WBD 2.20.12 Ironic Poem About Prostitution

DID NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS!!!!

Westbound Bay Bridge Into San Francisco is now Closed

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Here’s another:

Gin
By Philip Levine

The first time I drank gin
I thought it must be hair tonic.
My brother swiped the bottle
from a guy whose father owned
a drug store that sold booze
in those ancient, honorable days
when we acknowledged the stuff
was a drug. Three of us passed
the bottle around, each tasting
with disbelief. People paid
for this? People had to have
it, the way we had to have
the women we never got near.
(Actually they were girls, but
never mind, the important fact
was their impenetrability. )
Leo, the third foolish partner,
suggested my brother should have
swiped Canadian whiskey or brandy,
but Eddie defended his choice
on the grounds of the expressions
“gin house” and “gin lane,” both
of which indicated the preeminence
of gin in the world of drinking,
a world we were entering without
understanding how difficult
exit might be. Maybe the bliss
that came with drinking came
only after a certain period
of apprenticeship. Eddie likened
it to the holy man’s self-flagellation
to experience the fullness of faith.
(He was very well read for a kid
of fourteen in the public schools. )
So we dug in and passed the bottle
around a second time and then a third,
in the silence each of us expecting
some transformation. “You get used
to it,” Leo said. “You don’t
like it but you get used to it.”
I know now that brain cells
were dying for no earthly purpose,
that three boys were becoming
increasingly despiritualized
even as they took into themselves
these spirits, but I thought then
I was at last sharing the world
with the movie stars, that before
long I would be shaving because
I needed to, that hair would
sprout across the flat prairie
of my chest and plunge even
to my groin, that first girls
and then women would be drawn
to my qualities. Amazingly, later
some of this took place, but
first the bottle had to be
emptied, and then the three boys
had to empty themselves of all
they had so painfully taken in
and by means even more painful
as they bowed by turns over
the eye of the toilet bowl
to discharge their shame. Ahead
lay cigarettes, the futility
of guaranteed programs of
exercise, the elaborate lies
of conquest no one believed,
forms of sexual torture and
rejection undreamed of. Ahead
lay our fifteenth birthdays,
acne, deodorants, crabs, salves,
butch haircuts, draft registration,
the military and political victories
of Dwight Eisenhower, who brought us
Richard Nixon with wife and dog.
Any wonder we tried gin.

If this is what sleep deprivation gives us, I’ll keep Zoonews awake even more!

Will keep you posted when it starts around 3pm.

Cal 6
UBC 0

6 All

UBC 9
Cal 6

ASU has more TOs 10, then points 8

keeping the world Frenchified for over two thousand years.

Jay Bilas ranked Cal #27 in his top 68 rankings.
1. Kentucky
2. Syracuse
3. UNC
4. Michigan State
5. tOSU

27. California Golden Bears

Cal lost games early against quality competition and still hasn’t really beaten anybody. Cal does not have a single win against a team ranked in the KenPom.com top 50. And the Pac-12 will not provide any. Still, wins against UCLA, Oregon, Stanford and Washington should be enough to clear the bar for NCAA tournament inclusion.

I updated the DBD to reflect today’s date, just to make things smoother here.

I hadnt actually read the DBD itself before, but now I realize that it appears to be a poem about child prostitution. Is that right? It seems fairly fucked up to me

Softball is dominant:



HENDERSON, Nev. – With an impressive, six-run first inning, the No. 1/3 California softball team cruised to a 14-3 win against No. 24 LSU on Sunday morning.

Cal got incredible bat performances from Jace Williams, Breana Kostreba, Jolene Henderson and Frani Echavarria- all of whom homered with all but Henderson’s jack coming in the top of the fifth.

“Pac-12 versus the SEC is always an intense match-up,” Williams said. “The way we won was a perfect way to win a perfect weekend. This year’s team is incredibly talented and I know we all enjoy that ginormous target on our back. That’s the difference, this team enjoys and embraces pressure. I’m so stoked on this team and out great team win today!”

After the Tigers put three runs on the board in the bottom of the third, the Golden Bears tacked on two more runs in the fourth. It was not until the fifth inning, when Cal posted a lofty six runs in the top of the fifth to get the mercy victory.

Williams led the way with five RBI while Kostreba knocked in four.

MBB beats OSU:

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) – There were 38 seconds left to play on Saturday night when California seniors Jorge Gutierrez and Harper Kamp came out of the game, with the Bears leading Oregon State by 14 points.

A standing ovation never sounded so sweet.

Gutierrez scored 17 points and Kamp added 13 on Senior Night, leading the Bears to a 77-63 victory over Oregon State to keep them tied for first place in the Pac-12 with Washington.

“I was coming out and I realized it was over,” Kamp said. “Coach gave me a high five. I realized that was it. I was just honored to come out that way. To get that standing `O,’ it meant a lot. It was so much fun today.”

Freshman David Kravish scored a career-high 17 points, while Justin Cobbs had 10 points and a career-high 13 assists for the Bears (22-6, 12-3). Allen Crabbe added 16 points.

Baseball beats Pacitific:


No. 22-ranked Cal broke open a 3-3 game with six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning -highlighted by RBI hits from Derek Campbell, Darrel Matthews, Chadd Krist and Andrew Knapp – on the way to a 9-3 win over Pacific Sunday (Feb. 19) at Evans Diamond. With the victory, the Golden Bears swept the series from the Tigers, winning 9-1 on Friday in Berkeley and 6-3 Saturday in Stockton as well.
Junior right-hander Logan Scott (1-0, 1.0 inning, two hits, one run, one strikeout) got Sunday’s win for Cal despite giving up the tying run in the top of the eighth inning on Pacific’s Tyler Sullivan’s pinch-hit RBI single. But the Bears exploded for the six runs off of the Tigers’ relievers John Prato Matthews, Kyle Shaver and Paul Moeller. In the eighth, sophomore shortstop Campbell had the tie-breaking RBI single, junior left fielder Matthews had a two-run triple, Krist had an RBI double to left center field and Knapp had a two-run single to center field.

UCLA Mens Tennis beats Cal mens tennis:

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – In a fight to the finish, No. 8 UCLA (10-1) held off the No. 13-ranked California men’s tennis team (5-4) to earn its second 4-3 victory in as many meetings, this season. This time, the Golden Bears met the Bruins in a consolation match of the 2012 ITA National Men’s Team Indoor Championships at the Boar’s Head Tennis Club. Cal and UCLA will meet once more in a Pac-12 dual before season’s end.

Like they did in the first meeting, the Bears opened up the day by grabbing the first point on a pair of doubles victories; this time, at courts two and three. Cal’s 16th-ranked duo of junior Carlos Cueto and sophomore Ben McLachlan set things off with an 8-3 win against Alex Brigham and Marcos Giron at No. 2 doubles.

At the top court, the Bears’ fourth-ranked tandem of senior Nick Andrews and junior Christoffer Konigsfeldt was facing an 8-7 deficit to Nick Meister and Adrien Puget, on serve, when their match was stopped. At court three, junior Riki McLachlan teamed with freshman Andrew Scholnick to seal the doubles point for the Bears on an 8-5 win against Warren Hardie and Clay Thompson.

WBB beats OSU to sweep Oregons:

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A 13-0 midgame run, fueled by a pair of threes from sophomore guard Afure Jemerigbe, gave the California Golden Bears enough of a cushion to survive a barrage of late-game three-pointers by Oregon State and earn a 75-68 victory over the Beavers. Junior guard Layshia Clarendon followed her 27-point performance at Oregon with 22 points against Oregon State.

The Bears turned a pair of steals in the first minute of the game into an early 4-0 lead. The Beavers came back to tie the game five times, but couldn’t quite edge ahead until a layup by the Beaver’s Patricia Bright gave the home team a 25-23 lead with just over five minutes left in the half. The Bears took the lead back, 30-29, on a jumper at the top of the key from redshirt sophomore forward Gennifer Brandon after capitalizing on the Beaver’s 11th turnover of the half. After a quick OSU layup, Cal had a chance to take a lead into halftime, but had the ball stolen away just as Brandon was about to take a shot, with OSU converting the fastbreak layup on the opposite end to put Cal in a 33-30 hole.

Junior guard Eliza Pierre hit a jumper right before the horn, sending the Bears into the locker room trailing by one, 33-32, just the fifth time this season the Bears trailed after the first 20 minutes of play.

Lacrosse beats SMC:

MORAGA, Calif. – California opened the Ginger Miles era and christened the new Saint Mary’s field with an 18-6 victory over the Gaels on Sunday at Saint Mary’s Recreation Field. Junior Melissa Humphrey posted nine points to tie a Golden Bear single-game record and collected six assists to set a new single-game record. Cal (1-0) also won its first Mountain Pacific Sports Federation match of the 2012 season against the Gaels (0-1, 0-1 in the MPSF).

“It felt great getting out there and finally getting the first game under our belts,” said Miles, Cal’s first-year head coach. “We’ve been beating ourselves up for the past five weeks, and it’s good to play against some outside competition to see if what we’ve been working on really works against someone else. I’m really happy to see today that all the things we’ve been talking about – spreading the love around on the attack, getting the ball around, we had seven goalscorers today, which was awesome, and staunch, disciplined defense – all showed up today. It was awesome. I’m really proud of the effort.”

Cal beats UBC, but only by 1 point and margin of victory is key in this 2 game series:



SAN FRANCISCO – Flyhalf Alex Aronson kicked the game-winning conversion following No. 8 Danny Barrett’s try in the 74th minute as California came back from a six-point deficit to beat British Columbia, 13-12, Saturday on Ray Sheeran Field at the San Francisco Golden Gate Rugby Club on Treasure Island.

The Golden Bears (10-0) will take their one-point advantage into the rematch with UBC on March 25 in Vancouver, Canada, and attempt to win the “World Cup” series, which is decided by total points scored in the annual, two-match competition.

Thunderbirds scrumhalf Carlin Hamstra connected on 4-of-6 penalty attempts to score all of UBC’s points. UBC flyhalf Harry Jones failed to make a 30-meter drop kick in the 68th minute.

Aronson, who also made 2-of-3 penalty-kick attempts for eight points scored, lined up the go-ahead conversion and kicked it through the posts from a few meters off the touch line in front of an appreciative crowd.

Daily Cal on proposal to streamline Cal admin:


In an effort to streamline the number of separate UC Berkeley offices working in administrative areas like human resources, a committee within Operational Excellence released a proposal Thursday to form "shared service centers" for the campus.

Despite over two years of planning, the proposal to create the centers — which must be approved by the initiative’s executive committee in March — still lacks a concrete budget and is seeking approval past its timeline. Additionally, the question of whether staff cutbacks will occur remains unclear.

The proposal was submitted by the organizational simplification team within Operational Excellence, a campus cost-cutting initiative aiming to save over $75 million annually. The proposal seeks to group together campus administrative tasks such as human resources, finance, research administration and information technology into eight to 12 service centers on campus, according to Bill Reichle, spokesperson for the initiative.

Sleeping in on a Monday feels so unbelievably good.

we are going to break the boundaries of moore’s law because of a single-atom transistor

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Scientists have taken a first early step toward escaping the limits of a technological principle called Moore’s Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom.

The atom was etched into a silicon bed with “gates” to control electrical flow and metallic contacts to apply voltage, researchers reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. It is the first such device to be precisely positioned using a repeatable technology, they said, and may one day help ease the way toward creation of a so-called quantum computer that would be significantly smaller and faster than existing technology.

3 years/$20 million. Even though I love Brandon Carr, it was too risky for Pioli to wait on Free Agency to see what dumb teams (like the Raiders and Lions) would pay for him on the open market. Now we can Franchise Tag Bowe if he wants too much cash.

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Manny Ramirez is going to the A’s on a minor league deal, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. The deal is worth about $500K in the Majors, reports ESPN’s Pedro Gomez. The signing has been expected for several weeks. Though the story is interesting, the A’s took an insignificant financial risk and didn’t commit a roster spot, and the likely reward is small as well. Ramirez is represented by Praver/Shapiro.

I am having people over to watch/make snarky comments about the Oscars on Sunday. What shall I serve to them to keep them fed and watered?

There shall be lots of wine and champagne. What would you want to eat if you were coming to my house to watch the Oscars?

Kinda nice to load a DBD w/o almost crashing browser

Raging clue: Yo dawg so I heard you shoot videos so here is a video of you shooting a video