i was watching a post Halloween “the Shining” and a rap for “blood sweat and pee” came on…
My bad: I am a little off in my conjuring of The Knicks in their heyday which of course was 47 years ago. They won championships in 1970 and 1973. Here is Frazier in game 5 from the baseline to make it 37 to 35 over the Lakers:
Maureen Dowd and Steve Wozniak ponder AI gone bad doggy
Apple’s early-adopting, outspoken co-founder Steve Wozniak thinks humans will be fine if robots take over the world because we’ll just become their pets.
After previously stating that a robotic future powered by artificial intelligence (AI) would be “scary and very bad for people” and that robots would “get rid of the slow humans”, Wozniak has staged a U-turn and says he now thinks robots taking over would be good for the human race.
“They’re going to be smarter than us and if they’re smarter than us then they’ll realise they need us,” Wozniak said at the Freescale technology forumin Austin. “We want to be the family pet and be taken care of all the time.”
“I got this idea a few years ago and so I started feeding my dog filet steak and chicken every night because ‘do unto others’,” he said.
Met a nice man named Barram at the Stanford basketball game. Wonder what he thinks of all this, having worked at Apple, HP and Clinton Administration?
With so many rapid technological changes, we think that this may actually be the last transition where the transition team will need 90,000 square feet of office space and 500 computers in one location in Washington, DC. For example, staff of both campaigns are already linked in virtual space. Compare this to the last transition in which laptops were invisible and wireless technology barely existed.
We already see that many of the administrative paper-based transactions of 1992 will now be done electronically, saving time and money for the taxpayers. We think that the preparations GSA has already made, including taking advantage of technology, will help make the 2000-2001 transition, though short, a smooth transition.(2002)
Senior co-captain Eric Wang #52 who had four tackles the previous week in Cupertino
Gunn Titans under leadership of Jason Miller, head coach, and James Lambert, quarterback in the run-oriented Wing T offense, is 7-2 (after a 50-20 thrashing of Fremont Friday).
Gunn is ranked #41 in the section by maxpreps statistical algorithm— which favors Paly 5-4 in the upper De Anza to Gunn’s relegation El Camino. But its 7 wins is equaled or bettered by only 17 teams. Therefore you could say that Gunn is in the top quintile of the Central Coast Section, CCS, with St. Francis, Serra, both Menlos and Los Gatos. The Titans, sometimes known as Big Red, are in the eighteenth percentile of the 93 teams. This is following a 5-0 spring season that was Gunn’s best result since 1971. And frosh-soph Little Red had an equally impressive outing winning league, perhaps for the first time. Gunn is second in league at 5-1, behind Los Altos, 5-0 but prevailing in head to head.
Miller reported that Monta Vista will forfeit, 1-0 officially, so Gunn will enter CCS berth at 8-2 overall.
Paly’s division gets four berths so they advance scrapingly, raspando as Portola might have said in 1769.
Miller denied that 10 wins was a goal of his, which would mean a feast of two holiday playoff counting coup. I dream of a crosstown tilt with Blondie.
edit to add: Miller sent me some stats. Here are tackling totals: Velasquez, 18; P. Dobrov, 5; N. Panousis, 4 (Note: he also totaled 74 yards receiving on 2 catches); Kapoor, 4; Kim, 4 (I sat next to his mother at a team social function, Dafna Zur, the linguist); Davis, 4(met his father, Kenneth and aunt Rashida); Galicia, 3 including a sack; J. Oralevich, M. Dobrov and Varela 1 each.
I shot co-captain Eric Wang, a linebacker and a noted musician as he waited to be introduced for Senior Night. A buddy on the sidelines / Hal Daner Track claimed that Wang is contemplating Carnegie Mellon. I hope at least Lambert and Wang try Dartmouth. Dartmouth’s best team ever won the 1970 Lambert Trophy if that helps. And1: Yerba Buena lost to Gunn by 50, but beat James Lick by 50 and San Jose High by 42, both shutouts. Those schools once graduated Jim Plunkett and Jacque Robinson. First time I read about him he was Jock. And Joc Pederson of Paly had more yards than his teammate Davante, and nine hits, three homers in the 2021 MLB playoffs the Bravey.
Andand: coach Jason Miller if you add in the Monta Vista forfeit stands tall at 25-10 all time or 71 percent victorious. That’s roughly twice as winningly as Gunn’s all time slate in 56 seasons. I would estimate Gunn is 250 wins and 500 losses all time, or closer to 200 wins and 360 losses. This hits different. MaxPreps has Gunn at 48-84, 36.363636 under five guys named Moe but not Miller. Earl Hansen, meanwhile, if you excuse the digression into ancient, ancient history was one loss below a two-thirds victory percentage, at 192 wins in 297 starts, 13 seasons with eight or more victories, 14 straight unblemished and state champs in 2010. He’s actually from South Palo Alto, a Cubberley grad, I met him then recognized him from my mic at the Elvin Bishop show, December, 2019 at The Mitch, later had a beer with he and Hans my old coach his classmate. So Jason Miller has a better winning percentage than Earl Hansen here, all time. I wonder when Gunn got it’s 200th win all time?
Later that night or 1o:45 after polishing off the rest of the candy, me not Coach or I have no idea:
I think I said that while Jalen Moss is committing like future NFL DAvante Adams and Keeshwan to Fresno State that Troy Franklin is at Oregon and got 32 touchdowns for M-A and so far has eight catches for about 100 yards for the Ducks. He has stats for four games but might have played all eight.
And who is with me in going down in 30 minutes to see Sergio Beltran who broke a lot Of John Payes records for Menlo high.
and who thinks typos are really really goodl cool Cooley, landings. happy landings air beltran – -which is also the name of a local war hero who maybe works for the tire company or owns it.
Although T.J. Takafua, 300 pounds got 103 yards on 15 carries, Gunn added people to its playoff bandwagon more than it got derailed by visiting Fremont.
Gunn 50-20. I have to admit that although I was covering the game I didn’t see much action. Gunn has big plays and you look up to see someone scatting up the field but you don’t watch a whole drive play by play. Chris Melvin cousin of the former M-A star and brother of an obscure Chiefs coach does play by play but I was not listening carefully.
I was with my coach Hans Delannoy, who won Gunn hoops titles in 1980 and 1981 and for San Ramon was statewide coach of the year girls in 2006 and is in their hall of fame.
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Bob Peters, himself recently gone then eulogized a The Mitch the same day I was at another venue with my own gig, has a son also named, confusingly Bob Peters with a restaurant on State Street in Los Altos but it was too late to serve us, even if we were Hans Delannoy.
We ate the cheese plate at the former Honcho bar, next to the former Cho’s counter and our server Ivan was a Mexican basketball star who said Oaxaca has a great team.
I met Lambert Gunn’s star, in Miller’s lounge – not the doublewide and told him to write to Buddy Teevans at Dartmouth. Buddy was also once a 105 pound high school quarterback. I’m not kidding. Buddy Teevans, futher all Ivy QB and close to 100 wins in Hanover — and beating Harvard 17-14 start of the fourth last I checked — was once a 105 pound high school freshman QB and told the story to we alumni that he cheated at the weigh-in, that he grabbed a five pound iron and slipped next to his Governor Wheelock to make the team.
So Gunn’s James Lambert, 231 last week and about the same last night, is like a cross between current Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevans and former Dartmouth president, South Dakota high school quarterback and World Health guru Kim Jim.
I stated that I would ring mayor Tom Dubois the father of a Gunn VB champion, Anna, and demand that we find a job, maybe City Manager for Michael Lambert, who lives down here, South Palo Alto on Alma means soul and say we should find a place for Michael here maybe assistant city manager. if he is chief of libraries of SF, I’m sure that is a bigger budget than our entire city. He said he’s moving to Sf after James graduates.
I’m also high on Eric Wang, #52 who is a stalwart of the defense, and uses his size as an advantage, by going under the blockers. He got four tackles at Cupertino, I’ll update re last night.
I shot a good bit of the senior introductions — I might try to get the Oracle to run a bit on Eric Wang as my fullpage ad. Advertorial. As it were. Why don’t they cover sports per se?
The Weekly still deletes anything I say, no matter how astute or concise or how far from the greater truth that Democracy is corrupt for the failure to regulate capital which in Palo Alto turns the Weekly into a bunch of shit.
There’s more meaning in the ascent of Gunn football than merely the fifty or so opportunities to say “yeah” and not feel their pain.
A mother after the tino game accused some 14 yos of gloating over an injured Tino player and taking cell photage as trophies (or tropies, I reckon) but coach CG said no, they were expressing their respect and admired the player, he called him by his jersey if not his name). I asked him yesterday if there was any fallout or follow up. No.
So in theory Gunn will get a CCS berth — by the way, the Frosh soph won league, maybe first time ever. Best of all would be Gunn-Paly in CCS.
Coach Miller says Monta Vista has forfeited the final game, so Gunn will finish the reg at 8-2 (I had said likely 7-3 or 6-4…)
Nayla invited me to watch Frosh-soph next week and i invite u.
Children are our future.
Go, Big Red. Go, Titans.
I will update with the scoring totals — is Gunn #1 in CCS in scoring, or points per game?
I will update with list of tackles from Cupertino, timeless, classic.
And the fake pitch. Miller said the extra beat of waiting was Lambert’s own idea. On the Play of The Week they showed on TV, or finalist for such. But footage from defense side by Courtney from Carolina did not show what I saw, a guy turning his back to play, wating a beat then springing to life, like in a choreographed which means timing bit by that Hong Kong action hero who is also funny.
Jackie Chan, meets Buddy Teevans meets Jim Kim.
BW
In a not quite related matter, although her brother Paul Kraft (1963-2003) was a QB for Paly and played for Hans Delannoy frosh-soph baseball for the Cougars — once a Cougar always a Cougar — Kathleen Bryson nee Kraft an attorney in Northern California, criminal defense specialty, says that her former badminton partner Dr. Karen Drews combined with generational hero Eric Heiden to create a human life:
speaking of Little Red
update: James Lambert was named honorable mention all metro quarterback in the Chronicle but no Titans were honored in the mercury. I’ve said privately and in various random emails that I think Dartmouth should recruit both James Lambert and Eric Wang for football and other reasons but I don’t think that’s in their future. Dartmouth football does have a recent Sacred Heart grad.
Football coach David Shaw, $9m; Asset manager Robert Wallace, $4m; Heart surgeon Dr. Frank Hanley, $3.7m; Asset manager Greg Milani, $3.3m; Dr. Yi-Ping Woo, heart surgeon, $2.6m; Lloyd Minor, is he or is he not a doc, dean of meds, $2.4m – reminds me that the SVBJ reported that Israeli-American former chief of the hospital Amir Ben Dan Rubin made $400m on stock options for a chain of for profit medical centers; John Hennessy, computer scientist and president emeritus, $1.8m; Martin Shell “chief external relations officer” and althogh I hate the Post and still think David Price is, like Rush Limbaugh according to Al Franken “a big fat idiot” good job calling these guys — all guys, right? — out, $1.8m – -Stanford pays a PR guy nearly two million dollars a year; Marc Tessier-Lavigne, new guy president, $1.7m; John Etchemendy, philosophy professor and former provost, $1.6m.
If I woke up and found myself president of Stanford I would switch things up a bit or pivot and only offer majors in dance. I’d do about twenty years of that and see if we can notice, empirically a more just society with 10,00 more Stanford trained dancers and choreographers and 10,000 fewer… I will hold my tongue, here in Plastic Alto. I also think any candidate for Palo Alto City Council should have to stand and improvise a dance to Bar-Keys “Soul Suckers” or whatever. To wit (and believe me, if you are here watching at 12 noon on the dot on a game day saturday at Coupa, or you ar God herself, all seeing like an Emersonian eyeball — who is Stanford’s Emerson and what do you stand for? – I am going to dance –although the house system is playing Earth Wind and Fire all y ya all y ya! sounds fainlty arabic, Rick. Soul…fingers…digits, dig it? ten digit salaries at stanford!!!!!!!!
Jennifer Doudna — her name predicts her fate – do u DNA?! — won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and is the subject of a Walter Isaakson book for developing or advancing CRISPR-CAS9 that uses stem cells to move very close to a cure for sickle cell anemia, in Berkeley— and my high school classmate Matt Porteus has a similar lab at Stanford, compared to John Witte’s dry lab in SF, and — not our classmate but her child is a cellist Belan at Dartmouth— who I met accidentally while trying to reach athletic director. I admit I only read Isaaksons book on Duodna enough to ascertain if Porteus is mentioned. But the post is actually about Diunna, Diunna Greenleaf a blues singer — and songwriter— from Houston who tours internationally, sang with the Muddy Waters tribute band for years and recently visited the South Bay /408/650 to record with Kid Andersen and Jimmy Pugh. I think this cd, set for release on Pugh’s Village Music Foundation non-profit label, will make Diunna one of the all time greats. Besides the pop up nooner she did earlier this month, there is a chance she and Kid will come by the Mitch in November, nearby again finishing touches that album. Or in 2021. Or die trying.
The photo s are: nice lady selling ethical sourced coffee beans at Uniff, a scrumptious braised beef breakfast enchilada yesterday down town, Duffy my dog, jazz pianist Reggie Austin at Uniff, lawyer Cynthia Chandler a future genius grant winner in social justice whose father was a chemist, at Berkeley; with Jasmina Bojic. Chris Strausser of the Colts.
also: Eric Hansen mentioned that he has booked Menlo Park’s Tuck and Patti since the retirement of Paul Goldman and sends me on a scouting mission to see the facade of an East Bay venue that may also host the duo.
and: more Remi Wolf:
Nearly 7,000 reviews, overwhelmingly positive for the book on Dr. Jennifer Doudna:
Just 7% of the players on opening day rosters in Major League Baseball this season were African American, down from a high of 18.7% in 1981, according to the Society of American Baseball Research. Black people currently make up 13.4% of the population, according to U.S. Census Bureau stats.Jun 17, 2021
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
