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I try to be unabashedly a top of the food chain guy. Granted that's via technology / society - JD Jul 21, 11:36 4
- Kyle, you just raised the most hansome perfect creature of its kind...NOW LETS EAT IT. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 11:39 3
  - You can purchase a share of a cow/pig/lamb from local farms, even get to meet them and pet your future dinner. -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 11:40 2
    - That reminds of Restaurant at the End of the Universe: 'We get to meet the meat? Cool." -- nm - JD Jul 21, 11:43 1
      - And before you say anything, Vegans, no one wants to meet an eggplant. -- nm* - Swilcan Baron Jul 21, 11:52
Well, that was interesting. One of my team got hundreds upon hundreds of spam messages today being signed up for newsletters. Read that this is - oblique Jul 21, 11:12 1
- damn it -- nm - Spawn Jul 21, 11:18
For all of the doping issues in the past, I still think the Tour de France deserves credit for sequences like this - JD Jul 21, 11:09 [youtube] 1
- damn cool move -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 11:15
huh. oldest ran a camp that had a paleontologist from the local university attend. Showed her a picture of a fossil I found and now they want to run - Beaker Jul 21, 11:08 12
- Awesome!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 21, 11:47
- nice -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 21, 11:28
- I should start playing The Sims again. -- nm - con_carne Jul 21, 11:23
- Very cool! -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 11:22
- You're gonna be famous! -- nm - decline Jul 21, 11:19
- cool! -- nm - Andie Jul 21, 11:18
- What type of fossil? Is there going to a Beakerosaurus? -- nm - JD Jul 21, 11:11 5
  - it's almost a perfect mussel shell (so would be cool it if it turned out to be salt water kind as we are inland rather than on the coast) -- nm* - Beaker Jul 21, 11:13 4
    - (we started fossil hunting on the beach and in a nearby slate pit after seeing an article about fossil finds on the other side of our Lake) - Beaker Jul 21, 11:17 2
      - And legally fossils do not fall under mineral rights, so dig away! -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jul 21, 11:19
      - Very cool -- nm - JD Jul 21, 11:18
    - Beakerobite it is then. -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jul 21, 11:15
Djokovic Out of U.S. Open For Refusing to Get COVID-19 Vaccine -- (link) - budice Jul 21, 11:00 3
- what an ass -- nm - mud Jul 21, 11:29
- ... I have no idea what this thread was about, but ... -- (link) - Beryllium Jul 21, 11:05 [Backboard]
- good. -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 11:01
My wifi was down this morning and my immediate reaction was to go to ST to see if society had collapsed. -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 10:55 7
- I'm wondering if they are upgrading local nodes, seems everyone on comcast is getting internet shut off for a few hours randomly -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 11:31
- Semi-related. My Wave 6 Ubiquiti access point arrived at the house today -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 10:57
- Was it Comcast? -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:56 4
  - It is Comcast! -- nm - Mop Jul 21, 10:57 3
    - I mean, I am on Comcast, but I don't believe the culprit is Comcast. I actually haven't pinpointed the issue yet. - Mop Jul 21, 10:58 2
      - I ask because a coworker also had Comcast issues this morning. - Beryllium Jul 21, 11:00 1
        
        There's some definite weirdness going on and I'm frustrated that I cannot pinpoint it. For instance... - Mop Jul 21, 11:05
SDCC: People wait overnight in line to be met with a Virtual Panel -- (link) - budice Jul 21, 10:54 1
- If they're sticking to the title "The Rookie: Feds" I will only watch if Rebecca De Mornay is part of the cast. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:57
I just got caught in a massive storm that's blowing through. Had to hide out under the scaffolding around the Flatiron Building. Poor little - Krusty Jul 21, 10:53 5
- any video? -- nm - Remlik Jul 21, 11:41 1
  - I didn't think it would show much so I didn't try. The thunder would have been clear though. -- nm - Krusty Jul 21, 11:53
- better tell the owner what happened so they know why she's so traumatized, be careful not to let it escape, they can go panic days later -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 11:34 1
  - The owner was home when we got back and thankfully the dog is hard of hearing so it wasn't so scary. The rain was just really hard and some big drops. -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 21, 11:52
- It's got a great beat but you can neither merengue nor cha-cha to it. -- nm - Swilcan Baron Jul 21, 10:58
Oh... We're switching to PTO from separate Sick/Vacation buckets - Dano Jul 21, 10:34 5
- We got that too. PTO/Vacay(accrue), Holiday(10 use/lose days per yr), Sick Days (5 use/lose days/yr) -- nm* - budice Jul 21, 10:40
- I hate our split buckets. It just incentivizes me to "be sick" when I really need time off for something else -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 10:38 3
  - At my company, it's the official line to just go ahead and use the sick time for mental health days off. You don't have to be on death's door. -- nm - con_carne Jul 21, 10:57
  - Separate buckets makes sense to me management-wise for short-notice/short-outage vs advance notice of multiple days needing coverage. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:47
  - I love separate buckets. But as a government employee, our sick time can be use towards our retirement. It's not an exact 1:1 convert, but - sycor Jul 21, 10:45
Streaming was 33.7% of total TV viewership in June according to Nielsen. Highest % so far. Netflix jumped 1% because of Stranger Things to 7.7%. -- (link*) - Inigo Jul 21, 10:33 4
- Poll: what year/quarter will streaming first hit 50%? -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:34 3
  - Are ISPs still being jerks about providing broadband access to disadvantaged/remote communities? -- nm* - con_carne Jul 21, 11:04
  - Q1 2024 -- nm - Inigo Jul 21, 10:47
  - Q4 2024 -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 10:40
Variety article on movie star salaries (this is discussion worthy): Tom Cruise will make $100M for Top Gun 2. Jamie Lee Curtis is criminally underpaid -- (link*) - MDH Jul 21, 10:17 9
- "DiCaprio $30 million to reteam with Martin Scorsese on the historical drama “Killers of the Flower Moon”" sounds like a stupid budgeting choice. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:33 2
  - Apple TV uplift. -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 10:56
  - New money in Hollywood = same old story. -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 10:39
- I dunno….JLC doesn’t draw incredibly well in anything other than Halloween. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 10:28 1
  - The 2018 once made $255M WW all because they brought her back. I say pay her! -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 10:53
- Now with link. -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 10:22
- He took a cut of the box office though vs. salary on TG2 so his bet paid off -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 10:18 2
  - He's also very involved in the shaping and development and production of the movie -- nm - Roger More Jul 21, 10:26
  - Yup! -- nm - MDH Jul 21, 10:22
Variety article on TV salaries: Kevin Costner and Mahershala Ali make $1.3M per episode. -- (link) - MDH Jul 21, 10:12 2
- no wonder Pete Davidson left SNL. -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 10:29
- Jason Sudeikis is underpaid. -- nm - David Jul 21, 10:15
Kyler Murray got some money... -- (link) - Diva Jul 21, 10:06 4
- Welp, there goes Arizona as a viable SB team. - Will Hunting Jul 21, 10:33 2
  - If he's good enough, they'd win. There's going to be 10 to 12 teams paying QBs this much. It won't eliminate them from Super Bowls, bad play will. -- nm - Inigo Jul 21, 10:56
  - yup -- nm - budice Jul 21, 10:34
- Yup, Lamar's gonna get so much money, and not have to give any to an agent. -- nm - Inigo Jul 21, 10:13
Katie Holmes wears a blanket dress despite 80 degree heat -- (link*) - budice Jul 21, 10:05 3
- Just because something looks hot, doesn't mean it is hot. - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:10 2
  - It's also unlikely she was out of air conditioning for more than a few minutes between cars and doors. -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:26 1
    - I've seen photos of gals at cochella in uggs boots...fashion doesn't always make sense -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 21, 11:37
ABCD: what stupid way did I fuck up my back yesterday? - Reagen Jul 21, 10:04 41
- what is a box jump? -- nm - Jovian Jul 21, 10:27 10
  - I knew what a box jump was, I still don't understand the point of them though. -- nm - sycor Jul 21, 10:46 4
    - Polymetric exercise particularly helpful with explosive movements like, well, jumping. More generally good lower body exercise as long as joints - JD Jul 21, 10:53
    - It's the gateway drug for parkour. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:50 2
      - I'll stick with butter. -- nm - sycor Jul 21, 10:52 1
        
        Hah :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:54
  - just what it sounds like -- (link) - oblique Jul 21, 10:30 [youtube] 1
    - oh its an exercise thing. No wonder I had no clue! :) -- nm - Jovian Jul 21, 10:35
  - You jump on a box. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 10:29 2
    - no, seriously, what is it? -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 10:29 1
      - You jump on a box. -- (link) - JD Jul 21, 10:30
- Also, don't feel too bad - I injured my torso laying in bed on Tuesday and it still hurts. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:13
- A was a nightmare for us. Our new king mattress was too tight for part of the stairwell ceiling. - David Jul 21, 10:10 6
  - when I got a mattress earlier this year I paid for delivery and setup because I knew the stairs would be an issue - decline Jul 21, 10:19 4
    - We originally did, but I actually bitched on ST about getting charged $149. So, we canceled drove across town to pick it up, and then did that. - David Jul 21, 10:21 3
      - Curtain rod -- nm - JD Jul 21, 10:26 2
        
        Kim came downstairs a few weeks ago and was absolutely beaming. She'd put up the shower curtain rod in a matter of minutes without me. - David Jul 21, 10:30 1
        
        “It only came up to my armpits, but it was sturdy.” -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 21, 10:39
  - Pivot! -- nm - budice Jul 21, 10:11
- C -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:08 15
  - There it is - Reagen Jul 21, 10:09 14
    - During the launch or the landing? -- nm - Max Jul 21, 10:27 1
      - Landing. Felt it the moment I started to straighten out. -- nm - Reagen Jul 21, 10:32
    - I have a scar on my shin when I got over ambitious and tried a workout without scaling the box jump from the 30" height - JD Jul 21, 10:24 8
      - My scrape is just now healing from a couple weeks ago and I wasn't even doing a hard jump. I can do 20" no problem all the time. I can do 24" in - oblique Jul 21, 10:26 7
        
        Woot! to the second line of the IM - JD Jul 21, 10:29 6
        
        oh yeah, we did that once. Anything "gymnastic" is pretty challenging for me. I'm just now getting the hang of kip swings - oblique Jul 21, 10:31 5
        
        Ooooo...prep for toes to bar. Another movement that I never completed and always scaled. - JD Jul 21, 10:34 4
        
        Took me almost a year just to be able to do a single pull up. I'm still only doing a few at a time. Our class work doesn't lend itself - oblique Jul 21, 10:37 3
        
        If your schedule allows as well as work out space, I'd recommend a few minutes after class to focus on pull ups - JD Jul 21, 10:45 2
        
        Thanks. Counter-intuitive but totally makes sense especially as I learned how much pull ups were back muscles and not arms. I'll see about giving - oblique Jul 21, 10:49 1
        
        8-) Though perhaps consider skipping the extra work before a workout that includes pull up type movements - JD Jul 21, 10:56
    - old people like you should know better -- nm - decline Jul 21, 10:12
    - yeah, but a 30" box jump for you is like a footstool for us mortals -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 10:10 1
      - The 30" orientation of the standard cross fit box is just flat out wrong. 20" x 24" x 30"....that shouldn't be set up on the small surface - JD Jul 21, 10:37
- B. No one is moving a mattress in this heat and you only hurt your shins doing box jumps :) -- nm - oblique Jul 21, 10:07
- F. Reverse Cowgirl -- nm - budice Jul 21, 10:07
- B -- nm - decline Jul 21, 10:06
- E. Sneezing too hard -- nm - znufrii Jul 21, 10:06
- B -- nm - sycor Jul 21, 10:05
- A -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 10:04
Me: Oh cool, Deadpool on D+! Also me: Waitaminnit, I already own the bloody thing but it's squirreled away on one of my streaming services! -- nm - con_carne Jul 21, 09:56 8
- Im at 900movies on Vudu. So yeah, Im sorta there -- nm - budice Jul 21, 09:58 1
  - yeah, I gotta be around there myself -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 09:59
- I hope we get Once Upon a Deadpool this winter. I haven't seen it. -- nm - David Jul 21, 09:57
- I should watch Jessica Jones on there to see what they do with the Luke Cage sex scene -- nm - groiny Jul 21, 09:57 4
  - Nothing some bouncing mouse ears and canned Mickey laughter can't fix! -- nm - con_carne Jul 21, 10:04
  - D+ has had all of this up here for ages. No edits so far as I know. -- nm - Reagen Jul 21, 10:01 2
    - They changed the name back to AKA Jessica Jones. I wonder how long that had bugged Feige. -- nm - David Jul 21, 10:07
    - Most worn out part of the stream. -- nm - budice Jul 21, 10:03
Rollo, I replied in the board roll like an idiot. -- (link) - David Jul 21, 09:53 [Backboard] 2
- When I checked earlier today, it was still 2K higher than it was three weeks ago, so ... no big deal -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 09:54 1
  - I mean, that's not really how economies work. Netflix's stock is a factor of 20 more than it was in 2012. But it's worse than 2021. - David Jul 21, 09:57
LIR - JD, and those are for decimal currency - mine were the Sterling version until I got to Canada. -- nm - Meg Jul 21, 09:51
Rowlf -- nm - JD Jul 21, 09:46 1
- Fozzy -- nm - rollo Jul 21, 09:52
Library today: Irredeemable vol 1, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse book 1 - doing a reread leading up to book 9), The Sandman vol 1, 2, 3 -- nm* - Beaker Jul 21, 09:46 13
- I don't know when I'll get to it, but I bought Sami Zayn's favorite book yesterday. It's called... - David Jul 21, 09:54
- Do you happen to know what book one should start with, if one is wanting to start where the Expanse TV series ended? -- nm* - Jovian Jul 21, 09:48 11
  - The TV show deviated from the books in a few ways, so I'm not sure that it makes sense to jump from the show to the book mid-stream. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 09:52 5
    - (But my understanding is that Perseopolis Rising might be the one you mean.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 09:53 4
      - hmm, maybe I should try that. -- nm - mud Jul 21, 10:00 1
        
        After I finish my rewatch I'm going to read all of the books. I haven't read all of them, only the first three or four. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 10:12
      - yeah that makes sense, book 7 of the 9 -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 09:55 1
        
        Thank you! -- nm - Jovian Jul 21, 09:59
  - have never finished the show to be truthful -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 09:50 4
    - I was a little disappointed in the way it ended to be honest. -- nm - sycor Jul 21, 09:56 1
      - Some folks were, since they felt it was a bit rushed yet also left a dangling sub-story. Reasonable to be frustrated by that. I was quite satisfied. -- (edited) - Beryllium Jul 21, 09:57
    - good lord, I just finished rewatch. I loved the last two seasons, as much as the rest if not more -- nm* - mud Jul 21, 09:54 1
      - I'm rewatching right now, up to S3E7 now. (Delta-V. Maneo! Jung! Espinoza!) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 21, 09:56
Worf -- nm - Beaker Jul 21, 09:44 3
- Data -- nm - mud Jul 21, 09:47 2
  - O'Brien -- nm - ReluctantCynic Jul 21, 09:49 1
    - Barclay -- nm - Strongbad Jul 21, 11:29

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