that's a single member's speculation, nothing official yet. That being said, they will most likely be. Also that mofo actually allowed the media to call him Dick Pound
While it's not official, I believe Dick Pound (whose memorable name does make the news every 4 years) does know how the IOC will decide. I think the official announcement is just waiting on a postponement date (like which month in 2021).
Corona time, messing with family traditions. For years we've had a Sunday family dinner where my Son & his gf, now wife come over for something good to eat, we take turns opening up a good bottle of wine,, but that didn't happen yesterday. Instead we facetimed a cocktail hour before dinner (Soy sauce braised short ribs over rice, cucumber salad as a side, paired with a 2012 French Carignan)
Usually when I work from home I have my music library on random for part of the day, so this DBD has me paying close attention to brass backups and bass lines today.
California has been ok, Ohio has been surprisingly ok! Not my state, but also enjoying the Kentucky governor memes. Annnnnd I need to get back to work.
pretty good but I don't think he has it quite right yet. Friday night he announced that all non-essential businesses and non-profits must reduce their in-person staffing to zero by tonight. Then the list of "essential" businesses got vastly expanded, and now includes me (higher education) and for some reason, billboard operators?
Considering it isn't an easy job in a state that varies from urban to ultra-rural, nue-biot bad so far. One problem is a lot of people who had plans and reservations for spring break, which broke with blue-bird clear warm weather, flocked to the Oregon coast, scaring the local officials who know they can't handle it if it goes sideways. And in the Portland metro area, apparently most people disregarded the distancing recommendation, and the metro area mayors all pushed for a very aggressive order state wide. Given there are towns in the state where a sizable gathering would require bussing in people, and there are counties with no even presumed cases, that got pushback.
And how do you know that car going down the road isn't going to get groceries, repair parts and supplies, animal feed, etc.?
Locally, I had to do a couple of necessary trips to take care of some business matters, get stocked up on groceries, and some other supplies, and it appears everyone was at the grocery store, unless they were at Home Depot or Lowes. Worse, by banning all the youth sports, all those kids who were not playing baseball, softball, etc., were instead with mom or dad at said stores!
Interesting side affect, a number of mass transit providers have cut back or shut down because they don't get enough ridership to be profitable, so those making permissible necessary trips that would have used said mass transit now have to drive!
My brother has to go into the office in downtown Portland tomorrow for various reasons but they’re making parking in the building available as an incentive / offset to perceived risk.
He’s not been too upset about the various closures in part because our very compromised parents live nearby and in part because he and his family moved down from Portland a couple of years ago from Seattle and having been getting the horror stories from their friends there about the impacts from not shutting down faster
So I'd say ~12 so far; subject to yet to devolve developments. And this for a Governor who I would generally rate about 5 on the 1-19 scale, for usual inability/unwillingness to relate pet policies to the real world.
15 - He's taken it very seriously from early on and began implementing steadily more stringent closures over time, beginning when we had only a few dozen cases. We're up to almost 300 now and non-essential businesses were all just ordered to close at 5pm today. It sounds like his strategy is to remove all incentive for people to go out and gather unnecessarily, rather than implementing a shelter-in-place order (which may end up happening anyway).
Shelter in place doesn't really work in the sense that you can't enforce it because you know there are a bunch of exemptions. The real purpose of a shelter in place is just to project the gravity of the situation. But it's **really** hard to get people to respect it when at the same time you have the federal government blasting out to everyone that we have all the best responses and we are the greatest and this is a chinese virus. Early media have done irreparable harm to the American perception of coronavirus, and we're not going to respect it as a country until we see an unfathomable number of deaths.
12 - He's a Democrat, so he wasn't part of the "it's a hoax" crowd. But he's done half-measures. Schools, bars, restaurants, public parks closed... but 60% are still out and about not taking this seriously.
Going by your scale I think Ca is closer to a 9 maybe. Parks are not closed. Yesterday certain parks and trails in Marin county-ish were closed because lots of people were going to get fresh air. It seems to be more of a let's be careful out there.
I was only comparing Newsom to the NC governor based on SGBear's comment. And it sounds like the real difference is the public parks. I don't remember if Newsom's resolution closed all schools but I think by the time he announced his all schools probably were closed anyways.
I just read an article that young people in SF are still going out and congregating because they're getting tired of being cooped up and no young people are dying.
I live in a young people hotspot and I have seen ZERO evidence of any congregating. It's been super quiet and literally everyone has been respectful and mindful of the need to not have contact. There was a slight clog outside of Peet's on Chestnut yesterday with people maybe 3 feet apart instead of 6, but they sorted it out within a few minutes. There are people in parks, but they're like 20 feet away from the nearest other people (same at Marina Green and Crissy Field that I've seen), so that's all good.
Texas- 1 "200 counties have no reported cases so that justifies our continues everyone figure it out for themselves strategy". Lets also bring up those 200 counties have a combined population of 8, Genius
ESPN2 was scraping the bottom of the barrel with its programming this weekend. I caught a few minutes of some truly bizarro "sports," including cup stacking, cherry pit spitting, and a weird table tennis derivative where people use a volleyball and use their heads instead of paddles.
That's the kind of stuff they showed back when the channel just started out - plus Aussie rules football. A couple of years after that they started showing college football games between non-top 20 schools, which before that were never televised. It was solely the province of ABC pretty much at the time, which on the west coast only showed SC every week. Then it really branched out from that point. The former CEO of ESPN who led them into the new programming was one of my mentors in business. (Bill Grimes) He eventually became a VC in New York.
They actually did The OCHO day at one random day in 2019 and this past Sunday was just a rebroadcast. My favorite event was the European TramDriver championship - which involved braking a tram, parking it close to a passenger, and using a tram to hit a "bowling" ball but slow it down to not DQ and hit the pins with the tram.
One could think that their programming hasn't changed. Not a lot of actual sports but lots of talking heads arguing over a hypothetical situation with one guy prompted to be the contrarian.
I've been known to set the DVR and rip through to the game in question. That show is actually all the better since they changed away from Lou Holtz and Mark May
So Trump issued this cryptic all-cap Twitter diarrhea this morning that cited some mysterious 15 day period, which he hinted is ending next week in other tweets:
Then the WSJ then published the below article that connects the dots. Apparently, he wants to relax the Federal Government's Covid-19 guidelines to urge people to get back to work to reduce the impact on the economy. He just doesn't get it.
Most people are going to follow what local leaders are requiring regardless of what the numbskull in chief says or tweets. Almost time for his briefing so I'm going for a walk since the rain has ceased.
Really quiet in DC. About 9:30 I went for a four mile run and saw maybe a dozen people on the streets. It doesn't help that it's forty degrees and raining. The police have the streets leading to the Tidal Basin blocked off because too many folks were checking out the cherry blossoms over the weekend.
Reg and insurance, small flashlight, pens, Leatherman, keys to a building, parking permits for three different marinas and sometimes a checkbook and various receipts.
2 bags of almonds, 2 bag of cashews, 2 Nature Valley bars, rainbow umbrella, flip-flops, 5 ziploc bags, 3 pens, 1 pad of paper, 1 pad of Post-Its, 2 sunglasses, car manual, registration.
manual, old registrations and proofs of insurance, a flaky (I don't think it effectively works anymore) power adapter with both usb and power plug output...the last of which makes it hard to open the glove compartment
Owner's manual booklet with registration/insurance, wheel lock key, microfiber towel, gloves (for winter in case I get stranded or have to swap to the spare tire, so I should remove them soon).
a bunch of maps of the surrounding states. i suppose i am paranoid that technology will fail when we need it most and old school things like maps will be useful to have.
What's weird about this platform is I get emails of comments sometimes several minutes before they actually show up here.
a 56k modem will do that to ya
hahaha
Flag Guy just alerted me to this tweet--useful for our next Zoom https://twitter.com/CalAthletics/status/1242172176200957952?s=20
send me a meeting notice for the zoom.
You mean you didn't like Hawaii, or Australia, or Yosemite?
Summer Olympics Delayed
https://twitter.com/usatodaysports/status/1242140945396662273
that's a single member's speculation, nothing official yet. That being said, they will most likely be. Also that mofo actually allowed the media to call him Dick Pound
While it's not official, I believe Dick Pound (whose memorable name does make the news every 4 years) does know how the IOC will decide. I think the official announcement is just waiting on a postponement date (like which month in 2021).
Corona time, messing with family traditions. For years we've had a Sunday family dinner where my Son & his gf, now wife come over for something good to eat, we take turns opening up a good bottle of wine,, but that didn't happen yesterday. Instead we facetimed a cocktail hour before dinner (Soy sauce braised short ribs over rice, cucumber salad as a side, paired with a 2012 French Carignan)
Not the same.
I'd also prefer the face-to-face gathering. But it's better than nothing at all, though. Isn't it?
Sure, but it was also sort of sad.
The floor is now lava. Could you make it out of whatever building you're in now?
Out yes! I could step out the window and plunge to my death from the 17th floor.
Yep, from couch to side table to dog bed to window. It'd be a 10ft drop down to dirt though.
I'd have to use the kitchen counters and go out the kitchen window, but I'd probably survive.
Yeah, but I've gotta go out the window.
Tell your landlord you need an escape ladder.
Nope. I'm dead where I sit.
Nope, too much floor.
Yep. Go from the couch to the windowsill and then out onto the deck. No acrobatics necessary.
Standard way out is foiled by yesterday's cleaning/tidying session. Looks like 2nd story window is my only way out.
yes. go from. chair to desk. Jump to couch and go out the window.
A song with good bass
We like the cars, the cars that go boom,
We're Tigra and Bunny and we like the boom.
We like the cars, the cars that go boom.
Long Division by Fugazi
https://youtu.be/FBN2Z3yTKPo
KYEO by Fugazi
https://youtu.be/8tlEK2SvXqw
Mr Day by John Coltrane
https://youtu.be/uiBsQBfrwZU
Walking on the Moon by the Police
https://youtu.be/zPwMdZOlPo8
Hey Jude by Wilson Pickett (could also qualify for horn section)
https://youtu.be/apdCgfr05rU
Tighten Up by Archie Bell and the Drells
https://youtu.be/Wro3bqi4Eb8
Summertime in the LBC - The Doveshack
Scottie 15 or Killa Whale - Andre Nickatina
Late Night Tip - 36 Mafia
I used these three songs to attempt to set off car alarms in high school when I had two 15s and a roll down back window.
If you are talking bass guitar I'd anything from Primus and a lot of Steve Miller Band songs
Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad
Push Comes to Shove - Van Halen
Good funky bass lines FTW! (side note, the Japanese lyrics are just as weird as the English ones) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWo627F7CeU
Also, for a song that just has a nice hearty in your face bass, the Boom Boom Satellites have you covered! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSIIYFTRpE
"Superstition" by Stevie Wonder
It's my go-to answer for this question, but I realize it also works for the "A song with some good brass backup" prompt as well.
Too Short, City of Dope: Fits both meanings of good bass, funky bass line and good boom for those Cerwin Vegas!
Also, Oakland is 2 for 2 in my replies pertaining to songs this morning!
Rage Against the Machine, "Bulls on Parade"
The Cure, "Fascination Street"
Also, pretty much the whole album "Sons and Fascination" by The Simple Minds
(I thought I'd get a heart from DC for this comment, but I guess not.
oh good heavens, consider it hearted
Primus: "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQ2305fLeA
Well, a great bass line, "Thank you for Letting Me Be Myself Again" Sly and the Family Stone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BP2KlPD4U
"Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears
Once you listen for it you can't help but notice what the bass line adds.
Cars That Go Boom
I just realized that I was thinking a different bass than everyone else was...
It's a valid answer and was on my "Bass CD" in high school
A song with some good brass backup
Kyenkyen Bi Adi M'awu by K. Frimpong and His Cubanos Fiestas
https://youtu.be/hQRa7H7ZLL4
Uptight by Stevie Wonder
https://youtu.be/DYIGZrwlTZc
warning this is all ska from here
Night Boat to Cairo by Madness
https://youtu.be/UAXgXLj2Y9Y
Inner London Madness by Bad Manners
https://youtu.be/DMRIwwhgZGs
Guns of Navarone by the Skatalites
https://youtu.be/vqFf0q3ED4E
or the Specials if you prefer (even if you don't prefer)
https://youtu.be/3TL5MsxZJhw
Everything from Brasstrax. Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish are great for ska brass backup
"Skin Tight" The Ohio Players.
I'm going with a Australian punk band with a good brass backup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpbpjHCvrU
"Know Your Product" The Saints
All songs, Tower of Power...East Bay Grease, Baby!
I was thinking of Tower of Power but they were so integral to the band I didn't consider them backup.
Maybe Huey Lewis and the News, The Heart of Rock and Roll.
[[sax player on the ground kicking legs.gif]]
Agreed. Still, I couldn't forego an opportunity to mention Tower of Power in a CGB post!
Gorillaz, "Sweepstakes" (feat. Mos Def and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcBbXzeeiDg
Usually when I work from home I have my music library on random for part of the day, so this DBD has me paying close attention to brass backups and bass lines today.
going with a deep cut here: Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f4CyQto-0E
as immortalized by Kermit Ruffins and the Rebirth Brass Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHpygog8QCg
Mr. Big Stuff by Jean Knight; a deep cut? I guess for you younguns
Rate your governor's COVID-19 policies to date (19 point scale, 19 = best)
California has been ok, Ohio has been surprisingly ok! Not my state, but also enjoying the Kentucky governor memes. Annnnnd I need to get back to work.
pretty good but I don't think he has it quite right yet. Friday night he announced that all non-essential businesses and non-profits must reduce their in-person staffing to zero by tonight. Then the list of "essential" businesses got vastly expanded, and now includes me (higher education) and for some reason, billboard operators?
Considering it isn't an easy job in a state that varies from urban to ultra-rural, nue-biot bad so far. One problem is a lot of people who had plans and reservations for spring break, which broke with blue-bird clear warm weather, flocked to the Oregon coast, scaring the local officials who know they can't handle it if it goes sideways. And in the Portland metro area, apparently most people disregarded the distancing recommendation, and the metro area mayors all pushed for a very aggressive order state wide. Given there are towns in the state where a sizable gathering would require bussing in people, and there are counties with no even presumed cases, that got pushback.
And how do you know that car going down the road isn't going to get groceries, repair parts and supplies, animal feed, etc.?
Locally, I had to do a couple of necessary trips to take care of some business matters, get stocked up on groceries, and some other supplies, and it appears everyone was at the grocery store, unless they were at Home Depot or Lowes. Worse, by banning all the youth sports, all those kids who were not playing baseball, softball, etc., were instead with mom or dad at said stores!
Interesting side affect, a number of mass transit providers have cut back or shut down because they don't get enough ridership to be profitable, so those making permissible necessary trips that would have used said mass transit now have to drive!
My brother has to go into the office in downtown Portland tomorrow for various reasons but they’re making parking in the building available as an incentive / offset to perceived risk.
He’s not been too upset about the various closures in part because our very compromised parents live nearby and in part because he and his family moved down from Portland a couple of years ago from Seattle and having been getting the horror stories from their friends there about the impacts from not shutting down faster
So I'd say ~12 so far; subject to yet to devolve developments. And this for a Governor who I would generally rate about 5 on the 1-19 scale, for usual inability/unwillingness to relate pet policies to the real world.
Billboard operators because the state is gonna commandeer the billboards for critical messaging?
I got nothing else.
oh that's a good reason. Though I wonder if they're more on call than anything else.
https://portal.ct.gov/DECD/Content/Coronavirus-for-Businesses/Coronavirus-for-Businesses
"it's billboard leasing and maintenance"
but also bicycle repair, landscaping, pool service?
Pool service can be essential. Have you seen a non-maintained pool? It can actually be destructive and invite unnatural wildlife.
Bike repair makes sense--some may use bikes to get to/from other essential service locations.
Landscaping and pool servicing may be (loosely) tied to preventing unsanitary conditions.
I’m about ready to buy a bike, especially since I have a decent chance of riding it without getting run over now
so like a 12
15 - He's taken it very seriously from early on and began implementing steadily more stringent closures over time, beginning when we had only a few dozen cases. We're up to almost 300 now and non-essential businesses were all just ordered to close at 5pm today. It sounds like his strategy is to remove all incentive for people to go out and gather unnecessarily, rather than implementing a shelter-in-place order (which may end up happening anyway).
I am by no means a Hogan fan but I think he’s done about as good a job as he could without forcing shelter in place
Shelter in place doesn't really work in the sense that you can't enforce it because you know there are a bunch of exemptions. The real purpose of a shelter in place is just to project the gravity of the situation. But it's **really** hard to get people to respect it when at the same time you have the federal government blasting out to everyone that we have all the best responses and we are the greatest and this is a chinese virus. Early media have done irreparable harm to the American perception of coronavirus, and we're not going to respect it as a country until we see an unfathomable number of deaths.
12 - He's a Democrat, so he wasn't part of the "it's a hoax" crowd. But he's done half-measures. Schools, bars, restaurants, public parks closed... but 60% are still out and about not taking this seriously.
Going by your scale I think Ca is closer to a 9 maybe. Parks are not closed. Yesterday certain parks and trails in Marin county-ish were closed because lots of people were going to get fresh air. It seems to be more of a let's be careful out there.
Are we rating on an absolute scale or compared to all other governors? Because on the latter scale it seems like Newsom has been about a 16 or 17.
I was only comparing Newsom to the NC governor based on SGBear's comment. And it sounds like the real difference is the public parks. I don't remember if Newsom's resolution closed all schools but I think by the time he announced his all schools probably were closed anyways.
I just read an article that young people in SF are still going out and congregating because they're getting tired of being cooped up and no young people are dying.
I live in a young people hotspot and I have seen ZERO evidence of any congregating. It's been super quiet and literally everyone has been respectful and mindful of the need to not have contact. There was a slight clog outside of Peet's on Chestnut yesterday with people maybe 3 feet apart instead of 6, but they sorted it out within a few minutes. There are people in parks, but they're like 20 feet away from the nearest other people (same at Marina Green and Crissy Field that I've seen), so that's all good.
And I'm sure it isn't just in SF.
Texas- 1 "200 counties have no reported cases so that justifies our continues everyone figure it out for themselves strategy". Lets also bring up those 200 counties have a combined population of 8, Genius
All playing into Lt. Gov . Dan Patrick's plan to kill the elderly!
Fenton
FENTON!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU
Fenton's Black and Tan is a classic.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bff0010506fbec317abaca7/t/5c34ea7b70a6adc5874dff49/1546971771564/our_menu.pdf
Butt _____
"secs"- throwback to carp and his PSOCY mentality
https://gph.is/1lyEAJL
CAL
Go Bears!
PRO
ESPN2 was scraping the bottom of the barrel with its programming this weekend. I caught a few minutes of some truly bizarro "sports," including cup stacking, cherry pit spitting, and a weird table tennis derivative where people use a volleyball and use their heads instead of paddles.
They need to play Sepak takraw (Thai volleyball played with feet and a rattan ball)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA1OYsPugV0
and kabbadi (Indian pro level tag with tackling)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfY9g05Sv4
That's the kind of stuff they showed back when the channel just started out - plus Aussie rules football. A couple of years after that they started showing college football games between non-top 20 schools, which before that were never televised. It was solely the province of ABC pretty much at the time, which on the west coast only showed SC every week. Then it really branched out from that point. The former CEO of ESPN who led them into the new programming was one of my mentors in business. (Bill Grimes) He eventually became a VC in New York.
They actually did The OCHO day at one random day in 2019 and this past Sunday was just a rebroadcast. My favorite event was the European TramDriver championship - which involved braking a tram, parking it close to a passenger, and using a tram to hit a "bowling" ball but slow it down to not DQ and hit the pins with the tram.
I think it's usually on 08/08
the Ocho has become a reality
It was the 4th edition of "The Ocho" https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2020/03/when-you-needed-it-most-espn8-the-ocho-returns-on-espn2-sunday-march-22/
One could think that their programming hasn't changed. Not a lot of actual sports but lots of talking heads arguing over a hypothetical situation with one guy prompted to be the contrarian.
That's a good point. As my wife often says "The only thing worse than watching sports is watching some guys talking about sports"
Totally agree. I don’t even watch college game day and I like college football. The other shows are just intolerable
If we win, I'll watch the college final show.
I've been known to set the DVR and rip through to the game in question. That show is actually all the better since they changed away from Lou Holtz and Mark May
I think the only game day type show I like is NBA on TNT. Though even then I don't usually watch it live. I'll watch it on youtube later.
Which team got figuratively hurt the most because of Covid-19?
Any team that traded for a highly paid rental, like Mookie Betts, and gave up a promising young prospect.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Jeebus Fucking Christ on a Popsicle stick.
So Trump issued this cryptic all-cap Twitter diarrhea this morning that cited some mysterious 15 day period, which he hinted is ending next week in other tweets:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1241935285916782593
Then the WSJ then published the below article that connects the dots. Apparently, he wants to relax the Federal Government's Covid-19 guidelines to urge people to get back to work to reduce the impact on the economy. He just doesn't get it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-considers-easing-social-distancing-guidelines-to-boost-economy-11584986183
Most people are going to follow what local leaders are requiring regardless of what the numbskull in chief says or tweets. Almost time for his briefing so I'm going for a walk since the rain has ceased.
Unfortunately, I think the POTUS does have his followers despite all of this. And it does take everyone to buy in on the isolation for that to work.
Man, the Democratic Primary is weird. The Northern Mariana's have 6 delegates. Only 132 people voted.
Really quiet in DC. About 9:30 I went for a four mile run and saw maybe a dozen people on the streets. It doesn't help that it's forty degrees and raining. The police have the streets leading to the Tidal Basin blocked off because too many folks were checking out the cherry blossoms over the weekend.
Slush Fund
A bag of roasted pistachios for snacking on the go. Reg. and proof of insurance, manual for my SUV. Exciting stuff.
reg, insurance, manual, GPS (just in case...)
Reg and insurance, small flashlight, pens, Leatherman, keys to a building, parking permits for three different marinas and sometimes a checkbook and various receipts.
registration, insurance cards, CD changer, tire gauge, an old iPod, receipts for tires/servicing.
2 bags of almonds, 2 bag of cashews, 2 Nature Valley bars, rainbow umbrella, flip-flops, 5 ziploc bags, 3 pens, 1 pad of paper, 1 pad of Post-Its, 2 sunglasses, car manual, registration.
How big is your glove compartment?
How big is your glove (is your glove, how big is your glove)?
I really mean to learn
My glove compartment is large enough to hold two bottles of wine
This is the universal unit of volume
Smaller than the one in my old car. Had to get rid of some things.
manual, old registrations and proofs of insurance, a flaky (I don't think it effectively works anymore) power adapter with both usb and power plug output...the last of which makes it hard to open the glove compartment
Owner's manual booklet with registration/insurance, wheel lock key, microfiber towel, gloves (for winter in case I get stranded or have to swap to the spare tire, so I should remove them soon).
some pens, a tire pressure checker, registration and proof of insurance, manual, repair receipts
a bunch of maps of the surrounding states. i suppose i am paranoid that technology will fail when we need it most and old school things like maps will be useful to have.
Having got lost a couple of times in Vermont and New Hampshire in cell phone dead spots, that’s not the craziest idea
Snack, insurance/registration, loaded Glock 24... JK... car manual.