’ve probably mentioned that my wife has been volunteering at county vaccination clinics. Someone asked her at a recent one if she’d had a booster shot and she said no, she didn’t think she had any of the intervening conditions that merited it. The reply was “so you don’t think that working in these clinics with the general public makes you a health care worker?”
49ers part ways with promising and perpetually injured Jalen Hurd. This is the part of the story just before he signs with another team and becomes an All Pro.
Darnold's 2021 season is my golf game in a nutshell...a barely average player starts hot early before muscle memory takes over in the form of poor fundamentals....then, after the slightest bit of adversity, the really bad old habits come back and the wheels rapidly come completely off the wagon, so much so that I sometimes don't even finish the round.
I remade my golf swing over the summer, but due to injuries, travel and just laziness haven't been to the range in a month. Let's see how the swing holds up. My golf teacher quit her job and is teaching at a much closer range to my house - I promised I'd take her to play before I leave so I better get to practicing.
Sometimes all you need is a little bit of vengeance to get you going. That certainly seemed to be the case for Andrew Wiggins, who had his best game of the season — by far — on Wednesday night, leading the Golden State Warriors past the Minnesota Timberwolves 123-110 for their tenth win of the season.
It was clear from the opening tip that Wiggins was out for blood, whether because he wanted to make a point to the team that he started his career with, or simply because it was a good night for a scoring explosion.
Wiggins scored the Warriors’ first seven points of the game, and he was only just getting started. The scoring brilliance continued for a truly perfect half: 22 points on 9-for-9 shooting, including 2-for-2 from both the three-point line and the free throw line.
I saw some of the first Q and last half of the 4th. (Tried to play BB for the first time since Covid since our pickup game group restarted and hurt my heel 4 min in. I think it's Plantar Faciitis. Can't put any weight on my foot. It was on and off aching during the summer and I thought it got better.). Anyways, I saw Wiggins' putback dunk. If my foot weren't hurt I would've jumped out of my seat.
I think that it'd be worth setting up a keyboard shortcut for "you could just see the Warriors just having a ton of fun .." since you could type that after almost every game...
Jokes aside, I think this is a good hire for UConn. He has both NFL and CFB HC experience, seemed like a decent recruiter while at ucla, and UConn needed someone with a bit of a name to get people interested in them again.
What sucks, at least for watching punts, is the rugby style punting. Is that because the punters aren't as good and can't consistently get good hang time, or is it because that's how the coaches want it done? I couldn't imagine having Anger or even Nick Harris do a rugby style punt.
I think its more likely he leaves for a place that overall has their act more buttoned up than Cal (which is any place in the CFB world) than Cal tells him to leave. He's probably the main reason it hasn't been worse.
While he may be on their list, I'm still skeptical that he's at the top of it, but were he to get it, he would definitely get UW back on track. Again, contrary to what GEAT may think, I do not want Wilcox fired....I just don't think he can fully succeed with his style of play with the players he can get at Cal.
At UW, he'd have more talented kids that make the individual plays needed to win the close games that is his style. He's a good coach, just maybe not for Cal? Dunno.
People who want Wilcox fired are naïve that we can get anyone better and ignores the blazingly obvious that it can - and frequently does - get much worse. Since Pappy Waldorf, Wilcox is tied for second for bowls per season. He's a half standard deviation above average in winning percentage for Cal. In terms of what we can attract and what we can afford, Wilcox is absolutely the guy I want. He may not be perfect or even a top quartile Pac-12 coach, but he values academics, sets the right tone for the program, and punches above his weight for attracting assistant coaches.
Uber Eats gets into the diaper business. So... Uber Shits?
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/uber-eats-gets-into-the-diaper-delivery-business/
Superduper Uber pooper scooper
Poo-ber
Hey, Dikshit. You destroyed your career and face up to 40 years in prison for insider information that only netted you $450k. No, really... they guy's name really is Dikshit.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/10/mckinsey-partner-charged-with-insider-trading-tied-to-goldman-sachs-acquisition-of-greensky.html
Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel
Dr. Evil buys site for his island headquarters
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Maui-Wowie-Jeff-Bezos-Reportedly-Buys-78M-16596404.php
Well it's not like he bought the whole island a la Ellison and Lanai
My brother told me about this not long ago. I guess it's about ten miles from his condo. There's a parking lot nearby that my brother said he uses when they go snorkeling. Can't see the Bezos house because it's behind a wall.
DBD space
No matter how often I've seen a SpaceX launch, I still watch them when it pops up on my youtube feed. I'm still amazed every time that they can get the first stage to hit a postage stamp in the ocean hundreds of miles away. I also love to watch the starship attempts.
they have these well known formulas that calculate parabolic trajectories of things. i think you learn them in physics..
that being said, i find the guided missile stuff that can blow up a postage stamp on the other side of the world a lot more impressive.
True there are parabolic trajectories, but they still have to fire the thrusters which changes the trajectories.
NYC - formerly known as the city that never sleeps.
times have changed and coronavirus hangover still lingers.
went out w/ friends on Tue night. some popular places were bustling around 900p.
by midnight everything was empty.
we tried to find a place to eat and drink at 1130p and NOTHING was open.
had to settle for a slice of pizza at the corner ...
IMO, a life where I'm eating a slice of pizza at 11:30 at night isn't really settling.
What if it's Blondie's and there's a layer of pepperoni grease 2cm deep? Yeah, thqt's still ok I guess.
Veterans day - Armistice day
Both grandfathers, grandma, and uncle were in the navy. One other uncle and one of his 3 sons served in the army. A good friend from HS joined the army and another high school friend and high school baseball teammate joined the navy.
I thought about it for about 5 minutes in high school. I graduated HS in 2000 so if i did join I probably would have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan.
No 1's bday. All 3 kids were born on holidays. No 2 on Halloween. No 3 on Indiginous People's day.
Remarably tight grouping. All within 4-5 weeks of each other.
I mean it's kinda cold in Jan/Feb
So I noticed.
i only know one. a guy from IU who was a tailgunner for the air force on one of the bombers (not sure which war ..)
My uncle - the slick one who gambled and always had get-rich-quick schemes - claimed he was a helicopter gunner in Vietnam. I found his discharge papers. He was a quartermaster. He recently died. His sister-in-law (my aunt) thinks he went to Costa Rica to fake his death to get loan sharks off his back. While I don't believe her, I wouldn't say it is not possible.
Wow...sounds like a guy with a lot of stories.
Most of my dad's cousins are veterans although none went to war (Korea). My mother's brother also served in the Army but did not go to Vietnam.
As far as I know, none of my generation in my family served.
The younger of my brothers wasn't academically inclined so did three years in the Navy while he sorted out what was next.
Military service used to be compulsory in Taiwan, so my dad and almost all of my male relatives served for varying stretches of time. The veterans of the American military that I know are mostly Air Force.
Acadia
Took the Traveling V there last summer on the Coast to COVID...despite being a sugar faced, 13 year old senior vizsla at the time, she traversed the rocks incredibly well and I snapped a solid pic of her at the iconic spot on the water, with the lighthouse in the background.
Like most National Parks, it is incredibly pretty, tho as a native Californian, I prefer the majesty of the parks west of the Mississippi...Yosemite & Yellowstone, of course, but Crater Lake, Lassen and Rocky Mountain, Canyonlands, etc....Acadia just can't compete with that!! ;-)
is a place i have been to more than average
Cape Breton Island - one of the most scenic 200 mile of road anywhere. we did a 5 day bike trip staying at local inns along the way.
https://goo.gl/photos/XTjt8hL4baNK5bZv9
Lunenberg - a quaint little town just south of Halifax where we stayed for a week working remotely after the bike trip. great food, people, chill vibe https://goo.gl/photos/FZJp1x6HrsGE1nPp8
Maine - Acadia NP is very small and very bisy but a very nice little spot and great place to get lobster rolls
My mother in law's summer place is about 30 miles from Acadia as the crow flies and about a 90 minute drive - turns out "you can't get there from here" isn't just a joke in Maine.
Evangeline is a long and beautiful poem ..
definitely worth reading if you like this thread of history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeline
A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. Though the choice was criticized, it became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and remains one of his most popular and enduring works.
Acadia was the former French colony that included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI), plus parts of Maine and Quebec. The residents were mostly dirt-poor farmers from central-southern France, which made them culturally different than neighboring colonies - especially the Puritans to the south.
The Seven Years war broke out - which spilled over into the New World as the "French and Indian War". 270 British Redcoats plus 2,000 New England militia attacked Fort Beauséjour, which was right across the border from Fort Lawrence. The fort was defended by 162 French Marines and 300 Acadian militia.
The British used the Acadians defense of the fort as an excuse to deport all they could catch. They caught about 11k of the 14k, leaving only 2,600 remaining residents in the entire colony. The vast majority of those who were deported were sent to New England, with one third being sent to England and France. About half died in transit.
The French gave the territory of Louisiana to Spain after the 7 Years War and it remained Spanish for four decades. The Spanish governor of encouraged the immigration of the deported Acadians. About 2k Acadians took him up on that offer, settling mostly nearly Louisiana. So Louisiana has it French, Creole (mix of west African, French, Spanish, and indigenous), and the tiny population of culturally Southern French from Acadia. People from Acadia (French: Acadie, noun: Acadien)
"Acadien" evolved into "Cajun" in English.
I like learning about how to distinguish Cajun from Creole for Louisiana. Some rules of thumb I've seen are "if it has tomatoes, it is Creole, if it doesn't, it might be Cajun" and "Creoles cook three chickens for one family and Cajuns cook one chicken for three families."
Obviously, I have no idea if they are true or not, but they are interesting to think about.
i have this book on my shelf but have not yet read much of it.
A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/604787
Just some casual ethnic cleansing between neighbors, as one does
Hole
Hole Mole
https://holemole.com/
Hole and Courtney Love are both threads? Coincidence? Or subtlety?
The photo is of a physical hole. The lyrics are from a Hole song.
Blue...
A beautiful, yet dangerous dive site in Dahab, Egypt.
Jackson ..
still on the list of places i have never skied but very high on the list. maybe this year if the fates align ..
For me the most memorable joke that I ever read in the Heuristic Squelch had to do with Hole. It was the era of constant Top Ten lists (from David Letterman) - i have like 10 Cal top ten list tees.
Anyways it was top ten reasons Kurt Cobain committed suicide.
and the number 1 reason was
Wife's Hole too popular.
Woof. But 27 years on its the one Squelch joke I remember.
What was #2 because I seem to remember #2 was frequently the best.
That is the extent of content I remember from the Squelch.
Heuristic Squelch
Now that's a name that I've not heard in a long time... a long time.
Also Live Through This and Celebrity Skin are great great grunge era albums.
Courtney Love
TIL: Courtney Love briefly was the singer for Faith No More.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_No_More
Which circles back to dongs (RHCP headlining a gig at The Stone with Fishbone FNM)
At the time I wondered if I took a dislike to her because I was being sexist about how women in public should behave, but as far as I can tell she is disagreeable by any standard.
DBD Test Kitchen
Vegetarian nachos for lunch. Chips, cheese, Impossible Meat made into taco "meat", vegetarian refried bean, pickled jalapenos, sour cream, salsa. Could be the unhealthiest vegetarian food I've ever had, but quite delicious.
Last night had the favorite of the three new vegetarian dishes my wife has added to the rotation. Indian spiced roasted cauliflower, chickpeas, orange bell peppers & onions served over pearl couscous with yogurt and cilantro chutney (spicy!) on the side.
Reached for the trusty Riesling to tame this spicy beast.
I wrote the Acadia post because I'm making Jambalaya for dinner. I've prepped the homemade chicken broth and have fresh local NC shrimp. I knew that my wife's mother's family was ethnically French from "Acadia" and spoke French. So I called my MiL this morning. I found out that she's not Acadian. She's Northern French (Champagne) and her family emigrated from France to Canada not too long ago.
Do you ever put crab in your Jambalaya, SGB?
Naaaaaaaaani-kaaaaaa?
Crab in Jambalaya sounds amazing.
I threw it in my sausage/shrimp/chicken gumbo last time out & loved it....will try in my next jambalaya as well
I defrosted a 10 pound pinchana but alas now I have 10 pounds of steak to eat in a week
I heard you were shooting for PRs in your squats. The timing seems serendipitous.
According to Steak School, shouldn't be larger than 2 1/4 - 3 1/3 pounds
Steak School didn't get the big hunk of meat I had in my fridge I guess.
no size shaming please
Heh, had the look that cut up, apparently it's Brazilian.
Gotcha. Terence got a Brazilian, but aims to be sporting nothing by next week.
picanha?
pichanha. I can't spell. Much less in Portuguese.
picanha.
TIL what pinchana is ..
Everyday on the DBD is a TIL for me!
challenge accepted!
Exactly....it's a strange, carnivorous take on Brewster's Millions.....
This movie needs to be remade, but as Brewster's Billions. The old premise now seems quaint based on current prices.
"A minor league baseball player has to spend $30 million in thirty days, in order to inherit $300 million. However, he's not allowed to own any assets, destroy the money, gift it, give it to charity or tell anyone about the deal."
Right!!!! $30 million in 30 days...we could bang that out in half the time!!!
That story only works in the Depression...
The original (?) version of the movie was released in 1921 and starred Fatty Arbuckle in the lead role. 1921 would be Roaring 20s, would it not?
DBD AV Club
My friend (who got me to watch Dune, is into Foundation) – that I'm been pestering about For All Mankind for months – finally started watching it. He just wrote: "I have to say I’m really hooked. Not so interested in Foundation anymore…!"
After he watched S1E1 the other day, he wrote, "Sorta makes me wish [Ronald D] Moore was doing Foundation."
Also, finished the first season of "For All Mankind" got a bit verklempt at some moments. Great show.
it is verklempt-y at points! [Side note, I was about to put in Hole thread something about Donut Holes not being Holes or xxx, but couldn't come up with the xxx (since they are donuts)]
I won't ask which scenes, since don't want to spoil anything for anyone. But the various rescue scenes are all edge-of-the-seat great!
Aforementioned buddy sent me this link yesterday
https://youtu.be/fC-thtD75Qk
I have rewatched S1E6 to E10, and S1E1 (since there's a fun call back in S2E1), but not S1E2 to S1E5. Was good seeing this, and thinking about what happens to the various characters in the hallway.
I'll need to do a run thru S1 at some point, but ATV+ has too much interesting new stuff. Tonight is new Foundation, Invasion, Acapulco, and S3 of Dickinson! At least there's no Dubs tonight...those make Thursday night "which show to watch" decisions harder :-)
eh - he wouldn't have helped that much, the problem with Foundation is a book that never called out to be turned into a visual format.
Our Crumbling Democracy
Guy who punched cop on 1/6 pleads guilty.
✅ Says sorry to everyone and their cousin
❎ Says committed to being better
✅ Says "that's not me"
https://abc7ny.com/scott-fairlamb-capitol-riot-trump-police-officer/11220277/
Did he have the same lawyer as Rittenhouse? (I didn't actually watch the Rittenhouse testimony video but saw a reddit video intro without sound and assumed he was crying because he was sorry).
Donald Trump violates the Logan Act
https://twitter.com/freedlander/status/1458820015394861060
Michigan AG has to apologize because she's not an alcoholic
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10189285/Michigan-AG-says-drank-football-tailgate.html
[USA/Suffolk Univ. Poll] Kamala Harris approval rating: 28%.
Mega-oof. Welcome back, President Trump.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/580857-at-28-percent-approval-say-goodbye-to-kamala-harris-being-plan-b-to-an
Today in Covid 19
Just got my moderna booster at my local Target. I originally got JJ.
No, was I supposed to?
Damn it and I did end up spending $75 on that Target run and done.
I’ve probably mentioned that my wife has been volunteering at county vaccination clinics. Someone asked her at a recent one if she’d had a booster shot and she said no, she didn’t think she had any of the intervening conditions that merited it. The reply was “so you don’t think that working in these clinics with the general public makes you a health care worker?”
She got the booster.
Pro
49ers part ways with promising and perpetually injured Jalen Hurd. This is the part of the story just before he signs with another team and becomes an All Pro.
https://www.49ers.com/news/49ers-waive-wr-jalen-hurd-sign-two-to-practice-squad
OBJ to Rams
Cam Newton back in Carolina.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article255722441.html
Sam Darnold is bad.
Darnold's 2021 season is my golf game in a nutshell...a barely average player starts hot early before muscle memory takes over in the form of poor fundamentals....then, after the slightest bit of adversity, the really bad old habits come back and the wheels rapidly come completely off the wagon, so much so that I sometimes don't even finish the round.
I remade my golf swing over the summer, but due to injuries, travel and just laziness haven't been to the range in a month. Let's see how the swing holds up. My golf teacher quit her job and is teaching at a much closer range to my house - I promised I'd take her to play before I leave so I better get to practicing.
Andrew Wiggins torments his old team with a scoring explosion
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2021/11/10/22775721/warriors-wolves-recap-andrew-wiggins-steph-curry
Sometimes all you need is a little bit of vengeance to get you going. That certainly seemed to be the case for Andrew Wiggins, who had his best game of the season — by far — on Wednesday night, leading the Golden State Warriors past the Minnesota Timberwolves 123-110 for their tenth win of the season.
It was clear from the opening tip that Wiggins was out for blood, whether because he wanted to make a point to the team that he started his career with, or simply because it was a good night for a scoring explosion.
Wiggins scored the Warriors’ first seven points of the game, and he was only just getting started. The scoring brilliance continued for a truly perfect half: 22 points on 9-for-9 shooting, including 2-for-2 from both the three-point line and the free throw line.
I saw some of the first Q and last half of the 4th. (Tried to play BB for the first time since Covid since our pickup game group restarted and hurt my heel 4 min in. I think it's Plantar Faciitis. Can't put any weight on my foot. It was on and off aching during the summer and I thought it got better.). Anyways, I saw Wiggins' putback dunk. If my foot weren't hurt I would've jumped out of my seat.
https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1458668486725488640?s=20
his duuk over KAT in the first half was fun to watch. you could just see the Warriors just having a ton of fun ..
I think that it'd be worth setting up a keyboard shortcut for "you could just see the Warriors just having a ton of fun .." since you could type that after almost every game...
It's been a lot of fun so far, I'm excited to see this team progress
Other College
UC Riverside inbounds ball trailing ASU by 2 with 2 seconds left.
https://twitter.com/DougHaller/status/1459000839196921857
https://twitter.com/NCAABuzzerBters/status/1459001192265117699
Bonus: watch again several times to see the universal surrender cobras in the background and foreground.
UConn hires Jim Mora
Jokes aside, I think this is a good hire for UConn. He has both NFL and CFB HC experience, seemed like a decent recruiter while at ucla, and UConn needed someone with a bit of a name to get people interested in them again.
The good news for him is that literally anything would be an improvement.
Good thing they won't have to worry about PLAYOFFS!! Don't talk about Playoffs
A good article about the nation's top punter
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32591242/why-college-football-see-attraction-punter-san-diego-state
Conference of Punting. Three Pac-12 punters are in the top seven. Cal's Sheahan in the middle.
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/17
The Big Ten might actually be the conference of punting. Half of the semifinalists for the Ray Guy Award are in that conference.
https://saturdaytradition.com/big-ten-football/5-b1g-punters-named-semifinalists-for-ray-guy-award/
We have not had a good punter since Anger
What sucks, at least for watching punts, is the rugby style punting. Is that because the punters aren't as good and can't consistently get good hang time, or is it because that's how the coaches want it done? I couldn't imagine having Anger or even Nick Harris do a rugby style punt.
I'm all for good rugby punting. Tom Hackett's highlight videos from Utah still amaze me.
Cal
[ESPN]: Wilcox says Cal followed protocols
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32602200/california-golden-bears-football-coach-justin-wilcox-says-team-followed-covid-19-protocols
bullshit
Is Wilcox' seat getting warmer because of the debacle?
I think its more likely he leaves for a place that overall has their act more buttoned up than Cal (which is any place in the CFB world) than Cal tells him to leave. He's probably the main reason it hasn't been worse.
I don't see any reason why he wouldn't absolutely jump at the UW job
While he may be on their list, I'm still skeptical that he's at the top of it, but were he to get it, he would definitely get UW back on track. Again, contrary to what GEAT may think, I do not want Wilcox fired....I just don't think he can fully succeed with his style of play with the players he can get at Cal.
At UW, he'd have more talented kids that make the individual plays needed to win the close games that is his style. He's a good coach, just maybe not for Cal? Dunno.
People who want Wilcox fired are naïve that we can get anyone better and ignores the blazingly obvious that it can - and frequently does - get much worse. Since Pappy Waldorf, Wilcox is tied for second for bowls per season. He's a half standard deviation above average in winning percentage for Cal. In terms of what we can attract and what we can afford, Wilcox is absolutely the guy I want. He may not be perfect or even a top quartile Pac-12 coach, but he values academics, sets the right tone for the program, and punches above his weight for attracting assistant coaches.