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You'd think he'd be able to afford a lawyer who knows how to use email.

Wifey and I watched Aladdin live action last night. It didn't make the mistake of trying to be the cartoon, and had some new songs. Naomi Scott as Jasmine had a stand out performance for her song Speechless. Today, we watched Bohemian Rhapsody. It could have been good. Good to great performances. Much verisimilitude, zero verity. They only focused on a few key moments in the band's history (understandable for time), but in nearly every thing were incorrect. Rolling Stone has a good fact check article on it. It's a shame, because it taints a great performance from Rami Malek. I'd say it's worth a watch for the performance from Malek (and others), but don't go in expecting to learn anything about Queen. We finished the last season of American Housewife and finished it up today. Show went downhill in its final season due to the loss of the show's creator and another producer or director or something, along with three key cast members. At least one of the three cast cited a toxic work environment. It was a watchable season, but losing the actress who played the youngest daughter was huge. Starting up DS9 again. Trying to get up to Worf joining. We're at the end of the season before he joins and things get really rolling with the Dominion war. I can't remember what number season off hand. It's fun getting to know the characters again. Neither of us have seen the show past the point we're currently at, so looking forward to it.

Hmm, could be . . . Sage advice: During Old Goat Debates, Best To Retreat Warning Sign: Disrobed Older Gents: Don't Breach This Room Social Commentary: Destitute Orphans Get Dusty Books To Read Dear Older Generation, Do BeTteR! Job Description: Diabolical Orbital Gravity-Driven Bombardment Technology Researcher I think the best way to find out is to gently rear end that vehicle the next time you see it, then ask the driver what that plate means. 😁

Thanks. I'm mostly OK. I caught myself from falling by grabbing the walls (more or less), but twisted my bad back a bit in the process. It's still a little tweaked out, but that should pass. I just have to glue myself to about four or five hours of accounting homework today. I'll probably lose a SAN point or three.

There are plenty of non superhero movies being made. His problem is that the superhero movies are getting a wider audience. Boo freaking hoo. People have options, just because they aren't exercising him in the way he wants doesn't mean they aren't there. We have an embarrassment of riches to watch of everything these days both in the theater and via streaming. Small art house films have a bigger potential to reach people than they ever have before, for example, whether through word getting out about limited screenings, or going to streaming. But he isn't concerned with quality getting seen. He's crying over split milk because his type of populist trash isn't the current vogue in populist trash. Yawn.

Sounds like their agents or contract lawyers failed them. It was a bad contract, but they signed it. Of course Disney could do the right thing anyway, but we all know the Mouse doesn't play that way. The devil, as they say, is in the details.

I have to tap out. Had a carpet nail in my foot, a fall down a stair (yeah, just one stair but it was a doosy), freaking accounting homework and a surprise webinar to create all since the draft started. Sorry. I'd planned to have some fun with this one, too!

13 for me

I'd immediately ask for a more streamlined chassis. 😁

I haven't read the comics, but it seems like there are tons of differences.

Mortimer, "Morti," Whynter was a 27 year old college junior, the King of Major Swaps. His inheritance from his great aunt Hortense provided for all of his needs until his college graduation, including a very well-appointed apartment with a great entertainment system. Mortimer poured over the college catalog fretfully, as he was running out of majors! He had so many credits in each area that the remaining degrees would only buy him a few more semesters at best. He tossed aside his iPad (with all the upgrades) and turned on his 75" TV. He'd have to start considering jobs (aunt Hortense's trust fund didn't cover grad school; she was self-made and was being quite uncharacteristically generous in providing for a four year degree), when what he really wanted to do was Netflix and chill. If only he could find someone to chill with. His prospects were slim until . . . . . . his potted ficus suddenly grew to an enormous size, and wrapped itself around him. For a time, everything was green. Just green. Every shade from light, almost yellowish green akin to the back of some plants' leaves, to a dark, almost black shade that reminded him of . . . nothing, really. Morti didn't really have a whole lot of knowledge about plants, despite his 8 semester hours in Botany. He began to feel faint, and start to wonder whether he was dreaming, having drifted off while watching Day of the Triffids or something. As he realized that he hadn't yet started streaming any shows, he suddenly found himself in a small . . . hut? alchemy lab? nursery? He'd been summoned by . . .

70% on Rotten Tomatoes so far. I'd say that's mostly positive.

That coffin has been collecting nails for the past 30 years. He just pounded in the final few.

Here's Maeve vs. an armored truck: She seems pretty high on the durability scale in the show. And seems to have significant KB resistance.

It's almost surreal to think that Romney's now numbered among the ethical (ish) Republicans.

Ran across this article on NPR: The creator of the FBI mass shooting protocol is 'shocked' by Uvalde police response Fairly short read. The interviewee, Katherine Schweit, is frustrated, and with good reason: There are two very simple things that still aren't being done according to protocols that have been in place for quite some time. The first, is that the police need to immediately head toward the sound of gunfire and attempt to neutralize the threat. It doesn't matter if there's only one officer. (My opinion: If schools are going to use resource officers, they need to find those with the intestinal fortitude to do so.) The second, is that the protocol in schools should be to run, not shelter in place. Yet students are always taught and told to shelter in place first. These really are very, very basic tactical considerations that become obvious when your objective becomes "protect the victim" rather than "my family needs me, I have to go home tonight." I have no issue with the ethics of prioritizing one's own survival so they can go on to take care of their family or continue helping a greater number of people in the long run. That's fair. It's not an unethical position. But I'll say that soldiers, police, and other emergency personnel should not be in those positions if that's their ethos. They'll have to get used to their life insurance policy being their family's solace should they fall in duty. Or seek other work. I'm not sure when "run, hide, fight" became "hide, hide, hide" in schools, or why. Running has issues. But it beats being fish in a barrel.

Hopefully Microsoft cleans house if the purchase goes through. I'd expect a whole new set of executives.

You should have spent some of his Dex points on resistant PD! My old cat once suffered a through and through bite between the bones of one of his lower back legs. I had to debride it daily for several weeks. He pooped in my laundry for that indignity. Gotta love cats.

Fennel Honeydew

Xu Xialing (Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings)

ZZ Top Next: Fictional Characters whose first and last names start with the same letter.

More emotion in there than you'd guess. Humans are reactive animals. Everything we experience gets processed through our amygdala. Most people kind of suck at not letting their emotions hijack their thought process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala_hijack This just means that Liberals have taken over the educational system to further their agendas. 😁

I'm not sure how much educational level plays into this. There are plenty of highly-educated deniers running around. I think it has more to do with emotional manipulation. People make most decisions with their emotions rather than their logic. That's a driving principle of both economics and marketing. A proper education should teach people to think for themselves, to question emotional appeals and to verify any claims despite their own personal biases, but . . . most people are mediocre students, even the "educated." (Trust me, I once had to explain how to build a Gantt chart to a Brown MBA...) It's really, really hard to teach people to think past emotional manipulations.

My nine year old niece tested positive this week. Picked it up from a classmate. Gave it to her mother. So much for "kids can't pass it on." Fortunately, everyone involved is vaccinated, so no serious symptoms.

Nancy Drew