Here’s a picture that I took at a warehouse in Singapore. It did about 20% of the world’s wholesale reptile leather tanning. This step is after the skin has been scraped and stretched. It is salted by hand, rolled into a bundle, then stored to dry it out before going into a chemical brining. The skins and workers are imported into Singapore. A common strategy is to keep the workers on short-term contracts and sourced from various remote parts of the world to keep too much knowledge collecting in one place to keep competition at bay. This warehouse did not smell very good. Meanwhile, I got to meet the buyers from Louis Vitton who happened to in town from Paris. There couldn’t be a bigger divide between the French drinking sparkling water upstairs looking at very expensive leathers and the Chinese contract workers grinding through animal parts below.
The low surface-area-to-volume ratio makes them ideal for mixed drinks that would suffer from being watered down by melting ice (e.g. Moscow Mules). Some neighbors and I were just talking about spherical ice the other day (apparently a friend of a friend has one of those fancy spherical ice makers).
Those look cool. I had a coworker that was working on making a contraption to make clear spherial ice for drinks. Had a small vibration to get rid of the air bubbles. Don't remember if he finished it.
The year was 2017. The Oscars had mixed up their winners. Kendall Jenner had made a problematic Pepsi ad. The Fyre Festival had crashed and burned, sad cheese sandwiches and all.
And then came Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" mashup of Gene Kelly and Rihanna, or what is essentially two minutes and 10 seconds of perfection in every sense of the word. Ditching his initial top hat and suit to grind on a literal umbrella and perform a sensual routine in a pleather leotard, red lipstick, and chin-length wig, the British actor, then 20, obliterated gender constructs and defied the expectations of how a newly minted action star should market himself.
I grew up in SoCal for the most part (Del Mar) and got pretty tan most summers since I went to the beach almost every day, including surfing after school. Now I don't really seek out the sun. The most sun I get now is probably at Cal games.
For most of my childhood and college years in California, I tanned really well, like my mom. Then I spent my first year in upstate NY, including a brutally frigid winter, and haven't tanned well since....just a splotchy anglo, like my dad.
Reminder to all that when UV causes DNA damage in your top layer of skin cells, those cells start repairing DNA. That process sends signals to the next layer of skin cells, which contain melanocytes. Those signals tell the melanocytes to produce more melanin. So, when you start tanning, that means DNA damage has already occurred. Wear sunscreen!
I oscillate between white and red..."tan" doesn't really occur. I've had back luck lately getting burnt even with sunscreen on. Going to PVR in a few weeks, so need to get a good (better?) sunscreen. Any suggestions? I've got a UV swim shirt, so it's mostly my feet and nose!
Thanks! I think we have (or have used) this brand. I prob don't re-apply as often as I should, but prob within the 4 hours listed. And that's after seeing red after an hour or two! I just try to keep my feet under a towel when lying poolside ;-)
eh, now I'm remembering it more, the article didn't in any way deny the connection to skin cancer, it was more that the health benefits of some sun exposure vastly outweigh the cancer risk, and vitamin D supplements don't really work.
I've already got some pretty fierce tan lines. Now that we're heading into cf-98's first full summer, we're interested to see if she burns like her mother or turns lovely shades of brown like her father.
No 3 and I definitely got darker during his baseball season in the summer. Up to 6 hours a day out in the sun over 2 games definitely does that to you.
You can buy the love letters JFK wrote to Gunilla von Post. Gunilla claims she had an affair with him for 3 years, lasting one month before his marriage to Jackie.
I'm getting dose two of Moderna in a few hours. Hopefully the side effects are minimal (only effects from dose one were some injection area muscle soreness).
I got M2 on Tuesday. fine rest of that day. Need to not sleep on that side that night. Next day was like the onset of a cold...not bad, but not ideal. Still happy that side effects weren't bad!
I had my 2nd Pfizer shot in the 28th of April. On the second day after I had some joint pain and a bit of a swollen gland in my neck, a bit if nausea/headache on the third day and then was OK.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki to step down next year. By this time last year, Trump already had 3 resignations: Africa advisor Robin Townley, Dpty COS Katie Walsh, and NSA Flynn.
uan Toscano-Anderson no longer will be a two-way player.J
The Warriors plan to convert Toscano-Anderson's contract into a standard NBA contract and will sign former Warriors big man Jordan Bell into the vacant two-way slot, a league source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area's Monte Poole on Friday.
For Toscano-Anderson, nothing changes this season. The alteration in two-way rules meant he was still eligible for the playoffs, and since he’d exhausted the initial 50-day limit, he was getting paid like he was on an NBA contract, so the money won’t change.
What does change is the Warriors ability to negotiate before free agency. Toscano-Anderson has worked his way into being a key part of the team going forward, and it’s likely that Golden State will structure a multi-year deal with him and lock him up for another year or two before this season ends.
Fancy people with fancy fridges that make fancy ice! https://twitter.com/ProfKori/status/1390652993914167297
The low surface-area-to-volume ratio makes them ideal for mixed drinks that would suffer from being watered down by melting ice (e.g. Moscow Mules). Some neighbors and I were just talking about spherical ice the other day (apparently a friend of a friend has one of those fancy spherical ice makers).
I've seen a bartender carve an ice sphere from a larger block, and I also recently saw a video where they used balloons to make almost-spherical ice.
Those look cool. I had a coworker that was working on making a contraption to make clear spherial ice for drinks. Had a small vibration to get rid of the air bubbles. Don't remember if he finished it.
Engineers! Improving our drinking experience!
Definitely.
i bet it's has to be a 'smart fridge' that also spys on your eating habits and tells alexa to order you more cookies and ice cream.
I really just need to get an ice cream subscription.
Winners of the Map the Bay contest: https://exhibits.lib.berkeley.edu/spotlight/mapthebay/feature/map-contest-2021
those are wonderful
Many of those would make fantastic framed prints or shirts.
The UC BART one is cool. Someone should've submitted the CGB East Bay one. Does someone have a link for it?
An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance
https://www.insider.com/tom-holland-zendaya-lip-sync-battle-umbrella-oral-history-2021-5
The year was 2017. The Oscars had mixed up their winners. Kendall Jenner had made a problematic Pepsi ad. The Fyre Festival had crashed and burned, sad cheese sandwiches and all.
And then came Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" mashup of Gene Kelly and Rihanna, or what is essentially two minutes and 10 seconds of perfection in every sense of the word. Ditching his initial top hat and suit to grind on a literal umbrella and perform a sensual routine in a pleather leotard, red lipstick, and chin-length wig, the British actor, then 20, obliterated gender constructs and defied the expectations of how a newly minted action star should market himself.
it really is an amazing performance
Epic.
Reminder that this Sunday is Mother's Day! Glad tidings to those who are celebrating, and love to you if it's a rough day for you.
yeah, it snuck up on me this year! I just realized it a couple of hours ago (gulp!)
This allows you to zoom/rotate Van Gogh's "The Starry Night Saint Rémy" to see the texture.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-starry-night-756b03a918544497b7a4ba644e37550b
Reptile leather
Had a wallet made of alligator skin.
Was this it?
https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-crocodile-alligator-handmade-Alligator/dp/B08QGZZ6M4/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_img_1
Nope. That looks weird. Basically just your average wallet.
Tan
I tend to tan fairly quickly and darkly w/o burning.
Same same. I'm sporting a nice tan right now after a few days in Ojai this week, where the weather was gloriously low-80s.
I grew up in SoCal for the most part (Del Mar) and got pretty tan most summers since I went to the beach almost every day, including surfing after school. Now I don't really seek out the sun. The most sun I get now is probably at Cal games.
For most of my childhood and college years in California, I tanned really well, like my mom. Then I spent my first year in upstate NY, including a brutally frigid winter, and haven't tanned well since....just a splotchy anglo, like my dad.
Reminder to all that when UV causes DNA damage in your top layer of skin cells, those cells start repairing DNA. That process sends signals to the next layer of skin cells, which contain melanocytes. Those signals tell the melanocytes to produce more melanin. So, when you start tanning, that means DNA damage has already occurred. Wear sunscreen!
I oscillate between white and red..."tan" doesn't really occur. I've had back luck lately getting burnt even with sunscreen on. Going to PVR in a few weeks, so need to get a good (better?) sunscreen. Any suggestions? I've got a UV swim shirt, so it's mostly my feet and nose!
Kodiak's sister recommends this brand, both for being reef safe as well as protecting from the sun: https://tropicsport.com/
Are you re-applying frequently?
[looks at website]
I'm inclined to try that just because it's less toxic but at SPF30 I'd be constantly re-applying it.
Thanks! I think we have (or have used) this brand. I prob don't re-apply as often as I should, but prob within the 4 hours listed. And that's after seeing red after an hour or two! I just try to keep my feet under a towel when lying poolside ;-)
You ever read that article comparing this to the prior love of margarine? Agreed getting sunburn is bad, very bad. Not so sure about tan.
Look, I'll defer to your knowledge on many things, but I have a PhD in cancer biology.
eh, now I'm remembering it more, the article didn't in any way deny the connection to skin cancer, it was more that the health benefits of some sun exposure vastly outweigh the cancer risk, and vitamin D supplements don't really work.
I think it was in the Atlantic - just curious.
was it this: https://luxeluminous.com/benefits-of-tanning/
Ha! No, but it did say stuff about vitamin D
When I was a freshman in college, I used to work on my tan, and it was a fair bit of work.
I've already got some pretty fierce tan lines. Now that we're heading into cf-98's first full summer, we're interested to see if she burns like her mother or turns lovely shades of brown like her father.
No 3 and I definitely got darker during his baseball season in the summer. Up to 6 hours a day out in the sun over 2 games definitely does that to you.
something my white ass has never been
Perhaps Romania should declare war on Lichtenstein
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/europe/romania-bear-shooting-investigation-scli-intl/index.html
You can buy the love letters JFK wrote to Gunilla von Post. Gunilla claims she had an affair with him for 3 years, lasting one month before his marriage to Jackie.
https://rrauction.com/bidtracker_detail.cfm?IN=32
Who is the "I hate that guy" from Stanfurd (besides their shitty band)?
Josh Hawley
My former boss
ooh oooh AARON BRIGHT
was it his mom that you worked with? or something like that?
ooh, the personal / institutional combo! that's powerful resentment
Andrew Vlahov (sp?), Tommy Vardell
Yes.
Shane Skov
Brock Turner
You mean the rapist Brock Turner.
I was going to say who?
that bag of shite
Peter Thiel
Dr. Scott Atlas
you could probably just close your eyes and pick anyone from the directory at the Hoover Institute, and I'd be okay with that choice
Mark Madsen
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
To'oto'o tells 247 that he's transferring to Alabama
https://twitter.com/hayesfawcett3/status/1391060753990438917?s=21
Prebyterian College is never gonna punt again.
Presbyterian football hiring successful, unconventional HS coach Kevin Kelley as new head coach
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31400500/presbyterian-hiring-successful-unconventional-hs-coach-kevin-kelley-new-head-coach
Jedd Fisch mixes tradition with WWE-esque theatrics to bring fun and momentum to Arizona football
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/jedd-fisch-mixes-tradition-with-wwe-esque-theatrics-to-bring-fun-and-momentum-to-arizona-football/
QB Spencer Brasch transfers to Cal Poly
https://twitter.com/RealBrasch13/status/1390493646701486082
afraid to compete
Or possibly infatuated with the elite Baldwin offensive system
Brother of Texas' recently drafted QB Sam Ehlinger dead in an apparent suicide. What a terrible tragedy.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/31400940/texas-longhorns-linebacker-jake-ehlinger-found-dead-campus-police-say
that family has endured a lot of tragedy. Ugh
TODAY IN COVID
I'm getting dose two of Moderna in a few hours. Hopefully the side effects are minimal (only effects from dose one were some injection area muscle soreness).
I got M2 on Tuesday. fine rest of that day. Need to not sleep on that side that night. Next day was like the onset of a cold...not bad, but not ideal. Still happy that side effects weren't bad!
I had my 2nd Pfizer shot in the 28th of April. On the second day after I had some joint pain and a bit of a swollen gland in my neck, a bit if nausea/headache on the third day and then was OK.
UCSF Grand Rounds talks about the lesser effect of vaccines in immuno-compromised patients. Who should continue to distance and wear masks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7FY91kuBdM
University of Washington study estimates excess deaths in US are 900k, which exceeds the official Covid death count of 580k.
http://www.healthdata.org/special-analysis/estimation-excess-mortality-due-covid-19-and-scalars-reported-covid-19-deaths
still less than the 3M I anticipated.
I'm sure all the professional and amateur denialists will have a great time with that
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Press Secretary Jen Psaki to step down next year. By this time last year, Trump already had 3 resignations: Africa advisor Robin Townley, Dpty COS Katie Walsh, and NSA Flynn.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jen-psaki-step-down-as-biden-press-secretary-next-year-2021-5
She has always planned to do it for only a year.
* last administration
Trump’s not back on Facebook, and Republicans are even angrier
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/05/facebook-nightmare-donald-trump-gop-485482
Can be just die already?
I'm surprised he hasn't been quietly "helped" along
I think that some folks are going to happily watch him destroy his entire legacy and family fortune through dementia induced craziness.
He started out with $380 million and managed to create debts of over $1 billion. Just think if he had invested wisely.
I read somewhere that if he had left all the money in T-bills he would be substantially richer than he is now.
Either he already has the first part of a binary poison or when the Russians are done with him then he'll find some radiation in him.
Asian-Americans in foreign service claim they're being discriminated against by being banned from serving in Asia.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/state-diversity-aapi-china/index.html
well I have an easy trade-off: stop sending Americans of Pallor to serve in Europe and such. Problem solved!
why do agencies do stupid things like this?
[WaPo]:
US Justice Department to AZ Senate: You are not keeping ballots secure in your recount.
AZ Senate: go soak your head
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-recount-justice-department/2021/05/06/fbe4793c-ae87-11eb-b476-c3b287e52a01_story.html
Stop calling it a recount. In their fraud.
PRO
Source: Warriors to convert JTA's deal, sign Bell to two-way
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/source-warriors-sign-jordan-bell-convert-jtas-contract
uan Toscano-Anderson no longer will be a two-way player.J
The Warriors plan to convert Toscano-Anderson's contract into a standard NBA contract and will sign former Warriors big man Jordan Bell into the vacant two-way slot, a league source confirmed to NBC Sports Bay Area's Monte Poole on Friday.
That's great for JTA. He deserves it. I assume it's just for the rest of this year. Or I wonder if it includes next year.
Ahh...per Golden State of Mind.
For Toscano-Anderson, nothing changes this season. The alteration in two-way rules meant he was still eligible for the playoffs, and since he’d exhausted the initial 50-day limit, he was getting paid like he was on an NBA contract, so the money won’t change.
What does change is the Warriors ability to negotiate before free agency. Toscano-Anderson has worked his way into being a key part of the team going forward, and it’s likely that Golden State will structure a multi-year deal with him and lock him up for another year or two before this season ends.
https://www.goldenstateofmind.com/2021/5/7/22425066/warriors-jordan-bell-juan-toscano-anderson
Ranking every team's 2021 NFL Draft class: Patriots, Cardinals, Broncos crush it, Rams and Ravens struggle
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2021-nfl-draft-ranking-every-teams-draft-class-patriots-crush-it-followed-by-cards-broncos-lions/
CAL
Go Bears!!!