"Strange Currencies" is so good. At work, I often sing "I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance" when things keep going wrong.
I'm a programmer, a Kentuckian, a veteran, and a progressive. I helped send a spaceship to the moon.
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"Strange Currencies" is so good. At work, I often sing "I need a chance, a second chance, a third chance, a fourth chance" when things keep going wrong.
"Grink Pony Club." Is that anything?
Saying "I wish they still made albums like 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'" to college students, then backing up to explain what Wilco is, then backing up to explain what an album is.
Jesus Christ
it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
I desperately, DESPERATELY, want an on-the-ground report on The Hikaru Show's effect on this tournament, at which the top prize is $800.
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him," but Hikaru Nakamura scamming his way into the World Chess Championship by beating a bunch of class players at the Louisiana State Championship is a pretty funny bit.
Area man has been confidently singing "that low plane" for decades, like a moron.
I went to a Wizards at Pacers game when they had Jordan, and the Pacers were selling Jordan jerseys (Wizards and Bulls varieties) inside the arena at their official merch store.
Setting up the camera like seven inches from the mid-day son.
If you have to work on Labor Day, you should be allowed to steal one moderately valuable item from your workplace.
Kind of amazing that Notre Dame, of all people, couldn't even get off a Hail Mary.
Shout-out to Mr. SelfAwareFatGuy, a true ally.
Every time I see an affidavit from a child (10 years old in this case), I get violently angry at the entire legal system all over again. This kid's entire life is about to hinge on this document that he/she did not actually write, but a bunch of men in suits are going to pretend he/she did.
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
They used very primitive WiFi back then, I think 802.11a, even.
lol
There are a few drive-ins out there, trading on nostalgia, and going to them is horrible because cars don't have bench seats anymore.
One of the abiding mysteries of my school days (in a pre-Google era) was why the thing we put our folders in was called a "trapper keeper." And now, 25 years later, closure.
My version of this is "What if Rubio doesn't spaz out at the New Hampshire debate?"
Why doesn’t West Point have a better kickers, the Army has so many Specialists
A periodic reminder: If you think it would be funny to show someone who has only ever seen "Blade Runner: The Final Cut" a compilation of the horrible voiceover from the theatrical cut, you should remember that Harrison Ford drops a hard-R N-word in it.
In Puzzle Rush, I would play Nf6+ immediately without any calculation, because it's the most puzzle solution-y move. And then the computer would make the sad "wrong again, moron" sound.
Saw "Blade Runner" in a packed theater tonight. Nobody ever talks about how great Daryl Hannah is in this.
You rarely see such a Let's Remember Some Guys collection in one place.
Bucket list item. I finally got to take a picture with some actual hardware that's going to be placed on the surface of the moon!
@sethpartnow.bsky.social is a preeminent scholar on the phenomenon of the quick 2 that instantly loses the game, aka the #quack2.
My retrospective on NBC's "Scrubs":
This is good. The app I use to listen to Gordon Lightfoot songs has recently started showing me pictures of podcast guys doing the YouTube thumbnail face, and soon it will add the ability for teenagers to tell me directly that Gordon Lightfoot is lame. It's called innovation, look it up.
I'm finally taking an actual class about RF signals. And I have learned, to my great horror, that these people model sine curves with cosine functions.
The two parties' positions on genocide are "Hell yeah!" and "Hell yeah (with a minority faction that is opposed)!" Pretty effed up, imo.
When I was 24, I once insisted to a friend that a certain song playing was not at all about drug use, no way, how could you even think that, right before Lou Reed sang "Heerrrrrooooooiiiiiiinnn be the death of me."
Watching Golden Girls
Forecast: Grunge
Happy fiftieth anniversary to "Born to Run," the album that contains the song "Thunder Road," which is the greatest thing ever created by man of woman born. It's a town full of losers and we're pulling out of here to win.
A song lyric I like is "Oh, the river knows your name/from the Brazos to the Wabash to the Seine."
Black flagged in this position, and Lichess awarded me a win. I guess I don't understand the insufficient mating material rule.
Yes, I would. But where am I going to find a million dollars?
Does it smell like those really cheap CAT-6 cable spools, where they use some kind of weird plastic for the jacket that smells absolutely awful when you're pulling cable? Because that's what my network smells like.
Guy from Band of Horses does not look like what I expected guy from Band of Horses to look like.
There are A BUNCH of tweets by Elon Musk in the past 24 hours where he is being super weird and horny about his terrible A.I. What a weirdo.
I can be bribed for less than $100. Probably about $30 in Kohl's Cash would do it.
New CEO is going to do TV commercials with a land acknowledgement.
I got 5 out of 7 on this, which is pretty cowabunga, as the kids say.
Spent an hour writing eight paragraphs in support of my position "please let me take this normal computer and connect it to the normal internet." Will report back on if my paragraphs were good enough.
This guy thinks that the Holocaust didn't happen but should have, which the authors of the story chose to reveal in the 43rd paragraph of their profile of him. (Not an exaggeration. I counted.)
EXTREMELY unexpected Shen Yun cameo in here.
"You thought I had the flush? Not this time. We got you. No way. It's a fake."
I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.
Well that's a load off my mind, then.
This is a good article. I'm going to share it at work. I've had a whale of a time explaining this pattern (that shows up all over our codebase) to some Python beginners: def function(args: Sequence | None = None): args = list(args or ()) ...
Never played that one. SimFarm and SimTower could both have made the list, though.
SimCity 4 SimCity 3000 SimCity 2000 SimCity Classic Madden 99 Madden 2000 Madden 2001 Madden 2002 Madden 2003 Madden 2004
President Buttigieg enthusiastically signing the bill to redirect the hundred billion dollars of ICE funding to local police.
I'm envisioning a future where, due to the inspiring and courageous efforts of a huge swathe of Americans, Democrats win massive victories in 2026 and 2028, then use their newly acquired post-Fascist trifecta to do nothing in particular.
In awe at this proposal. Every detail dumber than the last.
Watching a "Frasier," and Frasier's date says she's going to be on American Airlines flight 11, which I immediately recognize as one of the flights that hit the World Trade Center on 9/11.
What if we kissed at the heptapus putt putt golf hole.
What's the Mao path?
Damn.
This is why I am putting together a ragtag team of misfits to conduct a prank montage on the governor and his stuffy entourage, possibly set to Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing."
The old hippie in "Old Hippie" is thirty-five years old.
"She's a scarecrow in the cornfield of my love life." -Dr. Frasier Crane
A good recurring "Frasier" bit is "Frasier prepares his apartment for a date" wherein he turns on his lame date music, dims the lights, grins hornily, and answers the door, thus inaugurating The Shenanigans.
is he, y'know, a
Also the 15 holdouts in the House. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Seems like a good time for someone to get Mark Kelly, Angus King, and Jon Ossoff on the record about why they aren't coaponsoring the DC statehood bill. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
A fresh install of VSCode, launched for the first time, devotes 75% of the screen to Copilot and 25% to VSCode stuff.
The electric company likes to send me letters in the mail that say "Here's a tip for using less electricity: Don't use as much electricity."
"They're Grrrrrreat [Value]!"
My mother just called me in tears because the barrage of insanely intrusive Microsoft Copilot advertising in Windows made her think she'd gotten a virus. Hard to think of a company that has lost its way and burned public trust more than @microsoft.com in the last decade.
Know what I’m asking for this Hanukah.
Song of the day: youtu.be/FIJ3grfB3WE?...
Kim Davis is in the news again for being a hateful evil loser who brings shame to Kentucky. But also I want you to know that my friend served her at a Ponderosa once in town and she was an asshole who thought she was better than everyone for being a famous bigot. And her big long hair was smelly.
As rare as they are, triple plays are still more common in baseball than in all other sports COMBINED.
Check this out! A whole thread of hundreds of people who do not know the phrase "Communism with Chinese characteristics" and will not read the op-ed (which the OP does not link to), and are thus confidently and angrily interpreting the op-ed as being soft on Trump.
I think Spinal Tap reuniting in their mid-seventies is actually an insanely great premise. But the trailer has Paul McCartney doing in-universe acting in it, and that's when I realized it would be terrible.
Did you people know that there's a sequel to "This is Spinal Tap" coming out later this year?
I know what you mean, Verne.
The main character is played by the actress who played the teenager Philip seduced in the creepiest subplot of "The Americans," and she has sort of the same hairstyle. I couldn't place why I found it so unsettlingly familiar until 3/4 of the way through the movie.
"Weapons" confirmed real good.
I legit laughed when a memory-wiped C-3P0, surrounded by all the original trilogy characters, says "Ah, Babu Frik, my oldest friend!"
"Truly they were... an aqua teen hunger force."
Over the next couple mornings at the break of dawn go out and have a look at the Eastern sky as the two brightest planets as seen from Earth, Venus and Jupiter, pass close to each other as seen from our perspective. This morning they appeared less than a degree apart, a bit wider than the Moon.
I prefer Uncle Choo-Choopelo.
Every website I go to is giving me Temu ads for dildos, and I don't know why. I click a CBS Sports link, and bam! Dildos. It's really terrific that Google has murdered adblocking. I love not having any way to control whether or not I'm going to see surprise penises on my phone when I'm in public.
I just had this position in a game, and I was surprised that I've never seen this as an exercise when teaching king and pawn endgames. Seems pretty instructive. Opposition, shouldering, all of that.
"I got soul, but I'm not a [Sister] Souljah." -Democrats
The Dixie Chicks responded to being blacklisted for calling George W. Bush a piece of shit by releasing a single that starts by saying "First of all, everyone we went to high school with was a boring loser who will never accomplish anything noteworthy," and I've always respected that.
This is not only wrong, it misses the point so fundamentally that I feel obligated to share it widely, that others might see, and know. And fear.
Got his ass.
What a world we once had.
Anybody Canyon 