Some of you may remember me from the other website where I commented frequently and have yet to comment here but I have to sadly announce that I wasn’t admitted for Cal’s class of 2024, a stinging blow. I don’t know where I will end up right now but I will do my best to lean on this community to help bring me back in from this mess, even if I do decide to go to UCLA(please don’t hate me if I do lol.
Sorry to hear that man. Berkeley is a tough tough entry now. I checked my GPA and SAT scores agains the admittance grid - and I was 75th percentile when I got in, and I'm like 30th percentile for last year's class. It doesn't reflect poorly on you - and honestly, as much as I loved Cal - your collegiate experience is so much up to you.
What other schools did you apply to (aside from UCLA)? And whenever I visited my friends and cousins at UCLA, there was a ton of things I was jealous of that we didn't have at Cal. So it's definitely not a bad choice at all.
Thanks man, I applied to 9 other schools: Colorado, Utah, Cal Poly, UCSB, UC Davis, SF State, Santa Clara, St.Mary’s, and USC
Got into all of them besides UCSB and USC and I consider that a win for the college process (going 7.5/11 with a UCLA waitlist), but I’ll see where it all goes, maybe I’ll just have to step on campus as a junior instead.
Go where you feel like it's a good fit, where you belong, and immerse yourself in the experience. You have a lot of wonderful choices on that list. I know and work with folks from every one of those schools [okay, maybe not usc ...(;-p)]. If you truly bleed Blue and Gold, attending a different school won't change that.
Hey, congratulations on getting into so many schools! Everyone takes a different path, so I realize this might not be the best advice, but it would be a pity for you to not fully immerse yourself in college life for two years because you always had one eye on the transfer portal.
My dad's advice (or guideline - or instructions) to me were "Go as far away as you can, for the least amount of money" - that may or may not apply to you, but it worked for me.
Watched "The Ottomans" last night on netflix. Pretty good show, kind of a cross between Gladiator and Game of Thrones in terms of style. They trot out various profs from time to time to discuss the actual history of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Docudrama otherwise.
@kendragarden: One thing I’ve learned so far in quarantine is that my husband refuses to microwave anything for 45 seconds, he always does 44. When I asked him why, he said, “For Obama.”
When I microwave things, I usually do it in increments like 33 or 44 or 66 or 99 seconds. It's slightly more efficient that way, just pushing the same button twice. And as I've said before, I like palindromic digits.
We got rid of our microwave before the move and haven't missed it. It frustrates my MIL to no end when she comes over to prep dinner which makes both of us chuckle.
I went with Imax's schedule because she seems most excited about these, but am happy to join in if you want to set up an East Coast-friendly video social.
Yesterday I made an Italian sub with ciabiatta, salami, mozzarella, sopprasata, prosuictto, some homemade gerkin relish, and kale. Now I wish I had another cibaitta, since I still have the cured meats.
I prefer crunchy but was stuck with a couple jars of creamy because that was the only kind available. These are the hard sacrifices being made due to quarantine life.
Well the Insta-pot did the cooking, tho your point is valid, YWC ;-)....There really is nothing like celebrating a Cal road win in SEC-land with some Chevron gas station chicken on a stick...delightful.
When a drop of liquid evaporates, solids are left behind in a pattern that depends on what the liquid is, what solids are in it and the environmental conditions. Stuart Williams and colleagues previously found that drops of diluted American whiskeys –– but not their Scotch or Canadian counterparts –– formed webbed patterns when dried on a glass surface, and there were hints that the pattern was distinctive for different brands of whiskey. In the current study, the researchers wanted to see how the whiskey webs form in more detail, and whether they could serve as fingerprints of the spirits.
The team used time-lapse microscopy to examine droplets of diluted American whiskey as the liquid evaporated. Non-volatile organic compounds, such as phenols, aromatics and esters, clustered together and were driven to the surface of the droplet, where they formed monolayers. As the surface area of the droplet decreased, the monolayers collapsed, creating strands of the web. The researchers showed that different American whiskeys showed unique web patterns that could be correctly matched to unknown samples more than 90% of the time. The distinctive webs arise from the unique combination of solutes in each whiskey, the researchers say.
Interestingly, webs did not form under the same conditions for diluted 1.0 μL drops of non-American whiskeys such as Scotch, brandy, Irish whiskey, etc. (Figure S7b,c and Table S1, Supporting Information). These products are distilled from different mashes with various finishing processes ranging from the addition of coloring to aging in uncharred new oak barrels or used charred oak barrels.(29) Recall that whiskeys derived from new charred oak barrels have greater solids content(32) and relatively larger concentrations of water-insoluble content.(31) Therefore, the reduced overall concentration of solutes, including water-insoluble components, is likely why monolayer collapse was not observed under similar conditions (20–25% ABV, 1.0 μL)
Most of the tested American whiskeys (65 of 66 samples, refer to Table S1, Supporting Information) formed webs when drying 1.0 μL droplets at 25% ABV. The distinctive visual features of the evaporated structures were generally repeatable from the same bottle of American whiskey. Even the least aged available sample, which was matured for 3 months, produced a whiskey web. However, unaged distillates at the same dilution (n = 5) did not form webs nor uniform films (Figure S7a, Supporting Information). The lack of web structures for unaged whiskey indicates that the components extracted during the aging process are needed to form whiskey webs.
"Whiskey web formation was a function of dilution for similar sized droplets (Figure 7). In general, whiskey webs formed when various American whiskey samples were diluted within a specific range, approximately 15–25% ABV. At alcohol concentrations lower than 10% ABV, most whiskey samples deposited in a simple coffee ring pattern (Figure 7a, 10% ABV). However, longer-aged American whiskeys did not exhibit the coffee ring effect at lower alcohol concentrations (Figure 7b, 10% ABV). Elevated levels of solutes, including surfactants, occur in longer-aged samples, and the relatively high surfactant concentration may prevent the formation of a coffee ring.(43) At alcohol concentrations greater than 25%, the samples deposited a nearly uniform film (Figure 7, 30–35% ABV), similarly to previous studies with Scotch."
also, I love how we go from 'silly science interest story' to breaking down the background research and proposing other investigations with no prompting.
I've been watching the Met Opera's nightly streams and have decided that I love the music and the sets, but could do without the over the top singing and plots.
I watched Crash Landing on You because a friend wanted someone to squee with. Not as awful as I expected it to be. I definitely watched at 3.5x though because there was no reason not to.
Durrells in Corfu: Lighthearted, simple comedy where everyone's problems are never that serious and everyone is likeable. Perfect escapism for these troubling times.
Watched Ma yesterday on HBO, I'd give it a 12/19. Perfectly acceptable quarantine fodder, but very predictable and you can have it on as background and not miss much. Purchased a DVD player for the first time in a decade or more so we can start going back through our huge DVD collection without having to connect a laptop to the TV
My wife started watching it and I would occasionally pop in to watch a minute or two of the first couple episodes. You can tell by the hats and by the hair that these people are all insane.
Better Call Saul was losing me at some point in seasons 2-3, but I am fully onboard again. Even when I was losing interest in some of the subplots, the cinematography and acting have always been fantastic.
Finished the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard earlier today (have been up early due to online collaboration meeting this week that's mostly based on German time and we have had several virtual coffee breaks). The show is a direct continuation of one of my favorite show (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and borrowed the main theme of another favorite of mine (Battlestar Galactica) and even had the same message in this season finale as another favorite show of mine (The Good Place), yet it manages to be overall much less than any of those 3 shows. I guess it's basically the same feeling that I have had after watching the Star Trek TNG movies.
La Costanera, an elegant Peruvian restaurant overlooking the water in Montara, has been closed since the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order March 17. On Saturday night, at least four people broke into the restaurant, stole cash, smashed cameras and drank sparkling wine.
Now, Palacios is worried other restaurants that are temporarily empty and unguarded because of the coronavirus are going to be targeted. “We’re in week one and this already happened,” he said. “It was just liquor and some money but it could get worse.”
I have a friend who has it in Swizterland. She's in her late 20s, in decent shape, and thankfully has been given "rest at home" instead of having to go into a hospital. She says breathing is like being stabbed in the ribs with a dull knife and she has to sleep sitting up.
It's funny how quickly you can adapt to a quarantine mindset though. I was watching a TV show and it instinctively felt a little wrong to see people gathered together at a festival
Welp. My sister-in-law's family is fleeing NYC as the hospitals have maxed out. It appears they're staying with us (after a 14 day self-quarantine at an Airbnb). Their kids are adorable, but frustratingly immature (not parents fault, just late bloomers). This could be a veeeeery interesting 2020.
Remember day(s)-past discussion that Covid-19 doesn't mutate much? An Iceland outlet reports that they found 40 different strains out of the 648 cases. That would mean it is very very volatile virus. Pros and cons because of that.
We are on Day 8 of our county Shelter-in-Place order. Work is nearly normal, and people are avoiding the order by coming to the landfill. OH MY WORD YOUR GARAGE CLEANOUT IS NOT ESSENTIAL
People need things to do. I kind of feel like the stimulus package should have included either a ukelele, horn, or violin for every American. I am hoping Cornovirus turns consumers into polymaths.
Well. I'm gonna have to wait until about 4:30 p.m.
Silver lining: I leave my workstation at about 11:30 a.m. and go home. I will telecommute from home between 12:30 and 4:30 pm.
Not so silver lining: telecommuting is inferior to being in the office when it comes to actual work. I can't use my double monitors at home (my remote desktop is on one screen only) and I can't ask my neighbor a question without picking up the phone and calling.
Fortunately, some things, like Outlook and Zoom meetings, can be run remotely, and not on the one screen dedicated to Remote Desktop. But RD-Top definitely doesn't lend itself to a complex work environment,
One trick is to compose or edit text/code/etc locally (and on a different screen), and then drag the finished product back onto the remote site to save it. But if you need multiple site hosted screens at once, yes, its cumbersome.
We have had some success using a messaging tool, in our case, Microsoft teams. But that is also one more thing to monitor.
Two of my friends, who are a couple, have taken a turn for the worse. He was already in the hospital w/ pneumonia. Now she went in the hospital and he slipped into a coma. Both are now on respirators and confirmed Covid-19. They are in their early 50s. Their two daughters are stuck at home and can't visit. He is not doing well due to his pre-existing conditions and I am really, really concerned. Also, our county goes shelter-at-home today.
I knew this was coming and I was scared. And now that it is happening to people I know and that Orange Sociopath is out there spewing contrarian bullshit that will get more people killed... I am TEARS-IN-EYES, SPITTING, RAVING ANGRY.
The day my efforts at being a good father died when I decided, with severe reservations, to go with all the kids to see Rugrat in Paris on Christmas Day many years ago. It was a tortuous, mind numbingly horrible experience and I havent seen a kids movie since. Rugrats sucks, the people who invented those shitty characters suck, the people who do the voices suck and I hate them all with the fire of a thousand suns
My mother in law declared that we should have Seder via zoom and then washed her hands of actually making that technically possible. As long as we aren’t expected to eat the entire meal on video conference I can deal.
Scootie can expand on this too, but it is (in this particular instance) a temporary market dislocation due to too much demand for short-term securities due to a massive "risk off" (ie, people shifted to safer securities).
Investors dumped equity in favor of bonds. And within the bond portfolio, long-dated bonds were dumped in favor of bought short-dated bonds. There is an inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates. While everyone knew that government bond market would drop in interest rates, it was just as obvious that global risk would sky-rocket, which means the premium on long-bonds widened out substantially. This means that government 10 years bonds went to 1%, but bond saw their highest rates in over a decade.
Having negative interest rate is madness because who in their right mind would accept a guaranteed negative return over guaranteed 0.0% return (hold in cash). The answer is that so much money slopped over from equities and long-bonds that people bought short-term bonds to the point of irrationality (myself included). I would rather take a tiny loss on a my bond portfolio than have a potentially much bigger loss as long bond prices went up as Fiscal and Monetary policies were both cranked to Ludicrous Speed (eg, National debt just went up 10% in a single day). We are printing money so fast, that inflation may rise from the dead.
I had to really really learn all that shit for my Series 7/63/24 tests, and still can't adequately explain it without sitting down, thinking hard and making my brain hurt.
Not just government bonds, but specifically US Treasuries. The broader muni market was actually hit by massive outflows and yield spikes over the past couple of weeks.
If you go to Fox News, it is now a weird combination of articles about how bad Covid-19 is, hope/uplifting pieces based upon anecdotal news (US Navy sending a full boat of supplies to LA), and opinion pieces that say the opposite (eg, China's fault, not that bad, Dems spreading unnecessary panic, open by Easter, always complain to just make Trump look bad).
MRow: Cal rowing gets a $1m gift from Rodney Friedman for an annual scholarship in his wife's name (Shirley Friedman). Rodney as an ex-coxswain for the Bears. He and his wife bought 6 of Cal's rowing shells before her passing last year. Three of those shells are named after Shirley. They were very involved with Cal rowing over the years. Bless her heart and GO BEARS.
Cal women's gymnastics' Neveah DeSouza was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year yesterday. This was hardly a surprise since she won a conference-best Freshman of the Week honor 3x.
By the way, I only realized that her first name is "heaven" spelled backward thanks to a tweet from Twist. No one tells him that his tweet actually had an educational effect.
I asked the same thing to a friend named Nevaeh. She is in her early 40s, so she has a longer time perspective. She said it was a hippie name, but them became a "black" name (FYI: she's mixed-race black/white).
And if you look at the popularity of names, it peaked in 2010 at the #25 most popular girl's name. It's now #85.
Yeah, the way those things morph socially is interesting. Definitely white names end up becoming black names and then white people largely abandon them because racism.
Some of you may remember me from the other website where I commented frequently and have yet to comment here but I have to sadly announce that I wasn’t admitted for Cal’s class of 2024, a stinging blow. I don’t know where I will end up right now but I will do my best to lean on this community to help bring me back in from this mess, even if I do decide to go to UCLA(please don’t hate me if I do lol.
Sorry to hear that man. Berkeley is a tough tough entry now. I checked my GPA and SAT scores agains the admittance grid - and I was 75th percentile when I got in, and I'm like 30th percentile for last year's class. It doesn't reflect poorly on you - and honestly, as much as I loved Cal - your collegiate experience is so much up to you.
What other schools did you apply to (aside from UCLA)? And whenever I visited my friends and cousins at UCLA, there was a ton of things I was jealous of that we didn't have at Cal. So it's definitely not a bad choice at all.
Thanks man, I applied to 9 other schools: Colorado, Utah, Cal Poly, UCSB, UC Davis, SF State, Santa Clara, St.Mary’s, and USC
Got into all of them besides UCSB and USC and I consider that a win for the college process (going 7.5/11 with a UCLA waitlist), but I’ll see where it all goes, maybe I’ll just have to step on campus as a junior instead.
Go where you feel like it's a good fit, where you belong, and immerse yourself in the experience. You have a lot of wonderful choices on that list. I know and work with folks from every one of those schools [okay, maybe not usc ...(;-p)]. If you truly bleed Blue and Gold, attending a different school won't change that.
Hey, congratulations on getting into so many schools! Everyone takes a different path, so I realize this might not be the best advice, but it would be a pity for you to not fully immerse yourself in college life for two years because you always had one eye on the transfer portal.
My dad's advice (or guideline - or instructions) to me were "Go as far away as you can, for the least amount of money" - that may or may not apply to you, but it worked for me.
Good advice
My type of people, this is the reaction I needed and if I go to a place like Santa Clara I can still root for the blue and gold despite this.
RIP Curly Neal (the bald guy from the Harlem Globetrotters).
No cause of death announced. He was 77. He was the star of the show when I watched a Globetrotters game at the Cow Palace in the early 80s.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGZyIKUX0AET4FA?format=jpg&name=small
Watched "The Ottomans" last night on netflix. Pretty good show, kind of a cross between Gladiator and Game of Thrones in terms of style. They trot out various profs from time to time to discuss the actual history of the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Docudrama otherwise.
Agreed, not great, but interesting if you like that kinda thing, which I do.
https://twitter.com/Kendragarden/status/1243200634137935872
@kendragarden: One thing I’ve learned so far in quarantine is that my husband refuses to microwave anything for 45 seconds, he always does 44. When I asked him why, he said, “For Obama.”
Depending on the design of the microwave, the Quick Min button, two taps of the +30secs button or 1:11
When I microwave things, I usually do it in increments like 33 or 44 or 66 or 99 seconds. It's slightly more efficient that way, just pushing the same button twice. And as I've said before, I like palindromic digits.
We got rid of our microwave before the move and haven't missed it. It frustrates my MIL to no end when she comes over to prep dinner which makes both of us chuckle.
I rarely use mine, but it's convenient at times.
Any time I microwave anything for 61-99 seconds, I always use the two digit number because it's more efficient.
Exactly.
My microwave has a +1 minute and Stop button. I'm not sure what the others are for.
...and there you have it, the only button ever needed on a microwave.
Reminder: Zoom DBD tonight at 8pm Pacific. Let me know if you need the link.
do any of these happen earlier for us eastern time folk?
I went with Imax's schedule because she seems most excited about these, but am happy to join in if you want to set up an East Coast-friendly video social.
yeah! maybe some time next week
I'd like to join the next one.
I had a book ready and everything
What's for lunch?
Yesterday I made an Italian sub with ciabiatta, salami, mozzarella, sopprasata, prosuictto, some homemade gerkin relish, and kale. Now I wish I had another cibaitta, since I still have the cured meats.
1/2 sandwich: almond butter and sliced apple; and 1/2 sandwich: avocado and shredded parmesan. late lunch.
Forgot to eat lunch. Will be making pork bulgogi and cabbage for dinner tonight though.
Toasted peanut butter sandwich!
You put banana slices in that?
Nope. I'm kind of a peanut butter purist, I do know people who do. I think I will follow up with a banana though.
Crunchy PB? Smooth? Or one of those all natural ones you have to stir before you can eat?
I prefer crunchy but was stuck with a couple jars of creamy because that was the only kind available. These are the hard sacrifices being made due to quarantine life.
Peter Pan PB!
frozen chimichanga and frozen burrito
pork piccata with some spicy greens
Finished off the fried rice that we decided to make because there were too many leftover egg roll ingredients.
Fried rice is one of my favorite foods!
I’m about to go and scavenge for leftovers, will report back.
Sourdough waffles turned into an open faced sandwich with turkey and cheese, briefly put under the broiler. Perfectly acceptable
I was going to do either waffles or pancakes for dinner tonight.
excellent work
Western Carolina BBQ on potato bun (x3). I will probably bake cookies in an hour too.
Not sure, either a sandwich or leftover pasta if there's enough.
It was the leftover spicy bacon, tomato, onion spaghetti - very tasty.
Currently eating a bacon/egg/cheese/avo on focaccia for breakfast, so probably no lunch for me.
what alcohol did you pair with it?
A mimosa. And then another one. Going to try to maintain a very light buzz all day, wish me luck.
That's what I would have guessed.
no plans yet. maybe croissant melt with ham and american cheese.
Leftover spinach risotto from last night. I might punch it up with some egg and sausage.
Update: It was tasty.
I made a chickpea curry last night and have leftovers for days
Wish you'd made that in the condo in Oxford....
Well the Insta-pot did the cooking, tho your point is valid, YWC ;-)....There really is nothing like celebrating a Cal road win in SEC-land with some Chevron gas station chicken on a stick...delightful.
‘Whiskey webs’ are the new ‘coffee ring effect’
https://www.newswise.com/articles/whiskey-webs-are-the-new-coffee-ring-effect?sc=swhp
When a drop of liquid evaporates, solids are left behind in a pattern that depends on what the liquid is, what solids are in it and the environmental conditions. Stuart Williams and colleagues previously found that drops of diluted American whiskeys –– but not their Scotch or Canadian counterparts –– formed webbed patterns when dried on a glass surface, and there were hints that the pattern was distinctive for different brands of whiskey. In the current study, the researchers wanted to see how the whiskey webs form in more detail, and whether they could serve as fingerprints of the spirits.
I love DBD for the Continuing Ed opportunities...
Ok, but why?
SCIENCE
The paragraph I didn't copy says:
The team used time-lapse microscopy to examine droplets of diluted American whiskey as the liquid evaporated. Non-volatile organic compounds, such as phenols, aromatics and esters, clustered together and were driven to the surface of the droplet, where they formed monolayers. As the surface area of the droplet decreased, the monolayers collapsed, creating strands of the web. The researchers showed that different American whiskeys showed unique web patterns that could be correctly matched to unknown samples more than 90% of the time. The distinctive webs arise from the unique combination of solutes in each whiskey, the researchers say.
But Scotch and Canadian whisk[e]ys don't have such solutes?
Interestingly, webs did not form under the same conditions for diluted 1.0 μL drops of non-American whiskeys such as Scotch, brandy, Irish whiskey, etc. (Figure S7b,c and Table S1, Supporting Information). These products are distilled from different mashes with various finishing processes ranging from the addition of coloring to aging in uncharred new oak barrels or used charred oak barrels.(29) Recall that whiskeys derived from new charred oak barrels have greater solids content(32) and relatively larger concentrations of water-insoluble content.(31) Therefore, the reduced overall concentration of solutes, including water-insoluble components, is likely why monolayer collapse was not observed under similar conditions (20–25% ABV, 1.0 μL)
Interesting!! Thanks for sharing :)
Most of the tested American whiskeys (65 of 66 samples, refer to Table S1, Supporting Information) formed webs when drying 1.0 μL droplets at 25% ABV. The distinctive visual features of the evaporated structures were generally repeatable from the same bottle of American whiskey. Even the least aged available sample, which was matured for 3 months, produced a whiskey web. However, unaged distillates at the same dilution (n = 5) did not form webs nor uniform films (Figure S7a, Supporting Information). The lack of web structures for unaged whiskey indicates that the components extracted during the aging process are needed to form whiskey webs.
Ok, I'm looking through the paper and trying to pull relevant information. Here's the paper if you want to take a look: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsnano.9b08984
"Whiskey web formation was a function of dilution for similar sized droplets (Figure 7). In general, whiskey webs formed when various American whiskey samples were diluted within a specific range, approximately 15–25% ABV. At alcohol concentrations lower than 10% ABV, most whiskey samples deposited in a simple coffee ring pattern (Figure 7a, 10% ABV). However, longer-aged American whiskeys did not exhibit the coffee ring effect at lower alcohol concentrations (Figure 7b, 10% ABV). Elevated levels of solutes, including surfactants, occur in longer-aged samples, and the relatively high surfactant concentration may prevent the formation of a coffee ring.(43) At alcohol concentrations greater than 25%, the samples deposited a nearly uniform film (Figure 7, 30–35% ABV), similarly to previous studies with Scotch."
also, I love how we go from 'silly science interest story' to breaking down the background research and proposing other investigations with no prompting.
We're all about deep dives haha
DBD AV Club
I've been watching the Met Opera's nightly streams and have decided that I love the music and the sets, but could do without the over the top singing and plots.
/facepalm
I watched Crash Landing on You because a friend wanted someone to squee with. Not as awful as I expected it to be. I definitely watched at 3.5x though because there was no reason not to.
ugh, that one was not good. So many better k dramas out there right now
Durrells in Corfu: Lighthearted, simple comedy where everyone's problems are never that serious and everyone is likeable. Perfect escapism for these troubling times.
Watched Ma yesterday on HBO, I'd give it a 12/19. Perfectly acceptable quarantine fodder, but very predictable and you can have it on as background and not miss much. Purchased a DVD player for the first time in a decade or more so we can start going back through our huge DVD collection without having to connect a laptop to the TV
I need a new escapist sitcom / animated comedy, any suggestions? currently have the DVR programmed for Brooklyn 99 and Bob's Burgers
My cousin in Bangkok is super-in on Sex Education
I'm a few episodes in and I quite like it.
Watch Robin Williams reruns on the Late Show through Youtube. Great escapism.
Big Mouth is worth giving a few episodes as it's hilarious once you get past the off-putting art style
Bojack Horseman is there and still excellent.
If you're looking for something more kid-friendly, Kipo and She-Ra are both excellent animated shows that can still appeal to adults.
Superstore has five seasons up on Hulu and makes for some nice low-investment streaming.
And John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch is a semi-ironic throwback to the kids specials of the 80s and 90s.
Big mouth is great!
Archer is around as well, but the first season is pretty weak comparatively.
If you want to go classic, Dick Van Dyke Show is good, if you haven't seen it.
Rick and Morty
it always seemed a little... out there?... for my taste? I was never a South Park guy and I get that vibe from it
It's way more nerdy than South Park.
streaming ideally, since wfh has really thrown a wrench into my usual schedule
i has heard Schitt's Creek is quite good.
Astronomy Club was really good! I've ironically quoted the "What you shoulda done" sketch several times
we're considering going all in on Tiger King. It seems like the insanity of it would appeal to my sense of humor
Chris Long is a fan. https://twitter.com/JOEL9ONE/status/1243155928356093957
My wife started watching it and I would occasionally pop in to watch a minute or two of the first couple episodes. You can tell by the hats and by the hair that these people are all insane.
Insane people from around the country are vehemently objecting to this comparison...Joe Exotic is some next-level sheeeet!
It's nuts...def takes your mind off of the COVID!
Great: Better Call Saul, Insecure (S3), Babylon Berlin.
Better Call Saul was losing me at some point in seasons 2-3, but I am fully onboard again. Even when I was losing interest in some of the subplots, the cinematography and acting have always been fantastic.
The last episode of Saul was fantastic. Give Rhea Seehorn all the Emmys.
I'm one back, I'm thinking I'll get around to Ep 6 this evening.
Iceland's best ever export, The Valhalla Murders, is quite good
Wow, that's a harsh dis to Bjork and Sigur Ros.
is good show
That's a bold move to throw shade at Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson ("The Mountain")
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Finished the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard earlier today (have been up early due to online collaboration meeting this week that's mostly based on German time and we have had several virtual coffee breaks). The show is a direct continuation of one of my favorite show (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and borrowed the main theme of another favorite of mine (Battlestar Galactica) and even had the same message in this season finale as another favorite show of mine (The Good Place), yet it manages to be overall much less than any of those 3 shows. I guess it's basically the same feeling that I have had after watching the Star Trek TNG movies.
Haven't watched the finale yet, but it's been reasonably entertaining, but not great.
I signed up for the CBS All-Access to watch it, now I need to fix my chromecast to be able to watch it on the TV
Altered Carbon on netflix is pretty good, and fairly bonkers.
I haven't seen S2 yet, but loved S1. One of the few times I've enjoyed audio-visual media more than the book it's based on.
Ozark S3 drops tomorrow
Factual statement!
The science on 100 humans seems pretty dodgy but it is fun.
I was stoked to watch it and lost interest halfway through the first episode.
Not a scientist, but sample size and experimental setup doesn't seem very well-designed to draw meaningful conclusions, but yes :)
We're designating an 11th commandment. What should it be?
thou shalt use thine turn indicators
Take care yo chicken.
My family's 11th was, 'Thou shall not waste alcohol'
Thou shalt not injure Chase Garbers?
Thou Shalt Not Be A Dick
Golden Rule should be a commandment.
Thou Shalt Not Drive Slow In The Left Lane
Preach Brother!
Meanwhile, in the UK and other former territories...
FIFM: Thou Shalt Not Drive Slow In The Passing Lane
Thou Shalt Be Excellent To Thee and Thine Other
And Be Excellent To Each Other
Party on Wayne
Historical duels
<mouth full of peanut butter sandwich>Aaron Burr
Wish someone would duel Richard Burr.
Link for the lazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJ2Vjv2x18
Today in COVID-19
still jerks out there in our community...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/Thieves-party-at-closed-Bay-Area-restaurant-15160043.php
La Costanera, an elegant Peruvian restaurant overlooking the water in Montara, has been closed since the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order March 17. On Saturday night, at least four people broke into the restaurant, stole cash, smashed cameras and drank sparkling wine.
Now, Palacios is worried other restaurants that are temporarily empty and unguarded because of the coronavirus are going to be targeted. “We’re in week one and this already happened,” he said. “It was just liquor and some money but it could get worse.”
I have a friend who has it in Swizterland. She's in her late 20s, in decent shape, and thankfully has been given "rest at home" instead of having to go into a hospital. She says breathing is like being stabbed in the ribs with a dull knife and she has to sleep sitting up.
She has been playing a lot of Animal Crossing.
Yikes!
It's funny how quickly you can adapt to a quarantine mindset though. I was watching a TV show and it instinctively felt a little wrong to see people gathered together at a festival
Welp. My sister-in-law's family is fleeing NYC as the hospitals have maxed out. It appears they're staying with us (after a 14 day self-quarantine at an Airbnb). Their kids are adorable, but frustratingly immature (not parents fault, just late bloomers). This could be a veeeeery interesting 2020.
Good luck?
Remember day(s)-past discussion that Covid-19 doesn't mutate much? An Iceland outlet reports that they found 40 different strains out of the 648 cases. That would mean it is very very volatile virus. Pros and cons because of that.
https://www.information.dk/indland/2020/03/forskere-sporet-40-mutationer-coronavirus-alene-paa-island (use Google to translate)
I thought I had seen somewhere where they were seeing new mutations every few days
NERD!
yikes :-|
We are on Day 8 of our county Shelter-in-Place order. Work is nearly normal, and people are avoiding the order by coming to the landfill. OH MY WORD YOUR GARAGE CLEANOUT IS NOT ESSENTIAL
People need things to do. I kind of feel like the stimulus package should have included either a ukelele, horn, or violin for every American. I am hoping Cornovirus turns consumers into polymaths.
I have finished my first adult beverage of the day and it's 8:34AM.
Cal tailgating! Some things are impervious to even this set of circumstances.
Hope your day just gets better and better
It was happy hour in the Middle East...
Well. I'm gonna have to wait until about 4:30 p.m.
Silver lining: I leave my workstation at about 11:30 a.m. and go home. I will telecommute from home between 12:30 and 4:30 pm.
Not so silver lining: telecommuting is inferior to being in the office when it comes to actual work. I can't use my double monitors at home (my remote desktop is on one screen only) and I can't ask my neighbor a question without picking up the phone and calling.
Fortunately, some things, like Outlook and Zoom meetings, can be run remotely, and not on the one screen dedicated to Remote Desktop. But RD-Top definitely doesn't lend itself to a complex work environment,
One trick is to compose or edit text/code/etc locally (and on a different screen), and then drag the finished product back onto the remote site to save it. But if you need multiple site hosted screens at once, yes, its cumbersome.
We have had some success using a messaging tool, in our case, Microsoft teams. But that is also one more thing to monitor.
Two of my friends, who are a couple, have taken a turn for the worse. He was already in the hospital w/ pneumonia. Now she went in the hospital and he slipped into a coma. Both are now on respirators and confirmed Covid-19. They are in their early 50s. Their two daughters are stuck at home and can't visit. He is not doing well due to his pre-existing conditions and I am really, really concerned. Also, our county goes shelter-at-home today.
I knew this was coming and I was scared. And now that it is happening to people I know and that Orange Sociopath is out there spewing contrarian bullshit that will get more people killed... I am TEARS-IN-EYES, SPITTING, RAVING ANGRY.
very sorry to hear this (words so pithy and inadequate). virtual hugs {{{SGBear + your friends and their family}}}
Good luck...to you and your friends.
Sorry to hear that. I hope they manage a full recovery.
I'm sorry. I hope they can recover!
Best of wishes for both of your friends
Ugh that's terrible.
I hope they get better and that their daughters didn't end up getting it.
So sorry to hear about your friends. Best wishes to them and their family.
well that blows.
Thoughts and prayers are with the family and you, SG...
There are no words. I am deeply sorry for this seems so damn inadequate.
Hoping for the best and a full recovery.
I don't know about you, but I am going to celebrate Passover this year.
Imma sacrifice a lamb and paint my door. Locusts, earthquakes, plague. . .
We should watch Rugrats Passover
The day my efforts at being a good father died when I decided, with severe reservations, to go with all the kids to see Rugrat in Paris on Christmas Day many years ago. It was a tortuous, mind numbingly horrible experience and I havent seen a kids movie since. Rugrats sucks, the people who invented those shitty characters suck, the people who do the voices suck and I hate them all with the fire of a thousand suns
I watched it so many times as a kid, and for the life of me and I can't remember a single joke that I found funny.
My mother in law declared that we should have Seder via zoom and then washed her hands of actually making that technically possible. As long as we aren’t expected to eat the entire meal on video conference I can deal.
please tell me that pun was intended
It was
Given the current circumstances, we all can now better understand the deeper meaning of this celebration and commemoration.
Today in our crumbling democracy
1 and 3 month T-Bills now have negative yields.
I’m not an expert but that sounds bad
Scootie can expand on this too, but it is (in this particular instance) a temporary market dislocation due to too much demand for short-term securities due to a massive "risk off" (ie, people shifted to safer securities).
Investors dumped equity in favor of bonds. And within the bond portfolio, long-dated bonds were dumped in favor of bought short-dated bonds. There is an inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates. While everyone knew that government bond market would drop in interest rates, it was just as obvious that global risk would sky-rocket, which means the premium on long-bonds widened out substantially. This means that government 10 years bonds went to 1%, but bond saw their highest rates in over a decade.
Having negative interest rate is madness because who in their right mind would accept a guaranteed negative return over guaranteed 0.0% return (hold in cash). The answer is that so much money slopped over from equities and long-bonds that people bought short-term bonds to the point of irrationality (myself included). I would rather take a tiny loss on a my bond portfolio than have a potentially much bigger loss as long bond prices went up as Fiscal and Monetary policies were both cranked to Ludicrous Speed (eg, National debt just went up 10% in a single day). We are printing money so fast, that inflation may rise from the dead.
I understand that in general but I remain oddly unable to internalize these market rules, which is why I pay someone to keep it all straight.
I had to really really learn all that shit for my Series 7/63/24 tests, and still can't adequately explain it without sitting down, thinking hard and making my brain hurt.
Not just government bonds, but specifically US Treasuries. The broader muni market was actually hit by massive outflows and yield spikes over the past couple of weeks.
We have reached the point where we have fake news about fake news.
If you go to Fox News, it is now a weird combination of articles about how bad Covid-19 is, hope/uplifting pieces based upon anecdotal news (US Navy sending a full boat of supplies to LA), and opinion pieces that say the opposite (eg, China's fault, not that bad, Dems spreading unnecessary panic, open by Easter, always complain to just make Trump look bad).
https://www.foxnews.com/
no thanks
Pros
Hey D$:
https://imgur.com/gallery/txL464K
oh I had a good one for this
https://sports.theonion.com/tom-brady-awakens-from-week-long-kombucha-bender-to-dis-1842508215
quality onion work.
hehe
hahahaha
Happy Opening Day! [SadOski.png]
It frigging blows...we should be under 90 minutes from the first pitch of the 2020 by DeGrom or Shane Bieber...
Cal
MRow: Cal rowing gets a $1m gift from Rodney Friedman for an annual scholarship in his wife's name (Shirley Friedman). Rodney as an ex-coxswain for the Bears. He and his wife bought 6 of Cal's rowing shells before her passing last year. Three of those shells are named after Shirley. They were very involved with Cal rowing over the years. Bless her heart and GO BEARS.
https://calbears.com/news/2020/3/26/mens-rowing-floating-their-boats.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3YRRnKSC9iNomfTKYh2urLG01hdidrY-DiAFtRhjTFyK56kMGJT0Wuh4E
I find this Oski design to be rather disturbing
https://images.footballfanatics.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_2880000/ff_2880299_full.jpg&w=340
I block it.
/nba desktop'd
eww
Oski's smirk has always disturbed me.
But now with scary abs? Nope. Unnecessary. We are not SoCal, thankyouverymuch
I love the head, the body? meh. Smirking Oski is one of my favorite Oskis
That's mighty mouse except with the wrong paw thrust forward.
I dislove it.
OFN!
Is this a way-overdue response to Oregon's weird, buff CyberDuck replacement for Puddles?
Triangle Oski?
"Bro, do you even RSF?"
Buff Oski?
I guess the plague of manscaping has reached its peak
Cal women's gymnastics' Neveah DeSouza was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year yesterday. This was hardly a surprise since she won a conference-best Freshman of the Week honor 3x.
By the way, I only realized that her first name is "heaven" spelled backward thanks to a tweet from Twist. No one tells him that his tweet actually had an educational effect.
https://calbears.com/news/2020/3/25/womens-gymnastics-desouza-honored-as-pac-12-freshman-of-the-year.aspx
Why did "heaven spelled backwards" became a name idea in the 90s?
I asked the same thing to a friend named Nevaeh. She is in her early 40s, so she has a longer time perspective. She said it was a hippie name, but them became a "black" name (FYI: she's mixed-race black/white).
And if you look at the popularity of names, it peaked in 2010 at the #25 most popular girl's name. It's now #85.
https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
Yeah, the way those things morph socially is interesting. Definitely white names end up becoming black names and then white people largely abandon them because racism.
Not for names though. People want to... eh, "appropriate" for lack of a better word, but they won't want to self-identify.