I once called a secretary to make an appointment. She kept asking me my name, and I kept telling her, over and over. We finally figured out that we had the same name.
I met a couple recently that share the same first name. You could tell they were exhausted of running through the same story and getting the same reaction every time they have to introduce themselves. But not tired enough for one of them to adopt a nickname apparently.
At work, we have an Andrea married to an Andrew. The former goes by Andi; the latter, Andy. We also have another Andrea and two Andreases (as in, the individual is named Andreas, and there are two individuals)
Restaurant. I have mixed feelings. I haven't had anything there that I hated, but I also haven't had anything there that I loved. Cajun fries are a very good snack, though.
National Archives releases report saying that Trump sold favors to governments who paid by booking rooms at $10k/night. I mean, we already knew this, but still...
People have been skirting those foreign representative rules almost as long as they've been on paper, and I assume that will continue until there are meaningful penalties.
SCOTUS' temporary stay on J6C getting cell phone records for AZ GOP Chari Kelli Ward has dissolved. Naturally, Clarence Thomas opposes because his wife may be involved.
Chile's first lady/partner Irina Karamanos wants to eliminate the First Lady as an official office because the person isn't elected, doesn't necessarily have any qualifications to do important things, and is a Yankee tradition (thanks, Dolly Madison).
Plainly a lot of GOP leaders are ready to move on from Trump, but I'm not so sure they can dump him as long as his supporters are willing to donate money to Trump - he'll just emphasize "I'm the honest liar here" and people will double down. I know the GOP gets a lot of mileage out of billionaire money filtered through PACs and thinktanks and whatnot, but they have to be getting pissed about the amount of small donations being siphoned up by Trump.
Remember the Big Lie was born when trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz. Trump will claim voter fraud in the GQP primaries if he loses the nomination to Round Ron.
This election showed very clearly that Trumpism is not a good long-term strategy. You are bleeding voters from younger generations, and their numbers are only going to grow while your base shrinks.
But now their base is hooked on the Trump addiction and doesn't want to give it up. I don't see a way this doesn't end ugly.
The final competitive governorship election - Arizona - l looks like it is almost certainly going to the Democrats. Kari Lake's followers predictably react as such:
Looks like it will come down to the wire, but if there's someone to blame - it's Californian voters failing to carry districts that went for Biden may be the difference.
You don't blame Orange County for being red like they have been for as long as I can remember. You blame NY for screwing up their redistricting, and Florida for allowing DeSantis to carve up the blue districts to magically create 5 seats flipped out of nowhere.
I think we should make sure to allocate some blame to NY democratic party (Cuomo et al) for fucking up redistricting, they coughed up some seats they didn't have to.
The Oregon Democratic party gave away a seat that had been blue for 40 years, and may have given away the new district in the process. First, they Gerrymandered a district to Republican proof (they thought), and then torpedoed the multi-term incumbent that had considerable independent support and a lot of Republican support for being too willing to collaborate to get something done, and instead ran a extremist candidate that they thought had enough of the redistricted Californians to elect, who promptly lost badly.
The Washington Republican party returned the favor though, torpedoing a multi-term successful and bi-partisan supported incumbent who would have walked to victory because Trump wanted to punish her for voting for the impeachment. Instead of taking a guaranteed win, they ran an extremist candidate, against a Democrat that probably wouldn't have even run had they not torpedoed the incumbent. And the extremist got beat fairly soundly in a bright red district, turning it bright blue.
It was frustrating to watch both parties throw out actually effective representation for being successful at working to get actually beneficial to all work done, but there is some satisfaction to seeing this push for bizarre extremists (on both sides) getting rejected. Especially in an era where the prevailing attitude is the more extreme, the better, on both sides.
My Welsh is limited to mispronouncing “good morning” and “good afternoon” but in my defense we didn’t live there for very long and I was in the 4 - 5 age range
I think I was 5'10" when I was younger, probably closer now to 5'9" than 5'10". 2nd tallest in my family. No 2 is probably just shorter than me and No 3 is about 6'1". I just wanted one son to be taller than 6'. He was the longest when born. No 1 was the shortest at birth and is the shortest now, about 5'8".
But I'm taller than anyone I've even met or seen a photo of from my dad's side of the family except for 1 cousin who is the same size. And I'm one of the shorter men on my mom's very large in number and height side of the family, and barely taller than a lot of the women.
At five seven and a half I'm three inches shorter than my wife, an inch shorter than one daughter and two inches shorter than the other. I am taller than most cats, though.
My tallest was so close to 6' that when I asked at regular physicals it varied from 5-11 & 3/4 to sometimes 6'....I'd get "fussy" with the nurses about it and often after adjusting my posture, I could get a flush 6' pronouncement.
>60yrs it's been 5'11.5 at physicals. After two years of regular yoga, I recently got a 5'-11.75.
Based on feedback in grad school and since, I'm 5'7" physical but 5'11" audio volume in height. My real problem is when we have neighborhood gatherings and I get roped into a conversation with three guys in particular who are 6'2", 6'3", and 6'9" (wtf)
We had our annual Cajun Pirate Tiki party for the sailing club. Great gumbo, king cake and frozen hurricanes. Fun costumes and lots of bad karaoke. Checked the score around 9pm, chuckled and closed my ESPN app for the night
It was my daughters birthday party so I mostly just cleaned up after the party while occasionally checking the game cast on my phone and had the Oregon and UCLA games on TV.
Good (all gameday experiences are good), but cold. It was around 50 in Corvallis mid-afternoon, but down to the mid-40s by kickoff in Corvallis. By the end of the game, it was approaching freezing.
As Bears know, it was a better experience for Beavers, though having 6 key players get knocked out of the game with significant injuries put a bit of a damper on the fun.
Finally, as I posted elsewhere, I wanted to give a shout out to the great job the Cal Straw Hat band did. Despite being stuck in a far away and high corner due to the construction at Reser, and the somewhat less than stirring Bears performance on the field, they soldiered on admirably.
And then made the hike down for a post-game show with the OSUMB that far too few Beavers or Bears saw or heard, or would have, due to the cold that sent droves of fans from both sides to the parking lot way early. Which was too bad, it was a tremendous show, and a great show of sportsmanship. Kudos to the Cal band, and thanks for making the trip up.
Garbage time with 10:00 minutes in the Fourth, left the room to get ready for bed and heard my son say, “It’s over.” Gotta wonder why OSU did not roll up more points.
Listened to the first half with Starkey & Pawlawski while making dinner. Turned it off during dinner (I didn't want to expose my entire family to that abomination of a game). Checked gamecast from there on. Also texted with my friends during the game.
Watched the politicos for awhile as I had DVR'd the game. I was also grilling ribeye steaks so didn't hear anything til an alert on my phone said 24-7 Beavs. Didn't watch it save for tuning in briefly to see Cal miss a field goal. How appropriate.
I would say his career is probably done and he should retire but white men tend to always land on their feet, if not fail up in coaching so he will get a job as an OC somewhere.
I dunno, he is old and runs an old offense that didn’t work for shit at his last stop. Maybe he gets a gig somewhere but I would be surprised if it were as an OC of a Power5 school
Oregon might be looking for a new OC as rumors out there that ASU might hire their current OC. I highly recommend they hire Musgrave to replace their current OC if he goes to ASU, especially since Musgrave is from Oregon.
He’s going to have a hard time getting a job when employers Google his name and see the pic of him at the top of Avi’s article about his firing. That was the chef’s kiss there, a nice parting middle finger from the fan base that he fucked over
'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' is much more a parody of a biopic than an actual one, though it does contain a few scattered kernels of truth. A bit overlong, but everyone is very clearly enjoying themselves in it.
Agreed on all points. There were certain sequences that dragged a little bit but I think it's got the potential to be a new Spinal Tap, if not even better.
Also a great movie, but my impression right now is that it doesn't have the same cult following as Spinal Tap. Something that I could see Weird achieving.
I really liked it and they are bringing it back but it might be a long wait, I have read the second season won’t be ready for release until spring 2024.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix). I guess it was really well done because it pretty much achieved the book's goal - which is be really effing grim. Like, really really grim. Well done though. I can't tell if I enjoyed it because it was such a bummer.
I thought it was good though not a classic like the 1931 version which is one of the better screen adaptations of a great novel, right up there with Grapes of Wrath and A Clockwork Orange.
As does my wife. It was also the first movie I ever showed my older daughter that she did not like. Didn't show it to younger daughter, lesson learned,.
Hereditary…Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. It’s a 2018 movie by Ari Aster, the fella behind Midsommar.
I didn’t find Hereditary nearly as good…it started promising enough, but I felt it devolved into a confusing mess. Not even Flo Pugh could have saved it!!
Ari Aster certainly has a gift for writing/directing gut-wrenching family trauma. Toni Collette's reaction to the, uh, incident in the first half of the movie is masterfully acted.
Vandy earns their first SEC win since 2019 by defeating #24 Kentucky 24-21. The Commodores scored a TD shortly after completing an improbable 4-11 pass for 40 yards with less than 90 seconds to go.
Arizona [checks notes] beats UCLA in Pasadena 34-28. Jayden de Laura had a good game, overcoming Zach Charbonnet's 181 yards in rushing. DTR's rally is only inches off.
Between that and the Oregon-UW game, it was a thrilling 7 straight hours of Pac-12 football on Saturday night (let's forget any other games occurring during that window...)
I turned the game off relatively early because I was tired and assumed that UCLA would outlast the early Arizona push. Wrong! I assume that UCLA will turn around and improve their mood by beating SC next week in a game that will be short on defense.
The Pac-12 has completed its cannibalization of FBS caliber Championship teams. The Pac-12 schools torpedo each others chances. The solution: schedule late season patsies like Alabama does.
If you schedule heavy early, then you just blow each other out of the CFP water sooner, and tank ratings and attendance for late season games in the process. Those seem to be obvious drawbacks to the strategy,
that last 4th & 1 by Oregon - inside their own 40! with a freshman QB in shotgun! - was one the dumbest "fuck it let's go" calls I have seen in quite some time. And I do hate to see happy Huskies.
It was the latest in a very long list of examples of ludicrous game mis-managment that have happened all over the place this season.
All of these coaches have college degrees, and yet none of them have any grasp of any mathematical based concepts, like time, distance, or probability of success.
Such an odd game. Colorado being up 3 - 2 early on was comedy gold. I assume Colorado wore themselves out because a decent portion of those points for SC came from the backups and the kids, late on.
I’m surprised we don’t see more shootings at malls and airports.
Malls during the holiday season would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Airports during busy travel would also be an easy target and would majorly disrupt air travel as I am sure the airport would have to close, get everyone out and check for any shooters that might have made it through security. I always thought that would be an easy target for a terrorist.
Mercedes' George Russell was in the groove all weekend. After winning Saturday's sprint race, Russell secured pole position for today's Brazilian grand prix. And after a hard-fought battle with his own teammate Lewis Hamilton, Russell found himself crossing the finish line of a Formula 1 grand prix in first place for the first time in his young career.
Hamilton, who finished second, was pushing hard, trying to get his first GP victory of the season. However, Russell was able to hold him off and Hamilton was hugely supportive of his teammate and his team overall. “Congratulations to George. This just goes back to everyone back at the factory," he said.
While Russell started in pole position, the question leading up to the race was whether he be able to hold off Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who's already secured the 2022 driver's championship. Verstappen has been nigh unstoppable this season and he started from third on the grid in Brazil. He's already won GPs this season from worse starting positions. However, Verstappen and Hamilton collided in lap 7, which forced Verstappen to pit to change his broken front wing. That dropped him back to 17th and he then suffered a five second penalty for colliding with Hamilton. There was some debate as to whose fault the collision was but the race stewards seem to have thought it was Verstappen's fault. He ended up finishing in fifth.
Glad to hear about Russel's win. I've been very impressed by him every time I've watched him all season, and think he has a chance to have a very solid career.
And a little post race controversy as Max refused to give up position to Checo who’s fighting for 2nd in the drivers championship with LeClerc. Apparently Max refused as a sort of payback for Checo (his teammate) allegedly crashing on purpose in Monaco and thus ruining Max’s qualifying run. Checo went on to win Monaco.
I follow some folks on Insta who are big Max fans (mostly Dutch) and they were all like "dude WTF don't be an asshole" - Verstappen had left a lot of people thinking he had matured this year and it turns out he's still a whiny asshole, it's just that he's been a frontrunner.
the World Cup break has come just in time for disgruntled Everton supporters - kind of a limp performance losing 0 - 3 to... Bournemouth? (can't be bothered to look it up), with the players exchanging words with supporters afterward.
I always thought it was a little odd that schools advertise their professors to get you to go there but then when you show up most of the actual teaching is done by grad students for little to no pay. It’s a bit of a bait and switch, though most of the GSIs I had at Cal were just great.
No 3 heard a rumor that all dining halls, except for 1, will be closed at UCSC. So we loaded up on some food for him that will last him for most of the week.
That was my thought as well. I wonder if it's the students working there that are striking for support than the administration closing them down. Hopefully it's just a rumor.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Free Speech Movement. Numerology edition.
Last season was the first time the Bears won a Big Game in a year ending in 1 since 1951. Cal has not beaten Stanfurd in a year ending in 0 since 1980 and not beaten them in a year ending in 7 since 1967. The Bears have won Big Games ending in every other single digit numeral during this century.
Cal football trivia fun fact will appear daily during Big Game week.
[WXC] Cal's season ends as they race in the Women's D1 West Regional, coming in 23rd out of 35, 8th out of 9 Pac-12 teams. The Golden Bears have a young team.
K State does seems much better than the worst team in the B12, as the pre-season media poll pegged them. They play D, Nowell & Keyontae Johnson are solid, Tomlinson is kind of a freak, and the team is deep with skilled players. They won’t win the conference, but if THAT’S the worst squad the B12 has to offer, then look out.
Meanwhile, Cal remains unable to score the ball. If this team loses tomorrow at UC San Diego, Fox may not make it through the season. My fingers are crossed.
[VB] Bears take USC to five sets and unfortunately still lose. There are five matches left in the season and the Bears are 0-16 in conference. Fingers crossed that they can have more success.
[Diving] Cal men's diver Joshua Thai has a decent day at Trojan Diving Invitational, prevents the team from coming in dead last. Women's team comes in last.
I'd like to see Ott run out of the I-formation with a blocker ahead of him. Or some triple option plays run by Millner. The pro/empty set backfield is a recipe for disaster but we doggedly stuck to this FAIL formation all season.
Taylor Dome married Taylor Lautner of Twilight movie fame. They are now both named Taylor Lautner.
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1591842718367498243
I once called a secretary to make an appointment. She kept asking me my name, and I kept telling her, over and over. We finally figured out that we had the same name.
I met a couple recently that share the same first name. You could tell they were exhausted of running through the same story and getting the same reaction every time they have to introduce themselves. But not tired enough for one of them to adopt a nickname apparently.
My stepmother and I share the same name, same nicknames, different spellings - so that was fun.
At work, we have an Andrea married to an Andrew. The former goes by Andi; the latter, Andy. We also have another Andrea and two Andreases (as in, the individual is named Andreas, and there are two individuals)
I once had a dog sitter named Alexandra, who went by Alex and she was married to an Alex
Didn't MadBum date a MadBum in HS? I thought I remembered that story.
Don't know, but he is from rural NC after all.
we both got busy 😏
eventually stopped trying to coordinate a third date 🤕
Pottery
Used to go to one of those pottery painting places about once a year. Sort of a fun party thing.
Yes, quite a bit.
My parents were friends with a famous pottery creating family in England, I was friends with their communist son for the last year there.
Pigeon Forge
Barn
Lazy dog
Restaurant. I have mixed feelings. I haven't had anything there that I hated, but I also haven't had anything there that I loved. Cajun fries are a very good snack, though.
I’ve never been and doubt I will since one of my major pet peeves are dogs in restaurants.
This is how I feel about people who bring their kids to restaurants
My pet peeve is people who complain about people who bring their kids to restaurants
WhyNotBoth.gif
What if they were hard working dogs?
Terence and I go to their Tri-Valley location sometimes, if our favorite bar* is closed.
*Whole Foods Hot Bar
as jumped over by the quick brown fox
Our Crumbling Democracy
National Archives releases report saying that Trump sold favors to governments who paid by booking rooms at $10k/night. I mean, we already knew this, but still...
https://twitter.com/AmoneyResists/status/1592214663085031425
People have been skirting those foreign representative rules almost as long as they've been on paper, and I assume that will continue until there are meaningful penalties.
SCOTUS' temporary stay on J6C getting cell phone records for AZ GOP Chari Kelli Ward has dissolved. Naturally, Clarence Thomas opposes because his wife may be involved.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/supreme-court-allows-jan-6-committee-to-access-arizona-gop-chairs-phone-records-00066746
"Freedom Caucus" to challenge McCarthy's House Speakership. Jim Jordan is favored to be their man.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/14/house-gop-leadership-elections-2022-elections-00066664
Chile's first lady/partner Irina Karamanos wants to eliminate the First Lady as an official office because the person isn't elected, doesn't necessarily have any qualifications to do important things, and is a Yankee tradition (thanks, Dolly Madison).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/13/irina-karamanos-chile-first-lady/
Pence: Trump ‘endangered me and my family’
Is the blind loyalty to DJT over?
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/pence-trump-endangered-me-and-my-family-00066676
Look who found his balls
Mother must have given him the jar that she held his balls in for him to use again.
Plainly a lot of GOP leaders are ready to move on from Trump, but I'm not so sure they can dump him as long as his supporters are willing to donate money to Trump - he'll just emphasize "I'm the honest liar here" and people will double down. I know the GOP gets a lot of mileage out of billionaire money filtered through PACs and thinktanks and whatnot, but they have to be getting pissed about the amount of small donations being siphoned up by Trump.
Remember the Big Lie was born when trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz. Trump will claim voter fraud in the GQP primaries if he loses the nomination to Round Ron.
This election showed very clearly that Trumpism is not a good long-term strategy. You are bleeding voters from younger generations, and their numbers are only going to grow while your base shrinks.
But now their base is hooked on the Trump addiction and doesn't want to give it up. I don't see a way this doesn't end ugly.
The final competitive governorship election - Arizona - l looks like it is almost certainly going to the Democrats. Kari Lake's followers predictably react as such:
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1591823911356076032
The American Taliban
Lake's brilliant strategy of talking shit about John McCain in Arizona doesn't seem to have worked.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2022/11/13/today-make-break-kari-lake-do-hear-john-mccain-laughing/10691172002/
I don't like guys who got captured....
Trump managed to turn solid-red Arizona into a blue state in just six short years. Incredible job.
aw gee that's too bad
WaPo says US House is currently 211-204 with 16 seat too close to call. GOP needs seven more to take control of the House. The too close to call are:
AZ-1: GOP in lead 50.1% vs. 49.9% with estimated 94% counted
AZ-6: GOP in 50.3% vs. 49.7% with 89% counted
AK-1: DEM in lead 47.3% with ranked choice released Nov 23 (DEM favored)
CA-9: DEM in lead 56.3% vs 43.7% w/ 47% counted (DEM slight favorite to win)
CA-13: GOP in lead 50.1% vs. 49.9% w/ 61% counted (DEM slight favorite)
CA-22: GOP in lead 52.5% vs. 47.5% with 53% counted (DEM slight favorite)
CA-27: GOP in lead 55.4% vs. 44.6% w/ 67% counted
CA-41: GOP in lead 51.3% vs. 48.7% w/ 74% counted (GOP slight favorite)
CA-45: GOP in lead 53.7% vs. 46.3% w/ 70% counted (GOP slight favorite to win)
CO-3: GOP in lead 50.2% vs. 49.8% w/ 99% counted (Boebert on edge of re-election)
CO-8: DEM in lead 48.4% vs. 47.7% w/ 98% counted.
OR-5: GOP in lead 51.1% vs. 48.% with 94% counted.
OR-6: DEM in lead 49.8% vs 47.9% with 85% counted (DEM slight favorite)
NY-22: GOP leads 50.8% vs. 49.2% w/ 97% counted
Looks like it will come down to the wire, but if there's someone to blame - it's Californian voters failing to carry districts that went for Biden may be the difference.
You don't blame Orange County for being red like they have been for as long as I can remember. You blame NY for screwing up their redistricting, and Florida for allowing DeSantis to carve up the blue districts to magically create 5 seats flipped out of nowhere.
I think we should make sure to allocate some blame to NY democratic party (Cuomo et al) for fucking up redistricting, they coughed up some seats they didn't have to.
This is the right answer. NY is much more to blame than California voters.
The Oregon Democratic party gave away a seat that had been blue for 40 years, and may have given away the new district in the process. First, they Gerrymandered a district to Republican proof (they thought), and then torpedoed the multi-term incumbent that had considerable independent support and a lot of Republican support for being too willing to collaborate to get something done, and instead ran a extremist candidate that they thought had enough of the redistricted Californians to elect, who promptly lost badly.
The Washington Republican party returned the favor though, torpedoing a multi-term successful and bi-partisan supported incumbent who would have walked to victory because Trump wanted to punish her for voting for the impeachment. Instead of taking a guaranteed win, they ran an extremist candidate, against a Democrat that probably wouldn't have even run had they not torpedoed the incumbent. And the extremist got beat fairly soundly in a bright red district, turning it bright blue.
It was frustrating to watch both parties throw out actually effective representation for being successful at working to get actually beneficial to all work done, but there is some satisfaction to seeing this push for bizarre extremists (on both sides) getting rejected. Especially in an era where the prevailing attitude is the more extreme, the better, on both sides.
Net neutral overall, but a waste of time (and also seniority, which people lose sight of in terms of value of a representative)
Yeah, much worse performance in NY than anywhere else.
Welsh
Rarebit.
YouTube old Gomer Pyle episode where eats it regularly.
Corgis.
Matthew Rhys is Welsh. He starred along with Keri Russell in The Americans which I finished watching last night, after a two-month binge.
We found The Americans to be very, very good.
As did I.
My Welsh is limited to mispronouncing “good morning” and “good afternoon” but in my defense we didn’t live there for very long and I was in the 4 - 5 age range
Height
5'10" but I slouch about 2 inches shorter
someone told me that they gained an inch or so in height just being constrained to bed for 6+ months because of some surgery.
i guess posture and gravity take their tool. but not irreversible.
still. an inch seemed like a lot
I’m 5’6.
6'
Same here. And the poll is flawed because it doesn't give 6' as a choice. It's rigged against those of us who are at the perfect height.
Ditto
I think I was 5'10" when I was younger, probably closer now to 5'9" than 5'10". 2nd tallest in my family. No 2 is probably just shorter than me and No 3 is about 6'1". I just wanted one son to be taller than 6'. He was the longest when born. No 1 was the shortest at birth and is the shortest now, about 5'8".
6'. About as average as possible.
Well above average! The average height for a man in the United States is 5'9".
https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men
But I'm taller than anyone I've even met or seen a photo of from my dad's side of the family except for 1 cousin who is the same size. And I'm one of the shorter men on my mom's very large in number and height side of the family, and barely taller than a lot of the women.
6'3"
Generally the men in my family come in above 6 feet, so this was no surprise for us.
I'm not 5' 9", but I'm as tall as men who say they're 5' 9"
My man
Fun fact: Napoleon was average height for the time, but always looked short next to his Imperial Guard.
5'10. By age 12-13 I was already 5'8 or 5'9", so I was quite tall for most of my adolescence until regressing back towards the mean
I'm 5' 10.75" tall. Once, I was the tallest in the family. Now, I'm third tallest.
At five seven and a half I'm three inches shorter than my wife, an inch shorter than one daughter and two inches shorter than the other. I am taller than most cats, though.
6' 5/8" usually gets rounded up to 6' 1"
i am about the same w/ the rounding.
When people guess, they usually guess I'm six feet. I'm very close but have never claimed it. Actually about 5' 11 3/4".
My tallest was so close to 6' that when I asked at regular physicals it varied from 5-11 & 3/4 to sometimes 6'....I'd get "fussy" with the nurses about it and often after adjusting my posture, I could get a flush 6' pronouncement.
>60yrs it's been 5'11.5 at physicals. After two years of regular yoga, I recently got a 5'-11.75.
I am short everywhere except my house
Based on feedback in grad school and since, I'm 5'7" physical but 5'11" audio volume in height. My real problem is when we have neighborhood gatherings and I get roped into a conversation with three guys in particular who are 6'2", 6'3", and 6'9" (wtf)
Oh, my voice far outstrips my size.
o/
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Your game day experience
We had our annual Cajun Pirate Tiki party for the sailing club. Great gumbo, king cake and frozen hurricanes. Fun costumes and lots of bad karaoke. Checked the score around 9pm, chuckled and closed my ESPN app for the night
mostly stopped watching after the punt return TD and being down 21-0.
flipped to other games like UW-Oregon
It was my daughters birthday party so I mostly just cleaned up after the party while occasionally checking the game cast on my phone and had the Oregon and UCLA games on TV.
Good (all gameday experiences are good), but cold. It was around 50 in Corvallis mid-afternoon, but down to the mid-40s by kickoff in Corvallis. By the end of the game, it was approaching freezing.
As Bears know, it was a better experience for Beavers, though having 6 key players get knocked out of the game with significant injuries put a bit of a damper on the fun.
Finally, as I posted elsewhere, I wanted to give a shout out to the great job the Cal Straw Hat band did. Despite being stuck in a far away and high corner due to the construction at Reser, and the somewhat less than stirring Bears performance on the field, they soldiered on admirably.
And then made the hike down for a post-game show with the OSUMB that far too few Beavers or Bears saw or heard, or would have, due to the cold that sent droves of fans from both sides to the parking lot way early. Which was too bad, it was a tremendous show, and a great show of sportsmanship. Kudos to the Cal band, and thanks for making the trip up.
I have YouTubeTV so could not watch as it was only on P12. I checked GameCast a few times, saw it was going as expected, and stopped checking.
Cal game relegated to the laptop as Oregon-UW then Zona-fUcla were on the tv. Laptop closed some time in the middle of the second quarter.
Garbage time with 10:00 minutes in the Fourth, left the room to get ready for bed and heard my son say, “It’s over.” Gotta wonder why OSU did not roll up more points.
With 8 regulars out, and a backup QB, the strategy was to get the game over, and get in out of the cold without getting anyone else hurt.
Listened to the first half with Starkey & Pawlawski while making dinner. Turned it off during dinner (I didn't want to expose my entire family to that abomination of a game). Checked gamecast from there on. Also texted with my friends during the game.
No 3 and I went to the Fourth Bore in Orinda to watch and eat. We left around halftime so he could drive back to UCSC
Watched the politicos for awhile as I had DVR'd the game. I was also grilling ribeye steaks so didn't hear anything til an alert on my phone said 24-7 Beavs. Didn't watch it save for tuning in briefly to see Cal miss a field goal. How appropriate.
I checked Gamecast just in time to see a punt return for a touchdown and 21-0. That's the last I checked.
Last check for that game? Last for the season? Last for, forever?
My BIL and SIL flew down from CT on Friday and I spent all weekend with them. Why? What did I miss?
Fired
Wilfox need to go next.
4 weeks too late
But with a golden parachute. I wonder what team will be next for Musgraves two year learning curve?
He will go to Sac State next year when Troy Taylor leaves with his OC and they will need a new OC
I would say his career is probably done and he should retire but white men tend to always land on their feet, if not fail up in coaching so he will get a job as an OC somewhere.
I dunno, he is old and runs an old offense that didn’t work for shit at his last stop. Maybe he gets a gig somewhere but I would be surprised if it were as an OC of a Power5 school
Oregon might be looking for a new OC as rumors out there that ASU might hire their current OC. I highly recommend they hire Musgrave to replace their current OC if he goes to ASU, especially since Musgrave is from Oregon.
So is Wilcox...
Package deal perhaps?
He’s going to have a hard time getting a job when employers Google his name and see the pic of him at the top of Avi’s article about his firing. That was the chef’s kiss there, a nice parting middle finger from the fan base that he fucked over
it up you son-of-a-b**ch, the Golden Gate has passed
Kilns
DBD AV Club
'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' is much more a parody of a biopic than an actual one, though it does contain a few scattered kernels of truth. A bit overlong, but everyone is very clearly enjoying themselves in it.
I enjoyed it. Being a parody is on brand. I thought Daniel Radcliffe did a great job as Weird Al.
Agreed on all points. There were certain sequences that dragged a little bit but I think it's got the potential to be a new Spinal Tap, if not even better.
Also a great movie, but my impression right now is that it doesn't have the same cult following as Spinal Tap. Something that I could see Weird achieving.
I need to finish it, I really enjoyed the first 30min
Finished 'Rings of Power' over the weekend. I liked it, got better as it went along. I hope they bring it back.
I really liked it and they are bringing it back but it might be a long wait, I have read the second season won’t be ready for release until spring 2024.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix). I guess it was really well done because it pretty much achieved the book's goal - which is be really effing grim. Like, really really grim. Well done though. I can't tell if I enjoyed it because it was such a bummer.
I thought it was good though not a classic like the 1931 version which is one of the better screen adaptations of a great novel, right up there with Grapes of Wrath and A Clockwork Orange.
I recently re-watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time in a long time - great movie, but because of what happens in the movie, my wife hates it.
As does my wife. It was also the first movie I ever showed my older daughter that she did not like. Didn't show it to younger daughter, lesson learned,.
Hereditary…Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne. It’s a 2018 movie by Ari Aster, the fella behind Midsommar.
I didn’t find Hereditary nearly as good…it started promising enough, but I felt it devolved into a confusing mess. Not even Flo Pugh could have saved it!!
Yeah, a lot of people really liked Hereditary but I found it a bit too silly.
Ari Aster certainly has a gift for writing/directing gut-wrenching family trauma. Toni Collette's reaction to the, uh, incident in the first half of the movie is masterfully acted.
He really does, and Collete’s reaction was heartbreaking.
This bit of dialogue is from a film I recently watched. Can you name the film?
"I understand you're a neurosurgeon."
"No, I'm a barber, but a lot of people make that mistake."
Looks like I stumped DBD. The answer is Rushmore.
Nice outfit, guy…
They’re OR scrubs.
Elsewhere in college
Cal earns the conference defensive player of the week honors for the second week in a row
https://twitter.com/B1Gfootball/status/1592185708479143936
Bruh.
https://twitter.com/7300SMG/status/1591970992230105088
Take notes, fellas. This is how you impress the hotties.
https://twitter.com/T8GR8/status/1591143590704476161
Can you imagine what her reaction would be if it was an Executive membership?
I have the executive membership and the credit card!
https://giphy.com/clips/hamlet-wow-owen-wilson-rs8noY8E2Nn1BmL5q4
pltm at her "Wow!" reaction
So how did Nebraska WR Alante Brown bruise his prostate?
https://twitter.com/MBPisReal/status/1591547779373228032
Iowa defeats Wisconsin 24-10. Buckeye QB Spencer Petras earns his third victory this season without throwing a TD.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/401405135
Hawkeye, maybe?
There's a difference?
Troy's Carlton Martial became the NCAA all-time leader for tackles after gathering 22 against Army. Army missed a 42 yard FG with 15 seconds to go and lose 10-9. https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404142
Vandy earns their first SEC win since 2019 by defeating #24 Kentucky 24-21. The Commodores scored a TD shortly after completing an improbable 4-11 pass for 40 yards with less than 90 seconds to go.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401403942
https://twitter.com/MrChadBishop/status/1591859318701588480
Congrats! We've done it!
https://twitter.com/CFBHome/status/1591738636495884288
with a couple of weeks to spare no less
Arizona [checks notes] beats UCLA in Pasadena 34-28. Jayden de Laura had a good game, overcoming Zach Charbonnet's 181 yards in rushing. DTR's rally is only inches off.
https://twitter.com/CFBONFOX/status/1591687997522472962
I still don't understand how we blew out Arizona like that.
Arizona overlooked us.
It was a day in which our offensive talent overcame bad coaching.
Good things happen when you somehow put forth a record-setting performance.
Unfortunately, that’s what it probably takes for Wilcox to win nowadays…which is unsustainable.
Between that and the Oregon-UW game, it was a thrilling 7 straight hours of Pac-12 football on Saturday night (let's forget any other games occurring during that window...)
I turned the game off relatively early because I was tired and assumed that UCLA would outlast the early Arizona push. Wrong! I assume that UCLA will turn around and improve their mood by beating SC next week in a game that will be short on defense.
The Pac-12 has completed its cannibalization of FBS caliber Championship teams. The Pac-12 schools torpedo each others chances. The solution: schedule late season patsies like Alabama does.
If you schedule heavy early, then you just blow each other out of the CFP water sooner, and tank ratings and attendance for late season games in the process. Those seem to be obvious drawbacks to the strategy,
After a slow start, Utah crushes Stanfurd 42-7. Stanfurd gained only 177 yards, setting up a The Big Pillow Fight next week against Cal.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404038
Who's going to get the Axe? Well Musgrave already did.
Wazzu defeats ASU 28-18.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404035
Cougs coasted in the 2nd half after going up 28-0.
UW beats Oregon in Eugene 37-34 in an exciting game
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401404037
I went to a wedding this weekend where half the guests were Duck fans. They were disappointed, but the wedding cheered them up.
That's nice it wasn't the other way around
hahaha
that last 4th & 1 by Oregon - inside their own 40! with a freshman QB in shotgun! - was one the dumbest "fuck it let's go" calls I have seen in quite some time. And I do hate to see happy Huskies.
That call was so bad.
That call was Musgravian
It was the latest in a very long list of examples of ludicrous game mis-managment that have happened all over the place this season.
All of these coaches have college degrees, and yet none of them have any grasp of any mathematical based concepts, like time, distance, or probability of success.
It was brutal. Especially with Bo Nix chirping in Lanning’s ear that he was ready to re-enter the game…if anything, call the timeout there.
USC smashes Colorado 55-17
https://www.espn.com/college-football/boxscore/_/gameId/401404033
The only win will be the one vs the lads in blue and gold.
Such an odd game. Colorado being up 3 - 2 early on was comedy gold. I assume Colorado wore themselves out because a decent portion of those points for SC came from the backups and the kids, late on.
Well, it was #Pac12LongAfterDark. You have to know odd things are going to happen, somehow, someway, somewhere.
Shooting @ UVA. 3 dead, 2 wounded. Suspect is ex-football player.
https://twitter.com/rileywyantTV/status/1592022882477289473
Update: Suspect has been apprehended.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/11/14/university-of-virginia-shooter-arrested-during-presser-vpx.cnn
Comfort and solace to the families, friends, and colleagues of D'Sean Perry, Lavel Davis, and Devin Chandler.
Apparently the three dead were football players. I haven't seen if there's a connection or not.
That was the Virginia shooting, not the Idaho mass casualty incident.
WaPo reported that the suspect was a former football player.
Four dead at University of Idaho. Homicide. Class cancelled today.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/us/university-idaho-moscow-homicide-investigation/index.html
To be honest, given the prevalence of guns around combustible young people, it's kind of a surprise that we don't see more tragedies like this.
I’m surprised we don’t see more shootings at malls and airports.
Malls during the holiday season would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Airports during busy travel would also be an easy target and would majorly disrupt air travel as I am sure the airport would have to close, get everyone out and check for any shooters that might have made it through security. I always thought that would be an easy target for a terrorist.
PRO
Jaylinn miked up
https://twitter.com/AtlantaFalcons/status/1592213653985841152
I thought it was Hawkins who got tackled by his teammate and couldn't stop the TD run
I can’t believe how well Tua is playing. He went from looking like a 1st round bust to a potential MVP season.
Coaching matters.
Chargers need to fire Staley or at a minimum fire OC Lombardi.
superbowl preview (??) .. Bills vs Vikings
this game was insane. both teams nearly won or lost multiple times in the last few minutes only to be let off the hook by the other team.
the fumble in one's own end zone for a Vikings TD was the craziest thing i have seen in a while.
F1: George Russell earns his first career victory at Interlagos
https://www.thedrive.com/news/george-russell-wins-the-2022-f1-brazil-gp-his-first-gp-victory
Mercedes' George Russell was in the groove all weekend. After winning Saturday's sprint race, Russell secured pole position for today's Brazilian grand prix. And after a hard-fought battle with his own teammate Lewis Hamilton, Russell found himself crossing the finish line of a Formula 1 grand prix in first place for the first time in his young career.
Hamilton, who finished second, was pushing hard, trying to get his first GP victory of the season. However, Russell was able to hold him off and Hamilton was hugely supportive of his teammate and his team overall. “Congratulations to George. This just goes back to everyone back at the factory," he said.
While Russell started in pole position, the question leading up to the race was whether he be able to hold off Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who's already secured the 2022 driver's championship. Verstappen has been nigh unstoppable this season and he started from third on the grid in Brazil. He's already won GPs this season from worse starting positions. However, Verstappen and Hamilton collided in lap 7, which forced Verstappen to pit to change his broken front wing. That dropped him back to 17th and he then suffered a five second penalty for colliding with Hamilton. There was some debate as to whose fault the collision was but the race stewards seem to have thought it was Verstappen's fault. He ended up finishing in fifth.
Glad to hear about Russel's win. I've been very impressed by him every time I've watched him all season, and think he has a chance to have a very solid career.
And a little post race controversy as Max refused to give up position to Checo who’s fighting for 2nd in the drivers championship with LeClerc. Apparently Max refused as a sort of payback for Checo (his teammate) allegedly crashing on purpose in Monaco and thus ruining Max’s qualifying run. Checo went on to win Monaco.
I follow some folks on Insta who are big Max fans (mostly Dutch) and they were all like "dude WTF don't be an asshole" - Verstappen had left a lot of people thinking he had matured this year and it turns out he's still a whiny asshole, it's just that he's been a frontrunner.
This is one of several reasons why a lot of us have respect for his abilities, but not so much for him.
Exactly
49ers defeat a depleted Chargers 22-16. I read somewhere that Jimmy G is 10-2 in games where he hasn't thrown a TD pass.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401437842
Jeff Saturday is 1-0 at the expense of the Raiders 25-20
https://www.espn.com/nfl/recap?gameId=401437840
More calls to get rid of Carr.
Carr isn't a great quarterback, but the problem is probably Josh McDaniels. Maybe get rid of McDaniels first, then deal with Carr.
McDaniels is in the category of very good coordinators but terrible head coaches.
Carr is not the problem. Getting rid of him isn't going to solve it either.
I didn't mean to imply it would.
45 year old NFL wide receiver executes as well as you'd expect
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1591828188170113024
Rodgers leads comeback against Cowboys, Green Bay victorious. For the moment father time's influence is rolled back.
the World Cup break has come just in time for disgruntled Everton supporters - kind of a limp performance losing 0 - 3 to... Bournemouth? (can't be bothered to look it up), with the players exchanging words with supporters afterward.
WHAT A CATCH BY JUSTIN JEFFERSON
https://twitter.com/NFL/status/1591899296051306497
The Vikings/Bills game was a game of the season. The above catch was the cherry on top. But this was a close second.
https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/1591902428961865728
Un…Real
CAL
UC Teacher Assistants go on strike today.
https://www.fairucnow.org/
Now tenured profs will have to pay attention and start grading papers themselves. And lead the discussion sections.
I always thought it was a little odd that schools advertise their professors to get you to go there but then when you show up most of the actual teaching is done by grad students for little to no pay. It’s a bit of a bait and switch, though most of the GSIs I had at Cal were just great.
No 3 heard a rumor that all dining halls, except for 1, will be closed at UCSC. So we loaded up on some food for him that will last him for most of the week.
That really fucks with students all across campus, if true.
That was my thought as well. I wonder if it's the students working there that are striking for support than the administration closing them down. Hopefully it's just a rumor.
He said they're all open, but they just are closing earlier.
Better, but still sub-optimal.
Cal football trivia fun fact. Sponsored by The Free Speech Movement. Numerology edition.
Last season was the first time the Bears won a Big Game in a year ending in 1 since 1951. Cal has not beaten Stanfurd in a year ending in 0 since 1980 and not beaten them in a year ending in 7 since 1967. The Bears have won Big Games ending in every other single digit numeral during this century.
Cal football trivia fun fact will appear daily during Big Game week.
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Go Bears!!!
[WXC] Cal's season ends as they race in the Women's D1 West Regional, coming in 23rd out of 35, 8th out of 9 Pac-12 teams. The Golden Bears have a young team.
https://www.rtspt.com/events/ncaa/d1westxc22/mp/#event1
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/11/cal-closes-cross-country-season-at-ncaa-west-regionals.aspx
[MBB] Cal falls to K-State 63-54. K-State beat the 6.5 point spread.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/11/mens-basketball-bears-battle-back-fall-short-to-k-state.aspx
K State does seems much better than the worst team in the B12, as the pre-season media poll pegged them. They play D, Nowell & Keyontae Johnson are solid, Tomlinson is kind of a freak, and the team is deep with skilled players. They won’t win the conference, but if THAT’S the worst squad the B12 has to offer, then look out.
Meanwhile, Cal remains unable to score the ball. If this team loses tomorrow at UC San Diego, Fox may not make it through the season. My fingers are crossed.
ESPN+ is the network.
[VB] Bears take USC to five sets and unfortunately still lose. There are five matches left in the season and the Bears are 0-16 in conference. Fingers crossed that they can have more success.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/12/volleyball-grote-makes-golden-bear-history.aspx
[Rugby7] Cal wins fourth PAC Rugby 7s championship in a row by beating UCLA 32-0 and Arizona 33-14.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/13/cal-wins-ninth-pac-rugby-7s-championship.aspx
[WBB] Cal falls behind in Q1, but doesn't give up against #9 Notre Dame 90-79
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/12/womens-basketball-cal-battles-tough-loses-to-no-9-notre-dame.aspx
[MWPolo] #1 Cal wins Big Splash, defeats #4 Stanfurd 18-12.
https://twitter.com/CalWaterPolo/status/1591544389293461504
[Diving] Cal men's diver Joshua Thai has a decent day at Trojan Diving Invitational, prevents the team from coming in dead last. Women's team comes in last.
https://secure.meetcontrol.com/divemeets/system/teampointresultsext.php?meetnum=8040
[WSoc] Cal's season ends with a 1-0 loss in 2OT to Santa Clara in the first round of the NCAA championship
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/12/womens-soccer-bears-fall-to-broncos-in-overtime-stunner.aspx
[MSOC] Cal's season ends with 1-0 loss to #5 Stanfurd.
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/12/mens-soccer-bears-end-2022-in-big-clasico.aspx
Beat Stanfurd!
Now who will be calling those plays?
Hopefully someone who recognizes that receivers should catch the ball beyond the line of scrimmage on third-and-long.
Why would we want to do that? You'd have to know where the marker is.
Have Joe Starkey fill in in his last 2 games. He's seen more successful Cal offense over time than anyone else currently associated with the program.
Swing pass to victory!
Christ.
I mean, Chryst.
I’d actually prefer the big fella to do the honors, tho.
Good news for the meek and the cheesemakers on the team
Jesus in cleats...
Are you saying Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?
Jesus take the wheel route
Ok disciples go deep and I'll throw a hail Mary
I'd like to see Ott run out of the I-formation with a blocker ahead of him. Or some triple option plays run by Millner. The pro/empty set backfield is a recipe for disaster but we doggedly stuck to this FAIL formation all season.
Do we have a fullback?
I think so... 44
There's a couple on the roster that I don't think have played a wit. Or maybe use an H-back type like Terry or a heavier halfback like Moore.