Looks like a big version of the giant panda when it was born. The panda is almost three weeks now and is starting to show some of its color. Still pretty tiny though.
One thing that sbnation is going to is a new Commenting platform. Early reviews on it is that it's bad. No Z key (which would be the killer). I think it only displays a few levels of comments and anyting more than that require clicking on more and it opens a new window to display more of the thread. You can't see them on the same screen like you can now.
i am oddly a bit of both. love waking up early and being productive or getting outside for a ride just as the sun is coming up. just need a shower and an espresso and i am more or less ready to go.
on the other hand writing code and watching west coast sports from eastern time zone makes it so that i rather enjoy staying up late.
also, while i am not the go-out-dancing-till sunrise type, i do LOVE staying out late in NYC. as they say ... "nothing good ever happens after midnight!"
Chinese chicken like poop used to make. Shredded lettuce, shredded chicken, crispy rice noodles, cilantro, sesame seeds, hot mustard dressing. Chef Chu’s has a pale imitation.
Caesar, Greek, Pasta (only if it's with an Italian-based dressing), Cobb, Pasta (any variety with mayo-based dressing--as far as I'm concerned, all mayo-based "salads" can be banished from the face of the earth).
It's crazy right now. It's fairly dark outside for 9 AM. It's a weird grey/red outside. It isn't like the usual bright overcast sky. It looks more like there's a storm brewing.
Due in significant part to federal forest fire policy that invites this kind of disaster, we dumped more gasses and other substances into the atmosphere and had a far greater carbon footprint impact in 40 hours that everything that happened in the area in the last year combined.
Given all the issues with MLB not playing in a bubble, it is strongly helped by how there was no (known) transmission from playing the game (not sure that's going to be the case for football). Also, football players' size puts them at much more risk for COVID complications. This may all be quite disastrous.
By the way, I was kind of surprised by the number of "opportunities" to attend sporting events in the coming weeks for living in Western PA. Pitt's opening game this weekend will be fanless, but I think they are expecting to have fans for later games (IF we get there).
Our moon (Luna) is my favorite, creator of tides (not waves) and tide pools created land life, so without our moon, no humanity - at least that's a theory I've encountered.
A couple of moon trivia -- I didn't know until relatively recently that Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the Solar System planet with the most moon (this happened late 2019). A large number of Uranus' moons are named after Shakespeare's characters (thanks for being discovered by the English) - mostly females thus why there are Juliet and Ophelia but no Romeo nor Hamlet.
Trump is so clueless, he admitted on record to Woodward that he deliberately downplayed the danger of Covid, but knew exactly how dangerous it was. He can't add 2+2, but it means he's admitting to killing 10,000's of Americans.
There is a danger in this strategy, as unlike Nixon, Trumps criminal activity isn't just about politics, but includes plenty of other stuff. A pardon that just says 'anything prior to this moment' might not fly.
Wouldn't he have to stand trial and be convicted for a pardon? If he resigns post Nov 3, i seriously doubt any trial or conviction happens before January 20.
The Oakland A’s came close to completing a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday, but couldn’t come up with one final burst of magic to put them over the top in the nightcap. Still, a split isn’t so bad when you entered the day with a 4.5-game lead over your opponent in the division race.
The A’s fell to the Houston Astros 5-4 in the second game of the twin-bill, meaning the standings stayed the same when the dust settled. The AL West rivals have two more games together this week to wrap up their season series, with just over two weeks left in the regular season after that.
The first act of this game was nearly identical to the preceding afternoon affair. The A’s got to work early and built a 4-0 lead, but then Houston came back to tie it. However, whereas this afternoon Oakland put together another rally later to retake the lead, this evening it was the Astros who found the plate again in the final frame.
That streak a few weeks back when they blew multiple games in a row should help dispell that. What the Giants wouldn't give for a couple of those games back.
I always assumed he was just around as a caretaker for the rebuilding process, but if they are rebuilding too quickly we might be stuck with him. Our own Donnie Baseball.
I don't think he did a very good job in Philly. Yeah I always thought he was just there to implement the analytics. Kinda like what everyone was saying about Dave Roberts.
Entering the seventh inning, the Dodgers had only two runs. They finished the game with 10, as two huge innings helped give them the 10-9 victory over the D-Backs.
The Dodgers began their rally in the seventh inning, scoring four runs to tie the game at six a piece. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy both walked, putting two on for the rookie Gavin Lux. That’s a name we’ll get to a lot tonight.
Lux singled in Bellinger, bringing LA to within three runs. At the time, that wasn’t Lux’s biggest hit of the night. He hit his first home run of the season back in the second inning, an opposite field shot to put the Dodgers on the board.
ACC men's basketball coaches are proposing an expanded 2021 NCAA tournament that would include every Division I team.
Several ACC coaches would prefer to avoid nonconference games in the 2020-21 season due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic, with sources telling ESPN that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is spearheading the push for an all-inclusive NCAA tournament.
ACC coaches voted Wednesday to propose the expanded 2021 NCAA tournament, sources confirmed to ESPN. The vote was first reported by Stadium.
Krzyzewski released a statement later Wednesday that said, in part, there "is no better way" to celebrate the game "than involving every team in the most prestigious basketball tournament on the planet."
yeah I don't understand this either. Maybe it's a way to try to bribe teams to play in the spring? Although it would be hilarious if Duke got knocked out in the first round or two (happens more often than not) by an unheralded team.
California was named by Spanish explorers based on a fictional island in a popular Spanish novel in the early 16th century. Heck, if JK Rowlings was a 16th century Spaniard, Cal might have been called something very different.
In the current political climate, I guess some people might much prefer to ret-con the "California" name to the French rather than the Arabs.
From that wiki article
"The author of the novel, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, also known as Ordóñez de Montalvo, is thought to have derived the term California from the Arabic Khalif and/or Khalifa, but he might also have been influenced by the term "Califerne" in the 11th-century epic French poem The Song of Roland."
I can't read Japanese, so all I know is this is a cute and small pig: https://twitter.com/micropig_Pinky/status/1300006148540493831?s=20
This is not the bacon roll I was expecting
SQQQUUUUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! what a cutie!
Kawaii desu ne?!
Looks like a big version of the giant panda when it was born. The panda is almost three weeks now and is starting to show some of its color. Still pretty tiny though.
DBD AV club
Raised by Wolves is great!
The new Dune trailer looks promising!! I’ll be there day 1 in the theater in my Covid hazmat suit to watch Dune.
I watched 21 Bridges last night. Not bad!
I first read this as Nash Bridges for some reason.
Watched The Vow on HBOMax over the weekend. What a crazy fucking story.
For 9/9 it looks like the Brooklyn Nine-Nine youtube channel is having an all day mash-ups of cold openings, digital exclusives, and more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4BFGKHPwg&ab_channel=BrooklynNine-Nine
2014
Year of the wackiest three-game stretch in Cal football history: Hill Mary, 59-56 double-OT win over Colorado, and the 60-59 win over the Cougs
Those three games might have been the last three Cal football games I'll ever watch at a bar.
A full dose of Sonny ball.
Give the DBD some bad advice
Vote for Donald Trump
Return to CGB.
One thing that sbnation is going to is a new Commenting platform. Early reviews on it is that it's bad. No Z key (which would be the killer). I think it only displays a few levels of comments and anyting more than that require clicking on more and it opens a new window to display more of the thread. You can't see them on the same screen like you can now.
Always wear the red.
Vote red.
Invest tax-exempt municipal bonds in your Roth IRA.
dont waste your time on DBD. (or is that good advice?)
Drop punching Twist as an option.
Early bird or night owl?
Doesn't matter today, as looking out the window gives no indication what time it is.
All I know is that it isn't late night. So it's somewhere between 7 AM and 7 PM.
i am oddly a bit of both. love waking up early and being productive or getting outside for a ride just as the sun is coming up. just need a shower and an espresso and i am more or less ready to go.
on the other hand writing code and watching west coast sports from eastern time zone makes it so that i rather enjoy staying up late.
also, while i am not the go-out-dancing-till sunrise type, i do LOVE staying out late in NYC. as they say ... "nothing good ever happens after midnight!"
I’m with you - I enjoy both late nights and early mornings just not sequentially
I was an early bird before covid and I've been a night owl since cf-98 was born. Either one works for me.
Early bird by necessity. Just about all my calls involve Europe so they all start at either 6AM or 7AM. Otherwise probably more night owl.
Night Owl
Rank 'em: Caeser, cobb, greek, pasta
Chinese chicken like poop used to make. Shredded lettuce, shredded chicken, crispy rice noodles, cilantro, sesame seeds, hot mustard dressing. Chef Chu’s has a pale imitation.
Caesar, Greek, Pasta, Cobb
Cobb, pasta, caesar, ... ... ... ... ... ... Greek
Antipasto, cobb, caesar, greak.
Cobb, Caesar (because both these are non-vegetarian by including either meat or anchovy in the dressing)...a gap, then Greek and Pasta
Caesar, Greek, Pasta (only if it's with an Italian-based dressing), Cobb, Pasta (any variety with mayo-based dressing--as far as I'm concerned, all mayo-based "salads" can be banished from the face of the earth).
agree on the mayo based dressings.
Caesar, Pasta, Greek, Cobb....special nod to the wedge with blue cheese and bacon...
Caeser...
Pizza Pizza
Caesar, Greek, Pasta, Cobb.
Fires
I wonder if the phone weather has a "post apocalyptic" setting - sure could use one now.
Fucking depressing.
Scary too.
Android just shows wavy lines for smoke.
It's crazy right now. It's fairly dark outside for 9 AM. It's a weird grey/red outside. It isn't like the usual bright overcast sky. It looks more like there's a storm brewing.
Dark and can't see anything in the Berkeley Hills!
Salem
https://twitter.com/odie1kenodi/status/1303446101987676164
That was actually pretty mild compared to what it was a lot of places yesterday, especially early and late.
looks like one Eldest sent from her front window. She and her friend are bugging out, and heading here, where it's only awful, not apocalyptic.
Due in significant part to federal forest fire policy that invites this kind of disaster, we dumped more gasses and other substances into the atmosphere and had a far greater carbon footprint impact in 40 hours that everything that happened in the area in the last year combined.
unsurprising.
"GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!"
seriously. i told my kids if there is a one-way flight to Mars and they can get on it, just GO. dont even bother saying goodbye.
that shot does remind me of that movie now that you mention it.
Elsewhere in college
Baylor/LA Tech game cancelled as 38 members of the Bulldog's team are positive for CV19
https://twitter.com/UnnecRoughness/status/1303505976755204098
Football player from Cal University (no, the one in Pennsylvania) dies of CV19.
Sadly, me thinks this will not be the last and it will take someone from the SEC dying before students' lives are valued over football.
https://sports.yahoo.com/california-u-of-pennsylvania-player-jamain-stephens-jr-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-214903039.html
Given all the issues with MLB not playing in a bubble, it is strongly helped by how there was no (known) transmission from playing the game (not sure that's going to be the case for football). Also, football players' size puts them at much more risk for COVID complications. This may all be quite disastrous.
By the way, I was kind of surprised by the number of "opportunities" to attend sporting events in the coming weeks for living in Western PA. Pitt's opening game this weekend will be fanless, but I think they are expecting to have fans for later games (IF we get there).
it will take more than one.
Today in Coronavirus
UK bans gatherings larger than six due to surge in cases. Fine for violation is a hundred quid.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54081131
Colorblind
Rhea
Seehorn
Robbed of an Emmy nomination!
This is what Rhea looks like
https://www.galerieprints.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/r4000127-Saturns-Moon-Rhea-1.jpg
Pearlman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEFPZWK4ElE
Moon
Our moon (Luna) is my favorite, creator of tides (not waves) and tide pools created land life, so without our moon, no humanity - at least that's a theory I've encountered.
A couple of moon trivia -- I didn't know until relatively recently that Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the Solar System planet with the most moon (this happened late 2019). A large number of Uranus' moons are named after Shakespeare's characters (thanks for being discovered by the English) - mostly females thus why there are Juliet and Ophelia but no Romeo nor Hamlet.
3122 Florence is a 5 km body with two moons.
Daphne
A large presence of water makes Europa a potential source of life within the solar system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)
Io is my favorite. The pizza moon.
My friend's older daughter is named Io. My friend is also a space botanist :)
This is my favorite moon: Mimas
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/12637_IMG001637.jpg
Looks like the Death Star.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Trump is so clueless, he admitted on record to Woodward that he deliberately downplayed the danger of Covid, but knew exactly how dangerous it was. He can't add 2+2, but it means he's admitting to killing 10,000's of Americans.
Michael Cohen predicts Trump will resign if he loses election so that Pence can pardon him
https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-predicts-trump-will-resign-if-he-loses-so-pence-can-pardon-him
I wouldn't mind this result because (1) that means he lost the election and (2) there are plenty of state charges waiting for him.
There is a danger in this strategy, as unlike Nixon, Trumps criminal activity isn't just about politics, but includes plenty of other stuff. A pardon that just says 'anything prior to this moment' might not fly.
Wouldn't he have to stand trial and be convicted for a pardon? If he resigns post Nov 3, i seriously doubt any trial or conviction happens before January 20.
Nixon wasn't. Ford just said 'anything to do with this bullshit by Mr. Nixon is pardoned' and then folks just didn't bother with any prosecution.
Accepting pardons is an admission of guilt, which I imagine could really fuck him up for any state prosecutions.
Barr intervenes in E. Jean Carroll's defamation case against Trump. Moves case from state to Federal.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jean-carroll-trump-justice-department/2020/09/08/37faa380-f22a-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/392058-two-norwegian-lawmakers-nominate-trump-for-nobel-peace-prize
Anyone want to wager whether he will actually win? I'll bet $1,000,000 that he will not win. Who wants to take that bet?
In 2018 though?
PRO
Oakland A’s Game #40: A’s can’t quite sweep doubleheader, fall 5-4 to Astros in nightcap
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/8/21428575/oakland-as-game-40-houston-astros-score-result-doubleheader
The Oakland A’s came close to completing a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday, but couldn’t come up with one final burst of magic to put them over the top in the nightcap. Still, a split isn’t so bad when you entered the day with a 4.5-game lead over your opponent in the division race.
The A’s fell to the Houston Astros 5-4 in the second game of the twin-bill, meaning the standings stayed the same when the dust settled. The AL West rivals have two more games together this week to wrap up their season series, with just over two weeks left in the regular season after that.
The first act of this game was nearly identical to the preceding afternoon affair. The A’s got to work early and built a 4-0 lead, but then Houston came back to tie it. However, whereas this afternoon Oakland put together another rally later to retake the lead, this evening it was the Astros who found the plate again in the final frame.
Giants creep above .500 with yet another comeback win
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2020/9/8/21428398/san-francisco-giants-mariners-final-score
The San Francisco Giants trailed the Seattle Mariners 5-1 during Tuesday’s game.
The San Francisco Giants led the Seattle Mariners 6-5 when the game concluded.
And with that, the Giants moved over .500 for the first time since Aug. 1, with their 22nd win of the year.
Of those 22, 11 have come in games where the Giants are trailing.
If you’re new to math, 11 is half of 22. You can quote me on that if you’d like.
I can't believe they are above .500.
Now people will think Gabe Kapler is a good manager.
That streak a few weeks back when they blew multiple games in a row should help dispell that. What the Giants wouldn't give for a couple of those games back.
I always assumed he was just around as a caretaker for the rebuilding process, but if they are rebuilding too quickly we might be stuck with him. Our own Donnie Baseball.
I don't think he did a very good job in Philly. Yeah I always thought he was just there to implement the analytics. Kinda like what everyone was saying about Dave Roberts.
The sky in SF is rooting for the Giants.
Dodgers rally late for come-from-behind victory over D-Backs
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/8/21428572/los-angeles-dodgers-mlb-dbacks-recap-news-gavin-lux
Entering the seventh inning, the Dodgers had only two runs. They finished the game with 10, as two huge innings helped give them the 10-9 victory over the D-Backs.
The Dodgers began their rally in the seventh inning, scoring four runs to tie the game at six a piece. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy both walked, putting two on for the rookie Gavin Lux. That’s a name we’ll get to a lot tonight.
Lux singled in Bellinger, bringing LA to within three runs. At the time, that wasn’t Lux’s biggest hit of the night. He hit his first home run of the season back in the second inning, an opposite field shot to put the Dodgers on the board.
Jansen tried to give it away up 4 in B10.
CAL
We're dancing!!
ACC coaches proposing NCAA tournament with all Division I teams
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/29844765/sources-acc-coaches-propose-tournament-all-division-teams
ACC men's basketball coaches are proposing an expanded 2021 NCAA tournament that would include every Division I team.
Several ACC coaches would prefer to avoid nonconference games in the 2020-21 season due to complications from the coronavirus pandemic, with sources telling ESPN that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is spearheading the push for an all-inclusive NCAA tournament.
ACC coaches voted Wednesday to propose the expanded 2021 NCAA tournament, sources confirmed to ESPN. The vote was first reported by Stadium.
Krzyzewski released a statement later Wednesday that said, in part, there "is no better way" to celebrate the game "than involving every team in the most prestigious basketball tournament on the planet."
So you're saying there's a chance for us in the dance???
What.
yeah I don't understand this either. Maybe it's a way to try to bribe teams to play in the spring? Although it would be hilarious if Duke got knocked out in the first round or two (happens more often than not) by an unheralded team.
California was named by Spanish explorers based on a fictional island in a popular Spanish novel in the early 16th century. Heck, if JK Rowlings was a 16th century Spaniard, Cal might have been called something very different.
#Go Weezlifornia Weasels!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_name_California
In the current political climate, I guess some people might much prefer to ret-con the "California" name to the French rather than the Arabs.
From that wiki article
"The author of the novel, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, also known as Ordóñez de Montalvo, is thought to have derived the term California from the Arabic Khalif and/or Khalifa, but he might also have been influenced by the term "Califerne" in the 11th-century epic French poem The Song of Roland."
You're telling me California is part of a secret caliphate? Eric Trump is gonna be so excited!
Those people can stop using Arabic numerals as well.