Deep State Whine
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A straight shooter with upper management written all over him
Solid 20/20. Although rotary phone, record player, and typewriter were outliers for me as my family was fairly tech-forward. I think I used a rotary phone at my grandparents' house and I didn't use a typewriter for anything serious other than one of my college applications!
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17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Solid 20/20. Although rotary phone, record player, and typewriter were outliers for me as my family was fairly tech-forward. I think I used a rotary phone at my grandparents' house and I didn't use a typewriter for anything serious other than one of my college applications!
I was reflecting this morning that I've actually only seen 3 of his movies: The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and The American President. But one of those inspired my entire career, so he still gets top marks from me.
I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.
Remembering Rob Reiner, who made movies for people who love them
The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good — they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I was reflecting this morning that I've actually only seen 3 of his movies: The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, and The American President. But one of those inspired my entire career, so he still gets top marks from me.
Can anyone recommend a good book on the history of Native Americans in Virginia? (Or the SE United States, if Virginia is too specific.) I know shamefully little about it. I've found what look like good titles for Native history nationwide, but would love something that focuses on where I live.
December 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Can anyone recommend a good book on the history of Native Americans in Virginia? (Or the SE United States, if Virginia is too specific.) I know shamefully little about it. I've found what look like good titles for Native history nationwide, but would love something that focuses on where I live.
Finally admitting that the experiment to return to the Dell Digital Jukebox MP3 player for car music is over. One must eventually come to grips with the fact that having a standalone desktop computer from 2009 running Windows XP solely for the purpose of putting new songs on it is idiotic.
December 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Finally admitting that the experiment to return to the Dell Digital Jukebox MP3 player for car music is over. One must eventually come to grips with the fact that having a standalone desktop computer from 2009 running Windows XP solely for the purpose of putting new songs on it is idiotic.
3 pages a minute, your love by your side, and a glowing pyramid in every home
This was the future we were promised. Canon Fax 170 (1992)
December 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
3 pages a minute, your love by your side, and a glowing pyramid in every home
Never forget the kind of thing that the NL switching to the DH took from you
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Never forget the kind of thing that the NL switching to the DH took from you
The check-out clerk at the store didn't recognize a celery root and asked me what it was used for, and in describing this I uttered the phrase "a vegetarian version of mashed potatoes."
A vegetarian version. Of mashed potatoes.
Didn't hit me until the parking lot.
A vegetarian version. Of mashed potatoes.
Didn't hit me until the parking lot.
December 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The check-out clerk at the store didn't recognize a celery root and asked me what it was used for, and in describing this I uttered the phrase "a vegetarian version of mashed potatoes."
A vegetarian version. Of mashed potatoes.
Didn't hit me until the parking lot.
A vegetarian version. Of mashed potatoes.
Didn't hit me until the parking lot.
Controversial take: it should be both illegal and a Geneva Convention violation to play the same Christmas carol twice in a row (by different artists) in the grocery store
December 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Controversial take: it should be both illegal and a Geneva Convention violation to play the same Christmas carol twice in a row (by different artists) in the grocery store
The Sixth Sense in my college theater; projector died on the transition to the last reel. Never came back on. Didn't see the end or know about the twist for several more years.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The Sixth Sense in my college theater; projector died on the transition to the last reel. Never came back on. Didn't see the end or know about the twist for several more years.
Finally saw my first dark-eyed junco of the season on the back deck! Winter may now officially commence.
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Finally saw my first dark-eyed junco of the season on the back deck! Winter may now officially commence.
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Why does Doug Ford here look like a general giving an update to Darth Vader via hologram
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Why does Doug Ford here look like a general giving an update to Darth Vader via hologram
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🎶 I’ll be home for Christmas🎶
🎶You can plan on me🎶
🎶Please have snow and mistletoe🎶
🎶and…wait, what the hell is that on the tree🎶
🎶no really, is it like the ghost of a clown🎶
🎶where the clown went through a meat grinder🎶
🎶but that still doesn’t explain the…nipple? 🎶
🎶You can plan on me🎶
🎶Please have snow and mistletoe🎶
🎶and…wait, what the hell is that on the tree🎶
🎶no really, is it like the ghost of a clown🎶
🎶where the clown went through a meat grinder🎶
🎶but that still doesn’t explain the…nipple? 🎶
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
🎶 I’ll be home for Christmas🎶
🎶You can plan on me🎶
🎶Please have snow and mistletoe🎶
🎶and…wait, what the hell is that on the tree🎶
🎶no really, is it like the ghost of a clown🎶
🎶where the clown went through a meat grinder🎶
🎶but that still doesn’t explain the…nipple? 🎶
🎶You can plan on me🎶
🎶Please have snow and mistletoe🎶
🎶and…wait, what the hell is that on the tree🎶
🎶no really, is it like the ghost of a clown🎶
🎶where the clown went through a meat grinder🎶
🎶but that still doesn’t explain the…nipple? 🎶
Really glad my spouse explained to me why there is a bigass partially smashed pumpkin in our trash can because... that's a bigass pumpkin! And I would have had Some Questions.
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Really glad my spouse explained to me why there is a bigass partially smashed pumpkin in our trash can because... that's a bigass pumpkin! And I would have had Some Questions.
Requiem for a Dream. I found it to be incredibly well made (directed, written, acted) but just too shattering to put myself through again.
Never mind movies you’ve watched multiple times, name a movie you’ve watched once and would never watch again.
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Requiem for a Dream. I found it to be incredibly well made (directed, written, acted) but just too shattering to put myself through again.
Admin things at work are happening... that are... good? What is this feeling
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Admin things at work are happening... that are... good? What is this feeling
Nova Scotia
You have to move to a beautiful, tailored-to-your-needs cabin in any *remote* landscape on earth. Where are you going?
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Nova Scotia
After the kill, each bird wears the severed head of its rival around its body on a chain as a warning to the others
December 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
After the kill, each bird wears the severed head of its rival around its body on a chain as a warning to the others
I genuinely can't think of a single movie that came out after 2015 that I've seen even 3 times. A couple I've seen twice.
50 times... I don't know about literally 50, but Heat, The Hunt for Red October, and The Empire Strikes Back are probably the only ones where I'm in the neighborhood.
50 times... I don't know about literally 50, but Heat, The Hunt for Red October, and The Empire Strikes Back are probably the only ones where I'm in the neighborhood.
seeing a movie 6 times is not hard mode smh that's basically true of every movie you owned pre 2005.
I wanna hear about the movies you've seen 50 times. or the movies you've seen 6 times that only came out post 2015
I wanna hear about the movies you've seen 50 times. or the movies you've seen 6 times that only came out post 2015
December 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I genuinely can't think of a single movie that came out after 2015 that I've seen even 3 times. A couple I've seen twice.
50 times... I don't know about literally 50, but Heat, The Hunt for Red October, and The Empire Strikes Back are probably the only ones where I'm in the neighborhood.
50 times... I don't know about literally 50, but Heat, The Hunt for Red October, and The Empire Strikes Back are probably the only ones where I'm in the neighborhood.
Just got email from Netflix blapping about their Warner Bros. acquisition. Quote: "...bringing some of the world’s most beloved franchises like Harry Potter, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Casablanca, Game of Thrones..."
1) "most beloved" doing a lot of work there and
2) Casablanca? A "franchise"?
1) "most beloved" doing a lot of work there and
2) Casablanca? A "franchise"?
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Just got email from Netflix blapping about their Warner Bros. acquisition. Quote: "...bringing some of the world’s most beloved franchises like Harry Potter, Friends, The Big Bang Theory, Casablanca, Game of Thrones..."
1) "most beloved" doing a lot of work there and
2) Casablanca? A "franchise"?
1) "most beloved" doing a lot of work there and
2) Casablanca? A "franchise"?
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Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Welcome back to #FossilFriday!
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
Here is a Petoskey Stone which is Michigan's state stone. It is a colonial rugose coral known as Hexagonaria percarinata. This comes from the Middle Devonian (Givitian) Gravel Point Formation (Traverse Group). Each corallite that you see would have housed a polyp.
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Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
apnews.com/article/drun... No gods no masters
Raccoon goes on drunken rampage in Virginia liquor store and passes out on bathroom floor
A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
apnews.com/article/drun... No gods no masters
I LOVED these as a kid. I was deliriously excited when I discovered other, similar, pretzel chips years later as an adult, which filled the echoing void in my soul left by the discontinuation of Mr. Phipps.
Mr. Phipps Pretzel Chips (1991-circa 1998): Essentially round, flat pretzels, these snack chips were part of the fleet of "Mr. Phipps" cracker/chip hybrids from Nabisco. Available in variants such as Original, Low Salt, and Sesame
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I LOVED these as a kid. I was deliriously excited when I discovered other, similar, pretzel chips years later as an adult, which filled the echoing void in my soul left by the discontinuation of Mr. Phipps.
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hahahaha I couldn't remember the name of the hard cider, so I called it the cranky tree one.
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
hahahaha I couldn't remember the name of the hard cider, so I called it the cranky tree one.