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I've decided the thing I'm most excited for in Wonder Woman 1984 is the usage of "Blue Monday" - that better be an amazing action sequence. -- nm - MDH Dec 22, 07:55 1
- I'd laugh it if was the end credits song only. -- nm - Shaun Dec 22, 07:57
Yesterday I got cards from JenBro, Amy & Spawn, Kim & David. Thanks all! This was a great idea Cuz -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:27 3
- MrsJax: Did you send the holiday cards? Me: Yes. Her: did you send any to anyone else? Me: No. - JaxSean Dec 22, 07:56
- Agree! I have loved receiving cards from all of the participants. Thx Cuzzin Todd for thinking of this. I can't wait to do it again next year! -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 22, 07:44 1
  - It's nice to anticipate checking the mail every day isn't it? ;) - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 22, 07:53
Coming 2 America trailer -- (link) - Shaun Dec 22, 07:23 [youtube] 1
- Speaking of this, on the poster yesterday, it really bothered me that the words on the sign weren't flipped in the reflection. -- nm - Volnelk Dec 22, 07:26
STIS: my partner got me the arcade alphabet pattern to cross stitch with. what should i start with? -- (edited) - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:09 26
- one of my good friends designs cross stitch patterns...here's her store -- (link) - Remlik Dec 22, 07:56
- The "blurry" characters is an interesting effect! -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 22, 07:55 1
  - And how about "ARCADE SWEET ARCADE"? -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 22, 07:56
- Another visitor. Stay awhile. Stay forever! C64, not arcade, but still a classic. -- nm - VMan Dec 22, 07:40 4
  - I Sense A Soul In Search of Answers -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 07:48
  - oh shoot, i've never heard this one -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:44 2
    - Intro to Epyx' Impossible Mission -- (link) - VMan Dec 22, 07:46 [youtube] 1
      - holy crap, the TAS speedrun is fun -- (link) - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:50 [youtube]
- He put an egg on it! -- nm - LMS Dec 22, 07:22 3
  - what's this one from? -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:27 2
    - Ghosts S1 -- nm - LMS Dec 22, 07:43 1
      - have not seen, i'll give a look -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:45
- How High Can You Get? from DK... -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:17
- bad dudes intro might be good... -- (link) - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:16 [youtube]
- Wizard needs food badly. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 07:16 1
  - or some variation. i like this. -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:20
- Ready Player 1. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 07:14 1
  - classic, i like -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:17
- Nice! -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 07:11 5
  - you cross stitch, yah? -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:21 4
    - Not since I was a kid. It would be neat to teach A once she gets a little older though. -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 07:22 3
      - Right, wait until she can really knock out the burpees. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 07:27
      - i found these patterns that are super pretty.. would be a cool skill to relearn with a kid :) - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:26 1
        
        Whoa, those are great. -- (edited) - znufrii Dec 22, 07:38
- "All your base are belong to us" -- nm - decline Dec 22, 07:11 1
  - thought about that. i'd want to do the face too. -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:17
Trump Is Already Wondering What Airport Will Bear His Name - crash davis Dec 22, 07:07 20
- I would demand that my reps fight this to their last breath even if it meant voting against a bill to give food to the homeless. -- nm - Max Dec 22, 08:00
- Do they have airports in either of the Dakotas? One there. -- nm - Cuzzin Fa-La-La-La-Todd Dec 22, 07:54
- speaking of this, are the vaccine distribution hurdles cleared at all? -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 22, 07:31
- That's exactly the sort of thing I want him focusing on for the next month. (Seriously) -- nm - Dano Dec 22, 07:28
- "Trump mentioned that “no president” wants an American airport that has a bad reputation or crumbling infrastructure named after them. " -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:08 15
  - He could have avoided all this if he'd only invested in infrastructure. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 07:12
  - What's the worst airport in the US? (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 07:11 13
    - Newark? -- nm - Pippy Dec 22, 07:16 1
      - yes, please. rename newark for him. -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 07:21
    - I can vouch for the general suckiness of Lambert. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 07:15 3
      - Nah since the tornado hit it the American concourse is decent. -- nm - spamlet Dec 22, 07:22 2
        
        Are the roads getting in and out any better? As someone who doesn't go frequently, I find the signage turrible. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 07:29 1
        
        Oh yeah the signs are terrible. - spamlet Dec 22, 08:19
    - By his criteria, it sounds like he wants a non-American airport named after him. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 07:13 1
      - "Welcome to Yekaterinburg" -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:20
    - it'll be hilarious if it's some out of the way, podunk regional airport -- nm - decline Dec 22, 07:12 4
      - I would love it if they changed the name of the Omaha airport. - ReluctantCaroling (with a mask) Dec 22, 07:50
      - Didn't he say under normal circumstances, he'd never go to Erie, PA? I pick them. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:13
      - So LaGuardia, right? -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 07:13 1
        
        Yeah that seems likely to happen....... -- nm - ty97 Dec 22, 07:53
Trump’s unofficial election advisory council now includes a pardoned felon, adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, a White House trade adviser and a Russian agent’s former lover." -- (link*) - decline Dec 22, 07:06
Newsmax issues sweeping ‘clarification’ debunking its own coverage of election misinformation - crash davis Dec 22, 06:54 1
- "Just kidding." -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 07:17
I thought West Wing ended with the 2006 election but apparently there are 5 episodes left. That's a lot of time to fill. -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 06:54 2
- I don't think that is a lot of time to fill. It feels like a year since our last election. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:57
- Also, I'm with Josh on the election results (spoilers) - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 06:56
Cool NASA "trailer" for Perseverence's arrival at Mars -- (link) - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:28 [youtube]
I'm making another attempt at contacting the Texas Workforce Commission. I have not yet met it to the first gatekeeper at 8min. - Qale Dec 22, 06:16 20
- Update: Alas, we have indeed failed to get progress on this made today. I am on a list to get a call back, but that's really just another gatekeeper. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 07:24 1
  - Keep at it. I feel something good is going to break your way. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:32
- Update: I'm in to the first gatekeeper who says it is definitely not me. And they are seeing about getting the second gatekeeper to call me. But... - Qale Dec 22, 06:59 1
  - 🤞 Hopefully this gets taken care of today -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 07:05
- But, similar to Callisto, have you tried contacting your State Representative? - ReluctantCaroling (with a mask) Dec 22, 06:49
- Good luck with this! Have you tried reaching out to them on Twitter? I had some luck with our labor dept. going that route. I also reached out to my - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:22 13
  - I emailed the governor and to his credit, he did have unemployment contact me and resolve my problem. - Yuletide Callisto 🎄🎄 Dec 22, 06:42 7
    - Did you call him a garbage governor in the email? - spamlet Dec 22, 06:51 1
      - "Dear Trash Man" - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 06:52
    - Let's not kid ourselves. It was a staffer who had a heart. -- nm* - Qale Dec 22, 06:47 3
      - Or a staffer trained to make the boss look good. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 22, 06:48 2
        
        Or knew you don't cross a Prophet. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 06:58
        
        gotta hit 'em right in the PR -- nm - co-lalalala-lalala-in 🔔 Dec 22, 06:52
    - Nice. Glad he got something right for you. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:45
  - Twitter looks like a no go. It appears to be outgoing only. I should look into state rep. I don't know them like I do federal rep though. Heh. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 06:32 4
    - Looks like it is Garnet F. Colman who has been there since 1991. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 06:36 3
      - I was hoping Twitter would be an easy way to reach someone. I'd hit up your state rep and see if he can help get someone from the labor dept. to reach - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:39 2
        
        I penned an email. We shall see how that goes along with my continuing efforts. I do love writing unconventional emails that include humor. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 06:46 1
        
        🤞🤞 -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:57
- *good vibes sent* Today is the day! -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:17
The stamps I ordered from USPS.com on December 8 have been bouncing back and forth between Kansas and New Jersey per the tracking. -- nm - Dano Dec 22, 06:13 5
- I gave my mailcarrier a card to mail yesterday and he got mad at me and acted as though he wasn't going to accept the mail. Which is his job. - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 22, 06:33 2
  - Oh lawds - Pippy Dec 22, 07:18 1
    - this happens to us a lot too. -- nm - Diva🎅🏾 Dec 22, 07:54
- you're probably losing 1 or 2 stamps each time too -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:16 1
  - package pays for itself -- nm - budice Dec 22, 06:19
Netflix and Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate agree to dismiss lawsuit over Sherlock Holmes’ emotions - crash davis Dec 22, 06:11 12
- So, their argument was the tv show made Holmes not an asshole and thus that was the still-protected version? - Will Hunting Dec 22, 06:17 11
  - It sounds ridiculous. They made Sherlock cool which I think would help the estate and gave all the bad tendencies to Mycroft. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:19 10
    - Is this one of those "We need to sue occasionally no matter how ridiculous in order to protect our trademark" situations? -- nm - Baron the Bluenose Reinbear🐻 Dec 22, 06:21 9
      - Their last copyrights expire in 2022 and 2023. It might be "This is our last chance to file legal papers!" -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:22 6
        
        Lawyers, I thought things went into public domain a certain number of years after the death of the author. What's different here? (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 06:30 5
        
        Most of it is already in the public domain. The last few stories go public in two years. So they claimed the last few stories were a different Holmes. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:33 4
        
        That I got, but since the author is the same, why didn't everything go public at the same time? (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 06:39 3
        
        It is based on date of publication. -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 06:45 2
        
        It's all in the public domain in the UK but US has different length of copyright. - LMS Dec 22, 07:02 1
        
        That inside is funny. And thanks for the clarification! -- nm - crash davis Dec 22, 07:10
      - I heard about this before. The estate is VERY protective of that specific version of Holmes -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:22 1
        
        They don't sue when the new books are published though, only when the film/TV version is made. - LMS Dec 22, 07:10
I'm happy that Spawn beat me last night by 0.30 points via stat correction. - crash davis Dec 22, 05:51 2
- If I had played my bench perfect I could have won in FJS but that wasn't in the cards. -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:01 1
  - Week 15 is the traditional time for my teams to poop on the sheets. I'm just happy I had a decent regular season. For this past week, I fielded one Chiefs and three Rams. -- nm* - crash davis Dec 22, 06:03
At the end, "Trump turns on everyone" (nmbl) - Brian Dec 22, 05:42 2
- I hope he is eating healthy, exercising and getting enough sleep, because I worry for his health. (NM) - Marlowe Dec 22, 05:50
- Makes sense, as he only likes people that can help him. - ♤Spawn♤ Dec 22, 05:46
I also met my neighbour on the weekend. He’s an artist who made this Tim Minchin video. Looks like stop-motion, is actually a zoetrope with paper - mafic Dec 22, 04:58 [youtube] 11
- This shows the method more clearly. I’M SO FASCINATED. -- (link) - mafic Dec 22, 04:59 10
  - That is cool. -- nm - Strongbad Dec 22, 05:50
  - The video and how it's made is very cool -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 05:46 6
    - Must be the same effect that makes a bird's wings stop moving in some videos or a helicopter's rotors -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 05:48 5
      - Looking into it they're different things. The effect that makes a rotor appear to be stationary or a hubcap to be moving in reverse is called -- (edited) - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:20 4
        
        the second video didn't look like he was taking pictures though. is that what it was? I thought it was a shutter speed thing -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:21 3
        
        It is. I shouldn't have said pictures as much as shutter. The speed of the shutter will determine how it looks. If it's spinning at the same rate that - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:26 2
        
        Yeah, that's basically the same reasoning behind the birds wings/rotors I think unless I'm totally misunderstanding it -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:29 1
        
        You're correct. Though with the zoetrope it will just look blurry to the naked eye until it's shot at the right speed. - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:35
  - whoa -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 22, 05:00 1
    - I’m pretty sure he’s a witch. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 05:01
TV PSA: NBA, Swamp Thing, TPIR at Night, Bachelorette, NeXt, Chopped, Let's Make a Deal PrimeTime, Tell Me A Story, Misery Index, Supermarket Sweep, -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 04:22 1
- Oak Island, Beyond Oak Island, City Hall (PBS), London Hughes: To Catch A D*ck (Netflix), other stuff -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 04:23
Josh Weinstein answers questions about classic Simpsons jokes -- (link) - Reagen Dec 22, 04:10 11
- "Yes, again, it's the simplest answer - Ralph dreams of being a Viking." -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 04:51 6
  - Bah! Viking = good is still funnier. -- nm - Roger More Dec 22, 05:37 5
    - It’s one of those silly internet ideas that never dies, like Die Hard being a Christmas movie. -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 06:24 3
      - Die Hard and Die Hard 2 are Christmas movies!!! -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 06:59 2
        
        I think I saw a pretty good "just enough Christmas" section in HBO Max. -- nm - 🎄con_cringle🎄 Dec 22, 07:32 1
        
        I'll have to check that out. Edward Scissorhands falls into that category and is on my yearly watch list. -- nm - Krusty - Diamond Dog Dec 22, 07:52
    - And conclusively...wrong. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 06:18
- And he addresses the Viking debate. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 04:51
- AHA! -- (link) - mafic Dec 22, 04:51 2
  - it's sad and tragic how badly he's misremembering this -- nm - 🦌sleighformojo🛷 Dec 22, 04:54 1
    - I stand by my aha. -- nm - mafic Dec 22, 05:00
Well, 6.84gb/hr, but that's close enough -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 21, 22:54 [Backboard] 12
- I've been paying extra to exceed the AT&T 1TB cap for like a year or more now. We destroy it. It is 100% all streaming. -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:20 5
  - damn kids -- nm - decline Dec 22, 06:21 4
    - Indeed. doesn't help we run stuff like The Office or some other type of show for background noise all the time. -- nm - kilbowl full of jelly 🎅 Dec 22, 06:22 3
      - can't you downgrade the quality when it's something like a sitcom? -- nm - amanda jeans Dec 22, 06:25 1
        
        What, like a CBS comedy? -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 22, 06:29
      - since I cut the cord my viewing habits have changed drastically. I didn't even turn on the tv last night - decline Dec 22, 06:25
- that could be a factor, but it would take ~ 8 hrs/day, every day to hit his cap. Jax, depends on your router, but it should have some type of stats - decline Dec 22, 06:01 4
  - Does that 8 hours math only account for one stream going at a time? -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 06:18 1
    - yeah -- nm - decline Dec 22, 06:19
  - He mentioned the Orbi and I think it just has overall stats not IP/MAC stats (that’s what I have) -- nm - spamlet Dec 22, 06:08 1
    - well, that makes it more difficult -- nm - decline Dec 22, 06:21
- HD/bluray or 4k? -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 22, 01:07
Modern Persuasion: A-. -- (edited) - David Dec 21, 22:45
Flynn was basically advocating a seditious conspiracy, he might need to be pardoned a 2nd time -- nm - zeitgeist Dec 21, 22:17 1
- It was my evil twin Clu! -- nm - Flynn SI Dec 22, 05:54
More goats. Edith, Evita, and Estelle. Came already named and registered with the ag department, so we can’t officially change them. -- (pic) - mafic Dec 21, 22:14 [Attachment] 2
- So cute! -- nm - Pippy - Dec 22, 04:29
- Ahhhhhh. Baby goats! -- nm - Andie Dec 22, 03:52

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