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Milestone HR balls…a case study - Flavorize Sep 27, 12:42 2
- The best part was he didn't have to meet McGwire. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Sep 27, 12:50
- Good for him. - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:46
Sanctioned oligarch’s yacht repossessed and sold to undisclosed buyer for $37.5 million -- (link) - znufrii Sep 27, 12:25 2
- JP Morgan gotta eat. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:26 1
  - When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve. -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 12:27
Honest Trailers | The Sandman -- (link) - Beaker Sep 27, 12:07 [youtube] 1
- Lol@spoilers - znufrii Sep 27, 12:15
A bunch of Publix on Florida's west coast are closing for the storm -- nm - ty97 Sep 27, 11:57 9
- Where are your parents? -- (pic) - JaxSean Sep 27, 12:25 [Attachment] 1
  - Lee County, south of Fort Myers. So the eye should be north of them (I hope?) but they are getting the 'dirty side' of the storm -- (edited) - ty97 Sep 27, 12:42
- are the liquor stores staying open? -- nm - amanda Sep 27, 12:21 4
  - Shelters! -- nm* - Spawn Sep 27, 12:24 3
    - Pot Luck Pours -- nm - Max Sep 27, 12:43
    - omg my dream -- nm - amanda Sep 27, 12:27 1
      - "excuse me sir. what kind of wine do you have?" "all of it." -- nm - amanda Sep 27, 12:30
- 2.5 million people being told to evacuate, hitting as a Category 4 -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 12:00
- Waffle House? -- nm - spamlet Sep 27, 12:00
I love hop-on/hop-off buses to get a quick overview of a city before digging in deeper on my own. And I've heard some folks suggest Top of the Rock - ty97 Sep 27, 11:55 7
- Suggested literally on this board. 😀 -- nm - zunk takes things literally Sep 27, 12:47
- Other than traffic, hop on hop off are generally a great idea. - spamlet Sep 27, 12:02 3
  - Certainly in NYC earlier in the day is better for the bus than later in the day -- nm - ty97 Sep 27, 12:09 2
    - I can't get over the traffic. Like, who in their right mind would drive in NY? It is a fucking Gong Show -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 12:27 1
      - I actually don't mind driving in NYC early mornings on weekends. There's no one on the roads that early for some reason. -- nm - MDH Sep 27, 12:33
- someone told us Top of the Rock was better than ESB for a view who had done both. (we are staunch Hop on Bus Tour advocates :) ) - Beaker Sep 27, 11:58
- Big Brown Bus babeee -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:55
within the last month, a pacific volcano has made a new island near Tonga -- (link) - peglegpete Sep 27, 11:43 1
- “Is it Tonga Time? It’s Tonga Time.” -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 11:52
Quordle 6 5 7 4 - oblique Sep 27, 11:43
Memphis Tigers basketball coach Penny Hardaway did not violate NCAA rules in providing benefits to prospective student-athletes -- (link) - Beaker Sep 27, 11:33
Dark Horse Comics ‘Grendel’ Series Not Going Forward At Netflix, Could Be Shopped Elsewhere -- (link) - Remlik Sep 27, 11:28 5
- *tries to read these tea leaves for Sandman renewal* -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 11:32 3
  - I think the massive costly failure of Jupiters Legacy and the slowness of people watching Sandman are strikes against it -- nm - Remlik Sep 27, 11:42 2
    - Weekly release schedule would have helped. - Spawn Sep 27, 12:32
    - The Algorithm can never fail, it can only be failed -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:43
- C'mon, HBO Max! -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 11:30
Major erosion damage of PEI sand dunes from Fiona -- (link) - Reagen Sep 27, 11:18 4
- wow -- nm - crash davis Sep 27, 12:15
- Yikes -- nm - prayformojo Sep 27, 12:09
- Fiona gave them more beach! -- nm - decline Sep 27, 11:21
- Not nearly as bad I was expecting, though. - Spawn Sep 27, 11:19
Since 1997, September box office has always reached $350 million. We are at $275 million in 2022. It’s grim. -- nm - The Allfather Sep 27, 11:15 22
- More people should have gone to see Barbarian -- nm - Dano Sep 27, 12:15 1
  - They might have it had stuck the landing. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:30
- a drunken monkey could of done better advertising for Confess Fletch; even moreso given the really good reviews -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 12:14 1
  - it's fine. not sure it would have been a $100m breakout but given how cheap faux Miramax was with the budget, could have gotten into the black - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:16
- how many fewer overall releases in theaters in 2022 v. 1997 (haha), but really even just 2019 -- (edited) - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:22 15
  - Maverick represents the extreme exception. Halloween 2021 is the playbook to use. - David Sep 27, 11:39 3
    - Hollywood didn’t have enough legit product so they reverted back to the old standby of September is a dog month. - Will Hunting Sep 27, 12:08 1
      - they have plenty of exhibition-worthy product. they choose not to put it all in theaters first like pre-2020 - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:15
    - *Tim Robinson hot dog costume GIF* they're gonna find the guy who did this! -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:41
  - if Turning Red alone got a full theatrical run, you're historically over $350 already -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:25 10
    - Given the way Lightyear bombed, I doubt it. -- nm - Inigo Sep 27, 11:59 5
      - Tim Allen coulda saved September! -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:08 1
        
        the only problem with Lightyear was that it’s a dumb premise nobody was asking for and executed poorly, like all the sequel junk that Disney forces on - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:43
      - anyway... even looking at annual #s, major studios are putting 26 fewer releases in theaters versus 2019 (61 to 87) so yeah the take is gonna be down -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:07 2
        
        There's down, and then there's the 25-year storm. -- nm - David Sep 27, 12:18 1
        
        year end is still predicted to end up $7/8b versus $11b in 2019. but that’s not enough to run a theatrical chain 12 mos of the year - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 12:37
    - September releases, dude. -- nm - David Sep 27, 11:30 3
      - Hocus Pocus 2 woulda done it. alas . . . -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:38 2
        
        Still might. Disney holds all the power. -- nm - David Sep 27, 11:39 1
        
        3 days to change everything! -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 12:07
- They need to make better movies! -- nm - decline Sep 27, 11:20
- Is that good? -- nm - budice Sep 27, 11:20
Hello from my newer bigger QUIETER office, thank God. -- nm - con_carne Sep 27, 11:10 1
- 👍 -- nm - crash davis Sep 27, 11:27
Southwest flight attendants protesting (not yet striking) due to schedule policies like no pay before doors close, on-call, etc. -- nm - Qale Sep 27, 11:07
Letter Boxed 9/27: There has got to be an easier solution, but here's mine. (spoils) - Baronbarian Sep 27, 10:54
Watched Bullet Train last night. I really enjoyed it. - sycor Sep 27, 10:50 2
- Also watched all of the She Hulk episodes this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed that. The CGI was pretty bad in several spots, and it was distracting - sycor Sep 27, 10:56 1
  - D+ has learned the "error" in going for a *super powered* show. - Spawn Sep 27, 11:18
Klosterman's The Nineties midway thought - Reagen Sep 27, 10:39 1
- though with Jordan "hubris" may also include getting soft suspended by David Stern for his inveterate gambling -- nm - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 10:55
New York Giants lose top receiver Sterling Shepard to torn ACL -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 10:37 1
- That turf is garbage -- nm - Flavorize Sep 27, 10:44
The Bring It On Franchise has a Halloween movie...Bring It On: Cheer or Die -- (link) - Remlik Sep 27, 10:35 [youtube]
NFL Meeting week 3.... -- (link) - Remlik Sep 27, 10:27
Disney World is still open, but they're closing a bunch of hotels because of Ian -- (link) - decline Sep 27, 10:22 10
- Not really hotels - more areas of resorts that sit on the water. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 27, 10:29 2
  - I just read the headlines Ma'am -- nm - decline Sep 27, 10:31 1
    - 😀 -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 27, 10:32
- *twitch* -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 27, 10:26 6
  - Correct. Orlando airport is closing tomorrow, though. - Dark Callisto Sep 27, 10:43 5
    - Hoping things are back open by Saturday. -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 10:49 4
      - Presuming there is no damage, it should be. I will keep you informed. -- nm - The Allfather Sep 27, 11:01 2
        
        On the plus side (selfish IM) - znufrii Sep 27, 11:04 1
        
        Oh yeah -- nm - The Allfather Sep 27, 11:11
      - Hope so!!! -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 27, 11:01
So no one thought to have like a 2nd camera detach from the DART in order to film the impact from non-POV? -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 10:17 9
- It would show the edges of the back drops. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 11:10
- They did, actually. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 27, 10:21 7
  - That video looks more like an animation of what was supposed to happen -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 10:28 6
    - I don’t know what video you are looking at, but the article has two images of the impact taken by the Italian cubesat that was deployed to record the - znufrii Sep 27, 10:31
    - The ESA video is from earth based observatories, I believe. And it looks like a Hertzfeldt animation. The cubesat only released still photos, I think -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 10:30 4
      - My original point remains - no video of the impact from a non-POV -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 10:41 3
        
        um, they would have had to build and deploy a 2nd DART to get video of any quality for the impact. -- nm - decline Sep 27, 10:44 2
        
        I mean, I'm not an engineer but I can contemplate a different solution than that -- nm - rollo Sep 27, 11:33 1
        
        And such a solution might have a transmission bandwidth issue that causes it to take several days to process the data into videos. - Beryllium Sep 27, 12:29
".. I mean, they're all kind of selfish, aren't they?" -- (link) - mud Sep 27, 10:17
$25,000 for seat on private flights out of Russia -- (link) - znufrii Sep 27, 10:17 8
- "Probably the first country where people flee not because someone invaded their country but because they invaded other country." -- (link) - mud Sep 27, 10:20 7
  - i mean 70s draft dodgers were a thing. -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 10:41 6
    - That was one of the reasons my folk emigrated to Canada in 1966. My brother was approaching draft age in Australia. -- nm - Meg Sep 27, 11:43
    - I worked with one in the 90s at the book shop. He wouldnt admit, though it was obvious from his history. -- nm - mud Sep 27, 10:45 1
      - I don't blame them. Just, it's happened before. -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 10:46
    - But my friends didn't pay 10x the average workers yearly income to flee in luxury -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 10:44 2
      - and there werent scenes at our borders like .. -- (link) - mud Sep 27, 10:53 1
        
        this is interesting, when women join the baracades then you know the cause has some gravitas -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 28, 11:21
Paramount +; Secret Headquarters set 7 day viewing records for the streamer -- nm - Remlik Sep 27, 10:09
96%! ha, you lousy liberals and weak woke "progressives" crying about democracy can only dream about such great #s!! -- (link) - mud bannon Sep 27, 10:08 2
- Didn't putin get elected by 98% -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 27, 10:42 1
  - hell yeah! -- nm - 45* Sep 27, 10:54
So to keep positive, I'm starting to feel after the clown show of the past, we're becoming a nation that can walk and chew bubblegum again - crash davis Sep 27, 09:57 1
- 👍 -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 10:06
Egypt to pursue 2036 Summer Olympics -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 27, 09:26 4
- have they not done the math or looked at recent history? most countries seem to lose billions hosting the Olympics -- nm - peglegpete Sep 27, 10:31 2
  - authoritarian regimes fucking LOVE the Olympics -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 10:34 1
    - yup -- (link) - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:00 [youtube]
- It's kind of cute that they assume the world will still exist in 2036. -- nm - Dano Sep 27, 09:29
TIL: Death Diving -- (link) - oblique Sep 27, 09:25 [youtube] 2
- ...coming to the 2036 Olympics -- nm - Dano Sep 27, 09:50
- as seen on the BroSports Network -- nm - prayformojo Sep 27, 09:29
I don’t know that I’d be bragging about shooting a puppy, even if it was a wolf. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 27, 09:23 3
- the worst kind of hunter -- nm - crash davis Sep 27, 10:00 1
  - Depraven the Hunter? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 27, 10:04
- Also a special place in hell for whoever did this. -- (link) - znufrii Sep 27, 09:29
Blue Jays' manager explains decision to walk Judge in the 10th. "...Duh." -- (link) - Reagen Sep 27, 08:50 4
- Smart move, for sure. -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 09:09
- And they had the audacity to strike him out twice! - zunk takes things literally Sep 27, 09:05
- let me ask you a question...who won the game? -- nm - Beaker Sep 27, 08:56
- I get this one. They’re in a dogfight for playoff spots. Don’t let the mvp beat you. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 27, 08:53
Qatar conscripting civilians for security jobs (only the best of security) -- (link) - Beaker Sep 27, 08:48
Seriously, if someone doesn’t attach a pair of trucknuts to a cardboard cutout of Dr. Oz and take it around PA as a fundraiser, I’ll be disappointed. -- (edited) - znufrii Sep 27, 08:48 2
- Fetterman responds -- (link*) - znufrii Sep 27, 08:57 1
  - "A vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy" -- nm - Reagen Sep 27, 09:47
I can only offer personal experience as anecdotal evidence, but overall, I believe female doctors are better at listening than male doctors. -- nm* - crash davis Sep 27, 08:46 2
- (older males) When we picked a pediatrician for Logan we had the choice of the named doctor or his younger protege. We went younger. - Spawn Sep 27, 09:04
- That has been my experience for the most part. -- nm - Dark Callisto Sep 27, 08:58
Bros: here are the 2 negative review blurbs (both give it 2.5 out of 4...which I see as a positive score sometimes...) - Beaker Sep 27, 08:46
Hey NYCers, a few questions: 1. The ESB 86th floor is a sufficient view, right? I’m assuming that’s the - kelly Sep 27, 08:45 10
- The 86th floor is the view from the movie. The crown has been closed since the pandemic and I don't think it's opened up yet. -- (edited) - Krusty Sep 27, 09:30 3
  - The link I did goes to their site, and they are selling tickets for both. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 09:41 2
    - *shrug* I haven't heard anything about it opening up again. It was closed in July when I had friends look into going. - Krusty Sep 27, 10:06 1
      - pays to remember that Spawn makes Kenneth the Page look like Wallace Shawn - hollywood big shot Sep 27, 11:11
- as first time visitors we liked the hop on hop off bus tour. got to see a bunch of stuff; we were only there a day essentially so - Beaker Sep 27, 09:23
- I'm just a tourist but when we've been there we went to the Rockefeller Center deck. A bit cheaper and shorter wait lines. - zunk takes things literally Sep 27, 09:16 1
  - Cap's shield is taking longer than expected. -- nm - Spawn Sep 27, 09:16
- 102nd -- (link*) - Spawn Sep 27, 09:05
- Yep. 86 is the Sleepless in Seattle floor. Here's a video. -- (link*) - Volnelk Sep 27, 09:04 [youtube]
- That’s the main observation deck, yes. Don’t know about your second q -- nm - znufrii Sep 27, 08:49
That time King Charles met Johnny Cash in a Fredericton New Brunswick locker room -- (link) - Beaker Sep 27, 08:43

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