Thanks. Not sure. Got Indian last night with No 3 and my mom. I took the Miata out of hibernation yesterday so maybe I'll go get some gas and go for a nice drive through the east bay hills.
I'm thinking of getting the timing belt and water pump changed. I'm not ready to tackle that job myself. But I'll probably do the plugs and wires soon myself since I don't know when they were changed last.
We finished The Lady and the Dale last week. It's a pretty good four-part documentary series on Liz Carmichael, former CEO of Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation (maker of the three-wheeled Dale) who was convicted of theft and fraud.
The story had a number of similarities to HBO's recent documentary series on Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos: a strange and charismatic woman builds a company centered around a revolutionary product, although the veneer quickly comes apart culminating in several criminal charges for the CEO.
I have finally started to watch the acclaimed SciFi series The Expanse. All 5 existing seasons are on Amazon and they have already announced a 6th and final season, but I have just finished the first 3 (which first aired on SyFy). The show is great, dramatic, and more realistic science-wise than a lot of other things, but it's perhaps a bit "too real" with regards to the futility of "doing the right thing" that I would have enjoyed this a lot more if the real world is in a better place.
In other words, this is a space opera that is too real for me, having experienced 2020 and 2021 thus far.
I'm looking forward to it. I did accidentally see the news that one of the lead actors (the guy who plays Alex) is out of season 6 due to sexual misconducts. I think he might be recast.
Safety Not Guaranteed (9/19, WNB). Watched it because it got great reviews. Yes, the metaphors are clever. Mark Duplass does a wonderful job playing a horribly akward person. Aubrey Plaza does an akward job playing a normal person. Not a fan of her acting. I didn't see what all the hype was about and thought it quite average.
Modern Love (17/19 W/B, Prime, S1). I'm 3 episodes in. I can't think of a better made, wonderfully written/acted pieces that made me thoroughly miserable watching them because they were so raw, real, and sympathetic that I wanted to crawl into a hole. I can't tell if I love it or hate it.
Rango (19/19, Netflix, W/B). I've seen it before, but goddamn if it is not a great film. So smartly written, acted, and animated. Letting Depp clearly go full 110% Depp in a satire is so much fun. It started auto-playing when I paused on the home screen and I got sucked in.
I felt like Safety Not Guaranteed worked well up to a point, but the ending was kind of a cop-out that didn't address anything. I was pretty floored when they gave the director the keys to a whole Star Wars movie (and then revoked them later).
Optimus Prime made so many dumb decisions in part 1, that I still haven't got myself to watch the second part. I think the excuse is that Optimus is still a young leader in part 1, but I had a hard time accepting the writing in this show.
Started watching "Roots" yesterday and recorded the rest. I remember how it was such a phenomenon when it first aired in the '70s, but I never saw it until now.
Campbell's chicken soup, which was later upgraded to Progresso chicken noodle soup. Most of the time, I had to make it. In retrospect, I am wondering if my step-mother could have put any less effort into caring for me when sick even though she was a stay-at-home parent.
junior year, i lived in a crappy little house a few doors down from Oscar's, the greasy burger joint that was replaced by the salad place at the corner of Shattuck and Hearst.
the had the BEST fries, and i dont even like fries.
i am not sure why i agreed to this, but the house had no heat, only a wood burning stove. i am sure it was probably some health violation.
Oscar's did have the best burgers and fries. I remember HSB's old roommate coming up to visit from UCLA and taking the ketchup bottle (the squeeze ones with the pointy tip) and putting ketchup along the length of each fry.
I like Oscar's (and lived a block from there for 2 years), but I think I ended up getting my burger fix more at Barney's than there. I'm glad that it made a cameo in the pilot of the TV show Parenthood, based in Berkeley but not shot there outside of the pilot.
I am also somewhat offended that it got replaced by a SweetGreen. Since I was living in the DC area, I had more exposure to the DC-based organic food chain before they invaded Berkeley with that store.
My friend lived right across the street from Oscar's. A friend of Billy Joe Armstrong's lived downstairs and we would see him occasionally (post Dookie - so he had a brand new Jeep Cherokee)
That sounds terrible! Good luck on the surgery. I have a nagging shoulder issue. I can still do most things but climbing and I assume only surgery would fix it. I constantly ask myself whether I just continue enjoying what I can do and give up climbing, or have surgery, give up everything for a while, and hope the surgery and PT would allow me to climb again. I'm not big on doctors or hospitals so this isn't helping either.
I think my shoulder is jacked up as well, probably from throwing batting practice to No 3 and his teammates for 5+ years. I really can only throw a baseball about 90 feet now. And I don't think it's supposed to click when I rotate my arm up. But, since I'm not playing softball anymore, it isn't worth getting surgery. It doesn't impact everyday life.
Maybe PT would help it some but other than throwing with him, it doesn't bother me. He just takes the bucket of balls with him and walks further and further away to long toss.
I blew mine playing soccer several years ago. Didn't need surgery but it was still about 5 months before back to normal. And frankly, my body hasn't been the same since so definitely keep active once you're able to get back to it.
Why create a 3rd party when you already control the GQP. All the anti trumpers can go form their own party if they want but the hostile takeover is complete, they lost.
Freshman Sampson Zheng. Cinderella story. The Cabo Collegiate crowd has gone silent. 150 yards tees on the 16th and he's got a... it looks like a 9 iron. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! IT'S IN THE HOLE!
Women's Gymnastic's Wednesday meet at Stanford has been canceled. We are denied a very likely Cal victory. Both teams said that their weekend meets are currently on, so I don't know why this one is taken off the schedule.
Beach Volleyball started the season with 2 dominant wins over Oregon and UC Davis, both via 5-0 sweeps. Dating back to last year, the Bears have won 11 straight matches. They have also won 20 straight at home, a streak that will last until 2022. Yes, this was the only home meets of the season as Cal will play in 3 tournaments this year at Stanford in lieu of more home matches.
Lacrosse started the season with 2 home losses: 14-8 to UC Davis and 12-11 to San Diego State.
Cal really should have won both games vs. Stanford. Stanford was gifting Cal the first game but there was a really bad base-running blunder that squandered the scoring chance in the top of the 6th.
I squeezed in a my weekend long run between the rain Saturday afternoon. On the way back I saw a young woman out walking wearing a Cal sweatshirt and I said "Go Bears." She pulled out her ear bud and asked "what?" I pointed to her sweatshirt and repeated Go Bears and she kind of chuckled and returned the greeting.
Happy birthday to HeyAlumniGo!!!
Happy Birthday!
Thanks everyone.
And many more trips around the Sun!
Steven Wright: my birth certificate has an expiration date.
HBHAG!
Thanks Bk97
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Happy birthday!
Thanks.
HB HAG! - what are you doing to celebrate?
Thanks. Not sure. Got Indian last night with No 3 and my mom. I took the Miata out of hibernation yesterday so maybe I'll go get some gas and go for a nice drive through the east bay hills.
I'm thinking of getting the timing belt and water pump changed. I'm not ready to tackle that job myself. But I'll probably do the plugs and wires soon myself since I don't know when they were changed last.
HBHAG!
Thanks Cruzin
Elsewhere in college
The Eastern Washington / Idaho game was all types of fun, including... uh... this.
https://twitter.com/DawgOutWest/status/1365844830174076928
DBD AV Club
We finished The Lady and the Dale last week. It's a pretty good four-part documentary series on Liz Carmichael, former CEO of Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation (maker of the three-wheeled Dale) who was convicted of theft and fraud.
The story had a number of similarities to HBO's recent documentary series on Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos: a strange and charismatic woman builds a company centered around a revolutionary product, although the veneer quickly comes apart culminating in several criminal charges for the CEO.
I have finally started to watch the acclaimed SciFi series The Expanse. All 5 existing seasons are on Amazon and they have already announced a 6th and final season, but I have just finished the first 3 (which first aired on SyFy). The show is great, dramatic, and more realistic science-wise than a lot of other things, but it's perhaps a bit "too real" with regards to the futility of "doing the right thing" that I would have enjoyed this a lot more if the real world is in a better place.
In other words, this is a space opera that is too real for me, having experienced 2020 and 2021 thus far.
The 5th season which we just finished a few days ago might have been the best so far.
I'm looking forward to it. I did accidentally see the news that one of the lead actors (the guy who plays Alex) is out of season 6 due to sexual misconducts. I think he might be recast.
Uh, yeah he will be...
Heh, but it's a great show.
Safety Not Guaranteed (9/19, WNB). Watched it because it got great reviews. Yes, the metaphors are clever. Mark Duplass does a wonderful job playing a horribly akward person. Aubrey Plaza does an akward job playing a normal person. Not a fan of her acting. I didn't see what all the hype was about and thought it quite average.
Modern Love (17/19 W/B, Prime, S1). I'm 3 episodes in. I can't think of a better made, wonderfully written/acted pieces that made me thoroughly miserable watching them because they were so raw, real, and sympathetic that I wanted to crawl into a hole. I can't tell if I love it or hate it.
Rango (19/19, Netflix, W/B). I've seen it before, but goddamn if it is not a great film. So smartly written, acted, and animated. Letting Depp clearly go full 110% Depp in a satire is so much fun. It started auto-playing when I paused on the home screen and I got sucked in.
From the couple of interviews I've seen Aubrey Plaza give on the late night shows, it seems like on P&R she was just playing herself.
I felt like Safety Not Guaranteed worked well up to a point, but the ending was kind of a cop-out that didn't address anything. I was pretty floored when they gave the director the keys to a whole Star Wars movie (and then revoked them later).
Transformers War for Cybertron on Netflix
for those who like this sort of stuff, there is a new 3 part animated series
1 - Siege - came out last fall
2 - Earthrise - currently out
3 - Kingdom
for lack of a better word, there is more "character development" than your typical Transformers stuff.
Optimus Prime made so many dumb decisions in part 1, that I still haven't got myself to watch the second part. I think the excuse is that Optimus is still a young leader in part 1, but I had a hard time accepting the writing in this show.
Plans for the weekend: Nomadland, Minari, I May Destroy You. (I may not be emotionally ready for this)
I May Destroy is a tough watch in many parts; but it's also great. I wouldn't binge it.
Started watching "Roots" yesterday and recorded the rest. I remember how it was such a phenomenon when it first aired in the '70s, but I never saw it until now.
Really enjoying Ted Lasso
It's a great show. I can't wait for season 2.
It had a lot more depth than I ever expected.
What was your family's remedy for a cold (eg, chicken soup)?
Ginger ale when I was younger. Now, hot cocoa with a splash of tequila.
Campbell's chicken soup, which was later upgraded to Progresso chicken noodle soup. Most of the time, I had to make it. In retrospect, I am wondering if my step-mother could have put any less effort into caring for me when sick even though she was a stay-at-home parent.
Sick? Como que sick? Levantate.
if your forehead doesn't start a fire, get your ass up and off to school.
Sleep.
A bowl of bourbon
Lemon tea with honey.
sleep it off
Hearst Avenue
is there something going on Hearst Ave?
junior year, i lived in a crappy little house a few doors down from Oscar's, the greasy burger joint that was replaced by the salad place at the corner of Shattuck and Hearst.
the had the BEST fries, and i dont even like fries.
i am not sure why i agreed to this, but the house had no heat, only a wood burning stove. i am sure it was probably some health violation.
Oscar's did have the best burgers and fries. I remember HSB's old roommate coming up to visit from UCLA and taking the ketchup bottle (the squeeze ones with the pointy tip) and putting ketchup along the length of each fry.
I lived 3 blocks from Oscar's for a year (Virginia @ Milvia). Oscar's fries were indeed great.
Actually, It was Lincoln, not Virginia. I was off by a block.
HSB and I were right around the corner from you. MLK between Francisco and Milvia, right next to the beads store.
I like Oscar's (and lived a block from there for 2 years), but I think I ended up getting my burger fix more at Barney's than there. I'm glad that it made a cameo in the pilot of the TV show Parenthood, based in Berkeley but not shot there outside of the pilot.
I am also somewhat offended that it got replaced by a SweetGreen. Since I was living in the DC area, I had more exposure to the DC-based organic food chain before they invaded Berkeley with that store.
Yeah there were very few shots of Berkeley in that show. I have a hard time thinking of where in Berkeley the parent's house would even fit.
That was a really good show though.
I'm sorry, YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT how is this even possible
YEAH WTF
My friend lived right across the street from Oscar's. A friend of Billy Joe Armstrong's lived downstairs and we would see him occasionally (post Dookie - so he had a brand new Jeep Cherokee)
Oscars was good. I used to get cheeseburgers once in awhile, fries, and a vanilla shake.
France
Sarkozy gets 1 year under house arrest
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1366382999961485324
Today in Covid
wife is getting her first shot tomorrow at Pfizer HQ.
both Mrs and youngest got the first shot. both had a pretty strong reaction (sore arm, general aches).
My mom's 2nd shot was Thursday. She is feeling better today after a couple of days of side effects.
What's on your mind?
Achilles surgery tomorrow.
was skiing thru some powdery trees at Steamboat 2 wks ago and had an awkward fall.
4-6 months recovery.
i am not upset about the surgery or the recovery, more the loss of opportunity to do stuff, be outside, plan things ...
Good luck! Maybe by the time that you're fully recovered, the world will be almost back to "normal".
Good luck. That does not sound pleasant.
Good luck!
That sounds terrible! Good luck on the surgery. I have a nagging shoulder issue. I can still do most things but climbing and I assume only surgery would fix it. I constantly ask myself whether I just continue enjoying what I can do and give up climbing, or have surgery, give up everything for a while, and hope the surgery and PT would allow me to climb again. I'm not big on doctors or hospitals so this isn't helping either.
I think my shoulder is jacked up as well, probably from throwing batting practice to No 3 and his teammates for 5+ years. I really can only throw a baseball about 90 feet now. And I don't think it's supposed to click when I rotate my arm up. But, since I'm not playing softball anymore, it isn't worth getting surgery. It doesn't impact everyday life.
Maybe PT would help it some but other than throwing with him, it doesn't bother me. He just takes the bucket of balls with him and walks further and further away to long toss.
sounds like crepitus which is what I have in both my shoulders
Good luck!!!
Don't skimp on the PT exercises afterwards.
hope it goes well!
Ditto
I blew mine playing soccer several years ago. Didn't need surgery but it was still about 5 months before back to normal. And frankly, my body hasn't been the same since so definitely keep active once you're able to get back to it.
Alec and Hilaria Baldwin just had their sixth baby, five months after having their fifth. WTF? There's some weird shit going on in that household.
maybe she's pretending it's her child like she's pretending to be from Spain
I'm thinking that perhaps they are not all coming from Hilaria's hoohaa.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump at CPAC: won't create 3rd party, hints at run in 2024
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/28/politics/cpac-2021-takeaways-sunday/index.html
"hints"? You know for sure for his ego he's running. No way in hell his ego can stand losing.
And I did see Gov Rick Scott said the republican party is one of the voters not of Trump. Yeah good luck with that.
Why create a 3rd party when you already control the GQP. All the anti trumpers can go form their own party if they want but the hostile takeover is complete, they lost.
PRO
JJ Watt to AZ Cardinals
https://twitter.com/jjwatt/status/1366444807258845184?s=21
NFC West QBs now have to face Bosa, Donald, Watt. Ugh.
Even less chance for the Weav to break the rotation, but he did sign a reserve/futures contract for around $800,000 I read.
Evan can learn from Watt. And Watt has tendency to miss games with injuries.
Aaron Rodgers: mensch
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1366434379476709383
Golf: Collin Morikawa wins WGC, marking back-to-back major wins by Cal alumni
https://twitter.com/GolfChannel/status/1366163257103425539
CAL
[WS&D] YOUR #1 RANKED AND PAC-12 CHAMPIONS CAL BEARS
https://calbears.com/news/2021/2/27/womens-swimming-diving-pac-12-champions.aspx
Next up: NCAAs on 17-20 in Greensboro, NC. No tix available due to Covid 🙁
Freshman Sampson Zheng. Cinderella story. The Cabo Collegiate crowd has gone silent. 150 yards tees on the 16th and he's got a... it looks like a 9 iron. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! IT'S IN THE HOLE!
https://twitter.com/CalMensGolf/status/1366445463147225092
I have weirdly lost distance in my irons. 150 was an easy 7 for me over the last 20 years. . . now I'm hitting an easy 6 and still ending up short.
Women's Gymnastic's Wednesday meet at Stanford has been canceled. We are denied a very likely Cal victory. Both teams said that their weekend meets are currently on, so I don't know why this one is taken off the schedule.
Not too many Cal alumni in Northern MD but I did see a car on Saturday with a "GO CAL" license plate and a couple Cal stickers on the windows.
Beach Volleyball started the season with 2 dominant wins over Oregon and UC Davis, both via 5-0 sweeps. Dating back to last year, the Bears have won 11 straight matches. They have also won 20 straight at home, a streak that will last until 2022. Yes, this was the only home meets of the season as Cal will play in 3 tournaments this year at Stanford in lieu of more home matches.
Lacrosse started the season with 2 home losses: 14-8 to UC Davis and 12-11 to San Diego State.
[WVB]: Bears drop to 1-11 by getting smoked in straight sets by a pretty good WSU squad
https://calbears.com/news/2021/2/28/volleyball-grotes-11-kills-lead-bears-in-loss-to-no-17-cougars.aspx
[WBB] Cal's snake-bit team loses vs. #4 Stanfurd 33-72, scoring only 8 points in the second half
https://calbears.com/news/2021/2/28/womens-basketball-bears-fall-to-no-4-cardinal.aspx
That's 3 more points than MBB scored in a half 10 years ago.
[Base] Bears finish strong, win series vs. USF
https://twitter.com/CalBaseball/status/1366207057418838017
SB: Bears split Fri-Sun series vs. 'furd, sandwiched around a Saturday win vs Cal Baptist
https://twitter.com/CalSB/status/1365876512600195075
Cal really should have won both games vs. Stanford. Stanford was gifting Cal the first game but there was a really bad base-running blunder that squandered the scoring chance in the top of the 6th.
Cal got TOOTBLANed?
WSoc: Bears follow up their season opener win on Friday (3-1 vs. Oregon State) with a 1-0 win versus the Ducks.
https://twitter.com/CalWSoc/status/1366146501026570242
Go Bears!
I squeezed in a my weekend long run between the rain Saturday afternoon. On the way back I saw a young woman out walking wearing a Cal sweatshirt and I said "Go Bears." She pulled out her ear bud and asked "what?" I pointed to her sweatshirt and repeated Go Bears and she kind of chuckled and returned the greeting.