Went to a concert at a local venue last night and saw Eilen Jewell, who is fabulous: Check her out if you get a chance. The song “High Shelf Booze” is a good place to start. She also does excellent Loretta Lynn covers.
We’re lounging around half watching Iggles vs Cowboys and half reading books. What are you up to this evening?
PS: I’m not your mother, so I’m not going to tell you to quit leaving Troll Kibble out in a saucer by the door. We’re all grown-ups here. Supply and demand. Just saying!
Corner Stone
Living the dream!
ruemara
I am installing a new printer. After 6, 7? I dunno, years, the old HP can’t find a sheet of paper in it’s highly filled sheet feeder. And then back to work trying to find actors.
It is really looking like the short film project is a bust for next month. But the shorter film I can probably do. What does it say that a romance can’t get off the ground but a dumb gun project can? And I’m going to be the big obstacle because I refuse to hand over director reins.
I might head out to kickboxing.
Corner Stone
What I will be doing tonight is wondering why the Texans need four or five defensive players to put their hands on an offensive player for the other team before they ever actually get tackled or pushed out of bounds.
Today concluded two of the worst displays of team tackling I have ever seen.
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?
Germy Shoemangler
My Mrs. has prepared curry chicken with roti. Delicious. Watching the first episode of “Black Jesus” from season two. Jesus has been released from the mental hospital and is reunited with his friends.
raven
@Corner Stone: How bout telling us about the Gamecocks too?
Corner Stone
@Germy Shoemangler: I’m either making Naan bread pizza tonight or rye bread HBLTs. So I’m witcha.
ETA, the extra H is for Ham. Just some simple little Ham that you may find stunning to add.
Germy Shoemangler
@Corner Stone: Nice skills you got! Naan bread pizza.
Mrs. Shoemangler makes roti and dahl puri. I can cook basic stuff for us, but she’s the creative chef in our house.
Corner Stone
@Germy Shoemangler: To be clear, I buy the Naan fresh from a local place and then add my desired ingredients to it and make single serving pizza in a conventional oven.
It is quite delicious, as you’d expect, but not to mislead as I don’t make my own Naan.
jeffreyw
Struggling to get windows 10 activated on an old Dell 530. Rolled back to win7 twice, bastards tell me to activate now but when I click it it tells me it can’t do that. Calls to MS support not useful. Last guy said let it go for 48 hours and it should be OK.
I console myself with ribs and fries.
Germy Shoemangler
Anyone else here been following Black Jesus? Created by Mcgruder, Boondocks cartoonist.
Steeplejack
Reading the Interwebs and suffering through an NFL Sunday in our nation’s capital: Redskins at 1:00, Ravens at 4:00. It’s so awesome to have two home teams. At least tonight it’s the Seahawks and Packers.
The weather is beautiful, and I’ve got the windows open, so there’s that. Late summer in NoVA: sunny and 79°, humidity only 40 percent. I just finished an early dinner of the chicken parm that didn’t make it to dinner last night, and I’m sipping on a bottle of red plonk. Housecat is dozing at her workstation. All is calm.
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone:
I’m an eggman, myself.
Germy Shoemangler
What is stitcher and why does it leave cookies in my computer every time I visit balloon-juice?
shell
@ruemara: I’m in the market too, My old HP insists theres always a paper jam, though of course, theres nothing there.
What model did you get?
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
Your housecat is watching Jeb’s speech?
Betty Cracker
@raven: I missed the game, but saw the score updates throughout the evening. Ugly if you’re a ‘Cocks fan! My old grandma (USC class of ’39) was no doubt pissed!
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: I love a fried egg on a sammich. I make a slightly different version of that EBLT, usually drop the L and add a slice of cheese.
Schlemazel
@Germy Shoemangler:
Of course not! Jesus is a blue eyed blond not black! I know this for a fact because I saw his picture at church.
Corner Stone
Tony Romo, you suck.
ThresherK (GPad)
Making a Black Forest cake for Spousal TK’s birthday. The cake is a bit overdue, but her present and card were on time. Best part is how I poached native cherries in season and froze them.
Corner Stone
It’s good to see L Fitz having an impact again. Three TDs is pretty nice any way you get them and he freakin’ earned his today.
TheMightyTrowel
Spent the weekend writing a last minute grant app because my research office were too incompetent to notify me it had opened for applications until a week before it was due. SIGH. It’s a long shot but it would find three years of research with no teaching.
WereBear
@Germy Shoemangler: so indebted to you re: that cat circus ad. Made it into a Dear Pammy post appearing on Wednesday. Thanks!
ruemara
@shell: I went with a Brother MFC-J470dw. The size was smaller, I’ve never used a usb or media port on a printer and all I want is fast, good quality and max size of legal.
edited to reflect that: this model is currently $50 at OfficeMax/Depot. 49.99 off standard $99
srv
@jeffreyw: Free big green egg brisket and beer for me.
So much of success is just showing up. I should be wiring and insulating a pal’s attic right now, but cook’s morning projects first contact with reality were catastrophes.
Me
Just got back from Bryan Ferry!
An amazing show.
Schlemazel
Since this seems to have turned into a food thread I made a green pea curry with panier and a sausage with pepper onion and tomato pasta dish and divided those into portions for lunch the next couple of weeks. We got some great red bell peppers from the farm today so I am making stuffed peppers with Italian sausage and rice for dinner tonight.
The green pea curry turned out exceptionally well but all that sort of shot a beautiful late summer day.
Corner Stone
BS penalty garbage. He was still fighting for positive yardage.
sharl
@Germy Shoemangler: Stitcher is the app that Elon James White uses when he embeds his “This Week in Blackness” podcasts here.
ETA: speling korrected, gud naow
raven
@Betty Cracker: We knew going in the sucked but they’ve sucked before and still beaten us. People were all freaked out about Lambert and all he did was set an NCAA passing record with 23 of of 24 and 20 straight. I don’t know if Bama getting beat makes me feel better or worse about two weeks from now. I’m holding my breath to see when game time is. If it’s the night game I’m cooked since we’ll be at the damn wedding in LA. My sis told me this week the wedding was originally the 26th of Sept and they changed it.
MomSense
@ruemara:
I miss taking kickboxing. Some days punching and kicking is good, really good.
What kind of actors are you looking for?
srv
@sharl: No, that’s Post Doubler.
Full metal Wingnut
Making some pork. Been a lazy Sunday. Wife wasn’t feeling well so we didn’t go to the Brooklyn Book Festival as we had planned.
Rereading The Brothers K while I wait for the stuff to finish roasting and my wife naps. Going back and forth between two translations-not a huge fan of the Pevear and Volokhonsky-feels a little too clunky and hard to read for me. David Foster Wallace made a good point here-I’m paraphrasing, but he said that Russian is an inflected language-so translators are already messing with the syntax when translating sentences into uninflected English. And yet the P/V M.O. seems to be “scrupulously literal” even if clunky. So I’m reading the MacAndrew translation, which is much easier going, if much more Americanized (including no patronymics). Anyway, I don’t know Russian, so I’ll just read the one that reads the smoothest. Granted, the P/V reads prettier during the best parts, like the Grand Inquisitor chapter-the MacAndrew is much more utilitarian. But whatever. I don’t care anymore.
dexwood
Emptying a growler of the best local IPA to be had in my town while looking at the new security doors I should be installing front and back, but fuck it, replacing tub faucet stems – cold, hot, diverter – was enough for one afternoon.
Corner Stone
That looks like a loose ball, not an incomplete fwd pass.
ETA, ok, just moving fwd enough and past the start line.
NotMax
@jeffreyw
If one may be so bold, why? If Win 7 is working and doing what you want, let it be. Or at least wait a few months until the installation/integration problems with Win 7 machines are better resolved.
Win 8 (any version) to Win 10 is nearly seamless; advice to those with Win 7 is to wait. And for anyone, with any existing OS, backup vital data before tackling Win 10.
ruemara
@MomSense: I need 4 men, including 2 male romantic leads. One bombastic, old school theatre type guy and one ridiculously good looking guy to play a stereotype. Based on the response, Northern California is all black women over 30. No one else. Between this and still looking for some people to crew, I’m at my wits end.
Kickboxing is still awesome. Join us, we have side to side roundhouses.
Heliopause
Oh, are they playing? What network? FOX is showing a referee flag-throwing competition.
shell
Keep beating that horse. CNN is repeating the GOP debate tonight. Who they heck do they think is gonna sit thru three hours of that again? Need to fill the space, just rerun some Anthony Bourdain.
Corner Stone
@Heliopause: Wait a second. They’re actually playing this game in PHI?!
NotMax
@shell
Shall await release of the director’s cut. :)
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Open thread? Iggy. Muppet. Socks.
Just got back from riding the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Byway to Gaffney (yesterday) and back (today). Badly needed the time on the motorcycle. Now I have a mad urge to watch the Peachoid episode of House of Cards, so I shall do that.
By the way, if you know any truck drivers, please remind them not to tailgate motorcyclists like that assclown on 85 South did to me a couple of hours back. Thanks.
Corner Stone
Holy shit. Where they did they get these refs from?
Morzer
@shell:
Satisfied HP shareowners? Patriots’ Quarterbacks for the Donald?
NotMax
Mmmm. A couple of these and fresh black coffee. What a civilized way to start the day.
MomSense
@ruemara:
Oh fun!
Hmm, my middle son modeled for a book cover (about a famous rocker when he was young) but he isn’t close enough and he is more the dark and stormy type. My oldest has a couple of friends in LA but they wouldn’t fit the characters. I’ll ask my kids if they know anyone, though.
Would the dreaded book of faces help you find some actors?
PurpleGirl
I’ve been reading the blog, listening to music (some Celtic music based on Scots folk themes) and watching the kitten cam of LAPS (Langley Animal Protection Society). Langley is in British Columbia and is the shelter that Shelly has fostered for. They now have their own kitten cam and they are currently showing a momcat who had 4 kittens of her own and then also adopted 6 itty bitty orphans. Zelda (the momcat) is doing a great job with all 10 kittens — feeding and baffing them, loving them. So great to watch.
The rescuer I know in CT hasn’t started her cam again yet — she recently moved into her own house and is still getting settled in. She’s come home from work a few times to find that kittens/cats have loose and are wandering around outside. Luckily she has neighbors who like cats and watch out for the kittens/cats.
Morzer
For those who like animal cams, this is a pretty nice portal:
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/river-watch-brown-bear-salmon-cams
Steeplejack
This just in: Trump scheduled on Colbert’s show Tuesday night.
Betty Cracker
@Morzer: OMG, the Great Dane nursery cam!
Esme's Mom
Gorgeous today. The near future is Seahawks v Packers in a couple of hours, with contented doggie snore soundtrack assist.
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
Sometimes you eat the Colbert and sometimes the Colbert eats you.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Michelle Obama scheduled for Sept. 28.
(BJ-ers can practice their invective and expectoration skills on the 24th, when Andrew Sullivan will be in the guest chair.)
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
There’s an amazing amount of really fun stuff accessible through that site. I should have guessed that the hounds would be your thang.
gogol's wife
@Full metal Wingnut:
You are so right about P&V.
MacAndrew was a talented translator, but he does fudge a bit too much.
There’s no perfect BK. I use Ignat Avsey (Oxford) to teach from because it’s pretty accurate and reads smoothly. But I’m not in love with it.
Schlemazel
@Steeplejack:
Had the Dump been on the old show I would have stayed up to watch. This one . . . probably won’t even DVR it. I didn’t expect the old SC on the new show but I expected better than what it has been. I thought I might skip 5-6 months and hope he settles in and develops. Interviews used to be a strong point even playing the character but the new ones are just painful
Betty Cracker
Jesus, Iggles.
Morzer
@NotMax:
Sullivan is still alive? I thought he’d retired to a monastery and died in the odor of self-sanctity.
Gimlet
Not sure if the rise of Fiorina represents the media finally retaking control of the primary process after Trump wrested it from them or if they are reporting on an independent event (or both).
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
That should be fun. But I’ll be in bed.
ruemara
@MomSense: Been all over the local groups. decidedly silent.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@ruemara:
If school is back in session, you may want to put some flyers up around the drama department. Even if the students aren’t the right age, some of the profs may be, or may know of people.
WaterGirl
@Germy Shoemangler: I just left you a long answer to your question to me on the previous thread – before I realized it was probably dead.
Steeplejack
@shell:
I used to be a fanatical HP printer man. Years ago I foolishly gave a LaserJet 5L to a (now ex-)girlfriend, and it’s still going strong. Damn. A few years ago I bought a Brother HL-5370DW and have been very happy with it, although it is kind of amazing how rarely I have to print anything. I guess the paperless office did get here after all (for certain values of “office”).
I don’t think the 5370 is available any more, or if it is it’s probably commanding OCD-collector prices. If I was shopping now, I would look for the cheapest Brother laser printer with the features I wanted. (I wanted duplex printing and didn’t care about networking.)
Chyron HR
@shell:
“We’re going to keep airing it until the polls say what we want them to.”
Morzer
@Gimlet:
I think it’s just another clown in the big kids’ car, plus Trump overdoing it again and having an awkward moment. I doubt that it means more than that. Recent polls have Fiorina rising at the expense of the non-Trump voting blocs, while the Donald waddles on mostly unaffected. I suspect Snarly Fakerina isn’t going to weather scrutiny of her corporate counter-tops too well either.
NotMax
For those who watched the Disney thing on PBS, a review by someone who did have an appearance in the program but also worked at and for Disney (unlike most of those involved in the production).
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Housecat doesn’t do politics. Her interests run to gourmet cat food and research in deep delta sleep cycles for life extension.
ETA: Also deep tissue massage for quality-of-life enhancement. She’s very holistic.
Morzer
@Chyron HR:
Waterboard the polls!
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@WereBear:
I remember Penn & Teller had a cat circus act on one of their variety shows in the 90s. Penn said something like, This is the most patient man IN THE WORLD!
Apparently it’s still a big thing in Russia. Because you’ve gotta have something to occupy your time during those long Russian winters.
the Conster
@Me:
I saw him a few years ago, and I fell in love all over again. He was wearing a gray shark skin suit – so tall and handsome, and hasn’t lost a beat or anything in his voice. Roxy Music was huge to me when it was new, and he’s still special. [[sigh]]
the Conster
Just got back from a week in Santa Fe, where you eat Hatch green chiles on everything. They’re not exported and it’s the harvest now, so I ate them every day three meals a day. Nothing like ’em.
Mike in NC
@Schlemazel: Bus tours of historic Charleston, SC now include a mention of the home in which Colbert grew up, near the Battery.
WaterGirl
I’m 2/3 of the way through the month and 9/10 of the way through my food budget, so it’s tortellini soup for dinner.
I saute onions and celery and spicy peppers from my garden, then add chicken broth and rotel and cheese tortellini. It keeps pretty well in the fridge as long as you separate the broth from the tortellini.
RK
Ben Carson “would would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”
Steeplejack
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA:
At least they’re getting along.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Did the same when first got a Win 7 machine and discovered there were no compatible drivers for my then extant printer (which had weathered Win 95, Win 98 and XP just fine).
As have no need for color printing, went with the laser monochrome Brother HL-2140 (model since discontinued). No complaints or negatives. IIRC, was on sale at Office Max for seventy smackeroos. Still using the original toner cartridge.
Eric U.
Eilen Jewel gave a concert here, but I found out about it the day afterwards. And I was out of town anyway.
Anoniminous
@the Conster:
Have the tourists gone? We want to take a run up and see the Georgia O’Keeffe museum.
But not in tourist season.
PurpleGirl
@Morzer: I bookmarked the site to explore later. Although I’ve concentrated on kitten cams, I’m open to seeing any itty bitty baby animals.
debbie
@Steeplejack:
I bought an HP LaserJet 4MP in late 1995. It’d still be going if I used a printer. Not even HP makes HP printers like they used to.
rikyrah
@Germy Shoemangler:
I thought Black Jesus was hilarious.
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
I have to admit I have been a little nervous about the new Colbert show. I keep telling myself that he is a comedy genius, that it’s going to take a while to gel, etc., etc., but so far I haven’t seen much to allay my fears that he will be round-hole-square-pegged into the big-network late-night template, i.e., gently put America to sleep. Trying to keep an open mind, though.
rikyrah
@Germy Shoemangler:
The funniest episode for me last season is when Jesus convinced everyone else to cut in the gang members in on the profits for the garden. I have played the last few minutes of that episode over and over and it cracks me up everytime.
PurpleGirl
@Steeplejack: Way back (1995?) I bought an HP 1000 series Laserjet, which was on sale at Staples. It’s still going strong. I don’t use it very much but it’s still good and I see no reason to change at this point.
ETA: Actually everything I have is on the old side — peripherals and software — and does what I want them to do. I’m still using WinXP and I’ll upgrade when I get a new computer.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@NotMax:
I’ve met Floyd, though he probably wouldn’t remember me. IMO, one of the biggest problems with talking about Walt Disney as a person is that both the company and the family have been almost insanely protective of his image, which naturally leads people to want to poke holes in that image as a corrective.
As far as I can tell, Walt wasn’t a saint, and he wasn’t a monster. He was very much a product of his upbringing and his times, with all of the good and bad that implies. A lot of Disney partisans HATE Neal Gabler with a passion because he was the first one to give credence to the claim that Walt was an anti-Semite, even though Gabler retracted that statement when he did a full biography of Walt.
Richard Schickel is a pompous ass, though, and I have no idea what he was doing onscreen as a supposed expert on animation.
Steeplejack
@debbie:
That’s why I made the move to Brother. Thanks, Carly!
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: I don’t know who the guy is whose show leads into the Larry Wilmore show, but man, the 10 seconds of that guy makes it seem like he’s a carnival barker, just really loud and awful.
I, too, fear that Colbert will be wasted in this environment. He seems pretty enchanted with all the bling that comes with his new show. What do you think of the band?
the Conster
@Anoniminous:
Yes. Get thee there, soon. Fiesta concluded on Sunday with the parade celebrating the Conquistadores’ “peaceful conquest” [[!!!!!!]] of the Pueblo Indians which was a total hoot. A large marching contingent of all white “pro-life” men holding signs showing aborted fetuses was heartily booed (by me, amongst others), and for all you Bernie fans, so were the all white Berniebots who featured a giant puppet (of course!). The Obamanos! signs are still largely present there, but faded.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@PurpleGirl:
I assume you already have Zoo Borns bookmarked, but just in case:
http://www.zooborns.com
redshirt
@the Conster: I spent a season of extreme poverty in Albuquerque and a trip to Santa Fe was like an excursion of extreme luxury.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Baud
@the Conster:
(WTF?)^2
ruemara
@Me: Me, jealous of you.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (tablet): No. Thanks for the link.
Baud
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
I have that bookmarked, but I haven’t looked at it in a while. But very cute
jeffreyw
@NotMax: Everyone needs a hobby, I have about a dozen windows machines around that need regular tending. The Dell is my oldest, and the last update announced win10 was ready to go on it, I went. I force fed 10 to my kitchen recipe machine before it was ready and had some video driver issues that I resolved, the back garage gigabyte Brix core i3 desktop upgraded without a hitch. The basement machines are one for three, win 10 on this one (the Dell), 8.1 on my pet machine, win 7 yet on a really obsolete atom powered nettop that Mrs J has to watch youtubes on when she needs sewing instructions.
Keith G
@Morzer: Bless you. I am suffering through the onset of a cold. Watching a live stream of a puppy pile has pushed away any attention to most of the symptoms.
redshirt
@jeffreyw: Why do you have 10 PCs?
Morzer
@Keith G:
Glad to have helped. I’ve been fighting some vicious sinusitis and any distraction was most welcome.
the Conster
@Baud:
Santa Fe has 2 icons – Saint Francis and Our Lady of Guadalupe, who duke it out for the tourist dollars and the rights to name and march. Guess who wins? Catholic men.
Betty Cracker
OMFG. I’m slogging my way through Franzen’s “Purity.” (I know I’m not the only sufferer here.) I made the transition from dead-tree books to ebooks seamlessly. But reading this goddamned abortion points out a disadvantage to electronic form I hadn’t considered before: Concern for my iPad prevents me from hurling this piece of shit book across the room.
Anoniminous
@the Conster:
Thanks.
I’d comment about the rest but I’ve got to run.
Gin & Tonic
@the Conster: I’m going to be in New Mexico on Wednesday. Sounds like I have to check that out.
Baud
@the Conster:
I’ve never been to New Mexico. Hope to make it one day.
Me
@the Conster: I saw Roxy Music in Vancouver a dozen years ago, and they were amazing. So much energy! He was a little lower energy until the end this time, and the show was much shorter, but the showmanship was perfect. Bah, I should go to bed- I have an early meeting. But I’m still wide awake. :)
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
Did you run out of hairshirts and cilices?
PurpleGirl
@Keith G: There are a number of kitten cam watchers who refer to the kittens are therapy and their needing kitten therapy on a regular basis to remain sane. Sometimes when the politics gets too weird I go to the kittens to calm down.
For those who remember, I met an older cat through La Caterina but the cat and I didn’t quite hit it off. Also my apartment needs a lot of cleaning and decluttering before I can think about bringing in a cat. So animal cams keep me in contact with animals.
the Conster
@Gin & Tonic:
where?
redshirt
@Me: What time is your meeting?
the Conster
@Baud:
It’s a must. If you can pick your time, go to see Zozobra – an iconic event of all time there and anywhere.
PaulW
Bucs won, which was nice.
The Doctor screwed up the timeline, which was not.
My superhero novella story still needs work and a beta reader to make sure I’m not screwing up the grammar.
Gravenstone
@RK: Ya know, it’d be nice if these morons would actually read the Constitution that they claim to love so much.
Baud
@the Conster: Thanks. My bucket list is getting long.
Baud
@Gravenstone:
The 13th Amendment would just depress them.
Helen
For all of you Downton Abbey fans – Series 6, episode 1 aired in the UK tonight, so be on the lookout for internet spoliers if you don’t want to know.
January 3rd for us.
jeffreyw
@redshirt: I went on a building binge, I wanted one in every room that had a TV and I refuse to toss working machines. Like I said, a hobby. I did sell an older laptop real cheap to a deserving (I thought) party. I wish I had it back now.
the Conster
@redshirt:
I’ve been going regularly since 1981, whenI lived for several months with a friend in the barrio, downtown. Santa Fe is one of many poster children for income inequality, but with beauty to offer for everyone. Real beauty.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Also, it’s harder to get a feel for “How much farther do I have to go with this piece of shit?” Looking at “page 289 of 364” is not as satisfying as feeling more pages on the left than on the right.
Corner Stone
It looks like PHI just does not want to win this game, after all.
Still think these refs are originally from the great state of TX.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
No strong opinion on the band either way so far. Still too busy fretting about the mortal danger to Colbert’s soul.
workworkwork
Our youngest kitty is doing better after her dental surgery last week. She doesn’t cry at night anymore, she’s much more affectionate and she’s even stopped drooling. We should have gotten this done months ago.
In the meantime, I just re-heated some hummus baked chicken and roasted carrots for our dinner and then it’s off to work on my course design document which is due tomorrow.
We saw “Grandma” yesterday. It’s a surprisingly complex film. The trailer makes it look like a comedy and it stars Lily Tomlin so that impression might seem justified. But it’s a dark comedy and the characters have some complicated relationships that don’t all necessarily get resolved. It’s also Sam Elliot’s best role, in my opinion. He finally breaks out of the the ‘wise old cowboy’ typecasting.
I can also recommend “Learning to Drive” with Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson.
Plus, paying the extra four bucks to get rid of the ads on Hulu? Totally worth it.
shell
I do a lot of printing; reference images for my illustrations. And printing out samples to send to art directors. It can be frustrating. I can understand directors not wanting to open attachments. But they wont even accept a link to my online portfolio. So still have to do a lot of snail mail.
Keith G
I was watching one such stream earlier and had to quickly mute the volume as my two girls (gray tabby sisters) came running into the room all, Where? Who? How? !!
Corner Stone
@workworkwork:
I already paid the extra money to not have ads on Hulu. But somehow they still stuck ads on there.
Corner Stone
HP is still the class of personal and workgroup printers.
Corner Stone
Welp. See you later, Iggles.
shell
@workworkwork: Watched ‘Exodus:Gods and Kings’, Ridley Scotts take on HBO last night. Oh Lord, it was pretty awful. First off, it was like somebody splashed mud on the camera lens and nobody bothered to clean it off.
‘Realistic’ explanations for the Plagues. God as a pouty, sullen faced 10 year old.
Corner Stone
I so did not need to see Norm McDonald in full length underwear for the KFC commercial series.
Just sharing that image with those of you who may not be watching the DAL-PHI debacle.
raven
@Helen: Ha, spoliers of that dopey soaper!
Morzer
@shell:
Well, they got something right then.
BruceFromOhio
@Corner Stone: Or Dallas decided it wanted to win veeeeery slooooooooooooowly.
Steeplejack
@shell:
I did a quick check on Amazon, and this looks like the successor to my old (2011) Brother 5370: the HL-5470DW ($170). There’s a good comparison down the page to a few other models; the HL-5450DN ($145) also looks worthwhile. Read the reviews and see what you think.
redshirt
@the Conster:
Indeed. Santa Fe is magical.
raven
Apple just went to 50GB for $0.99 per month for iCloud!
Keith G
@Keith G: Whoops, I forgot the @PurpleGirl: tag.
The meds are kicking in.
SiubhanDuinne (phone)
downloaded the new iPad software update today. Now everything is fucked and I can’t turn it on. Of course it’s Sunday so repair sèvice places are closed. Know wjat I ll be doing tomorrow
Morning. Dammit dammit dammit
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Hey, would you rather go back to Darrell Hammond and his creepy perv voice? I think not.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne (phone):
Which iPad model do you have? Asking for a friend.
redshirt
I liked living in New Mexico solely for the fact that anytime anyone asked where you were from they assumed Mexico, until you corrected them.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: I just think whoever designed and/or approved this whole KFC commercial series reboot is a deeply disturbed individual.
Keith G
@shell:
Sounds about right.
Steeplejack
It appears the Ravens are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
No argument here.
Helen
@raven:
Oh you’re such a elitist!! ;)
I love it because it’s good, escapist TV. You can just veg in front of it. Great for a Sunday night.
RK
The Colbert Report was funny because it was searing, unflinching political satire so call me unsurprised if his new show is nothing to write home about.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne (phone): Plug it into your computer.
Baud
@shell:
I just watched it also. I liked the scenery.
raven
@Helen: Yea, I love it when the dopes leave our Super Bowl party to watch it!
raven
@SiubhanDuinne (phone):
Baud
@raven:
At what point in the process do you sacrifice a goat to the spirit of Steve Jobs?
raven
@SiubhanDuinne (phone): 2. Plug into a wall outlet
“This sounds silly but it’s worked for some people: plug in. It’s possible that, during the install process, your iPhone or iPad dipped below a critical power level and that’s why it’s gotten finicky. Find an outlet or USB port, plug in, and wait 10-15 minutes. Then, see if it resumes and try a hard reset to make sure.!”
RK
Is The Road worth watching? Anyone want to recommend a good off-center movie worth watching?
raven
@Baud: Wasn’t any problem for me on multiple machines.
Full metal Wingnut
@gogol’s wife: great username! I’m glad someone who actually teaches it agrees with me. Yeah, I read Magarshack waaaayyyy back in the day, before P/V came out (the days of political and fashion darkness…the 80s!) It was a Penguin paperback, I believe, but I checked on Amazon and now Penguin is using a different translator!
With the P/V, I started reading, had to reread and reread. I’d finish a chapter and think “Wtf? Have I gotten stupider?” And then I read another translation and I get it. The academy may love them, but I suspect there are dissenting opinions.
Funny enough, I find their Tolstoy (at least Anna Karenina) readable, though I can’t speak of fidelity. I wonder if they just don’t “get” Dostoevsky. But I am just a pleasure reader so what do I know.
raven
@RK: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Phylllis
@Betty Cracker: Right up there with the complete lack of satisfaction from…tapping your phone to end a call that deserves a good slamming down of the receiver.
Baud
@raven:
You got your sacrifice in before you updated.
Morzer
Looks like even George Stephanopoulos flashed a fang at Trump:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/doanld-trump-barack-obama-muslim
Donald Trump, straight-talkin’ portrait of courage, fleeing from the Little Chihuahua That Could. How… unexpected.
Steeplejack
@Phylllis:
LOL. So true.
Julia
I feel your pain, Ms. Cracker! I’m trying to make myself read “Purity” and it is a tough go. I bought the hardback, though, so I have to finish it to justify the cost. I actually really liked “The Corrections” and “Freedom” so am mightily disappointed. Everything about this book seems false and forced. Boring, too!
Morzer
And this is just sooooo Lady B Cool Cracker:
http://gawker.com/florida-dogs-keep-cool-1731958748
SiubhanDuinne (phone)
@Steeplejack:
iPad Air. Don’t know mofel number
Morzer
@Julia:
Are there no local wingnuts to beat to death under cover of darkness?
gelfling545
So apparently this is going to happen. In March I am going to Paris with my 17 year old granddaughter for a week. It’s a celebration of my 65th (already happened) and her 18th (yet to be) birthdays. I’m excited but also feeling a bit intimidated as some quick math tells me I was last there 45 years ago.
Keith G
@RK: Re : The Late Show…I like the show, but god knows what it’s structure will be in 3 months or a year. I like it for the reasons that he may be told to revamp it.
At it’s core, it is not trying to be a bit generator. It’s as if he his pushing back on the idea that everything must be Buzz Feed bate.
God forbid, his interviews are thoughtful and informative. Certainly, that will be the kiss of death.
Full metal Wingnut
@Steeplejack: Something happened to HP printers sometime back in the aughts. Hell, HP hardware in general. Used to be solid, now I refuse to buy it. Hell, I wouldn’t take an HP printer if Best Buy were giving them away. Maybe I’d take it and resell to some sucker. I’ve been a Canon printer man since around 08, but I just bought a new Brother laser printer for my office, so we’ll see if my loyalties shift.
SiubhanDuinne (phone)
@raven:
Thx will try that
RK
@raven: Saw it and liked it.
gogol's wife
@Full metal Wingnut:
When it came out I ordered it sight unseen because I respected the people who blurbed it. Then I sat down and read the first page and said, “My God, no one who isn’t reading the Russian alongside is going to be able to understand this!” So I had to change my book order, and I’ve never looked back.
The Anna Karenina is better, but I didn’t see any need to abandon the Maudes. They make mistakes, but their translation has some style to it.
jeffreyw
@RK:
Borgman
Steeplejack
I belatedly discovered that I could have been watching the Dallas-Philadelphia game, but, based on the last few minutes, the Ravens-Raiders game wasn’t so awful after all.
Baud
@gelfling545: Paris is timeless. What a wonderful trip. Enjoy!
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne (phone):
Cool. I’ll look up the mofel number.
gogol's wife
Okay, I know there are a lot of TCM aficionados here. Do you have the problem with TCM HD that the sound is out of synch? It happens every couple of days (it’s happening right now) and it drives me crazy. I have to watch non-HD, and that’s a drag. I sent a message on their website (it’s them, because it’s not any of the other channels), but got no answer.
raven
New Call The Midwife on Nexflix!
RK
@jeffreyw: Okay, thanks. I’ll give it a watch.
Steeplejack
@gelfling545:
Steel yourself: the Parisian women are all old and ugly now. But still stylish.
Morzer
@gogol’s wife:
I quite like the War and Peace and Anna Karenina translations, although the older ones were perfectly serviceable. I am still a fan of the Penguin Turgenev translations and I think PV were wise to decide not to translate Turgenev. I suspect that Pevear overestimates his own knowledge of and capacity for good English style.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@SiubhanDuinne (phone): I’m reading this on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. After I updated to IOS8, the iPad Air web surfing experience was frustrating as hell, and I couldn’t figure out how to make it stop constantly refreshing, or asking me to sign in to iCloud or whatever PITA popups kept interrupting when I was trying to read. I finally gave up and got the cheap Samsung tablet, and I’m happy again.
I’m still on 7 on my iPhone 5s, and in no rush to change that.
Comrade Dread
Well, I was expecting it since this whole affair started, still sometimes I am rather disappointed in how often the jaded cynic in me is validated by events in the world.
Seven figure book deal.
Jesus would be so fucking proud.
I think I’m officially dropping the Christian moniker now and calling myself a religious humanist.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
You would not, let me repeat that, would not have lasted an hour watching that game.
Morzer
I note that Richard Dawkins is fighting hard to retain his World’s Creepiest Egomaniac crown by bashing Ahmed on Twitter. He and Bill Maher should just get it over with and officially shack up together in a private sanatorium.
Steeplejack
@gogol’s wife:
I haven’t noticed that problem. I do tend to watch (or record) the HD channel only when the movie is widescreen. (It’s a longstanding habit because when recording to the DVR the HD version of a movie takes up a lot more space even if the movie is not widescreen.)
I will observe and report.
Morzer
@Comrade Dread:
There’s snakeoil in them there wingnut hills, sure as I am standin’ before ye.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
LO-fucking-L!
Corner Stone
I really enjoy Rodney Harrison as a TV NFL analyst.
shell
@Comrade Dread: Im a Survivor? Seriously? I think people with cancer and rape victims might have something to say about that.
God, this woman is pure unadulterated grift.
Lets hope it sells as well as Palins little Christmas book did.
Morzer
@shell:
She should just call it Going ‘Phobe and leave it at that.
gene108
@Corner Stone:
I listened to the first half at work.
I watched the second half at home.
Now I want to break things.
gogol's wife
@Morzer:
My biggest problem with them is the hype. They’re no better than any number of translators who get no publicity. And in their glory days he would trash other translators by name in his interviews. And I have no use for people who sneer at Constance Garnett (maybe Nabokov can get away with it, but everyone else should just shut up).
RK
@Corner Stone: Harrison was voted the “dirtiest player” in the NFL by his peers according to a 2004 poll conducted by Sports Illustrated. In 2006, Harrison once again topped the “dirtiest player” voting by 361 other NFL players.[11] In 2008, NFL coaches awarded the title to Harrison in an anonymous poll conducted by ESPN.[12] He has also been fined and suspended multiple times, and as of 2002, had racked up over $200,000 in fines by the NFL. A notable suspension occurred in 2002 after a helmet-to-helmet hit on the Oakland Raiders’ Jerry Rice.
jeffreyw
@Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: I’ll second the rec for the Samsung Tab 4, Verizon had a special on the LTE version when I bought my S6 so I snagged one. It’s not top of the line but works great for reading blogs and the Android Kindle app is OK.
the Conster
@redshirt:
New Mexico: Cleaner than Old Mexico
Goblue72
Recovering from Oakland’s Eat Real Festival – highlights included Korean BBQ Chicken & Waffles, Cardamom Donut Kebabs, Beef Pho Rice Noodle rolls, San Diego style Carne Asada Fries, Dungeness Crab Cakes, and some tasty paella. Plenty of craft brews and handmade cocktails to wash it down. If you are in the Bay Area, check it out next year,
Also too – wallowing in the pleasure of watching the Pats smack Rex Ryan in the mouth. Manning Face looks even better on Ryan.
Corner Stone
@RK: Hence the “TV analyst” part.
Corner Stone
@Goblue72:
[Homer donut noises]
You bastid.
RK
Okay, since a few of you seem to know Russian literature can you tell me if I’m off in thinking Crime and Punishment is incredibly dull. I’ve read about 40 pages and it’s work.
NotMax
@gogol’s wife
At least one recent forum includes others with the same problem, all of whom seem to have Comcast cable, so that may be where your complaint contacts should be addressed if you’re on Comcast service.
Corner Stone
This.Is.Almost.Sparta?
Baud
Andy Samberg sucks so far.
Or I’m just grumpy
Or both.
Morzer
@gogol’s wife:
I honestly don’t get the hype. I have seen nothing in Pevear to make me think that he’s anything other than an average stylist in English, so why he thinks he’s entitled to talk smack about people who did good work in much tougher circumstances, I really don’t know.
Goblue72
@RK: He’s also a 2-time Pro Bowl, 4 time All Pro, 2 SB rings, one of 12 members of the 20/20 club, first 30/30, and has the most sacks of any DB in NFL history.
Keith G
@RK: It’s a Russian novel, yes?
As explanation…I was assigned, The Idiot, for a class some 30 years ago. Never forgave that professor. Never.
Betty Cracker
@raven & @SiubhanDuinne (phone): : I’m in iOS 9 hell with my iPhone (iPad is okay). I tried the fix Raven posted but have the Find app on my phone, so I’m screwed, at least until I have time to devote to getting Apple to help me recover my data. For now my phone is running as if if it were freshly unboxed. I read somewhere that this problem only hits people who skipped an update. Don’t know if that’s true.
@Julia: Right — boring is its worst sin. I liked “The Corrections” well enough and loved “Freedom,” so I’m disappointed too. It seems like he’s working out some issues he has with people in this book…boring-ass issues that I hope he gets completely out of his fucking system so he can write something interesting again.
@Morzer: Ha! My dogs would require more sunstantial floats than those purse rats!
Peej01
I upgraded to Windows 10 on my desktop on Friday with no problems from Windows 7…up next is my laptop. But there’s no way I’m upgrading either of my apple devices to iOS 9 any time soon. I’m usually 2 releases behind on that OS.
Goblue72
@Corner Stone:
Also: Earl Grey chocolate ganache zeppole, ice cream tacos & chiccarone sundaes
RK
@Goblue72: No doubt those numbers were helped by Belicheat’s system.
@Keith G: Yeah. While I can see it being interesting for readers at the time, I’m finding it a boring slog.
Morzer
@Keith G:
If Obama had really wanted Russian novels to be entertaining, he could have got it, but he didn’t even try. He just caved in to Big Lit immediately, despite having bigger majorities in the House and Senate than FDR and LBJ combined.
Betty Cracker
@RK: For my money, “Crime and Punishment” is Dostoyevski’s greatest novel.
raven
@Morzer: Fuck LBJ.
Keith G
@Morzer: Yup, I hear you. He acted like his heart just wasn’t in it.
He does that sometimes.
PurpleGirl
@Comrade Dread: I wonder is she going to explain how you marry the same man twice and yet have a child by a man that you’re not married to. I know, I know, a Christian should forgive her her transgression but it still looks slutty as hell.
Goblue72
@RK: His Pro Bowl appearances were with the Chargers. But I’m sure in your fevered imagination Bill Belichick used time travel telepathy to help Harrison while he played with San Diego.
Winners win, losers make excuses.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Climbed 3 14000 foot peaks today. Would have done four but the hike down was brutal. Soaking in a hot tub outside on a bluebird night in Breckinridge . Flying to Seattle tomorrow.
Morzer
@Betty Cracker:
To be fair, I have Russian friends who absolutely hate Dostoyevski’s style. Then again, I knew a woman who dreamed of writing the film script for Hollywood’s adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov.
RK
@Betty Cracker: What did you like about it? Is there much of a plot because I don’t see one yet.
Baud
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): I’m exhausted from reading your comment.
Morzer
@raven:
Sorry, raven. I’ll put a trigger warning on any future mentions of He We Do Not Name.
Full metal Wingnut
@Morzer: I have yet to read “We” but I hear it heavily influenced Orwell.
RK
@Goblue72: I didn’t remark on his pro-bowl appearances.
raven
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): I was talking about my first honeymoon in 1972 recently. We went up Mt Quandry and almost made the summit when a big storm blew in and we headed for the tree line!
Full metal Wingnut
@Morzer: I wish we could resurrect Nabokov and force him to translate Dostoevsky.
raven
@Morzer: Oh it’s cool. I just want to be consistent.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
I have never had good luck with the “combo fax/scanner/copier/printer” units, and you’re right about color being crazy expensive. Your household mileage may vary, but in my role as IT consultant to friends and family I found that the one person who was adamant that he needed all that stuff really didn’t; he just wanted the feeling of security that he was prepared for all eventualities, no matter how remote. I showed him how he could receive faxes on his computer and how he could get a very cheap stand-alone scanner (and copier) if he really needed it (which he decided he didn’t—surprise!) and finally convinced him that he could go to
Kinko’sFedEx Office for the two times a year that he really needed to print something in color. A similar argument may work with the missus. My condolences if not.Morzer
@Full metal Wingnut:
“We” is good. I think Zamyatin also influenced Aldous Huxley. This is a rather charming short story of his:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110722154950/http://www.sovlit.com/rasskazy/lion.html
I read it back in the day for one of my introductory Russian classes.
Steeplejack
I hate Al Michaels.
EthylEster
@TheMightyTrowel wrote:
make sure you proofread it MANY TIMES. ;=)
Mike J
I have sore arms from trimming a spinnaker in 22mph winds. Basically just holding 2 corners of a 400?500? sq ft of sail while it pulls 4000 lbs of boat+crew downwind.
Gin & Tonic
@the Conster: Sorry, was busy making (and eating) dinner. I’m mostly passing through NM. I fly into ABQ, but I’m really heading up to Ouray, CO. On the way back I stop for a night in Aztec. Probably will not get to Santa Fe.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
They never, ever, work as expected IMO. Have never had one, or had a known experience with one where it just consistently produced expected results.
Baud
@efgoldman: I’m at the Emmy’s fundraising with Hollywood bigshots.
PurpleGirl
@Keith G: Way back in high school — senior year — we had to choose a classic novel to read over Easter break. I told the teacher I’d read Brothers Karamazov. Got all of 18 or 20 pages into it and decided I was majorly bored and couldn’t force read it. So, based on the report assignment I decided reread those portions of Tom Jones that were pertinent. When I handed in the paper, the teacher looked at me, quizzical faced and ask “weren’t you supposed to read BK”. I answered “it was boring.” He says, “so you read Tom Jones?” “No, only portions of TJ, I’ve read straight through only once, but portions of it 5 or 6 times since.” A few weeks later I really threw him for a loop when I brought a stack of 8 or 10 science fiction novels from a school book fair.
Heliopause
Quick scouting report on tonight’s game. This is the first time in roughly five years that I think the Seahawks have near zero chance to win a game. The reason is that Green Bay is strong exactly where the Seahawks are having some major problems at the moment.
1. The Legion formerly known as Boom. Chancellor is holding out, Thomas is recovering from an injury and a mere shadow of his former self, Maxwell left in free agency, and after Sherman the next two best corners are either injured or recovering. In other words, it should be fish in a barrel for Rodgers.
2. The offensive line is just that. For some strange reason, Carroll and Schneider have decided on stability everywhere except the o-line. They not only rebuild it every year, they literally do so week to week. The guys you will see out there whiffing on pass blocks will include converted defensive players, rejects from the league’s worst teams, and guys that not even their own mothers have heard of. If you watched last week’s game you might have wondered why the Seahawks ran so many bubble screens and similar, especially since they were only getting 2-3 yards a pop. The reason was simple; no pattern requiring more than 1.3 seconds to develop is even a possibility. Look for Seattle’s offense tonight to consist of dink-and-dunks to Graham and lots of scramble yards from Wilson.
Jeffro
TPM says Rubio is on a nice steady path to the nom as his rivals slowly (or quickly, in Walker’s case) fizzle out:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rubio-and-the-process-of-elimination-primary
Goblue72
@RK: no but your loser attitude still shines through
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Balderdash! Can you show us the 218-51-1-5 path to entertaining Russian novels?! We got the best translations we could get at the time.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
But many of the movies are widescreen, and on the TCM HD channel you see them full-screen, whereas on the regular TCM channel you see them letterboxed. In this case “HD” describes the cable channel, not the source material.
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
But Obama didn’t even try. He just gave up entertaining Russian novels before the negotiations even started.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@PurpleGirl:
Our AP English teacher gave us a list of authors we could choose to do a midterm project about that included PG Wodehouse.
I have blessed his name ever since. (The teacher’s, not Wodehouse’s. Though I bless Wodehouse’s, too. Okay, let me go out and start again.)
RK
@Goblue72: lol Good comeback. Are you Donald Trump?
JPL
Is anyone watching the Emmy’s? Veep is a great show and Tony Hale won Best Supporting Actor. They also won in writing.
@Jeffro: The Bush team will feed more negative info to NYTimes if Rubio gains any steam.
Morzer
@Full metal Wingnut:
You’d have to work hard. This is Nabokov on Mr D:
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Baud:
Tell Amy Schumer to stop slouching when you see her backstage. If one is going to wear a strapless dress, you have to keep your shoulders back or you just look like you’re embarrassed to have boobs. Stick ’em out proudly or don’t wear the dress.
Baud
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Until she signs the check, I ain’t telling her jack.
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Look, no one was going to get entertaining Russian novels with Lieberman and Manchin being dicks in the Senate. Or did you somehow forget that? Not to mention Ted Kennedy died right in the middle of proofing Dead Souls.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I know what mean. I had been taking the advanced English classes but in senior year with the heavy load of science classes I had, they placed me in a regular English class. Mr. Nadler wasn’t sure how to understand my reading habits.
Morzer
@Baud:
You’re fundraising for a big-shot enema? Now that’s what I call dedication. Very… umm.. presidential.
Baud
@Morzer: Whatever it takes.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@raven:
Quandary is the one I missed. Shame, because there was not a cloud in the sky.
Did democrat, Lincoln, and bross (and Cameron, which doesn’t qualify because, though over 14k the altitude dip between it, and adjacent Lincoln is less than 300 feet.
Full metal Wingnut
@Morzer: dayum. I had heard he had negative things to say about the man but wow.
Betty Cracker
@RK: I like it because it’s about the redemptive power of love, which is about as close to meaning as random, mortal, accident-prone beings scuttling about on a hunk of rock in space can have, IMO. It was the only Dostoyevski book I’ve read and re-read.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
If the missus is adamant that she needs a scanner/copier, you can get a state-of-the-art one that will do documents (but not photographic negatives) and connect to anything for about $50. Maybe less—I haven’t priced them lately. And they’re compact and work great!
This is really a case where keeping the functionality separate is the better way to go. And, as I said, if you can get the person to really look at what they want to do, they don’t need it. They’re just stuck in some 1990s way of viewing how they do things. (Mrs. efg excepted, of course, I’m sure.)
Morzer
@Steeplejack:
Look, when you negotiate for entertaining Russian novels, you can’t just start by dumping the novels and hoping to get half a flash fiction in return [TRIGGER WARNING for Raven] LBJ would have known how to get the Senate to vote for those novels, but Obama was just too aloof and didn’t even try.
NotMax
@Baud
Vote for Baud. If elected, promises to abstain 100% from using errant apostrophes.
Baud
@NotMax:
I…I…don’t think I can make that promise.
RK
@Morzer: LBJ was known as a expert arm twister, someone who could force things through, no? Doesn’t your comparison actually reveal the defensive nature of your claim?
NotMax
@efgoldman
Ask her how much, honestly, she likes one size fits all clothing compared to items that fit.
Then get a separate copier/scanner.
the Conster
@Gin & Tonic:
Ouray is amazing too, but I don’t really like the mountains. Ouray Pass is scary, plus it’s in the mining belt. I find the Northern New Mexico landscape to be the most beautiful of all, and I’ve been all over the west, a lot, plus, the blend of the Anglo, Spanish and Native cultures has created something wonderfully spiritually and culturally unique there. When you spend time there, you feel like you left this country.
Morzer
@RK:
I am just a gorilla satirist peeling life’s green banana.
Steeplejack
@Morzer:
Fine, I guess we’ll just have to wait for President Bernie to issue a complete set of entertaining Russian novels—free! on Kindle and Nook and open-source PDF!—on Day 1 of his administration. (Translated by an AI avatar of Nabokov’s ghost, with mean footnotes about Richard Pevear.)
/snark
satby
@gogol’s wife: is it through Sling? Because Sling has never fixed their screwed up erratic volume problems and I noticed it on TCM the most.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
To be honest, I was being polite. But you knew that.
gogol's wife
@Steeplejack:
LOL
gogol's wife
@satby:
No, Comcast.
Steeplejack
@satby:
I don’t think so. Gogol’s Wife doesn’t even have a DVR.
ETA: And I see the woman herself is here to answer.
rikyrah
@Comrade Dread:
it was always about the grift.
RK
@Goblue72: Okay, In the name of fairness, and if my math is correct, Rodney Harrison’s sack and int. numbers were somewhat better as a Charger than a Patriot. He’s a borderline Hall of Famer but was also a dirty player. Got caught using HGH as well but that was late in his career.
RK
@Betty Cracker: I’ll press on.
SiubhanDuinne (phone)
@Steeplejack:
:-)
Heh typing on phone
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@efgoldman:
To Steeplejack’s point, I love the ScanSnap document scanner I have at work so much, I made G buy one for home (it’s the 1300 model on this page):
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/
It’s dead easy to use — you put the document in the feeder and press a button. It scans both sides at once. And you can attach it directly to an email.
If she’s more of a photo scanner, then it’s probably not the choice for her.
J R in WV
As fas as printers go, I converted to Canon some time back, just because they don’t play stupid games with the ink cartridges. If one gets low, it tells you so. You replace that one, when you want to. If colors get strange, you know why, the cyan or whatnot is low.
Plus you can get ink from other sources and take your chances. The ink tanks are full when you buy them, you can see the ink level in most of them.
You can actually buy photo-quality large format Canon printers for about the cost of a nice laptop.
HP sucks since Mr. Hewlett and Mr Packard stopped running it. Selling ink as their biggest profit maker, and screwing customers on account of ink, well, that just sucks.
gogol's wife
@RK:
Dead thread, but you have to press on at least to the end of Part One. If you still think it’s boring after you read that, then you don’t have a pulse!