L. Marcus

From the Rugby World Cup semi-finals
New Zealand beat Argentina (no surprise there)
South Africa beat England by a point (this was supposed to be as easy as New Zealand's win against Argentina)
 
so the final will be New Zealand vs South Africa and I want New Zealand to win.

I had a Great Tit fly into my apartment yesterday. Took me almost fifteen minutes to convince it to leave via the wide-open window rather than try to exit through the thoroughly-closed one.

Mel Gibson's mullet got to it, huh?

I finally, thirty years after its release, saw The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I saw it the right way -- in an actual theatre with fifty other people on a large, clear screen with a fantastic sound system. Which is the best way to see a film for the first time if you can be lucky enough to pull it off. And  when the lights went up and it was time to head out into the night, one word and only one immediately came to mind.
 
Masterpiece.
 
The absolutely unique use of stop-motion with doses of CGI of a quality that matches more advanced modern technology, the exquisite craftsmanship, some of the best VA performances I've ever heard (the combined forces of Chris Sarandon and Danny Elfman bring the anti-hero Jack to life with style, grace, and even a bit of gravitas. Elfman's score is genius, from the various Jack soliloquies to the Fleischeresque Oogie Boogie (and the magnificent voice performance and singing by Ken Page). The film was a wild fantasy, whose completely bonkers premise because surprisingly reasonable. I can't think of anything Burton and Sellick got wrong.
 
And I saw it for the first time in that manner in which it could be most appreciated. Heavens, I needed this.
 

Better feet than some.

Needs more pouches

Push-ups.

"Ah, good, you're still open."
 
"Yes we are, what can I get you?"
 
"Everything in the register."
 
"Oh my god, it's a hipster hold-up!"
 
"Hand it over. I have a gun."
 
"Well I have a death wish, so that's not going to work. Look, pal, we work at this cupcake window from two to four, six nights a week, and that is after eight hours of slinging hash at the diner next door for lousy minimum wage which a bunch of politicians out in ... help me out ... "
 
"Washington."
 
"What she said. ... don't want to raise. Then we walk back to our illegal one bedroom apartment, get three hours of NyQuil-induced sleep before we have to get back up and share a bowl of Spanish-language Cheerios."
 
"It's the same, but the C wears a sombrero."
 
"So no, I am not about to give you our hard-earned money and if you're going to shoot me, better aim good because if you miss, I will climb over this counter, tear off your head, and it'll be our new tip jar."
 
"I just robbed Pizza Pizza. Here's a twenty. Have a good night."
 
"I have a way with people.

Go All-Blacks!

Vermilion 

I don't think anyone realized that transits of Venus (which are naked-eye observable, but very rare: sort of a pair of 'em separated by 8 years, then a ~120-year gap until the next one) existed until Halley, IIRC, predicted them in the 1600s.  Transits of Mercury are rather more common, but it takes a telescope to see those.
 
Transits of Earth as seen from Mars do occur, but those are separated in time by multiple centuries.  Assuming you can see the Moon from Mars (more on this below), the Earth & Moon are far enough apart that it would be obvious that Earth has a companion. 
 
Earth's disk is bigger than that of the Moon by a factor of 7.35 (comparing areas of circles there), and Earth's albedo is about 2.5 times larger, but clouds are brighest, land next brightest, and ocean darkest, so its apparent brightness would depend on weather and what part of Earth was facing you at the time.  The Moon is smaller and darker but its surface is much closer to uniform in its reflection properties.  I could find a reference stating that Earth gets about as bright as apparent magnitude -2.5 as seen from Mars, but wasn't able to find a statement about the Moon's apparent magnitude; depending on how all that gangs together the Moon may or may not be naked-eye bright from Mars.  I think details are going to matter, and I was being very fast and sloppy in this estimating.  Another influence is whether the Moon is at elongation or not at the time the Martians were looking; I think maximum elongation would put the separation of Earth and Moon at about 0.08 degrees, which you can see if your eyes are good.  Whether you could make out faint Moon that close to bright Earth is more a visual perception question, and I can't answer that one.
 
(I gave all this some thought last time I was building a FRPG world and thinking about making astrological influences matter.)

Under cross examination, the almost 10 year old admitted that it was probably him. He was trying to set an alarm to remind him to watch a certain video, but forgot to set it to p.m.

Did anyone adjust for windage?

A man goes to the doctor. He says he feels a constant, overwhelming need for approval. Says he wants everyone to love him, to find him funny, but still feels unfulfilled and empty. 
 
The doctor says "Treatment is simple. Just log in and look at Elon Musk. That idiot spent $44 billion to buy Twitter, and he gets frickin' radioed every single day. His posts are absolute nonsense, the most unfunny and dated crap you've seen. The guy posts like he thinks it's still 2014. Seeing how much he debases himself for approval while remaining the biggest loser online ought to cheer you up."
 
The man says, "But doctor, I'm..."
 
The doctor interrupts, "I know who you are."

"I can't swallow that!"
"Well then, Good News! It's a suppository!" -Futurama

That's the real tragedy. She had a long and amazing life. She attained heights that women of her generation were often kept from. An American success story! Instead, she'll be recalled as much as a person who refused to let go of power even when it hurt the causes she championed. It's a blemish on her personal history that's going to stand out.
 
I'm not one for ageism, the older I get the more I'm like "hey, 60 doesn't seem THAT old" ... but I do think there comes a time to pass the torch when the years begin to erode your ability to serve as a leader or voice for your people. I am not sure a flat 'no one this old or older should be allowed to run for office' is the fix, but watching politicians  space out, get confused with where they are here and now on camera, and then being told 'oh, they're fine' while their aides do damage control and everyone knows they are NOT fine is a problem. At times it seemed to border on elder abuse.