Lazy, rainy Saturday here in Spudland. As this posts, I’m actually sitting in a theater watching Dune 2 again. This time it’s a small theater with a better sound system and reclining seats. And booze.
Links?
Is Florida Man different depending on what part of Florida he’s in?
“The quality is mediocre, but it’s half the price,”
Welcome to the world. You’re screwed.
Imagine going through life and everybody looks like Gollum.
“I kept pulling it out, and it kept crawling back in.”
Okay, that’s good for today. Chat amongst yourselves and enjoy your evening.
More Sax!
Miami is for Eurotrash, black and Lateeenx show-biz types, and Instagram “models.”
The rest of the coast, from Fernandina to Perdido Key, is for normies who’ve done well for themselves.
But Florida Man is terrifyingly bizarre no matter where you go.
Speaking of terrifyingly bizarre Florida Man, we have an honest one.
“the world’s whitest beaches”
That’s because deSantis is governor.
*Golf clap
Almost as if being the “freedom fighter” is a damn sight easier than effective governance.
Isis-Klobuchar?
I’d vote for OMB a dozen times over if he promised to put Willett on SCOTUS the next time there’s an opening.
MSM: “Trump incites voter fraud!!!1!”
He’d be a perfect replacement for the wise latina. Sad that he left twitter when he got promoted.
This is a feel good story.
Having to give them my email address to read it doesn’t make me feel good.
—“Having to give them my email address to read it doesn’t make me feel good.”—
Foxnews.com has become mostly unusable because of this. Right after the Moscow attack, the headline story required registration. It seems to me that about 80% of the stories on their landing page require registration. At least CNN.com (I read both side’s websites) lets you read the articles linked on the landing page. The other thing Foxnews.com does is that if you click on a landing page link, it takes you to another page that has links to multiple articles, and you have to click through to (hopefully) get the article you want to read. Of course, this adds to the page views with more ads. I understand the basics of website revenue, but if you are a news site and pimp stories, you ought to allow people to read the articles. Otherwise, make the entire website by subscription/registration and let people decide if they want to support it. I reminds of the “slideshow’ links, where each slide is a new page with new ads.
You don’t have “reader view”?
Is there a way to use it on an Android phone?
Not on Brave on my tablet.
We had a cold rain today, but up in Albany and farther north toward Lily it looks like they got quite a bit of snow.
18 inches in Wilton.
No precip in SW OH, but chilly, alternating between sunny and cloudy. The magnolia blossoms finally succumbed to the cold. 😞
relevant
We barely got any snow in Albany County. Two inches of accumulation. Most of today was rain, so I expect Ice.
Motherfucking internal server error won’t let me post the motherfucking Zoom link.
It’s track suit and early birthday shots and cocktails night. Godammit.
We were hoping more for track shots and birthday suit night. You wouldn’t want to disappoint us, would you?
I’m OK with it
This is why we have no friendz
I’d watch that for a dollar!
Probably jump on tonight while I attempt game coding
I gotchu fam
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
It’s on the sidebar on the front page now.
If anyone is looking for it, check the main page sidebar.
Look at you doing the Lord’s work.
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE TRACK SUIT
I’m trying to fill in potential stops on my Itenery, at the moment I’m looking at Salt Lake City. I arrive 2-4pm on a Monday, have what’s left of that plus all of the Tuesday after as Tourist days. So far I only have the Museum of Natural History at Salt Lake on the list, Interesting as it looks, I don’t think it will take up all that time – Plus, I could use food recommendations if anyone has any.
There was also the Grant Planetarium, but I wasn’t sure I was going to drop in, as their website confused me the first time I looked at it.
I have heard that the [[[Temple]]] is pretty neat, architecturally.
Worth a few photographs, but I doubt I’ll be allowed inside.
No, you will not.
Not even scheduled tours for the general public?
It’s a house of worship, it’s their perogative to restrict it to the fiathful.
No.
Tabernacle is visitable, yes? I was in there for an amazing organ recital and demo of the acoustics in a building that’s 160+ years old.Also public can get in Sundays to see the choir perform.
Yes, absolutely. I don’t know what they use it for now that they built the conference center, tho.
If I never go back to Salt Lake, it will be too soon (actually, it’ll be for a funeral, so…).
And it is absolutely magnificent.
We have something akin here, although not [[[us]]].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditorium_(Community_of_Christ)
https://images.app.goo.gl/SfwT1fxRVKob86HQ6
I have been to 2 high school graduations there, played in one piano recital, saw Carmina Burana, and sang in the Messiah choir in that place. Lots of good memories. (It’s always in use by somebody.)
In the Wasatch there is Timpanogos Cave National Monument. I haven’t been there in 30 years but back before Y2K the NPS hadn’t screwed it up.
If you like RR history north of town is Golden Spike NM. The actual spot is rather meh unless they have one or both of the steam engines running. To the east and west you can follow the old right of ways (map at the visitors center) for miles. Both RR constructed right of ways far beyond the actual meeting spot, so the Feds stepped in and said, “You’ll meet here.”
I also started poking at Laramie (the previous stop before Salt Lake), but so much is closed because my tourist day is a Sunday. So far I’ve found… the Prison Museum.
I really do hate how so many of these “Visit us” sites are focused entirely on “Now” with no information on future visits. “We are currently on Winter Hours”. Okay, what are your hours in September?
“[Wyoming Territorial Prison ] operated as a federal penitentiary from 1872 to 1890, and as a state prison from 1890 to 1901…The prison was built in 1872 and began accepting prisoners in early 1873. The facility had problems from the outset, with a fire in 1873 and recurrent jailbreaks. Of the 44 prisoners accepted in the first two years of operation, 11 escaped. By 1877, the prison was overcrowded.”
I’d certainly go unless there was something else ’round goin’ on. I also have never been to WY and have done no research. On the way to nature, I would make a point to get a car and drive on isolated highways. That could become special in many ways.
If one happened to have an interest in genealogy, my understanding is that the FamilySearch Library in SLC may be one of the best (if not THE best) in-person search centers anywhere. (Surprisingly enough, during the short time I lived in Fort Wayne, IN, I learned they, too, have a world-class genealogy center. Go figure.)
My dad did some genealogical research, and my oldest sister probably still has some of the documentation he collected. Not really my thing – I know about two marginally interesting (to me) relatives, but I don’t really expect there’s anyone particularly notable from back further. Maybe I’d be surprised.
Between Cheyenne and Laramie exit I-80 and check out the Ames Monument. That was the high spot of the transcontinental RR and the UP set up a huge stone pyramid to the Ames brothers. It is a quick on and off visit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Monument
In Cheyenne the UP has a small museum (free) in the railroad station. Plus, in a nearby city park there is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy on display. The BB was the most powerful class of steam locomotives ever used and the drive wheels are over 6 feet tall. They would run Cheyenne to Green River and to climb the Wasatch in Utah.
There is a definite change in the weather coming. It’s just barely spitting rain, but the temp is dropping precipitously. Weatherman says snow tomorrow, and I believe him.
Decided to run to the store for a ‘coupla things”. Sixty dollars later, I’m home.
Yeah. I hit Kroger yesterday. 3 (plastic) Kroger bags and a 15-pack was nearly $90.
2 puppies and a 17 year old are slowly emptying my wallet.
On the plus side your wallet sounds full enough that it is only slowly emptying.
There are worse things to spend money on.
Yeah but my hookers/coke budget is really taking a hit.
It was supposed to rain for an hour this morning and has been at it all day long.
We’ve had proper winter all week, especially today.
Over it. Looks like mid-week brings relief.
Mrs OBE knows how to support my ego. “Do you know those ladies were hitting on you”….me whaaaaa? Happy Saturday
They weren’t ladies; they were Winston’s Mom.
Strippers hit on anyone. Duh.
I’ll take it
I was in Vegas for a week, I didn’t get propositioned until late the last night. Turns out hookers have standards.
Mrs. OBE sounds cool.
She’s really fricken cool
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“Fuck you,” they explained.
I played with my Temu order of pretty stickers (not Lisa Frank, but close), then I degloved for a while. It’s cold here. Wish we had some rain to justify it.
That is top quality posting
Can’t help how wholesomely exciting my life is.
+ Mojo Ingalls-Wilder
You’ve seen the details about how the Temu app is very dangerous spyware right? (dunno about the website).
https://nordvpn.com/blog/is-temu-safe/
A lot more reporting on it too.
Just being Chinese owned makes me not want to deal with them.
Exactly
You guys do know our own government is collecting your data/cell phone calls/texts/everyfuckingthing about you…….etc way more than the fucking chinese right? We all know this right? Who gives a phuk about the chinese! How about we don’t let the US government violate the god damned bill of rights for starters before we bitch about the fucking chinks.
You do know that “Just because one group is doing it” doesn’t mean we should ignore actions that abet avowed enemies?
It is possible to act against more than one source of malfeasance at the same time.
Who is going to restrict your freedom/rights more? The US government or the Chinese government? WTF is the Chinese Government going to do to you?
Excellent point.
Coming to Zoom?
Empty my bank account through some cutout. But to UCS’s point, I be angry at both my government and the CCP. I have some redress with the feds. I have none with the CCP.
Oh yes, ignore one menace savaging our economy jut because another menace exists.
Well, I don’t use the app, for the same reason I don’t use TikTok. I use the website. I pretty much only buy stationery or a kitchen gadget here and there, so if I get junk, no big.
Never heard of it before 90 seconds ago.
My philosophy is rapidly ending up at “you’re not safe anywhere, doing anything, talking to anybody”. And I have better things to do with my time than waste cycles fighting it.
“I kept pulling it out, and it kept crawling back in.”
Normally that costs extra.
Was debating cooking something for dinner.
I think I can wait.
Doctors believe it slid up his anus. Next time this guy is back it will be a light bulb or beer bottle.
It was a one in million situation, doc. It could have happened to anyone!
Slipped in the shower.
I feel sorry for that one guy in a million who actually did slip in the shower and land on a shampoo bottle.
Imagine being that guy and having to explain what really happened over and over and over again. Ugh.
Yeah, that guy has a mess to clean up from the bottle exploding, not slip sliding “away”.
I always laughed at the people who said they slipped in the shower. I have seats in my shower, and one time I sat down, forgetting I had set my shampoo bottle on the seat, and it hit me in the ass cheek as I sat down. So, maybe.
Now begin the jokes about needing to improve my aim.
Aim for center-mass. Through the pinhole.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Practice makes perfect.
It was an eelian invasion. Right through the southern border.
Bummer.
Most likely it was an innocent situation. The eel got dirty and he needed to wash it. It was just easier to do in the shower, and then he slipped and the next thing you know he’s got an eel up his ass.
“Eels”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0AckvdGbk4w
I like eels,
Except as meals.
And the way they feels.
— Ogden Nash
Really it could happen to anyone.
He was lucky it wasn’t a eelpout. Even a small one could be tough on the butt.
Octopus, ” hey, hey, whoa baby, come back here”
Falcon 9 Starlink launch delayed by 4 hours. WAHHH
Look out Caitlin Clark — there’s a force of nature in the NCAA women’s tourney named Audi Crooks, who just dropped 40 in the Cyclones’ win over Maryland.
I’ve never witnessed this caliber of raw athleticism on the hardwood before.
She’s like me at the ski resort
(lights Tres signal)
Way too skinny for Tres.
That…is pretty embarrassing. Sports are a tremendous way for kids to expend energy, learn the importance of practice/repetition, and perhaps most of all, develop social skills and teamwork our species needs. Even for unathletic kids (Google thinks ‘unathletic’ is misspelled, preferring “nonathletic), participating is a part of growing up and learning how others ‘work.’ Learning to “Get along” is an essential part of life, even/especially when it blows.
I encourage everyone to play or learn something, even/especially if it’s ‘worthless.’ (It ain’t.) But if I’m spending time/money to watch athletes, I naturally want to watch the best. Why would anyone ever watch that semi-seriously unless they were playing, having played, or if a loved one/etc is participating?
Yet again, I’m all for the Idea, and it predictably gets overtaken by Society ‘trying’ to make me swallow it. (Realized I naturally implied a ‘blow & swallow’ connection. Hrm. Evan sees a way to rectify this. (Use any euphemism you’d like. I’ll go to the eels.))
“Docs rectalfied the eelian invasion south of the border through an assault on the exterior.” <– re: Never-ending internal monologue– Thoughts become wordy, difficult to manage and wield. Especially when seeds of possibility and intrigue manifest. It's far too hard to pare everything down. Ev: Stop typing.
Is there no 3 second rule in college basketball?
Where everyone is an ass.
https://nypost.com/2024/03/23/us-news/uc-berkeley-professor-jonathan-shewchuk-allegedly-told-students-not-to-date-women-in-californias-bay-area/
Of course he has a point, but not the place to be making it.
He should get a medal. And that should be a public service announcement.
And if he’d said “don’t date girls from red states” he’d be on the View, SNL, and all the late night “comedy” shows.
This is true.
Yep. Predictably, the seals will clap and pat each other on the back to signal they ‘get the joke.’ They suspect/hope ‘All is well!’ between folk who want to be accepted by the rest of the bob. (Humorously, there are several collective nouns one can use. This one is rather cute and endearing.)
He is the hero they need but don’t deserve. Of course, you are right that wasn’t the place to make the statement.
The Post feigning shock and disdain is hilarious.
But yeah, WTF? He’s at the far end of some spectrum that tells the rest of us not to even touch that subject in that time and place.
He is right, you shouldn’t “date” them. When there are so many and they are just throwing themselves at you, don’t put any effort into it.
@Mexicansharpshooter: “I tend to have trouble sleeping if I get something in my head, often getting back up to read just to get the idea out of my head.” *Knowing nod from across the way*
It’s monstrously hard to find sleep. Better last night, but always a bit of a gamble. Thoughts then bounce off or mutate with another. Then Managing Editor Ev takes over and edits and edits. Til I get blind eyes. Then I keep it up as Editor gets however jambled, leading to frustration at not being able to cohere, and… rinse/repeat. This can amplify things in interesting directions.
My Vyvnase isn’t in and that’d be new. I’m quite curious. I do have pills, ‘generically’ named Amphetamine Salts (20mg). Theoretically, twice a day. I’m taking 10mg once, and rarely like today, the whole 20mg. I’m still figuring it out, but I had that legit moment of “Is this really now “NORMAL” people feel?! They actually can FOCUS?!” I always suspect, half(?)-accurately, placebo is involved to some extent. Just typing this has already intensified such.
Re: Beer and constantly amok thoughts: I get Athletic non-alcoholic here at Kroger. Their wheat is quite similar to Upland Brewery’s. That was my favorite ’round here, but I’m not an American connoisseur. That and Athletic’s IPA aren’t bad. Lagunitas has one that’s good-ish and a few other national ones. Anyone have any preferences? I’m in central IN, and certainly ain’t gonna ship anything in. Yay, for ultra-rich Carmel, where I/we don’t really belong. My parents *cough* Mom *cough* was careful with our finances. Fucking double-Grand Slam for them w kids. I’m fucked, but I’m certainly interesting. (Often only to me, I grant. Finding an audience somehow is certainly a project.)
Speaking of Ev’s Stories, I wonder which ones to put together and how to construct it. Certainly autobiographical/non-fiction. My decade+ in Asia and travels as bits for travel and thought, sure, but The Incident is gonna play. A unique perspective and voice, I have. I need to find a structure to give it such, however.
Rough idea comes from what I was told of rehab: The first year is refinding who you are, how to exist. The second year is the Return to Earth, and the third act and beyond is the Rest of your Life. <–Follows an -ish/simple/3-Act pattern and seems to fit. First is more background into Sept. 22, 2019. The return to Earth, and far too-soon back to Asia+work, is tentatively the Second Act. I'm currently living Part Three, so hard for Editor Ev, w my ADHD-d brain (and more) to connect 'em all. (I have SO MANY thoughts! They're like my ~100 kids/day at school. They ain't individuals; they're a collective popcorn burst. Difficult-to-impossible to wrangle.
Dinner is two little steaks – one underweight NY Strip from the grocery store, and a petite heart of sirloin from the butcher.
I could see the difference when I was seasoning them (salt, black and aleppo peppers), and you can taste the difference. The poor grocery steak doesn’t stand up.
I am declaring IMAX dead as the dodo. Screen size is the only upgrade. The theater today was small, had power recliner seats with power headrests, and a swivel tray. You were above the head of the people in front of you. The picture was superb and Dobly Atmos is amazing. And this is the first time I’ve gone to the theater to see a movie twice. The last time was when Star Wars came out in 1980.
Do you mean The Empire Strikes Back? Because Star Wars was in 1977.
That’s right. It was ’77. South Shore Lake Tahoe, and then again when I got home.
You must love Dune 2
Deuxn
…Electric Boogaloo?
I like Dune 2.
I see the Iranian drone and think “For every measure there’s a countermeasure.”
Except for Gen Alpha, we’ll just have to live with them
Lol. The comments about that generation don’t even make sense given how young they are.
Fourscore, I don’t think you and I and some of the older Glibs will have to deal with them. Maybe they will surprise and be the generation that rediscovers the American exceptionalism of the Declaration and Constitution?
I see how many of you dickface madarchodes actually want to do a birthday shot with me
*madharchod
I had my alcohol alottment for today, and haven’t zoomed in a while.
Happy B-Day! *Cling-clings Athletic w KK*
Grrrrg!! I would love to do honorary faux-shots! Such commotion may disrupt other sleepers ’round. I hope you were/are able to have a fun day, no matter how ya do it. Restful if ya want it, or exhilarating or whimsical if that’s the 2024 B-Day Bag! Mine is in 5 weeks. I’ll be a prime for the first time in…six years. That’s rather fanciful for me. Start it right!
*Cling cling*
UnCivilServant on March 22, 2024 at 8:00 am
(English is dumb sometimes)
The term for a video of certain duration being called ‘footage’ derived from the use of film stock as the only medium for storage of video for decades prior to the introduction of digital media, the first of which was video tape – which also had a form factor where a measure of length was appropriate. Disk and card based digital storage is relatively recent enough and footage ingrained enough in the language that it’s just a word that is used.
Pronounced like “montage”, The More You Know.
@KK and more: Still thinkin’ of ways I can Zoom y’all w/o feeling more-than unusual. My folk are fantastic, but I still get goofy high schooler goofies ’round them with Actual Evan. They get most of Me, but I try to only lightly sprinkle my World View into their lives.
You know, Astro Lounge still bangs. I’ve often said Throwing Copper is the best album of the 90s, but Smash Mouth put up a good fight. It took years to realize just how tremendous Live was, but even while a teenager I don’t think I appreciated Smash Mouth as much as I should have.
That said, Throwing Copper is incomparable. It’s one of the only albums not by Pink Floyd I can put on and just never want to shut off. Lightning Crashes got too much air time? Sure, but here’s Pillar of Davidson and Shit Town that got nothing, and they’re fucking bangers.
“Throwing Copper is incomparable”
You’ll get no argument from me.
I do not ‘know’ Smash Mouth, but they’re radio hits were damn good. For what they’re trying to be, they nail it. Seems like they saw their niche and went for it. I think they play into it — A paycheck is a paycheck and it ain’t cheap.
Evan strongly approves.
Evan, if I could, if you don’t mind my butting in, with all due respect,
They were majestic.
I dig it. My bro was in several ska bands in the late 90s and this, reggae and plenty others were frequently in the house. We both started as kids in jazz/swing. It naturally fit. It’s been a while since I really played.
Of my bands, this is the one with a couple demos online. Band mates were into screamier stuff than I, but as the drummer and person, I don’t much care. I just wanna play. There really is nothing like playing live. The hyper (theoretically) in-time-ness and feeling/reading each other during a show is riveting.
Might as well, the first track– Every Crime Has a Scene– is my favorite. I think one of the better things I did to tape. Me happy w it:
https://guiltkick.bandcamp.com/album/demo-ii
You Firsting to me? You…Firsting to me? Motherfucker, I was Firsting to you!
There is now a “Pickleball TV” channel.
That is the sign that the Apocalypse is before us.
Heaven Hill is pretty good. Going to have another glass just to double check.
Rip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_de_Brunhoff
He and his dad did good work. One of my favorites when I was a wee one.
I’m going to watch Fletch now.
When an eel splits your cheeks
And your rectum now leaks
That’s a Moray!
Bravo
We anchored at a sand bar today to enjoy an adult beverage or two and to scrape the hull below the waterline. The sea turtles heard about the free feeding and were swimming all around enjoying lunch. I cheeky one gave me a start when I was underwater scraping away. He swam under the boat and at my face looking for munchies. That elevated my heart until I realized it was not a shark.
The swells were large enough outside the bay the whales were almost invisible. We did see one mom with a calf by their spouting and two bulls swam the opposite way past us. There were probably more around but the sea state made viewing difficult.
Sounds delightful.
Whelp, as bad luck and poor driving would have it, I cracked up my work vehicle. I wanted to learn how to properly paint vehicles, looks like I’m taking the speed course. Fortunately, the radiator and condenser were the only mechanical issues. Spent the day at the junkyard getting a new bumper and hood. Those are fixed and I can now at least work in the beast, but she looks ugly. I’m ordering one of those inflatable paint booths and have a bumper cover ordered. Once I get the bumper cover painted and installed, it should look respectable again.
All set by Monday morning when the boss comes in?
Fortunately, I’m self employed, so I am the boss. Unfortunately, the boss is still an asshole.
That is the biggest problem working for yourself. Boss wants long hours and pays shit starting pay.
Happy Sunday morning.
Get up and get down. 🌞
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BptQHAW2T5M
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean!
☕👀
Mornin’ all
Good morning, Beau!
*waves*
Sunday Mornin’ and the snow is coming down
Good morning to all the early lurkers that have been waiting, waiting.
🐝 😉
Good morning, 4(20)! Hope you get just enough snow for it to look pretty…though it’s never as pretty on March 24th as it is on December 24th. 😒❄