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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 2h

Relax you will will have 6 weeks in January and early February to enjoy life with neither.

David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 2h

Hammerheads' nose and taste are more refined because they can't focus very well on things close to their face. Don't hate on them.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 3h

Taiwan is affected by 5 or 6 Typhoons a year on average. Some are direct hits and some are near misses and some are just passing. In all cases most of the damage comes from the rain causing flooding and landslides. Wind damage, not so much.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are talking about averages here. Remember Jamie Moyer's fastball was probably on about 80 mph. That brings the 2008 average way down.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I remember when the Giants and Dodgers moved west. This meant that we now had baseball on the radio in our timezone to listen to. John Cusack wouldn't be born for another 10 years. You haven't even reach middle age.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I was always afraid to say anything on their blog because DMZ would have fit if you misspelled a players name and hated poor grammar (which I still have).

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Although not part of the sabermetric community, I do have bs (ms is more of the same and PHD is piled higher and deeper) degree in math and followed Cameron and Zumsteg on usnet in the 90's and U.S.S. Mariner in early 2000's when they started the blog. Maybe I could be an honorary member.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, it's fall and this means that the tree outside of my apartment if flowering (blossoms appear in the fall, not the spring). So here is my annual fall blossom "festival" picture. This tree allows me to see pink cherry blossoms in spring and pink (I don't know what) blossoms in the fall.

A tree that has pink blossoms evey fall is in it's wonderful green leaf and pink blossom fall display.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

See that's why we live in a cave. In winter one late January, the temp was -14 C. That's about 7 F. We arrived after 3 or 4 months being away and no heat. The cave was 11 C about 52 F. We turned on the heat, used a couple of space heaters and over 3 days we were at 21 C about 70 F.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Caves are not cold. Ours is 12 to 15 celcius year round. When we are there we heat to 21 or 22. Turn off the heat (hot water pipes in the floor). 4 or 5 days later the temp is down to 19 to 20 and the heat goes back on for 4 or 5 days. Same all year around.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are leaving in about 10 days for France. Will be there for 6 weeks. You are welcome to visit. Vineyards are on the hill on top of us.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is my cave in the Loire valley.

A tiled path leading to a red door of a cave. A yellow house is nextdoor

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was not criticizing, I just find it a little amusing that after over 60 years, things that I learned as necessary to driving are no long necessary but are for biking. Just as a note, about 50 years ago I used to bike Seattle from West Seattle to Kent and back for work each day.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You realize that the bent up left arm comes from the old days when cars didn't have turn signals. With only the driver's side window to signal from all of the signals were done with the left arm.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, I do like William Powell's acting, though I have to admit that "the Thin Man" sequels were not as good as the first movie.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't know. 5 movies, 3 different male actors, 3 mysteries, and 2 comedies. There are many other 30's and 40's movies I like and have seen more that once but I am limited by age to before WW2.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For me it is probably a 5 way tie between those 2, The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, and It Happened One Night. I really can't say which of those I have watched more.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We all talked about work and other general thing for an hour or so and then said goodbyes and went our separate ways. A week or so later on evening I got a call from him wanting to know if I want to go out on a date with him. I had to decline as my wife would probably not understand.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was at a conference in S.F. met a lady I had know before at a different company that lived in the same city I did. Made plans to meet after returning from S.F. Were having coffee back home a week or 2 later when another friend of her's showed up.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I found a missing sock hidden under the bed. Threw it in the dirty clothes hamper, put the dirty clothes in the washer then the dryer. Took the clothes out of the dryer to fold and the sock was MISSING again. This happened in the course of one afternoon.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Taiwan has single payer health care. cut the palm of my hand badly when I fell on some broken glass at night. The hospital emergency room visit cost about US$15 for the glass removal and stiching. Meds were about $15 and the follow up stitch removal was about $1.50.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When they are babies you have to talk to them in cat. It's the only way they will learn to speak correctly.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As my son would say: "so sad"

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hope you that what I said was satire.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is the world coming to? We can only show pictures of photogenic wine bottles.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

surely you had a replacement bottle available.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Driving in France before GPS meant lots of maps. Afterwords it meant yelling at Google for sending down single lane roads in plowed farmland

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While I condemn everything Trump stands for, he said that he felt sorry for them because the appointed investigator was, in his words, dishonest. Thats different from feeling bad for them because they are being investigated although that's probably how he feels.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The only gambling I have done (exempting charity events) was 55-60 years ago when I played blackjack in Reno and Las Vegas. This was just before they cracked down on card counters. So the odds of winning were in my favor.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My mother grew up near Salmon Creek in White Center (now part of Burien). Maybe someone can restore the Salmon run there like they did in North Seattle.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I thing the phrase "Nobody drives the speed limit" applies here. I don't remember exactly when (probably when Carter set freeway speeds at 55) I saw a video taken when 2 vehicles occupying both lanes of a freeway where driving at the speed limit. The backup behind them was miles long.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When are they going to split up Clos Vougeot? It runs from Grand Cru close around the Chateau to Village vines or worse down along the bottom?

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come on, the s and the d are right next to each other on the keyboard. Trump's short fingers just can't always cover the gap. And at 80 (which I am over) fingers just don't work as well.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It would ruin my life. When I needed to know how many liters in 20 gallons I used to have to Google search find me and online web page to do the conversion for me. No Google AI (right at the top) gives me the answer of 295 liters so that I don't have to do any web site searching.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's hard to win when you have one of the worst defenses and what my non-professional (or even amateur) thoughts were that the bullpen was bad.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I read the USC press release and his press release. Both, and more so his, seemed like they were written by the pr staff, especially his.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Many many years ago I listened to a HS football game played in a windstorm with 60 MPH wind gusts. A punter punted into the wind and the ball got caught by a wind gust and landed about 10 yards BEHIND the punter.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wearing you hat backwards like that keep the back of you neck from getting sunburned. Who wants to be called a "redneck"'

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my Ancestors was born in South Carolina. Over the years he moved his family North, first to NC and then Virginia. After the revolutionary war he moved (over 2 years) the whole family to Illinois because he hated slavery.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As I have commented, I've only see a few episodes of one.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't vote. I only saw a few episodes of House, none of the others.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Will they go after beer bottles also?

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You had to take a photograph on the only sunny day in the month. Now more people will want to live around Puget Sound and will continually bitch and moan during our 9 month winter.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ancestry is owned by Blackstone Inc, a publicly traded private equity firm as the majority owner and Singapore's Sovereign Wealth fund as minority owner. Blackstone is run by Stephen Schwarzman who seems to be a strong Trump supporter. No Mormon connections beyond contractual and/or personal

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sorry, I mis-read and thought that you didn't realize the meaning. Old eyes and an old mind definitely can cause issues

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You are obviously not from Maine.

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David Upham @david-upham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just to let you know that what you may be wishing for in the future can come true. I was teaching night English classes in Taipei and met with and shook the hand of the then current Mayor of Taipei. He later became the President of Taiwan.

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