Althouse: Rowing at daybreak.

October 10, 2021

Rowing at daybreak.

27 comments:

rhhardin said...: Closed Circuit (2013) has rowing at the beginning and end, and is one of the few DVDs I've watched several times at intervals. Politics, quips, action, boy/girl, law, courtroom, mystery. With what's her name. Rebecca Hall.; 10/10/21, 12:15 PM
Owen said...: Not entirely sure but it looks as if #5 in that eight is not rowing, just holding his/her oar flat on the water. Maybe that is to stabilize the boat while the others do a drill; maybe it’s an equipment problem; maybe it’s just a badly missed stroke…; 10/10/21, 12:25 PM
gspencer said...: Looking for Fredo's body,; 10/10/21, 1:52 PM
Owen said...: Another comment: the boat appears to be rigged for starboard stroke. We used to rig for port stroke —and it seemed to be the most common set-up, by a big margin. You can rig either way, depending on the best fit with the strengths of the individual oarsmen*. Still: a point to remark upon.

*no sex or gender differentiation implied.; 10/10/21, 2:33 PM
Narr said...: Oarsperson. It's the only way.; 10/10/21, 3:28 PM
madAsHell said...: I read the book "Boys in the Boat" about 10 years ago, and the book's dust cover assured me that it would soon be released as a major motion picture.

What happened??; 10/10/21, 5:04 PM
Owen said...: Narr @ 3:28: I agonized long and hard over that one. My problem with your approach is that “oarsperson” is just an ugly sound, something a drunk Norwegian might come up around closing time. But maybe we can compromise on “poarson,” as a conflation of the two words.; 10/10/21, 6:26 PM
h said...: "For the past decade the state has been an incubator for the kind of tribal politics and deep divisions that characterize civic life in Washington and much of the rest of the nation. While Wisconsin has been closely divided for a long time — four of the last six presidential elections were decided by less than a percentage point — the widening gulf between the two parties exposed in 2011 foreshadowed the extent to which American politics would come to focus more on the extremes rather than the middle of the political spectrum."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/wisconsin-polarization-democrats-republicans/; 10/10/21, 6:34 PM
wildswan said...: I'm circling Milwaukee in an attempt to return home during the great Southwest Airlines Flight Cancellation Days. 1800 cancellations on Saturday and Sunday - no one has a believable story as to why this is happening. And one of those cancelled panes was mine. I simply received a curt text "Flight cancelled" while trying to change flights in Baltimore. Then another text - flight rerouted through St Louis two days hence. Vacation home was behind me - Milwaukee home was ahead. And they have my baggage ... somewhere. And the phones have four hour waits, i.e., after four hours I hung up. Tomorrow I try again to get to Milwaukee. Luck,be a gentleman.; 10/10/21, 6:57 PM
Jaq said...: James Bond beating up that "political officer" type CIA agent in "No Time to Die" kind of reminded me of Little Bill beating up English Bob for insulting America on the Fourth of July in "Unforgiven." I was like "kick him! Hit him harder!"; 10/10/21, 7:43 PM
rcocean said...: Just wanted to let everyone know what I'm up to. I'm not doing well at all. Building my $15 million dollar house on Lake Washington. What a headache! I've made mistake after mistake. Don't be a dummy like me.

Its like when I lost $2 million on Amazon. Good grief, I'm such a goof. Anyone else - Like me-who bought it back in 1997, would've sold it in 2020! Judas Priest, my super-model wife won't speak to me after I made that error.

And then there's my cat. had to get her a $20.000 operation. And my health is bad too. Doctor is mad at me for runnning those marathons at age 65. Says I need to slow down. Like most guys on the internet, I'm 6-5 220. Doc says thats too much weight to lug around.

Its like my friends Barack, Norm and Dave at Cypress Point used to say: You're such a dummy RC.; 10/10/21, 8:04 PM
Narr said...: Owen, I was in academe so I'm surprised I didn't think of this-- 'oar.' We got rid of department chairman/woman/person/critter long ago.

Well look at that-- "oar . . . 2. an oarsman." From the Random House College Edition Dictionary, 1969.; 10/10/21, 8:09 PM
Lucien said...: Wasn’t Southwest imposing a vaccine mandate on employees? Maybe the peasantry revolted.; 10/10/21, 8:11 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Just watched "Patriots Day", the movie about the bombing during the Boston Marathon in 2013. Great movie, kept me watching through my normal dinner time.; 10/10/21, 9:13 PM
Big Mike said...: @Mike of Snoqualmie, a friend’s wife was running that Marathon, and she was about a block from the finish line when the bomb went off. Technically, she never did finish the race. Her husband, my friend, was in the stands across from the finish line. Despite showers and a good night’s sleep, when they tried to go through TSA the next day to fly home they were pulled aside. However once they explained how close each had been to the detonation, they were allowed to board their flight.; 10/10/21, 9:53 PM
Big Mike said...: I see that Frank Figliuzzi of MSNBC is decrying the “War on Teachers” and asserting that Gatland’s use of the FBI is appropriate. Trouble is, if there’s a war, it was the teachers who declared war on ordinary parents, not the other way around. Yes, teacher and school board members, in this fight, you’re the Baddies.; 10/10/21, 9:58 PM
walter said...: Covid Medical Apartheid dropping in on more transplant patients.
Cool.; 10/10/21, 10:01 PM
rcocean said...: Y'know it amazing. I've been posting on the intertubes since 1998, that's over 20 years, and I have yet to meet a man under 6-2.; 10/10/21, 10:55 PM
madAsHell said...: Wasn’t Southwest imposing a vaccine mandate on employees? Maybe the peasantry revolted.

I think so....; 10/10/21, 11:46 PM
Owen said...: Narr @ 8:09: “…oar…”. Game, set and match to you! Metonymy rules again.; 10/11/21, 5:21 AM
Jaq said...: "Y'know it amazing. I've been posting on the intertubes since 1998, that's over 20 years, and I have yet to meet a man under 6-2."

Or an IQ under 160. Who knew the world was so full of mathematical savants who are able to share deep insights into the applications of the discipline of statistics while never having even so much as audited a course on the subject? And then they are able to, for the benefit of all, apply this selfsame preternaturally trenchant intellect to the field of medicine, often simply on the basis of videos without transcripts! It's an amazing age we live in, that I will allow; giants walk the Earth.; 10/11/21, 6:19 AM
Big Mike said...: @wildswan, please keep us updated. We are wishing you the best.; 10/11/21, 8:48 AM
wildswan said...: Continuing my involuntary participation in the Great Southwest Airlines' Cancellation Days, I went to BWI airport this morning to make another attempt to get back to Milwaukee on Southwest. They had rerouted me through St. Louis, so my flight was Manchester to Baltimore (2 day layover) to St. Louis to Milwaukee. I checked carefully and my flight was a go. But the crafty folks at Southwest had left the flight, Baltimore to St. Louis (which I checked), while cancelling the flight, St Louis to Milwaukee (which could not be seen on the BWI Departures board). So they were just going to dump me down in a new city, St. Louis, having already cancelled my flight out of there. Then, when a clever relative found this out for me, Southwest said I could not cancel BWI-St. Louis-Milwaukee because I had already cancelled in the last few days i.e., they cancelled BWI-Milwaukee and then said it meant I had cancelled too many times so I had to go to St. Louis where they had already cancelled my onward flight to Milwaukee. And also, they said my bag had boarded already so I had to go on this flight to nowhere. My bag is winging its way to St. Louis, I suppose, and I am visiting relatives in the DC area.
I've always liked Southwest and they are evidently having some hard times. I wish them all the luck in the world but I'm changing airlines. I'm vectoring into a holding pattern till the end of the week and then I'll try to recover my baggage.; 10/11/21, 8:57 AM
Narr said...: "giants walk the Earth."

Aw shucks, y'all.; 10/11/21, 10:23 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: @wildswan:

You might consider renting a car and driving home. After 9/11, a few coworkers had finished a wind tunnel test in Philadelphia and were schedule to fly home to Seattle. Flights canceled. They rented a car and drove home.; 10/11/21, 1:25 PM
Narr said...: Yikes! wildswan has seen the future, and everyone should expect the same.

My wife has just booked flights for herself for early March. To Paris (TOIF) for her international "Outlander" cunvention, and back from London.

All I can say is, if we're lucky.; 10/11/21, 1:35 PM
Big Mike said...: @wildswan, I'll also ask in the next Cafe post, but did you ever make it home?; 10/12/21, 4:14 PM