I can 100% provide evidence for the sibling thing. Brother and I grew up loving baseball. I stunk and made teams based on effort alone. He spent all his time playing ball with myself and my friends, and as a result of that competition starred in HS and was a four year starter in college.
My younger brother is about as bad at sports as I am, though unlike me he can ride a bike. (I would suggest, Craig, that our shared Ashkenazic Jewish DNA hasn't helped our athletic talents, but that is probably not true. If there aren't a lot of great Jewish athletes, it's probably because of nurture instead of nature in a society that values education over sports, with notable exceptions like Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax. But it's fair to say I don't have any of their talent.)
I wonder where my wife and I come on the vaccination priority list. I am over 50, on the border between overweight and "obese" and need high blood pressure meds. My wife is obese and borderline diabetic but under 50. I think that maybe she would be more likely to get permission for the first go-round than me, but I will have see what Cuomo and his people say. (As I was typing this, I heard that Cuomo is worried a lot of New Yorkers will not want to be vaccinated and is planning to start a "get the vaccine" campaign. I hope it works.) Anyway, my mom is clearly in the January group, and that is very good and will be a load off all our minds.
The Mets are bringing back Steven Matz at a fairly low and utterly unguaranteed salary. Given his awful 2020 season, this is reasonable. I really hope he can find his old self to some degree, but 2015 is long way back from here.
I literally didn't sleep last night because it hit me how unprepared I am for the segment of the CPA exam I'm taking at the end of the month, and how I wasted the last two.5 weeks not studying, even though I really, really needed to.
But you know what? I'm 100% confident today will be spent better than yesterday.
Tomorrow? Eh. I should probably find my own source of motivation for tomorrow. But thanks for giving me the push to calm down, make a pot of coffee, and settle in for today. I really appreciate it.
I'm looking forward to the updated Godfather 3. I actually rewatched it just a few days ago and I didn't think it was too bad, so I'm interested to see what Coppola does with it.
As an adoptee who constantly has to explain that psychology matters so much more than biology to the uninformed -- the people who use the term "real parents" in a conversation about adoption -- I really appreciate that sentiment.
Reading about your family history from your blog, you said "That may not have been as sketchy as my great-whatever grandfather arbitraging the Black Plague...." From what little I've read about the Black Plague, many of the serfs who survived leveraged the decrease in supply of laborers who could work the land. Wages went up (which the Crown tried to legislate against, leading to protests and riots), and some of the nobles had to sell off a lot of their lands to their former serfs to pay debts to nobles higher in the feudal chain. So your family helped end feudalism! And since the serfs mostly spoke English and the nobles (and members of the clergy, who died off more due to lots of community transmission) mostly spoke French, English became the dominant language in England shortly thereafter. So good for them, depending on your views of the rise of urbanism, the middle class, merchants, and ultimately capitalism, imperialism, and the global hegemony of the English language.
Coppola may be allowed a mulligan. Zach Snyder (he of the, "I just need $70 million for reshoots for the movie that I said was already in the can," fame) is not. I already HAVE the service it will be released on and I'm STILL not even glancing in its direction.
Greg Maddux is obviously the better player because he had to play against me in T-ball. Or maybe it was my superior leadership playing beside me. We were in the same league at Torrejon AFB in Spain in 74/75 - not that I have any actual memory of a kid named Greg Maddux. My mom has a team photo but none of the kids are an obvious 6/7-year-old Greg Maddux.
The only good part of being an asthmatic? Jumping the vaccine line but I have legit concerns about the vaccine and its side effects that no one seems to really be addressing in favor of relentless cheerleading.
I don’t think the guy who put 2 year olds in cages and attacked women and insulted a Gold Star family really has empathy high on his list of traits. Trump is so unabashedly antebellum say the silent parts out loud damn the consequences to anyone else that I will buy everyone in this bar a round (post COVID) if he has ever experienced a moment if empathy!
I've always wanted to write, but my anxieties usually put the kibosh on anything meaningful. I even have the title of a blog in mind - it's a play on the title of a popular book - and, to this day, it's STILL not taken by anyone that I can find when I do a search. FWIW I'm not afraid of failure or anything, it's just that I'm incredibly disorganized and I'd start it but then it would just die when I became distracted by something else in my life. Maybe I just don't think I'm that interesting. I CAN be witty here and there.
As to the Godfather III plot issue you raise, I'd argue that the Vatican is DEFINITELY more evil than the Mob. Any organization that protected priests violating children definitely gets the nod. The Mob would have had a field day executing anyone they found involved in THAT scheme, and I'm pretty sure many a blind eye would have been turned. Wouldn't THAT have been a storyline.
In answering Steve Cohen's question, I like David Dahl as the most interesting non-tender. Yeah, he's an injury guy. And yeah, Coors Field. But I think he can hit.
This observation is of no use to Cohen though since the Mets already have too many LF/DH type guys on their roster.
Yogi Berra and Mark Twain have got to be the top two people having false quotes attributed to them based on the quote sounding like something they would say.
The NYT article says the obese will be included in the Phase 2 group as a vulnerable population, along with those over 65. That's going to be a huge group considering 40% of Americans qualify as obese, and the non-obese over 65 will add to that number. It seems to me they should have narrowed down priorities within that group rather than just have 150 million people in a free for all. Unless they think they'll have enough vaccine for 150M or so people at that date, which I doubt.
I can 100% provide evidence for the sibling thing. Brother and I grew up loving baseball. I stunk and made teams based on effort alone. He spent all his time playing ball with myself and my friends, and as a result of that competition starred in HS and was a four year starter in college.
My younger brother is about as bad at sports as I am, though unlike me he can ride a bike. (I would suggest, Craig, that our shared Ashkenazic Jewish DNA hasn't helped our athletic talents, but that is probably not true. If there aren't a lot of great Jewish athletes, it's probably because of nurture instead of nature in a society that values education over sports, with notable exceptions like Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax. But it's fair to say I don't have any of their talent.)
I wonder where my wife and I come on the vaccination priority list. I am over 50, on the border between overweight and "obese" and need high blood pressure meds. My wife is obese and borderline diabetic but under 50. I think that maybe she would be more likely to get permission for the first go-round than me, but I will have see what Cuomo and his people say. (As I was typing this, I heard that Cuomo is worried a lot of New Yorkers will not want to be vaccinated and is planning to start a "get the vaccine" campaign. I hope it works.) Anyway, my mom is clearly in the January group, and that is very good and will be a load off all our minds.
The Mets are bringing back Steven Matz at a fairly low and utterly unguaranteed salary. Given his awful 2020 season, this is reasonable. I really hope he can find his old self to some degree, but 2015 is long way back from here.
Jesus Kyle, thank you.
I literally didn't sleep last night because it hit me how unprepared I am for the segment of the CPA exam I'm taking at the end of the month, and how I wasted the last two.5 weeks not studying, even though I really, really needed to.
But you know what? I'm 100% confident today will be spent better than yesterday.
Tomorrow? Eh. I should probably find my own source of motivation for tomorrow. But thanks for giving me the push to calm down, make a pot of coffee, and settle in for today. I really appreciate it.
Thanks for the lovely guest post, Kyle.
I'm looking forward to the updated Godfather 3. I actually rewatched it just a few days ago and I didn't think it was too bad, so I'm interested to see what Coppola does with it.
"The rest is just... documents"
As an adoptee who constantly has to explain that psychology matters so much more than biology to the uninformed -- the people who use the term "real parents" in a conversation about adoption -- I really appreciate that sentiment.
Reading about your family history from your blog, you said "That may not have been as sketchy as my great-whatever grandfather arbitraging the Black Plague...." From what little I've read about the Black Plague, many of the serfs who survived leveraged the decrease in supply of laborers who could work the land. Wages went up (which the Crown tried to legislate against, leading to protests and riots), and some of the nobles had to sell off a lot of their lands to their former serfs to pay debts to nobles higher in the feudal chain. So your family helped end feudalism! And since the serfs mostly spoke English and the nobles (and members of the clergy, who died off more due to lots of community transmission) mostly spoke French, English became the dominant language in England shortly thereafter. So good for them, depending on your views of the rise of urbanism, the middle class, merchants, and ultimately capitalism, imperialism, and the global hegemony of the English language.
I saw Today will be better than yesterday open for Industrial Shithouse at Wembley.
Coppola may be allowed a mulligan. Zach Snyder (he of the, "I just need $70 million for reshoots for the movie that I said was already in the can," fame) is not. I already HAVE the service it will be released on and I'm STILL not even glancing in its direction.
Greg Maddux is obviously the better player because he had to play against me in T-ball. Or maybe it was my superior leadership playing beside me. We were in the same league at Torrejon AFB in Spain in 74/75 - not that I have any actual memory of a kid named Greg Maddux. My mom has a team photo but none of the kids are an obvious 6/7-year-old Greg Maddux.
The only good part of being an asthmatic? Jumping the vaccine line but I have legit concerns about the vaccine and its side effects that no one seems to really be addressing in favor of relentless cheerleading.
I don’t think the guy who put 2 year olds in cages and attacked women and insulted a Gold Star family really has empathy high on his list of traits. Trump is so unabashedly antebellum say the silent parts out loud damn the consequences to anyone else that I will buy everyone in this bar a round (post COVID) if he has ever experienced a moment if empathy!
Also a nice guest post from a fellow Badger!!!!
I've always wanted to write, but my anxieties usually put the kibosh on anything meaningful. I even have the title of a blog in mind - it's a play on the title of a popular book - and, to this day, it's STILL not taken by anyone that I can find when I do a search. FWIW I'm not afraid of failure or anything, it's just that I'm incredibly disorganized and I'd start it but then it would just die when I became distracted by something else in my life. Maybe I just don't think I'm that interesting. I CAN be witty here and there.
As to the Godfather III plot issue you raise, I'd argue that the Vatican is DEFINITELY more evil than the Mob. Any organization that protected priests violating children definitely gets the nod. The Mob would have had a field day executing anyone they found involved in THAT scheme, and I'm pretty sure many a blind eye would have been turned. Wouldn't THAT have been a storyline.
In answering Steve Cohen's question, I like David Dahl as the most interesting non-tender. Yeah, he's an injury guy. And yeah, Coors Field. But I think he can hit.
This observation is of no use to Cohen though since the Mets already have too many LF/DH type guys on their roster.
Yogi Berra and Mark Twain have got to be the top two people having false quotes attributed to them based on the quote sounding like something they would say.
The NYT article says the obese will be included in the Phase 2 group as a vulnerable population, along with those over 65. That's going to be a huge group considering 40% of Americans qualify as obese, and the non-obese over 65 will add to that number. It seems to me they should have narrowed down priorities within that group rather than just have 150 million people in a free for all. Unless they think they'll have enough vaccine for 150M or so people at that date, which I doubt.
Yogi Berra: "Half of the things I said, I never said."