I’m none of those things and I believe I got a 45 second standing ovation on Venice.
I’m none of those things and I believe I got a 45 second standing ovation on Venice.
If it was a movie Benoit Blanc would convince the police that nobody was allowed to leave until it was solved and my wife wouldn’t be home for another week.
This is a very weird statement made less weird if I read the first part as saying (without actually saying) GE WASN’T DRUNK! So of course I now assume he was drunk (though not even clear if he was driving).
My wife and I both have iPhones we didn’t trade in when upgrading that we essentially use as iPads. No phone service. I most cast streamers that don’t have tv apps on mine, she plays games and music outdoors on hers. But all the social and non-critical apps removed.
My initial reaction was they were very strongly trying to indicate “HE WASN’T DRUNK!” By pointing out he’d just done a good thing and had been in the presence of the police. Which, with this group of people, just results in me thinking he was drunk.
Mostly agree. But I also think Vance is the exception. He’d eat his way through the corpse on live tv to get the job.
Everybody can have rodent or other pest problems. If rodents are out in sight in the main part of the restaurant where people are that suggests to me that they’re too comfortable. But I’ve eaten street food around the world that would make a US health inspector scream. So I’m not too bothered.
I was completely out of pocket yesterday and come back online to be very confused what everybody was talking about. Still haven’t seen a triggering event. Hours of “he’s not dead” and jokes about how they’d feel if he was and then back far enough nothing. No window of posts like “is he dead?”
Oh, sorry. That was unintentionally a very killjoy thing to say, wasn’t it. My apologies. I’d just been thinking about it since reading that yesterday. Didn’t think how rude I was being.
I was near record too. Rex Chapman blogged yesterday about late week puzzles getting easier and suggests it is because they’re business model now is bite sized puzzles that can be done quickly. Unfortunately I kind of agree. I expect a lot more chew from a Saturday.
Have to say, while I don’t want you all to chase intentionally chase it, it was really nice having such a broad range of reactions to it. Do you all come into the record cold on the take the others will have?
That’s how I felt about the proto-holodeck episode. I generally do not like holodeck episodes and still didn’t think it was good but somehow ended up enjoying it.
I’m going to assume they played Karl Malone and John Stockton because that seems fun.
He only has one more than me but also admire his collection of raccoon rocks.
Not a lawyer but in this other recent case after three tries and failure to get in 30 days they had to recharge as a misdemeanor. But I assume first they’ll try again until the window closes. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
I get it as an editing/style question. But why would it be a fact checking discussion? It may be redundant but it’s unquestionably correct.
That that its particularly relevant to the charge but he wasn’t naked was he? In video clip I saw his bits were all appropriately behind cloth.
I actually liked Eternals until the end when it had to be tied back to MCU, but I have a very soft spot for immortal fiction. But feel for what has to have been like winning Powerball but then being told you only get the check if you get enough votes in a Twitter poll.
I read it as a kid and had thoughts. Then read it a couple years ago after a decade of ultramarathon running (100k, 100 mile, 200 mile races). Really opened up a different layer of reaction. Interesting what he gets right and also very wrong about just the physical fear.
I walked from the Coca Cola bottling plant to just past the Kaiser hospital.
High school football in which no child related to you is playing.
Heck I’m confused by Intel being flat in after hours trading considering they were all just diluted by 10% (I think?)
Where are you then carrying around the dirty socks?
I know it’s not the primary lie. But DC had 101 murders in 2025. A 35% reduction over 9 days is still less than one murder prevented.
I did. Restarting the app fixed it. Went from impossibly hard with three missing to too easy to be labeled hard.
My wife tells me every year that me teaching her to keep score (she didn’t do baseball until her late 30s) was the keys o unlocking the game for her. Made her pay attention, see the patterns. She eventually made her own hand bound book to fit her quirks she’s been using for a decade.
The world is going to ruled by people who read as a kid and thought Trantor sounded like a cool place to live.
Why the apparent obligation to maintain the Microsoft roots?
So they’re dumping the NBC part but keeping the Microsoft part?
I agree. They’re all dead and even if not, a group of 24 people can’t really have a conversation.
When I was young and short on money I paid for nicer seats than I could afford to make sure they were under the upper deck overhang. When I was older and reasonably well off I paid for worse seats than I could afford to make sure they were under the upper deck overhang.
I’ve long said this but it also works in reverse too. A rural/suburban person can’t imagine a major event happening a mile away they don’t know about. I’ve been a couple blocks away from major protests and other events with thousands of people where I never knew they were happening.
I’m not saying it is good. Just that I have no doubt it will be commonly done.
Watching the writers strike (I’m not remotely involved) when the issue of AI came up I did think ultimately it would be about not whether AI could be used but who would be allowed to use it.
I agree. Though I assume the prompt won’t be “write me a new Simpsons episode” but write me a Simpsons episode in which Story A is c and Story B is Y and these characters are involved and so on.” So the writer will feel they did do creative input into the crappy draft. Just think it’ll be common.
I feel like this is where for many otherwise opposed writers, AI will come in. Ask the crappy little elf to write the crappy first draft from a synopsis prompt, so you can spend all your effort on rewriting.
I enjoyed it and sometimes think about it and then wonder if I’m thinking of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie instead then ultimately decide, no I was right the first time.
I suspect that person doesn’t really have strong differences of opinion with Vance.
I know it’s probably doomed to happen but I really hope they don’t. Weapons was fun. But having to detail and expand the lore will only make it fall apart.
He did a set of jokes about the word in his new special.
I enjoyed the movie but must say I didn’t find it scary at all, kind of because nobody reacted normally. Also overstates how few people are out at 2:17am. I kind of want a parody-Dateline tv special showing things from the side of the police investigation. Which seems terribly incompetent.
They even have a prominent member of the party with experience previously running an Olympics. Too bad they scared him out of office and a likely unwillingness to participate.
Yeah, this is my main issue so far. Work kind of requires I understand AI use cases and keep trying it. But I spend so much time double checking its work (necessarily often enough) that no time or cognitive load is saved.
For me it probably is the record for the most different covers I’ve ever heard of the same song.
We also let our cat wander on the roof of our building. She felt free but there was nowhere to go assuming she was smart enough to not fall off. I don’t give him the same benefit of the doubt.
I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh
Does it work with the modern stereotypical dad bod?
I feel like the dumbest contributors were maybe the best options to them? So unless they just leave the slots empty I fear not. See the slide down the pole that is Jesse Watters.
That a bit overstated since the previous week’s Friday includes $20 on Thursday. But still going to be a hefty drop.
Recently was somewhere selling Peeps flavored Icees. I have absolutely no idea what flavor that would be other than “sugar.”
What if the movie had no opinion on what you were supposed to be looking at.
If you said to me that there is a new soft drink brand called KIST, I have to admit my default assumption would be that it was some variation of Sunkist soda trying to be cool or something. Like maybe they started putting caffeine in them.
Fine! I’ll read the opinion and THEN opine.
Unfortunately, Seems to me the obvious move by the administration to negate the animus claim is to just revoke all TPS.
The later seasons of America Ninja Warrior had to deal with severe budget cuts…
Here’s how it goes at my dentist: At the beginning: How often do you floss? I then lie slightly upward. They pretend to believe the lie. At the end: Try to floss every day. I pretend to believe I will. Easy peasy and no lecture.
I’m hopeful since the Peanut Butter Pie Oreo is the best of all Oreos to date.
I was never a sports talk listener so mostly was exposed to it through a local post game call in show. “Have the A’s considered trading four prospects and a Del Taco gift card for this year’s likely MVP?” every night.
Is it well synced to the tv visual? Haven’t tried on Apple but have had experiences in the past where they’re sufficiently out of sync I can’t stick with it.
Is CNN not mainstream press?
Good they specified all time. If the greats of the 1800s were excluded what would even be the point?
I’m Gen X. Never heard of Donkey Kong Country. But I’m willing to join my people and revile it if that’s what we’re supposed to do.
I am. But assumed that’s because I’m in Manhattan this week.
Four separate walkouts my showing. Been a while since I’ve seen that. I liked it until it went fully on tilt.
I’m this old. And I acquired as a bonus from selling meat sticks door-to-door (with no parental accompaniment) as a 2nd grade fundraiser.
Don’t they already do that when supporting low age of consent and age of marriage laws?
@drainbead.bsky.social I’m convinced. Have a room you can spare?
Never heard of him so thought he was a CEO who is also an astronomer. Which I thought was weird to mention.
My experience is that Stranger Things has been on for about 8 days. But spread out over 10 years.
As with Biden I’ll enthusiastically not support him for president until and if the choice is eventually just him vs. whoever the Republican will be. Then I’ll enthusiastically support Newsom until that election is over.
Big difference between “we think X is better for this than you so we hired X” and “were confident that we can find someone better once we start looking so we’re moving you on in the hopes it works out for us.”
Don’t know if improvement is possible. But for tv unless you’re going to spend a season on the world ending, a season on players getting to Boulder and a season on the end I feel like you have to play with the structure to have a chance at watchability. And can’t begin to imagine a faithful movie.
I thought the way the recent Stand series restructured the story was a decent idea for episodic TV, just executed terribly and still very rushed for the amount of ground to cover.
I’m never sure what the dividing line between “hobby” and “collecting” is. I know a lot of people who have quite a funko collection but they don’t really DO anything with them or about them other than buying them when presented.
But I ended up reading it as Israel/Palestine with Israel state replaced by a Slavic nation to avoid being too on the nose.
Yeah. Seemed like an attempt to genericize via two very specific but discordant stereotypes. I just want to know: Since when does Superman need to breathe?
The fiction that everybody wants to be an entrepreneur. I grew up with the wild swings of parents always starting (and usually failing) to run their own business. Really inspired in me the love of a paycheck signed by other people.
Don’t know if it matters to you but it’s Thandiwe now I believe.
Does it count as stepping down if you never actually had the responsibilities of the role?
Fair enough. But in my heart I’m going to include Brad Pitt’s “driving tanks around Europe in WWII” movie Fury.
Can we include Angry Birds and Fist of Fury under the furious umbrella?
When we all got on twitter in 2009 we tried to shake the joke that it was just a place to tell everybody what you had for lunch. Now we all wish we could just use it to tell people what we had for lunch.
I’ll second the recommendation. I’ve met watched any other Shonda shows so can’t say how it fits in but it was fun.
And if she did lie about who she is and use a burner phone, how do they know it’s her?
It highlights my big issue with the movie (which I also mostly found dull). The idea that he can intentionally cause crashes without putting the other drivers health on the line. Essentially the hero is the guy who evades all the safety rules so that he can win.
It isn’t that he objects to the question. It’s that he viewed the answer as so self-evident that it need not be asked.
Incentive here is for Trump to prove it wasn’t a bribe by still not approving the merger. Bribes are illegal, sacrificial offerings in hopes of godly beneficence is not.
I know both of them are and this post is how I learn they’re married.
I hope you signed it.
My feedly setup is still 95% what I imported from Reader. Quite the archive of dead feed names. But I still use it many times a day for the dozen feeds that live on in a useful way.
Don’t know why, but apparent @sfbart is free this morning.
Then quote them.
At an outdoor cafe I once took a chair from one table to our table because we had five people but four chairs. I’m now afraid I may not be qualified to be mayor of New York City.
But my memory (possibly incorrect) is that the first also kind of dropped out of the blue without much preamble.
I finally saw a promo in Netflix and was excited. But diminished when I looked it up and saw Gina Prince-Bythewood isn’t involved. Not that it can’t be good, just resets expectations.
Nacho Libre erasure… (Actually, I remember nothing about Nacho Libre other than it existing.)
Jehovah’s Witnesses are religiously opposed to Christmas, blood transfusions, pledge of allegiance and voting. Gotta make sure all parents are pre-notified of any instruction that’ll make them aware of those things.
I know some parents that are going to want to opt out of all the science classes since they mention evolution, the universe being more than a few thousand years old. Quakers maybe should opt out of all the history classes since they’ll all discuss war which is contrary to their Pacificism.
I was a bit surprised to learn that he’s Muslim, not because he’s Indian but because the only thing I knew about him a whole was his mother.
If Rs attempt to overrule is it at the individual item level or do they ah r to do all or nothing?