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Late Night Open Thread

by John Cole|  August 21, 201312:50 am| 51 Comments

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I’m currently suffering from a crack-like addiction to Sons of Anarchy- “I’ll just watch one more episode and then I am done for the night…”

Peg Bundy is un-goddamn-believably good. As is Ron Perlman (sp?).

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  1. 1.

    Fordpowers

    August 21, 2013 at 12:53 am

    And Jax is hot as all get out.

  2. 2.

    wasabi gasp

    August 21, 2013 at 12:53 am

    You watch a shitload of TV.

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 21, 2013 at 12:54 am

    “Hi, I’m John Cole, and I just bigfooted myself”.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 21, 2013 at 12:55 am

    @wasabi gasp:

    The guy watches too much TV. He should spend more time playing video games.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 21, 2013 at 12:58 am

    Peg Bundy is un-goddamn-believably good. As is Ron Perlman (sp?).

    You mean Katy Sagal, who also played Peg Bundy, and is the voice of Leela on Futurama.

    And yes, she is a terrific actor, very much under appreciated.

  6. 6.

    J.Ty

    August 21, 2013 at 1:03 am

    I know this sounds weird, but there’s -an excellent Harry Potter fanfic written by- a guy who makes computer brains for a living, and y’all should read it. In it, Harry is raised by people who buy him lots of books and make sure he watches Sagan. He tries to bring science to Hogwarts.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Luke

    August 21, 2013 at 1:04 am

    Goes downhill after the season finale featuring the school bus imo…

  8. 8.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    August 21, 2013 at 1:05 am

    In threads past, I’ve mentioned my hobby of fooling around with my Apple G4 machines. I’ve posted from those machines every so often. Tonight, I finished the job and can rest easy having taken them as close to the goal as I possibly could given that I’m doing it on the cheap.

    G4 #1: Dual 1.0 GHz processors, 2 GB of RAM (max), 1.75 TB of space through 4 drives. Apple Cinema Display and Apple Pro Speakers.

    G4 #2: 400 MHz, 768 MB of RAM, 2 TB of space through 6 drives.

    I have a G4 Dual 1.25 GHz Mac that has been moved to backup status. It has 1.5 GB of RAM and a single 80 GB hard drive.

    I built these Macs myself and I’m very happy with that. I once preferred the all-in-one iMacs, but after fretting about giving away a dead iMac with its hard drive still inside, I decided to pull it out myself. To that point, I hated having to open the machine at all. It snowballed from there and I’ve spent the past several months patiently tracking down items through Craigslist and eBay. Now I’m done and I’m happy.

  9. 9.

    J.Ty

    August 21, 2013 at 1:11 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: there’s only so many days you can go through with Panic Kernels for breakfast.

  10. 10.

    sinned34

    August 21, 2013 at 1:11 am

    I’m lamenting the fact that I’ve been spending the second week of my two week summer vacation convalescing from a cold, the weather has been mixed with cloud and rain following seven weeks of gorgeous hot weather. Also, my last keg of beer ran dry on Saturday night.

    Worst. Vacation. Ever.

  11. 11.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    August 21, 2013 at 1:17 am

    @J.Ty:

    The Dual 1.25 I mentioned gave me that when I first bought it. The Mac was filthy with dust and I had to use brushes and canned air before bringing it in the house.

    After that, I put it on my workbench, connected my spare ADC Apple monitor and turned it on. Kernel panic from here to eternity, until I took out the PCI cards that the previous owner had installed. It booted OK after that.

    Then I erased everything and started over with a fresh install of 10.4 Tiger. For my money, Tiger still is the best and smoothest running OSX variant I’ve seen. All of my Macs at one time or another have ran it without any issues.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 21, 2013 at 1:20 am

    Over at Powder Blue Satan, Atrios links to Buzzfeed reporting on the NRA’s top secret database of gun owners.

    One of the things this database could be used to do is market more deadly toys to the children.

    Final paragraph pretty much sums up the hysteria of these wingtard “privacy” concerns:

    “It’s probably partially true that people don’t know the information is being collected,” said Feldman, “but but even if they don’t know it, they probably won’t care because the NRA is not part of the government.”

  13. 13.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 21, 2013 at 1:25 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: Do Apple even manufacture any current “tower” computers these days?

  14. 14.

    Roger Moore

    August 21, 2013 at 1:27 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Over at Powder Blue Satan, Atrios links to Buzzfeed reporting on the NRA’s top secret database of gun owners.

    Gee, it would be a real shame if some government agency subpoenaed the thing, or government hackers managed to steal a copy. Hella ironic, also, too.

  15. 15.

    Villago Delenda Est

    August 21, 2013 at 1:31 am

    @Roger Moore:

    DING DING DING DING DING!

    Their own mythology (see the original Red Dawn where the Sandanista/Cuban/Latino commie guy directs the troops to look for some specific form number for all the registered weapons in town) tells you that the EXISTENCE of such a database, in anyone’s hands, is an existential threat to your freedumb!

  16. 16.

    J.Ty

    August 21, 2013 at 1:36 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: Snow Leopard fan myself. But I do have a Tiger laptop sitting around, and it’s certainly way more stable–not great for development, though.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    August 21, 2013 at 1:36 am

    Came across this on BBC’s site. It seems to me that the BBC is making rather more of this than there really is — 2 to 4 Muslims out of every 1,000 Latino Americans doesn’t sound like all that many to me. I was under the impression that the Catholic Church loses far more Latino American members to Protestant denominations.

  18. 18.

    Keith P

    August 21, 2013 at 1:37 am

    Good show, but it’s the prototypical example of one of my biggest pet peeves of modern anti-hero shows – total seriousness. Everyone on that show – everyone – is in the most dour of moods. I have never, ever seen anyone smile at that show or otherwise show any kind of emotion other than gloom. Just doesn’t come off as realistic that way.

  19. 19.

    ? Martin

    August 21, 2013 at 1:43 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:

    Now I’m done and I’m happy.

    If I mailed you a G4 Cube, would you still be done and happy?

  20. 20.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    August 21, 2013 at 1:45 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass:

    They currently make the aluminum Mac Pro. It’s the same tower on the outside that the G5 introduced. The innards are all different and are Intel powered, but the new Mac Pro that’s due sometime in the near future is a black cylinder with grotesque power:

    http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

    (A side note: my company recently took delivery of a pallet of aluminum Mac Pros. I had a chance to see it before the IT people carted it away. It was mind blowing to see 12 Mac Pros on a pallet waiting for processing. Macgasm, I had it, lol.)

    I’d upgrade just for that, but I’m happy with what I have.

  21. 21.

    hamletta

    August 21, 2013 at 1:46 am

    @The prophet Nostradumbass: Yup. They have an all new cylindrical tower coming out soon.

  22. 22.

    Suzanne

    August 21, 2013 at 1:48 am

    I am lying on bed after failing to force myself to study tonight. I realize that I am the only one putting this pressure on myself, but I hate not achieving.

    Cheated on my diet the last two days. Stressed and without a dishwasher.

    Awesome haboob tonight.

  23. 23.

    RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual

    August 21, 2013 at 1:49 am

    @? Martin:
    LOL. I’ve always wanted one of those, but I would have no space or purpose for it. The Dual 1.25 I relegated to backup status was gathering dust even though it had 2 TB of drives inside. I rarely turned it on. A Cube, even with the fantastic design, would be more of the same.

    Besides, I may bend a wrench here and there, but upgrading a Cube is serious business. I’d be at a loss to do that.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    August 21, 2013 at 1:55 am

    Way, way, way beyond my violence tolerance threshold. Too bad, as do often (but not always) like Perlman’s acting.

    If it hasn’t already been done, someone ought to cobble together tribute lyrics about it to the tune of “Sheik of Araby,” as “Sons of Anarchy” scans perfectly for that tune.

  25. 25.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 21, 2013 at 1:55 am

    @Keith P: I hadn’t thought of it, but now that you mention it, that may be the reason i stopped watching at teh end of IIRC S3. But I think the other anti-hero shows— Mad Men, BB, the Sopranos– have lots of humor.

  26. 26.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    August 21, 2013 at 1:55 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:

    @hamletta:

    Damn, that Mac Pro page is really obnoxious.

  27. 27.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    August 21, 2013 at 2:00 am

    I found myself with a crack-like addiction to “Bar Rescue” this Sunday. Who’d a thunk it?

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    August 21, 2013 at 2:07 am

    @Keith P

    Same reason I gave up on Longmire after the pilot. No interest in continuing watching when everyone on the screen is determinedly, relentlessly grim.

    Was also looking forward to sweeping vistas of Wyoming scenery, but the show chose not to film there, so long shots were notably absent.

  29. 29.

    gussie

    August 21, 2013 at 2:19 am

    @NotMax: I liked the jerk-ass deputy who was running for Sheriff more than the Sheriff.

  30. 30.

    Yatsuno

    August 21, 2013 at 2:22 am

    @Amir Khalid: And of course none of them could have been exposed to Islam in their home countries of course. Oh no, they had to run to America and get these horrible religious perversions. Humans change their faith structure as they see fit and as they learn more about the universe.

    (And yes, there have been Muslims in Mexico for centuries.)

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    August 21, 2013 at 2:25 am

    @Amir Khalid

    And more to Mormonism.

  32. 32.

    Joey Maloney

    August 21, 2013 at 2:33 am

    @Roger Moore:

    Gee, it would be a real shame if some government agency subpoenaed the thing, or government hackers managed to steal a copy. Hella ironic, also, too.

    Sounds like a job for Anonymous.

    I love the writing/acting in SoA but I watch it like a little girl at a horror movie. The plots are just so awful, one terrible thing after another.

    Also, too, remember Seventh Heaven? It shares something with that show: the primary plot driver is information control.

    Somebody knows something that someone else doesn’t, someone tries to keep someone else from finding out something, someone tells a stupid lie on the spur of the moment and then can’t/won’t come clean, someone is telling different things to two others to play them off against each other – etc. etc. For some reason I find it really hard to watch when the main hook is waiting for a house of cards to finally come crashing down.

  33. 33.

    wasabi gasp

    August 21, 2013 at 2:36 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual: Why the PowerPC love? Also, how practical is it to use one of those G4s today?

    I was just looking at my long silent G4 the other day and considering to update it and bring it back to life for some sort of task. But, while resurrecting an old Mac is an activity that I once would have enjoyed, nowadays I’m not so sure if I’m up for butting into incompatibility walls on the way to usefulness.

    I’ve gone through a bunch of Macs over the years. Tinkering and trying to do something with the older ones used to be fun, sometimes frustrating. Most enjoyable, but ultimately useless, was installing Debian on a nubus 8100.

  34. 34.

    Viva BisVegas

    August 21, 2013 at 2:48 am

    @NotMax:

    No interest in continuing watching when everyone on the screen is determinedly, relentlessly grim.

    It’s strange that the Walt Longmire of the books is a very droll character, with a wit drier than a Wyoming prairie in drought.

    Most of the other characters in the show are also very different to their literary counterparts.

  35. 35.

    Wally Ballou

    August 21, 2013 at 2:57 am

    Listening to a great baseball game. Indians-Angels tied 1-1 going into the 14th.

    Oh, and there’s a kitty sitting next to me.

  36. 36.

    ? Martin

    August 21, 2013 at 3:02 am

    @RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:

    Besides, I may bend a wrench here and there, but upgrading a Cube is serious business. I’d be at a loss to do that.

    Shame. I have 4 of them. They all work except the external power supplies are gone on 3.

  37. 37.

    Narcissus

    August 21, 2013 at 3:27 am

    @Joey Maloney: Three’s Company is the progenitor of this model.

    Also since BJ watches so much TV, if anyone cares Farscape (the best tv sci-fi ever) is back in syndication on the new channel Pivot.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    August 21, 2013 at 3:55 am

    @Narcissus

    The progenitor? Hardly. The trope is a hoary one in TV, film, radio and literature.

    Three’s Company, for example, was an American remake of a British series that had already ended its own long run on TV (plus a feature film) before the first U.S. episode aired..

  39. 39.

    Viva BrisVegas

    August 21, 2013 at 4:22 am

    @NotMax:

    Three’s Company, for example, was an American remake of a British series

    The British series was called Man About the House. It had a spinoff called George and Mildred, which was about a middle aged couple named the Ropers.

    So not only was the original copied, so was the spin-off.

    In my formative years I fancied Sally Thomsett something rotten.

  40. 40.

    Wally Ballou

    August 21, 2013 at 4:45 am

    @Viva BrisVegas: Don’t forget Robin’s Nest, which was itself Americanized as the short-lived Three’s a Crowd.

  41. 41.

    Botsplainer

    August 21, 2013 at 5:29 am

    We once went through a 5 ep marathon of Sons.

  42. 42.

    RobertB

    August 21, 2013 at 7:37 am

    I went through all 5 seasons of SoA in about a month. Kind of like dumbed-down Shakespeare, which works just fine for dumbed-down RobertB.

  43. 43.

    KCinDC

    August 21, 2013 at 7:47 am

    I stopped “Sons of Anarchy” after season 3. The whole trip to Ireland seemed like shark jumping, and of course a baby often means the ruination of a series. Does it get better again?

  44. 44.

    debbie

    August 21, 2013 at 8:00 am

    @KCinDC:

    I’ve binge-viewed SoA this summer. I’m now on the last episode of the 4th season. While I think the second season has been the sharpest, what follows after Ireland is indeed better. I caught myself thinking of Hamlet while watching it last night.

    But I agree, sometimes the violence is a bit much for me.

  45. 45.

    RobertB

    August 21, 2013 at 8:00 am

    @KCInDC: If I had to rank the seasons, it’d be 2-1-4-5-3.

  46. 46.

    AdamK

    August 21, 2013 at 8:04 am

    @sinned34: That’s terrible. There should be a law that says if your vacation gets messed up, you get a do-over.

  47. 47.

    BudP

    August 21, 2013 at 8:26 am

    Perlman is prolific and v. good on twitter @perlmutations

  48. 48.

    Larv

    August 21, 2013 at 8:38 am

    @gussie:

    I just netflixed the first season of Longmire. I thought it was entertaining, but I have to agree that Walt’s not a very likeable character. I mean, yeah, we get it – you’re tortured and grieving. But christ, could you lighten up about it? Anybody watch season 2? Does this improve at all?

    Also agree with KCinDC re SOA. Stopped watching after season 3; the whole Ireland thing was silly. If it really gets better, I may try season 4.

  49. 49.

    Chris

    August 21, 2013 at 9:09 am

    @KCinDC:

    Second the question. I watched Season 2 on Hulu, then gave up on Season 3 when they started airing it a month after its TV airdate and then, three episodes in, stopped airing it altogether for another month or so.

  50. 50.

    Jim Pharo

    August 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    “Peg Bundy” is beloved by tv people. Ken Levine’s blog often touches on just how impressive an actress she is…

    And if you’re not reading “By Ken Levine,” you’re missing out…

  51. 51.

    Watership

    August 22, 2013 at 2:33 am

    The wife has the crush on Jax. But, she says it’s only because he looks just like me at 20. Look at that … she’s trying to make me feel good.

    I’ve tried and tried to stay with it, but I think I gave up somewhere in late season 2 or maybe early season 3. Why are their promos for the upcoming season so much better than the actual show?

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