DBD 1.27.10 Masoli might not have stolen a laptop, but he certainly has stolen my heart
by TwistNHook on Jan 27, 2010 7:43 AM PST
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Men's Basketball to embark on a 4 game road trip:
California Golden Bears (13-6, 5-2) at Arizona State Sun Devils (14-6, 4-3)
Thursday, Jan. 28, 5:30 p.m. (PT), Wells Fargo Arena, Tempe, Ariz.
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM TV: CSN Calif.
California Golden Bears (13-6, 5-2) at Arizona Wildcats (10-9, 4-3)
Sunday, Jan. 31, 12:30 p.m. (PT), McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz.
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM TV: Fox Sports Net/CSN Bay Area
California begins a four-game road trip this week as the first-place team in the Pac-10. The Golden Bears won both meetings against Oregon and Oregon State last week, and now head to Arizona to face Arizona State on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 5:30 p.m. (PT) and Arizona on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 12:30 p.m. (PT).
Cal held on to a 65-61 victory against the Beavers last Saturday. Senior forward Theo Robertson nailed a key three-pointer and swished two game-clinching free throws in the final two minutes of the game to extinguish Oregon State's late run. Robertson and senior guard Jerome Randle led the Bears in scoring with 14 points each.
The team leader in steals with 32, senior guard Patrick Christopher is ninth on the school's career scoring list with 1,463 points. He is currently second on the team in scoring with 16.3 ppg and third in rebounding at 5.5 rpg. Christopher is also on pace to set the school record for most games played in a career. Randle is in eighth with 1,540 points. He needs seven three-pointers to set the new school record for career three-pointers made. He also needs 36 assists to become just the third player in school history to record 500 assists.
Randle's 336 career free throws ranks ninth all-time in school history, just one shy of eighth and two away from seventh. He also leads the team in scoring, averaging 18.7 ppg, and is averaging 4.7 assists per game.
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Womens bball back at Haas:
The California Golden Bears (10-8, 4-3 Pac-10) play the first of four straight home games on Thursday, Jan. 28 when they host the Arizona Wildcats (9-8, 3-4 Pac-10). Tip off is at 7 p.m. The Bears will close out the weekend with a game on Saturday, Jan. 30 against the Arizona State Sun Devils (12-6, 4-3 Pac-10) that will air live at 2:30 p.m. on FSN/ CSN Bay Area.
The Bears are riding a four-game winning streak. They look to win five games in a row for the first time this season. The Bears are coming off two very tiring games last week in Oregon where they played their fastest-paced game of the year against Oregon and a double-overtime marathon against Oregon State.
In Thursday’s game at Oregon, the Bears held the Ducks to 62 points, 22 below their season average. Freshman guard Eliza Pierre had five steals in the game, the third time she has stolen the ball five or more times in a game this season. Pierre is averaging 2.9 steals in Pac-10 games this season, tops in the Conference. Overall, she is third in steals-per-game, averaging 2.4. She also had a career-high nine rebounds against the Ducks.
Freshman center Talia Caldwell had 13 rebounds coming off the bench in the game. It was the second time this season that a Cal player came off the bench to pull in 13 rebounds in a game. Freshman forward Gennifer Brandon also accomplished that against Southern.
Cal won the rebounding war against Oregon, 53-31. It was the largest rebounding margin in a Bears game this season.
Saturday’s double-overtime game against Oregon State was just the fifth time in Cal history a game has gone to 2OT and the second time in Coach Boyle’s tenure that her teams have gone to double OT in Corvallis. The Bears are now 5-0 all-time in double overtime games. It was also the first time since Feb. 2, 2008 that the Bears played an overtime game. They went the entire 2008-09 season without playing extra time.
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i’ll probably be there, who knows
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Mos Def.
Going to Rock Rock Rock before to watch the men’s game.
by paleodan on Jan 27, 2010 12:26 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I am!
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
by oskisunbear on Jan 27, 2010 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
Rags is out too. He has other responsibilities besides me, the blog, his job and his side project.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Unless his side project is recovering Tedford’s voice recording on my phone into my voicemail greeting, I don’t care WHAT his lame excuse is!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 12:55 PM PST up reply actions
Mens tennis beat Santa Clara:
BERKELEY – Down, 8-7, and facing two match-points at 40-15, the No. 49-ranked California men’s tennis doubles team of sophomore Nick Andrews and freshman Christoffer Konigsfeldt fought back to break the Bronco serve and force a tiebreaker. The two Golden Bears continued the offensive onslaught and earned a 4-0 advantage against Brian Brogan and Jay Wong in the breaker before sealing the doubles point with a 7-2 win. The momentum gained from the victory propelled Cal (3-0) to its third consecutive win as it defeated Santa Clara (2-1), 7-0, on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at the Hellman Tennis Complex.
The Bears’ top doubles team of juniors Jonathan Dahan and Pedro Zerbini broke away from a five-all tie in their match to earn an 8-6 win over Kyle Dandan and Nicolas Vinel. Knotted at seven-all, junior Bozhidar Katsarov and freshman Riki McLachlan dropped their last two games to Grant Fleming and Andrew Kells at No. 3 doubles to even the score for the doubles point.
Cal cleared the board in the first set of all singles matches but received a strong fight from the Broncos. No. 106-ranked Konigsfeldt came off the courts first as he completed a 6-2, 6-2 win over Brogan at court three to give the Bears a 2-0 lead in the match. No. 33-ranked Dahan finished shortly thereafter as he took out Kells, 6-2, 6-3, at court two. No. 98-ranked Katsarov had the honor of sealing the Cal victory with his 7-5, 6-4 win against Wong at No. 4 singles.
With the match decided, Zerbini took out Dandan in a third-set tiebreaker, 11-9, after splitting the first two sets, 7-6, 4-6. Zerbini earned a 7-3 tiebreaker win in the first set. McLachlan gave the Bears their sixth point of the day as he knocked off Tom Pham at court six, 6-4, 7-6, with a 7-3 score in the tiebreaker. Andrews split sets with Vinel on court five but came through with a 6-4 win in the third too complete Cal’s 7-0 victory.
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Rugby to take on Stanfeit:
BERKELEY – With the postponement of California’s match vs. Santa Clara University, originally scheduled as a test for Cal’s frosh/sophs on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at Santa Clara, the Golden Bears now prepare to welcome Stanford in a battle for the Scrum Axe this Saturday, Jan. 30, at 1 p.m. on Witter Rugby Field.
The Cardinal will be traveling to Strawberry Canyon with only its first-side team; therefore, there will be no reserve-grade match following the First XV.
Stanford had a 6-0 fall preseason and gave Saint Mary’s a stout challenge to open the spring Jan. 16 on the Farm, where the match was tied, 19-19, at halftime and the Gaels held on to win, 38-31. The following weekend, St. Mary’s lost at home to UC Davis, while the Cardinal’s match last Saturday at Chico State was cancelled due to severe weather.
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by TwistNHook on Jan 27, 2010 7:53 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Womens swimming to take on LAs:
On the Pool Deck
Fifth-ranked California takes an unbeaten dual-meet record to Los Angeles this week to take on ninth-ranked USC and UCLA. The Golden Bears, who have a 4-0 record (2-0 Pac-10), meet the Trojans (9-1, 2-1 Pac-10) at 1 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29 at USC McDonald’s Swim Stadium and face the Bruins (5-1, 2-1 Pac-10) at noon on Saturday, Jan. 30 at Spieker Aquatics Center.
Cal split with the L.A. schools last season, falling to USC, 152.50-147.50, and defeating UCLA, 172-123. Then-freshman Liv Jensen led a 1-2-3 Cal sweep in the 50-yard freestyle against the Trojans with a time of 22.85. The Bears also claimed the top three spots in the 100 and 200 freestyles, won the 100 butterfly and claimed the 200-free relay, but it wasn’t enough to catch USC.
The Bears bounced back the next day, winning 10 of 16 events to beat the Bruins. They ended the meet in resounding fashion, with former Bear Madison Kennedy, current junior Hannah Wilson, Jensen and former Bear Dana Vollmer posting a Cal dual-meet and Spieker Aquatics Complex record of 1:31.49 to win the 200-free relay.
Scouting the Golden Bears
Cal was impressive in defeating No. 2 Arizona as well as Arizona State in its last two meets. The Arizona meet featured Senior Day, as Cal honored its six seniors – Lauren Boyle, Alexandra Ellis, Courtney Eronemo, Blake Hayter, Amanda Larson and Heather White – who competed in their final home meet. Cal freshman Caitlin Leverenz arguably made the biggest splash, posting a Cal dual-meet and Spieker Aquatics Complex record and NCAA B cut of 4:11.37 to win the 400-individual medley against Arizona. She won three events in each meet (200 butterfly, 200 breaststroke and 400-medley relay vs. ASU and 200 breaststroke, 400 IM and 200-medley relay against Arizona). </blockquote>
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Track heads to UW for meet:
THIS WEEK IN CAL TRACK & FIELD: After opening its 2010 indoor season at the Cherry & Silver Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M., California makes the first of three straight trips to Seattle, starting with this weekend’s UW Indoor Invitational Friday and Saturday.
The Golden Bears will return to the Dempsey Indoor facility on the University of Washington campus for the Husky Indoor Classic Feb. 12-13 and the MSPF championships Feb. 26-27.
This week’s meet is a two-day affair and will include multi-event competitions in the heptathlon and pentathlon. Michael Morrison and Kyle Mills-Bunje both warmed up for the UW meet by participating in four events each last weekend and will get underway Friday afternoon, along with competitors in the pole vault, 4×800-meter relay, 5000 meters and distance medley relay. All other events will take place Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
REVIEWING THE OPENER: Cal started the 2010 season with a good showing at the Cherry & Silver Invitational hosted by the University of New Mexico last Saturday. The Golden Bears posted seven top-three finishes, including a victory by Kimyon Broom in the 60-meter hurdles (8.30). Cal runners concentrated on the shorter distances, as no Bear raced longer than 800 meters individually. Broom, as well as pole vaulters Allison Stokke (13-1.50) and Ryan Shuler (17-0.75), posted NCAA provisional qualifying marks.
For complete Cherry & Silver Invitational results, click here.
VROOM BROOM: Senior Kimyon Broom broke out of the blocks quickly in her first meet of the 2010 campaign, setting a Cal indoor record in the 60-meter hurdles at the Cherry & Silver Invitational. Broom’s time of 8.30 seconds was well ahead of runner-up Seun Adigu (unattached), who finished in 8.42 seconds. The two-time defending Pac-10 champion in the 100 hurdles outdoors, Broom broke the school mark of 8.31 seconds established by Osarhiemen Omwanghe in 2006.
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I believe he has a Google Search on her, so he knew about this article already
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
On Arizona State’s defense
It’s a pure matchup, and the easiest way to describe it is a switching man-to-man. They switch everything. It’s different. It’s not a zone per say, but it is a zone. They do a real good job on the ball, and since it’s what they do all the time, they’ve gotten very good at it. They play very hard in it and people have had difficulty with it. You have to screen it a little bit. You have to drive it, put it down on the floor and try to force help situations. You have to cut, you can’t stand because they’re going to match up regardless. You have to move around.
On back-to-back road weeks
It’s just a fatigue thing. We’re still never really sure who we’re going to have at practice and who we’re going to have available to us. The fact that we play Sunday, it’s interesting that you have a back-to-back road trip and they have you play on a Sunday, as compared to letting you go home on Sunday. It could hurt you confidence wise, not having that comfort level of coming home. But at some point you have to get your road games out of the way.
On the injured/sick players
Markhuri is out (for Thursday’s game). His back is in bad shape. For some reason, we’ve got kids getting sick all the time. We’ll just have to take it day-to-day. I just don’t know these days. Jorge was tired yesterday, but he worked hard. It was good to see him get back out there. His conditioning is pretty poor right now. I would guess he would bounce back, but it’s pretty bad right now because he hasn’t done anything for three weeks.
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For carp and his parole officer, better know a freshman women’s gymnast:
Arla Rosenzweig was born and raised in Los Altos, Calif., graduating from Los Altos High last summer. She is the daughter of a pair of UC Berkeley Grad School grads, Elise Farr and Fred Rosenzweig. Arla competed for Airborne Gymnastics, finishing in first place at the 2008 State Championships and in second place in 2009. Last summer, she was a member of Team USA at the Maccabiah Games in Israel, earning a silver medal.
Here are some quick facts you may not know about Arla:
What sport would you play other than gymnastics? Volleyball
What is your favorite movie of the last year? Slumdog Millionaire
What would you do if you had one day left to live? Sky dive
What is your favorite sport other than gymnastics? Baseball
What would be a dangerous thing you would do if there were no risks? Fly
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For turkey, better know a freshman male gymnast:
BERKELEY – Freshman Steven Lacombe joins the California men’s gymnastics team from his hometown of Mission Viejo, Calif. Cal head coach Barry Weiner calls Lacombe a diamond who simply needs time to learn and polish. Lacombe can do a double front on vault and his great strength on rings will make him a fierce collegiate competitor. CalBears.com caught up with the freshman to discuss his first semester as a student-athlete at Cal.
CalBears.com: What has been the hardest, most surprisingly aspect about transitioning from high school to college?
Steven Lacombe: Classes are a lot harder than high school.
CalBears.com: What has been your favorite part about college life so far?
SL: The amount of freedom you have compared to high school.
CalBears.com: What is your favorite part about gymnastics?
SL: My favorite part is the adrenaline rush you get when doing hard or challenging skills and the feeling of accomplishment if you make it.
CalBears.com: When you’re not in the gym, what are you likely to be doing?
SL: Some of my hobbies are playing guitar and drums.
CalBears.com: What would you like people to remember about you after you leave Cal?
SL: That I was a big help to the team and that I was a hard worker.
CalBears.com: What were your initial impressions of Berkeley?
SL: Berkeley seemed very fun and exciting and also a little intimidating.
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I was about to post pics from the get to know a member of the women’s squad but now I think I’m not gonna, so there.
turkey, on behalf of CGB I apologize. Pay no attention to Twist. Now go post your pics.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 9:31 AM PST up reply actions
I am not allowed to look at photos of other women normally, so this is not a big problem for me
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I’m almost afraid to ask, but how does one look at photos abnormally?
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
Normally, Twist looks at photos of other women with his pants off. His wife has disallowed that practice.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
I like their poses. I wonder if I can get Mrs. CALumbus Bear to pose like that without getting punched in the mouth.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 9:48 AM PST up reply actions
Maybe if I employ the reliable “lesser of two evils” tactic:
“Honey, if you love me you’ll either wear this leather harness or pose like a gymnast. You pick because I trust your judgment.”
That might confuse her just enough for me to avoid getting slugged.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
Good tactic. I might have to try something similar: “Will you wear this leather harness AND pose like a gymnast? No? How about just the pose then?”
I bet you could use the ‘Pretty as a Picture’ tactic.
“Honey, you really look good today. Gee, what is it? Turn this way. Now turn that way. Now put your arms up… You are really really too good for me, but I like having you here.”
and… cut to bedroom.
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Sounds like we could use the mediation skills of an attorney! Did somebody call Twist?
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Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
This is good… damn good. I hope I don’t stumble and blow it with the dreaded “pretty as a picture” variation of “Honey, I saw this picture of a hawt chick in a leather harness, I think you’d look good in one too.”
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
“You would be less ugly if you posed like this, which is how I saw a much more attractive woman pose today”
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“You know what, if you posed like this, it would totally conceal the c-section scar!”
This is a guaranteed winner as well.
(No it isn’t.)
I thought you wrote c-section scarf and, briefly, got really excited.
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Apparently this has a chance of working as long as you sound sincere.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
Swish Appeal takes a look at Lexi’s 47. Here is an excerpt:
Gray-Lawson’s 47-point game might not even be her personal best performance
Once again, the Pac-10 Player of the Week failed to get any statistical love. So what happened?
A commenter at CaliforniaGoldenBlogs said the following:
Cal Women Week in Review: Alexis Gray-Lawson Conquers the World – California Golden Blogs
Lexi’s point total against Oregon State is obviously spectacular. But I think her 37-point game against Stanfurd last year is still her most outstanding performance, because of the quality of the competition.
As it turns out, that’s exactly right, if we evaluate the performances in terms of MVP, a means of determining the weighted value of a player’s contribution to victory:
1/18/09 vs. Stanford: 36.59 MVP, 71% valuable contributions
1/23/10 vs. OSU: 25.76 MVP, 51.34% valuable contributions
The difference between the two games: she shot 11 less shots, had less turnovers, and had an eFg% of 73%, going 5-7 from the 3 pt line in last year’s Stanford game. In other words, she had a much more efficient game against Stanford and also contributed more to her team in less time. However, most importantly she carried the team to a far greater extent against Stanford in 2009 as her percent valuable contributions demonstrates. In meaning more, it was a better performance.
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Apple's much-awaited (?) table announcement is tomorrow
http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/watch-apple-s-tablet-announcement-live-3343986
Curiousity about Apple’s latest creation has reached fever pitch in recent weeks. According to the rumors, the Apple tablet is a multimedia-rich tablet computer that utilizes a more high-end technology than the iPhone, the iPod or the iPod Touch. It’s designed to kill off the tablet aspirations of Intel, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
More importantly, it’s interesting to watch Apple’s stock tomorrow.
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I prefer the iElectronicMultimediaInteractionTablet. iEMIT.
Quantity AND quantity!
by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
It's a... a...
A big, awkward iPod touch, that looks like it would break or crack if handled imrpoperly… My only hope is that it only has an iPod interface slot on the bottom and nothing else… Maybe a headphone jack…
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
by CruzinBears on Jan 27, 2010 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
Next you’ll be saying that housing prices can’t go up 25% a year forever.
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Naturally, but who has patience for that?!
(Actually, I’m just pissed off that AAPL hit 213ish levels and I held onto it because I thought this would succeed)
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Yeah, the brass tacks market has been really depressed recently.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
there’s a reason the tablet PCs haven’t taken off – if the ipod can do all the computing, what the fuck is the point of a tablet? It’s bigger? For older eyes? Its the ‘jitterbug’ brand of product positioning.
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I’ve used a tablet pc before and really felt they have the ability to take off, but there is a factor missing from them (not sure what that factor is yet).
For all the news about this being a “Kindle Killer”, though, not happening.
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what did you like? It felt like paper on a clipboard? The only thing I would want is the ability to turn sketches into digital images. and there might already be an app available.
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If it’s an accessory and not a primary workstation, it’s not bad. But until they show it integrating with other devices I’m not sure yet.
Apple's much-awaited (?) table????
They haven’t made a decent table in years!!!! I tried their most recent table the “iPod Touch” couldn’t even fit my drink on that piece of crap table…
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by CruzinBears on Jan 27, 2010 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, but that’s always how it goes. People buy on rumor, sell on news.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
I feel ya.
I bet the Eagles +4 in their wild-card game.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
More importantly, it’s interesting to watch Apple’s stock tomorrow.
Uhh, more interesting to who?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 27, 2010 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
depressed students in Evans?
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
oh sure – those people have monocles and swim in their vaults of gold and own guard dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you.
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[slowly removes monocle for fear of being shunned]
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:28 AM PST up reply actions
I believe it was recently established that these people have lorgnettes. And possibly pinz nez.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
[raises lorgnette to eyes with a look of concern]
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
So, you use a monocle and a lorgnette — at the same time? Isn’t that overkill?
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
If I still had my monocle on when I read your post it would have popped out with indignation.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
I love this subthread with an enthuasism unknown to mankind. And they say the elderly are useless!
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I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart. I didn’t even see it coming.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
Too bad you weren’t wearing your monocle and lorgnette.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
At 35, I’m something like a grandfather to Twist
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
If it’s a monocle, why aren’t glasses referred to as binocles? I know there’s binoculars, but I like the sound of “binocles” better than “glasses.”
Quantity AND quantity!
by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
Let’s start a campaign. What do we want? Binocles! When do we want them? Now!
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But then what are contact lenses????
Oneyeballlensicles?
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omg, a simpsons ref from you, I LOVE YOU ANDBEARS, MARRY ME!
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And with that, a mighty cheer went up from the heroes of CGBville. They had banished the awful AndBears forever, because it was female. Now let’s all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.
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by TwistNHook on Jan 27, 2010 10:54 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
no one in history has ever done anything this clever!
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Honestly, I am a little disappointed AndBears never responded to this with a witty rejoinder. I’m really loving this joke. There are so many layers to it, it’s like a cake or something. And you gotta peel the layers back, it’s like an onion, too. This joke is like an onion cake, it’s the kind of cake that makes you cry.
Basically, what I’m trying to say is that if AndBears wasn’t crying after reading that comment, I’m really disappointed in myself.
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Do you always narrate your life story in 3rd person?
…McGee said inquisitively.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
I played about 3 hrs of Mass Effect 2 yesterday and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Felt like I was playing a movie. Great story too, but probably too complicated for those who haven’t played Mass Effect
In other words, Go Bears!
I haven’t played ME1 — is ME2 available for PC, and is it FPS? Yes, I am too lazy to do my own research.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 10:14 AM PST up reply actions
Of course it’s available for a PC. You would’nt see me touch a shooter/RPG that’s not on the PC! I hate the gamepad.
ME2 is technically an RPG, but it’s evolved so much that it’s more like a 3rd person shooter (you run, shoot, take cover, shoot etc) with a lots of RPG elements like picking your squad, leveling up, dialog options. But it’s also got good stuff like controlling your squad, telling them where to go, holding down left Shift to command your squad to make one person blast this guy with an energy blast while telling the other to cover with incendiary rounds, etc.
In other words, Go Bears!
But it’s also got good stuff like controlling your squad, telling them where to go, holding down left Shift to command your squad to make one person blast this guy with an energy blast while telling the other to cover with incendiary rounds, etc.
Kind of like Freedom Fighters for the PS2?
But what has Jeremiah Masoli stolen from YOU?!?!?!?!?!?
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I’m sure he’s waiting for someone to pick up an iPad in Eugene.
by turkey on Jan 27, 2010 10:17 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
reccccccccccccccc’d
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
So, how much is this fancy iPad device going to cost? I imagine it would be more than an iphone/ipod touch, less than a MBP…. so, $700ish maybe?
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 10:35 AM PST reply actions
i bet the keys randomly reorder themselves as you type, keeping up the trend of obnoxiously hard-to-use touch keyboards
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
So, can someone explain to me what the point of this device is again? Can it do anything that an Ipod Touch can’t do? I’m honestly asking. Because it seems to me that it’s essentially an Ipod Touch with a larger screen and longer battery life. Why would anyone need this? It’s not an actual laptop computer; it runs “apps”, and not programs, right? Does it use Mac OS? It can’t even run multiple “apps” at once, right? Hell, it doesn’t even support flash, right? I really don’t see what the point of this device is or why anyone would actually spend money to buy it. MAYBE if you are a hardcore business traveler and you want an all-in-one ebook reader/movie player/music/internet device. But that market has to be very small.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
I use my iPhone for most everything at home except SBN blogs and a couple of other odds and ends. I don’t have a laptop of my own, I manage my iPhone / iPod off the wife’s iMac. So this tablet would be an alternative to buying a Macbook which would be total overkill.
Doesn’t mean I’m going to buy one, but I can see the appeal.
Why would you need a fancy touchscreen though? Couldn’t you just get a relatively inexpensive netbook, and actually be able to use some programs instead of just 1 app at a time? You’d have more functionality and flexibility, and it would probably be cheaper.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
If you currently own an iPod and thought to yourself “Man, I wish this were less portable”, you have your device.
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by Rishi on Jan 27, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Is the screen going to be as good for reading on as the Kindle? And also, a Kindle costs less than a fancy ipod. This thing is probably going to cost at least twice as much.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
Given that people pay more money for equivalent performance from Macbooks, I don’t think the cost will matter as much as other, less-branded products would (although obviously it’ll matter to some extent). As for whether it’ll be as good for reading as the kindle, I think the bar has been set pretty low. I don’t think I’d run out and buy one, but I can see it doing well in its niche.
Given that people pay more money for equivalent performance from Macbooks
And this is the entire problem with the Apple cult. Other than the iPhone(which seems to be a pretty damned amazing device), has Apple really ever come out with anything that was far and away a technological breakthrough or was head-and-shoulders above its competition? Has there ever really been a reason to pay so much more for what you get? I submit that this has rarely been the case.
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Depends on what value you place towards the user experience. Their designs are pretty darn nifty.
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But to pay like 100% more for a product of similar ability? No thanks. It just doesn’t make any sense.
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when time spent dealing with crashes and slowdowns (things windows machines do more often than macs) becomes more valuable than the extra cash spent on the initial purchase, it makes sense to go for the mac
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:41 PM PST up reply actions
I had a web job for a month, they sat me in front of a (then) nifty Mac G3. It crashed daily. I lol’d every time.
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i’d say on the whole, macs crash less due to OS/software errors
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:52 PM PST up reply actions
Meh, only since Mac realized that it had to be able to run PC programs in order to compete. It’s ot like programmers said, “oh no! we need to start writing programs for Mac!” 90+% of software is written for PC’s, and while some of the big-name stuff is made for both now, a lot isn’t.
And heaven forbid I want to upgrade my computer? A near impossibility with a Mac. For the price of a Mac, I could buy an awesome PC and keep it upgraded for years. What if my mouse dies? Can I get a cheap Mac mouse for $5? Nope.
Price point, flexibility, and overall ease make PC’s a simple choice for many, many people.
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you can get cheap “mac” peripherals because they attach by usb, just not the stock apple ones. macs are upgradable, but doing so is rarely necessary since apple tends to release higher-end specs and no entry-level computers
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:59 PM PST up reply actions
How many people actually upgrade their PCs? I suspect that folks like you and royrules are the exception to the “PC as appliance” market, and the majority of users learn about enough to turn it on, write email and documents, and surf the web. Most users are not power users.
the majority of users learn about enough to turn it on, write email and documents, and surf the web.
Fair enough – but as the NetZero commercial used to say, why pay twice as much to hop on the same Internet?
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I dont like having extra money and I figure Steve Jobs doesnt have enough?
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Because I get tired of dealing with software that doesn’t work, memory leaks, incessant maintenance and patching, cheap-ass peripherals that break, etc. That’s my work laptop. I don’t need that at home.
Apple are a bunch of control freaks, but they produce well integrated software and I don’t mind paying the slight premium on hardware that they charge.
I have a non-iPod mp3 player. Forgetting about silly file restrictions (the reason I didn’t/wouldn’t get an iPod) my mp3 player flat out sucks to navigate. There’s something to be said for simplicity, especially for non-power users. I’ll pay more for an elegant ui.
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But i looooove my Creative Zen Vision M. It’s got stuff the iPod doesn’t, like a voice recorder and FM radio, and it plays music and video, just like an iPod. Easy to use, no file restrictions, simple UI, easy. Took a little research, but it was worth to find exactly what I wanted.
BUT you are correct, it’s easier for non-power users to simply get what everyone else has, with a simple yet effective interface. It just bugs me that so many people think the iPod is like the greatest thing ever, when it’s only marketing that tells them so. To be fair, Apple is GENIUS at marketing, so I can’t take anything away from them on that point – make your money, boys.
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Well, a simple interface is not so simple to pull off. Otherwise my shitty mp3 player wouldn’t be so shitty. Apple is GENIUS at both design and marketing. Power users don’t necessarily get the design aspect, but look at the clothes THEY wear!
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Yes, you are right – they are masters of design AND marketing. Everytime a new Apple product comes out, I do think it’s shiny and pretty and the “oooo i want that!” instinct pops up. Then I look at the overinflated price tag, laugh my head off, and go back to reality.
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That’s what people find so attractive about Apple: the brand. While I’m sure there are technologically superior mp3 players, there are most certainly many inferior ones as well. Having to wade through the chaff to find the good ones is not a prospect most non-tech people relish. Knowing that Apple makes a decent product that looks visually cool and has a clean UI is what people pay the premium for.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 28, 2010 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
I have an iPod because I don’t want to listen to the radio, and I have no need to record voices of any sort. There’s no file restrictions, nor have there been, on music files from Amazon.com, eMusic, etc.. nor on files I rip from my own CDs.
But how do you play illegally downloaded music? Please explain.
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BearStage, you, of all people, should respect the royalties due to the artist!
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I do!
Yes, I steal music. But not as much as I used to, and yes, i support the artists! But sometimes in different ways.
My favorite band is Static-X, an industrial metal band. They ROCK. They have six studio albums, and I have bought only 2 of them.
Now some will say, “You’re ripping them off! You could you, they’re your favorite!!” TO them, I say this: I have seen them in concert five times, during one which I purchased a $45 hoodie, which is still one of my favorite pieces of clothing. Now, it’s a well-known fact that artists make way more money from touring than they do from record sales. Yes, I understand that record sales are how the record companies know whether or not the band is doing well. But considering I have given them at least $300 of my money, and the fact that I know more of that money is going to the band than if I had spent it on albums, and the fact that tell everyone I know about them, I think I’ve done a lot more to support them than someone who bought a couple of albums.
The other reason I don’t buy albums as much is because the bands just get ripped by the record labels. They get nowhere near the amount of money they deserve from the labels, so I’d rather support artists other ways, like going to concerts.
Now, if it’s a small artist, or an artist from an smaller label, I’l lbe much more likely to buy the record, because I cam sympathize and I want to help them out.
I’ve been buying more music lately, though, because the powers that be have FINALLY caught on to selling music online at fairer prices. Took them forever, but they’re finally on the ball. Still don’t use iTunes though. I refuse!! Plus, my work as an artist has softened my cynical heart toward musicians getting remunerated for their work ;-)
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download mp3 versions. if that isn’t possible, illegally download a file converter. these things i do, week in week out.
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:14 PM PST up reply actions
do you live in Yreka?
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:15 PM PST up reply actions
Me, too. I guess we old fogeys are the only ones who still think stealing is wrong.
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If BBC America would just broadcast them same week, I’d not bother. And to be perfectly honest, I stopped because FinalGear.com started carrying HD files and I couldn’t be bothered to try and work out how to get them to work.
OK, I confess. If something is available for legitimate purchase, I pay for it. But if there is something I really want, and it can’t be bought legally, I have been known to be a little bit . . . flexible.
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What difference does it make to you if someone has different consumer preferences and price sensitivity? I don’t get the hostility.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/12/
(SFW)
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You really aren’t a Mac person, go look up Blue Bottle coffee and tell me how likely you think it is that Mac users do / would drink it.
I’m not hating on Blue Bottle, I think it’s a pretty cool idea. I just don’t get the personal value out of the ‘premium’ they charge vs a cup of joe from any other coffee shop with halfway decent coffee.
Because it’s all marketing. It’s all BS marketing. I’m not hating on Apple for their GENIUS marketing – hey, you make your money where you can make it. But people get so into this iLife stuff that they’ll buy just about anything under the sun just because it’s Apple, and not because it’s better or more effective than another product.
Cracks me up, to be honest.
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I’m not hating on Apple
Right. He’s hating on you, DC. This is entirely personal.
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I got that. Any time that someone starts in on being “duped” by marketing, it’s usually an attempt to politely say that if you actually knew your ass from a hole in the ground, you’d agree with them.
Yes, and that’s why I wear Patagonia jackets despite the fact that the closest I come to mountains is flying over them on my way from one coast to the other.
Hey, I work at REI, I’m more guilty of being an outdoor-clothing label whore than anyone.
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LANE KIFFIN IS YOUR HEAD COACH!!!!
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
All I know is that after I replaced my wife’s ancient PC with a basic iMac 18 months ago, the closest I’ve had to do for ongoing maintenance is occasionally clean the track ball on the mouse. She can do whatever it is that she needs to do on it, I have somewhere other than my work laptop on which to store music and pictures, and there you have it. That’s my purchasing preference.
Fair enough. I can get on board with that.
But… trackball? Dude.
;-)
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Whatever the little thing is in the standard mac mouse of 2007/8.
And if you arsed about as much as I do with powerpoint and business architecture software, you’d use a trackball mouse as well. RMIs in desk jobs are just pathetic.
RMI’s?
Ohh, you meant like a trackball trackball. I thought you were talking about the little ball that is inside the mouses of yesteryear.
And by yesteryear, I mean the mouse I use whenever my wireless mouse runs out of batteries ;-)
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That would be a good name for a drink. A completini.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
Evidence against Masoli flimsy
I talked yesterday with a former prosecutor, who said he didn’t think Jeremiah Masoli has much to worry about based on evidence that has become public so far in the ongoing theft investigation at the University of Oregon.
The UO quarterback’s name surfaced after a theft was reported at the SAE fraternity. SAE member Max Wolfard said he saw Masoli and UO receiver Garrett Embry inside the fraternity house acting suspiciously. Then, he said, he noticed Embry had Wolfard’s digital projector.
The two players ran. Wolfard said he chased down Embry who returned to him the projector. Later, two laptop computers and a guitar were discovered missing from the house.
The former prosecutor said Masoli’s presence in the house proves nothing and, without additional evidence, there is little upon which a case against him could be built.
The former prosecutor said if he were Masoli attorney, he would advise him to remain quiet.
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 27, 2010 10:44 AM PST reply actions
not if recruits think they can steal things and get away with it!
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
What do you think about your latest mascot?
I’m not sure that I like this new direction.
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wilner points out he has a criminal history.
Back from his days in the greater San Mateo area.
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--Coach Clark
San Mateo rules!
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
San Mateo High School Football Rules!
Oh wait, that’s San Dimas.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Actually, that’s Knibb High
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
where did you go?
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
cap! i went to hillsdale.
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
blow me
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
RoyRules22 can’t watch, though, or he has to pay a hundred.
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lemme just get my checkbook
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 12:55 PM PST up reply actions
What about a man eating his own head?
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How can it be either?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
we don’t have the best sandwich at mr. pickles, but gosh darnit, people like us!
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
Listen, Mr. Pickles shouldn’t even have a sandwich for you. That’s our damn sandwich shop, not yours. Go stick to your food court at Hillsdale Mall and leave the real food for real men from real schools.
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Once a Don, always a Don.
Stick that in your academically-inferior school and your pathetic excuse for a football team.
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by Rishi on Jan 27, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Rec’d for taking our rivalry seriously, hills had reached stanfurd-levels of apathy by the time I left.
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It seems to be the case — the inferior school always displays apathy because they’re so sick of losing and being stuck in an inferior situation.
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out of money for all after school programs. public schools (in cali especially) need a big leg up. also doesn’t help hillsdale that the rich parents send their kids to aragon or serra and donate there instead.
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We get the same per student funding that you get.
Just our alumni are smarter and earn more money post-graduation.
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i really doubt that alumni donations make up a big part of the budgets for music and athletics, i’m guessing it’s the rich parents in the area
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(Our high schools were in the same school district and actually did get pretty much the same funding per student)
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can’t we just be friends. both schools obviously produce cal-caliber students!
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I don’t remember in what substandard location your school hosted it my senior year, but I went to it and I felt disgusting afterwards.
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at least our mascot isn’t a shameful feminine ripoff of zorro
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our mascot-themed dance title puns are better. “a knight on the town” “save to-knight” “knight moves”, etc.
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Night Moves, what a great song.
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
TAY-O FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
by Yes We Cannon on Jan 27, 2010 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
Similar to my wedding night, I have no idea what’s going on here and I’m fairly scared.
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what year did you graduate? I’m one of the younger people on this board, but that’s not saying much concerning the range of ages of our posters
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San Dimas high school – my high school’s rival. I grew up right next to San Dimas. And the circle K. And Waterloo (Raging Waters)
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this movie and never made the Waterloo/Napoleon connection. This movie’s brilliance just increased exponentially.
(also, I always thought it was ‘Waterlube’ but that’s just weird now that I think about it.)
I think we CGB attorneys should volunteer to represent Masoli. We’d fix everything!
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“Look buddy, you’re guilty. Take the deal and serve 2 years.”
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
“I’ll throw in a free eviction while you are at it! Who you want me to evict?”
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Somebody needs their Centrum Silver!
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Grandson, you have shamed me once again.
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by CALumbus Bear on Jan 27, 2010 1:11 PM PST up reply actions
EDSBS made me LOL today
WAAAAAAAH BUT HE’S GOT SHORT ARMS.
Graham is clearly a badass who’s been beating ass left and right in Senior Bowl practices this week, but OMG HE’S GOT MIDGET ARMS.
One knock against Graham already is that at the Senior Bowl weigh-in, his arms only measured 30 ½ inches, which is considered short for a pass rusher.
He was also weak in the fetlocks, a half-centimeter off on the ear length, showed too much exuberance when his trainer paraded him around the ring, and defecated on the ramp prior to competition due to nerves and excitement. Other than that, he’s perfect and a great football player you should probably draft if you want a superb player. Oh, wait. You might not understand that. Let’s put it in parlance you can properly understand.
Jon Gruden: THIS GUY just loves to play FOOTBALL. He’s got a REAL MOTOR. He may not have PRETTY APE ARMS, but this guy just MAKES PLAYS. His teammates love him. He plays so hard his teammates call him DURACELL BECAUSE HE JUST KEEPS GOING AND GOING. I LOVE this guy!
Other announcer: DURACELL? That’s crazy!
Jon Gruden: I know! It’s like Salsa! It’s crazy, but you just keep eating the stuff! FOOTBALL.
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East Coast Bias at its Biasiest Biasing You Can Bias
Yes, I realize the Sharks will probably amass the best record in hockey and then conveniently lose to someone in the first or second round of the playoffs, but this is still pretty ridiculous on a journalistic level.
2009-2010 Power Rankings: Week 17
By Pierre LeBrun; posted Jan. 18
1. Blackhawks 34-11-4: Off to a 2-0-0 start on the current eight-game road trip. Stops in Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver this week; the latter two games are possible second-round playoff previews.
2. Sharks 31-10-8: The tests keep coming with four tough ones in six days this week: Calgary, Los Angeles, Anaheim and Buffalo.
During the subsequent week….
San Jose Sharks:
Mon 1/18 Calgary (26-17-6)……………………..W 9 – 1
Tue 1/19 Los Angeles (27-18-3)……………….W 5 – 1
Thu 1/21 Anaheim (23-20-7)……………………W 3 – 1
Sat 1/23 Buffalo (30-12-7)……………………….W 5 – 2
Chicago Blackhawks:
Tue 1/19 Ottawa (25-21-4)……………………….L 1 – 4
Thu 1/21 Calgary (26-18-6)………………………W 3 – 1
Sat 1/23 Vancouver (30-18-2)……………………L 1 – 5
Tue 1/26 Edmonton (16-28-6)…………………..W 4 – 2
Well, looks like Chicago got blown out twice in shitty losses, while the Sharks went 4-0 and outscored their opponents 22-5 in games that weren’t even close, surely Pierre will see the Sharks are the be—-
2009-2010 Power Rankings: Week 18
By Pierre LeBrun; posted Jan. 25
1. Blackhawks 35-13-4: Even when they lose, they look awesome, as they did Saturday night in Vancouver, launching 44 shots at Roberto Luongo.
2. Sharks 35-10-8: I was tempted to put them first in the rankings after a super week that saw them beat Calgary, Los Angeles, Anaheim and Buffalo. But I figure Thursday’s colossal clash with Chicago will decide next week’s No. 1 spot anyway.
“BUT CHICAGO LOSES WITH PASSION!!!!”
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Whoops, I take it back, Chicago’s Tuesday 1/26 win was after the cutoff. 1-2 vs. 4-0.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
Use it to your advantage and make some money by betting on the Sharks, then.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
an SFGate article seamheads will <3
— Cal pitcher Justin Jones. A seventh-round pick by the White Sox, the 6-foot-3 lefty has a fine breaking ball. He’ll be either the Saturday or Sunday starter.
— Cal third baseman Tony Renda. The best hitter from Serra High since Gregg Jefferies, he had a .405 average as a senior.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/27/SPSG1BNVTF.DTL#ixzz0dqIOwGbO
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--Coach Clark
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/01/ring-of-fire/
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
is that favre holding you carp?
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
eh…his defense of AIG and subsequent congressional bashing. I’m not a big Timmy G fan.
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He put America in a ring of fire! You know how dangerous that is!!! We could singe Florida!
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not enough hobo w/ ciggy
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 12:13 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
I have no idea what this is but it’s amazing
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
But why cupcakes?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe he was mentally seeing images of the battle of Chau Kaeu Lit Kup Kai
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
WHAT'S YOUR DEAL!?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
reminds me of Rally Comm Axe Guy
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Speaking of which, Yes We Cannon, whats the sitch yo?
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Saw him last night, said he’s working on it.
by Yes We Cannon on Jan 27, 2010 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Recalling the early controversy over Geithner’s failure to pay some personal income taxes, Mica said: “You gave lame excuses then, you are giving lame excuses now. Why shouldn’t we ask for your resignation as secretary of the Treasury?”
“You have a right to your opinion,” Geithner said.
“Yeah, well, that’s like, your opinion, man.”
rofl
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
100% posturing. Politicians have no fucking clue what they’re talking about.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
this
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
INDIAN FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-wait, no, that’s not right
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I don't even want to explain how I was made aware of this, but...
*Short answer—my wife likes the Baliwood stuff.
Am I a member?
PS Dude second from the left didn’t get the “Be Intimidating” Memo.
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Did any of them get that memo?
They all look like they are cheesily hitting on someone
Undefeated in Southern California since Oct. 2009...
That I am a member or that the dude didnt get the memo?
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Your membership was never in question—that’s what I was referring to. But I agree, clearly that guy didn’t get the memo. He got the, "Look like a drunk frat boy who just got jacked up by that “hoodrat” Masoli, brah!"
What are you guys going do in respons to the Masoli sitch? Always gotta one up Oregon, right? Perhaps Sean Canfield can murder a hobo? Have you considered that?
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Heck, I’ll give Sean the Boones Farm and the hammer! I hate the idea of getting outdone by the ducks. I wonder what he was wearing when he did it. I bet it was something futuristic and non-traditional and very NIKE. So awesome.
Hopefully the Rodgers brothers will tamper with the nuclear reactor on campus, even though that isn’t exactly cooler than jackin’ some frat kid’s laptops and guitar (i.e.-that thing you play jack johnson tunes on.).
But essentially you just have to blame the spread offense and move on…
Wait a sec, there’s a nuclear reactor in Corvallis?
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 27, 2010 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Not every Pac-10 school is in a Nuclear Free Zone
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
Like that stops us. You think LBL doesn’t have a nuclear reactor? Think again.
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That’s not officially in the City of Berkeley though, right?
by atomsareenough on Jan 28, 2010 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
I hate it when they gag.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:51 PM PST up reply actions
Unions will dodge O’s health tax
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping "Cadillac tax" on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.
The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved,
In another major concession to labor, the value of dental and vision plans would be exempt from the tax even after the deal expires in eight years, negotiators said.
Under the plan to help fund health-care reform, the tax would kick in for plans valued at $8,900 or more for individuals and $24,000 or more for families.
Powerful unions were well-represented around the bargaining table.
Participants included AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Andy Stern, head of Service Employees International Union; Anna Burger, head of Change to Win; and the leaders of unions representing teachers, government workers, food and commercial workers, and electricians.
But Trumka said the exemption would reduce that amount by $60 billion — money that negotiators will now have to find elsewhere, or reduce the coverage in the legislation.
Mm, that’s nice of them.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Rishi, HolmoePhobe, and Spazzy al arguing in the same place about politics. My kingdom for a banhammer! My kingdom for a ban hammer!
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At least we all can agree that healthcare should be provided by the United States government regardless of the cost.
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FYI, Tebow was almost aborted but then he wasn’t. They are making a short film about it. A very short film.
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Well I am a howler monkey. We aren’t known for our manscaping.
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i’d like to see them cut the commercial short to get back to game action.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
^ surprisingly good impression.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
but, but but but, the point of taxing the cadillac plans is to encourage lower cost plans! to reduce costs over all… it shouldn’t matter who’s paying for it… (I thought)
it would seem unions love the underdog image they’ve got going.
>admittedly ignorant, and unwilling to go to a talk on health care at school
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I dunno if they are gonna get that deal anymore, unless they can get it through reconciliation somehow.
I think the idea is that a lot of unions had negotiated extra health care benefits in place of higher wages, so now to tax those at a much higher rate would be unfair and regressive, as a lot of these people are middle class or lower middle class. The way I understand it this deal would give them a bit of time to renegotiate their contracts away from these “cadillac” plans, so that eventually the health care spending WOULD be reduced.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, but taking two steps back, is a predetermined contract for higher wages at this time all that “fair” when private employers can fire/cut wages/health plans willy-nilly?
The US has 10% unemployment. Most people laid off are a) private sector and b) didn’t have a chance to renegotiate salary, pension, health care. Union members can, and do so on the backs of every taxpayer. Isn’t it fair they pay for their health plans, too?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
Yes, there’s that too. How dare people bargain collectively!?!? The nerve.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
I’m fine with it as long as I have a say, since I’m paying their salary…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 3:13 PM PST up reply actions
The deal wasn’t just with public employee unions, I don’t think.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 3:17 PM PST up reply actions
In that case, senators should turn the union requests down.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
So, let me see if I have this straight… If they were public employee unions, then their members shouldn’t get to be exempt from the tax… And if they’re NOT public employee unions, then in that case… they shouldn’t be exempt from the tax, because fuck unions.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Unions are cartels, plain and simple. Not only should they be illegal in the Public sector but Private sector bosses who allow their workers to unionize are signing death sentences for their companies.
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You know what? My great-grandfather was a union organizer in Lanarkshire – because textile companies were paying their employees in company scrip that they could only redeem in company stores. So he organized workers co-operatives so that there was somewhere for employees to buy indulgences like food that wasn’t gouging them. But fuck them, right, because not working 7 days a week and cycling their “pay” back to the company was the kiss of death for Lanarkshire mills (It wasn’t.)
Do you know anything about German or Dutch unions? Ever notice how German companies are able to expand into lower cost labor markets without crippling strikes? That’s because their unions are competently managed with some interest in actually helping their members.
Your view is ahistorical and geographically blinkered. Of course you think that unions are a waste of time and space because god forbid anything should get in the way of squeezing money out of workers for the benefit of thieving executive managers and rentier investment managers.
I knew I was going to regret not putting quotation marks around that.
However, you have to realise that discussions of unions revolve around unions TODAY, not unions as they historically were. Yes, unionization has accomplished positive results in the past. However, that doesn’t justify how they are today…
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Unions reflect the management culture of the economy that they reside in. The reason that large American unions which have failed are so crap is because they reflect their sectors. The former Big Three were stodgy, badly run behemoths who were trying to consolidate and retain business practices from a time of market dominance that was long gone. So goes the AFL-CIO: a bloated, badly managed, small “c” conservative entity designed to retain benefits negotiated in a time when they were affordable and screw younger members.
There were plenty of people in South Carolina who were all happy that BMW set up a plant there because of the cheap labor and no unions. Imagine their surprise that these “good manufacturing jobs” are effectively extended temp gigs.
There’s plenty of room for unions in the US economy, but because they reflect the political habit of defending middle class benefits from change, they are not entrepreneurial for their members or their employers.
The average time one person spends at one company these days is like 4-5 years. How is that anything more than an “extended temp gig”? Moreover, using the car industry is a pretty bad example at this point…worldwide there is something like 50% overcapacity in production.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 28, 2010 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
In the case of BMW, it’s not a question of people cycling in and out because they are job-hopping, it’s a company using limited term-contracts to guarantee that they can turn over the labor force on a regular basis without interruption. That’s not what South Carolina thought they were getting, but you lure people in with the promise non-union labor, that’s what you get.
As for the automotive industry being at 50% overcapacity: and whose fault is that?
Unions and collective bargaining agreements are legal and a great idea. It always strikes me as bizarre when people complain about unions having it too good. So they work hard to have betting benefits…the gall of those people. Just organize your company and you can have the same benefits.
Unions ARE a good idea when working conditions are abysmal, pay is a joke, and demands are too much from a greedy corporate overlord, as in the industrial revolution.
Not getting lifetime pension at 100% of your final salary is not an abysmal working condition. Starting salary for a teacher, at around 40k/year plus benefits, is not a joke. Working 40 hours a week with numerous holidays not afforded the private sector are not undue working demands.
Most, most, most, most importantly, PUBLIC ENTITIES ARE NOT GREEDY CORPORATE OVERLORDS. The US government cannot hide profits in an offshore account. Nor can states, or cities. San Francisco is forcing a cut of over $100 million from its schools in THIS YEAR ALONE. CA has a 20 billion dollar budget deficit.
Interestingly, Vallejo WAS able to negotiate their way out of union contracts which were running city coffers dry. Why? They went bankrupt. Completely ran out of money. California’s bond rating may be downgraded, making it more expensive to borrow money in the future for things we may really, really need like water infrastructure improvement and roads, not more fucking prisons for low level pot offenders and pensions and boutique health care plans. Such bullshit, how do people not see this?!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 3:37 PM PST up reply actions
So you have a beef with public sector unions, which I can understand. There is a conflict of interest giving the employees genuine power over their employers/paychecks. BUT most union members are not public sector… You seem to have a long list of things wrong with the state, and I agree with all of it…except blaming unions. High pay for some government workers is not the problem.
If I had to blame one thing, it would be the modern idea that you can receive government services, particularly infrastructure, without paying taxes. (See the thread below complaining about raising the bridge toll.) Where do you think the money to build that bridge comes from? The problem is not that the construction workers get paid to much, the problem is that no one wants to pay them for their work.
If they could please explain why $475 million a year in tolls for 7 bridges isn’t enough and account for how they spend the money, I’d listen to a reasonable argument in favor of toll hikes.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm, I see the words “still on budget” and I don’t see the need to raise tolls on all seven bridges by 25%. That adds up to about $120 million a year. Do they now think it will go over budget by $120 million?? And once the new span is completed and paid for, are they going to cut the tolls again? Somehow I doubt it.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 4:22 PM PST up reply actions
Don’t be so cynical. When the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge were built in the 1930s, the public was promised that bridge tolls were only temporary, until the cost of construction was paid off. And that happened, right?
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Is that what they’re calling it these days?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 4:45 PM PST up reply actions
Private-sector union membership has been declining for years, and public sector union membership has been rising. 2009 was the first year public-sector union membership was higher than private-sector.
If I had to blame one thing, it would be the modern idea that you can receive government services, particularly infrastructure, without paying taxes. (See the thread below complaining about raising the bridge toll.) Where do you think the money to build that bridge comes from?
Sorry but I disagree. California’s budget has grown far faster than its economy since the early days of the dotcom boom. We have built little in the way of infrastructure projects, despite our prisons and roads being vastly overcrowded. If estimates are correct, it will have taken a quarter century to rebuild ONE seismically unsafe bridge. We can’t build a peripheral canal. We can’t repair our levees. Our schools take up by far the largest chunk of the budget and we STILL flounder at the bottom of state rankings.
Friggin,
In 2009, for the first time, public workers comprised more than half of America’s union members. Democrats in particular have little incentive to anger workers, who are often their electoral foot-soldiers, and neither party wants to prod them to strike, since they hold monopolies. Those who defy unions do so at their peril. In 2005 Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, tried to curb the unions’ power. His effort was quickly terminated.
As a result, public-sector workers are spoiled rotten. Government employees earn 21% more than private ones and are 24% more likely to have access to health care. Only 21% of private workers enjoy a defined-benefit (DB) pension, which guarantees retirement income based on years of service and final salary. But 84% of state and local workers still receive DB plans.
How is a guaranteed benefit pension based on years of service alone (forget how good of an employee you are…) remotely true to the original purpose of a union? Are schoolteachers working 16 hour days in sausage factories and coal mines????
In California itself, the unfunded liabilities of retirement programmes are expected to exceed $100 billion through 2015. One local blog tracks coddled public-sector pensioners: a former police chief in Newport Beach scrapes by on $221,554.56 a year.
I’m sure 221k is one of the higher figures you’ll see, but how is even half that an appropriate pension? The nature of retirement, particularly in the public sector, has gotten way out of whack. Pensions’ original plan was to keep the elderly and infirm from becoming destitute. Retiring at 90% of your final pay is nowhere CLOSE to that.
Cutting costs, however, is difficult. States protect retirement benefits for existing workers—they will pay for past promises for years to come—and broader change is politically tricky. This year many politicians took the path of least resistance. Twenty-three states sacked workers, according to NASBO. Structural reform was less common. Only 11 states cut employee benefits. One of the year’s most popular measures, for both states and cities, was requiring workers to take unpaid holiday. "It is the easiest way of not having to have a showdown with unions," explains Michael Pagano of the University of Illinois at Chicago, a co-author of the NLC’s report. "It clearly is not a long-term solution."
Translation: democrats are scared of pissing off their base, so they don’t do anything structurally. Do you remember the furor over mere unpaid furlougs at Berkeley?!?
Northeastern’s Mr Bluestone, a former lineman at Ford, argues that public-sector unions are at a point of decision. They must, he says, "improve productivity, improve the services they offer and find innovative ways to deliver them." Otherwise, taxpayers will turn elsewhere. Teachers’ unions, for example, can blame only themselves for the rise of charter schools. It took the UAW years to adapt to global realities. Compared with the public-sector unions, it looks nimble.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15065693
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
I already conceded that there is something structurally wrong with public sector unions. But I will defend strongly the right of all workers to organize.
Wages go up because of the unions fighting for a higher minimum wage. I am close enough to the bottom that an increase in the minimum wage increases my pay rate. The forty hour work week still exists because of unions fighting for it a few years ago. Corporations will fight to undermine workers pay forever, so everyone needs unions.
To get personal, our school district tried to fire my mom for getting pregnant (with my brother) out of wedlock. They were almost successful, but the NEA fought the school’s illegal decision and my mom got to keep her job. We wouldn’t have been able to afford the lawyers without the union.
YOUR MOM SLEPT WITH YOUR BROTHER?!
And like I said, unions ARE good ideas, but not to the extent they are abused today. Clearly your mom’s case was a just one, but that you weren’t able to afford a lawyer without union help seems unrelated to the problems facing most cities today.
Corporations will fight to undermine workers pay forever, so everyone needs unions.
I mean, most modern companies have recognized that maximizing the potential and productivity of their employees is important to staying in business. Company treating you bad? Quit. Get a new job. The company will go out of business.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
Company treating you bad? Quit. Get a new job. The company will go out of business.
Not really. You’ll go out of business though! Can have public assistance please?
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Really. Companies need talent to survive in a competitive atmosphere. Assuming you feel you are being unfairly treated at your place of work, that must mean you feel your skills merit better treatment. Unless Trusts collude with one another (a problem that was taken care of during the industrial revolution), you should not have a problem finding a job elsewhere.
Or you could find the new job BEFORE you quit.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
Companies need talent to survive in a competitive atmosphere.
Not all companies. All some companies need is a large mass of low-paid labor.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 4:45 PM PST up reply actions
you make an interesting point which I will rephrase:
Unions are very powerful for raising working conditions but once you create a union it goes on, there is no end point. There is no definition of good enough, or where the balance shifts to ‘overkill’.
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(squeaky, annoying voice) You can’t treat the working man this way. One day, we’ll form a union and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we’ll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!
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The Japanese?! Those sandal-wearing goldfish-tenders? Bosh, flim-shaw!
that said, having a forum for employees and employeers to discus cutting hours/jobs/benefits would be useful. Of course it would work in a world without information failures (where everyone knows all pertinent information).
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I can’t wait to be a member of the most toothless union ever. Or so I imagine.
This is how it goes in my head:
Equity: We demand higher salaries for our actors!!
Theatres: No.
Equity: We’ll strike!
Theatres: Knock yourself out. We’ll just use non-union actors. They’ll work for practically nothing, and their work will be decent enough that the audience won’t be to tell a huge difference. Our dip in ticket sales will be made more manageable by the money we save on salaries, and your actors will be shit out of luck.
Equity: …
Theatres: So, business as usual then?
Equity: …ok.
Truth be told, I don’t know how it all works, but I can’t imagine Equity having any ability to threathen anyone with anything. Presumably this isn’t actually the case.
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Equity actually has a lot of clout in theater, not so much in TV. This is because of the power of the picket line. As a general rule, customers do not like to cross picket lines. Picket lines have a lot of power in any business where people have to actually enter a facility – retail stores, theaters, etc. The union can really hurt the business with a picket line. And people who are going for a fun evening ought especially don’t want to deal with a picket line. Picket lines have much less effect on businesses where the public doesn’t have to enter the facility – factories, TV studios, etc.
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Well, I presume Equity basically has zero clout in TV, since it’s a stage actors’(and staga managers’) union. But you’re right, those are valuable tools to have, and can certainly make a statement. But Equity will never has as much power or pull as SAG. SAG can bring its industry to a grinding halt if need be, because:
1) pretty much everyone on TV has to be in SAG. With theatre, most casts are probably divided at least half-and-half with union vs non-union actors, and the scales still tilting toward more non-union actors than not. If the Equity actors were to strike, there’s a veritable glut of scabs waiting in the wings, many with just as much talent and ability as those in the union. I can’t imagine every non-union stage actor everywhere would strike in total solidarity with the union actors. There’re a lot more of us than there are of them. The other part of this is that theatre has no faces, no star power. You replace actor A with Actor B, no one’s really gonna blink. Most people go to see a show, not a particular actor. You replace George Clooney with Actor C, people wil scream bloody murder and millions of dollars will be lost. Which leads to
2) Nobody really cares if Equity strikes. If TV shows go off the air, it’s national news. If movies stop being made, the whole world pays attention. Look at this Conan-Jay thing, it’s worldwide news. If stage actors went on strike, it wouldn’t exactly be front page news. The theater industry itself would probably suffer, but it wouldn’t make enough national noise to truly foment any change. TV/movie strikes affects entire communities and captures the national interest. What would an Equity strike mean to most people in North Dakota? Not bloody much.
I’m playing devil’s advocate, and I’m not really all that doom and gloom, but you get my point. I’m glad Equity is there to take care of us and help us have health insurance and proper working conditions (once they find us worthy to enter) but… well, anyway, i guess that’s all I’ve got to say.
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The strike is not what gives Equity power. It’s the picket line. I’ve represented companies that have been involved in strikes and I can assure you that if the business is one which members of the general public have to enter regularly (e.g., grocery stores), the presence of a picket line really hurts business. I would think it would be even worse in theater, because the theater-going public tends to be more liberal, and thus more sensitive to picket lines, than members of the public in general. And while people have to buy groceries and may therefore feel they have a justification for crossing a picket line at a grocery store, they do not have to go see a play.
The key is the willingness of the union members to sacrifice for their cause. If actors are willing to walk picket lines outside a theater for every performance for week after week, they have a very good chance of winning – by threatening the very existence of the theater company.
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Well, the plan didn’t pass (and won’t pass) as long as interest groups, whoever they are, are getting favor from infighting democrats at others’ expense. Joke’s on us, I guess?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
…you think that healthcare reform isn’t going to pass because the Democrats are pandering too much to special interest groups?
Nelson Plans To Oppose Public Health Plan
Nelson’s problem, he told CQ, is that the public plan would be too attractive and would hurt the private insurance plans.
…6 months pass
Special deals, carve-outs keep health care afloat
He agreed to support the bill in return for compromise language on federal funding for abortion and more money for his home state of Nebraska.
As a part of the deal, the federal government will pay 100 percent of Nebraska’s tab indefinitely for expanding Medicaid for low-income Americans.
…he woulda been the 60th if he’d voted earlier. Too late. Too bad.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
And the irony is that he was willing to concede this point in the Senate-House compromise.
Ahh well, thanks Ben Nelson, you represent something like 5 mil people and managed to screw over 295 mil.
^ can be applied to just about EVERY senator/representative. And THAT is why I think it’s a total joke that these clowns are wasting their time whining to Geithner or some Exxon Bigwig. WORK ON STUFF THAT MATTERS. DO SOMETHING.
Ahh well, thanks ___politician____, you represent something like small number_ mil people and managed to screw over 295 mil.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:49 PM PST up reply actions
Babs Boxer and DiFi represent like 36M people at least.
People have been tossing this around lately, but Senate reform doesn’t happen very easily and probably won’t ever happen.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
36 mil is a lot, but that’s still just 12%…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
Also those are sweet state names.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
The only way to reform the US Senate is to literally rip the Constitution up and enact a new government from scratch
Not that I wouldn’t be amenable to such a thing (hey, it’d be great for lawyers…). There is no way, within the confines of the Constitution, to change the structure of the Senate.
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Well, you could probably do it through constitutional amendments instead of ripping up the constitution, but yeah, it’s exceedingly difficult. Less difficult would be to replace the ridiculous filibuster and cloture rules that have been so abused of late.
by atomsareenough on Jan 28, 2010 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
How ridiculous people find the filibuster to be tends to depend on whether they like the majority or minority party. During the Bush years, when both houses of Congress were Republican, plenty of liberals were delighted with the filibuster, because they at least had a chance to prevent some of the most extreme excesses. Now, it’s just the opposite. The majority party in the Senate could get rid of the filibuster any time they wanted, with a simple majority vote. The reason they don’t, is that they know that eventually they will be in the minority and will want to use it.
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Hmm, that link didn’t post. Let’s try again.
by atomsareenough on Jan 28, 2010 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/14/health.care.negotiations/index.html
^^from CNN. Zactly the same.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t know more than Tedford, but I probably know more than your average House member.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
“BUT WE’RE IN AN ECONOMIC CRISIS HOW DARE ANYONE MAKE MORE THAN ME?!?!?!?!”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 1:48 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t know what your point is supposed to be, but it’s probably something silly about how Democrats are evil socialists and want to penalize rich people for their success and poor people are lazy blah blah blah.
No, just that politicians, R or D, “grilling” Geithner for “allowing” bonuses to already rich people is 100% purely for show and accomplishes jack squat. They do it so they can put up an election ad in the next cycle showing their quote on CSPAN with a bullet point that says ____candidate___ was “Tough on the Wall Street Fat Cats.” We went from arguably the biggest recession since the 30s to two quarters of positive GDP in like 1.5 years and this guy is being yelled at because some bankers got some money? What a joke.
Remember how they did the same thing to the oil executives two years ago? Exactly what did that accomplish?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:01 PM PST up reply actions
Sure, I agree with you, it’s all grandstanding. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t know what they’re doing. Quite the opposite. Politicians of both parties depend on corporate money to get elected. They get the money, they pretend to grill corporate leaders, both sides win — the people lose. But somehow in your mind the corporations come out of it blameless and everything is the politicians’ fault.
Also, given your obsession with union members being overpaid, it’s funny that you have no problem with executives getting huge bonuses paid out of taxpayer money.
This point, I totally agree with. Today I heard some politician say “The country has been tested more this year than at any other time in our history.”
Just let the ridiculousness of that statement sink in for a sec. Ahh, political bullshit.
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by zoonews on Jan 27, 2010 11:58 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Hey DC, if that photo you posted yesterday is your house, methinks your name is slightly misleading; shouldn’t it be “Fairfax County Trojan”?
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
“DC Trojan” was accurate at the time that I created the screen name. Now it would be more accurate if it were “MoCo Trojan.” Live in northern Virginia? Are you mad?
Well, I hope not, but I lack perspective. Anyway I’m guessing Montgomery County in MD? Not really familiar with this area, only DC, N. VA and Baltimore (oddly).
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Indeed it is Montgomery County in MD. I’m not militant about it, but I don’t care for Northern VA all that much. Don’t care for their zoning, land use, or politics.
Me neither, it just when you were talking about your 100’ trees in the back yard it reminded me of my parents house in VA; they put sub-divisions in climax oak-ash forests, and they left a strip of this forest in everyone’s back yard. It was kinda odd, the front yard would be standard grass with little shrubs, and the back yard was full of 100’ trees, 6-12 feet apart. I guess the idea was to retain a country feeling, and it sort of worked.
Now they put as many McMansions as they can on tiny lots, really ugly.
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That’s cool. Neighborhoods will never be designed like that again, in the US, or at least not for many many years.
Driving through Tracy, Merced, Manteca, Inland Empire, you see miles and miles of McMansions. They’re designed with the sole purpose of generating the maximum cash per minimum amount of land on one unit sold. So you cram as many energy and space-sucking bedrooms, wallspace for HD TV’s, and bathrooms, complete with granite countertops, into the most boxy looking disgusting house you’ve seen in your life. The backyard is three feet wide, and only for the purpose of putting “Backyard! Great for Kids! Space to BBQ!” in the brochure.
You can’t sell trees in a condo brochure. So sad. Judging by California’s demographics, these developments will be energy-sucking, water-sucking, space-sucking, traffic generating Hispanic ghettos in 20 years, mark my words.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
There were a spate of interesting articles that came out maybe 2 years ago about how suburbs might become ghettos, like in France or wherever.
I wanna say the New Yorker or the Atlantic were running them, but I forget. Oh well.
There were a spate of interesting articles that came out maybe 2 years ago about how suburbs might become ghettos, like in France or wherever.
EXACTLY what I was thinking: underemployed Algerians/Moroccans in banlieues (sp?). The best thing the US has going for it, though, is how welcoming it is to immigrants, simply by virtue of the fact that most immigrants, when they get here, WORK, so there is not as much time for social unrest.
Problem now becomes: where the hell is non-farm, non-construction labor going to emerge from in the Central Valley? They can’t all commute to Pleasanton…
Quantity AND quantity!
by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
u know u love 580
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yeah but 205 can shuck it.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
The builder who put up most of the houses on the street we live on, in 1958, did much the same thing – took out as many trees as needed to put the houses up and give them the standard lawn look out front. The ladies across the street bought their house when it was new for that reason.
Now it’s clear cut or c ya.
The McMansion in-fill is a sad state of affairs. Five houses have been knocked down and replaced right around us, but by the same developer, and they’re more like oversized bungalows. (In the style of, rather than recreations)… but it’s still better than having those monstrosities with 15 roof lines and three types of brick and stone on the facade.
Not only that, but we’re the only SBN blog linked on that entire list.
BTD, CC, ATQ and the rest - burned.
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Revel!
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Recruiting rumors!
… from BI which is surprisingly pretty good with recruiting news.
- King is as close to a lock as possible with Cal
- King is due in for a unofficial visit soon.
- Chris Martin will be there when King is there
- Keenan Allan and Zach Maynard will be there too
- Briggs started classes at Cal?
- Ego is still leaning towards Cal.
- Cassius Marsh and his 2.6 GPA is going to the academically superior UCLA.
In other words, Go Bears!
I cannot take this many pieces of good news pertaining to Cal Football in one sitting.
(stands up, adjusts self)
K, now I’m good!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
(stands up,adjusts selfpleasures self)
K, now I’m good!
fixed
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
But he had a 2.6 at Oaks Christian High School. That is like a 3.9 at Long Beach Poly.
by Tedfordisgod on Jan 27, 2010 1:57 PM PST up reply actions
Scout is reporting that he has a 2.6. Maxprep is reporting above a 3.0. I’m sure it changes none of the conversation here, BI, SC forums, etc, but there is a lot of uncertainty around this.
Go Bruins!
FUCLA: we have higher standards than u lol
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I personally make no claims about academic standards of either school until I have some actual facts. Now I have some facts about Cal admission policy, but I don’t have any proof that UCLA is equal, better or worse.
And I really hate recruiting websites providing academic information about high schoolers, whether it’s correct or not.
Go Bruins!
I do too, of course if I were recruited in such a way I think I’d decline to “try and be a supastar” before taking a college snap. In other words, the academic grades and test scores come with the attention-loving territory.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
THIS IS WHAT THE RECRUITING THREAD IS FOR
STOP RUINING MY CREATIONS!!!
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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 27, 2010 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
He stuck his dick in your mashed potatos, too, didn’t he?
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< royrules >
you need to check your copy of "B-Boys Makin’ with the Freak Freak. It’s a reference to a Beastie Boys song
</ royrules’d>
Here's a question
What has Arkansas ever done for the fucking world? I mean COME ON.
Quantity AND quantity!
Confuse the shit out of foreigners trying to pronounce Kansas and Ar-kansas correctly!
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yo dawy
why they gotta b foreign?
I get confused, too!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Oh, I see Twist totally said the same thing.
by atomsareenough on Jan 27, 2010 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
Eh, my peeps have been here pre-Gold Rush.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Then, your peeps arent’ Aussie, bc Oz didnt become a country until like 60 years later!
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orly
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
the one that made put your current city on the map
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
san francisco is famous because of the 49er’s football team, not some stupid gold rush
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
sacremento is famous because it is the capital of california, not because of some stupid gold rush
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Sacramento is famous for being the home town of one CalBear81!
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Go Aggies!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Pics or else you avoid Hwy 50 E of UCDMC like the plague.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
that costco on cap city freeway is way too packed.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I’m a big fan of old town Folsom. Chicago Fire is excellent.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
What about the Folsom St Fair? You like that, too?
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That I can name random freeways in Sacramento area, too.
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And MadBum!
He was 5-15 with the Oakland Raiders and got fired before his second season was over. He went 7-6 in his one year at Tennessee in a season when the SEC wasn't terribly good. He lost at home to UCLA; the Bruins only road win in the Pac-10 came at Washington State.
If I were to ask a 100 people, “What is Sacramento famous for?” would even a single one say "Hometown of MadBum, hheeeelllllooooooooooooooooo!!!
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No
but I don’t think anybody would say CalBear81 either. And maybe they had a rather unpleasant encounter with an angry bum in Sacramento (:
"But it only takes five future unabombers to take what should be a 400-comment thread and turn it into a 1,200-comment one full of anger… anger I suspect has more to do with the fact that they can’t land the hot chick rather than the fact that we signed Aubrey Huff instead of gave Garko a chance after dealing away a supposedly valuable prospect for him." -mlb22
Very true
or norcalnick! (He’s from Sacramento right?)
"But it only takes five future unabombers to take what should be a 400-comment thread and turn it into a 1,200-comment one full of anger… anger I suspect has more to do with the fact that they can’t land the hot chick rather than the fact that we signed Aubrey Huff instead of gave Garko a chance after dealing away a supposedly valuable prospect for him." -mlb22
Isn’t that by fresno?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
In the region of Southern Transylfornia
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:54 PM PST up reply actions
Nope!
Valencia is an affluent planned community located in the City of Santa Clarita, California and Los Angeles County, California in the northwestern corner of the Santa Clarita Valley, adjacent to Interstate 5.
In 1987, it was one of the four unincorporated communities (along with Saugus, Newhall, and Canyon Country) that merged to create the city of Santa Clarita, California. Santa Clarita is ranked as one of the top 100 places to live by Money.
Valencia is home to the Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park and the adjacent Hurricane Harbor water park.
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like i said, close to Yreka
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by GoldBlooded on Jan 27, 2010 10:52 PM PST up reply actions
is there some irony I’m missing here? Some joke I don’t get?
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That reminds me of when I was a kid in Boy Scouts… one of the adult leaders would always use this stupid joke… Whenever you asked him where someplace was (e.g. Where’s Joshua Tree?) he would answer with:
“Well, you know where Fresno is?”
“Yeah…”
“Nowhere near there.”
by atomsareenough on Jan 28, 2010 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
certainly the transcontinetal RR ending there helped
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I personally like the midtown area as well as the Wells Fargo Pavillion for affordable musicals/plays.
Pretty much everything else W, N, and S of the capital sucks.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I like the Wells Fargo ATM for cash withdrawals, and deposits without having to use an envelope!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
B of A does that, too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They have cooler Cal-themed credit and debit cards too….my stupid Wells Fargo card has some dumb horses on it or some crap. Get with the young college aged hipsters wells fargo!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
My Wells Fargo ATM card has my howler monkey on it. True story.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
is that what you call it?
it must be so satisfying every time you let the slot grip your card and slowly drag it inside
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
BofA ATMs have a panel that opens up and a guy just hands you some money after you speak into the voice-hole
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
How cool would that be in real life. “Hello, forty dollars please.” *money *
Quantity AND quantity!
by Spazzy Mcgee on Jan 27, 2010 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
but would it recognize
‘pesos’
‘scrilla’
‘bones’
‘Jacksons’
If not it’s racis
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Hey, hey, hey, wait just a minute. I live south of the capital, in Land Park. It’s a great neighborhood.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
I admit
Land park has some beautiful, nostalgik homes. It also has rapes, drug deals, and murders, no?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
No. Well, maybe a few. I don’t like to pry into my neighbors’ personal business.
Actually, I’ve lived in Land Park for 16 years, and have not heard of any violent crime, except one murder in the park itself about 8-10 years ago.
Snobby Chick - Senior Division
yeah I think the area east of the park (by Sac City College) is not too friendly. The park always seemed nice, large, and quiet. They used to have a really neat baseball tournament in late November/early December with talented teams from around the state. Getting it in w/ the weather was another deal.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
hell even Alameda has like 1 murder a year. So far it’s either (a) old guy in fight with other old guy or (b) sketchy peeps from oakland.
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Don’t hang your murders on us, Alameda, or else we’ll kill you.
Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.
what about the coasties?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
yeah, but they ended it there because arnold schwarzenegger made them end it there!
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Flag'd
that would be one Leland Stanfurd.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Get to know your RR tycoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Stanford
Unfortunately, changing the URL to ‘u’ takes you here. Takers, anyone?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
i’m pretty sure that the school was named after the shopping center, and that the tycoon was named after the school. just like the towe in San Marco’s square is named after the one on campus
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Pics or else you should change ur username to RednWhiteBlooded
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
i do consume enough fry sauce for that to be possible. However, the last time I sent my scabs in to cash4gold I picked up 40 bucks.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Free C-Web
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark