The moments that I'm missing Grant often lead me here
https://youtu.be/mwGnCIdHQH0?si=hxy6...CtJZVO&t=8
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The moments that I'm missing Grant often lead me here
https://youtu.be/mwGnCIdHQH0?si=hxy6...CtJZVO&t=8
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Weekend Observations
Direct flights are great!
Brian Wilson's Beach Boys >>>>>>> Mike Love's Beach Boy
Sign language interpreter at a concert has to a great workout.
Middle age dudes trying to start a pit is just sad.
My days of multi-day musical festivals is near its end.
Rankings are out again, did you look?
I'm stacking up potential job possibilities. Not a bad spot to be in.
I've been doing this also lately. Dinner tomorrow night with a potential employer. Difficulty I'm facing right now is that I have clear favorites among the opportunities but each of them is moving on their own timelines. So, I may end up in a better spot than I'm currently at, but also not at the place I'd prefer to be.
Many years ago, I was in my first grownup job, had been there for almost five years, and had no way to move up. I had applications out and a couple of interviews and ended up taking a job at a fast-growing company in Cary. They all told me they were stealing people from all the big companies and they were going to go public, we would all get shares and would all be millionaires!!!. Right before I started, I got a call for another job interview. I decided to go ahead and do the interview. I was offered the job, but the funding got delayed and would not be available until the spring (this was October). So I continued with the job in Cary. Come the following February, I got the call asking me if I was still interested in the job. My new job that was to make me a millionaire had changed dramatically. People were leaving in droves, back the to the big companies. The outlook was pretty bleak. I weighed my options and took the new job, ditching the current one after only 5 months. Today I am still at the same "company", moved up to a job I like, will retire early with great benefits. I have no regrets in leaving that job after so short a time period. That small company was bought out by a giant company one month after I left and almost everyone was laid off six months later.
^ you have to do what's right for yourself. Companies will give and revoke offers as they see fit, needs of their business being cited. We have our own needs, too.
My situation is reversed company size wise. They are the ones moving quickly. Of course, I worked there 10 years and they advertise the stuff I worked on nationally. But I think I'd prefer the smaller company because it would be a more expansive role and it would get me out of Texas. It is hot here.
This is the advice I give everyone. Companies talk about loyalty culture etc but at the end of the day it’s about $. If the $ ain’t there, none of the rest of it is. Look out for you and that’s it. The whole point of the migration away from pensions and to portability in funds is to enable companies and people to be more flexible and have more ownership over their situations.
Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
You've been warned.
Ahoy, mateys!
Maybe some gold doubloons would spice things up?
Shiver me timbers!
you want to read a fascinating true tale (with piracy undertones)* check out David Grann's The Wager...guys set out from England in 1740 to find a Spanish galleon filled with silver, and they sail half way around the world trying to find it (their GPS stuff was on the fritz I guess)...
* state sponsored piracy...go steal their stuff, boys!
Pirate day needs more Buffett.
Pirate walks into a bar with a ship’s wheel in his pants. Bartender says, “looks like you’ve got a ships wherl in your pants”. Pirate says, “yaarrrrr, it’s driving me nuts”.
How do you make a pirate furious?
You take away their p, then they are just...
I miss that hump day camel.
Post Chama Gaucha recovery day rules have been invoked.
off to Canada for another fabulous lunch and the acquisition of top tier pastries and other specialty foods...
The son of the pirate never learned his alphabet right because dad insisted there were 7 c’s.
But I don't want to be a pirate.
Choices, choices...
https://youtu.be/0mPIqVOBFis?si=_5r2N2PzuFcslCaX
Bon Jovi is the correct answer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRvCvsRp5ho
I love humiliating cats.
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New Jersey's answer to John Cougar?
Voice recognition is spotty at best, a couple decades in technology wise.
Note to any who don't remember: The "good Jovi" comment is a call back.
(Full story, skip if you remember it, when we were still dating my husband turned to me one time and said, "Do you know that Bon Jovi is French for good Jovi?" I laughed so hard I nearly wet my pants and to this day I cannot tell that joke without cracking myself up. It's Pavlovian at this point. Also - I'm convinced that my laughing at ALL of my husbands dumb jokes is why he married me. Also - almost none of my husband's dumb jokes are puns. Question - is the good Jovi joke a pun? I think it isn't, but opinions may differ.)
needed a new watch, same as I've had for years, Seiko self winding, nothing fancy but works great, no batteries, etc. Bought via Amazon, delivery date some time in October....moments ago a guy pulls into the driveway in a beat up Nissan, clutching a wee Fedex package for me...it was the watch, straight from Japan, warranty and instructions all in Japanese...very odd, but hey, if that's how they want to source it...
Yeah grey market goods are the really deal. They are just made and packaged for specific markets. My aunt use to do a lot of NGO work in Singapore. The electronics prices were like half compared to the UK prices. Import/Exporter started taking advance of that. The college text book market is any other areas.
The other reason would be it’s been diverted because of the supply chain or they forgot the English manual.
This hits home because I've spent hours and hours the last couple of weeks trying to get numbers on code to work. We have to figure out which numbers(really html tags) actually do anything and which are dead ends. So, I sit there just saying, "Eleven, eleven, eeeeleven, eLevin" and then on to twelve and thirteen and fourteen, etc. Some of the tags work, many don't.
Do you remember?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...V&opi=89978449
Do they still teach the recorder in school?
I bumped into a neighborhood guy walking his dog this morning. We exchanged a couple pleasantries, and I walked on, but overheard the man address his dog: "Hey, Coltrane, let's go this way." I had to turn around and give him props for that. Might be the coolest dog name I've ever heard. (Well, except the yappy toy poodle named "Thunder".)
I have a bunch of dead batteries I’m giving away. They’re free of charge!
I already ate dinner.
Best spy movie?
My personal favorite is probably zero dark thirty. Now I love you the old James Bond movies and there are some legitimate Classics in there. But I also sort of think of them as being basically one part of the same story. Also they were a little formulaic. But I still like them. But easily the best spy related piece of entertainment that has ever been made is the television show The americans. That was just unbelievable. Easily my favorite television drama of all time.
Talk to text while walking 3 Mi back to my place after dropping off my U-Haul after moving my son into his apartment. This is going to be a capitalization tragedy. I apologize.
He's been gone one month, I miss him and think about him every day.
Poutine is basically like Frito Pies in New Mexico — a fancy name for something we all did when we were seven.
Agreed. I order fresh Hatch chiles every year, they pick ‘em on Tuesday and I have a ten-pound box by Thursday. Chile rellenos by the end of Saturday.
https://www.hatch-green-chile.com/sh...RoCDkYQAvD_BwE
My top spy "films" are the two serials starring Alec Guinness as Smiley: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. They aren't movies per se, but they are incredible renditions of Le Carre's books. According to IMDB, Le Carre was so impressed with Guinness' performance that he tailored Smiley in later books to be consistent with the portrayal.
My list of spy movies has to include The 2nd Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World. I wish this was still available in some form.
Funny enough, my office had a frito pie potluck yesterday.
So it depends. Sometimes people will make it with more of a Texas chili and cheese, tomatoes and onion. The more traditional and much celebrated in the Native American Pueblos is red NM chile, which is dried hatch red chile pods ground into a powder. That powder is mixed with water or stock and ground beef or pieces of steak are added. That sauce is then placed over a bunch of Fritos in a bowl, covered with cheese, onions and tomatoes.
I actually prefer the “Indian Taco”. It’s basically the same but over “fry bread” instead of Fritos and more beef so the sauce is a little thicker.
What you describe is a lot better than what I had in Santa Fe., it was basically the first one you described and the chili was fairly nondescript. May need to try again.
I withdraw my comment about Frito Pie, I am biased by a single “meh” experience.
Santa Fe, btw, has incredible quinine overall. S.W. foodie paradise.
1. North-by-Northwest
2. The Manchurian Candidate (original)
3. The 39 Steps
The OTB is hopping this morning.
I'm about to unhop. My wife and I are finally actually seeing Oppenheimer. We had several early attempts get waived off, we figure today is our last shot in theaters.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Stannis should have burned his daughter alive.
No you’re not. I’ve lived outside the SE for almost 40 years now and lost most of my accent but it’s always dressing. Chicken and dressing was the go-to Sunday dinner at my grandmother’s. I’ve kept away from posting in this thread because I know I can’t disguise my true feelings on the other issues. I’m willing to take a suspension on this one.
even up here geezers refer to the mid day meal on all days as dinner. Supper is later.
1) Army of Shadows
2) The Man Who Never Was
3) La Femme Nikita
Fact: Chana masala is a culinary wonder.
(this probably belongs in the politics thread, but what the hell)
Did some posts get moved from the Prez thread over here?
As to swimming in the ocean in New England - we can even do it on New Year's Day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIw9loLPQsM
Anyone think Deion's ego will come down a few notches?. Yeah, me neither.
Just did three half-pints of hot pepper vinegar using habaneros from the garden. Also did two tiny jars of pickled Peruvian pearls. House smells strongly of vinegar.
It feels so wrong to pull for Notre Dame but the other option is a no go for me. My father raised me right.