Ternaugh

He was a guest on this one.

This song popped up on my Plex stream (deep cuts) while driving in to work. The album's been lurking in my collection since I got it from promo discs at Circuit City management training before the turn of the century.

1 hour ago, Grailknight said:

 

I have never heard of a doctor saying "Eat more salt." Did they say why?

One of my tests came back with me just slightly under the accepted guidelines for sodium.  A normal blood sodium level is between 135 and 145 milliequivalents/liter (mEq/L) (taken from here: https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/hyponatremia).

I hit the bargain bins at one of the local Zia Records fairly heavy on Friday, getting 16 CD albums for $10. Some Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, the Carpenters, the Chieftains, Louis Armstrong, and, well, this one: 

While I had heard it years ago, I didn't have it in my collection until now, and at the bargain price of fifty cents. It will go proudly next to my William Shatner discs.

Just finished my quarterly doctor visit, my muscle mass is up 2lbs, and my fat mass is down 9 lbs.

I was also told to eat more salt.

3 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

Hey, who has the Dragonballs?!

That's a rather personal question.

27 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

 

Call me when they bring back the McDLT. The only thing I get from the McRib is sadness.

22 minutes ago, Clonus said:

Wait until he uses Backstab.

I'm rewatching Batman: The Animated Series on Max. The order of episodes is different than on the DVD/Blu-Ray releases (which I also own), and are closer to the original airdates. It's an extremely good watch.

Selling England by the Pound (5.1 mix) by Genesis, followed by Freudiana, which was to have been the 11th album from the Alan Parsons Project.

Air Force One: After a state visit to Moscow, Air Force One is hijacked and it's up to the President (Harrison Ford) to take back the plane. The movie's a decent watch, but some of the CGI effects didn't age particularly well. (Bravia CORE*)

Echo: A five-part series that explores the character introduced in Hawkeye, I really enjoyed this series. (Disney+)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Eight episodes in season one, and it captures the tone of the book much better than the movie adaptation some years ago. It's a good watch. (Disney+)

*Included with the purchase of a Bravia XR TV, Bravia CORE is a movie service that focuses mainly on Sony releases. My TV came with 2 years of the service, and 10 movie credits to purchase from a different list of movies. Picture quality is generally on par with 4K UHD discs, and many of the movies are presented in an IMAX format.

11 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

Yeah see that's the kind of thing I keep getting, the AI doesn't seem to know what a Warthog even looks like

You're absolutely right.

Performing a hard drive upgrade on my computer, managed to somehow damage the power connection and cable on a different drive. Most of the important stuff was already copied to the new drive, and the majority of it should be on backups as well, though I'll need to search for them.

I feel really stupid about it, as I've literally connected and disconnected hundreds of SATA drives as a property tech, and with my puttering around with computers.

The power cable routes in back of the motherboard, and I don't want to disassemble the whole system, so one drive bay will remain empty.

29 minutes ago, Cancer said:

  I've only been summed for jury duty once, and they seated no juries that day so I got off free.  I may be on the "scientist" blacklist (no one wants intelligent, rational jurors who are smarter than the lawyers).

I've served on two juries, a criminal trial, and a civil trial. The criminal trial resulted in a not guilty verdict.

I was surprised to be selected for the civil trial. It was a minor fender-bender, but the plaintiff was claiming severe back injuries. I figured that the plaintiff's attorneys would reject me, but that didn't happen. When they asked if I would have any issues with a large judgement, I briefly included the words "tort reform" in my answer, which got a smile from the defendant's attorney, but only a slight look of confusion on the plaintiff's attorney's face.

Talking after the trial to the defense attorney, he assumed that jury foreman was either going to be me or the high school science teacher. In deliberations, I had turned it down, and the science teacher became foreman. The case involved a medical component,and I was also surprised that they left a retired nurse on the jury. Plaintiff was asking $12.5 million, we deliberated over initial medical costs (a little less than $8000), or nothing. We went with nothing.

The plaintiff's attorneys were far from the smartest in the room. I found out that they were the seventh legal team on the case, and that they turned down a half a million from the defendant's insurance. The original medical bills had already been paid,and if we had chosen that, the plaintiff's lawyers would have been able to get their legal fees paid by the defense.

https://lesoeuvres.pinaultcollection.com/en/artwork/collector-friend

It showed up in the lobby yesterday.

11 minutes ago, Asperion said:

I just wonder what would happen if the Supreme Court takes Trump off the ticket and enough people write him onto the ticket to get him back on. 

It should technically be the same as if someone who doesn't meet the age requirements or other restrictions--the candidate is ineligible, and can't be certified per the Constitution.

Additionally, each state determines if write-in votes are accepted, this is Nevada's take:

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• Can I write my name on the ballot or write someone else's name on the ballot as a candidate?

  No. Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 293.270 prohibits write-in candidacy.

7 hours ago, unclevlad said:

Looks like the NH polls are saying DeSantis will be left in the dust...because he dropped out of the race today.

 

 

My first thought after reading this was that I needed to play, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

1 hour ago, Bazza said:

So a few kinks to work out. Asked for Data & got Lore by mistake. 

Well, Lore was built first.

I've a strong aversion to ads, and finances were such that I could add the Youtube subscription. It makes watching a Youtube video on a mobile device bearable, and I find that I'm using the included Youtube Music subscription quite a bit while I'm browsing my computer in the morning.

Paramount+ has been making me angry lately. I'm on a no-ads plan, so of course, they queue up a 30-second ad before each show. There's no skip button, but it's possible to mostly get rid of them by backing out and relaunching the show. The app is extremely buggy, though, and I've had it lock up twice on my new TV, and had videos marked unavailable until I cleared the app from running, and restarted.

Just finished Season 4 of For All Mankind on AppleTV+. For those who haven't seen the series, it deals with an alternate timeline where the Soviets beat the US to the moon. Season 4 is concerned with diverting an asteroid that will be passing nears Mars to Earth orbit for mining (Mars base Happy Valley was established in Season 3). The acting's very good, and the story lines are interesting and entertaining. Looking forward to a fifth season.

I had first heard his work when watching this with my parents.

I discovered the P.D.Q. Bach later, on the Smothers Brothers revival show.

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

I'm a minute and a half in, and I have to take a break. "We are not astrology majors."

 

It stings us, precioussss. 

He's at the opposite end of the campus from the Math, Science, and Engineering buildings, so it's not a surprise for me.

The Flora Dungan Humanities building is visible over the interviewers shoulder in some scenes.

29 minutes ago, death tribble said:

The Black Dakotas

This Western quickie is a Civil War set piece with the Confederacy trying to get the Indians to attack a local town. The agent in charge is just after the money which he intends to escape with. It is simple and easy to watch.