Singer Florence Foster Jenkins couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. Yet, she made her Carnegie Hall debut to a completely sold-out house on October 25, 1944. In fact, tickets were so in-demand that the night of the performance, 2,000 people hoping to grab seats to hear Jenkins were turned away.
Thanks. I don’t recall meeting Nancy, though I might have. But I have met Keith. The McDonalds has since become the MoonMart, a 7-11 type place. Used to get hot dogs there.
Peach and mango smoothie. Since starting working from home during quarantine I've been regularly blending smoothies with a mix of fresh and frozen fruit for breakfast. Fast, easy, healthy, tasty.
My goto smoothie is mango, oranges, strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, and banana. When the oranges aren't as fresh then I use the Cuties Tangerine juice from Costco (which unfortunately they haven't had for the last couple of months).
not sure since I'm on a call and will be leaving in a couple of hours for No 3's baseball game. I'll probably try to grab some yogurt with french vanilla granola and blueberries like every morning.
Perfect Bay Area weather: nice cool morning fog, burning off around 10, nice sunny clear day, high in the low 70's - so many times coming back from vacation (anywhere), I'm like, ah feels good to be home.
June gloom extending into July. But should be a pleasant mid to high 70s for the next week or so. Looking clear for the 4th, so we'll get a good view of the . . . oh wait, nevermind
Mostly cloudy, but dry. Gradual clearing as the day goes along. Less clouds and more sun for the weekend. Highs in the mid 70s for the next week with no rain. After the 4th or 5th wettest June in recorded history, that is a welcome respite.
I started out with one my wife made that had cartoon monsters on it, but that has been retired because it was fleece lined (an early prototype!). I bought some washable wicking masks from Goruck in part because I prefer masks that I can tie behind my head: the ear loop versions are not working for me. I do need to get some disposable ones to keep in the car and for teen use (my older daughter seems to find fabric masks objectionable when she’s going to see friends).
Currently doing a double thing. a cloth one that the handwork teacher at mrs. school sewed (a bunch of them) and cover that with a neck gaiter/Buff. Also use some cheapy cotton ones I got a target. I do find that I have better breathability while having good coverage with the double layer. Then the single cloth one doesn't have to strangle my face for good coverage.
The kind pictured dangling from Van Gogh. Family members in Taiwan ordered a couple boxes to ship to us because they were worried. Since I don't go out very often, it's been sufficient.
I've read a bit about the efficacy of face shields, and I hope those become a viable option for people who do need to be out and about interacting with others.
Once in awhile I'll stop at Starbucks to get a passion tea lemonade after a run. That's the kind of mask they give you when you go in if you don't have your own.
Do you have one for running? A friend here in the Bay was talking about how she has a mask that has ear loops, but not one that's more like a cowl. Now that Alameda County says you have to have one on you that can easily be put on if you're passing within 30 feet of people, she might have had to get a new mask (or be a scofflaw?)
I don't have one when I run. We're not required to have one and don't have anything like the 30 foot rule. When in the neighborhood, traffic is still light enough that I spend a lot of time out in the first lane of traffic and once I get on the trails there are not many folks out so can keep to six feet distance pretty easily.
As I understand it, it's for the active folks who are running or cycling, because they would cover that 30 feet much faster than those of us plodding along. So you wear it around your neck, pull it up when you're going to pass someone, and then push it back down once you're in the clear.
Or something like that; I don't know, I'm not particularly active.
My original one was a purple bandanna with rainbows and donuts, but that one was too hot when temperatures got into the 70s. Now I have a proper mask with straps: it has lobsters on one side and lobster traps on the other.
Navy blue bandanna. The seamstress in the house made one with elastic straps from one, and for more heavy duty situations, a full bandanna tied in the back. Worked fine for wildland firefighting for years.
I have some that were sewn together that I made from a yellow Oski BeastMode shirt. One has the logo on the front. I have 3 of them so I can wash them after I use them at the end of the day. I don't have straps sewn on so I use two scrunchies and flip the ends over. Like when they showed how to make temporary ones at the beginning of the pandemic. The only drawback is I don't have a nose metal thing to crimp it against my nose so my glasses fog up sometimes.
A cloth mask with a tropical flower motif. Bought if from an older Asian woman who was selling them outside the farmer's market. She had a sign saying she was a laid off tailor and I had just been using a bandana.
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement posted to his Twitter account Thursday.
The announcement comes almost two weeks after Cain joined thousands of people at President Trump’s Tulsa campaign rally, which health officials warned could spread the virus in a city with spiking infections. Cain’s Thursday Twitter statement said there is “no way of knowing for sure how or where [he] contracted the coronavirus.”
Cain, a former National Restaurant Association chief executive who touted his business experience in his 2011 bid for the presidency, was told Monday that he had tested positive, according to his statement. By Wednesday, Cain had developed serious symptoms, the statement said.
He is receiving treatment and “resting comfortably” in an Atlanta area hospital, according to the statement, which says Cain did not need a respirator and is “awake and alert.”
Trump was wearing a mask during swine flu! Don’t you remember the pictures of him wearing mask?! He told Obama he should be wearing a mask during swine flu to show real leadership but Obama resisted because he is a Muslim and Muslims don’t eat pork and swine flu came from pigs and Obama felt it was all a big Christian and conservative hoax in order to oppress Muslims.
I know this is all true because I read it on a Russian website that is controlled by QAnon and the president and his supporters tweeted it. Plus, I have a Google PhD and know how to use google and have 9 fully functional fingers, and my mom just updated our internet connection so my internet is now super duper fast!
If you don’t believe me or believe all of this that’s because your a sheople and watch fake news like CNN while I only watch OAN and only watch Carson and Hannity on Fox News.
Open your eyes and take the red pill people!!
If you read all of this and still can’t decide if I’m being serious that’s clearly your problem.
"President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Norway is facing demands that he abandon his pursuit of the diplomatic post following the unearthing of a 1994 court filing indicating his involvement in the production of a racist campaign flier against an African American politician in Georgia.
According to the filing, Mark Burkhalter helped create a flier that distorted and exaggerated the features of Gordon Joyner, a candidate for county commissioner in north-central Georgia. Joyner was pictured with some features darkened, a large Afro, enlarged eyebrows and a warped eye.
Joyner sued for libel, resulting in an out-of-court settlement, an apology signed by Burkhalter and three other men, and payment of an undisclosed sum."
That's kind of the case for me as well, but I might use it more as a dishwasher soon in the near future. The recent TV ad that claims that it's water-efficient to run the dishwasher even for one person has sort of swayed me...in addition to an abundance of dishwasher soap cubes that I had purchased a while back and questions about if there will be a dishwasher at my next place to use these.
So is mine. My condo is in an older building and the dishwasher in my unit is one of those ones you have to hook up to the faucet. I just wash by hand and use the dishwasher as a drying rack and the top of it for storage space.
Cal turned "Cal Day" into "Cal Week", put all the video resources online, and each individual college did their own Cal Week. CAA wants its chapters to put on a Welcome Party - but since it's no longer in person, it'll feel really similar to Cal Week. My thoughts are to have topics that they don't say in Cal Week. Help me come up with some topics, please.
At least you still have it. I haven’t been paying attention to the details but SC just blew up all US alumni associations and it’s not been received all that well.
Black mask. Pretty comfortable, I have three of them,
https://www.wfmt.com/2016/03/30/the-truth-about-the-worst-singer-of-all-time-florence-foster-jenkins-told-by-her-accompanist/
Singer Florence Foster Jenkins couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket. Yet, she made her Carnegie Hall debut to a completely sold-out house on October 25, 1944. In fact, tickets were so in-demand that the night of the performance, 2,000 people hoping to grab seats to hear Jenkins were turned away.
The real Florence Foster Jenkins looks nothing like Meryl Streep. (I actually haven't seen that movie yet, just the trailer.)
I heard about "McMoons," so I did a search and found McMoon the pianist. However, I was looking for this: https://www.kcra.com/article/rogue-scientists-revive-lost-moon-photos-inside-abandoned-mcdonalds-1/8470923
Those are my colleagues! Here’s another take: https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/
After reading that article, I looked up Nancy Evans. It looks like she died just this year:
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2020/03/nancy-evans.html
and
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2020/03/nancy-evans-was.html
I was wondering if you'd been there, but didn't want to call you out!
Thanks. I don’t recall meeting Nancy, though I might have. But I have met Keith. The McDonalds has since become the MoonMart, a 7-11 type place. Used to get hot dogs there.
That was very cool, thanks for posting.
I thought people here might find it interesting, too :)
Ghislaine Maxwell arrested in NH
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ghislaine-maxwell-arrested-jeffrey-epstein-aide/2495762/
Hopefully they’ll keep a closer eye on her than Epstein pending trial, although getting bumped off by the authorities is a Maxwell family thing.
Eh, I'm OK with saving the money on trials.
What's for breakfast today?
No breakfast, but I just had a turkey and avocado sandwich with sprouts and butter lettuce on artichoke cheese focaccia for lunch.
That sounds good, I had leftover spaghetti & meatballs, yum.
I had turkey avocado bacon on sourdough yesterday!
1st breakfast - coffee and leftover bday cake since we missed my sister-in-laws bday last weekend
2nd breakfast - egg avocado sandwich w/ some melted pepper jack
sugar free Yogurt with blueberries
Peach and mango smoothie. Since starting working from home during quarantine I've been regularly blending smoothies with a mix of fresh and frozen fruit for breakfast. Fast, easy, healthy, tasty.
My goto smoothie is mango, oranges, strawberries, kiwi, blueberries, and banana. When the oranges aren't as fresh then I use the Cuties Tangerine juice from Costco (which unfortunately they haven't had for the last couple of months).
English muffin with jam and bacon.
not sure since I'm on a call and will be leaving in a couple of hours for No 3's baseball game. I'll probably try to grab some yogurt with french vanilla granola and blueberries like every morning.
Irish oatmeal with bluerries and strawberries.
Basmati rice & leftover kadai paneer. Dr. John Kellogg doesn't control me.
Weather
Perfect Bay Area weather: nice cool morning fog, burning off around 10, nice sunny clear day, high in the low 70's - so many times coming back from vacation (anywhere), I'm like, ah feels good to be home.
It's getting hot (regularly hitting mid-to-high 80s), but the humidity hasn't really set in yet.
June gloom extending into July. But should be a pleasant mid to high 70s for the next week or so. Looking clear for the 4th, so we'll get a good view of the . . . oh wait, nevermind
Mostly cloudy, but dry. Gradual clearing as the day goes along. Less clouds and more sun for the weekend. Highs in the mid 70s for the next week with no rain. After the 4th or 5th wettest June in recorded history, that is a welcome respite.
It's the South. So it's like breathing hot soup.
What's your face mask look like?
Blue with black straps, pretty plain.
I have a black one too, but I lost one of the little plastic cinches, so it doesn't fit right anymore :-/
Black & white gingham with white trim.
I started out with one my wife made that had cartoon monsters on it, but that has been retired because it was fleece lined (an early prototype!). I bought some washable wicking masks from Goruck in part because I prefer masks that I can tie behind my head: the ear loop versions are not working for me. I do need to get some disposable ones to keep in the car and for teen use (my older daughter seems to find fabric masks objectionable when she’s going to see friends).
We are keeping a cheap, plain, standard fabric mask in each primary vehicle just to have a spare on hand.
Yes, we've got a few in each car as well, just in case.
Med gray, black trim. Way more comfortable than N95 ones I was wearing.
Currently doing a double thing. a cloth one that the handwork teacher at mrs. school sewed (a bunch of them) and cover that with a neck gaiter/Buff. Also use some cheapy cotton ones I got a target. I do find that I have better breathability while having good coverage with the double layer. Then the single cloth one doesn't have to strangle my face for good coverage.
Hmm how do you post pics on this new format?
currently you cannot.
Ok here is my 3D printed mask my brother made for me. https://i.imgur.com/ODpdvrF.jpg
The kind pictured dangling from Van Gogh. Family members in Taiwan ordered a couple boxes to ship to us because they were worried. Since I don't go out very often, it's been sufficient.
I've read a bit about the efficacy of face shields, and I hope those become a viable option for people who do need to be out and about interacting with others.
My mom's brother sent a box with some filters and masks.
Once in awhile I'll stop at Starbucks to get a passion tea lemonade after a run. That's the kind of mask they give you when you go in if you don't have your own.
Do you have one for running? A friend here in the Bay was talking about how she has a mask that has ear loops, but not one that's more like a cowl. Now that Alameda County says you have to have one on you that can easily be put on if you're passing within 30 feet of people, she might have had to get a new mask (or be a scofflaw?)
30 feet?!?!?!?!?!
Been the rule in SF County for more than a month.
I guess this is only for running; 6 feet everywhere else.
I don't have one when I run. We're not required to have one and don't have anything like the 30 foot rule. When in the neighborhood, traffic is still light enough that I spend a lot of time out in the first lane of traffic and once I get on the trails there are not many folks out so can keep to six feet distance pretty easily.
I don't wear one when I run either. Also there aren't that many people out so I can just cross the street.
Yeah even in MoCo we’re not doing anything as rigid as masks at 30 feet outside
As I understand it, it's for the active folks who are running or cycling, because they would cover that 30 feet much faster than those of us plodding along. So you wear it around your neck, pull it up when you're going to pass someone, and then push it back down once you're in the clear.
Or something like that; I don't know, I'm not particularly active.
My original one was a purple bandanna with rainbows and donuts, but that one was too hot when temperatures got into the 70s. Now I have a proper mask with straps: it has lobsters on one side and lobster traps on the other.
Rotating blue/beige plaid and light blue for around town. Navy blue neck gator/face covering for when on the water.
My wife has gone super stylish with them and has like 12 different ones she wears depending on her outfit.
Navy blue bandanna. The seamstress in the house made one with elastic straps from one, and for more heavy duty situations, a full bandanna tied in the back. Worked fine for wildland firefighting for years.
I have some that were sewn together that I made from a yellow Oski BeastMode shirt. One has the logo on the front. I have 3 of them so I can wash them after I use them at the end of the day. I don't have straps sewn on so I use two scrunchies and flip the ends over. Like when they showed how to make temporary ones at the beginning of the pandemic. The only drawback is I don't have a nose metal thing to crimp it against my nose so my glasses fog up sometimes.
https://officialnasagear.com/nasa-worm-logo-4-layer-cotton-face-mask-with-adjustable-ear-loops/
Those are awesome. I just ordered a pair.
A cloth mask with a tropical flower motif. Bought if from an older Asian woman who was selling them outside the farmer's market. She had a sign saying she was a laid off tailor and I had just been using a bandana.
Standard N95 M3 mask. Got a set of 10 in February because I've lived through SARS and an annual haze events.
https://img.manufacturing.net/files/base/indm/multi/image/2020/05/16x9/3m_disposable_respirators_8210pa2_a_64_1000.5eac5643a0143.png?auto=format&fit=crop&h=394&w=700
We keep both some N95's for when it's fire season and some regular disposable paper ones on hand.
Today in the 'rona
Trump has it handled okay.
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, according to a statement posted to his Twitter account Thursday.
The announcement comes almost two weeks after Cain joined thousands of people at President Trump’s Tulsa campaign rally, which health officials warned could spread the virus in a city with spiking infections. Cain’s Thursday Twitter statement said there is “no way of knowing for sure how or where [he] contracted the coronavirus.”
Cain, a former National Restaurant Association chief executive who touted his business experience in his 2011 bid for the presidency, was told Monday that he had tested positive, according to his statement. By Wednesday, Cain had developed serious symptoms, the statement said.
He is receiving treatment and “resting comfortably” in an Atlanta area hospital, according to the statement, which says Cain did not need a respirator and is “awake and alert.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/More-than-40-Bay-Area-school-principals-in-15381335.php
There is no way public schools can re-open at anything like usual activity any time before Christmas. They will be super spreading hot spots.
American Pediatrics association seems to feel differently IIRC
At least for elementary school
They are wrong.
I read their reasoning and I thing they're right.
What do you know that they don't?
Trump flip-flops. Now says he's all for masks. Claim that he's always been for masks in 3... 2...
https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/1278482267388563456
Trump was wearing a mask during swine flu! Don’t you remember the pictures of him wearing mask?! He told Obama he should be wearing a mask during swine flu to show real leadership but Obama resisted because he is a Muslim and Muslims don’t eat pork and swine flu came from pigs and Obama felt it was all a big Christian and conservative hoax in order to oppress Muslims.
I know this is all true because I read it on a Russian website that is controlled by QAnon and the president and his supporters tweeted it. Plus, I have a Google PhD and know how to use google and have 9 fully functional fingers, and my mom just updated our internet connection so my internet is now super duper fast!
If you don’t believe me or believe all of this that’s because your a sheople and watch fake news like CNN while I only watch OAN and only watch Carson and Hannity on Fox News.
Open your eyes and take the red pill people!!
If you read all of this and still can’t decide if I’m being serious that’s clearly your problem.
Today in our stumbling, bumbling, crumbling democracy
"President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Norway is facing demands that he abandon his pursuit of the diplomatic post following the unearthing of a 1994 court filing indicating his involvement in the production of a racist campaign flier against an African American politician in Georgia.
According to the filing, Mark Burkhalter helped create a flier that distorted and exaggerated the features of Gordon Joyner, a candidate for county commissioner in north-central Georgia. Joyner was pictured with some features darkened, a large Afro, enlarged eyebrows and a warped eye.
Joyner sued for libel, resulting in an out-of-court settlement, an apology signed by Burkhalter and three other men, and payment of an undisclosed sum."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-involved-in-racist-smear-against-black-politician/2020/07/02/3505e15a-bc13-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html
I for one am shocked
...but not humbling...
Pros
Always use a dishwasher? Cubs' Jose Quintana hurt his pitching hand while washing dishes and had to have surgery. https://twitter.com/ESPNChicago/status/1278740858603368450
You have to handwash crystal and some other things.
My dishwasher is a drying rack
That's kind of the case for me as well, but I might use it more as a dishwasher soon in the near future. The recent TV ad that claims that it's water-efficient to run the dishwasher even for one person has sort of swayed me...in addition to an abundance of dishwasher soap cubes that I had purchased a while back and questions about if there will be a dishwasher at my next place to use these.
So is mine. My condo is in an older building and the dishwasher in my unit is one of those ones you have to hook up to the faucet. I just wash by hand and use the dishwasher as a drying rack and the top of it for storage space.
Cal
Cal turned "Cal Day" into "Cal Week", put all the video resources online, and each individual college did their own Cal Week. CAA wants its chapters to put on a Welcome Party - but since it's no longer in person, it'll feel really similar to Cal Week. My thoughts are to have topics that they don't say in Cal Week. Help me come up with some topics, please.
I think the Berkeley Club of Taiwan did a "Meet the Bears" video chat. You could go on Google Streetview and do a tour of Telegraph or something.
do you mean one of the welcome parties for new students?
In other news, CAA is still horrible at organization.
At least you still have it. I haven’t been paying attention to the details but SC just blew up all US alumni associations and it’s not been received all that well.