This time of year, my weekends always seem to fill up with activities. It’s the story of my life that I have to be careful, or I’ll wind up double booked. Like tomorrow, when the girlfriend and I are going to a Mac and Cheese crawl in the afternoon, and then off to see Social Distortion that night (they have a second show here on Sunday after the Saturday one sold out).
In local news… I have no issue with this announcement. This specific brewery doesn’t really have food options (and definitely no kids menu), limited seating, is dark and old inside, but does have a very nice patio. If you’re in that area with kids, there’s plenty of other more appropriate locations to take them (and they also ban kids after a certain time).
Finally, someone using technology for a task that seems appropriate for it.
It’s a good thing no one on this site would consider giving humorous middle names.
Not to horn in on R.J.’s turf, but at the Cleveland Gaming Classic, we saw a sign with Stormy Daniels’s name on it. Intrigued, we checked out the booth, which turned out to be a guy promoting a documentary he had made that had a Stormy cameo in it. Still haven’t gotten around to watching the documentary yet.
I would think joining the league would be a prime example of brain injury.
If you’re in the hurricane path, please check in with your local Waffle House to see how bad it is.
I can’t really remember the last time I was excited for an Ubisoft game, but I’ll say that this article gives me some hope they may be learning.
Sharing this just because I’ve learned there are people who have never read it, and they need to correct that.
You could have probably negotiated them down to a case of beer.
I think to really hit peak on this, we need someone to attempt to replicate the rigorous study.
Let’s get a bit out of the comfort zone with cocktails, and go with one that’s a rare find on a cocktail list.
Poet’s Dream
- 8 parts London dry gin (2 ounces) [this is a more modern variation, the original recipe can call for as little as 3 parts gin]
- 3 parts dry vermouth (0.75 ounces)
- 1 part Benedictine (0.25 ounces)
This is all spirit, so those that remember should know, this is not going to get shaken. Instead, pour everything over ice into a shaker or a pitcher and stir until well chilled. Then strain into a chilled Nick and Nora or coupe glass, and garnish with a lemon twist (express it over the drink and rub around the rim if you want to accentuate the lemon notes more).
That’s all I’ve got for you today, so let’s get this weekend started and reach for the sky.
Hi Neph!
Raymond Chandler and Social D in the same post – perfect!
And speaking of perfect
Enjoy the show!
Thanks! I’ll do my best. It’s going to be a long day though. Eleven stops on the mac and cheese crawl. The standard tradition is to get a drink at each place. I will be bowing out of that this year to be able to MAKE it to the show. 🙂
The carbs alone would put me in a coma. Good luck and godspeed!
I just checked and they won’t be here. Fucking Tulsa but not Denver?!?
Sorry Tundra, I think there’s still tickets available for the Sunday show here. 🙂
Tulsa has air. Denver is too high an altitude.
Tundra needs to be more stoic.
Definitely, but c’mon. Tulsa?
Fuck off, Tulsa?
Indeed. Thanks for the Chandler. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never read that.
I have The Long Goodbye and a few others in a box downstairs. May be time for a re-read.
I sometimes like to watch those documentaries, too!
Today, in People Are Goofy-
The yellow mini from this morning, a complete straight (apparently) solid running driveable car, was bid to $10,250. Reserve not met, unsurprisingly.
Not long afterward, a rusty Mini “project” which I would classify as a no-shit three hundred dollar car sold for over $13k. Cherry on top- it was an 850cc, lowest of the low.
Willing buyers, willing sellers. Value is subjective.
Subjectivity is objective…
I found another interesting one for you.
There is no such thing as a $300 vintage Mini in the US. A smashed flat chassis that is more rust than steel is $1K.
For background noise I’ve been watching artists redesign Concord characters.
I’m still gobsmacked at how bad the original designs managed to be. Half a billion dollars for that?
“is dark and old inside”
Sounds like half my hockey team. We’re feeling the “old” part, I think 4 of us are struggling with injuries and we haven’t yet played a game this season.
old is relative
I’ve had too many injuries lately. My season doesn’t start until January, but I need to get my shit together.
I am officially on the roster for Dallas in October. Next Friday my PT will re-evaluate and see if I can skate and return to my full lifting routine. Fingers crossed.
Excellent! I hope you get the all-clear.
Me too. I have rotator cuff exercises, and I’m using my TENS unit at home, both have been helpful.
Heh. My PT guy suggested a TENS unit for home use after I tore my MCL last year. So of course I looked them up on the internet. That was an interesting trip out to the fringes…
We have had good luck with the TENS unit.
Mrs. Dean got a TENS unit for her back issues. It seems very helpful. I’ve started using it on my right arm/shoulder (dysfunctional due to decades of driving a mouse). I like it – it seems to help.
TENS is great. A friend of mine is a high level athlete and swears by this red light product.
Spendy, but if you are in chronic pain it might be something to consider.
You could have probably negotiated them down to a case of beer.
And then a trip through a wood chipper.
There has been some awful anime subtitles that make me feel like they were AI translated.
I know the streaming services really want AI subtitles to work so as to broaden the markets the release at the absolute lowest cost.
If I were a content creator I’d be quite wary, but I don’t think it’s stoppable.
This appears to just be captioning, instead of translating. Admittedly, I am not a user of TTS (Text To Speech) because it takes longer, has more errors, and is an order of magnitude ruder in public than just typing in the text. But I feel that the LLM’s are probably up to the task of transcribing shows at this point.
I use TTS on occasion but it fucking asterisks all my important goddamn curses.
The current crop of LLM do a much better translation than the old machine translation of old with Japanese. It’s notably better, but still far from perfect.
In something like fiction they really struggle as compared to something more factual like the news. My expectation is partially because they likely train heavily on news. There are multiple reference to the same thing that the AI can use to to train create its weights.
OTH, for fiction there is only the original work itself and possibly commentary, criticism and cultural references.
https://www.politico.eu/article/just-stop-oil-protesters-jailed-throwing-soup-van-gogh-sunflowers-climate-activists/
Two Just Stop Oil climate protesters who threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” were sentenced to prison Friday, the latest in a series of hefty punishments for activists in the U.K.
On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the masterpiece in the National Gallery in London.
Plummer, who faces several other criminal cases for protest actions, was given two years behind bars. Holland was handed 20 months.
Fuck’em all, good and hard.
Agreed.
That’s actually pretty surprising. Both that they got an actual punishment and that the painting wasn’t behind glass.
The painting was behind glass. The antique frame was damaged and repaired.
The judge issued a punishment based on the damage they could have done if the painting was not behind glass. The defense is arguing no harm, no foul.
Should have thrown it at Warhol’s “masterpiece.”
Is Nico still alive?
Would be a significant improvement. Also if thrown on anything made by Pollock.
Go after Hallam, the Gates Foundation, and the other bastards who are financing their ‘hi-jinks’. This article names some names.
https://thecritic.co.uk/just-stop/
A good beating in a dark alley might also send a message.
I did not make it to Tampa.. as the storm canceled commercial airline services and affected the presenters and hotels, the event was postponed to future date.. So I stayed in Wilmington NC.
Sounds like western NC is getting pounded pretty good. Decent there?
Coastal NC had winds gusting to 40kts.. and a couple of bouts of heavy rain… Nothing much. Sunny now. Minor high tide flooding this morning but that isn’t special.
Looks like Mojeaux is getting hit too. We’ve got some wind, and will have rain at about 11pm all the way up here. It’s all coming from the East which just seems wrong.
Um … no? I mean, we got a pounding with sheets and hail a couple of nights ago, but that lasted all of 10 minutes. It’s been unbelievably beautiful here for the last week. It’s like fall arrived precisely on Sept 21 and said, “I heard all you white bitches were looking for me.”
Okay, maybe 30 minutes.
It’s like fall arrived precisely on Sept 21 and said, “I heard all you white bitches were looking for me.”
Yep. A switch flipped and it went from highs around 88 to highs around 75. There’s a bit of a chill today with the brisk northerly wind. I almost had to go put long pants on.
Oh, TOK, just saw our local weather. I’m in Kansas City, not St Louis.
Not only does that cocktail sound good, but I’m pretty sure I have every ingredient for it. I’m a sucker for Benedictine. Might have to stop and get fresh dry Vermouth though.
As a legitimate combat sports fan and participant, slap fighting is an insult to everything I love about it. I’m not exactly calling for it to be banned, but I’d probably just shrug if it were. I’ll turn in my libertarian badge this evening.
Well, I hope you enjoy the cocktail. Glad to be able to introduce you to something new.
Really really good. This might end up as my new martini variation…
Slap fighting is ridiculous.
It was better when attractive people took turns spanking each other on the ass.
You are not allowed to turn in your card.
Interesting. Our very own Booker isn’t bright enough to kibosh this on his own thinking. I wonder who got to him?
https://thehill.com/homenews/4900148-cruz-gets-heated-after-booker-blocks-deepfake-revenge-porn-bill/
The Tech Lords probably aren’t super-excited about the possibility of being held vicariously responsible.
Good theory.
I have an update on Mrs. TOK’s phone importing other people’s photos. When she connects it to the Mac, it asks what she wants to transfer. She had “all files” checked. When she changed that to “photos” she no longer saw the mystery photos. I haven’t looked yet but it appears those photos were possibly shared at some point and put into a folder, which is why she didn’t see them in her photo collection.
It could have also been pulling in cached images from other applications/websites and the like.
If I may rant; four times now, people have shown up to buy my wife’s gigantic treadmill. It’s 62 inches tall, it’s 4 feet wide, and it’s 6 feet long. These motherfuckers show up in tiny little compact station wagons and want me to take it downstairs and try and help them fit it in their car. This last time, I said the thing isn’t coming downstairs till you go get a pick up. The ad says: Only come here with a pickup. Dude showed up an a Toyota compact wagon. Jeez! The guy even asked for help to get it downstairs, and would I knock money off the price.
I decided I am going to totally disassemble the thing and bury it in the backyard to provide amusement for the next people who live here.
* Gets back into Honda Civic, drives away *
I could still duct-tape it to your roof, perhaps…
/pulls up in a Mini Cooper
I totally resonate with that. We had a commercial treadmill (as in we got it from a gym and it had a 20A plug on it). It was advertised as such and had “It will not fit in your station wagon and your small SUV” in big bold letters.
It took 4 people before somebody came with a big enough vehicle.
What is hilarious is when the people want to measure it, like that somehow will show them a way to fit an object which is almost the size of their vehicle into the vehicle. Can these incompetents even fit on pants by themselves in the morning?
Dude…
Bro…
Good to see you.
Look, once I move, there will be room for you, boyfriend and animals to come visit. Mar A Lago will seem small. Until then I want to set fire to extraneous personal belongings.
Last time I had to get rid of something like that, I called the Restore and they came and hauled it away while I did absolutely nothing.
They’re obviously hearing impaired. Type louder.
If the ‘Stop Oil’ people really did not give a shit about the environment and were simply commies bent on destroying western civilization, what would they do differently?
Tundra-
That’s a nice 2002. Too nice for me. A ’76
driverbeater was also on today. More my speed. Failed to hit reserve at ~$6500.Perfect example of prissy douchebag BaT commenter: “It has [bullshit complaint] and [bullshit complaint] and it has a reserve?”
Gosh, Shirley, maybe the guy has a number in his head of what it’s worth to him not to have it around anymore.
The car is in Boise. Maybe I should try to get ahold of him, because if there is anything I need, it’s another car.
Or, maybe there aren’t any $300 2002’s around anymore.
I hate read the comments. Prissy car guys are more tedious than prissy gun guys.
Ghee, something fishy as well. I who wondered what unsavory tallow was greased to reveal this?
A famed holy sweet in an unsavoury row in India
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cglkenxgd5xo
I thought I saw everything, but that takes the cake.
Butter not piss off the locals, they will get Shiva involved.
As a legitimate combat sports fan and participant, slap fighting is an insult to everything I love about it. I’m not exactly calling for it to be banned, but I’d probably just shrug if it were. I’ll turn in my libertarian badge this evening.
What about purse-to-purse combat?
I’ve never seen slap fighting, is this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8
TOK gets it.
It’s not a purse, it’s a European carry all!
Attended a somewhat interesting training session led by HR today. We are interviewing interns and I was volunteered to be an interviewer.
So things are motoring along nicely when we get to the diversity slide. It’s had some jargon that is totally non-obvious which from the presenters tone clearly represented an unwanted situation. So I asked what one of the terms meant.
She explained, and the bottom half of the slide suddenly made sense. If you are a human being who is not (white and male and heterosexual), you are a diverse individual. Let’s say that the candidates invited to interview are composed of x non-diverse individuals and y diverse individuals. Let’s say that the candidates to whom positions are offered are p non diverse individuals and q diverse individuals. The problem is that last year the ratio of y:x was higher than the ratio of q:p.
Here’s the kicker: we were told to try to keep the q:p closer to the y:x but without asking about gender, sexuality or ethnicity, and without compromising on our standards related to technical knowledge etc. It’s basically the fucking Deming Red Bead experiment all over again.
I did not laugh at the 26 year old girl at the bottom of the HR hierarchy and point out the absurdity of this exercise. That would have been counter-productive. I will be bringing it up in other avenues where it will have more of an impact.
You are going to use reason and logic with the insane?
Good luck with that.
I will be bringing it up in other avenues where it will have more of an impact.
The single best way I’ve found to kill the momentum of this stuff is to simply say “do what you will, but I will not have one iota of that demographic information on my computer. You want to track demographics? Save the spreadsheet to your own computer so that I’m not the one who has to explain to the compliance office why I’m racially profiling job candidates.”
Trump is going to make Zelenskyyy pay! Stop stop, I can’t roll my eyes any harder.
In what? Ukrainian girls?
I used to have one who worked for me, talk about Insane in the Ukraine!
Did she really knock you out?
She was a knock out, but souless.
There was a big arcade in Houston that had a set of BT pods based there. Good times.
The Dave and Busters up here had them back in the 2000’s. They were pulled out of the arcades when the licensing agreement ran out. Any of the ones still running are kept alive by vintage parts, blood, sweat, tears, and code.
This group does several of the cons in the area as well (they mentioned doing Gencon recently). They have six pods that they brought, and one of them is signed by Steve Jackson. They were doing a tournament Saturday evening, but we didn’t stick around for it (it was a long day). I’m hoping they come back next year (September 19-21st is the Cleveland Gaming Classic next year).
Neph! Neph!
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/09/the-rocky-horror-picture-show-is-being-adapted-into-a-retro-style-platformer-for-halloween
Let’s do the Time Warp, again?
I’m not reflexively opposed to it. Of course, I do have the advantage of being able to use the correct paper to cover my head with for the scene in the rain. The one, the only, Cleveland Plain Dealer.
I will get it and send you some thoughts.
Meanwhile I am going to see Beetlejuice 2 with the expectation that I will want an hour and 1/2 of my life back.
Are we allowed to say transvestite anymore?
Beetlejuice 2 was singularly underwhelming. Monica Bellucci (love you, Monica!) subplot was not necessary. It was disjointed and scattered.
Isn’t it actually “transsexual” and you’re definitely not allowed to say that anymore.
rhywun, it’s got both!
https://genius.com/Richard-obrien-sweet-transvestite-lyrics
Rob Schneider on Kilmeade saying he’s a big Thomas Sowell fan. I think I woke up in bizarro world.
He’s been all over Essex County.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westorange/happy-gilmore-2-will-film-essex-county-paid-extras-needed
No idea what they’re hoping to accomplish with that one. The original was 25 years ago and was basically a long extended joke about a shiftless schlub who magically could run up to a golf ball and drill it 400 yards. When you’re playing a late 20s guy who’s a loser, it’s a lot less pathetic than the same loser in his late 50s. Even Sandler finally seemed to have gotten the message, but I guess he’s having a relapse.
There seems to be a sudden mania for developing sequels to films made in the late 80s – 90s. I don’t like reboots (come up with an original idea) but a fresh take is a lot better, generally, than seeing what seems to be a deliberate destruction of the source material. I think a lot of the people making movies now really believe that everybody 30 years ago, despite the huge success of the films, had no real idea what they were doing.
Those bills don’t pay themselves!
Contrarian P:
From what I’ve heard and read, Adam Sandler’s whole thing now (for the most part) is to make dumb movies that someone wants him to make, get a lot of money for it, film on location somewhere he and his friends want to go for vacation, and cast his friends. One hell of a job if you can swing it.
Neph, he has been visiting lots of local places unannounced having a meal and being quite nice to fans and the businesses.
All good local casual restaurants.
Apparently, his turn in Uncut Gems (which I have yet to see) arrested his reputation for mindless goofery and nincompoopery, and now he can pretty much do what he wants.
Adam Sandler is the lazy man’s hero. He’s been phoning it in for like the last 15 years of his career and is still raking in mad money. Respect.
Sensei:
Good deal. I may not like his recent movies (I’ll admit to a soft spot for several of the ones from my younger years), but I’ve got nothing against him, and respect him making money doing what he wants. I’ve also heard nothing bad about him (other than complaints about his dumb shtick and bad movies).
Rob Schneider’s conservatism is well-established
Are you still holed up in a hotel, or have you been able to go back home?
Wait, what? KK is holed up in a hotel with Rob Schneider?
Jaime, I think it’s time we start playing the Porn-o-sonic theme song for Happy Fun Time.
No, Adam Sandler.
I never knew much about that guy. It is not surprising to find an entertainer who doesnt spout insane leftist crap, constantly virtue signal and rarely weighs in on the culture war to be a sane person.
Rob Schneider frequently weighs in on the culture wars
I guess I missed it.
You gotta be on the Tweeters to get his real hot takes
From a dead thread (courtesy Pie):
‘Basques speak a non indo-european language isolate and are genetically different from the french and spanish. SO look at us we’re special sooo non mainstream.’
Everyone knows that when God made Adam he dug up the bones from a Basque graveyard.
They probably have all kinds of claims to “being there first”.
The Celts, too.
Everyone knows we Neanderthals were there first.
Any given person’s most distant relative on the planet is 52nd cousin and every one of them has tribalism bred into them since the first dawn. It turns out some parts of human nature are a bit troublesome.
Or, maybe there aren’t any $300 2002’s around anymore.
I read that as three thousand, first time by, but it doesn’t matter. If that piece of shit $300 Mini in kit form is any indication, there aren’t. You probably can’t find a non-running 2002 for less than 3k.
Friday Funbags bringing da T&A.
https://archive.is/h5cyX
Just because
Purse-yo-purse combat.
From the sidebar.
Damn those guys were good.
“Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?”
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I’m glad I’m not the only one posting tt’s.
Uh oh… you lit the Pie signal.
Fuck around and find out? Literally?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-robbed-blackmailed-during-uk-33733880
“Purse-yo-purse combat”
Now see, I thought that was a euphemism for scissoring. Oh wait, that is a euphemism too. Huh. Of course from the video ‘The Battle of Pearl Harbor’ works even better.
There is no combinations of words in the English language that cannot be construed as a sexual euphemism or innuendo.
Oh, right
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I’ve read the linked Chandler and probably 5 of his novels. His sterling contribution to civilization is writing the novel that was made into the movie with Martha Vickers and Dorothy Malone in it.
I’m quite fond of this story:
—Philip Marlowe Slept Here
Why exactly is divorce not an option?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/30656372/wife-still-punishing-for-affair-two-decades-ago/
I have seen that before. I have no sympathy.
I caught you so now I have something to bludgeon you with forever. Great control tactic if you can get the other to go along with it.
I have sympathy for (pretty much) *anyone* who’s having a bludgeon dangling over them as a control tactic.
No idea if she did, but I’m guessing she got to cheat on him as much as she wanted, perhaps if she didn’t get caught, but if she did she could always yell the “WELL YOU DID IT, TOO! SO [insert marital FIGHT words/tone here]!”
That’s a shitty thing to do to a supposed loved one. Especially when “Irreconcilable Differences” is a legit divorce option. <– Other 'dangling' stick? The money involved in the marriage/pre-nup/ etc.
Yeah, I think the issue isn’t the affair from 20 years ago. It’s the fact that he’s simping for onlyfans girls on the regular and wifey doesn’t appreciate that.
Congratulations, the two of you spent the last 20 years driving a wedge between yourselves to the point where you’re “sexually incompatible”, and instead of being adults, talking through your issues, and becoming sexually compatible, you’ve escaped to the waiting arms of the camwhores and she has escaped to the spare bedroom. Adulting is hard, I’m sure.
Fuck. If they could work it out and make THAT an OnlyFans channel…uh. There’s hella money there to be made. In made ways. They could still fucking hate each other and make bank, only as limited as Rule 34.