I remember the bomb that went off at the Barneys (I think) casino at South Lake Tahoe maybe in the very late 70s. Maybe it was Harveys. It was the one across the street from the Harrahs at Stateline.
I was in Boston during the Marathon bombing and almost went to check out the race (but decided to be a good little grad student instead). The subsequent manhunt was more unsettling because that was somewhat around where I was living at the time.
I'd run out of coffee the day before, and was really jonesing for it the day of the lockdown. But, at least the company I somewhat newly worked for at the time had denied my VPN access request only weeks prior, so it was a big "I cant do any work today" stick it to ya kind of day. (Also, I lived in North Cambridge at the time, close enough to Watertown and the action to hear sirens throughout the days)
After having cable internet for the last 15 years, I finally switched to fiber. I'm now paying $15 less per month for a 10x increase in download speed and 100x increase in upload speeds.
I'm very thankful to live in a rare locale with more than one choice for high-speed internet providers.
I had Comcast but knew Verizon was available because a few of my neighbors were using them. But I don't know of any systematic way of identifying who's available (although I suppose you could plug your address into various ISPs' websites to see if they service your house).
I just got on Verizon for the new digs, but my current quest is to extend internet around the house. (Working on a MoCA connection since the house has coax everywhere but no ethernet.) If the ISP turns out to be the limiting factor, I suppose we'll upgrade, but I think right now having only WiFi and having it in the living room, which is an add-on room, might be holding us back.
Exactly! I trust this D with a 2 score, 2nd half lead, unlike the Dykes era. They just can't seem to get there often enough!
A concern is that Wilcox's penchant for taking the air out of the ball with a 2nd half lead (to limit turnovers/play the field possession game) often results in L's even when the D doesn't collapse....the margin for error is so slim, and it's tough to keep asking the D to get stops.
If we had a dominant O-line, it'd be different. But constantly going 3 & out with straight vanilla play calling in the 4th Q is tough.....
I was doing some unpacking and putting some old shirts into storage and found my KEEP CALM AND DROP 50 shirt, hard to imagine that wasn't all that long ago
I forget which game I was at during the Dykes era but there was a blatant missed tackle by a Cal cornerback that led to a big gain, and I blurted out to the people around me in classic cheesy indignant fan fashion "Do they even teach tackling here??" The answer to that question was No. No, they didn't teach tackling there.
they're going to be huge in the NIL world for college athletes. Thibodeaux from Oregon already getting multiple 6 figures for NFT stuff from Phil Knight
It's not just their marketing as a bunch of kids/TikTok-ers started memes and jokes about how that was the ideal vaccine.
But yeah, someone over at Pfizer marketing was able to get everyone just attributes the vaccine to them and omits the fact that BioNTech developed the vaccine; Pfizer just helped with testing and manufacturing.
student in China emailed me expressing concern about the safety about coming to the U.S. I did my best to coming some statistics about how our current surge is almost exclusively the unvaccinated and breakthrough infections are quite mild, but I wasn't feeling so great about recommending all that air travel.
I mean maybe it's changed a bit from Delta being more transmissible, but given the requirement to wear masks on a plane, air exchange, and air filtering in a plane, I'd venture that it's not all that risky. Especially if they've been vaccinated to be able to come on campus.
Texas -- Texas A&M: The Aggies are coming off their best season since 2012 when they won 11 games and Johnny Manziel hoisted the Heisman Trophy. Coach Jimbo Fisher finally seems to have this program at the level capable of competing for SEC West titles. Other Lone Star State schools like Texas, SMU, Baylor and TCU have had their moments in recent years, but Texas A&M has remained consistent and now appears to be peaking entering 2021. -- Kercheval
obligatory response. atm is improved but look at their schedule. They got boat raced by Bama and the rest of their schedule (9 wins) was a collective 30-50. Best win was against 8-4 Florida (who got curb stomped by 35 by Blowkahoma) and a 6-4 Auburn team. atm is a mirage breaking in a new QB this year so we'll see...
i played HS fb in CT in the glory days of the late 90's and had a few teammates go play at then lowly Sacred Heart, so this is great! (except for the one ended up playing at UCONN [albeit they were still division "1AA" at that time])
I caught the tail end of his resignation speech and it was pretty self-indulgent. Lots of talk about the advances made in minimum wage, LGBTQ rights, and women's rights *cringe* under his watch. Maybe he was more apologetic early in the speech, but I won't hold my breath.
I figured that Cuomo intended to become the state level answer to a defiant Donald Trump. Reality caught up with him, I guess. The legislature was poised to kick his sorry hindquarters to the curb via impeachment.
I will note that the WaPo article indicates his resignation becomes effective in 14 days. Plenty of time in which to stir up garbage as he's leaving. This is the period in which he does his level best to undermine the investigations that could land him in jail.
Bomb threat
i was about to grab lunch at Chelsea Market, but found all sorts of police activity as i walked up.
now i hear the evacuated because of some bomb threat.
not that i am against being careful but it would be interesting to knows
- the number of bomb threats
- the number of bombs diffused or intercepted
- the number of bombs that go off
my guess is that the last 2 numbers are 0 given the notification of a bomb threat.
I remember the bomb that went off at the Barneys (I think) casino at South Lake Tahoe maybe in the very late 70s. Maybe it was Harveys. It was the one across the street from the Harrahs at Stateline.
I was in Boston during the Marathon bombing and almost went to check out the race (but decided to be a good little grad student instead). The subsequent manhunt was more unsettling because that was somewhat around where I was living at the time.
I'd run out of coffee the day before, and was really jonesing for it the day of the lockdown. But, at least the company I somewhat newly worked for at the time had denied my VPN access request only weeks prior, so it was a big "I cant do any work today" stick it to ya kind of day. (Also, I lived in North Cambridge at the time, close enough to Watertown and the action to hear sirens throughout the days)
I think that was Harvey's.
Folks were ordering Harvey Wallbangers.
DBD IT
After having cable internet for the last 15 years, I finally switched to fiber. I'm now paying $15 less per month for a 10x increase in download speed and 100x increase in upload speeds.
I'm very thankful to live in a rare locale with more than one choice for high-speed internet providers.
oh wow! is there an easy way to look up who your provider options are?
I had Comcast but knew Verizon was available because a few of my neighbors were using them. But I don't know of any systematic way of identifying who's available (although I suppose you could plug your address into various ISPs' websites to see if they service your house).
I just got on Verizon for the new digs, but my current quest is to extend internet around the house. (Working on a MoCA connection since the house has coax everywhere but no ethernet.) If the ISP turns out to be the limiting factor, I suppose we'll upgrade, but I think right now having only WiFi and having it in the living room, which is an add-on room, might be holding us back.
I think my work Macbook Pro just died. SMC reset and PRAM/NVRAM reset didn't work either.
that sounds bad. At least it's not your cost to replace
I have the exact same laptop as my personal laptop so I can swap SSDs and keep working, which is convenient.
i need to get a new personal laptop to do non-work things.
i sort of had one, but older daughter took it over when her MacBook Air died
nope. I think if a new logic board costs too much they'll just get me a new one.
weird....it came back on. and it wasn't even reset. Strange.
Fad
A competent Cal offense
Remember when Cal used to have a lead AND still continue to move the ball and try to score points? Sigh...
Gotta pack in a couple more TDs before the inevitable 4th-quarter defensive collapse.
Exactly! I trust this D with a 2 score, 2nd half lead, unlike the Dykes era. They just can't seem to get there often enough!
A concern is that Wilcox's penchant for taking the air out of the ball with a 2nd half lead (to limit turnovers/play the field possession game) often results in L's even when the D doesn't collapse....the margin for error is so slim, and it's tough to keep asking the D to get stops.
If we had a dominant O-line, it'd be different. But constantly going 3 & out with straight vanilla play calling in the 4th Q is tough.....
I was doing some unpacking and putting some old shirts into storage and found my KEEP CALM AND DROP 50 shirt, hard to imagine that wasn't all that long ago
It's more like keep calm and drop 20 now.
I forget which game I was at during the Dykes era but there was a blatant missed tackle by a Cal cornerback that led to a big gain, and I blurted out to the people around me in classic cheesy indignant fan fashion "Do they even teach tackling here??" The answer to that question was No. No, they didn't teach tackling there.
Ha!
As a 10 year old, I had an impressive collection of velour and Terry cloth shirts.
as long as you didnt own any parachute pants
Rayon was hot in 92 when I was in 6th grade
letting people vote en masse
Brutal. Just brutal.
Pogs
I remember my boss and his son playing with Pogs, around 1996 I think.
Weird 70's fad: CB radios, truckers viewed as the last cowboys, movies like Smoky and the Bandit, want to freak yourself out? Watch this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382219/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4
I still use a tablet. PC World said in 2011 that tablets are a passing fad.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/223204/why_tablets_and_pads_are_just_a_fad.html
I think not, I see them as an enduring, but secondary screen.
I think iPads are popular among kids and seniors
source: my niece and my mother
Agree. My mom and my nephew.
My son openly mocked them, but gladly snatched my old ipad when I upgraded.
Leisure Suits
Or, the Full Cleveland as Herb Caen referred to it.
angels flight pants, silk shirts. Disco forever!
I used to have a Qiana shirt!
:D
Generics
are NFTs still popular and the media just ignores them now? or are they done?
they're going to be huge in the NIL world for college athletes. Thibodeaux from Oregon already getting multiple 6 figures for NFT stuff from Phil Knight
I guess props for athletes making money off of literally nothing
its just going to legalize the stuff that was happening under the table plus give some smart, high profile guys a whole lot more
Today in Covid
Moderna vaccine may be superior to Pfizer
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moderna-may-be-superior-pfizer-against-delta-breakthrough-odds-rise-with-time-2021-08-09/
So maybe the Pfizer marketing dept is better? I seem to remember Pfizer being the preferred one.
It had (slightly) better results for the original strain. Perhaps not for Delta.
Though to be clear, they all still work quite well at preventing severe illness and death.
It's not just their marketing as a bunch of kids/TikTok-ers started memes and jokes about how that was the ideal vaccine.
But yeah, someone over at Pfizer marketing was able to get everyone just attributes the vaccine to them and omits the fact that BioNTech developed the vaccine; Pfizer just helped with testing and manufacturing.
Brother and mother in law got Pfizer because they own stock.
Pfizer stock has been mostly under $40 all year but they suddenly went up to $48
student in China emailed me expressing concern about the safety about coming to the U.S. I did my best to coming some statistics about how our current surge is almost exclusively the unvaccinated and breakthrough infections are quite mild, but I wasn't feeling so great about recommending all that air travel.
I suspect the air travel is the least risk part, tbh
you think? residential campus with a vaccine mandate for students + employees can't be all that risky
I mean maybe it's changed a bit from Delta being more transmissible, but given the requirement to wear masks on a plane, air exchange, and air filtering in a plane, I'd venture that it's not all that risky. Especially if they've been vaccinated to be able to come on campus.
Elsewhere in college
Picking the best college football team in each state entering the 2021 season
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/picking-the-best-college-football-team-in-each-state-entering-the-2021-season/
Ouch-
Texas -- Texas A&M: The Aggies are coming off their best season since 2012 when they won 11 games and Johnny Manziel hoisted the Heisman Trophy. Coach Jimbo Fisher finally seems to have this program at the level capable of competing for SEC West titles. Other Lone Star State schools like Texas, SMU, Baylor and TCU have had their moments in recent years, but Texas A&M has remained consistent and now appears to be peaking entering 2021. -- Kercheval
obligatory response. atm is improved but look at their schedule. They got boat raced by Bama and the rest of their schedule (9 wins) was a collective 30-50. Best win was against 8-4 Florida (who got curb stomped by 35 by Blowkahoma) and a 6-4 Auburn team. atm is a mirage breaking in a new QB this year so we'll see...
that's the SEC generally though. all the 9-10 win teams, the wins are against crap for the most part.
sad New England states that barely had a season (if at all)
i played HS fb in CT in the glory days of the late 90's and had a few teammates go play at then lowly Sacred Heart, so this is great! (except for the one ended up playing at UCONN [albeit they were still division "1AA" at that time])
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
New York Gov. Cuomo to resign in effort to head off likely impeachment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/andrew-cuomo-resigns/2021/08/10/cfd44154-7ac2-11eb-b3d1-9e5aa3d5220c_story.html
I caught the tail end of his resignation speech and it was pretty self-indulgent. Lots of talk about the advances made in minimum wage, LGBTQ rights, and women's rights *cringe* under his watch. Maybe he was more apologetic early in the speech, but I won't hold my breath.
Well... in public he was very supportive of women's rights, in private, however, it was a different story.
It occurs to me that there's no *legal* reason why Cuomo couldn't run for re-election in 2022.
Depending on his level of delusion, he might just try it.
No worries, he will be "re-instated" first.
maybe he should just run for President!
He'd need to re-register as a Republican!
Finally read the room...
I figured that Cuomo intended to become the state level answer to a defiant Donald Trump. Reality caught up with him, I guess. The legislature was poised to kick his sorry hindquarters to the curb via impeachment.
I will note that the WaPo article indicates his resignation becomes effective in 14 days. Plenty of time in which to stir up garbage as he's leaving. This is the period in which he does his level best to undermine the investigations that could land him in jail.
Democrats’ infrastructure visions take a bipartisan detour
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/10/transportation-bipartisan-democrats-infrastructure-plan-503055
PRO
CAL
Was wearing my Cal hat on Bókhlöðustígur in Reykjavík. I received and immediately fired back a hearty GO BEARS!
Go Bears!
Go Bears!!!