Hair Cut Time
Ok, this weekend the plan is to have my daughter give me a haircut. This is all assuming I can find a store open that sells clippers. I’ve never done this before. My hair is easy to cut, I normally go #1 on the sides, #4 up top. But I’m thinking of just going #1 all the way around to keep it simple.
Any advice from those who do this or have done this would be appreciated.
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I will be looking for suggestions. My daughter typically cuts my hair, but her salon is closed due to the pandemic. I’m thinking just going shaggy for a month or two.
good luck Flav. This is gonna be problem in another month for lot of people.
Just heard Bill Withers died of heart trouble at 81. Saw him live at old Berkeley Jazz Festival at Greek Theatre.
Don’t have any of his recorded music except for Just the Two of Us on a Grover Washington cd. Beautiful tune with steel drums and two of Grover’s best solos ever. The one as song ends is just wonderful.
there is a vid I catch on youtube where Withers is doing Use Me live with the fabulous drummer James Gadsden plus another guitar bass and keyboard. Great tune.
Dude, #1 is like totally bald. You might as well just slather that dome with Barbasol and grab your razor after that.
The most important thing is that you use good scissors and that they are almost razor sharp.
I personally recommend “Shear Guru” (Amazon has them)…
Make sure your hair is damp but not totally wet. If the person using the trimmer hasn’t done it before start with something like a #3 and work their way down. Less razor burn and it will come out more even all around. A comb (not a brush) for shaping around the ears helps a lot.
this is fucking hilarious
lulz
That is hilarious!
I’ve had overnighter golf tournaments and the Sunday tee off we’re brutal after partying late Sat night, but not like this guy..
This is so random. My niece’s son is #24 as one of the best names in college baseball . . .
https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ranking-the-top-50-names-in-college-baseball-in-2020/?fbclid=IwAR3IA1FEYtKhfmxlQhMWh-jCuLVJFguXnB7j971mDwY9pYJA22uffDYa_Qs
thanks for the advice above, guys. I figured if I’m ever gonna do this shit myself now is the time to experiment with it.
As it is for everyone, be careful around the ears!
and with sharp instruments. this has to be part of the “be safe” message.
I’m thinking of doing it myself also. If it doesn’t turn out who really cares. It’s pretty much all grey anyway. I plan on using scissors and a razor.
Hey Flavor you can always cut your hair with the Flowbee hair machine that cuts and sucks your hair with a vacuum system! Amazon even sells them lol 😂
Love it MacDog,
Yeah I have that CSNY album among my huge vinyl collection! Great album!
Four way street is one of their greatest . . .
Rob Manfred is a gutless tool who continues to ruin baseball. He now says AJ Hinch&GM Lundnow (sp) 1 year ban will be time served so since their won’t be baseball (imo) these clowns were never really punished and are eligible to come back next year, which is unlikely but who knows?
No MLB team will hire them.
nbc ports channel bay area Giants will have Ishi game 5 2014 NLCS vs. Cards on at 1:30 today.
Nice! I just recently took possession of the bat Joe Panik gave my son after that game in exchange for the home run ball he had hit earlier.
story about Peavy running out there from Pavs on the nbcbayarea website, pretty funny. Gist of it was Peavy could hardly see anyway and was apparently still under influence of having some serious dental work done recently. When he went out there Ishi yelled at him to get away because Peavy didn’t realize he had homered.
I gave myself a haircut the other day. Used to buzz my boys regularly and would cut my own occasionally—especially in the summer months where I wanted it short. No scissors involved–electric clippers only.
16mm on top, 12mm in the intermediate areas and 5 mm on the sides and neck. This was not a total buzz cut and left a little bit of length on top. I’ll send you a pic.
Vertical movements with the clippers seem to work best. When I go horizontally I tend to end up with bare spots above the ears. Asked my daughter to clean up the back, but she said it looked fine!
how do the mm’s translate to #1, #2, #3 etc???? Also, what do you mean by horizontal vs vertical? Ear to ear is considered horizontal, right? front of head to back of head is considered vertical? I think I’m heading to Best Buy this weekend to buy the clippers so all the advice you guys have given today is huge, thank you.
If you want to buy inexpensive clippers just to try it out Walmart usually has a few different types. If you want to get really good ones look online. I was told by an old friend who’s a dog groomer that what they used was the best you could get. Kinda makes sense since you figure all the hair on a dog.
I hate everything about Walmart. If I can go elsewhere, I will. I would just buy it at Amazon but these days we’re limiting anyone delivering anything to the house if possible. So, I’m gonna head out to Best Buy I think.
I’ve never been in a Walmart.
Pretty sure there aren’t any in Brooklyn…
I know there are a few gamblers here. In the Aug. ’62’ issue of baseball digest there’s a section of ‘how to win bets on ballgames’ maybe still relevant or maybe not. I don’t gamble much.
Forgot Ishi misplayed a ball that went over his head in LF that accounted for Cards first run. Jay sliced one Ishi misjudged for a double that scored one and left guys on 2b/3b with one out but bum got Holliday to pop out to short CF and K’d Peralta. Jay was hitting .500 of Bum too, a LH.
Blanco singles bottom 3rd and Panik….boom! Kuiper: “If you’re gonna hit it high and not very far that’s where you want to do it.” Agreed , right down the line shortest route to bomb in the whole yard.
Panik bomb!
If we receive any package now from Amazon, which is rare, I take it to my garage and spray it with a bleach/water solution and leave it overnight, then open it. And trash the box immediately into the recycle bucket outside. Amazon workers are coming down with Covid19 all over so you know there are people carrying it in these warehouses, and the virus can live on surfaces for a couple of days. I sterilize whatever the inside packaging is, too, before I open that to get to the item. Depending on the item, I wipe that down, too. The warehouse workers are not using any gloves, no masks, is what I hear. Needless to say, we’re not doing too much Amazon…
So, for weeks we’ve been told don’t wear any masks unless you think you have the virus, because it stops you from spreading it. Wearing one supposedly would not protect you much, if at all, from acquiring the virus. Now, we’re being told wear a mask when you’re out, regardless. Even if you make your own out of an old T shirt. I said a few days ago a billion+ people in Asia are wearing masks all the time, why aren’t we? I don’t know how more F’d up this country’s response could be to this situation…
Morse! F-ing Strickland ruined that.
Amazon is also hiring like crazy. with millions out of work, it’s a paying gig opportunity people will take a look at.
Friend of mine who has spent 19 years as top sales rep for major high end luggage firm just got fired (not laid off) along with her boss. She’s not even 60, is used to working and quite good at it. She asked me, what is my next move? And recognizes industry is going through some hard times right now since travel isn’t happening.
She’d talked about walking away in a couple years and maybe driving for Lyft to pick up some $$$. those guys are starving right now, and I don’t see how that is very safe job either–how do you know anything about the random people who sit in you car?
One of those things you could watch forever. Wacha had walked Belt of 4 pitches and got the curse of the pitching coach visit to mound then threw 2 more balls before Ishi sends crowd home happy.
@Flav–by vertical motion I mean an upward motion toward the ceiling. Not so important on the longer parts, but around the ears it is.
16mm= #5
12mm= #4
5mm= #2
I live out in the sticks and there is a giant Wal Mart on the outskirts of town on the way to my house.
It’s damn near the only place I shop. Prices are great and I can get milk, produce, auto parts, ammo, sporting goods, school supplies, hardware, garden supplies all under one roof. Big fan.
The Morse HR is such a great Giants moment. The big situation, his reaction when he hit it, and the huge momentum shift in the game.
The Ishi HR, too, of course.
A key moment, too, was a ball deflecting off of the end of Pablo’s glove right to Crawford. It took the wind out of a Cards’ rally in the 8th. The kind of break the Giants got during the 3-in-5.
Hey, Dog, here’s the pic . . .
And the ball . . .
Ask Zumiee who wrote this song…
A new song to wash my hands too for 20 seconds!
Thanks for those pics Chuck!
K and K doing simulation Giants Dodgers home opener at the O. Belt just doubled home a run off Buehler but Giants are down 5-2. Hamilton is in CF and retrieves a triple by Turner off Jarlin Garcia 6-2 and then Seager lines base hit past Yolmer Sanchez 2b and it’s 7-2. Game moves really fast
And Wilmer Flores homers, his 3rd of the year. Kinda fun gotta admit.
I knew Wilmer would rake!
exactly! Kruk said Giants are gonna love the guy.
this is mlb the show. Posey just homered to LF off Ross Stripling and it’s 7-5. Dodger OF is Pederson Betts and Bellinger.
this is pretty funny. I could watch this–they usually only show 2 pitches of an AB and really quick btw pitches anyway. Kenly Jansen looks lot like LeBron James here. Dick singled off him in 9th but Jansen gets 4 out save 10-7 Dodgers. Pence hit PH 2 run HR earlier but Muncy had a slam off Smrdz that set tone. whole game only took an hour I think.
Loo, I didn’t know who wrote the song, so I looked it up. Someone wrote English words to an old Russian folk melody.
Great song. I’ve always liked it.
I thought it was McCartney, Zum…
Well, he was very involved anyway.
Sorry…
https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/those-were-the-days/
not a vid game person at all but watching the play station version of Giants/dodgers yesterday was fun. It is on nbcsports.com/bayarea website, full game via youtube. Entire 9 innings in 52 minutes.
Couple things–graphics on close up of players are little off–Roberts looks way more black than half Asian in the face. Also the new triples alley became doubles alley even for Belt as he blasted one that rolled to 415 sign.
They did show guys warming up in the new bullpens too out behind CF.
I might go watch some of the start, which spoiler alert did not go well, right now. K and K call the game and yes Amy G is there too.
Isn’t there any kind of interactive game we could play here?
We got at least a dozen guys here on a regular basis.
Maybe somebody’s kid would have an idea 💡💡💡?
trivia is the best game, unfortunately trivia games have been mostly ruined by access to the internet. I don’t think anyone cheats but if you can’t rule it out as a risk it cheapens the quality of the game a bit
The internet destroyed my career as barroom know it all…
Strat-O-Matic Beisbol. Get your game on, Flippers.
I have Frontier cable. Fuckers cut off acess to MLB channel!! We get like a thousand channels and that is the one??? For an out of town Giants loving baseball nut 25+year fantasy player it is unacceptable!!!
Kinda funny to look at projected Giants LU from yesterday
Yaz RF
Belt 1b
Posey C
Dick LF
Longo 3b
Crawford SS
Hamilton CF
Y. Sanchez 2b
Smrdz
No Dubon or Davis for home opener? According to the show stats to that point in season Longo Craw and Posey were all under .200, Belt was over .300. Posey did homer in this game. Flores who came off bench hit his 3rd HR. Hamilton went 0-4 but did score Giants first run. Have a feeling if things ever get going he is in..
I’ve pretty much stopped watching the news.
How many times can I hear this?
“These are challenging times”
“We’re all in this together”
“Hopefully things return to normal sooner than later”
Yeah, the news is pretty mind numbing full of opinions that are presented as facts. Then there’s the total bullshit. These guys obviously get paid by the word and it doesn’t matter if left or right wing. The virus is still a big political game for most of those in power. It is way more numbing than Netflix, prime, or hulu, and that is saying something.
I predict that the cause of death on my death certificate will be: Platitudes
That’s going out on a limb, there,DJ!
cbs site story says NBA looking at just cancelling season/playoffs. One of the reasons is also addressed in story I read on MLBTR regarding difficulty of playing games in isolated area even without fans.
Major issue would be that everyone involved–both teams coaches umps TV and media plus all support staff would ALL have to be tested and results known immediately prior. Given chronic shortage of test kits across nation how could this possibly happen amid shitstorm of who can get access and quick results?
Been watching old videos of the Giants thru the years. Man those Giants jerseys of the late 70’s and early 80’s might be my all time favorites, even though I was always partial to the Will Clark ere block letter uni’s. The orange alternate jersey they wear now is ok but not quite the same. Really wish they would bring those back, especially the white jersey with Giants in script.
Absolutely WJ.
Time for a change when baseball resumes in 2022…
“As the sports world remains frozen due to the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA reportedly isn’t optimistic it will be able to restart and finish its season.
ESPN’s Brian Windhorst went on “SportsCenter” on Friday and gave an update on the league’s current line of thinking and the realistic possibility that basketball won’t return until next season.
“It’s been a bad week,” Windhorst said in regards to the feeling the season might not be salvageable. “I think there was optimism about progress a week ago, and some things that have happened this week have turned it south about what could happen. A big factor was what happened in China, where they halted the return of their league and one of the big reasons was they really believed that if they just tested the players’ temperature all the time that it would. The Chinese are finding that asymptomatic carriers are causing maybe a second wave in that country. They have just slammed the breaks on sports.
“The talks between the players union and the league this week — I’ve talked to both sides of this issue — and it is clear the NBA is angling to set up a deal that enables them to shut the season down. Now, they don’t have to do that yet, and the way they are negotiating, they are leaving themselves an option either way. But they are not having talks about how to restart the league, they are having financial talks about what would happen if the season shuts down and I think there’s a significant amount of pessimism right now.””
Since getting food for the house is not a quick trip to the store anymore. Making sure there is about two weeks worth at hand needs a list. So you ask what people really want to keep em happy. It got me to thinking what i really want and started thinking about the food i really loved as a kid and early adult. If they were still available I would pick up a box of Team Flakes, Gebhardts Tamales (in the can), and some Gaucho cookies. I truly loves those products. I have tried to find something similar but no luck so far. Anyway, just thought I would share that.
I was at a grocery store this morning wearing a red bandana as a facemask, looking like the outlaw Jesse James. I would say only about 1/5 of the customers were wearing a mask or bandana.
The store was incredibly well-stocked in paper towels and toilet paper. I guess the hoarders are all stocked up.
i donned the red bandana today, too. But I’d say 75% had masks on at our safeway. Took forever to get in, too
All things considered, Californians’ behavior overall has been good during these trying times. The governor shut down a lot of the state before all the other states did (and some still haven’t), and that has been pretty effective vs. the virus, so far, considering Calif. has more than 10% of the population of the entire nation.
“A six-week-old baby in Connecticut has died from coronavirus and is believed to be the youngest confirmed fatality from the illness anywhere in the world.”
If there was any doubt, all the major pro sports are done for the year.
For you guys feeling a little down today, just be glad you don’t live in Florida next to this guy:
“Will happily bet you $1000 dollars that there will be a season. Actually you know what, I kinda wish the China virus would just take out the weak, I don’t want to live in a society where a bunch a little candy asses are walking around with masks. Hope everyone is enjoying their free trial of socialism”
Florida is a beautiful, beautiful state, but boy do they have some stupid people. From my JoeBucsFan blog.
OSF
Good that your store was well stocked Zumie,mine sure wasn’t when I went in 6:30 am Wednesday. No TP,PaperTowels,Kleenex, soups were low& no Freaking eggs 🥚!!! Did restock on the the #1 item everyone is doing BOOZE!
The grocery store this morning was very low on dry beans and pasta. All the pinto beans were gone; we ended up getting some lima beans. That’s alright; we like those.
For whatever reason, perhaps from being in the Central Valley- eggs, milk, and meat always seems pretty well stocked.
I haven’t had to wait in line to enter a store yet. That would drive me crazy. I’d have to be desperate as hell to wait in line to simply get into the store. Got gas at Costco yesterday and saw people lined up around the building to get in. No thanks.
I’m with ya Sandog,no way in hell I will wait in a line to get my inside a grocery store.I already got all most of my stuff early at a Luckys no hassle are lines, driving home by a Trader Joe’s and they’re limiting how many people can go in, with grocery carts/ people 6ft apart going around the building down an alley and on to the sidewalk behind the store! Fuck that scenario for me!
Giants TV network is showing a game vs. the Dodgers tonight at 8. I have no idea what the date of the game is.
Trump spoke via conference call with the major sports commissioners today and wasted their time.
“In a Saturday conference call with commissioners of major sports leagues covering how to approach the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, President Donald Trump said he believes the 2020 NFL season will start on time in September, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Adrian Wojnarowski. Additionally, Trump reportedly hopes fans will be able to attend events at arenas and stadiums by August and September.”
If you believe what you hear in NY, the only events we’ll be attending are funerals.
Including our own…
Bright side for me:
If there’s no NFL season, the Chiefs are defending champs for another year.
Like the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays & 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning…
The Prez is torn.
Him and everyone else better hope they find a really good treatment if not a cure.
WTF good is a vaccine 18 months from now?
Won’t everyone either be dead, recovered, or somewhat resistant to it by then?
Found this gem in a box I hadn’t opened in 10 years: “Willie’s Time” by Charles Einstein 1989.
He talks about a game where Mays threw out 3 Dodgers in same game and would have had a fourth (in other words thrown for the cycle) had not Tito Fuentes missed a tag. Game was May 17 1966 Giants lost 2-1 in 13.
Mays gunned down willie Davis at 3b Maury Wills at plate and Don Drysdale at 1b.
I think his defense is edge Mays has over just about any slugger even great ones from his era.
Yup!
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196605170.shtml
thx again Loo. Marichal’s ERA at time middle of May in 32nd game, was 0.78
What a year he had 1966. 307 innings 37 starts 25 complete games 25-6 record. walked 36 struck out 222.
2.23 ERA.
Wills was actually nailed at the plate by McCovey on the relay from Mays. The other 2 assists were direct.
I think Marichal started 10-0 in ’66. Probably highly motivated by the ’65 debacle.
He was raking, too…
A Subway in Calgary was taking a major backlash for advertising a sign; “Buy 2 sandwiches and get a Covid mask for free”! Subway has since apologized and had the sign removed..
1971 Giants won 90 to win West only to be undone by Bob Robertson and Pirates in playoff.
Mays, at age 40 and in his last season as Giant, had .907 OPS 112 walks and stole 23 bags vs. 3 CS. 6.3 WAR.
Bobby Bonds, age 25, hit 33 HRs 102 rbis slash line .288/.355/.512 for .867 OPS. Stole 26 bags 6.7 WAR.
I never got the feeling these guys were really friends. In fact, based on what I’ve read, I don’t think Mays was especially tight with any teammate except Monte Irvin. And that includes McCovey…
He was close with 2 managers (Durocher & Franks) and one owner (Joan Payson/Mets)…
Yeah as much as Mays still in my book the best player ever,he was a recluse, and never quite got the fans total support in SF like when McCovey burst into the scene who was much more approachable to the media.NewYork was his city’s owned along with Mantle..
Fauci is awesome…
Giants game that is on tonight is Cutch walkoff game that went 14 vs. Dodgers April 7 2018.
My main memory of Cutch as a Giant was his defensive ineptitude in RF…
So when are they going to win a simulated game, aren’t they 0-7 to start the season?
McGiggles Cove?
Did you get your haircut?
Inquiring drunks wanna know…
Hair by the “Cowsills would be a a good song to listen too for Flavors haircut..
Cutch got 6 (!) hits in that game. Who remembered that?!
I don’t remember Cutch getting 6 hits overall as a Giant.
What a fascinating box score from that ’66 Giants-Dodgers game. Giants got 11 hits in 9 innings off Drysdale, and 14 overall — all singles — and got only 1 run. McCovey kept getting on base, but they couldn’t get him in. Killer DP by Haller in the 4th. Big chance wasted in 6th with 1st and 2nd and 1 out when McCovey got picked off 2nd and then Haller hit a single. Dodgers let Drysdale bat to lead off the 9th trailing 1-0 — he struck out, They rallied to tie it anyway. McCovey struck out with the bases loaded and 2 out in the 11th. And after the 3 Mays throw-outs, Giants end up losing on a throwing error by Ollie Brown in the 13th. Giants finished second to Dodgers by 1.5 games. Ouch.
Last day of the season Jints needed to beat Bucs and pray Phils swept L.A. That woulda left them tied in the LC and they would have had to win a makeup game the next day (don’t know against who) to force a play-off.
Giants tied the Pirates in the 9th on a hit by Ozzie Virgil and won it with 4 in the 11th after Lindy McDaniel escaped dire trouble in the 10th. Meanwhile Bums drop the opener and Giants need Bunning to beat Koufax in the nitecap. Down 6-0, Phils rally for 3 in 9th but fall short. I had to look up the details, but I remember that day real well – especially trying to get updates on that last game. There’s a an old clip somewhere of the Giants listening to the radio broadcast in silence as the season went down the drain…