AeroHorn

what was that?

he is down

well designed QB keeper

nice couple of passes

why is the hand off so late?

we are not getting to the QB, though it seems to be the plan

lost an opportunity for 3 and out.

that's an exclamation point.

Elephants are clearly no. 1. No other animal combines the majesty, strength, social life, care for each other, intelligence, usefulness to humans (from fighting wars to logging forests), etc. I remember when I was a kid in India, there was a knock on the door. When I opened it, imagine my surprise when the trunk of an elephant slithered in. I had to place money at the tip, which it gracefully folded and passed it on the rider on top. Begging with style, and quite a bit of intimidation.

I would prefer the tradition of patsy as the first game, as was insisted by Mack. Even a relatively low P5 is apparently too much for us as the first game.

for a few years last decade, it was Texas ball too.

Let's grab Mary's, um, land! https://cfb.stakked.io Nicely done website tracking team conquests after each week for the last 10+ seasons. You can even change the plotting variable from imperialism to top 25, etc. and restrict teams to only P5 or particular conference. 2018 is not up yet.

Heart of America grows staples, not vegetables. I am used to having a choice of 100s of salad items at home, all fresh vegetables and fruits (SF bay area), and can eat a different salad every day. It is a shock when visiting midwest. Even when staying at nice hotels, the house salad is usually a block of lettuce with sprinkling of corn and cheese.

Good discussion the last couple of pages that dilute the Trump stink a bit. BT, though correct, is coming across as the woman who occupied the tree for couple of years to stop them being cut down. Deforestation is bad, but being up on a tree by yourself, even with your other soulmates passing food to you on a rope, is very isolationist at best, and futile most of the time. However many wrongs that may have happened in the past, one cannot plan the next steps guided by them. In fact, you take the lessons learned, and try your best to plan for the best future outcome regardless of history. This may make sense at an abstract level, but very hard to practice. See Israel-Palestine issue as a classic example of history building up on history of wrongs because no one is ready to let go of the past.

Yes, being a TSMC is very different than being an Intel. One is a services company and the other is a product company. Being a service provider means you are necessarily market following and at least one level below the product company in the food chain, which it is reflected in margins, brand, product roadmaps, business dealings, etc. Intel providing foundry services automatically means they have accepted defeat. Intel's mistake is not due to integrating design with manufacturing, but sticking with x86, or more correctly, not developing new alternatives with enough enthusiasm. Their only other serious product different from x86 that I recall is Itanium (XScale doesn't count). It also shows how monumentally difficult changing philosophies is when even Intel with near monopoly power over their customers could not ram through a new product (x86-64 won). nVidia may be a one trick pony too, but they were visionary enough to see beyond polygon pushing and have been beating the "GPU is a better multi-thread processor than CPU" drum for many years. They worked with scientific community and developed parallel computing solutions from workstations to supercomputers. So, they were in the right place at the right time to take advantage of the current machine learning and crypto mining craze. AMD is the small and sometimes abused sibling of Intel, where Intel will take the whole dining table and leave scrapes. Very hard to compete and develop when you are starving. Credit to them (despite couple of dumb leadership phases) for hanging on. Coming back to Intel, they are seriously in trouble. They are the apex predator and hence need the whole jungle to do well to thrive, otherwise they become just another component provider. But that is what is happening with new ecosystems that are vertically integrated. Apple/Samsung don't need them, they need Apple/Samsung. Google/Amazon/Facebook will/are making their own chips. Microsoft has rediscovered their identity as software first company with hardware as enabler of software development. If they feel like they need a Surface-like product line for chips to do selective AI/ML stuff, they will do it. They have already done many chips for Xbox, Hololens, etc. That leaves only system aggregators (HP/Dell/Lenovo) and tier II (HTC, Huawei, etc.). So this means only Xeon servers are real money-makers, and how this market will be with big guys bringing chip design in will be interesting to watch. So, Intel desperately needs a hit. They are investing heavily in ML/AI and have acquired many companies. Can they come up with a solution when the big vertical guys have far more ammunition (algorithms, customer data from photos to shopping history, etc.) to develop better systems? The same question largely applies to Qualcomm too. I think this is what is driving Broadcom to swallow giants whole to somehow become big enough to survive.

We can remain as pacifists and effect change. Thankfully, the situation hasn't deteriorated to that extent. We have to force these discussion outside of CNN/Fox and into each home and cubicle. American politicians are the most spineless and gutless beings. They are the flotsam that requires a wave to go anywhere. We have to be the wave.

Yep. The last real movement, at least to the lowered American standards, was the one against banks after the loan debacle (Occupy Wall Street). Before that was protests against the 2003 Iraq war? We are a very docile people. People riot if you take away one vacation day in other countries, and we willingly turn any and all cheeks.

Of course. The real (cultural) wall is along the Red River.

Yep. Instead of dividing California, they should aggregate less populated states. 1. Californiwai (2) 2. Washiregonidaka (4) 3. Nevarizotahado (4) 4. Montadakoming (4) 5. Minnenbowakanouri (5) 6. Oklarkamissalana (5) 7. Texasico (2) 8. Flocarolitennegiarico (5+1) 9. Wisillindikenohigan (6) 10. Virgimaryania (4) 11. Yorkerseyware (3) 13. Massahamainerhodicutont (6) We get back to 13 states with Puerto Rico accounted for.

I haven't watched/played Cricket since I was a kid growing up in late 70s/80s. The speed of the ball for fast pace bowlers is similar to baseball, about, 100mph. The distance is 67 feet between the stumps (the white sticks in the image below), which is slightly longer than the mound to home plate distance in baseball (60.5 feet). But in cricket, the ball pitches on the ground before reaching the batsman. This creates a lot of variability and control in how the bowler presents the ball to the batsman. Besides the obvious bouncing on the ground difference, other major differences are the age of the ball (same ball is used in cricket until 300-450 "pitches"), the nature of the physical ground (the non-grass area in the picture above) whether it is hard and fast, soft and breaking, patchy, etc., the distance from the batsman the bowler targets to bounce the ball at ranging from a large distance with rising ball to the shoulders/face level to almost bouncing at the feet of the batsman (think of tennis overspin kicker where you have to rise to your toes and a slice where you have to dig the ball out), the type of spin from mid-air swing on fast balls (similar to slider in baseball) to in or out cutter spin balls after bouncing on the ground, etc. Here are couple of videos showing slow spin bowling and fast swing bowling. Regarding fast bowling, when I was growing up, the West Indies team had a devastating set of fast bowlers (Marshall, Holding, Garner, etc.). This video shows the classic strategy and field setup to defend. The batsman has to be ready for a yorker (ball bouncing at his feet) to a bouncer (ball rising to his face). The pace is so fast that with a slight swing, the batman usually edges the ball, hence the array of fielders behind the batsman to catch him out. For spin bowling, the pace is much slower and the aim is to play with flight of the ball to keep the batsman guessing and hence make him play on his back foot. This allows for the bowler to bounce the ball closer to the batsman and hence give him almost no time to react to the spin. Regarding batting, I don't think I can summarize it since there are a variety of shots across near 360-degree placement. Also, with the advent of one day and 20-over matches, it is fundamentally evolved into something quite different from the classic form (straight bat, bat and pad close together, head down, etc.)

What does the above sentence from the letter mean? Do the interests of "both parties" contradict those of "the world"? The rest of the letter is breathtaking in its extreme Mano-a-mano narcissism. Regarding the coin, I repeatedly get the "504 Gateway Time-out" message.

😀 I see now, it is "the fleek shall inherit the earth". Gutenberg made a typo.

Lot of what used to be old commercial buildings are disappearing and replaced with 4 story blocks. For example, all old stuff along Montague in Milpitas and El Camino Real in Santa Clara is being replaced. Spin around in street view and you can see. Milpitas: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4087045,-121.8953833,3a,75y,265.13h,69.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sUQBD0e2BnZrGE4rUyf1Naw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Santa Clara: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3524835,-121.9734904,3a,75y,303.19h,85.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXrnU7kQNbgDkIUiPtI0uvw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Regarding payback: Solar for southern states makes a lot of sense, with payback in 8-10 years. It makes more sense in California due to high PG&E rates. I have solar (4.25kW system) and it amply covers my needs. Regarding mooching off non-solar homes: I pay a minimum bill every month ($12-13?) even when my meter is spinning backwards. The net balance is paid out yearly, but not at a retail rate (I wish) but at wholesale rate, which is a pittance. I have produced about 15% more than what I have consumed, apparently a gift to PG&E. Regarding grid: PG&E implores us to temper our AC usage. They even paid me $50 per AC unit to install a governor to automatically switch it off when their grid load is high. This is reflected in their peak rates period (2pm-8pm). Guess when my solar is producing the most to help out PG&E, and hence my neighbors to enjoy their ACs uninterrupted? Despite higher day usage in summer, I contribute power May-September when it is needed most. Regarding warranty/repairs: The solar panels are guaranteed by the manufacturer and the installer for 25 years. The inverter is 10 years, I think. I can open an app and look at all the metrics live right now. Something is wrong, I can see it, and SolarCity (Tesla) can also see it. Till now it has just been pressing the reset button couple of times. Regarding construction: I am in south bay of the bay area. There is lot of dense housing construction everywhere, especially in San Jose, Milpitas and Santa Clara. I would say that easily >10k homes (condos) have been added. It is reflected in traffic, unfortunately.

I think the main detriment is actually the consumer economy, where creating new forms of consumption and increasing the number of consumers is seen as the way to increase GDP and improve individual way of life. Many advanced countries have maxed out on individual consumption within and are exporting the same to developing ones (China, India and others). Imagine the horror when a typical Indian or African reaches anywhere near the consumption rate of an American or European. I think we really need to deeply think about what is development and progress, and what is real upliftment of people. For instance, it is quite paradoxical and sad to see severe depression/opioid abuse among people that are still orders of magnitude better materially than world average. In this day and age, there is absolutely no excuse for us as species to not work cooperatively in making our lives objectively better without relentlessly driving consumption, which disproportionately profits the 1% in the current multinational corp. setup. There are so many attainable goals of removing hunger, disease and violence across the world, which in turn will stabilize population and greatly reduce adverse effects of resources. Instead we insist on lining up against imaginary lines with guns drawn intent on spreading destruction and misery.