I havent gone down an internet rat hole in a long time but today couldn't remember of an 80's hair metal band from Japan. Looked it up and stumbled upon all female metal bands from Japan in the last decade or so and... Band-Maid is phenomenal. Their bassist and drummer, on initial impression, are off the charts talented. The whole band is good but those 2 really stand out
if you define an internet rat hole as "looking something up which leads you to look something else up related to it and then again and then again" like I do, then I wouldn't think you'd be surprised either
Astronomy didn't start with the Greeks. Thousands of years earlier Aboriginal people scanned the night sky, using its secrets to survive the Australian landscape.
I am pretty sure that most people believe that quite a bit of astronomy was done before the Greeks, but because their work survived better, Western astronomy did branch off the Greeks. All the ancient civilizations around the world had artifacts or just stories that evidences of astronomy-based observations.
Polynesian mariners have also extensively used celestial navigation for millennia and were so good at reading the skies, currents and wave patterns that they could cross thousands of miles of ocean and end up within a couple miles of their intended destination.
That Moana scene, although simplified for a kids movie, is not too far from the truth. Navigators were so familiar with the currents and swell patterns in the Pacific, as well as wave refraction and reflection that they could tell when a swell had been affected by an island hundreds of miles off, giving them an idea of where they were on their journey in the middle of an ocean, hundreds of miles from land.
It may have been initially, but it eventually became a rather regular trip for mariners to visit the various island nations around the Pacific. I think the average trip for Hawaii to Tahiti and back was something like three months around that time so all the different cultures could stay in contact and share information/supplies/stories/etc.
One of my favorite stories from the Pacific is the cautionary tale of resource management on Easter Island, which was shared across the Pacific and resulted in improved sustainable practices across the various island nations.
The time between islands and navigation stuff above is from a book How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley. I forget where I first heard about Easter Island, but there are a lot of articles that have been written about it over the years. And now that I'm searching "easter island" "cautionary tale" it appears that there is new evidence about the island, so maybe it was more fable than fact. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The virus outbreak has had the effect of being the agent of causation for some interesting effects that are not directly a health issue.
Many auto insurers issued to considerable ballyhoo refund checks because claims dropped as a result of greatly reduced travel during the shutdown. I got mine after a couple of months after announcement, and just stuck it in the bank. Yesterday, the next renewal notice for several of out vehicles came, and surprise surprise, the rates have just happened to go up by an amount 3x times the amount of the rebates.
Other than delays with payments, and unprecedented unemployment, what other interesting effects like this has anyone observed?
I remember Nick Swisher in a non-A's uniform was upsetting at the time. But being the farm team for the league has softened the blow of former A's going on to different teams
Really? I don't remember Tim Kaine, or Mike Pence, or Joe Biden being bandied about as veep frontrunners. Certainly Sarah Palin was out of left field (I don't think Biden will pick a candidate out of left field, mind you).
"When Melania Trump stayed behind in New York after her husband’s presidential inauguration, she said it was because she didn’t want to interrupt their then-10-year-old son Barron’s school year. News stories at the time concentrated on an apparent frostiness between the first couple and on the exorbitant taxpayer costs to protect Melania and Barron away from Washington.
Those stories are true, but Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan reveals in a new book that the first lady was also using her delayed arrival to the White House as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump.
The campaign had been full of harsh news about Trump’s alleged sexual indiscretions and infidelities, from the “grab them by the p---y” Access Hollywood tape to an affair with Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal; Melania learned new details from the media coverage, Jordan writes.
The incoming first lady needed time to cool off, and “to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron,’ ” Jordan writes in “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump.”
No Cal Baseball players were picked in the abbreviated 5 rounds of MLB Draft in the past two days. A former Cal Baseball player, Anthony Walters, who played at Cal in 2017 then off to a Juco and then San Diego State was picked in the 3rd round. The only Cal senior who might have hoped to be picked (and may still sign for the $20,000 bonus) is Brandon McIlswain.
Scores of others soon watched in awe at a grizzly bear who has unknowingly made herself famous by dwelling in roadside areas of Grand Teton Park for the past 14 years. Four cubs is her largest known litter yet, and she’s rearing the youngsters at an age near the upper limit of a typical grizzly bear lifespan.
...
Grizzly 399 has proven she’s more fecund than most of her species, having reared triplets three times before. Although she’s a veteran mother, there’s likely a bumpy road ahead for her four young ones.
“Her one cub, Snowy, was hit just a half a mile down the road here [in 2016],” Mangelsen said.
It’s not known what’s become of all of 399’s 17 documented cubs, but they’ve been more under the microscope than most grizzly bear offspring. Both in their youngest years and adulthood, they’ve died from vehicle strikes, illegal shooting and being euthanized for depredating cattle and other habituated behavior.
For grizzly bear cubs generally, it’s about a coin flip — a 55% chance — they will survive to see the next year, according to study team data.
I havent gone down an internet rat hole in a long time but today couldn't remember of an 80's hair metal band from Japan. Looked it up and stumbled upon all female metal bands from Japan in the last decade or so and... Band-Maid is phenomenal. Their bassist and drummer, on initial impression, are off the charts talented. The whole band is good but those 2 really stand out
lol this is great, they are actually pretty damn good
Why am I not surprised to read the phrases "internet rat hole" and "all female metal bands from Japan in the last decade" used together?
if you define an internet rat hole as "looking something up which leads you to look something else up related to it and then again and then again" like I do, then I wouldn't think you'd be surprised either
They are good, I kinda assumed they would be just a gimmick, but no, they're solid.
Merriam Webster:
antebellum
provocateur/antifa
intimate/
bad/rotten apple
solidarity
Tomorrow is National Rose Day, imbibe!
As Cal fans are we allowed to participate in National Rose Day?
I think its against conference rules.
Ouch
Happy Loving Day!
I for one am enjoying all the replies to (The Atlantic writer) Adam Serwer roasting him by noting that his mom was a stunner and he looks like his dad
https://twitter.com/adamserwer/status/1271459117362798592?s=21
Ha!
Australia's first astronomers
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/27/2632463.htm#:~:text=Australia's%20first%20astronomers,to%20survive%20the%20Australian%20landscape
Astronomy didn't start with the Greeks. Thousands of years earlier Aboriginal people scanned the night sky, using its secrets to survive the Australian landscape.
I am pretty sure that most people believe that quite a bit of astronomy was done before the Greeks, but because their work survived better, Western astronomy did branch off the Greeks. All the ancient civilizations around the world had artifacts or just stories that evidences of astronomy-based observations.
Not to be difficult, but that's selling the Greeks short.
That makes sense!
I do enjoy reading about the Emu constellation though. Too bad it's only visible in the Southern hemisphere.
Polynesian mariners have also extensively used celestial navigation for millennia and were so good at reading the skies, currents and wave patterns that they could cross thousands of miles of ocean and end up within a couple miles of their intended destination.
Moana! Saw a cool planetarium show about this at the bishop museum in Honolulu .
That Moana scene, although simplified for a kids movie, is not too far from the truth. Navigators were so familiar with the currents and swell patterns in the Pacific, as well as wave refraction and reflection that they could tell when a swell had been affected by an island hundreds of miles off, giving them an idea of where they were on their journey in the middle of an ocean, hundreds of miles from land.
When I went to Hawaii, I was struck by how INSANE a journey it was for people to land there.
It may have been initially, but it eventually became a rather regular trip for mariners to visit the various island nations around the Pacific. I think the average trip for Hawaii to Tahiti and back was something like three months around that time so all the different cultures could stay in contact and share information/supplies/stories/etc.
One of my favorite stories from the Pacific is the cautionary tale of resource management on Easter Island, which was shared across the Pacific and resulted in improved sustainable practices across the various island nations.
Fascinating! Do you have any links for more information?
And I also think about it in the context of the Austronesian people. I look at where Taiwan is and I look at where Hawaii is, and I'm just amazed.
The time between islands and navigation stuff above is from a book How To Read Water by Tristan Gooley. I forget where I first heard about Easter Island, but there are a lot of articles that have been written about it over the years. And now that I'm searching "easter island" "cautionary tale" it appears that there is new evidence about the island, so maybe it was more fable than fact. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Moana story about traveling around for 1000 years and all of a sudden stopping is also somewhat true.
https://historydaily.org/disneys-moana-depicts-an-actual-event-in-polynesian-history
I think it was the last island settled. 800 years ago IIRC.
I learned from this Tweet: https://twitter.com/JossBlandHawtho/status/1271434095633985536?s=20
A response linked to this article: https://theconversation.com/how-ancient-aboriginal-star-maps-have-shaped-australias-highway-network-55952
Today in the 'rona?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/11/governments-urge-singles-find-cuddle-buddy-or-support-bubble-during-pandemic/
The virus outbreak has had the effect of being the agent of causation for some interesting effects that are not directly a health issue.
Many auto insurers issued to considerable ballyhoo refund checks because claims dropped as a result of greatly reduced travel during the shutdown. I got mine after a couple of months after announcement, and just stuck it in the bank. Yesterday, the next renewal notice for several of out vehicles came, and surprise surprise, the rates have just happened to go up by an amount 3x times the amount of the rebates.
Other than delays with payments, and unprecedented unemployment, what other interesting effects like this has anyone observed?
Someone who just looks wrong in a uniform (eg, Wade Boggs as a Yankee). Bonus if you can find a picture of it.
Patrick Ewing as a Seattle Supersonic, Hakeem Olajuwon as a Toronto Raptor, Allen Iverson as a Memphis Grizzlie
I forgot about Karl Malone as a Laker.
O.J. Simpson on the Niners
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ec/a5/78/eca578db7969f2fa61a6931da8196907.jpg
https://baseballhall.org/sites/default/files/styles/header_image_1800_w/public/Man_0839.jpg
Excellent choice.
Noo!!!!
https://bit.ly/2zsqshF
https://bit.ly/2AkbScx
Even better: Wade Boggs as a Devil Ray.
Boggs' number is even retired by the Rays
That's weird
that's a good one.
It was also when the Rays had some weird-ass uniforms.
https://www.draysbay.com/2013/7/3/4491528/wade-boggs-sb-nation-a-days-work-miami-fish-tank
Willie Mays as a Met. At least Jackie Robinson retired rather than get traded to the Giants.
Can we just make this a general “ANY free agent ball player” in a Yankee uniform...there are so many!
This is particularly true of any baseball players that had famous facial hair while playing for another team.
...My son was SO pissed when Giambi agreed to go to the Yankees.
I remember Nick Swisher in a non-A's uniform was upsetting at the time. But being the farm team for the league has softened the blow of former A's going on to different teams
Benedict Giambi
Hero
I guess they are just another name for submarine sandwiches. Do they need to be of a certain length to be called a "hero"?
Don't be such a size queen.
Can it be a hero via girth?
I thought it was regional. There's also grinder and hoagie.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
So, if Kamala is going to be VP, who do you hope will become California's new senator?
Berkeley's House Rep: Barbara Lee.
Is this a thing? I really hope not.
It is the most likely choice, according to the people that handicap this.
How often are those people right?
50%
Really? I don't remember Tim Kaine, or Mike Pence, or Joe Biden being bandied about as veep frontrunners. Certainly Sarah Palin was out of left field (I don't think Biden will pick a candidate out of left field, mind you).
Adam Schiff
He'd be great. I'd also love Katie Porter. I could probably be fine with Ted Lieu, too.
I think Schiff is really effective where he is, so I would lean toward Lieu or Porter. Would be happy with any of them though, or possibly Swalwell.
"When Melania Trump stayed behind in New York after her husband’s presidential inauguration, she said it was because she didn’t want to interrupt their then-10-year-old son Barron’s school year. News stories at the time concentrated on an apparent frostiness between the first couple and on the exorbitant taxpayer costs to protect Melania and Barron away from Washington.
Those stories are true, but Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan reveals in a new book that the first lady was also using her delayed arrival to the White House as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump.
The campaign had been full of harsh news about Trump’s alleged sexual indiscretions and infidelities, from the “grab them by the p---y” Access Hollywood tape to an affair with Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal; Melania learned new details from the media coverage, Jordan writes.
The incoming first lady needed time to cool off, and “to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron,’ ” Jordan writes in “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump.”
Interesting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/melania-book-art-of-her-deal-prenup-white-house/2020/06/11/ce63ec02-abec-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most
Very interesting, y'all should read.
lol if he actually loses and leaves office, I bet she bails very soon thereafter
papers will be filed before the inauguration of biden.
PRO
No Cal Baseball players were picked in the abbreviated 5 rounds of MLB Draft in the past two days. A former Cal Baseball player, Anthony Walters, who played at Cal in 2017 then off to a Juco and then San Diego State was picked in the 3rd round. The only Cal senior who might have hoped to be picked (and may still sign for the $20,000 bonus) is Brandon McIlswain.
CAL
Go Bears!
Grizzly 399, four cubs in tow, spotted at Pilgrim Creek
https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/this_just_in/grizzly-399-four-cubs-in-tow-spotted-at-pilgrim-creek/article_94797af5-1918-5dc1-a29a-021c03f050df.html
Scores of others soon watched in awe at a grizzly bear who has unknowingly made herself famous by dwelling in roadside areas of Grand Teton Park for the past 14 years. Four cubs is her largest known litter yet, and she’s rearing the youngsters at an age near the upper limit of a typical grizzly bear lifespan.
...
Grizzly 399 has proven she’s more fecund than most of her species, having reared triplets three times before. Although she’s a veteran mother, there’s likely a bumpy road ahead for her four young ones.
“Her one cub, Snowy, was hit just a half a mile down the road here [in 2016],” Mangelsen said.
It’s not known what’s become of all of 399’s 17 documented cubs, but they’ve been more under the microscope than most grizzly bear offspring. Both in their youngest years and adulthood, they’ve died from vehicle strikes, illegal shooting and being euthanized for depredating cattle and other habituated behavior.
For grizzly bear cubs generally, it’s about a coin flip — a 55% chance — they will survive to see the next year, according to study team data.
Who committed to Cal?
https://twitter.com/MWCherrington/status/1271289683448741891
likely Iosefa or Hisatake