Basically, color temperature refers to the color we perceive light to be. Since each of us sees color slightly differently, color temperature is measured on a standard scale in Kelvins (K).
A low Kelvin value (i.e., below 4000K) is “warm light” whereas a high Kelvin value (i.e., above 4000K) is “cool light.”
Warm light is seen as being yellow, orange, and red - tones that are associated with warmth. Cool light is seen as being predominantly blue.
Heh, this isn't anyone you'll know, but I had some tenants recently that looked like Arwen had married Gimli - seriously he looked like a dwarf, with a beard that engulfed his face, and she was taller and gorgeous with flawless olive skin.
Is Cal alum and enthusiast Adam Duritz at the Ric Ocasek level? Duritz dated both Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston and Emmy Rossum more recently (but still several years ago).
I think I like the 4000K or higher cooler lights for the house. My mom likes the 3000K or 3500K more yellow lights. For the Miata I replaced the crappy factory headlights with LED ones. They're 6000K and man are they nice and bright. They really light up the road so I can actually see now. They're 7" round ones so any of the Jeep ones work.
I'm occasionally annoyed by the inverse cultural/psychological association of frequency of light and amount of heat. I mean, it makes practical human sense historically with the sun and molten metals mostly appearing yellow or red, and ocean appearing blue, but when people are dumbfounded or even very skeptical, for no reason other than their cultural association, when I tell them that in general the blue part of the flame is hotter than the yellow part of the flame in their typical natural gas and oxygen fueled flame sources, it's a little annoying.
It doesn't help that the standard heat maps also use the same color scheme. Then again, I have worked on too many physics collaborations where I have met numerous people who were really passionate about different color schemes for the official organization plots.
Yeah once symbols are broadly adopted it makes sense to stick with them so you can convey information intuitively, whether they objectively or physically misrepresent the correlation with the phenomena or not. Sometimes it can mean life or death!
The other night I decided at 11pm to see what Tenet was like. Almost paused it about an hour in, but stuck with it. 2.5 hours later...what a waste!
Went on IMDB to read reviews. Either Great or Sucked, with most of the Great reviews qualifying it with "when you watch it a second or third time...". Yeah...no.
Saw Memento when it first came out and was blown away! Many other of Nolan's films have been good to great. Tenet? Addled POS. Bad acting, bad "plot", half the dialogue was expository. Didn't give a shit about any of the characters...
2/19 (Can't do 1, because then there's no room for a later worse film.)
In the second season of The Bureau - great French realist spy show, finished Last Chance U - Basketball, 17/19 WB. Finished Clone Wars, which really ranged in quality quite a bit; great stories and some very tedious ones as well.
Having finished season 6 tonight, the Jedi deserved their fate at the end of episode 3. They knew Dooku was responsible for helping to create the clone army and they knew about the implants.
Honestly, the biggest lesson of everything post Return of the Jedi? They sucked. They never evolved, they missed all the evil building up right around them, their order was way too strict. Luke was right in the end. Burn it all down, burn the books, get rid of the lore.
M.O.D.O.K. [Hulu] - I was really excited when this animated comedy about the Marvel universe villain and his family life was announced, but the first 4 episodes (out of 10, all released) have kind of underwhelmed me despite a great cast (with Patton Oswalt as M.O.D.O.K). I don't know if I want it to be weirder or what, but it didn't quite strike the right tone.
All-American season 3 [CW] - The first two seasons of this show about a Crenshaw kid moving to Beverly Hills to play high school football is on Netflix (where supposedly it has built up a fan base). While it started out kind of like a Friday Night Lights crossed with 90210, the show has opted to make a lot of bold commentaries, especially the current season 3 on BLM in addition to substance abuse, concussion, teen pregnancy. The show is so woke that they had a female head coach and kicker without making a big fuss about it, but the recruiting timeline of the main characters and how they are still uncommitted going to the final games of their senior season just felt too unrealistic to me.
Seth Green is involved as a producer for both shows so there are definitely some similarities. I just thought the larger arc of MODOK at least early on is not quite working that well. Maybe the second half of season 1 has a more cohesive story.
Mare of Easttown - a solid, limited drama series on HBO Max, starring Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a detective in a blue collar, working class town near Philly. Seventh & final episode this Sunday...grateful I don’t have Mare’s life...yikes. Good writing/acting tho...another solid mini-series effort from Home Box Office.
Ted Lasso - I was late to the party, but loved Lasso.
Mare of Easttown is just so good at the little things. For me, the crime story itself is secondary to the world building they have done with all the characters, flaws and all. No sugar coating, no overwrought melodrama for melodrama's sake. Just the crappy situations they are all in, and how life just goes on.
haha, not what I meant, it sounds really good, but also depressing - I watched the first season of Happy Valley, English police show, it was very good, but also very depressing, I'm really more in the mood for something fun and good, like more Ted Lasso.
we upgraded home gym a bit during coronavirus times. we should probably charge some $$ to let people use it.
it has been great w/ 4 people all stuck at home and needing some variety.
we have treadmill, elliptical, spin bike, climbing wall and hang board, pull up bar, multi function weight machine. i had to put away the bike trainer due to space constraints.
not my kitchen, but Bombera supposedly opened yesterday in the Dimond district. Same chef as Cosecha in Old Oakland which sadly closed last year. The lady friend and I plan on going there for dinner tomorrow night
Is Cosecha the one that was in Swan's market? I think walked by there and looked in before the pandemic. The menu looked pretty good and I was planning on going to get something at some point.
Texas to become the 21st "constitutional open carry" state. In Texas, it will be legal for all 21+ citizens to buy and openly carry a gun without a license or mandatory training. Only four states do not allow some sort of open carry - licensed or not.
I can't say that I'm a legal expert, but I didn't know that the Manhattan DA was also using a grand jury for the investigation phase. That is - using a hearing to a jury to decide which evidence to go after, rather than presenting it to a judge. So if this is a witch hunt as Trump calls it, it is a witch hunt called for by Trump's citizen peers.
When I went to the grocery store yesterday, it is the first time that fully vaccinated people are allowed to shop without wearing masks. I still opted with wearing a mask, but saw just 3 people out of 80+ shoppers unmasked. The patriotic American flag but with blue hues (not sure if it was a Blue Lives Matter logo) on the shirt of the guy in an unmasked couple made me question if they might even be unvaccinated. The other girl, I guess I couldn't help but stare at her multiple times, just had a resting bitch face while shopping that would have been better served if covered by a mask.
Who bribed US Senator Arlen Spectre to make Patriot's "spygate" go away in order to curry favor with both Spectre and Bob Kraft? According to some guy, it was Donald Trump.
The Oakland A’s have experienced strikeout problems lately, but on Tuesday night at the Coliseum they got all the contact they needed. Unfortunately, too much of it landed in gloves rather than on the turf.
The A’s fell behind early and did everything they could to come back, but ultimately lost 4-3 to the Seattle Mariners. On multiple occasions it appeared they’d hammered the deep drive they needed, but each time the Mariners outfield made a spectacular catch to rob them.
Seattle took an early lead against A’s starter Cole Irvin, with help from some fortunate hops — and perhaps the absence of Matt Chapman at third base, as he got the day off and was replaced by Chad Pinder.
We were in sec 117 last night. Just a great, great, great spot to watch a game. Until the 7th inning when the kid two rows behind us started "heckling." I've never wanted to punch a child in the face more than I did last night.
After mustering just 9 runs during their three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants nearly matched that in a single outing against the Arizona Diamondbacks, registering 8 runs in a lopsided affair.
I wrote before the game that the Giants had a chance to recover in Arizona before getting back to business with the Dodgers. It turns out they had just sent their bats to Phoenix before welcoming LA to town. Not the shrewdest move, but hey ... what’s past is past, and now we just get to enjoy the return of good Giants hitting.
Of course, the Giants might not have actually displayed better hitting against the DBacks than they did against the Dodgers. It might just be that Trevor Bauer, Walker Buehler, and Julio Urías are better than a pitcher carrying a 5.55 ERA into his seventh career start. It could be that Chase Field is a friendlier place for position players than Oracle Park is. Perhaps playing a team on an eight-game losing skid is easier than one on a four-game winning streak.
AZ Pitcher Corbin Martin gets a chance because 3 of AZ's SP are injured. He is a 4 seam FB pitcher. He's a 94-95 mph pitcher with good rotation speed who can sometimes reach back for 97 mph - which makes that one pitch pretty good. But he was throwing 93-94 mph with no extra gear yesterday, so batters were able to foul off a lot of 'em. DBack catcher asking for 4 seamers all the time shows that Martin's offspeeds are worse than sending FBs to guys like Longo and Crawford who are really good FB hitters with men in scoring position. Look how flat and straight Martin's pitch to Crawford was:
The HP ump last night was a hitters ump, too, so that didn't help. Tripp Gibson routinely calls nothing on the corners or at the top/bottom of the zone...brutal. Like a real life Frank Drebinth in Naked Gun....
A lot has happened in between starts by Clayton Kershaw in Houston. Many a redemption was secured last October, the smoothest salve possible for a four-year-old wound that still very clearly stings the Dodgers.
Nothing can ever change the outcome of the 2017 World Series, nor can a single regular season start truly avenge any wrongs. But that doesn’t make Kershaw’s performance on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park any less sweet. The future Hall of Famer pitched his longest outing of the season in the Dodgers’ 9-2 win over the Astros on Tuesday night, the first of a brief, two-game series in Houston.
Tuesday’s win was the eighth straight for the Dodgers, matching their longest streak of 2021. But some thoughts before the game were of four years ago, when the sign-stealing Astros beat the Dodgers in the Fall Classic.
At least 8 killed in San Jose shooting
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/san-jose-ca-shooting-05-26-21/index.html
What we know so far
At least eight victims were killed during a shooting at the VTA light rail yard in San Jose, California, officials said.
The shooter is dead, a sheriff's official said. Authorities have not identified the suspect but said he was a VTA employee.
The investigation is ongoing, and officials have not yet released a possible motive.
Name a fairly contemporary actor or male musician who somehow dates waaaaaaay out of his league (eg, who is the modern Ric Ocasek?)
Heh, this isn't anyone you'll know, but I had some tenants recently that looked like Arwen had married Gimli - seriously he looked like a dwarf, with a beard that engulfed his face, and she was taller and gorgeous with flawless olive skin.
Oh, and Russell Brand!
They're married now, but Benji Madden. https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/DnUvBDVbjoC_vCFPnXPtttspl40/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-:watermark-!popsugar-watermark.png,-5,-5,0!-/2018/06/28/797/n/1922398/3219f06f4deca159_BGUS_1274967_001/i/Benji-Madden-Cameron-Diaz-Italy-Pictures-June-2018.jpg
Cameron Diaz?
To be fair, and also because I know nothing about this topic, I will counter propose the question:
Name a fairly contemporary female actor or musician who somehow dates waaaaaaay out of her league.
That one doesn't work as well...
Is Cal alum and enthusiast Adam Duritz at the Ric Ocasek level? Duritz dated both Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston and Emmy Rossum more recently (but still several years ago).
These aren't contemporary – but neither is Ric Ocasek ;-) – but Lyle Lovett and Billy Joel?
Pete Davidson
Ariana Grande's new husband looks like a Pete Davidson clone, so she might have a type.
Oh I totally would with Pete Davidson.
Have you watched King of Staten Island yet?
This is a good answer.
He is also rumored to be hung like Milton Berle.
I remember that was the rumor for Huey Lewis as well.
Huey was full frontal in Short Cuts...so no need for rumors!
Huey Lewis has more talent in his eyebrows than Pete Davidson in his entirety.
Also many athletes
Lighting
I think I like the 4000K or higher cooler lights for the house. My mom likes the 3000K or 3500K more yellow lights. For the Miata I replaced the crappy factory headlights with LED ones. They're 6000K and man are they nice and bright. They really light up the road so I can actually see now. They're 7" round ones so any of the Jeep ones work.
I'm occasionally annoyed by the inverse cultural/psychological association of frequency of light and amount of heat. I mean, it makes practical human sense historically with the sun and molten metals mostly appearing yellow or red, and ocean appearing blue, but when people are dumbfounded or even very skeptical, for no reason other than their cultural association, when I tell them that in general the blue part of the flame is hotter than the yellow part of the flame in their typical natural gas and oxygen fueled flame sources, it's a little annoying.
It doesn't help that the standard heat maps also use the same color scheme. Then again, I have worked on too many physics collaborations where I have met numerous people who were really passionate about different color schemes for the official organization plots.
Yeah once symbols are broadly adopted it makes sense to stick with them so you can convey information intuitively, whether they objectively or physically misrepresent the correlation with the phenomena or not. Sometimes it can mean life or death!
DBD AV Club
The other night I decided at 11pm to see what Tenet was like. Almost paused it about an hour in, but stuck with it. 2.5 hours later...what a waste!
Went on IMDB to read reviews. Either Great or Sucked, with most of the Great reviews qualifying it with "when you watch it a second or third time...". Yeah...no.
Saw Memento when it first came out and was blown away! Many other of Nolan's films have been good to great. Tenet? Addled POS. Bad acting, bad "plot", half the dialogue was expository. Didn't give a shit about any of the characters...
2/19 (Can't do 1, because then there's no room for a later worse film.)
In the second season of The Bureau - great French realist spy show, finished Last Chance U - Basketball, 17/19 WB. Finished Clone Wars, which really ranged in quality quite a bit; great stories and some very tedious ones as well.
I'm part way through season six and I totally skipped some of the non-essential episodes in season 4 & 5.
Following an internet list for Clone Wars and Rebels is the way to go.
Having finished season 6 tonight, the Jedi deserved their fate at the end of episode 3. They knew Dooku was responsible for helping to create the clone army and they knew about the implants.
Honestly, the biggest lesson of everything post Return of the Jedi? They sucked. They never evolved, they missed all the evil building up right around them, their order was way too strict. Luke was right in the end. Burn it all down, burn the books, get rid of the lore.
iirc (have only seen the non-original three one time each), the Luke Burning it Down bit was canceled when JJ took over again for Ep. 9.
No shit, they don't come looking too bright.
In today's "No Shit, Sherlock" news:
J.J. Abrams acknowledges it probably would have been better if they had approached the #StarWars sequel trilogy with a plan
https://twitter.com/Collider/status/1397561138263515136
Oh sweet baby Jesus.
M.O.D.O.K. [Hulu] - I was really excited when this animated comedy about the Marvel universe villain and his family life was announced, but the first 4 episodes (out of 10, all released) have kind of underwhelmed me despite a great cast (with Patton Oswalt as M.O.D.O.K). I don't know if I want it to be weirder or what, but it didn't quite strike the right tone.
All-American season 3 [CW] - The first two seasons of this show about a Crenshaw kid moving to Beverly Hills to play high school football is on Netflix (where supposedly it has built up a fan base). While it started out kind of like a Friday Night Lights crossed with 90210, the show has opted to make a lot of bold commentaries, especially the current season 3 on BLM in addition to substance abuse, concussion, teen pregnancy. The show is so woke that they had a female head coach and kicker without making a big fuss about it, but the recruiting timeline of the main characters and how they are still uncommitted going to the final games of their senior season just felt too unrealistic to me.
My friend really likes MODOK - he says its very Robot Chicken
Seth Green is involved as a producer for both shows so there are definitely some similarities. I just thought the larger arc of MODOK at least early on is not quite working that well. Maybe the second half of season 1 has a more cohesive story.
Mare of Easttown - a solid, limited drama series on HBO Max, starring Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a detective in a blue collar, working class town near Philly. Seventh & final episode this Sunday...grateful I don’t have Mare’s life...yikes. Good writing/acting tho...another solid mini-series effort from Home Box Office.
Ted Lasso - I was late to the party, but loved Lasso.
HOAGIE
Philly Mom watches Mare of Easttown
https://twitter.com/kimquindlen/status/1395749201909329927?s=20
That's hilarious!!
my favorite pop culture podcast is hosted by two Philly guys - so they spent a lot of time making jokes about Mare and going over her accent.
Mare of Easttown is just so good at the little things. For me, the crime story itself is secondary to the world building they have done with all the characters, flaws and all. No sugar coating, no overwrought melodrama for melodrama's sake. Just the crappy situations they are all in, and how life just goes on.
It might be really good, but I'm not sure I need to see it.
I like it....which means you'd HATE it.... ;-)
haha, not what I meant, it sounds really good, but also depressing - I watched the first season of Happy Valley, English police show, it was very good, but also very depressing, I'm really more in the mood for something fun and good, like more Ted Lasso.
DBD Gym
we upgraded home gym a bit during coronavirus times. we should probably charge some $$ to let people use it.
it has been great w/ 4 people all stuck at home and needing some variety.
we have treadmill, elliptical, spin bike, climbing wall and hang board, pull up bar, multi function weight machine. i had to put away the bike trainer due to space constraints.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Bxh49R42gp6XTm9S6
there is also Apple TV, Chromecast, Zwift and sound system to keep you sufficiently entertained while working out.
the only thing we dont have is a nice sauna for after you are done.
sounds like your gym is the size of my flat!
DBD Test Kitchen
not my kitchen, but Bombera supposedly opened yesterday in the Dimond district. Same chef as Cosecha in Old Oakland which sadly closed last year. The lady friend and I plan on going there for dinner tomorrow night
Interesting...
Is Cosecha the one that was in Swan's market? I think walked by there and looked in before the pandemic. The menu looked pretty good and I was planning on going to get something at some point.
yes it was in Swan's
Our Crumbling Democracy
Trump is starting to put together his own Contract with America. And he’s teaming up with Newt.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/25/trump-is-starting-to-put-together-his-own-contract-with-america-and-hes-teaming-up-with-newt-490829
Ask his ex wives how he is with contractual obligations
Texas to become the 21st "constitutional open carry" state. In Texas, it will be legal for all 21+ citizens to buy and openly carry a gun without a license or mandatory training. Only four states do not allow some sort of open carry - licensed or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry
I don't think Wikipedia should be used as a source of gun laws in the U.S.
[WaPo]: Oh, it is on. WaPo sources say Manhattan DA onto the prosecution phase by convening a grand jury.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/manhattan-district-attorney-trump-organization-grand-jury/index.html
I can't say that I'm a legal expert, but I didn't know that the Manhattan DA was also using a grand jury for the investigation phase. That is - using a hearing to a jury to decide which evidence to go after, rather than presenting it to a judge. So if this is a witch hunt as Trump calls it, it is a witch hunt called for by Trump's citizen peers.
Today in Covid 19
When I went to the grocery store yesterday, it is the first time that fully vaccinated people are allowed to shop without wearing masks. I still opted with wearing a mask, but saw just 3 people out of 80+ shoppers unmasked. The patriotic American flag but with blue hues (not sure if it was a Blue Lives Matter logo) on the shirt of the guy in an unmasked couple made me question if they might even be unvaccinated. The other girl, I guess I couldn't help but stare at her multiple times, just had a resting bitch face while shopping that would have been better served if covered by a mask.
Pro
LAKERS! Where's J.Lee when you need him?
Who bribed US Senator Arlen Spectre to make Patriot's "spygate" go away in order to curry favor with both Spectre and Bob Kraft? According to some guy, it was Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/DVNJr/status/1397521538828623877
Game #50: A’s big hits find gloves in loss to Mariners
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/5/26/22454510/oakland-as-game-50-seattle-mariners-score-result
The Oakland A’s have experienced strikeout problems lately, but on Tuesday night at the Coliseum they got all the contact they needed. Unfortunately, too much of it landed in gloves rather than on the turf.
The A’s fell behind early and did everything they could to come back, but ultimately lost 4-3 to the Seattle Mariners. On multiple occasions it appeared they’d hammered the deep drive they needed, but each time the Mariners outfield made a spectacular catch to rob them.
Seattle took an early lead against A’s starter Cole Irvin, with help from some fortunate hops — and perhaps the absence of Matt Chapman at third base, as he got the day off and was replaced by Chad Pinder.
We were in sec 117 last night. Just a great, great, great spot to watch a game. Until the 7th inning when the kid two rows behind us started "heckling." I've never wanted to punch a child in the face more than I did last night.
I watched the last three innings. The hard hit balls certainly were not dropping favorably for the A's.
Giants find their bats, beat Diamondbacks 8-0
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2021/5/25/22454100/san-francisco-giants-diamondbacks-recap-brandon-crawford-kevin-gausman
After mustering just 9 runs during their three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants nearly matched that in a single outing against the Arizona Diamondbacks, registering 8 runs in a lopsided affair.
I wrote before the game that the Giants had a chance to recover in Arizona before getting back to business with the Dodgers. It turns out they had just sent their bats to Phoenix before welcoming LA to town. Not the shrewdest move, but hey ... what’s past is past, and now we just get to enjoy the return of good Giants hitting.
Of course, the Giants might not have actually displayed better hitting against the DBacks than they did against the Dodgers. It might just be that Trevor Bauer, Walker Buehler, and Julio Urías are better than a pitcher carrying a 5.55 ERA into his seventh career start. It could be that Chase Field is a friendlier place for position players than Oracle Park is. Perhaps playing a team on an eight-game losing skid is easier than one on a four-game winning streak.
AZ Pitcher Corbin Martin gets a chance because 3 of AZ's SP are injured. He is a 4 seam FB pitcher. He's a 94-95 mph pitcher with good rotation speed who can sometimes reach back for 97 mph - which makes that one pitch pretty good. But he was throwing 93-94 mph with no extra gear yesterday, so batters were able to foul off a lot of 'em. DBack catcher asking for 4 seamers all the time shows that Martin's offspeeds are worse than sending FBs to guys like Longo and Crawford who are really good FB hitters with men in scoring position. Look how flat and straight Martin's pitch to Crawford was:
https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1397371168743739393
The HP ump last night was a hitters ump, too, so that didn't help. Tripp Gibson routinely calls nothing on the corners or at the top/bottom of the zone...brutal. Like a real life Frank Drebinth in Naked Gun....
Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers get a win in Houston four years in the making
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/5/25/22453311/clayton-kershaw-dodgers-astros-recap-houston
A lot has happened in between starts by Clayton Kershaw in Houston. Many a redemption was secured last October, the smoothest salve possible for a four-year-old wound that still very clearly stings the Dodgers.
Nothing can ever change the outcome of the 2017 World Series, nor can a single regular season start truly avenge any wrongs. But that doesn’t make Kershaw’s performance on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park any less sweet. The future Hall of Famer pitched his longest outing of the season in the Dodgers’ 9-2 win over the Astros on Tuesday night, the first of a brief, two-game series in Houston.
Tuesday’s win was the eighth straight for the Dodgers, matching their longest streak of 2021. But some thoughts before the game were of four years ago, when the sign-stealing Astros beat the Dodgers in the Fall Classic.
GBBR. Pantone 294 was there yesterday and making a lot of noise.
https://twitter.com/MLBONFOX/status/1397357399258931200
Tough to hit the ball when you don't know it's coming.
Other College
College football coaches weigh difficulties of their jobs amid new rules on transfers, player compensation
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-coaches-weigh-difficulties-of-their-jobs-amid-new-rules-on-transfers-player-compensation/
Oregon Ducks FB reschedules North Dakota State to 2028. If I was the Oregon AD, I would not want to pay a lot of money to play the Bison.
https://twitter.com/FBSchedules/status/1397222672480841738
Cal
Go Bears!!!