I’m exhausted. I feel line the days I do long drives, but the next day is just a kick in the pants.
BTW- signed the contract for the site rebuild and it should be starting soon.
*** Update ***
I was sitting in my chair and Rosie walked in the back door through the kitchen, made eye contact with me, I said “Hi Rosie” and she slowly walked towards the chair and I put my hand down to pet her, and she just walked right on by and went upstairs.
germy
Will the site be down during the rebuild?
Mary G
Yay! Looking forward to all the whining and your fuck yous to them.
Sab
Hope that works out. This place is sort of home away from home to me.
germy
Gina Yashere is a great comedianne. Here she is discussing her sleep apnea diagnosis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8oNZu1GHFk
dmsilev
I already hate it.
B.B.A.
Agree with the header. I’ve also got a lot of problems with you people!
Ruckus
Now now boys and girls, play nice.
Jeffro
Cole, if it cheers you up any, Catherine Rampell of the Post just tweeted a “hoocoodanode” in response to the Congressional GOP not liking trumpov’s dumb slap at the ACA (“bad policy, bad politics…hoocoodenode?”)
Affecting the discourse since 2003!
Usually for the better!!
For realz!
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev: Well, I hated it before it was cool to hate it.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: LOL! I don’t like it already!
germy
I’m sure the rebuild will go line, just line.
This is line.
Steeplejack
@germy:
No, the rebuild won’t affect the site until it is installed. All the work will be done off site at the Black Mesa Research Facility.
Ohio Mom
I’ve seen people do Christmas in July parties, I don’t see why someone can’t do Festivus any time they want to.
As for the site rebuild, I’m going to miss typing in my nym and my email multiple times a day. I guess I’ll get used to it eventually.
CaseyL
De facto open thread? Great!
Had a lovely out-of-context encounter today. Seattle BJ meetup regular thalarctos was on campus at the college where I work, with Mr. thalarctos, looking into professional development classes. I was on my way to the Print & Mail Center when we crossed paths. She recognized me; I did not recognize her, probably because she was wearing sunglasses that covered most of her face :). We had a nice little chat.
First time I’ve ever run into a fellow BJer at random.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: How would you be able to tell?//
TaMara (HFG)
RE: Rosie. You left. You might never have come back. She’s been there and done that, so she’s going to “not need” you for a while. Self-protection.
I hate the site redesign. I can’t believe you changed A, B and C and brought back that awful D. We’ll just get that out of the way now. I sure hope we are paying them well.
WaterGirl
@germy: The rebuild will be a complete rebuild from scratch – a parallel universe to the current website. Once it’s complete and tested, etc there will be a switch over to the newly rebuilt site.
edit: I see that Steep beat me to it!
HeleninEire
Wow. So this plus the Thurston sale (see FB y’all, he’s selling Thurston CHEAP) means you’re dog tired. (See what I did there?)
trnc
A cat will turn the dogs in the house every time.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl:
At which point it will immediately, as if by magic, function just like the site does now.
Gravenstone
@Steeplejack: Please keep Dr. Freeman away from this particular project.
NotMax
(checks calendar) So, guesstimating an ETA for roll out around Memorial Day weekend.
@Steeplejack
Are plans included for a period of pre-release beta testing via various platforms by real users?
Aleta
Rosie has natural sitcom talent.
Anne Laurie
@Ohio Mom:
IIRC, the original Festivus, pre-Seinfeld, was invented by one of the writers’ fathers as a way to change the mood when the whole (Irish) family was in I have a lotta grievances with you people! mode — not just for the winter solstice, but whenever they were getting fed up with each other. So a spontaneous BJ Festivus would be perfectly in the original spirit!
Mary G
I like the cut of this guy’s jib (he is responding to Mike Pence):
Twitter bio: Democratic Rep from Washington’s 11th District and part time kids sports ball carpool ninja. ⚾?? Democracy is worth fighting for. ?? So fight. Seriously.
dexwood
Rosie, such a tease. She has your number, Cole.
NotMax
Pull the other one. You’re not wearing pants.
:)
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
I love Rosie. She’s got attitude.
@Gin & Tonic: You always were ahead of the curve.
@HeleninEire: I told Cole on his twitter feed that Thurston Howl III is NOT for sale.
Gvg
I was having a lot of tiredness. Docs recommended B complex vitamins. It helped. I need to buy some more. Also as dogs get older, several have gotten really deaf and start missing voice response, one got really senile. Also eyesight. If it happens a few times, have your vet check her.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I don’t have any information about that now.
laura
The rebuild will be too close to the willow.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh, god, I hope not!
edit: Oh, you meant the good parts of the site now?
Mary G
I am still pissed off from tthe discussion of Kirsten Gillibrand’s stupid opioid bill, and here is a great thread about the bullshit that happens:
WaterGirl
@NotMax:
When we wrote the specs, we insisted on absolutely no testing before rollout.
(what’s the snark tag, again?)
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl:
Yes, Cheryl’s, BettyC’s, TaMara’s, AL’s, and Dave’s posts will still be excellent. Everything else will be just like it is now.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: I’m using it. I’ll let you know if/when I’m done with it.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Which leads me to surmise that a user testing and feedback period is not included in the contract as a step in the job. Not propitious.
lamh36
Evening BJ!
Get to have a late night tonight. For some crazy reason I agreed to work evening split shift tomorrow…11am to 7:30pm.
At least I don’t have to get up early…and I do get shift diff…and at least I’m off this weekend.
Guess I’ll bring my laptop and get some school work done during the down time
dexwood
@Adam L Silverman:
Clacks for the 21st century keeping us united.
MomSense
@CaseyL:
Ooh you saw a jackal in the wild!
Spanky
@Mary G: About what you should expect ftom a guy who grew up with the name “Dick Dangler”.
Junior high must have been fantastic for him. Not.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
So long as the contract includes a lawyer-vetted No God Complex clause, it’s all good. //
Jay
Vice explains Puerto Rico,
https://mobile.twitter.com/vicenews/status/1111364662904451073?
lamh36
This is straight bullshit…
SMH…
eemom
Anybody remember the time after a rebuild when the comment boxes got all skinny and other weird shit like that? Fun times.
Kirk Spencer
This is why I plan an extra day between end of vacation and day of work. That one day is, to quote one of our esteemed BJ philosophers, “Blecch”.
Jay
@lamh36:
They ain’t gonna like discovery.
NotMax
@eemom
Funny, I deleted over a dozen screen shots of a variety of fusterclucks from then only two weeks ago while cleaning up an assortment of file folders.
SiubhanDuinne
@HeleninEire:
Have you been missing, or have I just been missing you? Seems like forever since I saw you.
lamh36
zhena gogolia
@eemom:
My favorite was the purple-people-eater avatars.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
Lou Grant: You’ve got spunk.
Mary, blushing: Wellll….
Lou Grant: I HATE spunk!!
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Saw your query re: Cold War but thread was on life support by then. It’s in the queue but as yet unviewed. BTW, two versions available – the normal one and also a 4K UHD version.
eemom
@Mary G:
Same here. And btw, while I am not an expert, I recall reading in a reliable source that the commonly held belief — evidenced on the earlier thread — that the use of prescription drugs to treat actual pain leads to addiction is a bunch of research-debunked bullshit.
You know why Kirstin G. and her ilk push half-assed soundbite legislation on high profile but intensely complex subjects that they know jack shit about? So they can say they did something about a big ass problem. It is utterly contemptible.
#yesIllfuckingvoteforherifshesthecandidate #shewontbe
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
Have you seen Shakespeare and Hathaway? It’s pretty kitschy and twee. We’re loving it.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Don’t you mean “function”?
S’all good, man.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: Actually this is Rahm Emmanuel’s and the police union’s way of forcing discovery to give Rahm and excuse to take out the district attorney and further consolidate power and further empower the Chicago Police Department’s lawlessness. This isn’t really aimed at Smollett, it’s aimed at the DA and her office.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
I’m not even sure what that means, but the cinematography is something special.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Maybe they should just go with Embargodero?
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Step 1. Climb into strange car on dark, stormy night.
Step 2. Hold disdain for car owner from that point forward.
Think I have that right.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: I’m not following.
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: I know! Reading that comment at #60 reminds me of the time I accidentally signed up for a course in college that had 2 pre-requisites that I had never taken because I wasn’t aware of them. I spent 50 minutes wondering why the hell nothing the instructor said made any sense.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
It’s techspeak for “paid several grand for a TV.”
;)
@zhena gogolia
Maybe later. Used up my quota of twee tolerance already on something else this week.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Riff on your comment, ’tis all:
Jay
@Adam L Silverman:
Smolett’s not gonna pay,
And when they take it to the actual lawyers to try to get them to file, they are going to get an education on the discovery process.
It’s a political stunt that’s going to burn them badly, and will probably last as many Scaramucci’s as the Barr Letter.
Yutsano
@CaseyL: *cough* remember you running into me at the QFC in Northgate? It’s when we found out we were practically neighbours. Granted it was a long time ago but still.
I do miss my old condo rental. Not my landlady who was pretty psycho at the end but the place itself was nice.
Also: Mariners leading 12-4 in the 7th!
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: The email that Steep and Bella Q and I all share is BJfestivus. :-) We thought it would be appropriate.
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
I’ve seen only the first three episodes, but I thought it was a little too twee. Shtick-to-plot ratio too high.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
One too twee for you?
(Works better said aloud.)
:)
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Fine. Then you should either lead or get the hell out of the way.
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: I’m not sure it needs the 4K treatment.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Oh, you watched it?
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: @Adam L Silverman: Okay children. Don’t make me turn this thread around!
Wapiti
@Mary G: WA State has only 10 US Congressional Districts. I’m not sure of this guy’s portfolio.
Mary G
@eemom:
Gillibrand is on Twitter asking people to send her a dollar so that she can get into the debates, so her campaign is already on life support. It was $5 two days ago. I gave her a buck, because I want to see the maximum number of women in the race, and also there was a “tell me what you care about” box where I chewed her out about this.
lamh36
Happy 56th Birthday to Bernice King!
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
One of the differences between Amazon Prime and Netflix. The former offers discrete versions of a lot of things to choose from, the latter automatically tailors the version to what your download speed and hardware can handle.
Mary G
@Wapiti: Fooled again! I am very gullible. I still like “you are so full of shit it is coming out of your ears,” though.
piratedan
@Jay: might mean that the DA has to find an honest cop in the IA division (if there is one) and start ending some careers if the “bad guys” think they can bully their way thru
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks for assuming the worst! Of course testing and feedback are included in the plan. There just aren’t any details to release on that right now.
satby
@WaterGirl: somehow I now feel left out ?
@Adam L Silverman: that’s the synopsis of how Cole found Rosie.
eemom
@Mary G:
Well done!
plato
eemom
@Steeplejack:
k, so let us see the Barr version.
Steeplejack
@Wapiti:
I believe this is what the aficionados call a “spoof account.” No Internet presence anywhere except Twitter.
satby
@zhena gogolia: Last night I watched Death at a Funeral. It’s a screwball British comedy on Prime, later remade as an American version. I thought it was hysterical.
NotMax
@satby
Peter Dinklage is a hoot in that. A nasty one but a hoot nonetheless.
B.B.A.
@Mary G: Last year I was prescribed opioids after a very minor oral surgery. I got back from CVS after picking up my meds with a real WTF feeling that it was so easy for me to get these, and neither the surgeon nor the pharmacist blinked.
On the other hand, I’ve had gallstones and I don’t think I’d have made it through that awful couple of weeks without the meds, so I understand that we can’t just ban them altogether. But I know where Gillibrand is coming from on this.
Steeplejack
@eemom:
There’s no collusion, I can tell you that right now, by golly!
NotMax
@Steeplejack
WG has already spilled the beans above that there are EMAILZZ.
:)
satby
@NotMax: and he played that role again in the American version. Now I want to watch that one.
HeleninEire
@SiubhanDuinne: Been lurking mostly.
HeleninEire
So my friend Isabel died yesterday morning. Very soon after I told you all about her. She went quietly in her sleep.
eemom
@B.B.A.:
Jesus Christ, non-sequitur much?
She’s coming from ignorance and irresponsibility. That’s where she’s coming from.
NotMax
@satby
Haven’t seen the remake but will say that British (also Irish) humor doesn’t take well to transplanting.
Kris Marshall in the movie was intriguing enough as an actor to make me seek out his seasons of Death in Paradise.
dmsilev
@HeleninEire: So sorry to hear that. Please take care of yourself even as you grieve.
Adam L Silverman
President Very Stable Genius Who Has the Best Words!
It’s even more stupifying actually hearing and seeing it:
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
More and more people are hearing about them every day.
:)
Steeplejack
@HeleninEire:
My condolences to you.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: The lake with ‘record deepness’ in the world is …Lake Baikal in Russia.
Adam L Silverman
@HeleninEire: My sincerest condolences.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Apparently.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: Great, he was talking to Vlad Vladimorovich on the unsecure iPhone on Air Force 1 on the way to the rally again.//
I’m putting sarc tags on there, but honestly, I’m not sure.
smike
@HeleninEire:
My condolences.
Bill Arnold
Perhaps already linked, but if not:
Twitter is considering labeling Trump tweets that violate its rules (Warning: autoplay video. Hadas Gold, March 28, 2019)
I hope they start doing this soon. Will be fun.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Adam L Silverman:
I do wonder if the new mayor of Chicago can reverse this shit and reign in the CPD
satby
@HeleninEire: oh Helen, I’m so sorry.
Barbara
@B.B.A.: Maybe they should limit the number of days per script that dentists can prescribe. Many are far more responsible now, but dental related scripts are a huge source of illicit prescription narcotics. There is almost no way to balance the interests here without causing harm.
Suzanne
@HeleninEire: Many condolences and hugs. I’m so sorry.
Barbara
@HeleninEire: Many condolences to you.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: It’s so hard to distinguish between satire and reality.
Another Scott
@eemom: Gillibrand has been working on ways to fight the opioid/opiate epidemic for a while:
(Emphasis added.)
She’s not an empty suit on this.
When my mother died in a hospital in Ohio in 2016 and the coroner decided she needed an autopsy, it took over a month because the morgue was so backed up with the bodies of dead kids and relatively young people who ODed on opiods/opiates. (Young people who die almost automatically get an autopsy.)
It’s a huge problem and needs to have the federal government take it seriously.
She’s not saying my way or the highway on her latest bill. She’s trying to address a huge problem in a meaningful way.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Unless he or she is going to decertify the police union, terminate everyone with the provision that a full scrub will be done of each police officer terminated to determine if they’re eligible for rehire and restatement, rebuild the police academy and the training protocols from the bottom up, and turn policing over to the state while all this is undertaken, then the answer is no.
Another Scott
@HeleninEire: I’m very sorry. Condolences to you. Think of the good times and know that she’ll always be with you.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
@dmsilev: Unfortunately.
Barbara
@Jay: I am trying to understand how a mayor that practically participated in the cover up of a murder in order to increase his chance of reelection could possibly assert the moral high ground on anything at this point. Is this his unique and uniquely coldblooded way of showing concern for victims of violence in Chicago?
SiubhanDuinne
@HeleninEire:
Oh, I am sorry! Must have missed your earlier post. Losing friends is tough, but I’m glad Isabel had an easy transition. May she rest peacefully.
rikyrah
Glad that you made it back safely ?
Another Scott
@dmsilev: The most lake water, also too. (Superior is #3.) It must be an amazing place.
Donnie’s dementia continues its inevitable course…
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mainmata
@HeleninEire: Just curious where you live in Eire. All four of my grandparents came from Eire in the early 20th century (Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Roscommon) and I have a niece attending medical school in Cork. I have visited there several times to visit now distant relatives. The country is so, so different from when I first visited in 1974.
John Cole
@Wapiti: HIS NAME IS DICK DANGLER WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE
WaterGirl
@Mary G: I am getting the same emails from Julian Castro, but they don’t bother me from him because I think his is an important voice to have on the debate stage.
HeleninEire
Thank you all. It is weird. I’ve has lots of deaths to deal with; many untimely. My mother, my brother, my nephew. People who died way too young.
But this time is strange. When I see her face I get confused. Like how is this a thing that she’s not here? She’s been here forever.
Anyway. Thank you all again. I’ll be fine soon. I just need to absorb this. Life goes on.
Mainmata
@Another Scott: So sorry to hear about your Mom. I agree that Appalachia and nearby has an ongoing disaster on its hands that its pols simply ignore. I’m talking western VA, West VA and southern OH and IN. The whole thing is shameful and, of course, Trump has done nothing to help.
eemom
@Another Scott:
Yes to all that. But depriving suffering people of pain meds to make it look like you’re doing something, instead of taking informed action to address the problem, IS in fact an “empty suit” gesture — to put it charitably — and the OPPOSITE of taking it seriously.
Also, though I certainly don’t fault her for the appropriations thing you cite above, bragging about funneling federal money to one’s own state is — likewise charitably — about as far as you can get from taking an educated, principled stand on a complex issue.
WaterGirl
@satby: Don’t feel left out! Not a special club, it’s just the “we’re working on the site rebuild” email account.
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: Shit. I’m sorry. That’s awful.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: And not even the deepest in the US, that’s Crater Lake. Superior is 4th.
WaterGirl
@Barbara: It can go too far in either direction. When I had my root canal last year they sent me home with fucking NOTHING and told me to take advil. 4 advil every 4 hours was doing nothing! I finally called the guy after 24 hours and said it wasn’t cutting it. And I hate taking drugs.
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: It was surreal when my mom died. I was looking at her purse on the chair, sitting where she always kept it, and it seemed like the most bizarre thing in the world. A purse without its human. It was very bizarre and surreal. How can people just be gone????
big hugs.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@HeleninEire:
Oh god. I’m so sorry to hear that. That’s terrible. Are you doing ok?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@WaterGirl:
Oh yeah, well that’s exactly what someone in a special club would say. THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!11!
Barbara
@eemom: Anything that can be done is going to reduce acess to prescription narcotics for someone. Fine instruments, like limiting which doctors can prescribe how much of what kind of drugs, will reduce access to a lot of people who only visit generalists. Limiting the number of days per script reduces access for people with chronic or terminal conditions. This is a Pandors’s Box of a problem, but what many people know is that phenomenal quantities of prescribed narcotics have fueled both addiction and a black market. You have to reduce that quantity.
HeleninEire
@WaterGirl: Hugs right back to you.
Mike in NC
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Our favorite deep lake is Lake Tahoe. Can’t wait to go back in the summer some time.
Jane2
@HeleninEire: Condolences…always tough to lose a friend.
TomatoQueen
@HeleninEire: I’m glad you had her in your life, and so sorry she’s gone.
Jay
@Barbara:
Pretty sure he’s nowhere near the moral high ground.
Pretty sure he’s staking a faux position in the hopes that when he’s just a civillian in about 3 weeks, the Chicago Cops remember him and don’t treat him like they treat other POC’s.
Amir Khalid
@HeleninEire:
Sorry to hear that. My condolences.
Jay
@HeleninEire:
[[[Helen]]]
chopper
@HeleninEire:
oh, i am so sorry helen.
sukabi
@Wapiti: Richard (Dick) Dangler is a state rep. Maps of state rep districts.
Guy’s got an unfortunate name.
eemom
@Barbara:
As with anything else involving medical science, there needs to be properly vetted scientific research that supports any proposed fix before lay people, especially politicians, go fucking around with it. And as mentioned above, my understanding is that such research does NOT support the CW that properly prescribed pain meds lead to addiction.
I also find it remarkable that nobody here is holding any politician accountable for failing to even mention, never mind propose action against, the 8,000 pound elephants in the room of the opiate crisis…..the free flow of heroin into the country, hello?? Or the ever-increasing obscenity of income inequality that drives poor people to drugs, both as users and as dealers? That’s some hard shit to come up with solutions to, you see. Much easier to score your political points beating up on sick people.
Jay
@eemom:
https://www.poison.org/articles/opioid-epidemic-history-and-prescribing-patterns-182
Jay
@eemom:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/health/new-york-lawsuit-opioids-sacklers-distributors.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/podcast/switching-from-oxycontin-to-heroin/
https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/relationship-between-prescription-drug-heroin-abuse/prescription-opioid-use-risk-factor-heroin-use
Barbara
Unfortunately even properly prescribed medications can lead to addiction, and more to the point, addictive behavior, not simply dependence. Just know that whenever it comes to research involving drugs, most of it was financed or influenced by manufacturers. Heroin is a problem but most people graduate to it after using something different.
Barbara
@eemom: I tried to respond further but my comments keep getting eaten. There is a huge amount of research on the misuse of the findings of the kinds of studies you are likely referring to.
Steeplejack
@sukabi:
The current incumbents for Washington state legislative district 11 are Zack Hudgins and Steve Bergquist.
Barbara
@eemom: Here is a link to help you understand the corruption and mendacity that has accompanied the expanded use of opioids in the U.S., which far outstrips the use in any other developed country.
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