My older sister was waitlisted and offered admission to Santa Cruz instead. Then at the last minute she got in. I got in right away which was a point of pride at the time.
I was deferred admission until the spring. Then that year engineering majors accidentally were offered UC Extension with the other incoming spring admits so I got some of my prereqs out of the way. I hated taking Rhetoric.
I went to Kansas City in 2010 for a wedding and I enjoyed it. BBQ was great, hung out at the Power and Light District. Saw a bunch of fountains. I wanted to go to the WWI museum but I didn’t have enough time.
Whilst in SE Alaska, much work training was done in the lower 48. In 2005 there was a required 2 week session where circumstances had me select KC versus the "desired" San Diego. Never been there before. Had a great time as it was such a novelty.
Sampled many BBQ spots. BBQ was a frequently encountered scent that stimulated the appetite. Saw George Brett in front of his establishment unloading boxes. Negro Baseball museum and Buck O'Neil was there that day. Jazz museum. Got hopelessly lost in a seedy neighborhood. A couple of jazz clubs. Caught a Malcom Gladwell talk at the Unity Church. Drove out to Independence and the Truman Library.
I had to be talked into visiting the Arabia Steamboat Museum. I went reluctantly but it really blew me away.
Later that summer, had a week's session in St. Louis. Caught two Cardinal games the last year before present stadium and its baseball atmosphere truly impressed me.
St Louis has a few cool things to see. The arch is neat, though going up the arch is not fun if you're claustrophobic. They have this thing called the City Museum that is built in an old warehouse and is like a children's playground with lots of things to see and climb over. It's really cool. And they have a good Science Center.
it's a little jarring that the Arch is this masterpiece of modern architecture and yet the museum and stores in the basement are basically an homage to a Laura Engels Wilder view of the westward expansion.
Couldn't agree more about the part re: claustrophobia. Very tight.
I take your point, although it's not the only one. I'm not sure how they decide the difference between a national park/ monument / landmark in that regard. The NPS runs Fort McHenry, Lincoln Theater, and Sewall Belmont house here, and I think they're all categorized differently.
I've never been clear on that either. Generally, parks are large and monuments not so much, but there are exceptions. Probably has something to do with mandated levels of funding support, but I don't know.
When I did it back in 2015 and 2016 they were remodeling the museum and basement so I don't think I was able to really look around. Maybe they've updated it with different exhibits.
FYI: Lima beans are called butter beans in the UK and deep south. Here in NC, they are called both. Butter beans are a key staple to Brunswick stew, which is a great alternative to potato.
TIL. I think of the British butter beans as bigger and whiter than limas. Huh. It was in the UK where I really learned to love fava beans (which are called broad beans there).
In the early 2010s I lived in an apartment community with a couple decently large pools, so I took up swimming for a bit. I enjoyed how comparatively strenuous the butterfly stroke was. It made it feel like a more productive workout.
I had a roommate at Bowles, Husni Bahra, who was the national butterfly champion of Syria. He tried to teach me, but my shoulders lacked the flexibility.
I could when I was young and on a swim team but I wasn't very good at all. I think they made me do it up until maybe 9 or 10 and then they stopped making me do it since I wasn't good at it.
I probably could make it across the pool if I tried to do it now.
it's possible that I could have done the butterfly stroke many years ago, but I don't think I've been in a pool since... 2017, and I'd only need one hand to count the number of times I'd been in one in the preceding decade.
Locked behind a paywall with no way to pull the article from the page source. Can someone do the needful and give us Cal's rank? I'm guessing in the 50-70 range.
I can't tell if that's from the perspective of a Cal fan or someone who hates seeing their team play Cal. If we're not going to be good enough to win the conference, I can take solace in how much the conference's top teams dread playing the Bears.
Theoretically, once you put in on and go out in public, you shouldn't take it off again until you can wash your hands. I have a hard time with that and tend to pull it off in the car when I'm running errands.
I keep a small spray bottle of sanitizer for cleaning my hands when I get back to the car, so I don't bother keeping it on (unless my next destination is within a minute).
not big picture: my father has been in hospital for a few days and will need to go to an intermediate care facility for PT before he can go home - which might actually result in him getting vaccinated (he's eligible in Multnomah County but there haven't been any available as yet). So that's good.
Good luck with that. The shortage of supply has been a real problem in Oregon. The distribution has gone remarkably well it seems when and where there has been product available. Could probably double/triple the distribution in the blink of an eye, but currently there is more 2nd shot provisioning than 1st shots availability.
That was my impression. To be honest, the Covid shot is a second-order problem at the moment, but it's a good precaution. I can't tell if my mother is experiencing more FOMO anger at my dad getting vaccinated first, or the fact that her former bother in law got vaccinated in Scotland on Monday.
I haven't watched much of the Impeachment proceedings because I see it as political theater with an inevitable with-a-whimper ending. And I am not a lawyer. However, I do know enough to see that Bruce Castor is a horrible lawyer.
Is he the one that inadvertently said that he was the prosecuting attorney for the ex-pres? Tried to play it off because he was a DA for a long time. Why would you hire a prosecutor to defend you?
Yes. It is worth watching because it edits together Trump's speech, what's happening on the Hill, and what was happening from the Insurgent's point of view. The key addition is weaving in video footage from the Insurgents. The key message is that it was an insurgency directed toward physically capturing the Capitol from start to finish directed by Trump, not a protest that got out of hand. It is the same story, but somehow - it got worse with age and editing.
Yeah I watched it after my post and before yours. It's pretty horrible - on Jan 6 I followed what was happening by reading about it, but I didn't see much video.
Could go under "College", since its an editorial by the voice of the local flagship station who is also sometimes the play by play voice. Could go under..."Lunacy"?
We had a situation locally where the female clerk at a convenience store was assaulted by a would be robber at ~ 5 am. Fortunately, she will be ok, and the troublemaker has been caught.
Said the local voice to the community (who routinely admittedly goes to a convenience store at about that time, on the way to the radio morning news & sports show) that women shouldn't be working at that hour, or working alone. ! That is the main takeaway from the incident.
It would be easy to dismiss this idiot as the idiot that he is, but that misses the point that in this day and age, there not only is (still) a significant element of this kind of thinking out there, it is still given not only a platform, but the most prominent platform in the area. And gets tacit endorsement by said local major university, which of course publicly says all the usual things about policy on social issues that you would expect from any "progressive" institution of higher learning. And of course, because this is the message from one of the most prominent voices in the area, there is a significant number of people who will believe and support it.
For those that struggle to understand why we are continuing to have the issues we are having within the political situation, these kinds of events are a significant part of why. My serious question is how on earth do we address this kind of systemic ignorant by choice thinking effectively?
That's a good example. I don't have an answer, but I will throw out additional thoughts. The same social media platforms that help cancer patients support each other also groups them together into a tempting target for cancer cure scammers. The same platforms that people use to talk about stamp collecting can be used to promote any agenda, crazy or not. Will the problem solve itself, or will society destroy itself?
For too long, it seemed to be the norm to ignore what was deemed the lunatic fringe. Which only contributed to the problem of what turned out to be a large minority being ignored. At some point, this sizable demographic has to be engaged with something more effective than fist shaking.
Missouri
I miss Cuonzo Martin
if only admissions had admitted his kid...
A $2 million annual raise AND moving closer to home probably would have made it a moot point anyway
Whaaaat? He had a kid who was denied admission?
waitlisted actually and the school did nothing to help them out.
My older sister was waitlisted and offered admission to Santa Cruz instead. Then at the last minute she got in. I got in right away which was a point of pride at the time.
I was deferred admission until the spring. Then that year engineering majors accidentally were offered UC Extension with the other incoming spring admits so I got some of my prereqs out of the way. I hated taking Rhetoric.
So fucking typical of us...
Only state in the South I haven't visited besides Kentucky.
I went to Kansas City in 2010 for a wedding and I enjoyed it. BBQ was great, hung out at the Power and Light District. Saw a bunch of fountains. I wanted to go to the WWI museum but I didn’t have enough time.
Whilst in SE Alaska, much work training was done in the lower 48. In 2005 there was a required 2 week session where circumstances had me select KC versus the "desired" San Diego. Never been there before. Had a great time as it was such a novelty.
Sampled many BBQ spots. BBQ was a frequently encountered scent that stimulated the appetite. Saw George Brett in front of his establishment unloading boxes. Negro Baseball museum and Buck O'Neil was there that day. Jazz museum. Got hopelessly lost in a seedy neighborhood. A couple of jazz clubs. Caught a Malcom Gladwell talk at the Unity Church. Drove out to Independence and the Truman Library.
I had to be talked into visiting the Arabia Steamboat Museum. I went reluctantly but it really blew me away.
Later that summer, had a week's session in St. Louis. Caught two Cardinal games the last year before present stadium and its baseball atmosphere truly impressed me.
Lived in Kansas City, Missouri for a couple of years growing up, was not fun.
St Louis has a few cool things to see. The arch is neat, though going up the arch is not fun if you're claustrophobic. They have this thing called the City Museum that is built in an old warehouse and is like a children's playground with lots of things to see and climb over. It's really cool. And they have a good Science Center.
And you can drive through the state in 3.5 hours.
it's a little jarring that the Arch is this masterpiece of modern architecture and yet the museum and stores in the basement are basically an homage to a Laura Engels Wilder view of the westward expansion.
Couldn't agree more about the part re: claustrophobia. Very tight.
I’m a big National Park guy and don’t love that they named the man-made Arch a US National Park...
I take your point, although it's not the only one. I'm not sure how they decide the difference between a national park/ monument / landmark in that regard. The NPS runs Fort McHenry, Lincoln Theater, and Sewall Belmont house here, and I think they're all categorized differently.
I've never been clear on that either. Generally, parks are large and monuments not so much, but there are exceptions. Probably has something to do with mandated levels of funding support, but I don't know.
There are 62, now (almost) 63, US National Parks. Gateway Arch is the only predominantly man-made one.
There are over 400 parks in the National Park System, with many of those man-made.
What's the difference between a US National Park and the National Park System?
When I did it back in 2015 and 2016 they were remodeling the museum and basement so I don't think I was able to really look around. Maybe they've updated it with different exhibits.
I was there before then - I want to say maybe 2011-ish?
Butter
, peanut. Or, what I had on toast for breakfast this morning.
Peter Pan PB is the best. Sams Club has a 6 lb canister for $10.
96 ounces of heaven
hell yeah!
Beans. A good vegetable choice.
FYI: Lima beans are called butter beans in the UK and deep south. Here in NC, they are called both. Butter beans are a key staple to Brunswick stew, which is a great alternative to potato.
TIL...
TIL. I think of the British butter beans as bigger and whiter than limas. Huh. It was in the UK where I really learned to love fava beans (which are called broad beans there).
with liver and a nice Chianti?
Of course.
Bread. Yum.
Butterfly
In the early 2010s I lived in an apartment community with a couple decently large pools, so I took up swimming for a bit. I enjoyed how comparatively strenuous the butterfly stroke was. It made it feel like a more productive workout.
I had a roommate at Bowles, Husni Bahra, who was the national butterfly champion of Syria. He tried to teach me, but my shoulders lacked the flexibility.
I could when I was young and on a swim team but I wasn't very good at all. I think they made me do it up until maybe 9 or 10 and then they stopped making me do it since I wasn't good at it.
I probably could make it across the pool if I tried to do it now.
it's possible that I could have done the butterfly stroke many years ago, but I don't think I've been in a pool since... 2017, and I'd only need one hand to count the number of times I'd been in one in the preceding decade.
Elsewhere in college
U.C. at Los Angeles' athletic department reports a $21.7m operating deficit for FY2020.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/02/09/ucla-athletics-financial-straits-21-7-deficit-2020/4449561001/
Ranking all 130 FBS teams...
https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/30847607/college-football-preseason-sp+-projections
Locked behind a paywall with no way to pull the article from the page source. Can someone do the needful and give us Cal's rank? I'm guessing in the 50-70 range.
54
https://twitter.com/espn_billc/status/1359183492815421449?s=21
I can't tell if that's from the perspective of a Cal fan or someone who hates seeing their team play Cal. If we're not going to be good enough to win the conference, I can take solace in how much the conference's top teams dread playing the Bears.
Today in Covid
Going to the bank this morning, I saw tons of people wearing masks while driving their cars, which I don't really get. OTOH, it was Oakland Chinatown.
Theoretically, once you put in on and go out in public, you shouldn't take it off again until you can wash your hands. I have a hard time with that and tend to pull it off in the car when I'm running errands.
I keep a small spray bottle of sanitizer for cleaning my hands when I get back to the car, so I don't bother keeping it on (unless my next destination is within a minute).
I never wear it driving, nor from my front door to my car
My brother wears his all the time, but then again he works as a driver for a fancy retirement home in NoVa.
Same.
not big picture: my father has been in hospital for a few days and will need to go to an intermediate care facility for PT before he can go home - which might actually result in him getting vaccinated (he's eligible in Multnomah County but there haven't been any available as yet). So that's good.
This was my Mom's exact path to vaccination last week!
Good luck with that. The shortage of supply has been a real problem in Oregon. The distribution has gone remarkably well it seems when and where there has been product available. Could probably double/triple the distribution in the blink of an eye, but currently there is more 2nd shot provisioning than 1st shots availability.
That was my impression. To be honest, the Covid shot is a second-order problem at the moment, but it's a good precaution. I can't tell if my mother is experiencing more FOMO anger at my dad getting vaccinated first, or the fact that her former bother in law got vaccinated in Scotland on Monday.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
I haven't watched much of the Impeachment proceedings because I see it as political theater with an inevitable with-a-whimper ending. And I am not a lawyer. However, I do know enough to see that Bruce Castor is a horrible lawyer.
Is he the one that inadvertently said that he was the prosecuting attorney for the ex-pres? Tried to play it off because he was a DA for a long time. Why would you hire a prosecutor to defend you?
Has anyone watched the 13 minute video presented by the House Managers?
Yes. It is worth watching because it edits together Trump's speech, what's happening on the Hill, and what was happening from the Insurgent's point of view. The key addition is weaving in video footage from the Insurgents. The key message is that it was an insurgency directed toward physically capturing the Capitol from start to finish directed by Trump, not a protest that got out of hand. It is the same story, but somehow - it got worse with age and editing.
Yeah I watched it after my post and before yours. It's pretty horrible - on Jan 6 I followed what was happening by reading about it, but I didn't see much video.
PRO
https://twitter.com/actioncookbook/status/1359344217445826568
CAL
a thread on Agatha Christie's own love story: https://twitter.com/deannaraybourn/status/1359612012775550979?s=20
Can someone tell me why the 2021 Pac12 football schedule isn't out yet? Is Larry Scott too busy with his farewell tour?
I've heard its mostly done, but the networks are waiting to set some of the dates/matchups. It's not a conference issue.
I'm just getting caught up on the "beans on weetabix" twitter excitement from yesterday and I like this particular exchange https://twitter.com/UKinUSA/status/1359197332286365699?s=20
I like beans and I like weetabix, but together doesn't strike me. But thanks for keeping us up with the latest trends!
the best part is the universal "OH GOD NO" response including from other brand twitter accounts
Could go under "College", since its an editorial by the voice of the local flagship station who is also sometimes the play by play voice. Could go under..."Lunacy"?
We had a situation locally where the female clerk at a convenience store was assaulted by a would be robber at ~ 5 am. Fortunately, she will be ok, and the troublemaker has been caught.
Said the local voice to the community (who routinely admittedly goes to a convenience store at about that time, on the way to the radio morning news & sports show) that women shouldn't be working at that hour, or working alone. ! That is the main takeaway from the incident.
It would be easy to dismiss this idiot as the idiot that he is, but that misses the point that in this day and age, there not only is (still) a significant element of this kind of thinking out there, it is still given not only a platform, but the most prominent platform in the area. And gets tacit endorsement by said local major university, which of course publicly says all the usual things about policy on social issues that you would expect from any "progressive" institution of higher learning. And of course, because this is the message from one of the most prominent voices in the area, there is a significant number of people who will believe and support it.
For those that struggle to understand why we are continuing to have the issues we are having within the political situation, these kinds of events are a significant part of why. My serious question is how on earth do we address this kind of systemic ignorant by choice thinking effectively?
That's a good example. I don't have an answer, but I will throw out additional thoughts. The same social media platforms that help cancer patients support each other also groups them together into a tempting target for cancer cure scammers. The same platforms that people use to talk about stamp collecting can be used to promote any agenda, crazy or not. Will the problem solve itself, or will society destroy itself?
For too long, it seemed to be the norm to ignore what was deemed the lunatic fringe. Which only contributed to the problem of what turned out to be a large minority being ignored. At some point, this sizable demographic has to be engaged with something more effective than fist shaking.
The song by Crazy Town.
Never heard of them.
easily the worst band from that era along with Trapt
Come my lady, come come my lady
Kind of NSFW, well, sort of. I mean the video. I also liked Starry Eyed Surprise with Paul Oakenfold.
Yes, but with a lot less vigor than when I was in my teens and twenties.
Yes, thank god. Still have the speed at age 50, but the shoulders won't let me do the volume any more...