any suggestions for a couple things to do other than walk around the central area and eat oysters? we'll probably have a few hours on Fri afternoon and most of Sat morning to goof around.
we are there this weekend for a black tie wedding, so Fri and Sat will be full of food and festivities.
Last summer on the Coast to COVID road trip, I stopped in Charleston & walked the pup around the Ft Sumter Visitor Education center, and then drove a few miles up Bay St. and walked along the water. It was a nice, quick visit.
My wife and I were driving around there once and randomly went to the Citadel, was pretty interesting. Oh and in the same vein the Hunley is cool - a Civil War era submarine now in a little museum
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Hebrew: קהל קדוש בית אלוהים, also known as K. K. Beth Elohim, or more simply Congregation Beth Elohim), founded in 1749, is one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States
My 8 yo twin daughters are reading babysitters club and asked me yesterday what it means to get your period. I gave like a 100,000 ft overview and realized if they pressed me for more details I was going to be in serious trouble
You can do it. It's all part of parenting. You want to be informed enough so that they can ask questions of a trusted parent like yourself and get a good feeling about it. You can also refer to other appropriate adults when necessary.
Yeah for sure, agree. I don’t think health class at Monterey High School was super helpful though. The only thing I remember was the teacher, a former UCLA football player, talking about how he used to take steroids and how bad that is. I feel like the reproductive anatomy stuff was glossed over.
It’s funny but I have much better answers for questions that would seem weightier, like what happens when you die, or why are those people living in tents under the freeway. Their question about periods was just a simple biology question.
I gotta get ready for this. We live in the Castro and walk past a sex toy shop on the walk to and from her kindergarten. She asks me about the things she sees in the shop window...
Made Claire Saffitz (which is really King Arthur's Cast Iron Pizza. Undertopping and underbaked by a couple of minutes, but really easy and will be making it again.
I topped it with maitaki mushrooms and roasted red peppers, lemon zest and grated parm. Probably needed more cheese coverage.
Wife made one of my favorite dinners, Green tomatillo chili. Beef chunks marinaded overnight, roasted chiles & onions, zero beans. Rich and spicy, served over rice, topped with a sprinkle of cheese, sour cream on the side if you like.
Tried out my Ooni pizza oven Sat night. I really like how the pizza cooks so quickly and the flavor. What I didn't realize was how long it would take the oven to warm up. They say 10 min to 700+ but that may be with propane. I was using wood pellets and it was closer to 15-20 min. There is a little hopper for the wood pellets. They burn through quicker than I anticipated.
I made up a couple of pizzas while the oven was was warming up and the crust ended up getting a little soggy and sticking to the board. So next time I'll make them up right as the oven is approaching temp. I also realized I used regular King Arthur flour and not 00 flour and I didn't make the crust thin enough.
Started watching DEVS over the weekend and made it through 3 episodes. I'm not sure how I'd rate it though. It's an interesting concept, the acting is fine and the scenery (mainly UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco) is beautiful, however the writing is not great and rather predictable. I don't know if I'll finish the first season, but I do want to know how the DEVS division progresses and what they end up doing with the technology.
I liked it, is a well thought through narrative, would suggest sticking with it. I thought seeing Ron Swanson as this weirdo tech mogul was jarring at first, but he actually did well, was just me bringing my back preconceptions into it
Maybe I'll stick with the show, I just get taken out of it when I can predict the next line of dialogue mid-delivery. Offerman is good in his role, but it was definitely jarring expecting him to be funny in every scene and him almost never doing so.
Prob got lost in the last-Friday shuffle, but anyone watch Foundation? I've watched that first two eps and am ambivalent...but will keep going for awhile.
Tehran was a surprisingly good series - I was a little skeptical when I saw it was by the same people that made Fauda, but unlike Fauda it's not Israeli revenge pr0n.
And I liked Lee Pace in Halt and Catch Fire – didn't know that he was in Marvel movies and the Hobbit – but I just hear Joe McMillan's voice whenever he talks as Brother Day. And it sounds too...something. But I find it disconcerting. Bland and dry?
I'm actually fine with season 7, I wasn't the first time I watched, but later it seemed like a logical, nay inevitable conclusion, if you don't think Sisko is crazy.
Strong rec for Expanse in that genre, if you have not seen it (Amazon Prime Video). I used to be a slow watcher, too, but getting AirPods kind of opened things up for me. I am now watching stuff as I do dishes, cook dinner, and so on
I used to feel the same way, but as remote work lurches on, I increasingly find myself in need of a mental escape, and subsuming oneself in a narrative can be very helpful in that regard
Man, the Remigio hit and the hit on Moore on the final play really put me off. Football can be really gross sometimes. I mean I really enjoy it, but I increasingly cannot shake the discomforting thought (or maybe reality) that these dudes are doing serious long term damage to their brains for our momentary enjoyment. I mean, in the scheme of things, who wins Cal-UW 2021 is almost completely meaningless. But if Moore and Remigio are plagued by the effects of it years later, for the balance of their natural lives, that is a real thing.
What I find interesting about this issue is that the people who have the loudest voices about returning football back to "the way it used to be" where no one cared about brain damage are the people who have never touched a football in a competitive game. (See drumpf, Colin Cowherd, etc.)
This – in addition to the wave of domestic violence incidents that came to the surface xx years ago – is why my interest in football has almost evaporated. Although while I was online, I did see that the 9ers were driving with two minutes to go, so started watching. And got invested in the two drives that I watched.
My yearly viewing of football is basically limited to that: a handful of "hey, Cal or 9ers are about to score...let me check it out." Totaling less than one hour for the season.
If I had to bet money on football still being a major sport in 50 years, I would bet against it. Americans have an endless ability to market and sell products. If the product switched from football to something else, like Olympic sports, I think we’d handle it just fine. Which makes you wonder - if the change is inevitable, why not just do it now?
Boxing sort of proves my point. The popularity of that is way way down.
Wresting is choreographed so not sure it counts but my guess is that it is less popular than it was in the 80s.
MMA is the best counterexample, agree. But that is a niche sport, which is where I think violent sports wind up long term. It has nothing near the popularity of the major US/world sports, but occupies a nice little niche satisfying the blood lust of young white guys mostly.
It won’t go anywhere immediately. But, if you had a 13 year old son, would you let him play HS football? I think the answer of many parents to that question will be increasingly no. So the top athletes start playing other sports. That plus plaintiffs lawyers is how it dies. In 50 years the equity of all NFL franchises will be owned by a victim’s trust set up by a bankruptcy court in the SDNY and no one will give a shit because they’ll be watching basketball and soccer.
I have two sons who were 13 and wanted to play HS football. Mrs Slug and I compromised - they could play football if they wanted to play punter or placekicker.
Thinking of going to Colorado(better environment) or the Oregon State game(better gameplay). What sections do you guys usually sit in (unless I decide to sneak into the student section with people I know) and where do you guys have the pregame meetups? Hopefully amtrak out of Santa Clara and Berkeley along with the 51B AC Transit bus dont fail me.
I'll be at Wazzu and OSU and going to the Rose Bowl at the end of November. I'm hoping for two wins in person. The Nevada game was fun just for being back in the stadium with fans, but the end result was definitely a stinker.
In theory I could have watched the SC - Oregon State game Saturday night as the wedding reception we'd attended was over, but having read the summaries of the game, I am glad I did not. And this weekend's game against Colorado appears to be on the Pac12 network, so my equanimity will remain intact until at least October 9th.
On a more positive note, while we were too late in trying to get on a formal tour of Brown, my wife & took the 16 y.o. around campus & a little bit of the neighborhood, and she really liked both the campus and Providence. My wife was giddy because she's really worried the 16 y.o. will decide to go to university overseas and never come back.
I don't know quite how this is going to shake out. The funny thing is that I'm the one who should be worried because as an immigrant who's also moved within the US, I understand what it means to be a long way from family... something that I had regrets about in the wake of my father's death this summer. But that's not a reason for my daughter to stay near us. Assuming she does move overseas for a while, she'll either decide that's not the solution to what she doesn't like about where she grew up or indeed that it is exactly the solution, and we'll manage accordingly.
Straight to university overseas is a tough nut. I'd encourage her to do US college with a full year overseas as part. A semester is too short if she's truly interested in finding out what it's like/getting immersed.
I think it depends on how you tackle it... for example going to Edinburgh or St Andrews would be an order of magnitude easier than somewhere with instruction in the local language - or something like the Trinity College / Columbia program where you split your time between Dublin and NYC.
The part that she's discounting is how disorienting it is to move overseas - not the part where you're at school and meeting people that way but just being by yourself in a very different environment.
My long range concern would be that she pick a known quantity should she end up back in the US. You can do a degree in English at Leiden University and that won't mean shit to a hiring manager in DC.
Agree with Scootie. Studying abroad taught me both that a semester is too short, and that the American college experience is much different than the European one. In Europe, with a few exceptions, universities are largely suitcase campuses with much less in the way of “college life.”
I didn't spend any time abroad but I know plenty of people who studied overseas in the USSR, Israel, and France. Every one of them was enthused about their time away but was glad to come home.
Two home games at Allegiant Stadium with fans inside and two overtime victories.
Vegas, baby.
It wasn’t pretty nor was it easy, but, in the end, it was another victory for the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday after they dominated the woeful Miami Dolphins after spotting the visitors a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. It was the second time in as many home games that the Raiders won after trailing 14-0. That’s pretty gutsy stuff.
The Oakland A’s played their last home game of 2021 on Sunday, and they went out with a bang.
The A’s won 4-3 on a walk-off in the 9th inning, completing a sweep of the division-leading Houston Astros. The series of victories means the Astros will have to wait to clinch the AL West title, and they won’t celebrate at the Coliseum.
Oakland trailed in the late innings, but they scratched out two runs in the 7th, capped with an RBI infield single by Mark Canha to tie the score. In the 9th they loaded the bases, and Canha came through again with a rocket to the wall to drive in the game-winner. It goes down in the box score as a single but it would normally have been enough for a double, and it was just a few feet short of a grand slam.
This was the kind of game where you're sure the home nine is going to pull it out in the end and then the visitors screw it up with a 3-run shot to left field to make the margin 4 runs. You could just feel the wind leave the Rockies' sails with Crawford's HR in the top of the 9th.
Amazingly, Giants are 2 games up on the Dodgers with 6 left to play this week and both teams over 100 wins. I'm sure this is exactly what everyone expected to see when the MLB season started.
I dunno man, have you seen these guys? They look pretty unstoppable. When they're tied or behind late, which is rare, every late inning pinch hitter smacks a home run. The funky sidearm guy they have closing seems to nail it down almost every time, and even when he does allow runs, his teammates pick him up. Destiny! They're a lock to win it all - I believe.
Hey, I don't like it any more than you do, man! But they are like a steamroller, might as well accept that they are the new 1927 Yankees, and one would have to assume that they will continue to dominate right to the very end. And if perchance something happens and they falter, I can only imagine the crushing disappointment that will ensue. But of course that won't happen, as they are a team of destiny and we can do not but watch in total bemusement and awe. Some day the names Crawford, Posey, Belt, Ruf, Duggar, and Yastrzemski will be spoken of in hushed tones, as the second coming of Murderer's Row, and I'm sure Gausman and Webb will be perennial Cy Young contenders for years to come.
The Dodgers ended their last regular season road trip with a 3-0 win over the Diamondbacks. However, the Giants also won so their deficit remained at two games with six games left in the season.
Julio Urias and four relievers combined to get the Dodgers 17th shutout of the year. Urias continued to set new personal highs with his 31st start and he has now reached 179⅓ innings pitched and 190 strikeouts.
In winning his 19th game, Urias matches Zack Greinke who won 19 games in 2015. He could get the opportunity to win his 20th game next weekend.
A clinic on how to run a two minute drill, except they had like 37 seconds or something, and then kicked the field goal to win. Rodgers did say "Butte Community College" instead of Cal at the top of the broadcast, no free advertising for Cal.
Those two throws during the drive were pretty amazing. The first more than the 2nd. Just over the LB's hands into the receiver's hands. I'm sure the 9ers fans wish the FB had gone down as he caught the ball rather than fight for the TD.
Can't really blame any offensive player for fighting hard for a TD, especially when you're down 6. You can't assume you'll score again later. Penalties happen, fumbles, etc.
They just should have played better defense on the last drive, but also Rodgers is just really damn good so what are you gonna do?
The Olympic Channel disappeared off my cable package after the Paralympics and with NBCSN ceasing to exist the end of the year it may be tough for me to find running and bike races going forward.
My first article on the SF Giants is up for Santa Clara's newspaper! Feel free to take a look and give me some feedback on what you think. Articles will come weekly and I'll definitely be ready for that Cal vs Santa Clara basketball article later on.
My wife used to go there for her optometry visits! It is actually really good. 10x better than going to the doc in the box type places attached to a LensCrafters or whatever
I've met the lead singer of Survivor. He's also the guy who sang the hook in the Budweiser "Real Men of Genius:" commercials from the mid 2000s, and they did a tour of NBA arenas so I met them when he came to Houston. He's very short - like 5'5"
Saruman says .. Concealed within his fortress, the Lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.
Charleston SC
any suggestions for a couple things to do other than walk around the central area and eat oysters? we'll probably have a few hours on Fri afternoon and most of Sat morning to goof around.
we are there this weekend for a black tie wedding, so Fri and Sat will be full of food and festivities.
Last summer on the Coast to COVID road trip, I stopped in Charleston & walked the pup around the Ft Sumter Visitor Education center, and then drove a few miles up Bay St. and walked along the water. It was a nice, quick visit.
Carriage ride tour if you're into that
We did that - I wasn't expecting it to be good and I was happy to be wrong! But that can be so dependent on the guide, and ours was good.
Rainbow Row for the gram https://charleston.com/charleston-insider/lowcountry-lifestyles/the-captivating-history-of-rainbow-row
All sorts of good restaurants in Charleston, including this one, but you might not have time for a non-wedding-related meal https://eatatfig.com/
Jeni's, of course!!! https://jenis.com/scoop-shops/jenis-king-street/ that's also where a lot of bars are
love Jeni's!!
THE BEST
My wife and I were driving around there once and randomly went to the Citadel, was pretty interesting. Oh and in the same vein the Hunley is cool - a Civil War era submarine now in a little museum
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Hebrew: קהל קדוש בית אלוהים, also known as K. K. Beth Elohim, or more simply Congregation Beth Elohim), founded in 1749, is one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States
They have an interesting tour.
look for confederate monuments to pee on.
i thought they took them all down!
kidding .. i suspect there are plenty
Isle of Palms is a great beach
Kayak tours at Shem Creek & similar around Isle of Palms are good. The Center for Brids of Prey was also pretty interesting if that's your bag.
Eye of the Earth
My art has been commended as strongly vaginal, which bothers some men. The word itself makes men uncomfortable.
Vagina
Wheras a man will refer to his dick or his rod or his johnson without batitng an eye.
I would've liked to have seen more of Knox Harrington...I love David Thewlis.
The video artist? Que riciculo!
Ya...the uncontrollable laughter was soooo odd...
My 8 yo twin daughters are reading babysitters club and asked me yesterday what it means to get your period. I gave like a 100,000 ft overview and realized if they pressed me for more details I was going to be in serious trouble
As a menstruating adult, I'm happy to answer questions here and offline
I asked my wife, whose parents are from Hong Kong, what her mom said to her to explain all this and she said: “Nothing.”
You can do it. It's all part of parenting. You want to be informed enough so that they can ask questions of a trusted parent like yourself and get a good feeling about it. You can also refer to other appropriate adults when necessary.
Yeah for sure, agree. I don’t think health class at Monterey High School was super helpful though. The only thing I remember was the teacher, a former UCLA football player, talking about how he used to take steroids and how bad that is. I feel like the reproductive anatomy stuff was glossed over.
It’s funny but I have much better answers for questions that would seem weightier, like what happens when you die, or why are those people living in tents under the freeway. Their question about periods was just a simple biology question.
I gotta get ready for this. We live in the Castro and walk past a sex toy shop on the walk to and from her kindergarten. She asks me about the things she sees in the shop window...
in my experience a not small percentage of men are simply afraid of female things.
clearly you're not a golfer
Obviously 😉
Ever thus to deadbeats, Lebowski
ok you all need to watch more movies
Nice marmot.
Hah, you're the only one who got the reference.
What's it from?
Big Lebowski!
Do you see what happens, Larry....do YOU see? Your killing your father, Larry.
Ah, only seen once - 20 years ago? Atoms has seen 5-6 times so he get this.
i dont mind the word but i have no art to go with it.
on the other hand i am not sure i fully appreciate the word aside from the obvious biological definition
Today in COVID
When Californians Will Get Covid-19 Boosters
Explaining the confusing guidance around the extra shots.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/california-covid-19-booster.html
Crumbling Democracies
DBD Kitchen
Made Claire Saffitz (which is really King Arthur's Cast Iron Pizza. Undertopping and underbaked by a couple of minutes, but really easy and will be making it again.
I topped it with maitaki mushrooms and roasted red peppers, lemon zest and grated parm. Probably needed more cheese coverage.
https://youtu.be/Rwn8kQTV-LQ
Wife made one of my favorite dinners, Green tomatillo chili. Beef chunks marinaded overnight, roasted chiles & onions, zero beans. Rich and spicy, served over rice, topped with a sprinkle of cheese, sour cream on the side if you like.
Tried out my Ooni pizza oven Sat night. I really like how the pizza cooks so quickly and the flavor. What I didn't realize was how long it would take the oven to warm up. They say 10 min to 700+ but that may be with propane. I was using wood pellets and it was closer to 15-20 min. There is a little hopper for the wood pellets. They burn through quicker than I anticipated.
I made up a couple of pizzas while the oven was was warming up and the crust ended up getting a little soggy and sticking to the board. So next time I'll make them up right as the oven is approaching temp. I also realized I used regular King Arthur flour and not 00 flour and I didn't make the crust thin enough.
Gotta use the 00
Yup. I forgot about it when I made the dough. next time.
Made pork fried rice along with spring rolls and some potstickers last night. Pretty good.
DBD AV
Started watching DEVS over the weekend and made it through 3 episodes. I'm not sure how I'd rate it though. It's an interesting concept, the acting is fine and the scenery (mainly UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco) is beautiful, however the writing is not great and rather predictable. I don't know if I'll finish the first season, but I do want to know how the DEVS division progresses and what they end up doing with the technology.
It starts out very strong and kind of peters out, but I thought was worth finishing
It's good. Wouldn't say it's great, but it's good.
I also was not aware that it had been filmed in Santa Cruz so that was a nice surprise.
I liked it, is a well thought through narrative, would suggest sticking with it. I thought seeing Ron Swanson as this weirdo tech mogul was jarring at first, but he actually did well, was just me bringing my back preconceptions into it
Maybe I'll stick with the show, I just get taken out of it when I can predict the next line of dialogue mid-delivery. Offerman is good in his role, but it was definitely jarring expecting him to be funny in every scene and him almost never doing so.
Prob got lost in the last-Friday shuffle, but anyone watch Foundation? I've watched that first two eps and am ambivalent...but will keep going for awhile.
I love love love the Foundation series, it's probably my favorite sci fi series. I guess I need to get Apple TV, is that right?
I never read it. Yes, it's AppleTV+ (there's a lot of good stuff there!)
Foundation and Ted Lasso are probably reason enough to get it, I guess... but what else is on there that I should see?
Mythic Quest is great.
Tehran was a surprisingly good series - I was a little skeptical when I saw it was by the same people that made Fauda, but unlike Fauda it's not Israeli revenge pr0n.
Hmm, sounds up my alley but how pro-Mossad is it? haha
Mythic Quest is very good on Apple
I gotta run, but will give you a list when I get back ;-)
Thanks 🙏
Have not but am intrigued. I do like that British dude from Madmen/Chernobyl
And I liked Lee Pace in Halt and Catch Fire – didn't know that he was in Marvel movies and the Hobbit – but I just hear Joe McMillan's voice whenever he talks as Brother Day. And it sounds too...something. But I find it disconcerting. Bland and dry?
He's completely covered in blue make-up as the big bad in the first Guardians and a secondary character in Captain Marvel.
I liked him in Pushing Daisies (RIP)
Apparently he's a much bigger star than I thought...I've only seen him from HaCF.
Deep Space 9 - started watching from season 1, ep 1.
will be a long term thing, but already enjoying all the little details that one forgets ..
i am a very slow watcher of stuff. i can watch at most one episode of a thing per day. and i dont make time every day to watch one
It doesn't quite hit its stride until about Season 2, and then it goes a bit off the rails at the end. Really good in the middle though
I'm actually fine with season 7, I wasn't the first time I watched, but later it seemed like a logical, nay inevitable conclusion, if you don't think Sisko is crazy.
Strong rec for Expanse in that genre, if you have not seen it (Amazon Prime Video). I used to be a slow watcher, too, but getting AirPods kind of opened things up for me. I am now watching stuff as I do dishes, cook dinner, and so on
Seconded on the Expanse, great show, real SciFi.
that is interesting. i see my kids do that too.
maybe it is my lack of comfort w/ it and my obstinate old-school ways.
i dislike multitasking of any sort. driving and listening to music is mostly the extent of it.
I used to feel the same way, but as remote work lurches on, I increasingly find myself in need of a mental escape, and subsuming oneself in a narrative can be very helpful in that regard
Cal
Man, the Remigio hit and the hit on Moore on the final play really put me off. Football can be really gross sometimes. I mean I really enjoy it, but I increasingly cannot shake the discomforting thought (or maybe reality) that these dudes are doing serious long term damage to their brains for our momentary enjoyment. I mean, in the scheme of things, who wins Cal-UW 2021 is almost completely meaningless. But if Moore and Remigio are plagued by the effects of it years later, for the balance of their natural lives, that is a real thing.
What I find interesting about this issue is that the people who have the loudest voices about returning football back to "the way it used to be" where no one cared about brain damage are the people who have never touched a football in a competitive game. (See drumpf, Colin Cowherd, etc.)
Welcome to my enduring angst as a football fan.
This – in addition to the wave of domestic violence incidents that came to the surface xx years ago – is why my interest in football has almost evaporated. Although while I was online, I did see that the 9ers were driving with two minutes to go, so started watching. And got invested in the two drives that I watched.
My yearly viewing of football is basically limited to that: a handful of "hey, Cal or 9ers are about to score...let me check it out." Totaling less than one hour for the season.
If I had to bet money on football still being a major sport in 50 years, I would bet against it. Americans have an endless ability to market and sell products. If the product switched from football to something else, like Olympic sports, I think we’d handle it just fine. Which makes you wonder - if the change is inevitable, why not just do it now?
We still have boxing, wrestling and now even MMA in the last couple of decades. Do you think the popularity of dangerous sports is dying down?
Boxing sort of proves my point. The popularity of that is way way down.
Wresting is choreographed so not sure it counts but my guess is that it is less popular than it was in the 80s.
MMA is the best counterexample, agree. But that is a niche sport, which is where I think violent sports wind up long term. It has nothing near the popularity of the major US/world sports, but occupies a nice little niche satisfying the blood lust of young white guys mostly.
Nah, you're wrong brah, boxing self-destroyed, due to pay-per-view.
eh, I disagree, it ain't going anywhere; Bread and Circuses, my friend.
It won’t go anywhere immediately. But, if you had a 13 year old son, would you let him play HS football? I think the answer of many parents to that question will be increasingly no. So the top athletes start playing other sports. That plus plaintiffs lawyers is how it dies. In 50 years the equity of all NFL franchises will be owned by a victim’s trust set up by a bankruptcy court in the SDNY and no one will give a shit because they’ll be watching basketball and soccer.
I have two sons who were 13 and wanted to play HS football. Mrs Slug and I compromised - they could play football if they wanted to play punter or placekicker.
They ended up playing rugby, instead.
But, if you had a 13 year old son, would you let him play HS football?
Sure, there are parents like this, but there are many, many more who are not. This isn't the way it dies, that's for sure.
Go Bears!!!
Thinking of going to Colorado(better environment) or the Oregon State game(better gameplay). What sections do you guys usually sit in (unless I decide to sneak into the student section with people I know) and where do you guys have the pregame meetups? Hopefully amtrak out of Santa Clara and Berkeley along with the 51B AC Transit bus dont fail me.
I'll be at Wazzu and OSU and going to the Rose Bowl at the end of November. I'm hoping for two wins in person. The Nevada game was fun just for being back in the stadium with fans, but the end result was definitely a stinker.
@But the Rose Bowl is Jan 1...@
ha ha ha ha
https://bit.ly/3F0uKd8
https://c.tenor.com/r5RHTcFMcaAAAAAC/laughing-crying.gif
west side of Folsom Field for sure
Cal hosts Buffs this year but the plan is to head to Boulder for ‘22 game...
You tryna do both Boulder and South Bend next year?
Maybe he'll get lucky and @Colorado is the week after ND. drive by on the way back.
thats a LOOOOONG drive
Other College
In theory I could have watched the SC - Oregon State game Saturday night as the wedding reception we'd attended was over, but having read the summaries of the game, I am glad I did not. And this weekend's game against Colorado appears to be on the Pac12 network, so my equanimity will remain intact until at least October 9th.
On a more positive note, while we were too late in trying to get on a formal tour of Brown, my wife & took the 16 y.o. around campus & a little bit of the neighborhood, and she really liked both the campus and Providence. My wife was giddy because she's really worried the 16 y.o. will decide to go to university overseas and never come back.
i am hoping the child goes overseas and never comes back .. our child that is.
but probably because that is what i wanted but never actually did
I don't know quite how this is going to shake out. The funny thing is that I'm the one who should be worried because as an immigrant who's also moved within the US, I understand what it means to be a long way from family... something that I had regrets about in the wake of my father's death this summer. But that's not a reason for my daughter to stay near us. Assuming she does move overseas for a while, she'll either decide that's not the solution to what she doesn't like about where she grew up or indeed that it is exactly the solution, and we'll manage accordingly.
Straight to university overseas is a tough nut. I'd encourage her to do US college with a full year overseas as part. A semester is too short if she's truly interested in finding out what it's like/getting immersed.
I think it depends on how you tackle it... for example going to Edinburgh or St Andrews would be an order of magnitude easier than somewhere with instruction in the local language - or something like the Trinity College / Columbia program where you split your time between Dublin and NYC.
The part that she's discounting is how disorienting it is to move overseas - not the part where you're at school and meeting people that way but just being by yourself in a very different environment.
My long range concern would be that she pick a known quantity should she end up back in the US. You can do a degree in English at Leiden University and that won't mean shit to a hiring manager in DC.
Agree with Scootie. Studying abroad taught me both that a semester is too short, and that the American college experience is much different than the European one. In Europe, with a few exceptions, universities are largely suitcase campuses with much less in the way of “college life.”
Sage advice.
I didn't spend any time abroad but I know plenty of people who studied overseas in the USSR, Israel, and France. Every one of them was enthused about their time away but was glad to come home.
Coaches Poll top 25: Oregon jumps Oklahoma, Arkansas surges upward in college football rankings
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/coaches-poll-top-25-oregon-jumps-oklahoma-arkansas-surges-upward-in-college-football-rankings/
WOMPIN'!
WOMPIN'!
Pro
Final score: Raiders 31, Dolphins 28 (overtime)
https://www.silverandblackpride.com/2021/9/26/22694794/final-score-raiders-31-dolphins-28-overtime-week-3
Two home games at Allegiant Stadium with fans inside and two overtime victories.
Vegas, baby.
It wasn’t pretty nor was it easy, but, in the end, it was another victory for the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday after they dominated the woeful Miami Dolphins after spotting the visitors a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. It was the second time in as many home games that the Raiders won after trailing 14-0. That’s pretty gutsy stuff.
RAAAIIIDDDDEERRRRSSSSSSS
RAAAIIIDDDDEERRRRSSSSSSS
Game #156: A’s walk off again, sweep Astros
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2021/9/26/22695531/oakland-as-game-156-houston-astros-score-result-walk-off
The Oakland A’s played their last home game of 2021 on Sunday, and they went out with a bang.
The A’s won 4-3 on a walk-off in the 9th inning, completing a sweep of the division-leading Houston Astros. The series of victories means the Astros will have to wait to clinch the AL West title, and they won’t celebrate at the Coliseum.
Oakland trailed in the late innings, but they scratched out two runs in the 7th, capped with an RBI infield single by Mark Canha to tie the score. In the 9th they loaded the bases, and Canha came through again with a rocket to the wall to drive in the game-winner. It goes down in the box score as a single but it would normally have been enough for a double, and it was just a few feet short of a grand slam.
Giants beat the Rockies 6-2.
This was the kind of game where you're sure the home nine is going to pull it out in the end and then the visitors screw it up with a 3-run shot to left field to make the margin 4 runs. You could just feel the wind leave the Rockies' sails with Crawford's HR in the top of the 9th.
Amazingly, Giants are 2 games up on the Dodgers with 6 left to play this week and both teams over 100 wins. I'm sure this is exactly what everyone expected to see when the MLB season started.
The Dodgers trying to catch the Giants = asymptote.
The Giants are like 25 wins above their projection. Clearly they are a team of destiny and the World Series is theirs to lose.
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK, ATOMS!
Teams with the best regular season record are very often not the team that wins the World Series.
I dunno man, have you seen these guys? They look pretty unstoppable. When they're tied or behind late, which is rare, every late inning pinch hitter smacks a home run. The funky sidearm guy they have closing seems to nail it down almost every time, and even when he does allow runs, his teammates pick him up. Destiny! They're a lock to win it all - I believe.
The Dodgers still have the best roster and should be considered the favorite until they are eliminated.
Now I know you're messing with me.
Eh. It could happen. All of the playoff teams start at 0-0 on October 4.
pltm
@Just the 2001 Seattle Mariners!@
@Just LIKE the 2001 Seattle Mariners!@
haha, the reveres jinx, hey.
BOOOOO
Hey, I don't like it any more than you do, man! But they are like a steamroller, might as well accept that they are the new 1927 Yankees, and one would have to assume that they will continue to dominate right to the very end. And if perchance something happens and they falter, I can only imagine the crushing disappointment that will ensue. But of course that won't happen, as they are a team of destiny and we can do not but watch in total bemusement and awe. Some day the names Crawford, Posey, Belt, Ruf, Duggar, and Yastrzemski will be spoken of in hushed tones, as the second coming of Murderer's Row, and I'm sure Gausman and Webb will be perennial Cy Young contenders for years to come.
For all this SF/LA focus, I have a feeling it will be like the white Sox over Cards or something
Corey Seager homers twice in 3-0 win
https://www.truebluela.com/2021/9/26/22695054/dodgers-diamondbacks-corey-seager-trea-turner-julio-urias
The Dodgers ended their last regular season road trip with a 3-0 win over the Diamondbacks. However, the Giants also won so their deficit remained at two games with six games left in the season.
Julio Urias and four relievers combined to get the Dodgers 17th shutout of the year. Urias continued to set new personal highs with his 31st start and he has now reached 179⅓ innings pitched and 190 strikeouts.
In winning his 19th game, Urias matches Zack Greinke who won 19 games in 2015. He could get the opportunity to win his 20th game next weekend.
GBBR
GBBR
Aaron Rogers comeback over 49ers
another thing of beauty as well. i know were all complaining about the demise of AR, but he appears to have something left in the tank ...
Go Pack Go!
A clinic on how to run a two minute drill, except they had like 37 seconds or something, and then kicked the field goal to win. Rodgers did say "Butte Community College" instead of Cal at the top of the broadcast, no free advertising for Cal.
Those two throws during the drive were pretty amazing. The first more than the 2nd. Just over the LB's hands into the receiver's hands. I'm sure the 9ers fans wish the FB had gone down as he caught the ball rather than fight for the TD.
Can't really blame any offensive player for fighting hard for a TD, especially when you're down 6. You can't assume you'll score again later. Penalties happen, fumbles, etc.
They just should have played better defense on the last drive, but also Rodgers is just really damn good so what are you gonna do?
Yeah you can't blame the player for fighting for yards.
I thought the 9ers might put more pressure on Rodgers (at least I thought they only rushed 3 or 4). You can't let him sit back in the pocket.
Play Man!
Man coverage was getting torched all night because the 49ers' cornerback situation is a mess and no one can take Adams by himself.
Alaphilippe defends cycling world title ---
for cycling fans, this was a great one day race to watch. there were many serious efforts throughout the day. not just saving it all for the end.
in the end, no one could responds as Alaphilippe powered away from all the other 5 star favorites w/ 20 km to go.
plus, the crowds and atmosphere in Belgium looked amazing.
The Olympic Channel disappeared off my cable package after the Paralympics and with NBCSN ceasing to exist the end of the year it may be tough for me to find running and bike races going forward.
My first article on the SF Giants is up for Santa Clara's newspaper! Feel free to take a look and give me some feedback on what you think. Articles will come weekly and I'll definitely be ready for that Cal vs Santa Clara basketball article later on.
https://www.thesantaclara.org/scusounds?category=Sports
Eye
Reminds me of the 3 witches in the OG, Harry Hamlin-featured Clash of the Titans...”A TITAN AGAINST A TITAN!!!”
UC Berkeley School of Optometry, official eye care center of the California Golden Bears. Or so it says on the radio.
I was there this year for two new pairs of glasses, they are very good.
My wife used to go there for her optometry visits! It is actually really good. 10x better than going to the doc in the box type places attached to a LensCrafters or whatever
of the Tiger
i am surprised that my kids like this song. i am pretty sure they have never seen a Rocky movie or know the context.
It’s quite catchy...
I've met the lead singer of Survivor. He's also the guy who sang the hook in the Budweiser "Real Men of Genius:" commercials from the mid 2000s, and they did a tour of NBA arenas so I met them when he came to Houston. He's very short - like 5'5"
I find in these situations it's either from some show aimed at younger audiences or Tik Tok.
probably true
Catchy tunes are catchy.
of Sauron
Saruman says .. Concealed within his fortress, the Lord of Mordor sees all. His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh. You know of what I speak, Gandalf: a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.