Seabiscuit (May 23, 1933 – May 17, 1947) was a champion thoroughbred racehorse in the United States who became the top money winning racehorse up to the 1940s. He beat the 1937 Triple-Crown winner, War Admiral, by 4 lengths in a 2-horse special at Pimlico and was voted American Horse of the Year for 1938. A small horse, at 15.2 hands high,[1] Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career, winning only a quarter of his first 40 races, but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression.
I agree. I like to go to Del Mar during late July and make “bad bets” on horses I know nothing about. Never win, but it’s a fun way to spend an afternoon.
As someone that has spent $1000’s on the Daily Racing Form, & roughly an eighth of my life at a race track, $2 across the board on the 3rd betting choice is a fun, safe strategy that often pays off in some capacity...wish I coulda stuck to that advice...sigh.
Yeah. We bet on the favorite to show in the first race subsequently bet all the winnings on the favorite to show in the next race. Not extremely profitable, but does get the adrenaline going, especially if you have been in the money 5 races in a row.
Doesn’t matter. People in our group leave the track happy and inebriated. Great thing about Del Mar is that it is on the beach and walkable to everywhere you want to go.
I wasn't too into it but my dad used to like to go to Golden Gate Fields once or twice a year and I liked to tag along. I don't linger too long on it, but there a daily show on one of the sports stations here that shows races from tracks around the country.
Nos 2 and 3 loved horse racing when they were probably around 4 and 7. They would watch the two horse racing stations and sit on the arm rests of the loveseat and pretend they were jockeys. They knew all the tracks and jockeys and knew how to read the odds. They even designed silks for Halloween and their grandma made them. We took them to Churchill Downs many times so they could place bets on some races.
I have to say standing right on the track when they run by the finish line you can see just how much power the thoroughbreds have.
which is amazing, as Thoroughbreds are by far not the largest or most powerful breed of horse. They are among the smaller and lighter....hence the racing.
my mother got her first one yesterday. My father won't get scheduled until after he comes out of the skilled care facility he's been in for a couple of weeks.
Beach Volleyball (swept Oregon already today), Women's Soccer, and (Women's) Lacrosse will start their season this weekend. I'm honestly kind of surprised that Cal is able to COVID test and keep apart all these student-athletes, many share the same workout facilities.
There were some hints of Softball and Men's Gymnastics athletes out due to COVID contact tracing this past week.
While I thought Fox was a rather blah hire with a clearly defined P12 W/L ceiling of .500 (and perhaps an eventual appearance on/near the bubble), I DID think he’d get the Bears back to respectability following two years of ineptitude. While I understand that the path is long & winding, I must say I’m very disappointed as year two comes to a close w/ 3 straight Wyking Jones-level fiascos, coupled with an utter inability to develop any of his players. Not good, not good at all.
One of my regret from when I used to have to make occasional trips to Oak Ridge National Lab near Knoxville, TN was that I didn't time my trips to coincide with the International Biscuit Festival hosted by Knoxville annually.
Biscuitville. It is a 60+ location regional fast food place. Mostly NC and SC, but also western VA. Their bacon egg biscuit is something else. https://biscuitville.com/
I rarely make biscuits, but when I do I use the tube type (dough is premixed and everything). They usually turn out more pastry-like, with a consistent flakiness. Are the box ones like bisquick more bready or are they also flaky like the tube biscuits?
I enjoyed Sunrise Biscuits the morning after the Cal-UNC game. It was much better than TimeOut, the UNC student favorite place that's open 24/7. To be fair, I'm pretty sure the biscuit that I got at around midnight was not the freshest from TimeOut.
I think I went Sun morning. I had probably a 20+ min wait to get in and place my order. I think I tried plain, ham, and chicken. They were all very good.
I think it was Labor Day weekend. We stayed at No 1 and his GF's place and used her car since he and his GF left early Saturday morning to drive his car up for his first year at Williams.
Not in high school, but I did that as an elementary school kid in some special summer science thing in Taiwan that my mom signed me up for. It was vivisection and I still remember being freaked out about seeing its heart beating. It probably turned me off from the biological sciences to the physical sciences.
Worse, in the end, they just tossed the still alive but cut open frogs directly into the trash.
There was an undergrad class at Cal that had human dissection. Some upper division Integrative Biology class. A friend of mine had that class and had weekly 4-hour lab sessions in the basement of VLSB.
The shark (dogfish) was famously the stinkiest. Some students forgot that you weren't supposed to put your hand into a dead shark mouth; the teeth are really sharp. I saved the rat skin, including the tail, for many years, pinned to my wall. My friends did the fetal pig but I never did. In summer community college we did cow eye and cat. Took the cat to the home of my lab partner who also had a cat at home. I think the live cat was a bit weirded out. So were the humans, actually. Class was too cheap to work on cadavers, but they did have one that we all looked at.
@msolurin: My friend just brought it to my attention that she thought arraignments was a cute way of me saying hookup so she thought every time I said I have arraignments I was just announcing to the TL that I was off to a dick appointment. I’ll say court from now on
the only reason my daughter has touched her trumpet case since her last music class of high school was to store it in her closet. I don't think this will be her.
My brother found some scallion pancakes in the freezer--pretty sure my mom and I made them over a year ago. So, I've been working through that stack this week, and since I have a plethora of avocados, I've been doing avocado scallion pancake (rather than avocado toast).
MMMMmmm... leftover tomato & eggplant pilaf from a Palestinian cookbook. So good. First time my wife has made this, received the cookbook for Christmas.
@francesalyn: Today I asked for a positive representation of masculinity and a student said “Kermit the frog” — they weren’t wrong but I don’t think I fully recovered
And before Cugel gets up in arms about sexism, she also said this: I think in general the best representations of Superman are also a great example. He’s physically strong and conventionally attractive but recognizes how much power he has. I think it’s important to emphasize that presenting as traditionally masculine is not inherently bad.
Horse
A day at the horse races betting minimum bets on something you know nothing about is really fun.
I agree. I like to go to Del Mar during late July and make “bad bets” on horses I know nothing about. Never win, but it’s a fun way to spend an afternoon.
As someone that has spent $1000’s on the Daily Racing Form, & roughly an eighth of my life at a race track, $2 across the board on the 3rd betting choice is a fun, safe strategy that often pays off in some capacity...wish I coulda stuck to that advice...sigh.
Yeah. We bet on the favorite to show in the first race subsequently bet all the winnings on the favorite to show in the next race. Not extremely profitable, but does get the adrenaline going, especially if you have been in the money 5 races in a row.
Doesn’t matter. People in our group leave the track happy and inebriated. Great thing about Del Mar is that it is on the beach and walkable to everywhere you want to go.
I wasn't too into it but my dad used to like to go to Golden Gate Fields once or twice a year and I liked to tag along. I don't linger too long on it, but there a daily show on one of the sports stations here that shows races from tracks around the country.
agree, I really enjoy it
Nos 2 and 3 loved horse racing when they were probably around 4 and 7. They would watch the two horse racing stations and sit on the arm rests of the loveseat and pretend they were jockeys. They knew all the tracks and jockeys and knew how to read the odds. They even designed silks for Halloween and their grandma made them. We took them to Churchill Downs many times so they could place bets on some races.
I have to say standing right on the track when they run by the finish line you can see just how much power the thoroughbreds have.
which is amazing, as Thoroughbreds are by far not the largest or most powerful breed of horse. They are among the smaller and lighter....hence the racing.
s---
Today in Covid
the missus is volunteering at a county vaccination site today, which is very public spirited of her
Yay, I hope that means she gets one, too! (My coworker volunteered to vaccinate firefighters, and she got one too. A vaccine, not a firefighter.)
I don't know if she will, but I'm sure she wouldn't complain
update: she did not get a shot
aww too bad
potato, potaahhto
Mom is currently in line to get her first shot.
Parents drove to Antioch, they're both good to go. Pfizer.
Congrats go g.o mom.
my mother got her first one yesterday. My father won't get scheduled until after he comes out of the skilled care facility he's been in for a couple of weeks.
Great!
My mom got her second vaccination yesterday. So far feeling OK with just a little bit of body aching.
Elsewhere in college
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Golden Statue of Trump at CPAC ridiculed online
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/540678-golden-statue-of-trump-at-cpac-draws-ridicule-online
https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1365109969490567169?s=20
With the number of folks in the clip walking around without masks, this is probably going to turn into a super-spreader event.
J. F. C...
Toad
"We thought you was a ..."
stool, Princess
The Wet Sprocket
Named after a Monty Python throwaway line
Bill Barr
in the hole
Frog and ...
they had some good adventures
I did a very good job of voice acting reading those books to my son.
. . . sings "Chandelier."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDwVkXVHIqg
PRO
Tom Brady sidelined for several months due to knee surgery
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-brady-expected-to-be-sidelined-for-several-months-after-undergoing-surgery-on-his-left-knee/
should have paid more attention to his mechanics throwing the trophy around on a boat
CAL
Beach Volleyball (swept Oregon already today), Women's Soccer, and (Women's) Lacrosse will start their season this weekend. I'm honestly kind of surprised that Cal is able to COVID test and keep apart all these student-athletes, many share the same workout facilities.
There were some hints of Softball and Men's Gymnastics athletes out due to COVID contact tracing this past week.
Go Bears!
There were ahead 22-11 when I checked the score before going to bed last night. I didn't think that was any guarantee at the time.
Nope.
While I thought Fox was a rather blah hire with a clearly defined P12 W/L ceiling of .500 (and perhaps an eventual appearance on/near the bubble), I DID think he’d get the Bears back to respectability following two years of ineptitude. While I understand that the path is long & winding, I must say I’m very disappointed as year two comes to a close w/ 3 straight Wyking Jones-level fiascos, coupled with an utter inability to develop any of his players. Not good, not good at all.
Yep.
Name the fast food place that serves the best biscuits in your opinion
One of my regret from when I used to have to make occasional trips to Oak Ridge National Lab near Knoxville, TN was that I didn't time my trips to coincide with the International Biscuit Festival hosted by Knoxville annually.
Biscuitville. It is a 60+ location regional fast food place. Mostly NC and SC, but also western VA. Their bacon egg biscuit is something else. https://biscuitville.com/
Chick Fil A ..
their chicken biscuit breakfast sandwich is very satisfying.
but we dont really have much good biscuit variety here in NYC
Popeyes, without a doubt.
home made. even plain bisquik are wonderful hot off the oven.
I rarely make biscuits, but when I do I use the tube type (dough is premixed and everything). They usually turn out more pastry-like, with a consistent flakiness. Are the box ones like bisquick more bready or are they also flaky like the tube biscuits?
the missus occasionally makes biscuits in a cast iron pan - at their best when made with "real" buttermilk
Not sure I knew of any others besides KFC.
I would have no idea...
Bojangles.
Though I have to say Sunrise Biscuits in Chapel Hill was better than Bojangles. A little roadside shack on the way to UNC.
I enjoyed Sunrise Biscuits the morning after the Cal-UNC game. It was much better than TimeOut, the UNC student favorite place that's open 24/7. To be fair, I'm pretty sure the biscuit that I got at around midnight was not the freshest from TimeOut.
I think I went Sun morning. I had probably a 20+ min wait to get in and place my order. I think I tried plain, ham, and chicken. They were all very good.
I think it was Labor Day weekend. We stayed at No 1 and his GF's place and used her car since he and his GF left early Saturday morning to drive his car up for his first year at Williams.
When I lived in Georgia for a couple of years I'd say Popeyes were the best. Haven't had a biscuit in years, though.
Who dissected a frog in high school?
Not in high school, but I did that as an elementary school kid in some special summer science thing in Taiwan that my mom signed me up for. It was vivisection and I still remember being freaked out about seeing its heart beating. It probably turned me off from the biological sciences to the physical sciences.
Worse, in the end, they just tossed the still alive but cut open frogs directly into the trash.
Thanks mom!
I dissected a squid and a fetal pig, but never a frog.
Just the frog. Nothing else.
I dissected a frog, worm, and barracuda in middle school.
middle school for me, and we also did a starfish and earthworm
high school: fetal pig, earthworm, cockroach, shark?
college: pregnant rat, earthworm, cockroach
HS: worm, frog, cat
College: fetal pig, cow eye, starfish
Not in HS but in Middle School. We did worms but I forgot what else.
Worm & frog
worm, squid, frog
seems to be pretty standard. never did pigs or anything more complicated.
on the other hand, my wife went to med school so i did see a full human dissection many times. i could barely abide the smells ...
There was an undergrad class at Cal that had human dissection. Some upper division Integrative Biology class. A friend of mine had that class and had weekly 4-hour lab sessions in the basement of VLSB.
That last part (about the smells) reminds me of Fletch.
Frog twice (biology and zoology), earthworm, clam, shark, rat.
The shark (dogfish) was famously the stinkiest. Some students forgot that you weren't supposed to put your hand into a dead shark mouth; the teeth are really sharp. I saved the rat skin, including the tail, for many years, pinned to my wall. My friends did the fetal pig but I never did. In summer community college we did cow eye and cat. Took the cat to the home of my lab partner who also had a cat at home. I think the live cat was a bit weirded out. So were the humans, actually. Class was too cheap to work on cadavers, but they did have one that we all looked at.
frog, earthworm, mink
We did giant earthworms, and then fetal pigs.
omg https://twitter.com/msolurin/status/1365437563478097921?s=20
@msolurin: My friend just brought it to my attention that she thought arraignments was a cute way of me saying hookup so she thought every time I said I have arraignments I was just announcing to the TL that I was off to a dick appointment. I’ll say court from now on
In a meeting, so I didn't turn on the sound for more context (maybe there is no more context), but this seemed like the kind of thing DCT or HeyStudentsBears' daughters would be involved in https://twitter.com/GraceSpelman/status/1365186968406097923?s=20
the only reason my daughter has touched her trumpet case since her last music class of high school was to store it in her closet. I don't think this will be her.
heh...NYC's 2nd Line.
Lunch
My brother found some scallion pancakes in the freezer--pretty sure my mom and I made them over a year ago. So, I've been working through that stack this week, and since I have a plethora of avocados, I've been doing avocado scallion pancake (rather than avocado toast).
small grilled cheese sandwich and a leftover char siu bao.
we had some leftover southwest chicken is made bowl w/ chicken, veggies, greens and tortilla chips
MMMMmmm... leftover tomato & eggplant pilaf from a Palestinian cookbook. So good. First time my wife has made this, received the cookbook for Christmas.
I really enjoyed this thread, not just for the initial laugh, but all the examples of positive masculinity: https://twitter.com/francescalyn/status/1364795547262017536?s=20
@francesalyn: Today I asked for a positive representation of masculinity and a student said “Kermit the frog” — they weren’t wrong but I don’t think I fully recovered
And before Cugel gets up in arms about sexism, she also said this: I think in general the best representations of Superman are also a great example. He’s physically strong and conventionally attractive but recognizes how much power he has. I think it’s important to emphasize that presenting as traditionally masculine is not inherently bad.
So... unlike that other twitter feed
The frog in Tom Holland's mouth: https://youtu.be/B1J-wd8-VD0