DBD 2.3.12 Thank you, DBD!
by Rishi on Feb 3, 2012 7:06 AM PST
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PrintWe all talk a lot about how unproductive we are because of the DBD. It's an exaggeration, though, since CGB has some of the most powerful minds in industries as varied as lawyering, banking, marketing, dentistry, chemistry, construction of nuclear weapons, etc.
But today, I thought I'd shift this towards a new focus: How has the DBD helped you? It could be anything as simple as recommendations for travel, fashion advice (you're welcome), networking, etc.
I can list a couple.
One time, I was going to a wedding a debating what to wear. RaptorCallOnMe recommended straying away from black tie and wearing something more colourful. Turned out to be great advice! #rishiweddingtalk
Another time, I mentioned I was applying to Haas for b school and daveman spoke with me for some time about his experiences as Haas, which really helped me on my essays.
So, how about you guys? Let's hear some stories! (Beyond the fact that it's fun, we're all awesome, and it's a great diversion from reality)
GO BEARS
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Agh how do I click from a mobile app? yes, I’m DBDing at the airport…
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:13 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
You don’t need to click right now. You need to send physical mail first, then you go to the link.
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oh ok. but what if there’s something I want to click later?!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:15 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
I have not tried clicking links in the sbnation mobile app before. Sorry :(
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it’s ok. you’re still helpful in other ways!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:18 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
You can’t click links from the mobile app… at least not yet, anyway.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
I agree.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
they need to work on this. until then, mobile.californiagoldenblogs.com is your friend.
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
Pretty cool…thanks Rishi!
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Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
I once posted a link to engraved beer mugs (It was like $7 per mug)
I bought two of my best friends and myself mugs so that we’ll be drinking buddies forever.
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I’ll buy you one on FarmVille.
Besides, you had my back on the Great DBD Civil War!
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It can be on non-Farmville too, since non-farm employment is up!
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Excuse me, the correct term is the DBD War Of Rishi Aggression!
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by TwistNHook on Feb 3, 2012 8:46 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Does this mean I get assassinated now?
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So, then, who gets assassinated?
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Are you wearing a top hat?
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
Maybe
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Got one of these at the Sundance afterparty :)
*Insert something witty here*. Oh, and Stanfurd Sucks.
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Thank you, CGB, for connecting me to other Golden Bears in a hopeless place. Thank you for accepting me. Thank you for being hilarious. Thank you for being informative and intelligent…well, and inane. Go Bears!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:12 AM PST via Android app reply actions
This. Knowing only one and a half Cal fans IRL the DBD has helped me through my current exile in AL and connected me with fellow fans.
half? is this your progeny?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:19 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Haha. No, a guy that comes into the bank very infrequently. We only talk about once every two months so I can’t really count him.
…you’re a banker too?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
You are most welcome!
p.s. no ur hopeless!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:30 AM PST up reply actions
your face is hopeless?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:31 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
ur face is hapless!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
your mom is chapless
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:37 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
No she wears chaps all the time!
Wait, what?
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:39 AM PST up reply actions
HAWT
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:39 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Actually, her face has increased levels of hap.
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I really had no idea there were 300 million Cal alumni in OH. Thanks DBD!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:07 AM PST up reply actions
shhhh now everyone’s going to want to move here!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 8:09 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Woo hoo!
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Unemployment Drops to 8.3%; Payrolls in U.S. Jump 243,000
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Employment climbed more than forecast in January and the U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly fell to the lowest in three years, casting doubt on the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014.
The 243,000 increase in payrolls was the most since April and exceeded all forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey, Labor Department figures showed in Washington. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February 2009.
Stocks and bond yields jumped as the report fueled optimism the economy is weathering the European debt crisis. The data may boost President Barack Obama’s re-election bid and come one week after Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the economy wasn’t growing fast enough to push unemployment lower.
"Further Fed stimulus is probably limited at this point," said John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. "The drop in the unemployment rate has to be very, very positive from the Fed’s point of view."
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I LOVE CHARTS!!!!!!!!
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dirty Chartist
Why does rishi hat farm payrolls?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:08 AM PST up reply actions
OMG IT’S ALL OBAMA’S FAULT
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 5:38 PM PST up reply actions
Medjved, is that you?
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blurb on legal services
How did the legal services sector do? It added 1,000 jobs, according to the figures released Friday, after dropping about 1,800 jobs in December.
Conditions at law firms have stabilized since 2009, when the legal industry shed 41,900 positions, according to the Labor Department. Cuts were more moderate last year, with some 2,700 positions eliminated.
Professional and business services, as a whole, accounted for 70,000 new jobs in January, according to the Labor Department.
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Dear economy: you’re welcome!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:31 AM PST up reply actions
Finally! Some good news! Whew!
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"conditions at law firms have stabilized"
Feudal, with a 40% chance of indentured servitude!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:09 AM PST up reply actions
That’s a sector that didn’t need to add jack shit.
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No thanks to you, Nobama. Thanks a lot, general enthusiasm for Republican candidates!
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LIE LIE,like always,never tell truth,let people live in la la land,later fall down in their face is,shameless act,
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
folks
Here is an important fact: Despite population increase…
People working in Jan. 2009 – 142,099,000
People working in Jan. 2012 – 141,637,000
So what you’re saying is, there still a lot of ground to be made up?
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Kudzu, that’s another foreign invader that’s plaguing America!
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
That is a rather reductive response.
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You need to look at the chart above, my friend.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
As this chart shows
Employment cratered right about the time that Obama took over. It’s been an uphill climb since. But it is good to see things trending the right way:
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Either that or Deputy Ops is messing with the CompStat again!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
They are doctored from the other side as well.
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In which manner is the graph incorrect?
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Not if you fall out of the space shuttle.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Now I feel like a chump
Actually, I’d feel like a chump if I actually believed that either political party could produce well-paid semi-skilled jobs at a rate that would result in things being just the way they used to be.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Evil Socialist Muslim Publication The Economist sez
Prior declines in the unemployment rate were often the result of people dropping out of the labour force and thus no longer being counted as unemployed. Not this time. In January the number of employed people jumped 631,000, after adjusting for new population estimates.
WE ARE FUCKED.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
yeah
and think of the cumulative effect of 4 years of that happening.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
Or, alternatively, we took a HUGE LEAP backwards and are now just slowly walking forwards at an encouraging pace.
You’ve provided two pieces of information. One is a number in January 2009 and the other is a number in January 2012. That appears to be the extent of the information you have provided. There could be 1,0000 different ways that we got from Jan 09 to Jan 12.
For example, we could have sprinted forward and then lept back (to use your analogy). Or we could have stood still and then started walking back a bit at the end.
My understanding is that we, to use your analogy, jumped backwards very significantly and then are now finally making progress. So, I do not believe that your analogy is accurate.
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What are retirement numbers in that time? We have an enormous generation just starting to retire over the last three years.
I think something like 1.2 mil “dropped out of workforce”
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
why do I feel that the only time you jump in is to bash on obama?
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
Fiatlux, I think there is a difference between “thinking alike and supporting our annointed leader” and showing up solely to troll on this. When you, Rishi, or Bears919 criticize Obama, nobody says “Oh, well, you are just a troll!”
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Rishi trolls with the yahoo comments
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BOW AT MY FEET!
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Are you disagreeing with TnH?
One of us. One of us. One of us.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
That is kind of one key aspect to trolling.
HAVENT WE TAUGHT YOU ANYTHING AROUND HERE?!?!?
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SHIT.JUST.GOT.REAL
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You express your opinions about everything, so you’re not trolling. He only pretty much chimes in on this topic.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 5:48 PM PST up reply actions
Atoms likes well-rounded opponents?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
That too.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
Being a regular participant gives you credibility.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 9:38 PM PST up reply actions
That is sort of the definition of a troll.
If you show up to say one thing over and over and over and over, people aren’t really going to take you very seriously. He can do what he wants. Nobody is going to ban him or anything. But its a free market of ideas here and credibility is your currency.
For example, when the UW fans show up and say “CAL SUCKS UW IS GREAT” over and over and over and over, you aren’t going to say “Well, that is fine. You are focusing on one discipline.”
Medjved pretty much solely shows up to say “DEMOCRATS SUCK REPUBLICANS SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS, BUT LET’S FOCUS MORE ON THE DEMOCRATS AT THE MOMENT” over and over and over and over again.
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“Hey Medjved, whats your view on the 2012 election?”
“Obama sucks!”
“Hey Medjved, what type of razor do you use?”
“Obama sucks”
“Hey Medjved, which starwood points alliance do you love the most?”
“Obama sucks!”
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I have major mental health problems and should seek psychiatric help immediately
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No, a troll is someone who just says things to get a reaction out of people.
He happens to feel strongly about politics.
In your world, it’d better that he not post at all.
Great going.
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It’s best if he posts more!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:14 PM PST up reply actions
In my world, it’d be best if he posts more.
Tell us about his view on scoop neck shirts.
Tell us about what he loves in a vacation spot.
Tell us what his thoughts on Cal football, MBB, WBB,rugby, etc etc etc are.
It is the fact that he solely posts on politics and solely shows up to denigrate Democrats that causes people to diminish his views.
Let’s look at it like this:
He can post whatever he wants. And he can post as much stuff about politics as he wants. As long as he stays within the community guidelines (which is mostly just dont be a dick), hell be fine.
But if he wants people to take him seriously on his political views, he is probably going to need to post a lot of other stuff on non-political things. Because right now, people just immediately discount his view. They see “medjved” and think “OK, he is just here to post a political viewpoint denigrating Obama.” And they dont take him seriously.
So, it is really in his best interest to post a lot of other non-political shit. People will see how awesome he is (and I believe strongly that he is an awesome person) and then the political stuff will be part of a larger picture, instead of the sole picture.
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by TwistNHook on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
Nailed it. With a very circuitous and long nail. So you didn’t really nail it. You kind of lashed it together.
My law degree is paying off!
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that
is kind of a good policy statement, and one you should consider tightening up and adding to your TOS wherever that is.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:23 AM PST up reply actions
“Post as much as you want about scoop neck shirts here and dammit you can get away with anything and everything!”
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That is a less good policy statement.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:23 AM PST up reply actions
here you go...
As long as he stays within the community guidelines (which is mostly just dont be a dick), hell be fine.
wait a minute, how are we all still here if we’re not allowed to be dicks? i have to think about this…
I’m just stirring this up a little with you but
folks
Here is an important fact: Despite population increase…
People working in Jan. 2009 – 142,099,000
People working in Jan. 2012 – 141,637,000
hardly sounds like he is denigrating democrats. Sounds like a relevant data point. Now you are the troller extraordinaire, so may be able to identify the seeds better than I (tho in fairness i had salary_cap nailed from the beginning), but hardly seems worthy of the reaction in elicited.
You know what will make my point clearer… If I post a photo of me with Ronnie Lott while filming a Sega Genesis commercial many years ago…
This seems like a blatant and shameless excuse just to make me drink at 8am.
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by Kodiak on Feb 4, 2012 8:33 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
fiatlux, that specific comment was not a particularly denigrating comment. Although, truth be told, it was a very poorly constructed argument and not necessarily one being put forth in good faith.
Having said that, I think you can see how the reaction to that moderately inocuous comment is reflective of the lack of trust people have in him. It’s part of the larger pattern of just showing up to post political things. Like I said, if he had a larger web of discussion, people would be more likely to engage with him on political issues.
You should note that I actually made several good faith reasonable replies regarding his comments and did engage. He stopped the conversation. I’d be happy to pick it back up with him at any time.
And, why were you filming a Sega Genesis commercial?!?!?!
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final fantasy, secret of mana, chrono trigger, and earthbound say pfft to d&d.
by j.lee on Feb 4, 2012 10:20 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
zelda!
some guy sat down and tried to figure out the timeline of the stories…
http://v-f-h.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/legend-of-zelda-timeline-and-analysis.html
hey screw you pal
after the Pulse when your electronics are all fried, I’ll still be rolling up wandering monsters old school!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:25 AM PST up reply actions
You’re Scott Hatteberg?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:24 AM PST up reply actions
Except the way you (and others) antagonise him (calling him a troll, referring to a statement of opinions as “denigrating Obama”, etc) , he’s just more likely to not comment at all.
And then we have less participation and less dissent.
If that’s what you want, then go for it. I just don’t find that to be the best route.
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Less dissent from what?
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Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within groups of people. It is the mode of thinking that happens when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints
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ftr every time the word "groupthink" is used with regards to trivial-ass bullshit
Orwell spins another rotation in his grave. (He’s been constantly spinning since before he even died.)
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
Even Hitler thinks this argument is stupid.
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
It’s a free DBD, sure he is. Just like other people are free to call him a troll.
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Thats the most laughable thing yet!
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See above
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A?
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By Newt Gingrinchs second term, that number is onna change!
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folks
Here is an important fact: spider monkeys are some of the largest new-world monkeys, and typically live 25 to 30 m high in rainforest canopies.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:02 AM PST up reply actions
That is an important fact. Would you recommend a spider-monkey-resistant umbrella when traversing the rain forests?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I recommend 200-ft high stilts so you can rise above the canopy itself.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
nly the worst kind of idiot (or democrat) can look at this country and try to say things are getting better. to begin with, thinking people are sick to death of hearing the news media say that unemployment is in the 8% range, when here in florida, we languish just over 10%. does jackass-obama think that we will ignore the extra 2% or maybe, since the 8% number isn’t ours, somehow we are supposed to take comfort that someone else, somewhere else is getting a job?
i suppose you’d have to be a head-trauma patient, a zombie, or a moron from chicago to let the worst president in the history of the world, con you into thinking that living with half the means you had before he lied & wheedled his way into an office he is not qualified to hold, means your lot in life is getting better.
all hail the messiah, and pass the kool-aid
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I thought there was an Onion article that was like “Obama Reads Yahoo Article Comments, Cries” but I can’t find it.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
It's not an article, that's why
It’s from the ticker on this video
http://www.theonion.com/video/braindead-teen-only-capable-of-rolling-eyes-and-te,27225/
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Obama Criticized For Living In Lavish Mansion While Most Americans Struggle To Make Ends Meet
WASHINGTON—Over the past three years, as the sluggish economy has forced many Americans to tighten their belts, President Obama has reportedly enjoyed a lavish personal lifestyle, residing with his family in a 132-room house staffed by a 24-hour security detail, five full-time chefs, and a live-in maid service.
In recent weeks, many of the president’s critics have seized upon the issue, arguing that anyone who sleeps in a sprawling six-level neoclassical mansion covering 18 acres of Washington, D.C.’s most valuable real estate is clearly out of touch with the lives of ordinary citizens.
“What message does it send to the American people when their president is living in a ritzy palatial estate at the same time they’re struggling to keep their heads above water?” political strategist Robert T. Carlson said Wednesday, noting that Obama’s gated home features a lush rose garden, a private balcony, an ostentatious room seemingly devoted to the color blue, a solarium, “fancy portraits” of John F. Kennedy and George Washington, and a movie theater. “So much for all that ‘shared sacrifice’ he keeps talking about.”
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BOOM! YOU JUST GOT CUGEL’D!
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folks
Here is an important fact:
1 pound chicken parts
2 stalks celery, including leafy tops, cut into 3-inch pieces
1 whole chicken, thoroughly rinsed
Salt to rub inside chicken
1 large whole onion, unpeeled (find one with a firm, golden-brown peel)
1 large whole carrot, peeled
1 medium whole parsnip, peeled
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 bunch of dill, cleaned and tied with a string
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Folks
Here is an important fact: If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
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Take THAT, Obama!
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Bears fall short against Wildcats
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A spirited Gold Out welcomed the Arizona Wildcats into Haas Pavilion. In stark contrast to the previous game against Stanfurd, this time it was Cal that had the size advantage. In a match-up of polar opposites, would the deep bench and quick athletes from Zona have the edge, or would the Bears be able to impose their will inside?
The two teams revealed their game plans early. Cal tried to work it inside to Kamp and Kravish while the Wildcats looked for jump shots and dribble drives. After some early sparring, it was the senior duo of Harper and Jorge that dominated the action. With Kamp hitting on an array of lefty hooks inside and Jorge scoring at will off flex curls, the Bears steadily built their lead. On the defensive end, the Wildcats looked disjointed and were settling for one and done contested jumpers.
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a fun game to watch
as asked in the FP thread, I still don’t’ understand what happened with Guttierez on the AZ bench there.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:09 AM PST up reply actions
IT WAS CRAZY. I guess I could find out in the FP thread but it got real serious real fast.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Im just happy you guys acknowledge a front pae
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Orders to U.S. Factories Rise
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Orders to U.S. factories increased in December for a second month, a sign manufacturing will strengthen even more.
Bookings (TMNOCHNG) rose 1.1 percent after a revised 2.2 percent gain in November that was larger than previously estimated, figures from the Commerce Department showed today in Washington. The order backlog jumped 1.4 percent, the most since March 2008.
Factories boosted payrolls in January by the most in a year and the number of hours worked per week climbed to the highest in 14 years, according to Labor Department figures today, showing how the need to rebuild inventories and replace outdated equipment will keep American industry humming. Nonetheless, a slowdown in Europe may limit gains in exports, representing a risk to American manufacturers.
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So these are all good news, right? No political tampering to influence numbers/stats during an election year?
I was getting tired of the doom
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Obama personally ordered 45,000 Jumbacos to spur economic growth!
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team player!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:53 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
two men sitting near me are talking about a friend: why would you call someone to hang out at 10pm if you weren’t trying..?
also, bad news. apparently it’s national wear red day.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:55 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Do they have an email list that only women are on?
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Scootie hats the Red Hat Society!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:10 AM PST up reply actions
And, now they’ve reversed their Planned Parenthood de-funding. Sounds like they could use some good PR and a few lawyers!
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I think those two things don’t go together.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
Ya, this shit is blowing up everywhere.
But I heard that donations to BOTH organizations are through the roof, so it sounds win-win to me
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It’d just be nice if they didn’t sue other charities over using the word “cure”.
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If you are angry over this whole situation
And if a larger % of their funds go to research. Check this out:
Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The P-22 Hope Edition has an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America’s top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales.
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Shoot down cancer!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:11 AM PST up reply actions
It is a pink Walther P22 handgun (a fave of the “ladies”) with a portion of the proceeds going to Komen
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:41 AM PST up reply actions
“Imma shoot my husband – for the cure!”
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
by DC Trojan on Feb 3, 2012 10:04 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
i wonder what the most common use of one of those is.
I would hazard it’s
"Imma shoot my husband – for the cure!"
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Feb 3, 2012 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
For the cure?
Only if the disease is spousal abuse, maybe.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 5:58 PM PST up reply actions
ATTENTION: IT WAS A JOKE
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Attention: Mine was too. :-/
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 9:40 PM PST up reply actions
Its surprising how much ill will they’ve garnerned with one move here.
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I’ve held ill-will towards them for a while, because of their aggressive legal insistence over the friggin word “cure”
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Her eis someone who agrees with you
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my company sent a corporate email. I sit next to both the president’s office and the marketing team. I am wearing red /ashamed.
Cal: Bears with Books.
You have shamed us all. Couldn’t you go with a burgundy and been “close enough”?
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST up reply actions
there are like 2 times a year it’s acceptable to wear red: 1) Christmas day 2) Valentines day. I’m close enough to the second that we’ll call this early festivities.
If it helps, I had to go get a red shirt, because I didn’t have any.
Cal: Bears with Books.
This means you can’t wear red for Valentine’s Day. You’ve used up one of your two!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:20 AM PST up reply actions
You used to be cool, AndBears. Used to be cool.
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China's Wen Tamps Down Concerns Over Europe Aid
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday sought to assuage concerns over Chinese investment in Europe, saying China has no intention to “buy” the continent.
At a business forum in the southern province of Guangdong during a state visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Wen said China is “willing to cooperate with Europe to fight the current crisis.”
“Some people say this means China wants to buy Europe. This is a concern and doesn’t fit reality,‘’ he added. "China doesn’t have this intention, and doesn’t have this ability."
Mr. Wen didn’t elaborate on the concerns that he was referencing, but …
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China should definitely buy Europe right now. They could get a GREAT deal on it.
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If they act now, Turkey will get tossed in as part of the deal.
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Is he aware of that
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i’m in for scottish distilleries and golf courses with some interest in munich breweries.
#trollgang
I’m willing to be owned by the Chinese if this is part of the deal.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:13 AM PST up reply actions
Umm, there's some interesting articles on an upcoming tech IPO on WSJ
I think they’re worth checking out.
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Dont let ASTQ hold you down. Link them!
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COME AT ME, BRO
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COME AT ME, BRO
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
by ikoolykedat on Feb 3, 2012 7:55 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
BITCH, PLEASE
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WBB wins in OT
Golden Bears Survive an Overtime Threat by Arizona, 78-74
After leading by double digits early in the game, the Bears needed to come from behind in the final three minutes to force overtime against the Arizona Wildcats, surviving with a 78-74 victory. Freshman Reshanda Gray, in her second career start, got her second career double double with 22 points and 13 rebounds.
by unclesam22 on Feb 3, 2012 7:19 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
yay go bears!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:25 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
why you should learn chinese
Agh idk how to post pics in the mobile app, either. halp!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:27 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
don’t be prejudiced. blind people should learn Chinese, too!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:30 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
seriously, though….the pic is really small. I WANT IN ON THIS CHINESE FUNNY!
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Hm does this work for you?
http://www.kontraband.com/pics/24713/Chinese-Is-Hard/
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:39 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
ur a shishi dog!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:41 AM PST up reply actions
Here's what it sounds like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFNhuDQ0Tc
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also, I didn’t intend to post this as a response to unclesam’s wbb post. sorry…I have a feeling there are many fails ahead.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:31 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
At least give some header to Short and Cox!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
Indian OUTLIER would have used a header
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
This is where Raptor’s joke about using a header would go
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Raptor would have put it in the header.
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
In retrospect, that sounds kinda vaguely dirty.
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
VAGUELY?
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Tennis has some matches this weekend
No. 13 Golden Bears Host USC and UCLA
The 13th-ranked California men’s tennis team (3-0) hosts UCLA (4-0) and USC (4-0) in a pair of non-conference dual matches, this weekend, at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The Golden Bears won both matches against the Bruins, a year ago, and claimed their first win against UCLA on the road since 2006. Cal’s only meeting against the three-time defending NCAA champion Trojans ended in a 4-1 defeat, at home.
The 21 Rules of Surviving a Super Bowl Party
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1. The two teams in this year’s Super Bowl are the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Marlins. Impress everyone by walking into the party and loudly predicting the Marlins will win by six baskets.
5. If you are hosting a Super Bowl party, a fun prank is to take your TV and hide it in the closet, and put an AM radio where the TV is supposed to be. When your guests come over, tell them, “Oh, I thought it would be delightful to have an old-fashioned radio Super Bowl party!” and see how long they stay before quietly slipping out the door.
6. It is OK for a host to sell “premium seat upgrades”—a reservation on the couch, center of the room, complimentary soft drinks—for $35 each. Everyone’s been on a plane recently. They’ll grumble but understand.
13. There’s always one guest at every party who works in advertising or marketing and can tell you every behind-the-scenes detail about a Super Bowl commercial. This information is nowhere near as interesting as they think it is.
18. If someone says “Tebow,” everybody has to do a shot. Of milk.
21. If you find yourself at a Super Bowl party that’s just a bunch of middle-age dudes in mesh football jerseys and beer guts, go to the kitchen, take out a piece of paper, and write yourself a little note that says, “I need to get out more in 2012.”
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Oh, #13 is SO TRUE. My ad fried is always pointing out “the point” of this or that commercial and the rest of us are having to break it to her that all we got out of that is that ducks dont really talk or some other totally not the point of the spot thing. Nobody leaves happy.
What was your opinion of Chik Fil A?
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I believe I review elsewhere in this DBD, but approval slightly tempered by the presence of too much pickle. Might try again today sans pickle.
MUST.CONTROL.SRCASM
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BEST FAST FOOD OF ALL TIME. ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nobody ever leaves happy from a party I am at either, but thats for a totally different reason
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They’re not getting enough market penetration with this strategy!
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I would totally do #5 on my in-laws, my nephew would utterly melt down.
This would be even better if you got one of those fake old-timey radios from Target.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:12 AM PST up reply actions
Men's Gymnasts went to Vegas
Cal Contingent Closes Winter Cup Qualifiers
The quintet of California men’s gymnasts – three current and two former – concluded their qualifying round at the Winter Cup Challenge on Thursday. Current Golden Bears Donothan Bailey, Glen Ishino and Steven Lacombe along with former letterwinners Kyle Bunthuwong and Bryan del Castillo all competed Thursday. Del Castillo, Bailey, Ishino and Bunthuwong all advanced to Saturday’s finals.
Men's Swimming and Diving Heads South
No. 6 Cal S&D Visits No. 5 USC
The No. 6-ranked California men’s swimming and diving team (3-1) – the 2011 NCAA team champions – travels down to Los Angeles to swim two days at No. 5-ranked USC’s McDonald’s Swim Stadium. The Golden Bears will be swimming along with USC and Stanford both Friday (Feb. 3) and Saturday (Feb. 4), with only Friday’s competition counting as a Pac-12 dual meet versus the Trojans. Saturday’s swims for Cal will be exhibitions.
Quiet morning in the DBD
I wonder if there’s any correlation to DBD traffic after a Cal loss. Or maybe people are burned out after Fuck-You-ToshGate
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Last night I went to an event with over 1000 attendees, and I had to give a presentation in front of them. I feel like I have a hangover today even though I (regretfully) did no drinking.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:38 AM PST up reply actions
How did it go? Was that the largest crowd you’ve presented to?
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As a highschooler I spoke at the Model UN in the general assembly hall in The Hague (“den haaaagghghghggh” for CB81), and I think there were 3000 peeps there. But that was just screwing around. Last night’s crap was filmed, presumably where tens more people can watch it on On-Demand Local Cable.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
crap, I knew I was forgetting to watch something last night. went to see groundhog day instead.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:48 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Wow, local TV celebrity! Can I be in your entourage?
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You’re aware my entourage requirements include living in Ohio?
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 8:07 AM PST up reply actions
Dont you need a west coast entourage
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There is nothing less useful than a Walnut Creek entourage
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:17 AM PST up reply actions
Really?
WALNUT CREEK — Nine people were arrested in downtown Walnut Creek fights between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m. Sunday, including two men arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after severely beating a man in a parking garage, police said.
Marcos Bustamante, 20, and Mario Bustamante, 23, both of Bay Point, were arrested in the parking garage in the 1300 block of on Locust Street around 1:35 a.m. after officers found a semiconscious man on the ground bleeding from his face, according to a Walnut Creek police news release.
Witnesses identified the Bustamantes as the attackers and they were arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to the release.
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The only acceptable comeback to my statement would have been “but what about a stanfurd degree?”, to which I would have stipulated is indeed an exception to my statement.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:47 AM PST up reply actions
Dont mock me or else Ill have my WC street gang beat you up
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Your WC? YWC? I TOLD YOU I WAS DONE WITH THAT.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:49 AM PST up reply actions
All you said was that you needed a 15 minute break to take a smoke
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Can you make gifs out of it?
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Nope, the video they took is completely gif-proof
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
Only because there was no shrimp
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:19 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
At some point I should watch tim and eric
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I would?
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I slept in this morning, trying to avoid both the Dick Cheney keynote at my own conference and the Karl Rove keynote at the conference next door. If anyone wants to rid the world of some bad men, I have an idea for you…
as with all things
you, ma’am, know how to attend a conference.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:13 AM PST up reply actions
are they trying to plot how to get dubya in again?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 8:15 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
Two thumbs up. They even delivered my meal to my table and refreshed my drink twice! Quite impressive. My only negative comment is that I am not a pickle fan, so I may go back today and order one without pickles.
Their pickles are a weak link, but they are only too happy to accommodate right-thinking orders such as yours.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
No, not that extreme. Are you sure she is not try to avoid cramping up later?
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/21/health/la-he-pharmacy-20100621
Also, I am not sure about the fries. In my world, waffle fries are always seasoned, like curly fries. I am still trying to decide whether I like pure potato waffle fries.
by Scootie on Feb 3, 2012 9:22 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
For serious.
Regular fries come in two shapes; normal and steak cut.
Seasoned fries come in two shapes; waffle and curly.
That’s just the way it is. (Things will never be the same.)
Category of their own
But I think they are best when they are slightly thinner than a normal cut fry.
This is true
I still think they’re best with a slightly thinner cut.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 9:36 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m with OaktownAggie on this.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
I’m used to seeing them with a thinner cut as well. Else it becomes overwhelmingly sweet.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
Agreed, the fries aren’t the strong suit at Chick Fil A.
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I disagree to an extent. If you eat the fries immediately after getting them, they are amazing. Wait 10-15 minutes, and they get cold and shitty.
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that's because
all the fats congeal again, making them less tasty as you ingest them so they can congeal in your arteries.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
another fun airport quote: I’m looking for a baby in a stripper, but idk where…oh! there it is!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 8:30 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
oops stripper=stroller
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 6:52 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
it’d be a rather maupassant twist!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:10 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
No, he’s actually a guy de maupassant.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
what kind of conference was this?!
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Rugby Plans to Avenge MBB (or at least keep winning)
Bears Visit UA Friday, ASU Sunday
California will play its fifth and sixth Pac-12 member opponents this weekend when the Golden Bears visit the University of Arizona Friday, Feb. 3, for a 7 p.m. MT meeting at Kino Stadium, followed on Sunday, Feb. 5, by a clash with the Sun Devils at 1 p.m. MT on campus at Arizona State University.
It will be the first trip for the Bears to Arizona since 2004, when Cal recorded convincing wins over both teams.
Women's Water Polo Rolls On
No. 2 Cal Defeats Hawaii, 8-5
Junior Breda Vosters had a team-high three goals and senior Elizabeth McLaren had a key score in the fourth period to lead the No. 2-ranked Cal women’s water polo team to an 8-5 victory over No. 10 Hawaii Thursday (Feb. 2) in an MPSF league opener at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The Golden Bears improved to 9-0 overall and 1-0 in conference. It was the Wahines’ season-opener.
You wouldnt be so kind as to bring the SBN stories, would you?
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PHOTO SO CLICK ON THIS BIG LONG HEADER TO MINIMIZE IT
I want to the women’s water polo game yesterday. Women look good… here is a shot of their 8th goal – you can see the ball just going in the net!
I should go to a water polo game. They sound so fun. There’s a resolution for 2012.
Cal: Bears with Books.
they are fun and they are really intense, especially once you get to know what the players are doing under the water.
The women are #2 so people really should get out to support them
like…clawing and attempting to drown and generally beating the shit out of each other
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Fiatlux said it in the post. #2
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I forget who I was discussing this with, but I kinda want to go to at least one of every Cal sporting event.
That should be our lifetime goal!!!!!!
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Cal gymnastics!
TROLL ON YOU BEARS. - atoms
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Id like to got agymnastics meet
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Sir, we are not on an SEC blog! We demand language comprehension here.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
Do I have to leave?
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Is your time on this earth limited? This seems very doable.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:48 AM PST up reply actions
No. Lets do it together!
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by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
But if he does cricket, he has to do Quidditch!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM PST up reply actions
I went to a few water polo games when I was a student. I remember that there always seemed to be many attractive women in the stands.
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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ON MY WAY
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TRAB PU KCIP
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
The Hawaii water polo team came after the match to use the bathroom in the Alumni House. Does the Spieker Complex not have a bathroom?
my best friend actually coaches for Michigan so i am going down there tomorrow after our game… i’ll ask ;-)
I’m paid by the Z!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:24 AM PST up reply actions
Law schools sued:
In a gathering storm that apparently may not yet have reached its full strength, lawsuits have been or will be filed today against another 12 law schools over the way they report employment data for their graduates, according to counsel for the plaintiffs.
They say in a press release (PDF) that new litigation is being brought against law schools in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois and New York, concerning allegations that a number engaged in subterfuges such as hiring their own graduates for temporary jobs and counting law grads working in nonlegal jobs as employed. Links to some of the complaints can be found at plaintiffs lawyer David Anziska’s website.
Plaintiffs contend that they were misled by the statistics into taking on a heavy debt burden in pursuit of employment as attorneys that was much harder to find than the job stats provided by the law schools suggested. They also allege that salary figures may have been compiled from a small sample of law grads with fatter-than-average paychecks.
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brb filing small claims suit
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:14 AM PST up reply actions
SUPER EARTH!
Astronomers have detected a rocky “super-Earth” planet orbiting a nearby star in a region where life could possibly exist, a finding that led one of the team from UC Santa Cruz to predict there must be billions more of them in the Milky Way.
The newfound planet is big, at least 4 1/2 times as massive as Earth. It is 22 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 28 days, and lies in the star’s “habitable zone,” where temperatures are just right – neither too hot nor too cold – for liquid water to support life on its surface.
Astronomers like to call that “the Goldilocks zone.”
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Astronomers like to call that "the Goldilocks zone.
Eff that, I’m pulling for the Bears!
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
This is really cool b/c it’s so close. Conceivably, if we foudn out an asteroid was about to destroy Earth, we could still make it to this planet within our lifetime.
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I don’t think there’s any problem with that. I’m pretty sure we have infinite amounts of energy and our strong atomic bonds would avoid ripping apart.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:22 AM PST up reply actions
If space has no friction, you’d just have to get pretty close to the speed of light, after which you’d maintain your momentum pretty easily.
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New sleazy taglines:
If space has some friction, don’t come a (WHAT DO I PUT IN HERE?)
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I believe it would take an infinite amount of energy to get a spaceship mass up to the speed of light. And presumably that same amount to keep the atomic bonds from breaking apart. Filippenko FTW!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
yay Astro 10!
boo Zoology 10 which started with a unit on astronomy :(
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
Everytime I see Filippenko on the Science Channel or Discovery Channel, I stand up and yell “GO BEARS!”
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
by ikoolykedat on Feb 3, 2012 11:04 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I’m pretty close. I say “Hey, look, Prof. Filippenko! That’s pretty cool!” and Mrs. Dr. CALumbus just rolls her eyes at me. Maybe I should leap up and shout like you do.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:02 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
we are made of star stuff!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 7:04 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I have been known to have strong bonds.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Fair point :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:01 PM PST up reply actions
Best resignation letter ever?
From: [REDACTED] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: FW: Goodbye…
As many of you are aware, today is my last day at the firm. It is time for me to move on and I want you to know that I have accepted a position as "Trophy Husband". This decision was quite easy and took little consideration. However, I am confident this new role represents a welcome change in my life and a step up from my current situation. While I have a high degree of personal respect for PHJW as a law firm, and I have made wonderful friendships during my time here, I am no longer comfortable working for a group largely populated by gossips, backstabbers and Napoleonic personalities. In fact, I dare say that I would rather be dressed up like a pinata and beaten than remain with this group any longer. I wish you continued success in your goals to turn vibrant, productive, dedicated associates into an aimless, shambling group of dry, lifeless husks.
May the smoke from any bridges I burn today be seen far and wide.
Respectfully submitted,
[SIGNED]
ps. Achilles absent, was Achilles still. (Homer)
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by TwistNHook on Feb 3, 2012 7:57 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
I love how you get stories from the ABA Journal email on Fridays.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 8:09 AM PST up reply actions
love it. I wanna be a trophy husband too…
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When I first graduated and before starting work my future brother-in-law and I got together three mornings a week to play racquetball at about 9AM. We talked about becoming house husbands and continuing to meet for years to come. Alas it didn’t last long.
If you’re going to be a house husband, be sure to get a maid and a nanny. THEN you can play at the club.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Is the maid and/or nanny a hot 22 year old (chose from) Austrian/Swede/Brazilian/Honduran/Korean/German/French girl?
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 AM PST up reply actions
why bother then? funk dat
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
don't forget
/Colombian
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
DOH
you are correct sir
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed, Ivy Leaguers are grrreat!!!
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We’re not ignoring her. The baby monitor was on the entire time we were in the pool house!
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
By pool house, he means the dog house. WHICH IS WHERE HE’S ABOUT TO BE!
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Don’t be silly. We have a couch, and I’m totally bigger than the dog.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
It was a metaphoric dog house
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HI I AM PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE AND WILL NEVER GET WHAT I WANT IN LIFE
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
I knew people that went to work at Paul Hastings
and they were very miserable.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
I hope his wife didn’t have him sign a pre-nup….
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
Kings Win! Kings Win!
Kings 95, Trail Blazers 92: Welcome Back, Marcus Thornton
None of the Kings wins have come easily this year, and tonight was no different. Sacramento had already played Portland twice this season, and had been easily handled by the Blazers in both games. In the first half of this game, it looked as if it might be the same case tonight, as Portland got up by as many as 13 points in the 2nd quarter, and led by 9 going into halftime.
Meanwhile, Sacramento welcomed back Marcus Thornton, who had missed four games in a row, and he didn’t disappoint. He had a rough shooting night from the field, going just 4-13, but he was very aggressive attacking the basket, and got 12 free throw attempts because of it. He ended up with a team high 20 points, 8 of which came in the crucial 4th quarter.
Clippers lose. By a lot.
Apparently Clip’s Nation is upset about it.
Nuggets 112 – Clippers 91 – That didn’t go well
Awful game tonight…Doing a different take on this “recap.” More like madman notes/ramblings as the game was played:
Love the end of the recap though:
Let’s not become the typical feast-famine lakers fan. It’s a shortened season and it’s bound to happen to them again. It’s what I get for doing a Groundhog day game! JUMBACO time!
Sharks defeat Stars (I'm running out of witty headlines here...)
Sharks stomp the Stars 5-2, set franchise shutout record
The Sharks set a trio of records tonight— the first was their 77% faceoff percentage, the best percentage by any team since the lockout. The second was the franchise shutout streak, which now stands at 190:51. The third was that they probably became the first team in history to end their franchise streak with an own goal, which, while slightly humorous, isn’t that big of a deal considering the whomping they gave Dallas tonight.
by unclesam22 on Feb 3, 2012 8:10 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
you're doing great unclesam!
There were a lot of games last night!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:15 AM PST up reply actions
Nah, you did fine, I always have trouble finding good links for some reason. Especially with the non-major Cal sports.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 8:19 AM PST up reply actions
SHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Wait, there are OTHER blogs?
You’re cheating on us with OTHER blogs?!
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
German scheisse films blog?
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
The Dubs played last night and apparently won
GSOM is so surprised by that turn of events they have not posted a recap. So amuse yourself by going over there and looking around.
Niners Nation wants to know your story...
How Displaced A 49ers Fan Are You?
Earlier this season, there was a contest in which entrants tried to prove why they were the ultimate displaced fan of their team. Entrants submitted a video, pictures and/or an essay proclaiming their displaced nature. There was a combination of voting and judging and eventually they figured out the Ultimate Displaced Fan. 49ers fan Marcel Batts finished as an honorable mention and I’ve posted the video he submitted after the jump.
Watching games in Afghanistan definitely qualifies as one of the crazier places to watch games. Have any of you watched games in particularly bizarre locations? Some early readers might remember that I lived in Saudi Arabia when I was in middle school. I watched the 1991 49ers-Giants NFC Championship Game over there in the middle of the night at the beginning of the Gulf War. Suffice to say, that is the craziest experience I’ve had watching a 49ers game. How about you?
NBA All-Stars revealed...all goes according to form
2012 NBA All-Star Game Starters Announced; No Surprises In Fan Voting
The 2012 NBA All-Star Game starting lineups have been released. The game is scheduled for February 26 in Orlando, having been rescued from the lockout scrap heap thanks to a late November labor deal. (The 1999 NBA All-Star
Here’s the full Eastern Conference All-Stars starting lineup.
Derrick Rose, Chicago Bulls
Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat
LeBron James, Miami Heat
Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks
Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic
Here’s the full Western Conference All-Stars starting lineup.
Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers
Chris Paul, L.A. Clippers
Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
Blake Griffin, L.A. Clippers
Andrew Bynum, L.A. Lakers
Two separate teams, though!
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:03 PM PST up reply actions
This is the tale, of
OH GOD MY EYES
Man dressed as Depp’s Jack Sparrow pepper-sprayed
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LOL
…the Sparrow character, made famous in the movies by Johnny Depp, got into a fight with people dressed as Catwoman and an alien in front of the Kodak Theatre Thursday evening.
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
i love this song… video…
and i even drove imperial highway from lax out to the inland empire.. .i’m guessing almost no one has actually done that.
and 6th street through Hancock Park is one of the great stretches in LA
I just decided to do it… i wanted to see where it went… for a huge part of it of course it just parallels The 105 but it was fun going through all those towns i never see.
I always think it’s mindboggling that there’s pretty much an uninterrupted stretch of asphalt or concrete that stretches from Alaska to the Strait of Magellan.
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The US interstate system really should be a Modern Wonder of the World.
TROLL ON YOU BEARS. - atoms
even if it does snow, we’ve got plenty of laker championship banners to keep us warm! - raptorapocalypse
good point, goldblooded is an atheist but even he’ll see through that one.
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GOP GOP GOP GOP GOP!
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Have you read his military-industrial complex speech? He’s a socialist of the reddest ilk!
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They used to be pretty good!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
What if you are driving to Tucson or El Paso?
TROLL ON YOU BEARS. - atoms
even if it does snow, we’ve got plenty of laker championship banners to keep us warm! - raptorapocalypse
tell your IT team that forcing IE upon employees is actually reducing productivity, unless you aren’t supposed to be on the internet anyways.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Per the DBD prompt
When I took my trip to Spain, LeonPowe recommended a bunch of things for me to do in Barcelona, which was quite helpful!
Fashion advice, starting with all my new CT shirts courtesy of Rishi’s links, and a new-found appreciation of cufflinks… also all the shaver talk convinced me to buy a safety razor, which is definitely the needed compromise between the straight-edge razor I bought 5 years ago thinking I’d actually be able to use it (Sigh), and the electrics/disposables I usually use.
Also I think I started following the DBD when I moved to the Bay Area and didn’t know anybody… I feel like I’ve made some friends via this place.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 8:48 AM PST reply actions
Also, I love scotch thanks to the DBD.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 8:55 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
so what you’re really trying to say is: GOOOOO BEARS!
come on, you know you want to.
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Not really. But nice try. However, I will agree with you all on FUCK UW today. Ugh.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 8:56 AM PST up reply actions
Keep on fuckin'!
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Great Victory!!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:29 AM PST up reply actions
Where did you stay in Barcelona?
and anyone got recs for where to stay in London?
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I stayed in Hotel Acta Millenia in the El Raval area. In retrospect I should have asked where to stay, because as a guy traveling alone, this was a poor choice (sketchier area of town, lots of cool bars which I would have totally got drunk at if I had a buddy or two with me).
I got no recs for London, but I still have emails from LP and a few others on the DBD who provided advice, it’s kind of long, but I can forward to you if you want… just give me an email to send it to.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:00 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks! calchemist119@gmail
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--Thoroughbred
done
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
Do you like traveling alone? I’ve never done it and I am starting to think that I should.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Honestly, it was the most depressing thing I’ve done. I’ve honestly never felt so lonely in my life. I don’t think I’ll ever do that again.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
I couldnt imagine it. It sounds horrific.
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well it was really a combination of a few things:
1) I didn’t really speak the language. Which meant I was pretty much a mute for most of my trip.
2) I don’t go to bars by myself, so I missed out on the nightlife… also I didn’t feel safe going out by myself at night, so that didn’t help.
3) Sightseeing is fun, but it’s tiring. It’s nice to be able to stop at a cafe, have a drink, relax and talk. But when you’re by yourself, it isn’t fun to stop and sit by yourself drinking.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
You make some good points. I am also aware that there are certain risks traveling as a woman by myself, and I’d definitely go somewhere where I speak the language (which leaves english speaking countries and Italy where I can fake it).
It’s a risk. It’s pushing oneself. Could have high reward or high risk.
Cal: Bears with Books.
So, on the flip side, my sister traveled extensively by herself through Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico. It helps that she’s fluent in Spanish, but she has extolled the value of traveling by oneself a lot. If your goal is to meet people and socialize and have a great group experience and so forth, then traveling alone might not be your thing. But if you just want to see the country, appreciate the food, and do cool shit without having to deal with annoying traveling companions, then go for it. The best part is that you can do exactly and only what you want to do, when you want to do it.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
While unemployed another friend of mine decided to get on his motorcycle and go to the southern tip of Argentina and blog about it:
http://evermore.wordpress.com/
#trollgang
Dammit site crashed my browser. Not baller!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
Truth. I’m probably a much more ambitious traveler than most, so I will make sure I get to see the things I want to see, whereas with someone else, there would probably be a lot more down time and lollygagging.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:48 PM PST up reply actions
I thought I was your idol
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haha
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
remember when we had that online conversation where I said that I felt like all women (and a decent chunk of men) talk to me initially because of how attractive I am.
Its kind of the same theory, but on a slightly different wavelength. I assume I am most people’s personal idols.
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I will take your brief c omment as a form fo agreement
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If anyone doubts that Twist is being anything other than truthful here, know that you shouldn’t.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 11:09 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I know attractive women who say that they feel they get a lot of male attention (usually a lot of it creepy) bc of how they look.
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What? Twist is totes dreamy
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
1-900-BAC-KDOO has opened so many doors for you
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
it isn’t fun to stop and sit by yourself drinking.
Does
Not
Compute
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
the wonders of the internet can help. tripping.com is a great site for networking on your travels, can probably hook up with lots of locals and even do some couchsurfing.
(disclosure, the site’s founder is a friend and a Cal alum. GO BEARS)
#trollgang
yeah i had no idea what i was in for, thought i could handle it. at this point i’m just gonna try and plan trips with friends. (at the time, I had a precisely one week window because of school, so i made my plans around me. nobody else was willing to accommodate)
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
Counter-Argument!
I would never do it, since I’m Rishi and I’m an exceptionally social creature.
But my brother, who is no loner himself, has traveled alone a lot. And loved it. He met people in hostiles and stuff and had hella fun with them
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
Sometimes they are, though.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
I should have stayed in hostels and met people there. I thought “hey I’m an adult, I should stay in hotels and have my own room and such.” Mistake #1.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
in munch i did a tour with an english speaking group, that helped meet people. also, lots of beer.
#trollgang
yeah i should have joined something like that
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
That said, I would much rather travel with friends since I like the shared experiences.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
THIS
Even a bad experience with a group of good friends becomes a warm memory you have somebody to laugh with.
The awkward moment when I realized I was short for the toll on the freeway to Valencia and couldn’t communicate with the tollbooth operator to explain this to him by myself? Not funny.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
YES!
I was flying from Amsterdam back to London, but I had to fly out of Eindhoven (stupid RyanAir). Amsterdam’s transit system sucks and everything was delayed, so I missed my flight. I was super pissed, had to sleep in a movie theater, and wandered around a super boring city by myself, where few people spoke English.
That sucked.
But it was okay, because I finally caught my flight and had dinner with my dad who was in London on business, then met up with friends who were also in London and we had a good laugh about it.
:)
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
It’s like I’m again playing Battlefield 1942!
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:05 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
pqtm
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:51 PM PST up reply actions
That was when Rishi pulled a gun on the train driver and forced him to inspect his ticket.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
NO TICKET
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
by Rishi on Feb 3, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
oddly that’s what i thought of first.
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
I know most people rank Raiders Of The Lost Ark as number one, but I’m quite partial to Last Crusade.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
yea, me too. Last Crusade, Raiders, Temple
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by AndBears on Feb 3, 2012 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Then Fate of Atlantis.
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by Rishi on Feb 3, 2012 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
BANHAMMER TIME
Seriously, anyone who ranks Raiders behind any of the other three would be sent to re-education camps in my Totalitarian regime.
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
If it weren’t for my warm childhood memories and my desire to rip people’s hearts out while saying “KALI-MAAAAA” I’d agree with you.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
I’m particularly partial to Last Crusade, mostly because it was the first one I saw, and the first time I remember my dad and I going to a movie together, just us.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
well i mean, theoretically, first time my father took me to a movie theater was return of the jedi, but i was 3 at the time and apparently started crying when Jabba the Hutt came on screen. So I don’t really remember much.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
i’m partial to temple of doom, but that was the first indiana jones i saw. but can’t lie, i really all 3 of them…#4 don’t count.
If i remember correctly, Spielberg hated Temple of Doom and thought it was too dark which is why he really wanted to make the next one. I’ve liked them all except the latest was sort of lame…
I remember being a kid to see the first one… my parents dropping my best friend and i off at Southland Cinemas… and just thinking how cool it was.
my mom thinks that movie is racist as sin and i’m pretty sure she hates harrison ford because of it.
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it is, and it took many years before i finally was able to convince people I don’t eat monkey brains, but I still love it.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:35 PM PST up reply actions
not anymore, they all grew up. it’s a call center now.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
yeah just cruise into an indian restaurant and ask for that. pls video tape reaction and post on internets thx
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
LOL it was stupid but I’ll tolerate a lot of stupid to see Indian peeps in TV/movies.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:54 PM PST up reply actions
I completely forgot #4. It has it’s moments and I was going along just fine until the end.
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Yeah, for some reason I just never bought the whole ancient alien race thing…which seems kinda odd, when you think about it, because I never had a problem with magic stones that keep a rural villiage prosperous, or a magic box that melts the faces of infidels, or a magic cup that gives eternal life to whoever drinks from it.
(Question, do you have to keep drinking from the cup to get eternal life, or is once enough?)
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I always assumed you had to keep drinking from the cup for eternal life. Else, Indiana Jones would be immortal.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
I like the fact that we both have reasons for this. Also, the knight was the first thing I thought of… there was a quote from him in the movie regarding this.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
here's his quote
You have chosen… wisely. But, beware: the Grail cannot pass beyond the Great Seal, for that is the boundry, and the price, of immortality.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:09 PM PST up reply actions
4 just tried too hard…
and a question.. there’s a scene where both trucks are racing next to each other and they’re either throwing something back and forth or jumping back and forth, but wouldn’t that be impossible?
hahahaha ………… and yeah. based on their jumping trajectories, that wouldn’t work.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
Not if you throw forward and fast enough to compensate for the speed.
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it’s not the spped, they are moving at the same rate. You have to compensate for wind resistance.
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Right, that’s what I meant. But theoretically, it could be possible.
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so when you said “speed” what you meant was “wind resistance…”
But wouldn’t you ALSO have to account for the speed? If two vehicles are going 40 MPH and are say 4 feet apart… by the time you jumped from A to B wouldn’t B be passed you?
No, because you’re also moving 40MPH, so you only are slowed down by wind resistance. In a vaccuum, you could make that jump no matter how fast the trucks were moving, as long as it was a constant rate of speed.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I don’t think i am setting this up correctly. But rishi, if we were two different trains going the same speed in parallel then you would ont be able to do that, right? Maybe the three of you can diagram this out for me tonight
If the two trains
were going the same velocity, that means everything on the trains is also traveling at the same velocity. In a vacuum, from the moving frame of reference, it would be like you (stationary) jumping from train A (stationary) to train B (stationary) while the rest of the world moves underneath you.
However, with wind resistance thrown in. Two trains moving at the same velocity would have to constantly add energy to maintain that velocity. As soon as you jump, you’re velocity is no longer being maintained and wind resistance screws you over.
another look at this
sit in the back seat of a moving car… toss a ball straight up. it will land straight down.
do the same in the back seat of a convertible with the top down… you can imagine the difference.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
thanks!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
I got this one!
/saw movie in theatre as a kid
//wondered where all the cool flag-waving patriotism and stuff was
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:05 AM PST up reply actions
Amsterdam’s transit system sucks and everything was delayed
Translation: I missed my train b/c everything was in Dutch.
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lol
The train schedules were in both English and Dutch. The train just showed up an hour after it was supposed to!
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Amsterdam’s transit system sucks
1) that’s rich, coming from an American
2) Eindhoven is in a completely different part of the country
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
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Where are the CalBear81s of yesteryear?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
1) I hate BART but at least it shows up on time
2) I took a train FROM Amsterdam TO Eindhoven. The delay happened on the FROM side…
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So I gathered. I’m just giving you shit because you made a massive generalization (Amsterdam’s transit sucks) based on one incident. That incident mattered a great deal to you, but it’s not the same as a complete systematic failure.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
let us not speak of that trilogy
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
wait
do you mean you’re not camped outside a theatre even as we speak, dressed as Darth Maul and awaiting the opening?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Twist is getting his Jar Jar Binks costume ready.
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Were they also in your top 6?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:22 PM PST up reply actions
oh wait a minute, so a Europeanish person is saying don’t judge our transit system in that part of the country? but ALL of america is supposed to have great transit. got it.
It’s ok, I speak Scottish. He was making the point that judging Amsterdam by Eindhoven’s mass transit didn’t make sense b/c they are different places. (though, it is clear that rishi missed the train in Amsterdam).
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To be fair, if your watch had been off by a couple of minutes, you could have missed the train without realizing it.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
To be fair, I showed up fifteen minutes before the scheduled time!
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Then is it totally their fault.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Judging by his name, he might be a bit sensitive about trains running on time.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
You’ve cracked the code, except for the part where I described all Americans as fat provincial rubes who wear cowboy hats and love putting people in the electric chair.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
What about Operation Boston Market?
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SOMEBODY GOT IT
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Amsterdam is a super boring city???
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:51 PM PST up reply actions
okay
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:15 PM PST up reply actions
It’s Philips, PSV Eindhoven, and… yeah, that’s about it. There was a technology museum sponsored by Philips that was pretty good in the early 80s but I have no idea if it’s even there now.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I think CGB advised you to stay in hostels, no?
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Yes. And I thought I knew better. In any case, I’m lousy at meeting people without a safety blanket of somebody I already know.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
I used to be like you guys.
Then I interned for a summre in Chicago and was forced to just meet people. And I did!
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I moved to the Bay Area and pretty much had zero friends for the first 6 months here because I am particularly lousy at this.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:42 AM PST up reply actions
I like the possibility that I might be good at meeting people and networking!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
see my post below… those are you folks you could have been meeting ;-)
And having met you, you’re an immanently likeable person!
that being said, i’m sticking to my new tagline.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
Where did you find that sweet sword?
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I havent met Raptor, but I find him incredibly unlikeable
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It's cuz I'm very bitey, huh?
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
But you still love to travel alone?
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You are not paying attention. I’ve never traveled alone, I am intrigued by the possiblity, but I am afraid that I would be shy.
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Thats true. Im not paying that much attention
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I love traveling alone. I went to Ireland for a week and LOVE LOVE LOVED IT.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:47 PM PST up reply actions
Is Rags aware of this?
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Oh yea. My big christmas gift this year was a new travel purse and a gift certificate to SouthWest.
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’Here honey, now go away!"
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You might not know this about me, but sometimes I just get the bug to travel. I have to go. Now, anywhere, somewhere new. I got it big right around christmas.
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And going to Berkeley isn’t a big enough travel?
What do you want to see on your next trip?
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I think that’s a UNESCO world heritage site.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
it’s nice for a few days, I’m not sure I’d like to go too long but it’s a good opportunity to meet people and/or just do your thing at your own pace. I was on vacation with my wife and she went off for a few days with one of her friends in Greece while I had to get back for a wedding and took a couple of days in London on my own while crashing on a friend’s couch.
#trollgang
eh, friend was working during the day. I did most of my wandering on my own, but did have the opportunity to chat/have a pint at night.
#trollgang
that was the case for me in Madrid, and that made the last leg of my trip a lot more enjoyable.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
This will shock you, but while i love traveling with someone, i also love traveling alone because it gives you the chance to meet so many new people.
Do you like traveling alone? I’ve never done it and I am starting to think that I should.
Whoa, sounds like AndBears is back on the market. Rags is so bummed right now.
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
This is you!
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Ring Ring
Rags: Hello?
AndBears (thumping dance music in background): Hey babe! How’s it going?!?
Rags: Well, your child has been ill for the past two days and I appear to have caught what she had. (editors note: you do have a “she”, correct?)
AndBears: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Rags: What? Is that somehow cool?!?!
AndBears: What? No! Some guy just did a jello shot off my cleavage!
Rags: Nice. When are you coming home?
AndBears: Ummmm maybe a week or so, I dunno yet. As soon as I find out, I’ll let you know! Love youuuuuuuuuuuu.
Rags: Hello? Hellooooooooooo?
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
We do have a she. I swear I am a good parent, boobs on the internet not-withstanding.
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boobs on the internet not-withstanding.
Wait what? And link please.
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Nice.
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
A booby trap.
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 12:03 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
IT'S A TARP
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Man, I can’t even remember the last time I did a jello shot off someone’s cleavage!
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
To be fair
I’ve NEVER done a jello shot off someone’s cleavage in my life!
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SLURP SLURP SLURP
“Wait wait wait….is that regular jello or agar agar?”
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Must have been a lot of shots!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
It was me, spring break 02. IT WAS THE GREATEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE, HOW COULD YOU FORGET?!!?
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How could you forget picking stray Twist hairs from between your teeth?
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 1:42 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I dont know about you, but Im laughing!
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I like jello shots here when I’m pre-gaming for a show at Slims.
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The real question is how I’m going to be able to forget the mental image you’ve just created.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I’m ready if Rags is
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solution: jello shots off of AndBears cleavage.
Wait, no. Actually, that might ruin your sex life since you’ll think of Twist while doing that= shrinkage.
Never mind.
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Twist has that effect on a lot of people. That said, people talk to him because he’s so hawt.
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 2:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I KNOW!
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and now everybody is going to think everything in hindi is angry!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 3:10 PM PST up reply actions
I almost did a spit take with my tea.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 7:06 PM PST up reply actions
wow
UVerse, please save us from future posts like this!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:26 AM PST up reply actions
Westminster Abbey?
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Twist is not the hero you need for any information.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
Ive been to London before. Have you?
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No but I have a lot of family there. I still wouldn’t provide any London information as I haven’t experienced it first hand.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:07 AM PST up reply actions
Sounds like you should take my opinion on all things London very seriously, then. Ask away!
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YOU TOLD ME TO WEAR CAPRIS TO EUROPE. I TAKE YOUR ADVICE ON NOTHING.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:10 AM PST up reply actions
I told you wear capris in America. Thats a totally different thing.
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I actually recall this conversation. Mostly because I refused to wear capris on my trip to Spain, and then refused to pass along a message to a friend of mine from kolwave because i had no idea what her real name was, then kolwave called me out and made me feel guilty so I awkwardly passed on her message to our friend.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:14 AM PST up reply actions
I told you to wear ca-bros in America. Why have you so clearly disobeyed me?
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huge consolation that I felt guilty about making you feel guilty and then awkward?
btw, I told a coworker that I knew you. explaining how was a little, yeah, awkward. "He hangs out on this Cal blog … JUST FOR A FEW MINUTES … every day … for a couple years … which is how I got to know him … "
he mentioned that to me, too, if he is also a cal alum.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:00 PM PST up reply actions
The mrs and I are spending a week in London and a few days in Barca. The foremost question is which part of London we should stay in, as far as being reasonably close to places to see, places to go. Of course, I have a poor idea of where those places are as well.
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I would recommend staying anywehre between Covent Garden in the east and South Kensington in the west. That is a fairly big piece of real estate. Jetsetter seems to be running pretty good London deals fairly regularly right now, and there are also a few cheap hotel sites I can send you with some recs. To the Faceypages… (tomorrow, when I get back)!
Also, when?
You are the hero I need! We get there middle of March, prolly staying a week. Looking at vrbo, jetsetter, and tripadvisor righ tnow.
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seriously you're going to question why it's difficult to shave with this?
there’s a lot of fear involved, tbh. like, i could kill myself with this thing.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:10 AM PST up reply actions
Probably rust, but the point being, it’s a giant fucking blade.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:12 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, okay, fair enough.
I’ll try the safety razor as soon as I’m finished with my cartridge razor.
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i mean, if you have any desire to use a straight edge razor, you can have my practically unused one, plus all the stuff that goes with (the leather strip to prep the blade and a sharpening stone). I don’t know what to do with it and I spent too much money to just toss it.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
Did you ever try?
Honestly, if I owned one, I’d just bring it to the barber and have him shave for me. Hell, I can recommend you a barber closeby who’s great at it (because he’s an actual old-school barber and not a hairstylist)
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I did, but meekly. Again, it scared me.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:33 AM PST up reply actions
This is a knife
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I see you’ve played knifey spoony before
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by TwistNHook on Feb 3, 2012 9:23 AM PST up reply actions 5 recs
huzzah!
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:34 AM PST up reply actions
I jsut got the vibrating razor. Has anybody ever used it?
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Sorry, my mind skipped over the part where you say ‘razor’. Continue on.
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by AndBears on Feb 3, 2012 9:29 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
that could be dangerous
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:34 AM PST up reply actions
Then there would be no noun in that sentence. Can you have a sentence withut a noun?
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But no one would question it if you did.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:42 AM PST up reply actions
Try.
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fail
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takes me like a minute to shave like every 2-3 days…
you sound Asian
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sigh, I know he’s Asian. He likes Manchester United for fucks sake.
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well thats one misconception shattered then. Honestly, I thought S. Korea was Man Ewe territory
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Unlikely, but if that meant expanding the food stands at RFK so I could have pupusas and dolsot bibimbap, I’m in.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
BRB buying tickets to LA
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 9:44 PM PST up reply actions
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:11 PM PST up reply actions
Asian+lee = probably Korean though.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 7:12 PM PST up reply actions
I know of two men at work...
for whom that rule applies. Both are named Lee, and both are Korean.
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There’s an off chance for Chinese (e.g. Bruce Lee), but Korean is the higher percentage play.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 8:43 PM PST up reply actions
1992 Priestley rulz, 1992 Spens-Black droolz!
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 5, 2012 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
he’s a great-great-great-uncle.
by j.lee on Feb 4, 2012 12:07 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
I use electric for everyday shaving.
I use the wet shave method for weekends and tsuff.
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Lame.
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whoo for steam-powered shavers!
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I do a wet shave with a brush every weekday morning.
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oh my sweet z
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
HEY LEMME TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT MODELS OF AIRLINES AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO LAND THEM
Also, I have this sick beard, dude! It only took me eight months to grow this peach fuzz.
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DIFFERENT MODELS OF AIRLINES AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO LAND THEM
pqtm
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
I never understood why people get so upset when somebody makes a “Z” joke. There are many conversations that are not interesting to people and there are many conversations are interest people. Just bc somebody is Z-ing through a conversation doesn’t mean that they think the people discussing it are stupid. They just aren’t interested in the conversation.
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z
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:27 AM PST up reply actions
Im going to hunt you down and wear your face
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by TwistNHook on Feb 4, 2012 9:45 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Twist = Nic Cage?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 4, 2012 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
Im going to hunt you down and cook you a delightful seafood meal while providing you with expert investment advice
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by TwistNHook on Feb 4, 2012 9:45 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, you can’t do that while wearing my face.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:25 AM PST up reply actions
Why not?
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Then just z through it? I know you thrive off attentoin, but why do you feel the need to stand in the middle of a crowd and shout “MY OPINION IS MORE IMPORTANT THA NYOURS THIS DOES NOT INTEREST ME” when you also have your own niche interests that bore others?
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Dude, why are you mad at me? Ididnt make the Z joke here.
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LOL hypocrisy
why do you feel the need to stand in the middle of a crowd and shout "MY OPINION IS MORE IMPORTANT THA NYOURS THIS DOES NOT INTEREST ME"
You do this plenty. It’s just an innocuous joke, chill out.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 6, 2012 9:53 AM PST up reply actions
Just how many of those brushes do you think turkey needs? Properly cared for, one lasts a lifetime.
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Basting a turkey really only requires one brush.
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by cldpc on Feb 3, 2012 9:51 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
He could have one for each area he shaves!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
probably does, but you have to drop the $$$ for it. These are best badger and can be picked up for about $50.
I do have a $10 boar in the mail, the price is right to see how it goes.
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Mine from Amazon. It was good, not great. Next time I’m in the market I will be getting a silver-tip brush.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
hooray! I’d say the DBD has pushed me a little to improve my wardrobe.
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The other thing was watching a lot of Mad Men. That’s also a sartorial inspiration.
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Interesting, will take into consideraiton.
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If you do decide, this is a really good starter. It’s what I am wearing right now and I love it.
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Quite a step up from nightstand!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks unclesam22 for bringing over great links!
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unclesam is threatening to leave for another blog. I know you arent going anyhwere. I could treat you terribly and youd still stick around! But thanks, nonetheless
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And now you are the most hated poster on the entire SBN Network!
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IM BURNING YOUR CGB JERSEY!
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It’d be a great photoshop for redonk to try to come up with.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
Why are you inside a shoe?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
get thee out? get thee to a nunnery!
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by GoldBlooded on Feb 3, 2012 11:13 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I know there is a hoops post game thread on the front page but...
Just some thoughts here…
First of all on the Gold Out. BRAVO to Frank and The Bench and KAB (all the way in Hawaii) for being persistent on this… I honestly thought it would suck but I got on board with it… I was pleasantly shocked at how many alumni pulled out gold shirts… Was it a "Gold Out? No but there was a lot of gold and i loved how it gave alumni a chance to get involved. So while I don’t think we should do this a lot, and while I still don’t like wearing gold, I liked it and think it was a lot of fun and we should do it again next year. Matter of fact, there should be a game circled before the season starts, have it on the schedules etc, and that should be the Gold Out Haas game. Very well done guys.
I thought the students were awesome last night… I get such a charge out of going over to the student section and talking to you guys. Great job. I also think the micman Aaron is doing a fantastic job. He seems to be growing into his position and that is great to see.
I was fortunate to score some primo seats, THANK YOU NED SPIEKER! I had a great conversation with everyone around me and I upfront apologized and that if I stood in front of them just tell me to sit down… you know what? EVERY SINGLE person in that area said to keep on keeping on and that they loved the spirit… I think that is a key – talk to people before and get them on your side. These folks are good folks. A lot of them are OLD but if you just enlist them they will channel their spirit through you.
With that in mind I decided to get some photos of prominent people around me in their gold… This is my favorite because it’s quite literally #GOLDOUTHAAS
Sandy looked great in her gold jacket
Cal great Sean Lampley was doing his part
And then I noticed the Chancellor and Mrs. Chancellor… she was in gold, but he wasn’t!!! How can that be… So I talked with him and Sandy threw down a gold shirt for him to put on… He put it on and everyone cheered… but then he went to put his blue blazer on and I told him he couldn’t and everyone cheered louder!
And folks, that is WHAT IS AWESOME about Haas Pavilion… that some schmuck like me can sit and interact with business titans, academic big wigs and sports legends… There is not stratification… We are ALL CAL FANS inside Haas…
Oh, at half time I had a nice conversation with Larry Scott about the officials… he seemed embarrassed about how bad they were…
Anyway, it just sucked losing… I really really really wanted to have an undefeated season at Haas.. But the crowd was ALIVE for the game. It was a shame it wasn’t close to being a sell out, but the 9500 people who were there were louder than any arena in the country last night. Particularly impressive was the deafening and sustained booing of the officials at the end of the first half… I have been going to Cal games a long time and have never heard the crowd boo with that ardor before. I loved it.
That’s it for now.
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I heart lampley
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Thanks for the great photos
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Also PS Ive always wondered what its like to be in the 1%. Thanks for giving me a sneak peak!
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You can post it in both. Do whatever you so desire.
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As per calbears.com
…attendance for last night’s game was 9,690.
It was a shame it wasn’t close to being a sell out, but the 9500 people who were there were louder than any arena in the country last night.
Your estimate was pretty darn good.
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Speaking of MBB attendance for home games...
Through last night’s game, Cal has averaged 8,073 per game (not including the UC San Diego exhibition), or 68.0% of capacity.
Amazingly, last night’s official attendance is the 4th largest crowd of the 2011-2012 season. The top six games in attendance thus far this season are:
(1) Jan 29, 2012 – Stanf*rd (11,877; 100% of capacity)
(2) Dec 19, 2011 – UC Santa Barbara (9,876; 83.2% of capacity)
(3) Dec 31, 2011 – UCLA (9,750; 82.1% of capacity)
(4) Feb 2, 2012 – Arizona (9,690; 81.6% of capacity)
(5) Dec 29, 2011 – USC (9,447; 79.5% of capacity)
(6) Dec 16, 2011 – Weber State (7,987; 67.2% of capacity)
With three games remaining on the regular season home slat e, Cal is slightly ahead of last year’s attendance in both total attendance (121,092 vs. 120,281 last year) and in average percentage of capacity (68.0% vs. 67.5% last year). Cal basketball is coming back.
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…120,281 at this point last year?
68.0 vs. 67.5 doesn’t seem like an up trend at all. :-/ That’s pretty much flat.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, it is flat
At the same time, when you look at attendance under Montgomery vs. attendance under Braun, it’s very easy to see that attendance has stabilized (Montgomery) as opposed to tanking (Braun).
Braun’s last five years were marked by Leon Powe and Devon Hardin being on the team. In Powe’s first season, attendance averaged 10,839 (or 91.3% of capacity).
The very next season Powe was on the bench with an injury that kept him out and attendance dropped to 8,669 (73.0% of capacity); a loss of 2,170 per game.
In the subsequent season (Powe’s last), attendance rebounded to 9,370 (78.9% of capacity).
The very next season Devon Hardin was lost to injury at the end of the non-conference schedule and did not play a game against Pac-10 competition. Average attendance slipped to 8,443 (71.1% of capacity)
Braun’s last season was also Hardin’s senior season. Attendance continued to fall, averaging 7,915 (66.6% of capacity).
Montgomery has been a contrast. But Montgomery’s team’s have also played against a backdrop of unsettled economics (both locally and nationally), and ramped up efforts to fundraise for capital projects tied to the football program (the SAHPC and CMS renovations). I think it has hindered attendance, even as the team’s fortunes have improved when compared to Ben Braun’s last five teams.
Montgomery’s first season saw average attendance jump to 8,624 (72.6%). The second season was another upward jump to 9,423 (79.3%) in the Pac-10 Championship season.
But the following season which saw the team struggle against Pac-10 competition saw a precipitous slide down to an average attendance of 7,893 (66.5%), a loss of more than 1,500 per game from the previous year.
This year, while attendance during the non-conference schedule was poor (6,927 or 58.3%), attendance during the Pac-12 portion of the schedule has definitely rebounded; attendance has risen about 943 people per game (or about 7.9%) over the previous year. Cal has had one sellout this year, where it had none last year.
So far, the minimum attendance during the Pac-12 portion of this year’s schedule has been 7,457. Last year, the Pac-10 portion of the schedule had 3 games lower than that (Jan 13 vs. WSU (6,903); Jan 27 vs. OSU (6,996); and Feb 3 vs ASU (7,129)).
To draw out the comparison a bit further, this year’s UCLA game had essentially the same attendance as last year’s Stanf*rd game (9,750 vs. 9,752), while this year’s Stanf*rd game was a sell-out and exceeded last year’s Stanf*rd game as the best attended game in conference play (by about 2,100).
Attendance may be better by leaps and bounds, but it is stable and showing signs of improvement.
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You must keep a spreadsheet of this :) Thanks for all the info!
I wonder how it compares to other conference teams.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
But, of course...
I keep a spreadsheet.
As for your last sentence, just this week, I realized that the info might have deeper meaning if I could gather the same/similar info for other Pac-10/12 teams.
/pauses at the volume of work necessary to make meaningful comparison.
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hmmm
do the schools report it in box scores like with baseball? Not that those numbers would be 100% accurate, but they’d be something.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:28 AM PST up reply actions
damned SBN
I wish their servers woke up before 8 AM.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:44 AM PST up reply actions
yes. everything is in the box score. I am not sure if this has changed but in the Pac12 for some reason there was no consistency in if a school announced turntable or tickets sold. I think everyone is now announcing actual tickets sold. As Slug will confirm, Cal used to be notoriously and ridiculously off in the official football attendance numbers, almost always settling on a perfection round number, like 25,000 or 34,000…. and it was my belief we always UNDERcounted, for reasons I think we less than noble.
What were the reasons yout hink that led to the UNDERcounting?
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so
in other words it’s exactly like baseball where they make up the numbers.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:26 AM PST up reply actions
do you mean Cal baseball or MLB? If the latter, no because there is actually some auditing of the process and i am pretty sure it is tickets distributed (either sold or given away). Here the #s were just totally bogus.
MLB, but Cal too up until last year. I know two years ago for weekday games they didn’t even have people in the ticket shack so I have no idea how they would come up with any numbers.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
What fiatlux said...
attendance for a particular event is in the box score for the same event.
Cal’s attendance reports is almost certainly tickets sold. Quite frankly, it’s easier to keep track. I’d imagine that this is true of everyone else as well. Otherwise, if it were based off turnstile count, you’d have to physically count the ticket stubs taken at the turnstile (as in the old days), or take a count of the tickets scanned through (as many schools do now).
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I think scanning has changed things considerably and is easier to get a true count. It also have great marketing potential in terms of customer loyalty programs etc.
Agreed! I wish Cal had a customer loyalty program
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I agree that scanning could make it easier to derive a true count of actual attendees to an event (such as today’s basketball game).
I wonder, though, if that’s the way in which attendance will always be reported. It’s my belief that attendance will reflect actual tickets sold, not seats occupied in the venue.
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Lulz- Sacramentoians are Les Mis
5. Sacramento, CA
Sacramento’s lone pro sports team is flirting with a move to Anaheim unless the city delivers financing for a new arena. Sac-Town might not miss them. The team has lost 73% of its games since the start of the 2008-09 season. Foreclosures in California’s capital were among the 10 highest last year.
Inspiring and completing since1997 since2010!
Good news…. more budget cuts, higher taxes, and pension-slashing should really put the capitol economy over the top!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 9:21 AM PST up reply actions
iPad3 rumors:
It’s that magical time of year again, when everyone expects a new iPad to be right around the corner. Which in turn means an amassment of iPad 3 rumors clogging up our lives. Here’s a quick guide to making sense of them.
Take all of these with the usual large piles of salt grains. Oh, and remember: The iPad may only be two years old, but it’s already such an institution that any radical shifts in design or philosophy are almost definitely out of the question (sorry, 7-inch believers). But that doesn’t mean we don’t expect see some significant changes both inside and out.
Display
One of the iPhone’s most beloved features is its ultrasharp retina display. And while the iPad 2’s screen is no lightweight, a bump up in pixel density is one of the most hotly anticipated iPad 3 improvements. There have been numerous unsourced reports from the supply chain stating that retina screens are coming to iPad. More officially, iBooks 2 has 2x resolution images that would make a lot of sense for a super resolution iPad. But then, that was the case last year, too.
Android tablet displays passed the iPad last summer, and since then have moved into 1080p territory, so it seems far fetched that Apple would put off upgrading the iPad’s screen another year.
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What you did there. I see it.
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A Super Bowl Game Guide for Three Types of Fans: Novice, Casual, Expert
The connoisseur, the casual and the curious-but-clueless: Find your level.
Level I
The NFL has become the country’s primary dramatic narrative: If you don’t believe it, look at the TV ratings, where it dwarfs even the most popular series.
LEVEL II
To believe the Giants will prevail over the Patriots is to believe that a premier defense will trump perhaps the greatest quarterback ever (Tom Brady) and the best coach of the modern era (Bill Belichick).
Level III
For a certain class of football fan, the Super Bowl does not exist as a game so much as a construct of crisscrossing lines. Where a novice sees bodies crashing into each other, the expert notices the gaps and seams, the subtle head-jerks and hip movements that telegraph what is about to happen.
In this game, the expert’s attention is probably best spent on how each team’s defense can create enough chaos and confusion to neutralize the opponent’s most potent weapons, Giants slot receiver Victor Cruz and the Patriots’ all-world duo of tight ends, Messrs. Gronkowski and Hernandez.
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Level 0: pitchers and catchers report in 11 days!
The TV ratings are utterly mind-boggling.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
I CANT WAIT FOR AS SPRING TRAINING!
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The Sherrif’s Offic eis on facebook?
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They probably posted that to begin with.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 9:41 AM PST up reply actions
Dude looks guilty
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Aziz on Parks and recs last night, Indian pick up line, one of my fav fake pick up lines, LOVED IT
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Damn, I need to finish Season 1. It is so painful.
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Several people have told me this. Will I really miss absolutely nothing?
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imo you won’t. i would tell you the same thing if you were going go watch friday night lights (WHICH EVERYONE ON HERE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD). skip season 2.
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The only issue is that skipping an entire season of P&R means skipping an entire season’s worth of Rashida Jones face time.
Same with FNL and Minka Kelly.
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there’s no losing here.
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
*faze
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:26 PM PST up reply actions
After listening to both of them talk… Rashida.
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In the traditional dichotomy, Minka’s a girl you go home with for a night, Rashida’s one you keep.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:26 PM PST up reply actions
In our modern dichotomy, Minka’s a girl who wouldn’t make direct eye contact with you, Rashida’s the one who also wouldn’t even notice your mere existence
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No wonder people love to hearken back to the good old days.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:12 PM PST up reply actions
Hey, Im the one so attractive that women talk to me solely for that reason. I was talking pretty much about you.
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No, he’s Derek Jeter.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:15 PM PST up reply actions
Thatd explain the clap
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we had a chance back then?! furk…
by j.lee on Feb 3, 2012 10:14 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
booooooooooooo
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
If you do skip season one, do watch Rock Concert, the last episode of that season. It’s very goodl
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I am about halfway through season one. I am in the middle of the journalist episode…
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Anything
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Also, if you liked “Party Down”, you’ll enjoy the surprise!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 9:59 AM PST up reply actions
Party Down is all up on TV lately with Lizzy guest starring on Fox’s New Girl
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
And Ken Marino was just on “Are You There, Chelsea”
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks, DBD
Without the DBD I might never have watched and become a huge fan of Top Gear.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 9:44 AM PST reply actions 4 recs
Yay Top Gear!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
There was also that one glorious season of Outsourced. Thanks DBD.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
We need a support group
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Hug me
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Hug me in the shower!
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TwistNHook = Sandusky?
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
MolestNHook?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:27 PM PST up reply actions
DBD has helped me because.....
……this one time I wanted an engraved Stella Artois chalice…..
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
DBD has helped me because…
… I get special online deals from Rishi.
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Its hypnoitic
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I NEED WHATEVER THE DUDE ON TH ELEFT IS WEARING.
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PS Is chick in middle not wearing pants?
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by Rocksanddirt on Feb 3, 2012 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
Those are all extremely unfortunate.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
You just get worse and worse
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The Asian chick on the left is the least unfortunate, though her tank top is the wrong color blue. I’ve liked most of the retro pictures, but these aren’t retro-cool, they’re retro-ghastly.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t like the Navy blue we use. Yale blue’s awesome!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
Disagree. I love the Navy for Cal.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:27 PM PST up reply actions
Going on a 3.5 week trip of Southern France / Italy
I need suggestions on places to go, things to see, and places to stay.
I also know that if I ask here, I’ll get plenty of good ideas!
On the list already is Marseilles, Genoa, Cinque Terre (sic?), Milan, Florence, Rome.
Ready….GO!
Well, Cinque Terre IS beautiful, but it may be crowded like you wouldn’t believe. La Spezia is nice and a little more low-key.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
hmmm
You liked La Spezia? We changed trains and couldn’t get out of there fast enough but maybe there’s charms we missed.
We visited 5Terre in April and it was swarming with Americans. It’s kind of like a park/preserve of village life, so it really feels kind of like a Disneyland version of Italy. IMO.
I would suggest you ditch Genoa unless you have some particular interest in it and spend the time in Napoli and Amalfi instead. There’s tons and tons of stuff to see in Naples, and around including Caserta and Ercolano or Pompeii and Amalfi is much less over-touristed (although it’s certainly crowded too).
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
Cinque Terra was swarming with American tourists, but they dropped off after Corniglia. It was a nice change of pace from Rome before heading to Milan.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
have some lemonade as we rock away the afternoon
I think it suffered by comparison because we had just been in Amalfi, over Easter which was very cool. Tons of Italian tourists and seemingly many people home to visit family for the holiday. And worse in 5Terre because all the Murcan tourists seemed to be from the Bay Area and kept talking about Bay Area crap.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
the only break we got from that was a conversation with a woman from Edinburgh whose parents had retired to the same town my aunt and uncle live in… which was a random place to be talking about while we looked down a cliff to the sparkling Mediterranean.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
That’s rough for you I guess, because even when we’re with Britons it’s still “exotic and foreign” for the most part.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
It was an amusing “small world” kind of thing. She was on one of those trips where you hike point to point and someone drives the heavy baggage to wherever you’re spending the night. Seemed like a nice way to go.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
The walking and trains definitely make for an easy experience; those Amafi buses are pretty turrible.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
BTW, the small town in question can be seen here. My aunt and uncle live in one of the houses on the bay in the background at about 12 seconds.
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Awesome plan
That’s a great time to go. I have lots of suggestions, but need to get them from my home computer. Will update tomorrow.
In general, the towns in sourthern France that are not right on the coast are really charming: Mougins, St Paul de Vence, Grasse. And if you go further inland, like more than an hour from the coast, you get proper beautiful French countryside that should be blooming with lavender around then. Check out Aix-en-Provence or St Remy.
Don’t miss the drive along the cliffs from Nice to the French/Italian border, through Eze, past Monaco (don’t bother stopping, it’s a snooze) and on to Ventimiglia. Also, the Italian lakes are jaw-droppingly beautiful.
More tomorrow!
I suggest Southern France and Italy.
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Ok, seriously this time… Florence was amazing.
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I really want to see the dome, among other things.
And buy a new wallet. My current wallet is beginning to fall apart and my wife bought it for me the last time she was in Florence.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 10:26 AM PST up reply actions
I recommend you make hard choices about what to see and what to skip so you don’t have one night stands all across the continent. We skipped Firenze, sadly, but ended up with more time in Venice and Amalfi and Napoli and everywhere else we went.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, we're actually skipping Venice and Naples on this trip.
Because we want to be able to take some cities slowly. I hear Milan is good for a shorty stay. See the church, see the piazzas, and move on… unless you’re there on business.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Venice isn’t really worth more than a day or a day and a half anyway. I’d only go back if I were taking my kids.
I actually really liked Milan, mostly because it’s a northern European city. My wife laughed at me for that until I reminded her that she was the one who refused to go to Naples because it was south of Rome.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
boooooooo
Venice was five days of utter fabulousness, especially the part not involving Piazza San Marco (which is cool just really, really crowded).
We stayed at a little place off the Piazza, so we could go elsewhere all day, and get back “home” right about the time all the daytrippers left the neighborhood. Night strolls around San Marco FTW!
Also, in April we lucked out with weather and (comparatively) small crowds.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
Enjoyed walking around, we went over to Murano, admired the glass, took in the Doge’s Palace, DONE. Had the best and worst meals of the trip – some dire tourist trap because we had wandered off course and were tired and hungry, and a place recommended by the guy at the small hotel which was great – they took to us because the missus speaks a little Italian and I was willing to try the pasta with squid ink sauce, or the “distillation of 1000 years of effluent” dish.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
We didn’t make an effort for “fine dining” there at all, since we probably never would have found any of the places anyway. We took a neighborhood each day, basically, and wandered around and looked in churches and museums and just hung out. Really great. Oh, and we bought week-long vaporetto passes so we did a lot of hop-on-hop off too to look from the canals.
As for squid ink: not a good look once the dining’s done. I imagine none of the squid is from there anyway, so it’s probably Thai or Vietnamese effluent.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
My worst travel dining experiences were in Italy. Had one great meal in Florence, but everywhere else, complete disappoint. The nadir of food experiences goes to Panama, though.
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
Rome was good to me in terms of dining, save one meal. France and Germany were great too. And Peru and Venezuela were pretty great too. England was good as long as we were eating food from other ethnicities.
We did pretty well in Roma but we did a lot of self-catering elsewhere. Plenty of awesome snacks to be had.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
I prefer The Machine.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
some people here hated florence and the machine..
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t like them either, but I was willing to make the joke anyway.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:35 PM PST up reply actions
Eh, really not much to do in Monaco unless you iz high rolla. Try Nice, Cannes or Arles.
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I wish I was a High Rolla
My coworker suggested I buy a tuxedo, walk into a casino in Monaco, and put all my Euros on black.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
I literally want to buy myself a white dinner jacket (pictured below) so I can walk around casinos like I’m James Bond.
Then I realized there is zero way I will actually look like that in real life.
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I was waaaaay under dressed when I was there. Walking into the casino never, ever crossed my mind.
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This is why you always overdress. Then you’ll never been underdressed!
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Not in computer science-y type fields.
Maybe if you’re a banker, I guess.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
What if you half-wore a scuba suit (from the waist down with the top half just hanging) and had a suit from the waist up?
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
I have a friend who did it! It’s pretty excellent.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
If you have the time, take a side trip from Rome to Ostia Antica. I hadn’t realized before going to Rome that it really is a proper modern city with a cluster of ruins that the Visigoths, Vandals, Catholic Church, and the chumps responsible for the Vittorio Emmanuel II monument didn’t manage to wreck. Ostia Antica, at least when I was there in 97, was much more representative of an town / house layout, and really quiet as well.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
BTW
Are there hotel/VRBO/B&B type suggestions from people? For any budget…
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
The missus and I stayed in a pensione right in the heart of Florence for a reasonable price – we found all of the places we stayed in Italy – barring the first and last nights, when we succumbed to air conditioned business hotels – in the Rick Steves guide.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Ooh! Good idea.
Buying the missus a kindle for the trip, I can get the travel guide for it.
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
I know he’s kind of a happy clappy cliche, but the advice pans out, especially if you have limited time. We used recommendations from him for places to stay in Amsterdam & Paris for a trip that we had to cancel (departure date was 13/11/2001) and they couldn’t have been nicer about it – not just accomodating it, but writing nice notes about how sorry they were and wishing the best for people involved and what not.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
VRBO covers that area really well.
And I will send you a variety of hotel suggestions, across the $ spectrum. :-)
We stayed at a place called Hotel Panda in Roma which was fine but more importantly was right by the Spanish Steps which is where the missus wanted to hang out mostly.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t have any.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
I’m going to a friends house. they are getting married next weekend so the dudes will watch football and the ladies will probably be doing some last minute crafting/hair testing. I will try to sneak into the football watching at least at some point.
Ragscub will be there and will spend her time trying to shove her whole hand into the 7-layer dip.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Friend is hosting a mega super bowl party
I plan on bringing fresh veggies and hummus as the snack. Eat healthy, kids!
jk imma get drunk and oogle tom brady
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Why would you need to google Tom Brady?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Going to a friends place in the town to watch.
But heres the thing.
THEY DONT HAVE A HD TV, WTF!
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I don’t have an HD TV either. Nothing wrong with that.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Are you posting on the DBD with your typewriter?
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
YOU ARE SO POOR HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WE ARE THE 0%
by zoonews on Feb 3, 2012 11:11 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
The tv upgrade budget got directed to the spring break budget.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Are you throwing a Superbowl party for many of your friends?
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Many of my what?
Why on earth would I throw a party for a non-college-football game?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
………….you’re unamerican
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If you enjoy watching futbol, you will REALLY enjoy it on HD.
p.s. there IS something wrong with not having HD. Shame on you
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Oh god, I’m a freak even by Ohio standards.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
To be fair, you’re probably on par by USC standards.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
Are you kidding? I couldn’t even admit this to SC alumni, they’d take away my alumni association card and have me blackballed at BMW dealerships nationwide.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I was referring to the overall freakishness scale, not the ostentatious display of material wealth douchiness scale.
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by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:59 PM PST up reply actions
I may be freakish, but I suspect that I am differently freakish from most of my fellow alumni.
Also, “material wealth?” I think my dented Subaru loses ground to a certain German coupe.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
LP’s SE asia suggestions may come in helpful next year, but other than that I pretty much gloss over everything!
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The SOLE reason I know whats going to happen in weather is bc of you
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So if I posted a report detailing the impending hurricane about to destroy Walnut Creek, what would happen?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
I would thank you and the DBD for saving my life!
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z
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
Rishi
I have photo of gold out shirt – obv on gmail, can I send to you to rehost? I don’t want to put it up on the faceypages.
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Sure
But it may be more efficient to just host to imgur.com
Literally, go to http://www.imgur.com, select upload from computer and that’s it.
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LITRULY
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SIGH. Here is the shirt that I wore to Gold Out, it's great because the bears are drunk
Shirt from the 70s, from an older alum friend of mine. It says U of C – Go Bears.
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by AndBears on Feb 3, 2012 10:07 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
This is CGB…….after dark
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I think the shirt is awesome. i wish I had one.
And I can’t wait for you to embarrass your kid(s) with stories of how you used to post photos of your boobs on the internet! It was totally different back in the day!
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speaking of which
House of Shields after work today… who’s in?
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
well then we better get started early!
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
I went to Yurt Of Shields. It was OK
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by TwistNHook on Feb 3, 2012 10:22 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
430 or 5 i’m thinking
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
YAY
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
Sorry, Ragscub and I will be at home. We’ll have an apple juice happy hour.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Dont drive afterwards.
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BLARGH BLARGH
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by Rishi on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Fuck this other happy hour, Ima gonna go to your happy hour!
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You should! You can totally hit up Tuckers Ice Cream for late night afternoon partying.
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Sadly, I cant, due to locational issues, but someday I hope to have an applue juice party! AINT NO PARTY LIKE A APPLE JUICE PARTY BC AN APPLE JUICE PARTY TAKES A NAP AT LIKE 1230
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Speaking of which, you owe me an email. Also, a back rub
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agreed. more road-trip planning tips, plz!
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
While true, it’s not my fault my company blocks yfrog. wtf is a yfrog anyway?
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we have weird firewalls at our respective workplaces. at least you have imgur!
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 11:49 AM PST up reply actions
it’s twitter’s hosting (i think) so you can instantly tweet out photos from your android… you also can’t see facebook right?
LOVE AT THIS FILE HOSTING LOVE CONNECTION!
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I can’t see flickr. Imgur FTW
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:39 PM PST up reply actions
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
I'm in, this could be my first one ever.
Though I won’t get there until 5:30-6:00
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
No can do’sville, baby doll. -Jed Mosely
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 11:48 AM PST up reply actions
well i’ll almost certainly still be there!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:49 AM PST up reply actions
I’ll do that too!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
update
my boss left for the day. if i can somehow finish a draft to my preso by 4:30, i’ll be there then. when can you be there?
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
yay
here’s a video you can’t watch, is like 3 years old, but i just randomly thought of and find hilarious.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
(Cooking by The Book featuring Lil Jon.. I dunno why I thought of it, but somehow I really like the mashup)
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 12:38 PM PST up reply actions
Then why did you guarantee me satisfaction or my money back net of all shipping, handling, processing, restocking, and jumbaco burning fees
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please do not yell in the casino.
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 2:22 PM PST up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOO
can’t view imgur pics. flickr!!
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
What Cal sporting events have you attended?
Ive been to:
football
MBB
WBB
baseball
track
rugby
volleyball
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FB, MBB, hockey, badminton WHAT UP
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Feb 3, 2012 10:14 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, I have been to hockey, thanks for reminding me
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Capture the flag, free for all, team deathmatch, bomb plant, bomb defuse, etc.
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
Someone set us up the bomb!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
Just football, MBB, WBB, and baseball so far. I’d love to make it out to a vollyball, rugby, or water polo match though.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
You should roll with me
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f;alskjpo9ninln
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
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hmmmm
football, MBB, WBB, baseball, track, hockey, rugby, volleyball, gymnastics, waterpolo
Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Feb 3, 2012 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
Don’t know if you can still do it but way back when I remember going to a track meet but also being able to watch baseball from the top row of the track meet.
Yes, you can stilld o that.
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What Cal sporting events have you attended?
Ive been to:
football
MBB
WBB
baseball
rugby
volleyball (w/m)
Hockey
gymnastics (w/m)
Field Hockey (w)
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Crew might be a tough one.
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Ive walked by tennis matches and stuck my head and watched fo ra bit. But never a full one.
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Where do they do crew races now? I remember as a kid my dad taking us down to the estuary by Fruitvale Bridge to watch. Even back then the Fuskies were tough.
The Cal-UW rivalry goes WAY back. CalBear81’s post on it is great
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Football
Basketball (M/W)
Baseball
Soccer (W)
Hockey (M)
Volleyball (W)
Swimming & Diving (W)
Rugby
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Did he not invite you? Why didnt oyu go with him? Were you too busy riding the rails, a free woman?
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I shoulda done more SHBs. I only did the ones for like Big Game Week and MBB
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Even hockey?
I envy you. I hope to be like yuo so me day
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I went to a rave at Iceland once—yes a rave. It was waaaay cold and dancing on the ice was so much fail.
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Hockey
at Iceland had the BEST Cal crowds. Post-football game. Everyone was already drunk and hardcore. So much fun.
football, MBB, baseball, water polo
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
football
MBB
club volleyball
M tennis/ W tennis (of course)
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
Why is the Womens Tennis an “of course”?
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Oh, I thought he might have been on the women’s tennis team.
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whole different tuck rule in play
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by Fire Starkey on Feb 3, 2012 1:43 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
woah lol
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:42 PM PST up reply actions
FS= en fuego
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:29 AM PST up reply actions
You mean ever?
My list:
Football
MBB
WBB
M Soccer
W Soccer
field hockey
W Lacrosse
M Tennis
W Tennis
Rugby
Volleyball
Softball
Baseball
M Water polo
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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Ive been too...
Men’s Programs
* Baseball
* Basketball
* Football
* Gymnastics
* Rugby
* Soccer
* Water Polo
Women’s Programs
* Basketball
* Field Hockey
* Gymnastics
* Lacrosse
* Soccer
* Volleyball
* Water Polo
and, they kinda get paid for it too.
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--Thoroughbred
:)
well, they get paid to play basketball. The warm-up act is the prologue.
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FOR THE CURE
Susan G. Komen Foundation Adopts New Cancer Screening Policy for Worthwhile Lives
In conjunction with their controversial recent decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood clinics, the Susan G. Komen For The Cure breast cancer foundation today announced a new screening policy for providers, meant to detect and help save only “the most worthwhile” lives, which included a new emphasis on stamping out breast cancer in the unborn.
“The Susan G. Komen foundation has always worked towards a day when no woman has to lose her life to breast cancer,” said spokesperson Jean Gladson. “Thanks to these new screening policies, which will help providers determine early, and decisively, which lives are worth our saving, we’re going to be able to take a huge step in the right direction.”
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
WHAT does this MEAN.
new emphasis on stamping out breast cancer in the unborn.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Sounds like their going to be stomping on babies.
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Its a parody article
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well, clearly I have very little faith in this organization I can’t even see a parody article.
Cal: Bears with Books.
will all this go away
if we just nationalize medicine and be done with it?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
jumbaco and seal clubbing mention
These past two weeks have been a little too chaotic for my taste.
And while it was a crazy couple of weeks for the fans, think what a circus it must have been for the recruits. Imagine getting convinced by a coach that Berkeley is the place you want play your college football at, only to have him come back just weeks later telling you to disregard all those selling points.
And sure, a couple of guys couldn’t see past Tosh Lupoi’s shadiness and decided to take their talents elsewhere. They didn’t really want to come to Berkeley, and, honestly, Cal’s going to be better off without them.
But more decided to stay. Not even a boat filled with Jumbacos and seal pelts could lure them away from their dream school.
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 10:26 AM PST reply actions
Nicely done.
Specific enough to get CGB to lol, generic enough to just make enough sense for everyone else.
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I’m not sure if
a boat filled with Jumbacos and seal pelts
would make any sense to non DBD-ers.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Actually, that was mostly front page stuff. Anybody who read our front page would understand that.
So, in some way, the DBDers are the LEAST likely to understand!
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Dude, for all practical purposes, those 1000-comment front pages posts were DBDs
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
They were a bit more substantive, but they would break down at points.
That overflow thread on Wed morning got wacky with all those video game photos.
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Sigh, you bring great shame to the #09Gang.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
Well, TheBuckeyeBear lives in Ohio. Flag Guy said he thought Dubs was an adorable mascot (pre-Toshsaster) probably.
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
But, San Mateo! That’s two strikes! I AM ALONE AT THE TOP!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:54 AM PST up reply actions
What is best place to eat burritos and go bald in SM?
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rishi will tell u las palomas, i would have to say los moreno, and ywc is forbidden from setting foot on the peninsula
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
I thought I was just forbidden from setting foot on your penisula!
by Yes We Cannon on Feb 3, 2012 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
- #1
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Wait wait wait, TheBuckeyeBear is more loyal to tOSU than Cal and you cite her living in Ohio as her biggest metric of disappointment?
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
The "kick" video just posted by The Bench
It is worse than I thought… that douchebag who kicked Jorge better get suspended by the Pac 12
What are the rules to evidence (like fan videos) coming out after the game? Are there any or is it just a case by case basis?
Cal: Bears with Books.
Roxy Bernstein’s brother in law tried to kick Jorge and he almost went into the fetal position when Jorge juked him.
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
I’ll make a gif in slow mo
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
i can see that, i’m having trouble seeing anyone kicking anyone though… i could easily be blind.
"#caltrollgang" - RB
I heard he and Payton murder Ocelots for fun.
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, saw that on TV.
I’m surprised nothing came of it, though I’m glad Jorge wasn’t assessed a penalty based off how the Ref’s were calling things…
by OaktownAggie on Feb 3, 2012 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
I can't believe that video
WTF is Pasternack’s problem?
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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You and me both, we are the ones driving up non-farmer payrolls.
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farmers are greedy assholes! “no farms = no food” bumper sticker, eh? they how come i can go to in n out and eat a burger?! in n out isnt a farm!
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by GoldBlooded on Feb 3, 2012 10:58 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Homies, anyone need a Cal tie?
FINEGAUGE pin 9632
(If you decide to buy more than $50 worth, keep their coupon caus ethen you get 20% off AND free shipping fwiw)
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
This is a good one. The one I have says “CALIFORNIA” on it, and this one would be slightly less school-pride-ish.
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She doesn’t need to do anything to get attention, she’s cute as all get out.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Having seen a meme with ragscub, I concur.
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:07 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve seen you wear ties before and I think you wear them very well
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I love that great spell you jus tlearned!
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o wow
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All right, who was this?
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZqOkeYbB0
by AERose on Feb 3, 2012 11:20 AM PST via Android app reply actions
So yeah I liked the part of the movie when Jorge pointed straight at the guy's face and declared him Sanchez
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 11:26 AM PST reply actions
I would like to meet this Ms. Paint.
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She helped Jorge declare this guy Sanchez! Everybody wins!
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 11:52 AM PST up reply actions 8 recs
Adding to GIF Arym
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Well this has taken a turn for the
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
OH DEAR
Louis Helmburg III of Marshall University is suing the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity and fraternity member Travis Hughes, claiming he suffered injuries at a party in 2011 after the allegedly drunken Hughes attempted to fire a bottle rocket from his anus, Courthouse News Service reported Thursday.
“Instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in the defendant’s rectum, and this startled the plaintiff and caused him to jump back,” and fall off the deck, the lawsuit contends.
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Owwwwwwwwwww
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
But he didn’t jump back when a man pulled down his pants and shoved a bottle rocket up his ass?
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 11:44 AM PST up reply actions
How has this not been posted yet???
Tony G!!! Has there been a dreamier Cal grad in recent memory???
Awesome
He should go into acting when he retires.
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 11:43 AM PST up reply actions
I'm back, babydoll!
Anyone have a good recipe for pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw? Making sliders for the Super Bowl.
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No
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Thanks for nothing, DBD. I found one anyway.
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What to Expect at Your Super Bowl Party
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
At least her reputation isn’t sullied by any dalliances with ’furds :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 8:30 PM PST up reply actions
Im can confirm.
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Is there a ho chalice, like a pimp cup? Have you passed it along?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I don’t know why, but the phrase “ho chalice” tickles me.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 9:42 PM PST up reply actions
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Tramp Stamp?
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It’s more like the Wimbledon trophy, you get one when you win, but you don’t have to give it back when the next ho is crowned.
heh. the champs only get small replica trophies.
by the federer express on Feb 5, 2012 10:31 PM PST up reply actions
"Of course I do it doggy style, how the hell else would I do it?"
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
By the way - GREAT write up of the Game by John Breech
He covers Cal for CBS Interactive… And he totally rips on the officials (as much as a journalist can).
I particularly liked these passages:
Several police officers ran onto the court after the final buzzer as a precaution with the crowd of 9,690 especially feisty and frustrated with the officiating crew, which made a quick exit.
After several close calls in the final minutes of the first half, the officiating crew was booed for more than a minute once the halftime buzzer sounded. Montgomery stayed on the court to argue after his players had headed for the locker room.
Not as much fail as the refs.
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Idont care for your formal anti-semitisim!
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I think I like the U of Ahole coach’s face the best. Squinty.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:30 AM PST up reply actions
1 14-ounce package pita bread
Olive oil cooking spray or butter flavored Pam
4 teaspoons Greek seasoning, (total)
1 pound ground lamb
1 teaspoon garlic salt
1 16-ounce container prepared hummus , any flavor
1 1/2 cups tzatziki (gyro sauce) – purchased, or use recipe below
1 cup shredded iceberg lettuce
2 medium roma tomatoes, diced
1/2 diced red onion
1/2 cup kalamata olives, chopped
1 4-ounce container crumbled feta cheese
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line 1 or 2 baking sheets with foil. Cut the pita rounds into eighths. Split each piece in two and place on the prepared baking sheet(s), with the inside of the bread facing up. Spray with the olive oil cooking spray and sprinkle with 2 teaspoons of the Greek seasoning. Bake 7 to 10 minutes, or until golden.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, brown the ground lamb with the garlic salt and the remaining 2 teaspoons Greek seasoning. Drain and set aside. In a shallow 1 1/2-quart dish, spread the hummus on the bottom. Top with a layer of ground lamb, then the tzatziki. Layer with the lettuce, tomatoes, onion, olives and feta. Serve the dip at room temperature with pita chips.
1 1/2 cups Tzatziki: 12 oz plain yogurt, 1 1/2 c peeled, seeded, diced cucumbers, 5 TB chopped red onion, 3 TB chopped fresh mint leaves – don’t skip them!, 1 1/2 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp minced garlic. To seed the cukes, slice lengthwise in quarters and just slice out the seedy middles. Combine everything, chill.
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nice
The tzatziki recipe is a little odd though… I don’t usually seed Ior peel) the cucumbers, and I grate them on a cheese grater. I don’t use onion eitther; sometimes the garlic is too much especially if it sits overnight, and I love garlic. Also you don’t have olive oil or lemon juice in it, which seems wrong. I don’t usually mess with spices other than pepper but mint would be nice, and I"ve seen dill in it (but I don’t like dill).
Also, nowadays you can get greek yogurt everywhere and it makes a huge difference. If it’s not thick to begin with adding the lemon juice and olive oil makes it kinda soupy.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
Hmm… great tips. Thanks!
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try this!
2 cups greek yogurt
1 small cucumber, peeled, seeded, and shredded [I don’t mind the seeds and I think the peel is healthier and adds color]
2 cloves garlic, peeled and put through garlic press
freshly squeezed lemon juice (1/2 or whole, depending on how juicy)
olive oil (maybe 1/4 c?)
salt (careful with this… you can always add more but you can’t take it out!)
freshly ground pepper to taste
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:34 AM PST up reply actions
TY! Added it to my files. Mrs. Kod loves tzatziki.
I usually screw up and add too much garlic. ‘Thought about trying to roast it first so that it’s not so sharp.
Old Toothwrangler
Yeah, we love garlic (the missus eats it diced/raw on all kinds of stuff) and two cloves can be too much for us especially if it sits overnight. I think the roasting might make it too sweet, but whaddaIknow.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:46 AM PST up reply actions
consumer assistance - anyone owned a Roku box?
Thoughts?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
According to Amazon, for the Roku 2 SD:
Composite A/V combo output (for standard-definition; works with included A/V cable)
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Who’s the intended user and what type of media will be streamed?
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
Intended user is me, for netflix and amazon on-demand standard definition programming.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I was about to mention that if you like netflix/amazon-ondemand offerings, the Roku will go a long way for you.
I don’t have any first-hand experience with Roku, but I do have an AppleTv and GoogleTV at home that I played around with with streaming stuff from my NAS and web
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
I use netflix on demand quite a bit for my ipad. It would be nice to be able to stream to the television. I looked at the Apple TV but it’s HDMI output only, and doesn’t support Amazon… plus I don’t really use itunes for video except if I’m downloading something to the ipad to watch on a plane.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Upgrade to an HDTV first. FireStarkey Boomtho should be able to help.
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Too much like hard work. Requires research / fixing outlets in the “television” room, spousal involvement, etc. Plus, I wasn’t kidding about blowing the budget on spring break (and someone’s gym membership.)
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
this is true. TVs are really cheap now.
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
I’m sure all that’s true, it’s just not very important to me at the moment.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I want you to enjoy your televisioning, and you aren’t enjoying it as much as you could be… Sports are at least twice as enjoyable in high definition.
But newscasts are twice as horrifying with the closeups of reporters’ faces!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:35 AM PST up reply actions
Who watches the news??? You can just get HUffingtonpost on your internet!
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I have
a Hava/Monsoon, and it’s adequate although my mobile wireless is fairly stuttery.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
On the theme of the day: A Mixed Blessing
I enjoy the DBDs no end – while I’m not in Alabama like unclesam22, my job is isolating and I have not met a whole lot of college football fans around where I live… and this is an interesting community. Plus I’ve had some good music and shirt recommendations.
The downside? Aside from having to replace the Z key on the company laptop, it’s that whatever the subject, it seems like there’s always someone who’s been to more interesting places, listens to more esoteric music, climbs higher, runs faster, remembers more details about history, is better read, whatever. I feel like a total slacker sometimes.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I hear what you’re saying …we should ban fiatlux!
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by CalBandGreat on Feb 3, 2012 12:57 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
it seems like there’s always someone who’s been to more interesting places, listens to more esoteric music, climbs higher, runs faster, remembers more details about history, is better read, whatever.
I thought of fiatlux when I read that as well.
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
you're making me feel bad...
come on you guys be fair here… i have bad taste in music, i’m a slow unable to jump white guy, and I don’t chime in on high faluten reading stuff… yeah, i’ve traveled a bit… and i know a few people… and i can remember the attendance for every cal game i have ever been to… but come on…
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
A really repugnantly unlikeable degenerate
by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 1:14 PM PST up reply actions
You sir
have quite the life on envy IMO. I could only hope to be as fortunate within my life to have done so many great things. Granted we are approximately close in age, which makes me feel as if I have a lot of catching up to do. So kudos to you, good sir on sharing your experiences with us here.
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
Need pictorial evidence of inability to jump or we won’t believe you.
On second thought, it’ll probably have some drink-inducing place in the background, so maybe not … ;)
This is for Twist (and somoene else I was talking to...)
from the 1992 American League Championship Series against the Blue Jays… The Haases invited to do my thing there like I did at Cal games so I got an all access pass… was pretty cool
Did you tuck your button down shirt (over an A’s jersey mind you) into jean shorts?
Please esay yes
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dude
80s. Well, early nineties, but still.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:36 AM PST up reply actions
yup
but if that collar was popped, no mercy.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:27 AM PST up reply actions
i dont know if that makes it better or worse
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But you gotta look good!
I bet Mike gallego was there being all “Did he tuck his shirt into his khaki shorts???”
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Did you throw out the first pitch
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no, but true story… when they have my friend me the passes they said we could go anywhere but not down onto the field… so of course the first thing we did was go down onto the field and we were not 10 feet from Dave Stewart warming up in the bullpen…
I was so pissed at LaRussa for pulling Welch in game 6…
I might have been wearing that same outfit then…but then, I was 10 years old, and my mom was mostly responsible for my wardrobe.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on Feb 3, 2012 1:59 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I’ve met both you and my mom?
Really, this seems like a ridiculously easy question to answer.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on Feb 3, 2012 2:04 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
YOUR FACE IS A RIDICULOUSLY EASY QUESTION TO ANSWER
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No idea
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Don't feel bad
Look, I’ve made my choices in career, house location, and spawning that limit what I can do vis-a-vis travel. It’s the “going for the gusto” part I admire.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
But how high can you climb???
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That’s really the essence of being in the Cal community. So many overachievers.
The student athlete at the Hoops Party yesterday was a Molecular and Cell Biology major with a 3.5 GPA, she had qualified for the NCAA championship in swimming, and she was president of the Student Athlete Association.
well said
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"I'll never forget San Francisco and all those beautiful moments."- Andres Torres
by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
I think that there are always people who are more _ than whatever you are. So, I’ve stopped worrying about that. May as well benefit from others’ experiences!
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
--Thoroughbred
Tosh has moar self loathing than TwistNHook?
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
welcome to the world of being an $C fan – mediocrity abounds for you and your ilk.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
I knew I could count on you. If only I had taken that slot at Cal, I could bask in your approval. Too late, alas, too late.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
I was foreign then. In high school I fomented nativist anger over my irritating over-work. What could be more Asian than that?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
more work than it looked like
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
But nobody is more Scottish than you here!
Except for MacSec119, I guess. But besides him!
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That’s MacSec119 of the O’Sec119’s to you!
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--Thoroughbred
Are you Scottish or Irish? Make up your mind
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I always thought
“Scootie” had something to do with Scottish heritage, but I seem to have miscalculated slightly there.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:37 AM PST up reply actions
Doesnt mean shes MORE Scottish than DC Trojan! HES THE TOP, BABY!
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I feel like a total slacker sometimes.
Only sometimes?
Dammit, DC. That was the last thing I had going for me – I thought I had company in the old n’ boring w/ kids sub-venn.
Now I am sads.
Old Toothwrangler
Aquapy Oakland 2.0
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Is he wearing pants?
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Didnt it get condemned?
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how about 10 cases of kettle chips and 10 cases of nacho cheese?
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
This OMG SO SEXY
And since my tux pants are by the same brand, it’ll all work out!
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
I love my notch lapel (anti-notch purists can bite me) tux, but it’d be cool to have a shawl collar to switch it up.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
SPOILER ALERT for those going to hh
I have an orange tie and orange/black striped socks.
Dressing up is fun!
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
FUCK THE GIANTS
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That’s great you think that, but what are your opinions on the tux?
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--Thoroughbred
Some camping equipment, some new running shoes, a new pair of Levis, a new tie bar, and a few books.
New running shoes... I like it.
Have plenty of camping equipment. Already picked up a few books (and a kindle). That’s why it’s only $300. ;-)
BTW, Peter Reinhart’s ‘American Pie’ is an amazing book on homemade pizzas. Makes me want to try Pizzetta 211 out on 24th Avenue and California in the Richmond district.
$500; company stores up credit card points all year and then gets Amazon gift cards for personnel awards at the end of the year.
Rookie of the Year, Most Press, etc.
hey
I know nothing of this pizzeria! We’ll have to try it out.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 3, 2012 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
I bought those Levis I posted btw. They should arrive in time for tomorrow night, which is perfect since it’s a buddy’s bday party and I can wear jeans!
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
[It was a hip hop reference]
I’ll post on Monday how the jeans performed in the field test.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
I took my nephews to see that movie…it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Mrs unclesam texted me in the middle of it to complain about it. Horrible.
Buy 300 then burn onto 1074 DVDs?
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 1:44 PM PST up reply actions
Metric shit ton of music
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Stand mixer
Waffle Iron
Club soda machine for home use
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
--Thoroughbred
I have this waffle iron.
The waffles are amazing… actually only got this because of other gift cards…
sigh
I tried really hard to find a Cal waffle iron that would imprint the Cal logo
Like this one.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
haha
nice thread.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:38 AM PST up reply actions
Probably not quality enough for you, but I was in Sports Authority last week and they seemed to be dumping all their winter gear. I guess the stores are giving up on waiting for snow so might be a good time to shop.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:39 AM PST up reply actions
Might think about a new x-box. Current one is having trouble reading disks, and Microsoft wants a flat $99 fee to fix it, no matter what’s actually wrong.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
you can also replace the disk drive for $30ish on craigslist. if that interests you.
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The only issue with that is if it’s a bad/non-standard hdd, you can get banned from Live, can’t you?
or u get red ring of death.
Just buy a ps3
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
You have one of the olde hackable ones or the newer version?
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:06 PM PST up reply actions
the 360, we bought one modded but then it red ringed. we fixed it, then sold it and made like a $50 profit whatupppp
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no way then we bought another 360 THEN ANOTHER now we have 2 in our apt and a ps3 which none of us can ever play but still!!
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OH YES
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yeah, for a little bit. see you guys there!
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
Welcome to the internet, Steve Marshall will be your guide
Who the fuck issues a press release that basically translates to “Hi welcome me to the internets”
BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) — Some people have been a little bit slow to dive into the world of social media. Cal football coach Jeff Tedford is learning about the power of Facebook and Twitter
Social media has radically changed the way college coaches recruit and react to their recruits. Phone calls are old school. Now, it’s all about the power of the tweet.
“I’ve never seen such a time where an entitlement of a 17, 18-year-old can get up and type four words in the morning, hit send, and everybody goes into a tailspin. You know, so that’s just kind of where we are right now,” Tedford said. “No, I have a Facebook that I don’t do a lot of, but I’m going to be much more active in it now, I think. And, the twittering, I did it one time to say I was going to a concert and my wife almost threw me out of the car. Well just, ‘What are you doing? Who cares if you’re going to a concert?’”
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:27 PM PST reply actions
Dude, don't do that to me
That is NOT a press release… that’s a snippet of the transcript of tedford’s press conference.
you almost gave me a heart attack.
But if it were a press conference welcoming Jeff Tedford to the internet, what would he say?
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
Like this?
“Cyberspace is an exciting place to meet with and interact with fans and recruits. Twitter and Facebook are very athletic, they work hard, and are very competitive. We’ll prepare this week for Facebook and Twitter, it’s going to be a very physical and challenging interaction.”
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
Both Facebook and MySpace have been taking reps in practice. Both are quite capable of being Cal Football’s internet outlet, but we think MySpace puts us in the best position to win.
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CAL Marketing chimes in...
We are extremely pleased to announce a new strategic relationship with Friendster. Harnessing the power of this new and dynamic online platform, we think we will be on the cutting edge and at the forefront of the younger generation and our students.
by fiatlux on Feb 3, 2012 3:22 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I laughed
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Gotta keep the momentum going...
The crowds have been electric the last two games. LET’S KEEP IT UP! We need to keep this momentum going…we have the potential to have the most intimidating home court in the conference and one of the most intimidating courts in the COUNTRY. Let’s PACK THE HAAS for our final three games and help will our Golden Bears to victory—and in the process continue this momentum we have towards having consistently terrific crowds!
It starts tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 PM as the Bears take on the ASU Sun Devils. Spread the word! Bring some friends! Tweet about the game! Join this facebook event and invite everyone you know!
http://www.facebook.com/events/385883421436694/
This starts with us diehards! We need to help get the word out, drag our friends, and create new fans, so we can re-establish Haas as one of the most feared courts in existence. GO BEARS! #PackTheHaas
*Insert something witty here*. Oh, and Stanfurd Sucks.
Can one of you smart people PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST
The Jorge part of the game where he got kicked and then the crowd’s response… it was so awesome…. would like to get all 2 or so minutes of it as the crowd got on UofA then started cheering and then the students broke into it and then the whole place was doing it… get chills just typing that
You should turn up the heat then
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relevent: There is discussion on the CGB twitters getting votes about whether the kick was intentional or unintentional. Intentional is winning by a landslide – mainly based on the facial expression of Ariz coach.
Cal: Bears with Books.
he looks like he opened his lunch bag and found dogshit instead. coach looks like the biggest douchenozzle ever (but not dooch-nozzle).
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NYA NYA NYA NYA NYANYA
#doomgang
by Redonkulous Bear on Feb 3, 2012 2:58 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
DeCal 198
Interpretive Dance in American Sport
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:40 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Why is his chest blank? Is it better to do jello shots off of a unpainted chest?
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Perhaps I’m confused, but how would you do shots off someone who was flat chested?
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Seems easy. They just lie flat
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TWHS?
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 10:12 PM PST up reply actions
I was thinking like the bars on Bourbon Street where they have girls who put test tubes of what appears to be grain alcohol with food coloring into their cleavage and then invite you to take the shot, as it were.
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
He was the space
Between Go and Bears!
by OaktownAggie on Feb 4, 2012 3:42 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
GOOD LUCK!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 2:52 PM PST up reply actions
Our best hypothesis: the zoonews establish dominance in some headbutting ritual. Then the zoonew that wins gets to mate with Mrs. Zoonews. Unless a defeated zoonew gets mad. I don’t know what happens then.
Brave as a troll with a heart rare and true!
HOW BABBY MADE?
Best wishes, my man
Inspiring and completing since1997 since2010!
For after the delivery
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 3, 2012 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
I think you missed the point of the photo
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Ragnarok is pleased
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Chalice revoked!
I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time.
Zoonews=Dwight Scrute?
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WHOA
They’re replicating! Congrats!!!!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 6:06 PM PST up reply actions
congrats zoonews, Mrs zoonews, and zooborn!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 4, 2012 8:42 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
did anyone hear about the 116 dead dolphins yesterday? I heard something about it at the airport, but it was just before boarding, so I’ve got nothing useful to report.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 4, 2012 8:44 AM PST via Android app up reply actions 2 recs
holy crap, nothing ever posts in the right place on the mobile app. sorry for the threadjack.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 4, 2012 8:45 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
This is getting obscure, but congratulations anyway zoonewses!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:28 AM PST up reply actions
good luck to vosotros!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:40 AM PST up reply actions
$%^@^@%#$%@#$^@&@#$!%!
LONG TERM…
THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THE LONG TERM CONTINUES TO BE A BRIEF PATTERN
CHANGE LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. EVEN AFTER THE 12Z
MODEL SUITE CAME IN…MEDIUM RANGE MODELS STILL DO NOT PAINT A
CLEAR PICTURE. THE 12Z ECMWF KEEPS THE APPROACHING UPPER LOW
WEST OF THE COASTLINE AND DROPS IT SOUTHWARD. THE UKMET AND GEM
SHOW SIMILAR SCENARIOS FOR NEXT TUESDAY. THE GFS ON THE OTHER
HAND…DRIVE THE UPPER LOW RIGHT THROUGH THE RIDGE WITH MORE
PRECIP FOR THE CWA. IF THREE TO FOUR WEEKS AGO IS ANY
LESSON…THEN THE ECMWF WILL VERIFY MEANING LESS
OF CHANCE FOR PRECIP. WILL WAIT FOR ONE MORE RUN OF THE MODELS
BEFORE CUTTING PRECIP CHANCES…BUT IF THE TREND CONTINUES PRECIP
IS BEGINNING TO LOOK LESS LIKELY.
THE REST OF THE LONG TERM FEATURES A RE-BUILDING RIDGE WITH
SEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES. IF THE BIAS CORRECTED IN HOUSE MODEL
GUIDANCE IS CORRECT THEN WIDESPREAD 70S WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR THE
SECOND HALF OF NEXT WEEK.
KEEP CALM
AND
Z ON
what is wrong with the weather this winter? :(
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 3:23 PM PST up reply actions
NO SUCH THING
THEN WHY IS IT COLD IN THE WINTER AND IN THE ARCTIC AND IN MY FREEZER?
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
La Ninha's a bitch
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:40 AM PST up reply actions
but I think i love her.
No matter how bad she may be for our long-term survival, I will never get tired of sunny 73 degree weekends.
yeah
and that “maybe Tuesday” sounds pretty weak.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:41 AM PST up reply actions
They were kinda ok the first time. Three hundred variations later …
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--Thoroughbred
we need 33$$’s guide to the bay area again!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 3:16 PM PST up reply actions
My friend text me a photo from the game, which I linked to in the open thread. But you go and steal ANOTHER sites photo!??! When you could have used MY photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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yea, the student section looks good because they were giving out gold shirts right before tip-off. The rest of the crowd was about 50-50
Cal: Bears with Books.
A non Cal friend of mine emailed me yesterday to say he was going to the game. I harassed him into getting a yellow shirt as he was wholly unaware of any gold out thing.
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close your left eye. now your right eye. now your left eye. now your right eye..
by fiatlux on Feb 3, 2012 3:39 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, it isn't Vertigo
because that ends at the mission in Carmel, I believe, after the Kim Novak character falls from the bell tower.
And it isn’t The Birds.
Dark Passage?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
Your memory is probably better than mine.
I’m just throwing out movie titles, here.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
View to a Kill?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
Towering Inferno?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
What’s Up, Doc?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
48 Hours?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
well something obviously based in the bay
Indiana Jones and the Temple of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM?
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 3:54 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
errr if there’s somebody else there, i’m willing to hang out till whenever. of course, i’m detestable, so there’s that.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 3:51 PM PST up reply actions
people should still be there. I’m planning to stay until about 6
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
I think yelling, “DOOOOOOOM” would be more appropriate
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
bacon shake now available at jumbaco box.
by j.lee on Feb 3, 2012 4:17 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
4:30 for me and rishi… on that note, i might be ready to leave work in like 15 mins
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
For some reason, I’m imagining him pulling the fire alarm, wearing a zorro mask while singing “jan pehechaan ho.”
maybe cuz i’m listening to that right now.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
if that’s a code word for taking a dump, TMI.
if it’s not, it really ought to be.
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 4:10 PM PST up reply actions
Today?
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
yes sir. starts 4:30 @ House of Shields
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 4:03 PM PST up reply actions
Some people here are going on a beer run, so I might not make it.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
ok well i’m leaving work now, see y’all there!
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by RaptorApocalypse on Feb 3, 2012 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
still stuck at work. I hate busywork
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 5:14 PM PST up reply actions
My thanks to the DBD for...
Charles Tyrwhitt shirts
Scootie’s Mac & Cheese Recipe
Motivating me to watch Friday Night Lights
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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Interesting morning in my legal world today...
First, I read a lawsuit in which one of the defendants was “Aaron Rodgers” (not that one). Then I worked on a case in which one of the lawyers is named “Mark Sanchez” (not that one).
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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Not yet. In due time.
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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If you go to trial, I dare you to declare the other lawyer Sanchez. Or ask the judge to.
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I shall do everything in my power to make this happen.
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Motion To Declare Sanchez GRANTED!
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Id love to read the P+A on that motion
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your honor, I request to declare the defendant Sanchez
by the federer express on Feb 3, 2012 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
When I was out and about this evening I saw a guy with a kind of dirty blue hat with a yellow block C. Thought about giving him a Go Bears. He walked just a bit ahead of me and on the back of the hat it said Carleton. A check of the Carleton College website shows they also have blue and gold unis. We’re being ripped off.
sorry all. urgent client conflict. happy weekend!
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by boomtho on Feb 3, 2012 6:14 PM PST via Android app reply actions
What client conflict is so urgent that you need to take care of it at 615 on a Friday night?
“NOBODY IS TAKING JELLO SHOTS OFF OF HER CHEST, WHAT ARE WE TO DO?!?!?”
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you guys seem to think I relish blowing off plans to deal with shit that happens to come up because of a client freakout. not true. :(
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by boomtho on Feb 5, 2012 1:15 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
you may not relish it, but clearly you couldn’t cut the mustard friday night
(NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!)
No, I didnt believe that the client freaked out in the first place!
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You used to be cool, boomtho.
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--Thoroughbred
No he didnt
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DBD help
Scootie’s various recipes – especially the gorgonzola x artichoke hearts
CGB Fitness (sadly all gained back)
Keeping in touch with inane internet and real world memes in the US
Cool links to share on facebook as if I had found them on my own
3 Charles Tyrwhtt shirts
thanks to you
for having experienced most of the same Cal sporting events I did! And correcting my memory of same more than once.
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"I'll never forget San Francisco and all those beautiful moments."- Andres Torres
by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:43 AM PST up reply actions
that's a wrap for friday HH
A GREAT time w Raptor, Rishi, AndBears, Oaktown, Federer… I’m a little concerned that raptor is going to pass out and ride the rails of BART all night, but AndBears said she would get him on the right train at least. Ragscub is a lucky lucky man.
by fiatlux on Feb 3, 2012 8:14 PM PST via mobile reply actions
Ragscub is actually a female baby of uncertain fortune.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 8:19 PM PST up reply actions
she grew up and experimented!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Feb 3, 2012 9:13 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
Funny you should mention the riding the rails all night. It happened to me one night. I woke up in Pittsburg at 1am with no cash and not enough money on my bart card to get out of the station.
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I am at sam woo’s for a little post HH grease absorbtion
by fiatlux on Feb 3, 2012 8:32 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
What happened?
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He stayed there for the rest of his life. The End.
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I want my money back!
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True story
A friend of mine (former cal football player) was out celebrating his last day of work ever. And I mean ever. We started around 4pm on a friday, I was hammered by 8. Stumbled to bart AND WOKE UP IN PITTSBURG 5 hours later. i didn’t have enough money on my bart card to get out of the station and the station agent just let me go. i flagged down a cab and told him I needed to get to Oakland. He said he would do it for $80, meter off, cash only.
AND…
two days later, someone was shot and killed in that parking lot at around the same time of night.
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
Oh
and my cell phone was when I left work that day.
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Did you stop at an ATM or something?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:18 PM PST up reply actions
Why ever? Was he super rich or something?
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maybe he was on his last day to live (and that joke will be even unfunnier if in fact he was on his last day to live)
M<aybe he was going to liv ein one of Newts moon colonies
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This was pretty common when you decided to go out drinking with this guy. Another coworker of ours, ended up in Millbrae after a night of drinking with him. Of course, he showed up to work with a shiner and no recollection of how it happened. $100 cab ride back to the east bay on that one.
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Is he still in the oven?!?! I HOPE HES NOT BURTN!
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any raptors stories? Sounds like it …
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oh noes, you forgot turkey! and Mrs. Turkey made an appearance too!
by the federer express on Feb 4, 2012 12:23 AM PST up reply actions
What about turkey’s mistress? Was she there>
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Big Miracle is a saccharine movie. Dont see it
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Apparently, it’s a Drew Barrymore / John Krasinski movie about saving whales trapped in Alaskan Ice. Do they fall in love by the end of the movie?
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Do they fall in love by the end of the movie?
Doesn’t even need to be a question! It’s a Drew Barrymore movie. Shit’s so sweet it gives your cavities diabetes.
Shit’s so sweet it gives your cavitiesdiabetesdiabeetus.
California Golden Blogs: Ethnic food → pizza and chili → boboli → boobies.
Actually, paleodan, cavities are bacterial colonies which have eaten through the hard enamel layer of your teeth and infected the softer dentin layer. The bacteria which form these colonies are either streptococcus mutans or lactobaccillus. Because they, in fact, thrive off the presence of fermentable sugars such as sucrose, fructose, or glucose, it would be highly unlikely that they would be susceptible to a blood-sugar disorder such as diabeetus.
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by Kodiak on Feb 4, 2012 6:26 AM PST up reply actions 3 recs
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland. The 1890s!
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this guy'd totally fit in.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-south-korea-haircut-20120128,0,3507780.story
At 63, the third-generation craftsman has old-school tastes. He owns no cellphone, no computer. He has an electric cutter he rarely uses, preferring the eight pairs of stainless-steel scissors and other simple hand tools his grandfather used in this same shop. He maintains a barber’s fetish for German-made straight razors.
He doesn’t like to part with things, like his straight razor from the 1880s.
“Things might be old,” he says, “but they work.”
The Philadelphia Athletics should move there then!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 4, 2012 6:44 AM PST up reply actions
Finally
The work day is done and I’m heading out for a much needed Jameson’s.
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25 drunkest countries in the world
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-204_162-10011155.html?tag=page
there’s much work to be done…
56. United States (honorable mention)
Moldova FTW!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 3, 2012 11:19 PM PST up reply actions
Heading down to Stanfurd to watch the women water polo team...
then back up to Berkeley for the hoops game… not sure i’ll be able to hook up with everyone for lunch.
Saturday morning cartoon
http://youtu.be/9W63RzhO-J0
Lego Captain America v. Nazis. (Lots of red playdoh!)
We
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2K!
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In the end, it wasn't even close...
Aaron Rodgers wins MVP in landslide
Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has won the 2011 Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award in a landslide.
Rodgers earned 48 votes to two for New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees in balloting by a nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL. The Packers star is the first Green Bay player honored since Brett Favre concluded a run of three straight seasons as MVP in 1997.
Rodgers led the NFL in passing with a 122.5 rating built on 45 touchdown passes, six interceptions and a 68.3 completion percentage as the Packers went 15-1 and won the NFC North.
so am at stanfurd for women's water polo
And is it bad that as I walked across campus I wanted to punch every stanfurd coed in the face?
by fiatlux on Feb 4, 2012 5:36 PM PST via mobile reply actions
…why just the women?
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by atomsareenough on Feb 4, 2012 5:49 PM PST up reply actions
My understanding of the term matches the dictionary.com definition:
co·ed
noun
1. a female student in a coeducational institution, especially in a college or university.
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by atomsareenough on Feb 4, 2012 10:05 PM PST up reply actions
I have to be honest with you, I did not know that as a noun it only pertained to females. but it’s funny how you get technical, when it suits your purposes, but not when it doesn’t, if you know what “I mean….”
I’d honestly never heard it used in reference to non-female students before, so I looked it up to see if it had the same meaning I thought it did! Usually definitions are what they are. I think grammar rules pretty much are what they are. I think there are some style things that can go a couple of different ways, depending on preference. Mostly I just like thinking about language though :)
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by atomsareenough on Feb 4, 2012 11:06 PM PST up reply actions
would it have improved their looks?
by j.lee on Feb 4, 2012 8:03 PM PST via Android app up reply actions
I AM SO THERE WAR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Anyone know of a good aftermarket Nav + MP3 Imput system for a 09 Camry hybrid?
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no
but I just got one of these for my car and it’s worked fairly well so far. Bluetooth and line-in for mp3, also handsfree phone function although I haven’t tried that.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:31 AM PST up reply actions
lin > williams? well...at least for one night.
Lin Sparks Knicks, to Crowd’s Delight and D’Antoni’s Relief
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/sports/basketball/lin-leads-knicks-over-nets.html?_r=1
Jeremy Lin, whose unusual résumé is more well known than his game, emerged as the Knicks’ momentary savior, packing the box score with career highs and leading his team to a stress-relieving 99-92 victory over the Nets.
Lin scored 25 points, nearly doubling his previous career high, and finished with 7 assists and 5 rebounds, energizing a Knicks offense that desperately needed a boost. He outscored his celebrity teammates, Carmelo Anthony (11 points) and Amar’e Stoudemire (17 points), and outdueled Deron Williams (21 points), the Nets’ All-Star point guard.
yeah, my taiwanese/chinese/knick fan friends all seem pretty damn excited by his performance.
knicks found a pg? too early to say…but can see any of their current guards putting on a show like that.
by j.lee on Feb 5, 2012 12:06 AM PST via Android app up reply actions
25, 7 and 5 a game is probably too much to expect, but I think 8 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds much be nice.
waaay too much to expect. essentially, they just need someone to properly space the floor to keep teams wary of/difficult to double team carmelo and amare and someone who can penetrate and not turn the ball over. then the knicks could be a fun team to watch.
Someone uploaded the end of the 1st half bullshit
Here are the two back to back BULLSHIT calls to end the half… first the travel on Smith and then the foul on him… and the announcers says it wasn’t a foul…. and you can see Miller’s interview. It doesn’t come across the same on TV as it did there, but the booing was so deafening Miller couldn’t even hear the question.
I watched the vid of those calls. That ref has no balls.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Feb 5, 2012 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
I’ll give the ref the travel. The foul on Smith was a horrid call in any situation, let alone at the end of the half when the offensive player is in desperation heave mode and the defender is backing off.
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check out what happens right before the travel… i can’t quite tell who is dribbling but the UofA player clearly forces the pass because he’s pushing him with his body… now I don’t “really” mind no foul called, but then you absolutely CANNOT call the foul on Smith (same official by the way). It was atrocious.
Someone uploaded the end of the 1st half bullshit
Here are the two back to back BULLSHIT calls to end the half… first the travel on Smith and then the foul on him… and the announcers says it wasn’t a foul…. and you can see Miller’s interview. It doesn’t come across the same on TV as it did there, but the booing was so deafening Miller couldn’t even hear the question.
by the way, you can see my at 1:48 right above rebecca’s head, in my gold shirt, rather demonstrably waving my arms at the officials ;-)
"If the game is officated the same way, very well in the second half..."
Obviously Miller knew he was getting ALL the calls to go his way. I can’t believe he couldn’t understand why the crowd was booing. Fuck that guy.
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I probably asked you this before
are you the redheaded guy that used to wear a blue and gold rugby shirt and sit in the very first row at Harmon and scream in the ref’s ear on every throw-in play?
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 5:32 AM PST up reply actions
while that just describe me, I think you may be thinking of my friend.. not sure.
Also I don’t think “scream” would be the right word… I think discuss.
No, it was yelling, literally an inch from the ref’s ear. In the lowest bench at Harmon, where everyone had to move aside on an inbounds play because there was nowhere else for the player to stand.
But plausible deniability FTW!
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
I think we did maybe yell a little… but we had to be (justifiably) careful when it concerned the refs because we didn’t want to get (justifiably) kicked out… it really was SOOO different back in the day… much more interaction between students and the protagonists. We would make it really hard on the opposing players when they would take the ball out…
Sturridge!
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MATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DAVID LUIZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Have I been bamboozled into reading a scocer thrad?!?!?!
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What scocery is this?!
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by atomsareenough on Feb 5, 2012 10:37 AM PST up reply actions
duh
That’s Chelse FC of Kaliningrad.
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by natteringnabob on Feb 5, 2012 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
haha...chicharito fb feed...
50 minutes: Chelsea 3 – 0 Manchester United :((
Chicharito will participate in the match now
Chicharitoooooooooooo !!! Gooooooooal !! :))
Got a new trumpet!
Getzen 700 Fortuna II.
Should last me through the rest of HS and college… but it’s silver, so not a Cal Band instrument.
These guys are the goal for me: http://numb.northwesternbands.org/
France/Italy suggestions
There are tons of charming, small towns along the southern coast of France. St Tropez is the best (in spite of everything you read about it and it being so totally lifestyles of the rich & famous, it really is a small, hilly, utterly charming village on a lovely bay in the Mediterranean, with a wide variety of people and a lovely pace outside of the highest high season — if you are going in July/August, avoid, but any other time, it’s worth a night or two). There are hotels and inns in every price range, I would recommend something right in town, rather than in the countryside. I have stayed at La Maison Blanche, but just looking at their web site it looks to have become much more expensive since I stayed there. Might be worth Googling though, it’s a great location and a very pleasant, simple but nice hotel. In addition to cafes, shops, views and beaches, St Tropez offers some great hiking westward along the seaside cliffs heading out of town.
If St Tropez seems like it’s too bougie, there’s a more family-oriented, slightly bigger town across the bay (which can access St Tropez by ferry if you want to check out the yachts for a day) called Ste Maxime. It’s also right on the sea and there you could find some perfectly pleasant hotels for around €100/night for a double.
The next major city eastward toward Italy is Cannes, with the smaller towns Antibes and Juan-les-Pins in between Cannes and Nice. All are very pleasant and you could entertain yourself at virtually any price range in any of them. I have stayed at the Intercontinental in Cannes, and at the Hotel Martinez, both of which are pretty 5-star, set right on the Croisette, the beachside road in the city. A better option is probably The Cavendish or the Ideal Sejour, off of la Croisette, but still within the bustling part of the city.
Inland between Cannes and Nice is the town of St Paul de Vence, home of the restaurant/hotel Colombe d’Or, which, if you are interested in modern art, is a must-see. A number of artists used to frequent the restaurant when they were but young and poor and paid their bills in art, which now hangs on the walls. If you’ve ever wanted to eat under a Picasso or Miro, this is your spot. It also has a lovely terrace on which you can dine. Nearby is a beautiful hotel, Le Mas de Pierre, with great views, grounds, a nice pool, and large, modern, yet classically French rooms. Prices vary a LOT by season and booking method, so it’s worth Googling to see if you can get a good rate (I think I have paid around €160 both times I have stayed there on my own, and paid only €175 including full business meeting expenses such as breakfast/lunch/meeting rooms when holding an event there).
Further inland, Aix-en-Provence and St Remy are both charming country towns worth a visit. Aix-en-Provence is due north of Marseille, probably about 40 minutes inland, built of warm yellow stone and surrounded by lavender fields. St Remy is the home of St Remy cognac and is another hour or so northwest of Aix. There’s a cute, cheap hotel here to stay in.
In Italy, I really can’t recommend Lake Como highly enough. There are a few good towns around the lake to stay in: Bellagio, Varenna, Menaggio. They are connected by both ferry and road. Bellagio is the most famous and the most bustling, though none is really bustling. All the Como towns are very well served by VRBO (probably better than a hotel there, the hotels are v expensive).
Bellagio:
Varenna:
I lived in Florence for a year, if you would like recommendations for there send me an email at cgbscootie at yahoo dot com, and I will send you a whole list I put together last summer for another friend!
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