65 thoughts on “January 23, 2020: Flood”

  2. I'm an everyday breakfast cereal person, and one of the cereals that I eat periodically is Full Circle Market's Organic Wheat Squares (think Wheat Chex). Stuff is good, but boy when you open the package it smells like the floor of a wood shop.

    I've cut out most sugary cereals, and have started avoiding BMT (tocopherols FTW), but the choices have slowly started thinning out with the Millennial generation not into breakfast cereal.


          1. *I hate being identified as a boomer; the tail end of the baby boomer generation seems to fluctuate from article to the next, but we really don't have that much in common with the core boomers. Except cereal.

              1. That is a definition I haven't heard of. Also, Millennials were too young for the 80's hair bands -- I think you're talking about Gen X. Boomers are the Pat Boone generation.

                The problem I have is that the early 60's babies are Baby Boomers simply because there were lots of babies born then. They have very little in common otherwise, and most barely remember Vietnam, for example.

                1. Gen X is the middle child. Likely to be one of the few (only?) Generations to never have a president.

                  2. The Silent Generation also holds this distinction. Mondale, Dukakis, Kerry, & McCain were their generation’s nominees. I wonder if Gen X will even get the distinction of more than one nominee.

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                2. #teamrunner on this one. I was born in 1963 which technically is a boomer as I've seen June 1, 1964 as the cut off. But in no way do I identify as a boomer. Virtually no shared experience (Vietnam, JFK assassination, early Beatles, Woodstock, etc), Plus my parents were war babies, not greatest generation. My mom is as close to being a boomer as I am being a Gen X. (yes, she was very young when I was born).

                  So I identify as Gen-X. Perhaps we could put that one our name tags like we do preferred pronouns.

                    1. For what it is worth, I think that "generations"-based sociological arguments are mostly crap. Time is continuous. It does not come in simple demographic epochs.
                      I get the point that shared experiences can bind cross-sectional cohorts to one another. But there is so much fuzziness with regards to defining events and start/end points as to make the concept all but useless.

                    3. For what it is worth, I think that "generations"-based sociological arguments are mostly crap. Time is continuous. It does not come in simple demographic epochs.
                      I get the point that shared experiences can bind cross-sectional cohorts to one another. But there is so much fuzziness with regards to defining events and start/end points as to make the concept all but useless.

                      Ok Boomer.

                  2. yeah, what free said! Also, I think of the start of Gen-X as the cutoff for not having to deal with punch cards (although I had one class that used them). Thank God for that.

                    2. Generation X (or Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. Researchers and popular media typically use birth years around 1965 to 1980 to define Generation Xers, although some sources use birth years beginning as early as 1960 and ending somewhere from 1977 to 1984.

                      If there are sources starting in 1960, they're part of the Silent Generation, because I don't hear of them. Actually, this reminds me -- I've heard of the pre-Baby Boomers called the Entitlement Generation.

                      Gen Xers were children during a time of shifting societal values and as children were sometimes called the "latchkey generation", due to reduced adult supervision as children compared to previous generations, a result of increasing divorce rates and increased maternal participation in the workforce, prior to widespread availability of childcare options outside the home. As adolescents and young adults, they were dubbed the "MTV Generation" (a reference to the music video channel). In the 1990s they were sometimes characterized as slackers, cynical and disaffected. Some of the cultural influences on Gen X youth were the musical genres of grunge and hip hop music, and independent films. In midlife, research describes them as active, happy, and achieving a work–life balance. The cohort has been credited with entrepreneurial tendencies.

                    3. CH, typically they'll throw out 1980 as the X to millenial transition. This is where my wife and I find ourselves.
                      I've heard a suggestion of a "Xennial" transition from 1979-1984 or so where kids both got the "go play outside" experience but still had the internet, computer/video games, phones (maybe) in their youth.

                    5. Just did a video conference for leaders at our church on generations and communicating with them. Gen X cutoff is ambiguous between 1976 to 1980. What stuck with me about Gen X is they're mad at or don't like both Boomers and Millenials.

          2. Agewise, I'm technically a boomer, but some notable differences. The guys even 1-2 years older than me:
            - were really into cars, and all I cared about was reliability (and 4WD).
            - were in love with the guitar dudes in their bands, and I only knew the vocalists
            - knew all of the lines to CaddyShack/Animal House/Rocky Horror, and I can't stand any of those (Bill Murray not funny).

    2. For the past six months, I've gone to a half cup (one serving size) of Grape Nuts. I like it and it's bland enough that I haven't gotten sick of it.

      1. I don't think I've ever eaten Grape Nuts. But I have a vivid memory of being very young and a parent telling me that Grape Nuts expand to twice their size after you eat them, so you only fill the bowl halfway when you're eating Grape Nuts.

        1. I have the exact same memory. I think I had maybe one bowl of them, ever, and my mom acted like she was preparing me to eat Fugu or something.

                1. Sometimes I get that reaction when I tell people my favorite two cereals are plain Cheerios and Crispix. "That's just dog food!"

        2. When I have time, grits (with salt) or oatmeal (raisins + brown sugar) here. Mueslix/granola sometimes.

        1. Pie is the last thing I had before throwing up ten times on Sunday night. I think it will be a while for me.

            1. After 30 years I still have not overcome a bit less similarly derived aversion to corn nuts and tequila. Thank you college roommate!

              1. My two things I still cannot have even after a decade plus are Mike's Hard Lemonade and Kraft Macaroni and cheese (two separate incidents). I can have good mac and cheese, but Kraft just brings back that same feeling. The meal didn't cause the problem, but about two hours later I was the sickest I've ever been.

                1. Hopefully two incidents.

                  I can’t even smell coconut cream pie without wanting to vomit, and I last puked that up when I was 8.

                    2. In my younger days, my friend bought a bottle of Wild Turkey Rare Breed. I said I would "have a glass" of it, meaning, you know, a couple of fingers with ice. He came back with a tumbler full. That was an interesting evening.

    2. I can't for the life of me figure out what today has to do with pie. I'm going to celebrate on 3.14.

    1. That raised, in my mind, an interesting question about any hitters the Astros traded that likely had inflated numbers from the cheating. I'm probably not the guy to do it, but it'd be interesting to see what kind of numbers they put up with their new clubs and how pissed that team should be.

      1. AND fantasy owners! Because guess who drafted him? I think. Maybe. I lose track as the seasons run together...

  7. So last week the wife and I did a crash drive to NYC to the Chinese consulate to get our passports updated with a Chinese Visa, in advance of an upcoming trip to Tokyo (where NBBW is doing the Tokyo marathon), and then a planned week in Shanghai.

    Then this. Natch.

    1. I read yesterday the first confirmed US case is in Washington state involving a recent visitor to China. Arrived in Seattle.

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