5. I like a good paper full of equations, but it definitely does take longer to read. I find that, in order to really understand what is going on, I have to grab a pen and notebook to work through all of the steps that aren’t shown in the paper. So that can be an impediment, especially when there is math involved that I don’t really know well.
During my grad school days, my professor gave me a paper and told me to get from one equation to the next. 14 days later, I was done (this is why I did experimental physics).
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
That’s good. However, make sure they haven’t tattooed a wall update on your forehead or a QR code in your mouth in your sleep just to make absolutely sure.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
3. Did my regularly-scheduled double-red last Saturday. Anyone in the city should absolutely do it, since Blood Centers of the Pacific makes it so easy. Their spot on Turk has a parking lot, nice building, friendly staff, and nice snacks. Not only that, if you sign up online you get rewards like free movie tickets that are good at many of the mainstream bay area theaters.
They also have a downtown location (with no free parking) and tons of blood drives.
I personally do the double reds every 16 weeks since it means I’ve maxing out my donations with very infrequent trips, but not everyone is fat / iron-heavy enough to go that route. Even going every 8 weeks is not so much.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I should probably start doing this, especially since I’m type-O. Do you think I will have any trouble with a not-especially-strenuous bike ride home after donating?
Also, does anyone know what this is about (from Mt Auburn Hospital’s requirements for blood donation)?
* Have not spent time that adds up to 3 or more months in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996; or spent time that adds up to 5 or more years in Europe from 1980 to the present.
Speaking of mad animals, I learnt that our shop dog is crazy for pot stickers. I gave him one after I was finished with lunch and he started dancing around and galloping all over the studio. It was hilar!
I seem to have some sort of block against it in my memory. I can remember doing the tests and figuring it out on at least three separate occasions, but I can’t for the life of me remember the result.
At the moment they have a specially-designed Giants shirt. No thank you! But I’m sure you could get the film tickets instead.
This is a good reminder, I want to see if I can get cleared to start donating again. I’m O-neg, and used to be a regular, but got a false-positive Hep B reaction in the mid-90’s and was told I could never donate again, even though I had two subsequent tests from my doctor that showed no trace of hepatitis. I found out later that at that time, the blood banks were doing batch testing of a dozen or so donors at a time, and if one person in the batch had HIV or hepatitis or anything else, it was cheaper to disqualify the whole batch than to retest everyone individually. This must have resulted in a lot of perfectly good donors being barred, and I think they don’t do it any more. Anyway, I’d heard a couple of years ago that some blood centers including Stanford will do a retest of anyone that was previously false-positived out of the pool, but I didn’t get around to following up.
Different things. The Giants shirt is just something they give you (if you want it). The tickets you get with reward points for donating and doing appointments online.
I think they may also give tickets to first-time donors.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Soeaking of French and baseball, here’s an update on Le Grand Orange, aka Rusty Staub, inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame over the weekend:
“I knew how to say ‘Le stylo est sur la table (the pen is on the table), but what good was that,†he said. I wanted to be able to say baseball things like, ‘The pitcher knocked me on my ass.â€
“If they ever give me an autopsy, they will find a piece of my heart has ‘MTL’ on it.â€
“This is not a crime that would be investigated by the LAPD or likely any other municipal police department,†Officer Karen Rayner, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said in an e-mail.
So much for the plight of the downtrodden! Sheesh. You haven’t really lived ’til you’ve seen video of a rat gnawing on the feet of a goose that was too fat and sick to escape or fight back.
Bone appetit!
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
The latin word for duck comes from the Egyptian term for fattening duck to make foie with figs, which we have been doing for 2,500 years.
1 I am anthropocentric so ducks wouldn’t be categorized as downtrodden. 2 If you have a problem with the production then set production standards don’t ban it. Its like veal. Veal shouldn’t be kept in a box, but the meat from Veal absolutely should be eaten. Everything tastes better if you treat it right.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
1 — the Egyptians did many things I don’t care to support.
2 — you certainly know better than this simple-mindedness, as you have to contend with the power of capital on a daily basis. They have captured the flag here, too.
3 — fact of the matter is that the term “shouldn’t” doesn’t matter much to the calf in a box, which is how most veal is still produced. So no, I choose not to eat it, ever.
4 — I agree with your last statement, and have no issue with eating food animals that have been humanely raised and slaughtered. Something is gonna kill us all — we can hope for a reasonable existence, followed by a quick and merciful end when the time comes. Nimann Ranch is a pretty good place to start; there’s also a labeling certification program, generally. That said, almost all American meat is neither humanely raised nor slaughtered.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Well Im glad that most American meat isn’t slaughtered. I like mine extra rare.
To your points:
1 You decided to wipe out a multi-millennial food culture because you would rather do that then pass some regulations to make it humane? What a crock of shit.
Instead we should be rewarding farmers who produce quality foie humanely by purchasing and eating their products and making it harder for them to be undercut.
2. If its so cruel why wouldn’t the American Veterinary Medical Association take a stand against foie? Why does the liver fatten naturally when preparing for migration? Did you know that they can still breath when being fed because of the different physiology?
This is a tiny tiny component of the American diet and out of all of the cruel things that are done by the Agro Industrial complex, this is a stupid place to focus.
3. And guess what its being voluntarily ceased in 2017 and banned in CA next year. Couldn’t we have done something along those lines here?
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Not to get into the weeds here, but on 2 your argument is invalid.
You can’t make an assumption that something is humane based on a specific group’s non-action. You also have to explain why some natural fattening is the same thing as intense over-fattening. The one doesn’t imply that the other is ok.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Two lines of reasoning ensued—determining what science says about the health and welfare effects of this practice, and whether it is advisable for the AVMA to take positions on specific production practices.
Long jump from there to approval.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
1 — not a crock. No less an expert than Michael Pollan reports that the American diet has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000. Most of those changes have been catastrophic for food animals, as they are now treated as an industrial commodity, kept in horrific confinement, over-dosed with preventive antibiotics because of that squalor, and fed an unnatural diet that makes them sick. Further, federal law preempts the field of most industrial farming practices — rendering your simplistic solution moot. Still further, where states Can regulate, they too have been captured by Big Ag — that’s precisely why HSUS had to resort to Prop 2 in 2008 — the legislature (read Harris Ranch) Would.Not.Act. The only reason they could pass a foie gras ban is precisely Because it’s a very minor piece of the Ag picture. And it was passed several years ago to allow transition.
2 — If you are looking for the vets to take any kind of lead on ethical issues, you will be disappointed. They are notoriously, tragically comatose as a profession. The hand that feeds them comes not from the animals they treat, obviously. They never even taught veterinary ethics in their curricula — anywhere — until Bernie Rollin came to Colorado State and started asking Qs. His work is transforming veterinary education in importantly humane ways. Good book: his memoir “Putting the Horse Before Descartes.”
In general, I understand folks’ not wanting to inform themselves on these issues (“I’m anthropocentric,” which is “I don’t give a FK” in Sunday clothes), because it’s easier to assume than chicken grows in shrink-wrap at the Safeway (which is also the way Safeway wants it). And once you start looking, it’s hard to look away and do nothing. The ultimate question here is: is it worth an animal’s suffering its entire miserable adult life to give you a momentary — if ‘amazing’ — culinary experience?
We homo-saps are really only one species, one that the world could get along fine without, and we’re not so different from many, many others in terms of adapted intelligence, emotion and, even systems of morality. Red-in-tooth-and-claw is bullshit, and the more we learn, the smarter and more sophisticated we find out other species are. So “I don’t give a FK” is really an awfully limited world view, esp. for someone who expresses great empathy for the trials of other industrial cogs.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Right and Foie constitutes big Ag how? Oh yeah it doesn’t. Its mostly small farmers.
Both of the biggest producers of foie don’t use individualized cages.
I am not in support of factory farming and buy most of my meat from producers with good records in that area. Marin Sun Farms for example or Golden Gate Meats.
Anthropocentrism doesn’t mean that I don’t know what Im talking about. It means that I care about how something tastes rather than whether it got killed to be on my plate. Face it. None of these animals would exist without thousands of years of humans killing them to eat.
Second, the gravlage period is 14 days. Thats hardly their entire life. Who is ill informed now?
My personal phillosophy is: Raise an animal healthy and having a good life, then kill it in as minimally painful way as possible, and then eat the whole animal, not just the premium cuts. Oh and cook it fucking rare. No animal deserves to die so that you can eat something that is “Well done”.
If that makes me a horrible person, so be it.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I probably shouldn’t do it, but I’m seriously looking at a northwest baseball trip next month. It’d look like this:
Northwest League – Everett @ Salem-Keizer (1 game)
Pacific Coast League – Sacramento @ Tacoma (probably 2 games)
Northwest League – Boise @ Eugene (1 game)
If I only go to one of the Sacramento/Tacoma games, swap Boise/Eugene with a Vancouver/Eugene game instead.
I’ve been through all of those areas but have never shot a game at any of them. The ballpark in Tacoma has been there for decades but within the past couple years it underwent a major renovation/rebuilding of the exterior along with some other upgrades to the site and I’ve wanted to check it out.
The place in Salem-Keizer isn’t much to speak of but Eugene now plays in a ballpark on the University of Oregon campus. I’ve seen it on TV a couple times and it looks fairly nice for the kind of place it is.
Just have to arrange for a couple days off and credentials.
Or for something even more adventurous consider a ballpark in the West Coast League, a college summer league. I’ve been to the ballpark in Bend; they had a Northwest League team there for many years, it’s an interesting throwback to the way minor league ball looked in the 60’s and 70’s and according to that site they’re drawing a respectable 1500/game. I don’t know about the other parks but the Corvallis one is the OSU park, and Kelso/Longview (“Cowlitz”) and K-Falls would also reasonably be on your route.
2. I feel like I hear about this every once and a while. It would not break my heart if parts of Manhattan were underwater one day, provided that no one expected me to scuba dive to get to work.
3. I tried to give blood a few years ago, but was told that I didn’t weigh enough for my height. I tried to be smooth and asked for a chocolate chip cookie anyway. And I was denied!
I’ve been wanting to go to a CCBL game for a while now. I’m not sure that I would be able to join you for those dates though (too middle of the work week). I will point out that the team based in Chatham is the Athletics.
It would be pretty cool if something like that works. Do they actually follow the A’s style such that wearing A’s gear would make sense?
I too have been meaning to go for years, but one of my goals would be to find a fairly high-probability “I knew him when” guy that I could then follow.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
I have a Chatham A’s shirt that I wear pretty frequently. The colors are blue, white, and red, but it uses the same script “A”.
Huh… I just discovered that they are the Chatham Anglers, not Athletics. Also, it looks like they have changed their “A’s” logo since the vintage of my t-shirt.
They used to be the Chatham Athletics, but somebody who holds the copyright on the name “Athletics” as it applies to baseball clubs made them change it.
We went to a Brewster Whitecaps home game last year. I think they played Chatham. No idea who was on the teams, but there were some guys from Novato watching the game who were following a player from Northern California somewhere. I’m sure that’s very helpful to you.
The Brewster home games are played at the local elementary school. Such a great, low-key atmosphere that it’s well worth checking out. Bring your own beer discreetly.
But that reminds me: the Pearl have begun their season. I’d like to catch another game there this season.
Keep an eye on Colin Moran, 3B for the Braves. He’s a UNC product who’s draft eligible next year and early projections have him going in the first round, maybe top ten. Scouting reports say excellent defense, strong plate discipline, good hit tool with a chance to hit for plus power. Numbers were down this year due to a hand injury sustained because he punched a door. Being a moran aside, I can totally see him as a potential A’s pick.
Ryne Stanek is also a RHP for that team and could be a possible #1 overall pick. 3 plus pitches (mid 90s fastball, curve, slider).
Also, Dylan Covey RHP, who was linked to the A’s in the Michael Choice draft and was taken by the Brewers but did not sign, is a projected top ten pick next year. He’s on the Orleans Firebirds.
Other players to check out: Austin Wilson OF (Stanford, Harwich Mariners), Austin Kubitza RHP (Rice, Firebirds), Jace Fry LHP (Falmouth Commodores, former A’s draft pick)
Hm, there aren’t any standout names on that roster. But then again, Cape Cod league performances play a sizable role in determining draft standing so by the end of the season, some of those guys may indeed create names for themselves.
Since you were on the fast track you would probably be a big leaguer with the A’s by now if you didn’t dislike the travel and want to pursue another career.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Any of you who were ever bored enough to read my profile on ** might remember that the first baseball game I ever saw, at age 10, was memorable for being interrupted by a strong thunderstorm. It was an event I remembered as terrifying, but also as a perfect microcosm of my relationship with the adult world and especially my dad. I saw the storm cloud coming and kept suggesting that we might want to leave, and my dad kept shushing me and telling me to watch the game, not the sky. I WAS RIGHT, of course, although if my dad were around to make the argument, he might say that we were better off in the stadium than on the roads when the storm hit.
I’d long since looked up the game — it wasn’t official, but I could deduce from the next day’s game that the Washington Senators were the Twins’ opponent. But for some reason during the game last night, I was inspired to see if there was any information on the storm. It turns out it wasn’t just any thunderstorm, but a derecho, and an early storm chase photographer took this picture of it:
WTF! No wonder I was worried, what was wrong with everyone else in the ballpark that could also have seen it coming? Then I found a microfilmed newspaper story that said that the winds were clocked at 100 mph, part of the roof of the ballpark was torn off, and the crowd fled the stands in panic.
Now I don’t feel so bad that I can’t remember the only time I saw Killebrew and Oliva in the flesh.
Those derechos are very, very bad. I remember of couple of these when I was in Iowa. One of them blew a train off the bridge over the Des Moines River just west of Bloom Boone. The next day I saw some corn fields that looked like they had been stepped on by God.
If this is in regards to the scavenger hunt, I must warn you in advance that I am a terrible terrible person and likely of no good to our team whatsoever.
Anything else, fire away!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
No need to apologize to me. For one thing, the part of the Least Coast they’re talking about is well north of me. Secondly, I wouldn’t really mind if South Carolina ceased to exist. I’m only here because Ozzwife loves her job. If I had my druthers, I’d be back in the Bay Area.
Where are you at, if I may ask? I’m here on the Least Coast for the same reason, more or less. When my partner in crime is done with residency here, I’m sure as hell going to cash in all my nice guy points to migrate back to the Bay Area.
As far as I can tell, no one in Northern California has a program such as hers. I think she has the know-how to start such a program from the ground up, though.
I understand. I worked there for many years, and I loved it, too.
On Friday nights the ex and I would head down to Fort Point, crack open a bottle of wine, drink and talk and watch the surfers and la,la,la. Then we’d head back into the city and have an amazing meal.
Those were great times. He actually wrote a song about it.
Just got some feelgood news — right after Katrina, I got a call from a Loosiana plaintiffs’ lawyer with 7′ of water in his living room (yeah yeah “good start”, but he was standing on a chair, okay FKrs?). Altho’ he’s a Cajun, his wife is from the East Bay and they decided it was a good time to move out here. We set up time to talk over coffee — I figured I could convey some ropes and call it my li’l contribution to the recovery. (Plaintiff lawyers don’t generally use headhunters to find jobs ‘cuz plaintff law firms are notoriously cheeeeap).
Long story slightly longer — I was completely impressed with him and we decided to work together anyway. Got him an offer from a great defense-side boutique, but their big insurance co. client threatened to fire them if they hired him — the idiots. Then he got another offer from a plaintiffs firm in Oakland (Boxer Gerson) and he took it — he just msgd me that he has won an $11.4M verdict for a truck driver who was crushed when the front axle of his garbage truck somehow fell-off. W00t!
Now, I know that corporations are people too, my friends, but I can only hope that the insurer who bonged him will get to participate in paying the award!
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Yeah — I doubt many people would choose to trade their health to live in pain for $11M, but in the hands of a less-able advocate he’d have gotten less, or nothing.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
They should probably just let him commit suicide and be done with it. Leaving him in prison until he dies is not really worth the expense.
Evidently other sex offenders sang, “Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!” when he was in jail. Because, of course, even your normal sex offenders apparently draw the line somewhere.
I don’t believe in capital punishment, and ordinarily I would say that letting a man get killed in prison carries a cost paid by our souls, even if it’s no great loss to society. But this guy is a monster.
When we got this project he said that we shouldn’t worry about the bottom radius. “they don’t need that, and if they do, we’ll hand work it in after. Last week he got on me because we were hand working that radius.
Thanks. :) And I try not to be a pain. But sometimes I think I am. And I think it stems from the fact that I can’t effectively communicate the image I have in my head without making the image first. So when my assistant doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do, I get frustrated because I can’t explain it.
You know what annoys me to no end? People in F&B who treat servers like shit. And not just being rude to a server who does a bad job. I mean people who are rude to the server from the moment they sit down. I think maybe they’re trying to establish dominance in the relationship, but I think it’s really pathetic and disgusting.
Publix has these really great all-natural Italian chicken sausages, so Ozzwife and I bought a pack a couple of days ago. I grilled them up, and then used our brand-new grill basket to cook some onions and peppers. So simple, but so delicious.
Yes, but not as good as Jersey Mike’s. I took a friend there the other day. Two bites in, she asked me where the nearest Jersey Mike’s was to her house.
5. I like a good paper full of equations, but it definitely does take longer to read. I find that, in order to really understand what is going on, I have to grab a pen and notebook to work through all of the steps that aren’t shown in the paper. So that can be an impediment, especially when there is math involved that I don’t really know well.
During my grad school days, my professor gave me a paper and told me to get from one equation to the next. 14 days later, I was done (this is why I did experimental physics).
It’s easy to mingle when you’re bilingual!
–phrase my high school French teacher recited almost every day
I’m merely dallying with languages and linguistics, for the most part, other than Spanish.. Progreso en mi estudios de Español. Quiero escibiré canciones en Spanglish.
I’ve checked my Facebook settings. I’m clean. I can give blood.
That’s good. However, make sure they haven’t tattooed a wall update on your forehead or a QR code in your mouth in your sleep just to make absolutely sure.
Good idea. They’re tricky.
3. Did my regularly-scheduled double-red last Saturday. Anyone in the city should absolutely do it, since Blood Centers of the Pacific makes it so easy. Their spot on Turk has a parking lot, nice building, friendly staff, and nice snacks. Not only that, if you sign up online you get rewards like free movie tickets that are good at many of the mainstream bay area theaters.
They also have a downtown location (with no free parking) and tons of blood drives.
I personally do the double reds every 16 weeks since it means I’ve maxing out my donations with very infrequent trips, but not everyone is fat / iron-heavy enough to go that route. Even going every 8 weeks is not so much.
I should probably start doing this, especially since I’m type-O. Do you think I will have any trouble with a not-especially-strenuous bike ride home after donating?
Also, does anyone know what this is about (from Mt Auburn Hospital’s requirements for blood donation)?
* Have not spent time that adds up to 3 or more months in the United Kingdom between 1980 and 1996; or spent time that adds up to 5 or more years in Europe from 1980 to the present.
I think it’s Mad Cow, but I’m not sure.
If that describes you you could certainly call in and see if it is a DQ or not.
It doesn’t describe me, I was just curious.
Yep, mad cow.
Speaking of mad animals, I learnt that our shop dog is crazy for pot stickers. I gave him one after I was finished with lunch and he started dancing around and galloping all over the studio. It was hilar!
Nice
cue ptbnl
5 day lag to the wild west coast of Scotland
Pretty!
I would plan to give yourself extra time in the snack bar after donating, and prepare to be on the sluggish side.
Are you talking steep SF hills?
Nope, gentle Watertown MA hills, and only like a 10 minute ride.
You’d probably be fine.
I’m AB+
I’m AB-
Thanks, and go As.
We be uncommon.
You guys should both give. Rare types.
I’ve done so many times. Have also given platelets.
…I should probably figure out what blood type I am, someday.
They’ll tell you
I seem to have some sort of block against it in my memory. I can remember doing the tests and figuring it out on at least three separate occasions, but I can’t for the life of me remember the result.
At the moment they have a specially-designed Giants shirt. No thank you! But I’m sure you could get the film tickets instead.
This is a good reminder, I want to see if I can get cleared to start donating again. I’m O-neg, and used to be a regular, but got a false-positive Hep B reaction in the mid-90’s and was told I could never donate again, even though I had two subsequent tests from my doctor that showed no trace of hepatitis. I found out later that at that time, the blood banks were doing batch testing of a dozen or so donors at a time, and if one person in the batch had HIV or hepatitis or anything else, it was cheaper to disqualify the whole batch than to retest everyone individually. This must have resulted in a lot of perfectly good donors being barred, and I think they don’t do it any more. Anyway, I’d heard a couple of years ago that some blood centers including Stanford will do a retest of anyone that was previously false-positived out of the pool, but I didn’t get around to following up.
Different things. The Giants shirt is just something they give you (if you want it). The tickets you get with reward points for donating and doing appointments online.
I think they may also give tickets to first-time donors.
Oh well, if they insisted on giving the Giants shirt, I’m sure I could make use of it, my cat is always barfing up hairballs.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords. Cheap pizza!
46 slices per year? My pizza consumption is far in excess of that figure.
Soeaking of French and baseball, here’s an update on Le Grand Orange, aka Rusty Staub, inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame over the weekend:
(sniff!)
And hope for California fans of fatty liver — err, make that: severe and unnecessary animal cruelty undertaken to produce an unhealthful product that is the gustatory equivalent of wearing fur. [tdf]
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Thank god they aren’t enforcing it. Foie is amazing
So much for the plight of the downtrodden! Sheesh. You haven’t really lived ’til you’ve seen video of a rat gnawing on the feet of a goose that was too fat and sick to escape or fight back.
Bone appetit!
The latin word for duck comes from the Egyptian term for fattening duck to make foie with figs, which we have been doing for 2,500 years.
1 I am anthropocentric so ducks wouldn’t be categorized as downtrodden. 2 If you have a problem with the production then set production standards don’t ban it. Its like veal. Veal shouldn’t be kept in a box, but the meat from Veal absolutely should be eaten. Everything tastes better if you treat it right.
1 — the Egyptians did many things I don’t care to support.
2 — you certainly know better than this simple-mindedness, as you have to contend with the power of capital on a daily basis. They have captured the flag here, too.
3 — fact of the matter is that the term “shouldn’t” doesn’t matter much to the calf in a box, which is how most veal is still produced. So no, I choose not to eat it, ever.
4 — I agree with your last statement, and have no issue with eating food animals that have been humanely raised and slaughtered. Something is gonna kill us all — we can hope for a reasonable existence, followed by a quick and merciful end when the time comes. Nimann Ranch is a pretty good place to start; there’s also a labeling certification program, generally. That said, almost all American meat is neither humanely raised nor slaughtered.
Well Im glad that most American meat isn’t slaughtered. I like mine extra rare.
To your points:
1 You decided to wipe out a multi-millennial food culture because you would rather do that then pass some regulations to make it humane? What a crock of shit.
Instead we should be rewarding farmers who produce quality foie humanely by purchasing and eating their products and making it harder for them to be undercut.
2. If its so cruel why wouldn’t the American Veterinary Medical Association take a stand against foie? Why does the liver fatten naturally when preparing for migration? Did you know that they can still breath when being fed because of the different physiology?
This is a tiny tiny component of the American diet and out of all of the cruel things that are done by the Agro Industrial complex, this is a stupid place to focus.
3. And guess what its being voluntarily ceased in 2017 and banned in CA next year. Couldn’t we have done something along those lines here?
Not to get into the weeds here, but on 2 your argument is invalid.
You can’t make an assumption that something is humane based on a specific group’s non-action. You also have to explain why some natural fattening is the same thing as intense over-fattening. The one doesn’t imply that the other is ok.
Im not making the assumption that it is humane. Im making the assumption that its not clearly extra inhumane than anything else we do.
Also does not follow. For example, I don’t see them taking a position on types of food on their website (at least in any prominent way).
They did take a vote on it
Long jump from there to approval.
When did I say they approved?
I said they did not disapprove.
But as evidence that it isn’t a cruel practice
1 — not a crock. No less an expert than Michael Pollan reports that the American diet has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000. Most of those changes have been catastrophic for food animals, as they are now treated as an industrial commodity, kept in horrific confinement, over-dosed with preventive antibiotics because of that squalor, and fed an unnatural diet that makes them sick. Further, federal law preempts the field of most industrial farming practices — rendering your simplistic solution moot. Still further, where states Can regulate, they too have been captured by Big Ag — that’s precisely why HSUS had to resort to Prop 2 in 2008 — the legislature (read Harris Ranch) Would.Not.Act. The only reason they could pass a foie gras ban is precisely Because it’s a very minor piece of the Ag picture. And it was passed several years ago to allow transition.
2 — If you are looking for the vets to take any kind of lead on ethical issues, you will be disappointed. They are notoriously, tragically comatose as a profession. The hand that feeds them comes not from the animals they treat, obviously. They never even taught veterinary ethics in their curricula — anywhere — until Bernie Rollin came to Colorado State and started asking Qs. His work is transforming veterinary education in importantly humane ways. Good book: his memoir “Putting the Horse Before Descartes.”
In general, I understand folks’ not wanting to inform themselves on these issues (“I’m anthropocentric,” which is “I don’t give a FK” in Sunday clothes), because it’s easier to assume than chicken grows in shrink-wrap at the Safeway (which is also the way Safeway wants it). And once you start looking, it’s hard to look away and do nothing. The ultimate question here is: is it worth an animal’s suffering its entire miserable adult life to give you a momentary — if ‘amazing’ — culinary experience?
We homo-saps are really only one species, one that the world could get along fine without, and we’re not so different from many, many others in terms of adapted intelligence, emotion and, even systems of morality. Red-in-tooth-and-claw is bullshit, and the more we learn, the smarter and more sophisticated we find out other species are. So “I don’t give a FK” is really an awfully limited world view, esp. for someone who expresses great empathy for the trials of other industrial cogs.
Right and Foie constitutes big Ag how? Oh yeah it doesn’t. Its mostly small farmers.
Both of the biggest producers of foie don’t use individualized cages.
I am not in support of factory farming and buy most of my meat from producers with good records in that area. Marin Sun Farms for example or Golden Gate Meats.
Anthropocentrism doesn’t mean that I don’t know what Im talking about. It means that I care about how something tastes rather than whether it got killed to be on my plate. Face it. None of these animals would exist without thousands of years of humans killing them to eat.
Second, the gravlage period is 14 days. Thats hardly their entire life. Who is ill informed now?
My personal phillosophy is: Raise an animal healthy and having a good life, then kill it in as minimally painful way as possible, and then eat the whole animal, not just the premium cuts. Oh and cook it fucking rare. No animal deserves to die so that you can eat something that is “Well done”.
If that makes me a horrible person, so be it.
I’m glad we agree on “rare.”
I probably shouldn’t do it, but I’m seriously looking at a northwest baseball trip next month. It’d look like this:
Northwest League – Everett @ Salem-Keizer (1 game)
Pacific Coast League – Sacramento @ Tacoma (probably 2 games)
Northwest League – Boise @ Eugene (1 game)
If I only go to one of the Sacramento/Tacoma games, swap Boise/Eugene with a Vancouver/Eugene game instead.
I’ve been through all of those areas but have never shot a game at any of them. The ballpark in Tacoma has been there for decades but within the past couple years it underwent a major renovation/rebuilding of the exterior along with some other upgrades to the site and I’ve wanted to check it out.
The place in Salem-Keizer isn’t much to speak of but Eugene now plays in a ballpark on the University of Oregon campus. I’ve seen it on TV a couple times and it looks fairly nice for the kind of place it is.
Just have to arrange for a couple days off and credentials.
Or for something even more adventurous consider a ballpark in the West Coast League, a college summer league. I’ve been to the ballpark in Bend; they had a Northwest League team there for many years, it’s an interesting throwback to the way minor league ball looked in the 60’s and 70’s and according to that site they’re drawing a respectable 1500/game. I don’t know about the other parks but the Corvallis one is the OSU park, and Kelso/Longview (“Cowlitz”) and K-Falls would also reasonably be on your route.
May have to look into that sometime, thanks.
2. I feel like I hear about this every once and a while. It would not break my heart if parts of Manhattan were underwater one day, provided that no one expected me to scuba dive to get to work.
3. I tried to give blood a few years ago, but was told that I didn’t weigh enough for my height. I tried to be smooth and asked for a chocolate chip cookie anyway. And I was denied!
Shortsighted on their part — how are s’pozed to gain all that weight?
EXACTLY.
I just got my tickets for the Legends of Baseball Vintage Showdown. Stockton. July 4. Be there. Aloha.
Here’s a question for you prospect types. I’m going to be on Cape Cod from 7/23-7/27. Are there any CCBL games/teams I should particularly try to see?
I’ve been wanting to go to a CCBL game for a while now. I’m not sure that I would be able to join you for those dates though (too middle of the work week). I will point out that the team based in Chatham is the Athletics.
It would be pretty cool if something like that works. Do they actually follow the A’s style such that wearing A’s gear would make sense?
I too have been meaning to go for years, but one of my goals would be to find a fairly high-probability “I knew him when” guy that I could then follow.
I have a Chatham A’s shirt that I wear pretty frequently. The colors are blue, white, and red, but it uses the same script “A”.
Huh… I just discovered that they are the Chatham Anglers, not Athletics. Also, it looks like they have changed their “A’s” logo since the vintage of my t-shirt.
They used to be the Chatham Athletics, but somebody who holds the copyright on the name “Athletics” as it applies to baseball clubs made them change it.
Can we blame it on Wolff?
I know the sslingers went to some games last year, so you might ask him.
We went to a Brewster Whitecaps home game last year. I think they played Chatham. No idea who was on the teams, but there were some guys from Novato watching the game who were following a player from Northern California somewhere. I’m sure that’s very helpful to you.
The Brewster home games are played at the local elementary school. Such a great, low-key atmosphere that it’s well worth checking out. Bring your own beer discreetly.
But that reminds me: the Pearl have begun their season. I’d like to catch another game there this season.
I’d definitely try to catch a Bourne Braves game.
Keep an eye on Colin Moran, 3B for the Braves. He’s a UNC product who’s draft eligible next year and early projections have him going in the first round, maybe top ten. Scouting reports say excellent defense, strong plate discipline, good hit tool with a chance to hit for plus power. Numbers were down this year due to a hand injury sustained because he punched a door. Being a moran aside, I can totally see him as a potential A’s pick.
Ryne Stanek is also a RHP for that team and could be a possible #1 overall pick. 3 plus pitches (mid 90s fastball, curve, slider).
Also, Dylan Covey RHP, who was linked to the A’s in the Michael Choice draft and was taken by the Brewers but did not sign, is a projected top ten pick next year. He’s on the Orleans Firebirds.
Other players to check out: Austin Wilson OF (Stanford, Harwich Mariners), Austin Kubitza RHP (Rice, Firebirds), Jace Fry LHP (Falmouth Commodores, former A’s draft pick)
Thanks!
I think we will. They play on the cape on 7/24 (against Chatham), so I think we’ll try to catch that one.
Anyone on the We’re-really-not-the-Athletics that I should care about to go with that Bourne list?
Hm, there aren’t any standout names on that roster. But then again, Cape Cod league performances play a sizable role in determining draft standing so by the end of the season, some of those guys may indeed create names for themselves.
Fair enough. I’ll do some eyeball scouting then, based on my extensive experience as a little league player.
look for weak contact inducers
Since you were on the fast track you would probably be a big leaguer with the A’s by now if you didn’t dislike the travel and want to pursue another career.
I surveyed top-end tax rates in the Clinton era and decided it wasn’t worth the effort to make all that money.
I was super into Covey that year.
Any of you who were ever bored enough to read my profile on ** might remember that the first baseball game I ever saw, at age 10, was memorable for being interrupted by a strong thunderstorm. It was an event I remembered as terrifying, but also as a perfect microcosm of my relationship with the adult world and especially my dad. I saw the storm cloud coming and kept suggesting that we might want to leave, and my dad kept shushing me and telling me to watch the game, not the sky. I WAS RIGHT, of course, although if my dad were around to make the argument, he might say that we were better off in the stadium than on the roads when the storm hit.
I’d long since looked up the game — it wasn’t official, but I could deduce from the next day’s game that the Washington Senators were the Twins’ opponent. But for some reason during the game last night, I was inspired to see if there was any information on the storm. It turns out it wasn’t just any thunderstorm, but a derecho, and an early storm chase photographer took this picture of it:
WTF! No wonder I was worried, what was wrong with everyone else in the ballpark that could also have seen it coming? Then I found a microfilmed newspaper story that said that the winds were clocked at 100 mph, part of the roof of the ballpark was torn off, and the crowd fled the stands in panic.
Now I don’t feel so bad that I can’t remember the only time I saw Killebrew and Oliva in the flesh.
Wow.
that is amazingly intense, n. wow.
Pfft. It’s just a little wind.
Dad?
Whoa!
Holy crap!
It can’t have been very much of the roof, since they played there the next night.
Memorable
That is stunning!
Those derechos are very, very bad. I remember of couple of these when I was in Iowa. One of them blew a train off the bridge over the Des Moines River just west of
BloomBoone. The next day I saw some corn fields that looked like they had been stepped on by God.Any candidate who trolls Red Sox fans can have my vote.
Heh.
I can never decide if those players are blessed or cursed. Is it better to never know if they’re booing?
I see no downside to not knowing. The best name would be Lou Bum.
Downside is you also don’t know when they’re cheering.
So it’s an upside if you suck or a downside if you’re awesome.
paging Kay! what email addy is best for me to reach you?
If this is in regards to the scavenger hunt, I must warn you in advance that I am a terrible terrible person and likely of no good to our team whatsoever.
Anything else, fire away!
thanks! not about the scavenger hunt; wanted to give you an update about what we were talking about during the FKgate. :)
okay, emailed you. ♥
“un assortiment” — is that a male’s exit?
French for “a mix” or “an assortment”
I coulda sworn the ‘i’ was extra — hence the pun on exit, mais, sacre bleu! Ce n’est pas vrai; you and babylon.com have disabused me.
Merde.
i just found a song that was surely written for critter.
lol, wow!
Whoa, this actually came up in a playlist I had to upload at work this afternoon. That’s spooky (and not just from the Rozz Williams factor).
pretty random coincidence. mine came up with the help of no online algorhythms and everything.
8. Moyer signed to minor league contract by Blue Jays
dammit!
Billy, why do you hate craftiness?
Not hard to see why:
No need to apologize to me. For one thing, the part of the Least Coast they’re talking about is well north of me. Secondly, I wouldn’t really mind if South Carolina ceased to exist. I’m only here because Ozzwife loves her job. If I had my druthers, I’d be back in the Bay Area.
Where are you at, if I may ask? I’m here on the Least Coast for the same reason, more or less. When my partner in crime is done with residency here, I’m sure as hell going to cash in all my nice guy points to migrate back to the Bay Area.
I’m in Charleston, how about you?
I’m in the Tristate Area. I hear the surfing is better down where you are.
I don’t surf, so I couldn’t say.
Ozzie! ♥
Well, if her program ever runs into trouble, we will find her one here, for sure. That would be awesome for all of us!
As far as I can tell, no one in Northern California has a program such as hers. I think she has the know-how to start such a program from the ground up, though.
I’m pretty sure Alice Waters could help. Or maybe even Thomas Keller. How would you like to live in the Napa Valley?
I could deal with that, although I really want to live in the City.
Really? Why is that?
Extraordinarily high rents vs. much lower East Bay rents with great access. Why?
It’s my city. And I love it.
I understand. I worked there for many years, and I loved it, too.
On Friday nights the ex and I would head down to Fort Point, crack open a bottle of wine, drink and talk and watch the surfers and la,la,la. Then we’d head back into the city and have an amazing meal.
Those were great times. He actually wrote a song about it.
Seinfeld said you can’t “yada yada yada” sex. Can you “la la la” it?
Idk, but I think you can la,la,la making out, and such.
Ah, ok.
La la la means I love you, so I would assume yes.
So when I tell Ozzwife that I love her and she sing-songs “La la la,” she’s actually saying it back? All this time I thought she was just ignoring me.
Did she put her fingers in her ears first? I’m sure there are multiple meanings..
No, she sticks her middle finger up at me. I wonder what that could mean.
YOURE NUMBER 1!!!
I was hoping it was an invitation to a lewd act.
Yeah you do have to pay the “I live in a more awesome place” tax when you live in the City
1. Divorce your wife
2. Marry me
3. Move to the Bay together
That could work on so many levels. sigh.
The problem with #2 is that you won’t let me see your boobs unless I’m dying. And I kinda like looking at my wife’s boobs.
I’d let you see them if we were married.
I’m married.
for now.
Thanks, and go As.
:)
I gotta take the car for a test drive before I buy.
The only reason to do that is for babies.
I’d let you see them, not touch me/them.
That’s enough for me.
Thanks, and go As.
I sound like a whore, which really isn’t the case.
I sound like a pig, which kinda is.
Thanks, and go As.
You’re just a boy…
… that knows what he likes.
…very true
Thanks, and go As.
…also true
Thanks, and go As.
And I lof you.
♥
Thanks, and go As.
:) ♥
Sounds like a pretty typical marriage, then.
What was all that about Grant Brisbee and Spiderman? Oh, I see.
Just got some feelgood news — right after Katrina, I got a call from a Loosiana plaintiffs’ lawyer with 7′ of water in his living room (yeah yeah “good start”, but he was standing on a chair, okay FKrs?). Altho’ he’s a Cajun, his wife is from the East Bay and they decided it was a good time to move out here. We set up time to talk over coffee — I figured I could convey some ropes and call it my li’l contribution to the recovery. (Plaintiff lawyers don’t generally use headhunters to find jobs ‘cuz plaintff law firms are notoriously cheeeeap).
Long story slightly longer — I was completely impressed with him and we decided to work together anyway. Got him an offer from a great defense-side boutique, but their big insurance co. client threatened to fire them if they hired him — the idiots. Then he got another offer from a plaintiffs firm in Oakland (Boxer Gerson) and he took it — he just msgd me that he has won an $11.4M verdict for a truck driver who was crushed when the front axle of his garbage truck somehow fell-off. W00t!
Now, I know that corporations are people too, my friends, but I can only hope that the insurer who bonged him will get to participate in paying the award!
W00t! I love those kind of stories. I’m soooo curious about the other firm, I used to bank a couple of those when I still did that.
Email me: tfcmail@gmail.com
done.
I’m sad for the truck driver, though. I’m sure that medical expenses will eat up most of what he’s getting.
But YAY for your friend! :)
Yeah — I doubt many people would choose to trade their health to live in pain for $11M, but in the hands of a less-able advocate he’d have gotten less, or nothing.
Yes, that is true. Better call Saul.
cool. can I haz a job like that?
Is it me or would parading kids past Jerry Sandusky’s cell all day long be tantamount to torture for him?
Holographs of kids, maybe, but not the real thing. EW!
You know, I don’t think he’s gonna live too long anyway.
They should probably just let him commit suicide and be done with it. Leaving him in prison until he dies is not really worth the expense.
Evidently other sex offenders sang, “Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!” when he was in jail. Because, of course, even your normal sex offenders apparently draw the line somewhere.
Wow. You know you’re fucked up when even other rapists think you’ve gone too far.
The unwritten rule I’ve always heard is that in prison, even the people there hold the most contempt for child abusers/rapists/etc.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve heard too. Which is why, without protection, he wouldn’t last very long.
I keep seeing how he’ll probably be in protective.
I don’t believe in capital punishment, and ordinarily I would say that letting a man get killed in prison carries a cost paid by our souls, even if it’s no great loss to society. But this guy is a monster.
His wife, too. They should make him spend the rest of his days with Sarge.
Yes, she is an evil woman.
My boss cock blocked my JLG fb post today. He really has no concept about social media.
Well, damn.
Did you see it? There was no detail! I wanted them to bring me a ladder so I could photograph it from different angles.
“you don’t need a ladder!”
He’s such an asshole sometimes.
I saw, and they were impressive nonetheless.
And all men are, at some point or another. I’m sorry, but it’s the truth.
When we got this project he said that we shouldn’t worry about the bottom radius. “they don’t need that, and if they do, we’ll hand work it in after. Last week he got on me because we were hand working that radius.
The man is insane.
Seems like many creatives are also tremendous pains in the ass.
I try to understand, I do. And, thanks, for listening.
Always. It’s what I’m best at.
Well, you have an amazing creative talent, too. So you understand.
Thanks. :) And I try not to be a pain. But sometimes I think I am. And I think it stems from the fact that I can’t effectively communicate the image I have in my head without making the image first. So when my assistant doesn’t understand what I’m trying to do, I get frustrated because I can’t explain it.
You know what annoys me to no end? People in F&B who treat servers like shit. And not just being rude to a server who does a bad job. I mean people who are rude to the server from the moment they sit down. I think maybe they’re trying to establish dominance in the relationship, but I think it’s really pathetic and disgusting.
Publix has these really great all-natural Italian chicken sausages, so Ozzwife and I bought a pack a couple of days ago. I grilled them up, and then used our brand-new grill basket to cook some onions and peppers. So simple, but so delicious.
YUM!
It was, and reasonably healthy.
Good job, my love!
Tomorrow I eat arugula. :) It’s my obsession.
I make an amazing sammich with arugula.
You could turn it into a salad, too.
Roasted chicken breast
Tomatoes Marinated with Balsamic and Basil
Roasted Pancetta
Mayo mixed with Pesto
Arugula
Wheat Rolls
we have SO MUCH arugula in the garden right now, we can’t eat enough to keep up with it! :)
I’ll come eat it!
Then send it to me! I love it!
you are both welcome to :D
You might be able to take your excess to a local food bank or pantry.
Make some arugula pesto!
Hells yes! Freeze it and give it to me.
ooooooh. now THAT sounds fabulous!
Throw in some pistachios (assuming you’re not allergic) and you’re set!
This is brilliant.
That sounds awesome. I like to make bacon, arugula, tomato and fried egg sammiches.
That sammich would so work with a fried egg.
It’s awesome, but now I plan to introduce balsamic and basil, thanks to you! :)
:) We can so add on to it. I think I had mozzarella in there, too
I don’t have a good cheese to go with this sandwich. But arugula goes well with Monterey Jack.
have you been here:
http://www.goatsheepcow.com/
you’ll have to bring me there when i visit. ;)
Yes, once. And yes, we shall go there.
i can’t fucking wait!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Me neither! Get here! NOW!
i want to teleport!!!!!
Beam her up, Scotty!
We so need the teleport.
we do!!!
How about just using the airport?
Think about the amazing things we could do!
BOO on the AIRPORT. >:{
No, ozzy. We’re too impatient.
Ok, strap a saddle on an opossum and ride him to town.
that would take forever! but i guess we could just go through time!!!!! :D
It’s the best we can do for now. :(
How about an airplane and a time machine?
Or smoked mozzarella, which is similar.
Mmm, that sounds great.
they made good sandwiches there :)
Yes, but not as good as Jersey Mike’s. I took a friend there the other day. Two bites in, she asked me where the nearest Jersey Mike’s was to her house.
ha! (i don’t think they had those when i lived there)
If you come visit me, we can eat anywhere you like.
♥
Anything, too. ;)
Jason Vargas: Cy Young candidate when facing the A’s
The Texas Republican party platform: we oppose teaching critical thinking skills to kids!!!!!