Official BBO Hijacked Thread Thread

[Al_U_Card]

Shuster had been the butt of the joke about "Shustering" (like Dufnering I guess) relating to futility and poor performance in curling.

We may see a surge in US curling activity, all due to that Olympic gold medal.

Kudos to the US team and all Shuster boosters.

[Winstonm]

From the You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department:

 

Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz kicked off his re-election campaign by criticizing his opponent for using a nickname. :blink:

[y66]

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.

 

Brody: I eat everything I want, in moderation. My meals — mostly homemade — are heavily loaded with vegetables, and I choose calorie-controlled snacks like popcorn at 35 calories a cup, a graham cracker at 59 calories for two squares, and ice cream (really ice milk) at 100 to 150 calories a half cup. No seconds! My weight maintenance secrets are simple: I read nutrition labels before I buy anything in a package, I practice portion control, and I exercise and weigh myself every day to stay within a two-pound range appropriate for my height. If the number on the scale begins to creep up, I may walk, bike or swim a little more and eat a little less for a few days.

 

Divinagracia: I don’t believe in diets or any particular products. I believe in learning how to create a healthy lifestyle, and the formula is simple. The most salient points of her well-practiced advice are: 1) Stop eating crap, 2) Eat good food that is real, not processed, 3) Avoid drinking your calories, 4) Know what one serving is and do not eat more than that in a sitting, 5) Move your butt every day — even just walking is better than being a couch potato, and 6) Stop making excuses.

Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

[Winstonm]

From NYT:

Dr. Gardner said it is not that calories don’t matter. After all, both groups ultimately ended up consuming fewer calories on average by the end of the study, even though they were not conscious of it. The point is that they did this by focusing on nutritious whole foods that satisfied their hunger.

 

“I think one place we go wrong is telling people to figure out how many calories they eat and then telling them to cut back on 500 calories, which makes them miserable,” he said. “We really need to focus on that foundational diet, which is more vegetables, more whole foods, less added sugar and less refined grains.”

 

It takes a certain amount of bulk to feel full but how many calories is in that bulk amount is a choice - steak has about 2 1/2 times as many calories per ounce as brown rice. To feel full, it makes better weight sense to eat 16 ounces of rice than a 16 ounce steak, or 12 ounces of rice and 4 ounces of steak, yet the American diet reverses this with a preponderance of high-calorie choices and small servings of low calorie starches and vegetables.

[Winstonm]

I thought this was from The Onion but it turns out to be true:

 

WaPo reports:

In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.

[Al_U_Card]

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.

 

 

Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

A couple of additional tips:

 

Try to maintain the 1:2:1 ratio of protein:carbs:fats.

Avoid lectins (eggplant,tomatoes, potatoes, kidney beans,peanuts and cashews) as they disturb the intestinal flora. Cooking reduces this enzyme found mostly in the skin and seeds of the nightshade family vegetables and almost all legumes.

To minimize candida (yeast) intestinal infections,(more common than you might think) 2 drops of oregano oil in some water, twice a day, for a week. To help the digestive system restore itself, active culture yogurt or fermented foods (especially in brine and not pickled) work well.

You will feel better, have more energy and make better use of the food you eat.

[kenberg]

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.

 

 

Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

 

And if we are to follow Jane Brody, we are to eat a lot of garlic?

 

But I am overweight so who am I to quarrel. When I get more exercise my weight goes down. When I sit at the computer my weight goes up. So I basically agree with the rather simple approach given in the article.

 

 

 

[Winstonm]

This, from The Atlantic, is pretty demoralizing.

[Al_U_Card]

And if we are to follow Jane Brody, we are to eat a lot of garlic?

 

But I am overweight so who am I to quarrel. When I get more exercise my weight goes down. When I sit at the computer my weight goes up. So I basically agree with the rather simple approach given in the article.

My Dad used this "diet" to lose 4-5 lb/wk during a month or so. You eat whatever and how much you want at breakfast. A salad only for lunch and only a soup for dinner. He did this after his bp got too high with weight gain. Weight and bp fell by the end of the month-long "diet".

[y66]

Garlic eaters can eat as much bacon as they want and not worry about cholesterol. If you curl or drive a zamboni too, keeping the weight on can be a challenge.

[Al_U_Card]

Speaking of golf. Just played my first round of the year, here on the Costa del Sol, yesterday. Brutal greens (8!!! 3-putts) but still broke 90. Today we are back at it despite the rainiest March they have ever had round these parts.

 

Any other fanatics here? I loves me some golf and that 4 month lay off was pretty disagreable.:)

[Winstonm]

Garlic eaters can eat as much bacon as they want and not worry about cholesterol. If you curl or drive a zamboni too, keeping the weight on can be a challenge.

 

However, if you curl while driving a Zamboni you have no problems....at least, not with weight....or is that wait!

[Al_U_Card]

However, if you curl while driving a Zamboni you have no problems....at least, not with weight....or is that wait!

The term in current use is HURRY, HARD!

[kenberg]

This, from The Atlantic, is pretty demoralizing.

 

 

Having a large mount of collected data can be very useful. Thinking through what it all means could be tough.

 

It is true that I had breakfast with Becky this morning, English muffins with strawberries, and it is false that I had dinner and drinks with Stormy Daniels last night. It is probable that the false story would have more twitter life than the true one, at least if I were an Important Public Figure.

 

We are often interested in hearing the shocking. I gather I have to sign up for Science to read the full study so I don't know everything that the researchers have done, but here is a thought. It should be possible to group many of the items under "Says something benign" versus "Says something shocking". I would be willing to place a large bet that the second group has more twitter life. I would also be willing to bet that there is substantial correlation between "shocking" and "false".

 

As a non-tweeter I could easily just say "See. This shows that we should not tweet", but the technology is not going away. We have a problem.

 

Of course it is not an entirely new problem:

[Winstonm]

Having a large mount of collected data can be very useful. Thinking through what it all means could be tough.

 

It is true that I had breakfast with Becky this morning, English muffins with strawberries, and it is false that I had dinner and drinks with Stormy Daniels last night. It is probable that the false story would have more twitter life than the true one, at least if I were an Important Public Figure.

 

We are often interested in hearing the shocking. I gather I have to sign up for Science to read the full study so I don't know everything that the researchers have done, but here is a thought. It should be possible to group many of the items under "Says something benign" versus "Says something shocking". I would be willing to place a large bet that the second group has more twitter life. I would also be willing to bet that there is substantial correlation between "shocking" and "false".

 

As a non-tweeter I could easily just say "See. This shows that we should not tweet", but the technology is not going away. We have a problem.

 

Of course it is not an entirely new problem:

 

What a great piece of music. Thanks.

 

Btw, the demoralizing aspect of the article is related to this:

 

As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.

[kenberg]

What a great piece of music. Thanks.

 

Btw, the demoralizing aspect of the article is related to this:

 

 

 

There are many parts of this that are ominous. "some of their news"? Well, if some of their news meant that

What does this look like in real life? Take two examples from the last presidential election. In August 2015, a rumor circulated on social media that Donald Trump had let a sick child use his plane to get urgent medical care. Snopes confirmed almost all of the tale as true. But according to the team’s estimates, only about 1,300 people shared or retweeted the story.

 

 

or

 

In February 2016, a rumor developed that Trump’s elderly cousin had recently died and that he had opposed the magnate’s presidential bid in his obituary. “As a proud bearer of the Trump name, I implore you all, please don’t let that walking mucus bag become president,” the obituary reportedly said. But Snopes could not find evidence of the cousin, or his obituary, and rejected the story as false.

 

then I could say "Who cares?".

 

People get interested in weird things. I still don't know how many Kardashians there are. I am sure it doesn't matter, nor do the two stories above. But whether or not Hillary was involved in the child sex trade at a pizzeria did matter.

 

I started reading newspapers when I was young, first following the St. Paul Saints (AAA club for the Brooklyn (!) Dodgers), then following the Korean War and so on. I know some newspaper stories are slanted, it is probably impossible for it to be otherwise. So you have to read with a bit of skepticism. That's life. But that sort of need for care is a whole different thing, not a different level but really a whole different thing, from the Twitter stuff.

[y66]

Speaking of golf. Just played my first round of the year, here on the Costa del Sol, yesterday. Brutal greens (8!!! 3-putts) but still broke 90. Today we are back at it despite the rainiest March they have ever had round these parts.

 

Any other fanatics here? I loves me some golf and that 4 month lay off was pretty disagreable.:)

Not currently a fanatic but that could change (again) if I find a course that has a dog friendly policy. Was never better than an 8 which, I suppose, is semi-respectable for a duffer. Got a compliment on my putting stroke last month from a guy who was the senior caddie at Congressional until he retired a year or two ago so maybe that part of my game is still working or maybe he was just being sociable. Have played a few times in Ireland and Scotland but not in Spain. That sounds like fun. Hey, on what golf course and what hole did a former California resident (now Texas I think) and occasional poster here hit what has to be the most incredible shot of all time by a BBO forum golfer? How far was he from the green after his tee shot and what club did he use for his approach shot?

[Winstonm]

Yahoo

 

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has canceled a day of events in Kenya after falling ill on the second day of his five-day Africa tour.

 

Don't suppose he bumped into a Russian intelligence officer? Don Putineone is known to get unpleasant when promises are not kept.

[Winstonm]

Don't vote Republican; instead, send them your "thoughts and prayers"!

[Al_U_Card]

Not currently a fanatic but that could change (again) if I find a course that has a dog friendly policy. Was never better than an 8 which, I suppose, is semi-respectable for a duffer. Got a compliment on my putting stroke last month from a guy who was the senior caddie at Congressional until he retired a year or two ago so maybe that part of my game is still working or maybe he was just being sociable. Have played a few times in Ireland and Scotland but not in Spain. That sounds like fun. Hey, on what golf course and what hole did a former California resident (now Texas I think) and occasional poster here hit what has to be the most incredible shot of all time by a BBO forum golfer? How far was he from the green after his tee shot and what club did he use for his approach shot?

I dunno. An 8 is really pretty good, tho as I have a 6 on my home course, local knowledge helps a lot. :) Our greens in Canada don't have much in the way of grain changes, but here, I can run it by by 8 feet on a 15 ft. putt! It also affects the break on sidehill putts. Very hard to fix when you can't read the greens... ;(

[Aberlour10]

Don't vote Republican; instead, send them your "thoughts and prayers"!

 

To restore the spirit of this thread I fix it : "bacon and avocados"

[Winstonm]

Don't Vote Republican; Instead, Drive a Zamboni

[y66]

From Dan Zak's WaPo story about online classes at MasterClass.com:

 

"I consider it an experiment,” Malcolm Gladwell writes in an email. “What intrigues me is how close online learning gets to face-to-face. So the best case scenario is if Steph Curry talks to me, one on one. But since that isn’t happening, how much can we approximate that kind of intimacy with a well-produced and thoughtful video class? I love it that someone is trying to answer that question.”

“All the greatest shooters are great at using their legs as the foundation for their shot,” says the NBA superstar, standing on a court. “They don’t shoot with their arms. They shoot with their legs first.” -- Steph Curry

Everyone has their own learning style. I've played countless hours with golfers who had solid golf swings, read Hogan's "Five Fundamentals" and watched "Fred Couples on Tempo" video until I was nearly blind. But the way good golfers use their legs, which is one of the keys to a good swing, eluded me until I followed Suzann Pettersen around the course one afternoon 10 years ago. I guess I just hadn't been paying close attention before then.

[kenberg]

From Dan Zak's WaPo story about online classes at MasterClass.com:

 

 

 

Everyone has their own learning style. I've played countless hours with golfers who had solid golf swings, read Hogan's "Five Fundamentals" and watched "Fred Couples on Tempo" video until I was nearly blind. But the way good golfers use their legs, which is one of the keys to a good swing, eluded me until I followed Suzann Pettersen around the course one afternoon 10 years ago. I guess I just hadn't been paying close attention before then.

 

Absolutely everyone has their own style of learning. Here i my golf experience:

 

My Boy Scout troop ran scores at the St. Paul open. Sam Sneed, "Thunder" Bolt, many others. It looked like fun. I bought a bag, balls and clubs at the Salvation Army and got up early in the morning to play before anyone else was there to collect fees. I took the view that the idea was to hit the ball with the club. So I did. I wasn't great, but not awful, and I enjoyed it. In college I took a lot of Phys. Ed classes, swimming, gymnastics and swimming I remember. The guy teaching the golf class had a fine reputation I gather pros came from far away to get a tune up from him.. It totally ruined my game. I kept trying to do what he told me instead of what seemed to work. The swimming teacher had a different approach. He made sure we stayed in the water for an hour each day, but he kept the instruction to a few simple points. One time I swallowed some water and went to the edge of the pool to hang on. He stomped on my hand. I got a good deal better at swimming.

 

I have come to think of myself as pretty extreme in how I learn things. I very much need to think things through myself. Group learning has become popular in many schools, high schools at least. It would not have worked for me. I happily discussed things with friends, but only for a while. Then I needed to get away by myself and think about it. No conversation, no music in the background, no nothing.

 

One of my memorable experiences was attending a conference on learning where one guy lectured for an hour or more on why lecturing was an ineffective style of teaching. I think the irony of this never occurred to him.

[y66]

From I Got A Story To Tell by Steve Francis NBA retired:

 

I remember the exact moment when I realized NBA legends weren’t SH*T.

 

My man Sam Cassell took me out the night before my very first NBA game. We were playing the Bucks down in Houston and he knew I was about to take his ass to the cleaners. But Sam is from Baltimore, and I’m from D.C., so this dude was trying to Jedi mind-trick me into thinking he’s doing me a favor keeping me out until six in the morning, giving me all this brotherly advice. We weren’t even partying, man! That was all part of his scam. We were out at some club, drinking ice tea or whatever, and he’s telling me all about what I gotta do to survive in the NBA.

 

After a while, I’m like, “Bro, I think maybe I need to go.”

 

He hits me with the, “Nah, what you need to do is sit there and listen to me tell you how to deal with these groupies.”

 

This motherf****r has me hypnotized. Then around 5 a.m., the whole vibe changes. Now he’s telling me how he’s gonna whip my ass the next night. I’m like, Yo, wait a minute …

 

“I’m telling you, Steve. I’m gonna bust your sleepy ass. Rest up.”

 

We walk out of this club and the sun is up. I gotta be at the arena in like five hours. I’m not even drunk. I’m not nothing! I just got Sam’s bullshit ringing in my ears and I’m feeling like I’ve been up for three days.

 

Man, he came out that night and dropped 35 points on me. I was so tired in the first quarter I thought I was about to pass out. Remember now, I’m a punk rookie on a team with Charles Barkley and Hakeem the Dream Olajuwon. These dudes are in the huddle looking at me like I’m not sh*t. Rudy T is looking at me like, “We traded 15 motherf*****s to Vancouver for this?”

 

I went like 4 for 13, and we lost. I see Sam after the game, and he’s like, “Don’t forget, we friends off the court, but on the court.…”

 

I’m like, “You slick mothaf****a.”

 

Lesson learned, though. Now I know the game, right?

 

Couple of weeks later, we’re playing the Sonics. I idolized Gary Payton growing up. So we’re on the plane to Seattle, and Rudy T sat me next to Hakeem on purpose. He knew what he was doing. He wanted me to learn.

 

We’re about to take off, and I’m sitting there with my big headphones on, listening to Jay-Z.

 

Hakeem is sitting there reading the Quran. Not saying a word.

 

Then he gives me a look. You know how Dream is. He’ll just look at you — super wise, super calm. Every word that comes out of the man’s mouth is like it’s coming straight from God Almighty.

 

I’m like, “What’s up, Dream?”

 

Dream says, “Steve.”

 

I’m like, “Yeah, Dream?”

 

“Steve, you walk around dressed like a bus driver.”

 

“Come on, Dream.”

 

“What are these construction shoes you have on?”

 

“These are Timberlands, man. Come on.”

 

“Steve, let me help you. Come to my tailor with me, and we’ll get you 10 suits. Custom-made. Cashmere.”

 

“Come on, Dream.”

 

“Cashmere, Steve.”

 

“Dream! Yo…”

 

“Come with me, Steve. Come to my tailor.”