Legend has it that Prince - despite being a horndog personality - was an introvert. He gave away music as gifts, including writing “Manic Monday” to the Bangles. Reportedly, Prince was trying to court Ms. Susanna Hoffs (UC Berkeley, BS Art ‘80). Sorry fellas, Ms. Hoffs is a Mrs. as she married the director Matthew Roach (Stanfurd, BS Economics ‘80), who directed the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents films.
Copenhagen has an urban waste-to-energy plant that has an 80m foot sport climbing wall, skiing slope, fine dining, and a rooftop deck to grab a Cornetto, beer, and views of other water-front industrial plants.
Thanks it really is. The process was a lot more difficult and stressful than I thought it would be. We saw about 20 homes, put in 6 offers and finally got one.
I saw that enthusiast car prices spiked shortly after lockdown and then everything else seemed to climb up too. There has to be a slight correction to the used market at some point now that people are increasingly getting vaccinated and driving to work. At least, I hope so...
um, probably not. He actually loves the Hyundai Elantra Touring wagon he used to have in Louisville. And there is a 2012 with only 28K for 10.5K kinda nearby. Granted it only has 28K but that seems outrageous. Going to have to ask him what kind of car he wants.
Michael Jackson's oldest child - Michael - has gone by the name "Prince". MJ's youngest child Prince, who went by "Blanket" for a while - now goes by the name Bigi.
There's no evidence one way or the other, and given the situation that we're now in, it sort of doesn't matter how it happened. But if it did happen that way, you can be 100% sure CCP would do everything they possibly could to deny it.
"THE NEXT BIG HUMAN PANDEMIC--bigger than AIDS or the 1918 influeza--is likely to be cause by a zoonotic virus, one that jumps from a wild animal to infect a human host..."
Yeah, but... It's well known that WIV was working on these types of viruses, I'm 100% sure, yes it's a virus that started in bats, the question is, how did it get to humans?
And the thing that makes me suspicious is how transmissible it is, it could very well be a product of Gain-of-function research. The other viruses that jumped from animals to humans, while deadly, were actually quite hard to catch.
1) I don't see any reason to believe claims by the Chinese government
2) one of the reasons that the lab was in Wuhan was that it had been working on zoonotic disease transmission from various creatures but especially bats - and as I understand it, those kinds of jumps are not unheard of around Wuhan
3) is it theoretically possible that someone could have fucked up in a lab? Sure. Is it theoretically possible that the jump could have been in the community? Also sure.
As you say, it kind of doesn't matter... but we've reached the point where most of the US politicians pushing the hypothesis are doing it for reasons that have nothing to do with epidemiology or risk mitigation.
eh, it matters for the future if it did escape from WIV, because it could happen again. And that would not be good. I get why GOP politicians want to run with this, but it doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't consider the possibility; stopped clock and all that.
Starting tomorrow, March 30, all New Yorkers age 30 or older will be able to be vaccinated, and all New Yorkers age 16 or older will be eligible on April 6.
I think this upward trend in cases from 20 states should've been expected, at least with my reasoning with people 18-50 starting to come back out mixed with the easing of restrictions, and cases should go up while the mortality rate should go down because my train of thought is the most fully vulnerable are basically vaccinated, which is why everyone else is going back out and cases are back up, but I think death rates will fall.
Yeah, that's how I got into F1 and went to a race two years ago.
Season 3 that just dropped had an exterior shot of Karlsruhe, Germany (Haas trying to find a German sponsor which led to them doing the obvious and hiring Mick). The AirBnB where I binged the first season of the show was visible.
Watched the game... ugly. Honduras deserved the win and both goals conceded were bad with the 2nd completely inexcusable. Its a shame cause that US team had maybe 3-4 guys would play significantly with the Olympic team. They looked... not good.
I thought had this U-23 team qualified for the Olympics, this would be the team that would play there. There is a U-23 requirement for men's soccer.
Also, I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that Cal alum Drake Callender was the last goalkeeper cut from this U-23 team. Good that he was not the scapegoat, but obviously Ochoa had beaten him for the starter job.
by my count, the last *men's* roster that had matches against Jamaica and N. Ireland... of the 25 players, 15 were age eligible for the Olympics and that did not include Adams, McKennie, Weah, de la Fuente, Akinola or Llanez. Add in negotiations that could've brought in Atlanta United's 3 youth stars and of the team that lost yesterday to Honduras, Yuell, Dotson, Ochoa by default and maybe Glad would've made a 23 man roster if the US put all of its big names out there. Realistically, they wouldn't have gotten all their young guys in but I bet at least half or more would've played. Of the current American U23 age eligible, US is easily top 10 in the world and possibly top 5. Lot to look forward to in '22 and especially '26. Just annoying to choke it out at this stage again with 2nd string guys.
Moot point now, but it seems problematic to bring in that many guys who have ever played with one another for a tournament that will start in 3 months.
The larger issue, imo, is we should be focused on making the field, since we haven't in some time. i.e., full team for these qualifiers, until we are in.
the problem is that the Olympics is not FIFA sanctioned, so clubs dont have to release players to national teams for it. For international breaks, like this past week, clubs do have to release players if asked. There are politics involved with that but usually its a fair determination if a player will go out for those. But Olympics dont have that so its a pure negotiation by the Federations. Mexico has almost its entire team playing in Mexico and have a good relationship between League and Federation. Voila, best Mexican 23 turn out. Virtually all American u23s (of note) play overseas so its a club by club decision. If a player is heavily involved in the first team, he wont be released. So most of the American team can't/won't show for qualifiers but they might for the Olympics since its a Summer tourney
Very long time Texas men's swimming head coach Eddie Reese has decided to retire after winning 15 championships in 43 seasons (nope, he doesn't coach their divers). I just hope that Texas won't try to poach Dave Durden away from Cal.
3 out of 8 was achieved in 2001: AZ, 'furd, U$C. Arizona won their next game and ended up losing to Dook in the finals. The Blue Devils had Shane Battier, Jason Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy Jr, and Chris Duhon. On the bench was Dahntay Jones.
I notice that Cal was the only Pac-10 team that sucked in the tournament that year, losing by 12 to Fresno State in the first round. This must be why I've mentally blocked it out.
Eastern Washington gives Beau Baldwin a rude welcome back to Cheney, WA. 62-10. EWU sat its 1st string QB after going up 45-7 in the first half and tried to run out the clock by running. Cal Poly will play NAU next week before playing #10 UC Davis again (previous: 73-24) before ending against #2 Weber State.
I have no clue about their rosters, but is there significant dropoff in talent at Cal Poly? I know Eastern Washington usually has the better talent in FCS. Has Eastern Washington been historically a good team? or did Baldwin build it into a powerhouse?
EWU is a top-tier BCS team. Cal Poly is in full rebuild mode. Cal Poly had their last coach - Tim Walsh - retire. Walsh had a Tedford-like arc, starting off really strong, but below average at the end. Walsh ran an Army-like run-all-the-time triple-option attack and Baldwin was... well... you remember. Baldwin brought in Nick Edwards to be his OC and JC Sherritt as DC - neither of whom had any OC or DC experience. Edwards has 5 years of WR coach experience and 1 year of RB coach experience. Sherritt has one year of CFL linebacker coaching experience.
.... and their season is over. Cal Poly is cancelling the rest of their season due to Covid and probably because they don't want people hanging 60 on them every game.
Arizona Christian's kicker is 5'5" 285 lbs, but half of that is heart as he clinches the division championship with a last-second field goal. He is only a sophomore and the reigning first-team PK in the division. Also, ACU is only one of four 4-year colleges in Arizona that play football.
Disney+ start filling Obi-Wan series' actor line-up announced. Filming starts next month.
https://www.starwars.com/news/obi-wan-kenobi-series-cast
JUSTICE FOR HAN
Did you know that goats have contraceptives? I didn't https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1376398714877530112?s=20
at first I thought: "why wouldn't steph curry have contraceptives?"!
They do the same for the buffalo on Catalina
[Insert crude Welsh joke here]
don't leave out our Aggie brothers
Important bear video https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/mf8t8k/momkids_dynamic_transcends_all_life/
Go Bears!
Copenhagen has an urban waste-to-energy plant that has an 80m foot sport climbing wall, skiing slope, fine dining, and a rooftop deck to grab a Cornetto, beer, and views of other water-front industrial plants.
https://www.copenhill.dk/en
We finally got an offer accepted on a house!
Congratulations!
Speaking of housing, rents are starting to rise in SF
Congrats! That's quite a feat in this current market.
Thanks it really is. The process was a lot more difficult and stressful than I thought it would be. We saw about 20 homes, put in 6 offers and finally got one.
I might need to get No 2 a car this summer and wow did the used car prices sky rocket. I knew NA Miatas did and it looks like they all did.
I saw that enthusiast car prices spiked shortly after lockdown and then everything else seemed to climb up too. There has to be a slight correction to the used market at some point now that people are increasingly getting vaccinated and driving to work. At least, I hope so...
Bicycles, especially nice expensive ones, were hard to buy too.
Does he want my 2010 Corolla with bullet hole????
um, probably not. He actually loves the Hyundai Elantra Touring wagon he used to have in Louisville. And there is a 2012 with only 28K for 10.5K kinda nearby. Granted it only has 28K but that seems outrageous. Going to have to ask him what kind of car he wants.
Yeah, but BULLET HOLE 😂
A place to store bullets? My 2010 Corolla didn't come with that. You must have a fancier model.
Nah, it's a SPEED Hole, makes the car go faster or something.
Then there needs to be an accompanying smaller hole so the air can come out a little bit faster.
Good news!
Nice! Congrats.
An ode to Jack Reacher novels https://twitter.com/BrandyLJensen/status/1376524937637339137?s=20
those books are my guilty pleasure on a plane
Absolutely...."Reacher said nothing."
The Bangles
Eternal Flame...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoOFn3wQV4
Probably going to be hearing Manic Monday all during my run.
Hard to believe the song is 35 years old.
maybe you should walk like an Egyptian instead?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--QjywfdcUo
Prince
Michael Jackson's oldest child - Michael - has gone by the name "Prince". MJ's youngest child Prince, who went by "Blanket" for a while - now goes by the name Bigi.
https://www.today.com/popculture/prince-jackson-opens-rare-interview-about-dad-michael-jackson-t212148
Boat news
it's partially dislodged, which is nice
Egyptian state TV said the boat had been freed by "The Egyptians" but apparently it was a case of putting the cart before the horse.
@must have been a Southern Egyptian that said it@
Yeah, Upper Egypt which is actually the southern half of the country.
Actually they built a pyramid with the containers...
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2058382-suez-canal-jam
Our Crumbling Democracy
Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims [Fair and Balanced]
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/26/dominion-voting-sues-fox-478152
Former CDC Director in Trump administration, Dr. Robert Redfield says on CNN that he thinks Covid escaped from a Wuhan lab.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-lab-theory-robert-redfield-no-evidence/
ay dios mio, we're back to that.
There's no evidence one way or the other, and given the situation that we're now in, it sort of doesn't matter how it happened. But if it did happen that way, you can be 100% sure CCP would do everything they possibly could to deny it.
Spillover by David Quammen. published in 2012!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillover_(book)
From the back cover:
"THE NEXT BIG HUMAN PANDEMIC--bigger than AIDS or the 1918 influeza--is likely to be cause by a zoonotic virus, one that jumps from a wild animal to infect a human host..."
Yeah, but... It's well known that WIV was working on these types of viruses, I'm 100% sure, yes it's a virus that started in bats, the question is, how did it get to humans?
And the thing that makes me suspicious is how transmissible it is, it could very well be a product of Gain-of-function research. The other viruses that jumped from animals to humans, while deadly, were actually quite hard to catch.
1) I don't see any reason to believe claims by the Chinese government
2) one of the reasons that the lab was in Wuhan was that it had been working on zoonotic disease transmission from various creatures but especially bats - and as I understand it, those kinds of jumps are not unheard of around Wuhan
3) is it theoretically possible that someone could have fucked up in a lab? Sure. Is it theoretically possible that the jump could have been in the community? Also sure.
As you say, it kind of doesn't matter... but we've reached the point where most of the US politicians pushing the hypothesis are doing it for reasons that have nothing to do with epidemiology or risk mitigation.
eh, it matters for the future if it did escape from WIV, because it could happen again. And that would not be good. I get why GOP politicians want to run with this, but it doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't consider the possibility; stopped clock and all that.
"it sort of doesn't matter how it happened"
then
"it matters for the future if it did escape from WIV"
I'm fine with either but pick one my friend ;)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin-chaos-under-heaven-wuhan-lab-book-excerpt-474322
I don't know if you read this, but it's the "Gain-of-fuction" research that's concerning.
Today in Covid-19
Starting tomorrow, March 30, all New Yorkers age 30 or older will be able to be vaccinated, and all New Yorkers age 16 or older will be eligible on April 6.
I should get No 1 to drive up there and get his shot.
Got my first Pfizer shot on Saturday. No 3 and I ended up going to Krispy Kreme later that afternoon for my free donut.
I think this upward trend in cases from 20 states should've been expected, at least with my reasoning with people 18-50 starting to come back out mixed with the easing of restrictions, and cases should go up while the mortality rate should go down because my train of thought is the most fully vulnerable are basically vaccinated, which is why everyone else is going back out and cases are back up, but I think death rates will fall.
Pro
A's send Vimael Machin and Seth Brown to minors, keep Ka'ai Tom as back-up outfielder
There were some thrilling final laps in the first Formula 1 race of the season.
https://twitter.com/F1/status/1376248474023440392
I did see a story that a guy running in his first F1 race spun out in turn 2 of the first lap resulting in the shortest debut race in F1 history.
yup Mazepin dudes a steaming pile of deadweight garbage both on and off the track
But his dad is really rich and Haas needs the money
Could've got Kyvat or Albon if they needed it so bad
You been watching "Drive to Survive"?
Yeah, that's how I got into F1 and went to a race two years ago.
Season 3 that just dropped had an exterior shot of Karlsruhe, Germany (Haas trying to find a German sponsor which led to them doing the obvious and hiring Mick). The AirBnB where I binged the first season of the show was visible.
Haven't seen it, I've heard rave reviews, can't wait for the NASCAR version of it (which I hear is in production)
It really is great fun.
Yes there were, very much so.
RAAAAAAIIIIIIIDDDDEEEEEEERS! https://twitter.com/Throttler228/status/1376522743949062146?s=20
Just...wow. Looks like something that came out of Monster House or Trading Spaces.
49ers: When your boss and his boss are choosing the opposite project as yours, it's not much of a decision, is it?
https://twitter.com/BrettKollmann/status/1376354377548492800
Niners can't decide whether to keep Garoppolo
[Futbol] US fails to qualify for Olympics.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/report?gameId=598607
US *men* fail to qualify
Important distinction, since the women's team not qualifying would be a story!
https://twitter.com/ias606/status/1376370819685748749?s=21
Watched the game... ugly. Honduras deserved the win and both goals conceded were bad with the 2nd completely inexcusable. Its a shame cause that US team had maybe 3-4 guys would play significantly with the Olympic team. They looked... not good.
I thought had this U-23 team qualified for the Olympics, this would be the team that would play there. There is a U-23 requirement for men's soccer.
Also, I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that Cal alum Drake Callender was the last goalkeeper cut from this U-23 team. Good that he was not the scapegoat, but obviously Ochoa had beaten him for the starter job.
I guess the U-23 team was missing a few eligible stars like Pulisic, Dest, etc., but I didn't think there are 7-8 guys that fit in that category.
by my count, the last *men's* roster that had matches against Jamaica and N. Ireland... of the 25 players, 15 were age eligible for the Olympics and that did not include Adams, McKennie, Weah, de la Fuente, Akinola or Llanez. Add in negotiations that could've brought in Atlanta United's 3 youth stars and of the team that lost yesterday to Honduras, Yuell, Dotson, Ochoa by default and maybe Glad would've made a 23 man roster if the US put all of its big names out there. Realistically, they wouldn't have gotten all their young guys in but I bet at least half or more would've played. Of the current American U23 age eligible, US is easily top 10 in the world and possibly top 5. Lot to look forward to in '22 and especially '26. Just annoying to choke it out at this stage again with 2nd string guys.
Moot point now, but it seems problematic to bring in that many guys who have ever played with one another for a tournament that will start in 3 months.
The larger issue, imo, is we should be focused on making the field, since we haven't in some time. i.e., full team for these qualifiers, until we are in.
the problem is that the Olympics is not FIFA sanctioned, so clubs dont have to release players to national teams for it. For international breaks, like this past week, clubs do have to release players if asked. There are politics involved with that but usually its a fair determination if a player will go out for those. But Olympics dont have that so its a pure negotiation by the Federations. Mexico has almost its entire team playing in Mexico and have a good relationship between League and Federation. Voila, best Mexican 23 turn out. Virtually all American u23s (of note) play overseas so its a club by club decision. If a player is heavily involved in the first team, he wont be released. So most of the American team can't/won't show for qualifiers but they might for the Olympics since its a Summer tourney
it is moot but most of them have played together...for the Senior team. And National teams are barely together anyway
https://twitter.com/moon_doughh/status/1376325474293411841?s=21
BOOOOOOO!!!!
Other College
Very long time Texas men's swimming head coach Eddie Reese has decided to retire after winning 15 championships in 43 seasons (nope, he doesn't coach their divers). I just hope that Texas won't try to poach Dave Durden away from Cal.
USC, Oregon State, and UCLA all in the Elite 8.
I guess we're a basketball school now?
Yup. Six degrees of separation from those great teams and some close losses, so yeah.
As unlikely as it is, I'm hoping for Oregon State-USC/UCLA in the men's championship game and Stanford-Arizona in the women's championship game.
Has this happened before in the history of the conference?
3 out of 8 was achieved in 2001: AZ, 'furd, U$C. Arizona won their next game and ended up losing to Dook in the finals. The Blue Devils had Shane Battier, Jason Williams, Carlos Boozer, Mike Dunleavy Jr, and Chris Duhon. On the bench was Dahntay Jones.
I notice that Cal was the only Pac-10 team that sucked in the tournament that year, losing by 12 to Fresno State in the first round. This must be why I've mentally blocked it out.
Eastern Washington gives Beau Baldwin a rude welcome back to Cheney, WA. 62-10. EWU sat its 1st string QB after going up 45-7 in the first half and tried to run out the clock by running. Cal Poly will play NAU next week before playing #10 UC Davis again (previous: 73-24) before ending against #2 Weber State.
https://gopoly.com/sports/football/stats/2020-21/eastern-washington/boxscore/5377
I have no clue about their rosters, but is there significant dropoff in talent at Cal Poly? I know Eastern Washington usually has the better talent in FCS. Has Eastern Washington been historically a good team? or did Baldwin build it into a powerhouse?
EWU is a top-tier BCS team. Cal Poly is in full rebuild mode. Cal Poly had their last coach - Tim Walsh - retire. Walsh had a Tedford-like arc, starting off really strong, but below average at the end. Walsh ran an Army-like run-all-the-time triple-option attack and Baldwin was... well... you remember. Baldwin brought in Nick Edwards to be his OC and JC Sherritt as DC - neither of whom had any OC or DC experience. Edwards has 5 years of WR coach experience and 1 year of RB coach experience. Sherritt has one year of CFL linebacker coaching experience.
.... and their season is over. Cal Poly is cancelling the rest of their season due to Covid and probably because they don't want people hanging 60 on them every game.
https://lompocrecord.com/sports/college/cal-poly/cal-poly-opts-out-of-spring-football-season-canceling-three-remaining-games/article_a246a62f-8e15-5188-93bc-4db7d08117db.html
Ouch
EWU was built up by Paul Wulff if I remember right, before Baldwin
Arizona Christian's kicker is 5'5" 285 lbs, but half of that is heart as he clinches the division championship with a last-second field goal. He is only a sophomore and the reigning first-team PK in the division. Also, ACU is only one of four 4-year colleges in Arizona that play football.
https://www.acufirestorm.com/article/2575
THE CONFERENCE OF CHAMPIONS BABY - Bill Walton, Back the MF Pac 12 lets go love to see us kicking ass
Cal
ICYMI: RIP Beverly Cleary (UC Berkeley, BA English '38) died late last week. She was 104.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/beverly-cleary-dead.html
Read a lot of her books as a little kid: Runaway Ralph, Socks, Ribsy, etc.
I remember the whole Henry Huggins series.
GO BEARS!
[MSOC]: Beavers outshoot Bears 25-9, but Cal prevails 1-0 at home.
https://calbears.com/news/2021/3/28/mens-soccer-cal-stuns-no-3-oregon-state-1-0.aspx