USC's injury-hampered TE Daniel Imatorbhebhe enters the portal as a grad transfer. USC now lacks a dynamic pass catching TE as they primarily have blocking TE Erik Krommehnho and Josh Falo. Not that it matters because USC runs an Air Raid offense.
While there were continuing to be protests daily, the overall number, size, and amount of violence were all significantly decreased, and dialogue was greatly increased. Then the Feds came in uninvited and proceeded to instigate confrontations, and now the size and level of violence has returned to levels nearly as high as at any point.
Attacking and gassing an emergency room doctor who is also a county commissioner who went by to see what was actually happening didn't exactly reduce tension.
Trump doesn't care about what looks good to 70% of America, just the 30% that dgaf and supports him for being the umbrella to their racism and generally shitty behavior.
Particularly crap for high heels and skinny bike tires. There are still some streets and paths in Edinburgh that are cobble stoned but have little slabs of granite perpendicular to the direction of travel so that horses and wooden wagon wheels could get a grip on slopes.
Robbie Coltrane. He doesn't change his natural speaking voice much at all to have Hagrid's iconic textured voice. You're thinking about that painting now, aren't you.
CIF - North Section rebels against the parent entity - decides to play fall sports rather than pause until December. North Section is everything north of the Highway 20 - like Oroville, Chico, and Colusa.
"Just after 1,000 people died in a single day, the US is about to reach 4 million Covid-19 cases.
To put that in perspective, the first reported case came on January 21. After 99 days, 1 million Americans became infected.
It took just 43 days after that to reach 2 million cases.
And 28 days later, on July 8, the US reached 3 million cases. Case number 4 million could be reported just two weeks after that.
As of Wednesday morning, more than 3.9 million people had been infected across the US, and more than 142,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University."
I live in Santa Clara county and I have no idea what happened these last 4 weeks. We were doing such a great job keeping the curve flat, but then around the last week of June just lost our shit.
“I’m your VP, but the most important title I’ll ever hold is D-A-D,” Pence said at the conference, which followed a roundtable event with South Carolina students and educators about safe reopening. The state’s governor, Henry McMaster (R), has called for schools to reopen full-time. “I can tell you with my wife seated right here, if our kids were elementary school age or high school age or college, we wouldn’t hesitate to send them back to school.”
Yesterday our county schools threw in the towel and declared virtual school for the first quarter for sure and probably second quarter as well. My 15 year old is not amused.
I’m hoping that whoever has been working on the remote learning alternatives has some better ideas now. I wasn’t overly critical about the mayhem in the spring because it’s really hard to pivot that fast - but they should have been able to make some improvements by now
i've heard talk, of at least locally, that they might send the elementary kids back to school and have them space out by using the high school in addition to the elementary schools...while the high school/middle school kids stay online.
Another rumor is 13/380. Wow. I guess this means Seager is gone after this season. Which sucks because now that he's healthy I think he'll kill it this season.
Of the young guys they will (should) extend Bellinger and Buehler. I would like to see them extend Seager if he hits as well this year as he has been during "spring" training. We'll see on Lux.
Hmmm, "Its Okay to not be Okay" has star power and has its moments but is in the "good but not great" category. "Men are Men" with the delightful Hwang Jung-Eum is pretty good. "Was it Love" with Song Ji-hyo is pretty good. Backstreet Rookie is silly but moderately entertaining. Dinner Mate had potential but bored me to tears. Sweet Munchies was ridiculous and I couldn't watch. Mystic Pop Up Bar, also with Hwang Jung-Eum, started really slow but finished strong recently. Not too much else out there right now though
Watched the penultimate episode of Reply 1988 last night, really enjoyed it, boy was I wrong, I was sure Deok Sun was going to end up with the fly boy.
i really liked that one. partly 'cause that's how i remember korea from when i was a kid/it's set in a neighborhood right by where my grandma lived and her street was very similar.
It looks like SBN severely botched their anti-spam measures a few days ago by handing out irreversible spam bans to non-spam accounts--including a bunch of the old front-pagers, a (current or maybe just former) ATQ writer, SwisherSweet33, and DC Trojan.
So if we want to get rid of DCT, we just have to jump back to CGB...
Oakland has this SeeClickFix deal where people can complain about dumped trash, potholes, dead cars etc..., Anyway, the City been repair/adding curbs & sidewalks. As part of that work they've been removing abandoned railroad spurs. As a consequence, they're removing the old railroad ties, soaked with creosote. Well those are in a big pile, since they're now considered toxic, and the contractor has to make special arrangements to dispose of them. Someone complained about this pile, that's been there a couple of weeks.
Irony, when I was a kid, someone paid me maybe $15 to paint a wood fence with creosote, that stuff is nasty.
When we went to Mesa Verde a couple of years ago we were heading into the park and there was a big boulder blocking our lane. If it had happened around here, the boulder would have been in place for days. The Park Service had removed it by the time we came back a few hours later.
Elsewhere in college
USC's injury-hampered TE Daniel Imatorbhebhe enters the portal as a grad transfer. USC now lacks a dynamic pass catching TE as they primarily have blocking TE Erik Krommehnho and Josh Falo. Not that it matters because USC runs an Air Raid offense.
https://twitter.com/Scott_Schrader/status/1285696212037967872
Best of luck to him.
News about BLM protests
Portland protests still going strong
https://twitter.com/djkeebz/status/1285861414775619585
While there were continuing to be protests daily, the overall number, size, and amount of violence were all significantly decreased, and dialogue was greatly increased. Then the Feds came in uninvited and proceeded to instigate confrontations, and now the size and level of violence has returned to levels nearly as high as at any point.
Attacking and gassing an emergency room doctor who is also a county commissioner who went by to see what was actually happening didn't exactly reduce tension.
You'd think that after two months they'd realize that it's not a good look to respond to protests against police brutality with more police brutality.
It is if you’re trying to shore up the base
Trump doesn't care about what looks good to 70% of America, just the 30% that dgaf and supports him for being the umbrella to their racism and generally shitty behavior.
what is more concerning:
A. unlawful presence of the federal government
B. support for the above by amerikkkan patriots
yes
Twitter cracks down on QAnon accounts
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-accounts-limits-150-000-others-n1234541
What has gotten a lot more expensive, but qualitatively much worse?
Insurance?
Hard agree
Yep.
Real estate.
education
Well, not worse, but way more expensive: Yamazaki
amerikkka
"We may die tomorrow, so tonight we ______."
Netflix and chill
. . . dine in Hell!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRrrfSIgfKI
try and take over the world?
Ok, Pinky
Depends. Is everyone dying or just me?
Do much the same as usual tbh
Par-tay!
"Do every act of your life as if it were your last" - Marcus Aurelius
Leave our wallets in El Segundo
Banana bread
AKA what are we going to do with those now-brown bananas that we forgot about?
I started making it during corona and No 2 loves it. Here is the recipe that I use.
https://iamafoodblog.com/flour-bakerys-banana-bread/
No nuts. Please and thank you.
I support this, but what about chocolate chips?
I prefer pure. My wife likes it with chocolate chips. We usually double the recipe and make one of each.
Nope. I like my BB pure.
I like my BB the way I like my friends. Impure and a little nutty.
Never
Yes, with chocolate chips please&thankyou
Never had it like that.
Late night DBD starting early?
Angela Duckworth
Selma
Patty
Cake
My sister's name.
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
melt
Saint’s day
Petty
Peppermint
Hamburger
Stone pathways
Cobblestones look beautiful but are hell to actually travel on
Particularly crap for high heels and skinny bike tires. There are still some streets and paths in Edinburgh that are cobble stoned but have little slabs of granite perpendicular to the direction of travel so that horses and wooden wagon wheels could get a grip on slopes.
Gravel voice
Vin Diesel
Kathleen Turner
John Hiatt
Robbie Coltrane. He doesn't change his natural speaking voice much at all to have Hagrid's iconic textured voice. You're thinking about that painting now, aren't you.
I assume all the booze and cigarettes will do that to you.
Tom Waits
ummm ... I see trees of green, red roses too
I see Bears of Gold, red roses too
there i rewrote the lyrics to fit our upcoming Jan 1 trip to Pasadena
https://globalrose.com/flowers/d-09-blue-rose-50.html?gclid=CjwKCAjwx9_4BRAHEiwApAt0zoVOY3xuGT4BDFM-if1uFtlyVIcxuj61UIYU5sJD8VAeUhciQiyRxxoCHm4QAvD_BwE
Does sounding like your mouth is filled with pebbles and spittle count? If yes, Sean Connery
Rough, just the way your mother likes it, Trebek
Same as vocal fry?
no
Demi Moore
Kim Carnes
Joe Cocker
Mike Gravel, by definition.
He used to live in my neighborhood and I'd see him out walking. I don't know if he's still around here or not.
Dang, can't remember his name, plays a cowboy often, was on the 4 or 5th season of Justified, big mustache - one of you will know, I'm sure.
Sam Elliott
Yes!
Today in Coronavirus
CIF - North Section rebels against the parent entity - decides to play fall sports rather than pause until December. North Section is everything north of the Highway 20 - like Oroville, Chico, and Colusa.
https://www.maxpreps.com/news/9owE6mStGkmfVCa5uC44Zg/northern-section-breaks-from-cif,-votes-to-play-fall-sports-as-scheduled.htm
We were supposed to flatten the curve horizontally, not vertically...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
"Just after 1,000 people died in a single day, the US is about to reach 4 million Covid-19 cases.
To put that in perspective, the first reported case came on January 21. After 99 days, 1 million Americans became infected.
It took just 43 days after that to reach 2 million cases.
And 28 days later, on July 8, the US reached 3 million cases. Case number 4 million could be reported just two weeks after that.
As of Wednesday morning, more than 3.9 million people had been infected across the US, and more than 142,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University."
You try to explain exponential growth to anti-maskers, but looks like they need to experience this first.
They probably also don't believe in 401Ks.
I try to draw a comparison to a Ponzi scheme.
I live in Santa Clara county and I have no idea what happened these last 4 weeks. We were doing such a great job keeping the curve flat, but then around the last week of June just lost our shit.
“I’m your VP, but the most important title I’ll ever hold is D-A-D,” Pence said at the conference, which followed a roundtable event with South Carolina students and educators about safe reopening. The state’s governor, Henry McMaster (R), has called for schools to reopen full-time. “I can tell you with my wife seated right here, if our kids were elementary school age or high school age or college, we wouldn’t hesitate to send them back to school.”
Good grief, what a dolt.
Well he did manage to cause a spike in HIV when he was governor of Indiana so I think his credentials speak for themselves
Yesterday our county schools threw in the towel and declared virtual school for the first quarter for sure and probably second quarter as well. My 15 year old is not amused.
It sounds like the whole state is going virtual this fall. Tough decision, but almost certainly the right one.
I’m hoping that whoever has been working on the remote learning alternatives has some better ideas now. I wasn’t overly critical about the mayhem in the spring because it’s really hard to pivot that fast - but they should have been able to make some improvements by now
i've heard talk, of at least locally, that they might send the elementary kids back to school and have them space out by using the high school in addition to the elementary schools...while the high school/middle school kids stay online.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
White House orders PRC consulate in Houston closed in 72 hours. Retaliation from China is inevitable.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/china-us-houston-consulate-intl-hnk/index.html
Chicago Tribune decides that they need an anti prosecutor Soros conspiracy op-Ed 😬
https://twitter.com/them_l_g/status/1285955265163079683?s=21
What a weird twitter feed
BuT hOw DaRe YoU cRiTiCiZe ThE GrEaTeSt FrEeSt SoCiEtY eVeR bUiLt.
PRO
GBBR
Sources: Mookie Betts, Dodgers near long-term contract
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29517069/sources-mookie-betts-dodgers-long-term-contract
Rumor is 10 year at least 300 mil. I've even heard 350-400 mil.
I've been watching the scrimmages the last few nights. They are killing the ball. Everyone up and down the lineup is hitting the ball.
Another rumor is 13/380. Wow. I guess this means Seager is gone after this season. Which sucks because now that he's healthy I think he'll kill it this season.
yeah...seager may be gone after this season...good thing for guys like lux waiting in the wings...
wait no...seager under contract 2022...
Of the young guys they will (should) extend Bellinger and Buehler. I would like to see them extend Seager if he hits as well this year as he has been during "spring" training. We'll see on Lux.
they saying 380 now.
something like 50mm per for the next 6 seasons...then 30 for 1 season...then the mlb minimum for the remainder.
CAL
Go Bears!
Jeff Faraudo: Moses Oladejo and Kaleb Higgins plan on enrolling early. This makes a total of 5, so far: Terry, Swinney, Calhoun, Higgins, Oladejo.
https://www.si.com/college/cal/news/calhoun-plans-early-arrival
Bastian Swinney also planning to be an early enrollee
https://twitter.com/BastianSwinney/status/1285585129293873153
hello
Congrats!!
Hey, I hear you're getting hitched!
Congrats, dude!
Comic-Con is online and free this year https://www.comic-con.org/cci/2020/athome
JLEE/FS - I NEED A NEW KDRAMA TO WATCH
i was thinking about watching memorial and was it love...mainly they star nana and song ji hyo. haven't watched yet so...
I think I watched the 1st ep of the one with Nana...I almost feel asleep
Hmmm, "Its Okay to not be Okay" has star power and has its moments but is in the "good but not great" category. "Men are Men" with the delightful Hwang Jung-Eum is pretty good. "Was it Love" with Song Ji-hyo is pretty good. Backstreet Rookie is silly but moderately entertaining. Dinner Mate had potential but bored me to tears. Sweet Munchies was ridiculous and I couldn't watch. Mystic Pop Up Bar, also with Hwang Jung-Eum, started really slow but finished strong recently. Not too much else out there right now though
I liked dinner mate up to episode 10. Sam gyup sal! Then... meh
Watched the penultimate episode of Reply 1988 last night, really enjoyed it, boy was I wrong, I was sure Deok Sun was going to end up with the fly boy.
So so so so good
i really liked that one. partly 'cause that's how i remember korea from when i was a kid/it's set in a neighborhood right by where my grandma lived and her street was very similar.
It looks like SBN severely botched their anti-spam measures a few days ago by handing out irreversible spam bans to non-spam accounts--including a bunch of the old front-pagers, a (current or maybe just former) ATQ writer, SwisherSweet33, and DC Trojan.
So if we want to get rid of DCT, we just have to jump back to CGB...
Oh
Did you notice ?
I haven’t been on an SBN site since the DBD moved, so I had not.
Oakland has this SeeClickFix deal where people can complain about dumped trash, potholes, dead cars etc..., Anyway, the City been repair/adding curbs & sidewalks. As part of that work they've been removing abandoned railroad spurs. As a consequence, they're removing the old railroad ties, soaked with creosote. Well those are in a big pile, since they're now considered toxic, and the contractor has to make special arrangements to dispose of them. Someone complained about this pile, that's been there a couple of weeks.
Irony, when I was a kid, someone paid me maybe $15 to paint a wood fence with creosote, that stuff is nasty.
The sign in the lead photo does qualifies as the understatement of the year.
When we went to Mesa Verde a couple of years ago we were heading into the park and there was a big boulder blocking our lane. If it had happened around here, the boulder would have been in place for days. The Park Service had removed it by the time we came back a few hours later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbSeIc4RpeM#t=16s
Gavin Newsom. But he ain't an actor.