Ja Rule is helping sell an NFT of the infamous Fyre Fest cheese sandwich tweet, hoping to fetch around $80K for it https://t.co/SsQdLNWbFf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 7, 2021
Fyre Fest tickets were the original NFT
— Punderbuss (@punderbuss) April 7, 2021
But seriously, folks…
… Trevor DeHaas took the infamous snapshot of the so-called dinner on April 27, 2017—his first night in The Bahamas for what was meant to be a blowout music festival event boasting the likes of Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid partying a mere few feet away from other guests.
The tweet spread across the internet like wildfire as the country was torn between mocking the rich twenty-somethings who shelled out thousands of dollars for this epic screw-up and being genuinely concerned for their well-being, as they were, in true Lord of the Flies fashion, left with little in the way of food or water and were forced to fight over FEMA tents.
Now, coming up on the four-year anniversary of the doomed Fyre Festival, DeHaas is auctioning off an NFT of the original tweet, as well as the copyright to the photo of the flimsy sandwich on, of all places, Flipkick, Ja Rule’s physical NFT platform…
DeHaas plans to use a good chunk of the money of the NFT sale to pay for medical expenses. Diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney failure, DeHaas is on daily dialysis for seven hours a day and needs a kidney transplant due to his kidney only functioning at eight percent. But DeHaas is adamant that he doesn’t want people to think of the sale as a GoFundMe.
“One of my goals was to get at least $50,000 and that would pretty much pay for my kidney transplant,” he explained. “I don’t want to use that to make people feel bad and pay for it. But it’s just kind of, I guess, a side effect of what I want for the price. So if it does sell, at least I’ll be able to start paying for medical expenses.”…
He’s not begging, he’s selling. In America, selling is respectable!
PenandKey
You know, I just don’t get how anyone can take any of this bullshit seriously enough to spend money on it.
debbie
The cheese sandwich looks boring.
dmsilev
I’m pretty sure it was 99% mockery. At least.
Gin & Tonic
To be honest, I was not personally torn between mocking and being genuinely concerned for their well-being.
Gin & Tonic
So, who remembers the Sudetenland?
BruceFromOhio
And now, also worthless. NFT for NFT sake is gonna have to run it’s course, like a bad meal.
Also: AL, I dig that you are a Defector reader. Love that damned site, it’s my favorite paid subscription.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Pretty flimsy excuse for an invasion. Can’t Putin come up with something better or more manly?
NotMax
Compelled to cheesily link it.
:)
karen marie
@debbie: One slice of cheese and some bread, with lettuce and tomato on the side, is not a cheese sandwich.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: I guess not. It’s interesting how defending your territorial integrity is “inflaming the situation.”
That said, things have de-escalated somewhat since that article was posted. But the reason many of the residents of the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk provinces are “Russian citizens” is because Russia has issued them Russian passports, in violation of international law.
Baud
I wonder if I can make money selling NFTs of NFTs.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: I think you should sell NFT’s of your (presumably non-existent) pants.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: I need to know what kind of cheese that is. Is it even real cheese?!
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
NFT = No Freaking Trousers
West of the Cascades
@Baud: It’s NFTs all the way down.
NotMax
Ripples of Dolt 45 wreckage.
NotMax
FYI.
JoyceH
@dmsilev: Woodstock wound up with 3 times the attendance that was expected, so they ran out of food after about day one. The locals pitched in, running around the local villages in pickup trucks, “The kids up at the music festival have run out of food. You have anything you can donate?” They subsisted on locally donated food for the rest of the festival. The food had to be choppered in because the roads were blocked by the number of cars. The medical facilities were also overwhelmed, so that government choppered in Army doctors. (Wouldn’t that make a great rom-com premise? Army Doctor At Woodstock.)
Hoodie
@debbie:
Jay
CaseyL
NFTs sound completely insane to me. I was joking with a friend that I’d take some photos of my glass art and sell the photos as an NFT, and then we both got quiet as we wondered if we could actually do that.
I’m happy to grift clueless idjits who have more money than sense.
Geminid
@NotMax: Virginia has state elections in off years, so there will be no time for the new independent redistricting committee to draw a new map by November. This years contests will be fought on the map a Republican General Assembly drew for 2011. This map worked for them a while, and Democrats entered the 2017 cycle down 35-65 in the House of Delegates. Democrats picked up 14 seats that year (and lost a 15th by a coinflip). In 2019 they won 6 more, and now control the House of Delegates, 55-45, proof that gerrymandering does not neccesarily work in the face of demographic and political shift.
Democrats also flipped three Congressional seats in 2018, again on a Republican drawn map.
geg6
This NFT con is really sucking in all the idiots, isn’t it?
I wouldn’t touch an NFT if my life depended on it. Totally insane.
Cheryl Rofer
Hummingbird feeders are deployed.
I have seen hummingbirds here as early as April 4. I might have heard one the other day when I was out with the cats.
Jay
NotMax
The truth is out there. Will enough listen?
Nora Lenderbee
Why doesn’t DeHaas just sell a kidney? … oh.
debbie
@karen marie:
Not even airlines would stoop that low.
hells littlest angel
Why do I have to go to a competitor’s website (LGM, jk) to find out about this?
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1379624357891309572
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
I got an email and a phone call today from Four Directions to thank me for my contributions through the B-J ActBlue thermometer. They are working on more initiatives including fighting voter suppression and helping with voter registration.
They got 73% of the registered Native Americans to the polls for the Georgia Senate runoffs, about 10k voters, which is a great percentage, but the percentage of eligible Native American voters who are registered is very small in Georgia. They are working on that and following Stacy Abrams lead.
I think they are a very worthwhile investment and I have a monthly contribution to them. the DNC is my only other recurring contribution right now.
dmsilev
@JoyceH: At least Woodstock managed to deliver the promised music.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
He is a real piece of work.
Baud
@hells littlest angel:
Someone posted that here the other day.
trollhattan
Sportsball Fyre Fest a.k.a. the Tokyo Olympics is supposedly a go this summer. Sans fans. So I see Japan in total has a few more people vaccinated than my county. Unless there’s a scheme for vaccinating all teams and officials before they go I’m filing this under “What could possibly go wrong?”
BruceFromOhio
@NotMax:
Not in the GQP state legislatures. The iron grip of the fascists is already strong enough for a place like Georgia to ram through garbage like this without any fear of accountability.
HumboldtBlue
Take a look at this magnificent beast.
John Revolta
@karen marie: Depends. In England, one slice of chicken on some bread with lettuce and maybe tomato is a “chicken salad sandwich”, so…………………
mdblanche
I would be very interested in investing in NFTs, but unfortunately my entire portfolio is currently tied up in tulip bulbs.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: “Sup?”
Geminid
@NotMax: Neither Georgia Lt. Governor Duncan nor Secretary of State Raffensberger went along with trump’s election theft effort. If these two run next year, “populist” conservatives will be RINO hunting. A likely battlefield for next year’s Republican civil war.
Anoniminous
Fill in the blanks:
A _____________ and {his/hers/their} ____________________ is soon _________________.
JoyceH
@Geminid: Actually, Virginia is operating on districts drawn by a federal court after the GOP drawn map was ruled to be racial gerrymandering.
John Revolta
@mdblanche:
As W.C. Fields said to the mooch, “I’m sorry my good man, but all my money is tied up in currency”.
elm
@CaseyL: I think to make much money on the NFT thing, one needs to already be well connected with the world of money laundering and/or financial scams.
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
I suspect that it is not a proper cheese but either pasteurized process cheese or pasteurized process cheese food.
mrmoshpotato
@Anoniminous:
Fill in the blanks:
A traitorous orange Soviet shitpile mobster conman and his shitpile mobster crime family is soon to hopefully be beaten with their own bones by Lady Justice.
mrmoshpotato
Brewers at Cardinals – why can’t they both lose?
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
The judges will accept it.
Roger Moore
@karen marie:
It is more like the weakest possible sandwich kit.
Roger Moore
@Anoniminous:
A fool and his money is soon elected.
mrmoshpotato
@Roger Moore: Exactly. And now I need to make myself a respectable sammich.
Geminid
@JoyceH: The Federal court order of 2018 was limited to 11 Delegate districts, to the east of Richmond. I think the other 89 districts remained as drawn in 2011. But I have not checked out results in those 11 districts, 2019 over 2017. I suspect that this partial redistricting may have netted Democrats 2 or 3 seats, maybe more.
Another federal redistricting order, also enforcing Civil Rights Act strictures against racial gerrymandering, resulted in Congressman Don McEachin’s 2016 win in the redrawn 4th Congressional District. McEachin is an effective legislator, and has been a contributor to House energy transition legislation.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Or – shudder – sliced cheese product.
For sh*ts and grins, from the same link:
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: The track cycling World Championships (yes, a niche sport, sue me) are still on for this October in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Luckily, the country, under the benevolent and enlightened leadership of Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedov (himself a cyclist) is free of Covid-19. So I should be OK to go there, right? Just have to figure out how to get a visa.
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
To be honest, some form of processed cheese is probably better for grilled cheese sandwiches than true cheese.
Gin & Tonic
@mrmoshpotato: NotMax to the rescue at #53.
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl Rofer: Oh, I hope so! My ear has been cocked for several days now. Pal D says he may have heard one the other day, but wasn’t sure. Feeders are going up soon!
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
I encourage anyone who really cares about this stuff to spend some time reading 21 CFR 133, the core FDA regulations covering cheese. It’s much more readable than part 210 and 211, which are the parts I’m mostly concerned with at work.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: That sandwich “idea” is just plain disgusting.?
Brachiator
@NotMax:
Add a banana and you have something that you could either serve to Elvis or throw in the garbage.
MagdaInBlack
@Brachiator: I pick option B.
Phylllis
@Cheryl Rofer: We’ve seen a few at our backyard flower patch, but we can tell they’re looking for the primo stuff–meaning the firecracker plants. Prolly another week before they start flowering.
Catherine D.
@JoyceH: My aunt had a summer house not far from Woodstock. We had to drive well into Pennsylvania for groceries.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
I’m not sure you can even call that a niche.
mrmoshpotato
@Roger Moore: That’s a lot of grilled cheese making.
zhena gogolia
I love the Biden administration.
MomSense
@NotMax:
??????????
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: That’s not an idea; it’s a horrorshow.
Gin & Tonic
@Catherine D.: I’m sorry, but Kingston, New Paltz or Poughkeepsie were not options?
Mike in NC
Wife was golfing in 85 degree heat yesterday and stopped because she didn’t feel so well. We decided to go to the nearest ER where they noted her heart was racing. They kept her for observation overnight, and today she was advised that she had a “mild” heart attack. Looks like she’ll finally have to give up the pack a day smoking habit. She had quit until we took a cruise in Europe a few years back, where lots of people still smoke like chimneys. I quit 25 years ago and never looked back.
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue: Well, I’m a fan, and have traveled to the Worlds twice before. As I said, sue me. There are few events in sport more exciting than the match sprint.
Catherine D.
@Gin & Tonic: Nope, Woodstock was held in Bethel, NY in Sullivan County. Crossing the Delaware was closer.
mrmoshpotato
MeidasTouch – GOP Pedo Ring
WaterGirl
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): I just sent you an email message.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Roger Moore: Impressively detailed. And a separate regulation for each variety of cheese. Are the regs for cheddar and say Asiago really that different?
I was watching a clip from “Office Space” today, the part where a guy is explaining to the management consultants that his job was to take the specs from the customer and give them to the developers. And I thought, “hey, that’s kind of what the government used to pay me to do!”
(I used to spend a great deal of time and energy writing requirements and then more energy arguing with the contractors whether they had met those requirements)
MomSense
@Mike in NC:
Thank goodness she is ok.
mrmoshpotato
@Mike in NC: Hope she recovers completely and is able to kick the habit for good.
zhena gogolia
@Mike in NC:
Oh, I hope she can quit with not too much suffering.
HumboldtBlue
Get my first vaxx shot tomorrow, second on May 1.
Gin & Tonic
@Catherine D.: I thought you meant the actual Woodstock, NY. Even from Bethel, Monticello is much closer than, say, Honesdale.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: Yay!
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
Excellent. And sickening.
CaseyL
@elm: Figures.
Catherine D.
@Gin & Tonic: We were right by the Delaware, so Honesdale was closer.
NotMax
@MomSense
Yeah, family mealtime in the 50s wasn’t all beer and skittles.
;)
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Woo hoo!
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: They put together good ads. And the Grand Old Pedophiles give them plenty of material to use.
NotMax
@Catherine D.
Honesdale? Practically my old stomping grounds. Also the birthplace of American railroading.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Were pickles and peanut butter especially cheap?
Mary G
@Mike in NC: Sending hope for a quick recovery and quitting smoking.
Ken
I think in the markets, you can’t take the same derivative twice in a row. So they don’t have options on options, or futures on futures, but they do have options on futures and futures options.
I’m not sure if the same logic applies to NFTs, because I’m not sure any logic applies to NFTs.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Are you familiar with author Lynn Bryant? She writes historical romantic fiction and also some military fiction as well.
WaterGirl
@Mike in NC: Yikes! That was a shock, I’m sure. “Mild” is good, hoping for a quick recovery and good health.
Ken
@mrmoshpotato: It might have been a post-war thing, like all the 1950s recipe books that are nothing but spam, jello, and processed cheese, with the occasional olive or carrot.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Can’t say regarding pickles being or not being, let us say, economical*. But peanut butter? You betcha.
*(Although making them at home was still somewhat in vogue, at least for grandmas.)
Steeplejack (phone)
“Archaeologists unearth ancient ‘sir’ story.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: No, I’m not. Do you like her stuff?
So many books, so little time
NotMax
@Ken
Everything covered with a dusting of paprika. :)
Also too, pineapple.
“Ooh, exotic!”
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: I’m sure you know about the Roebling Bridge (actually an aqueduct) – by the engineer who later designed the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ken
I see that you have correctly used the small-c in cheddar, as it does not have a Protected Designation of Origin; while the capital-A in Asiago indicates you are referring to the products that do have a PDO, versus the asiago-type cheeses from other regions and countries.
I mean, if we’re talking complicated food regulations…
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Yup. Have been across it.
Also the slightly later in its current configuration wooden roadbed Dingman’s Ferry Bridge (connects PA and NJ) (still, AFAIK, a privately owned toll bridge).
Jeffro
(high five)
LOL
And with that…I’ll just wait ’til the next thread…nothing more to add here. =)
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
She’s a good character developer to a point, a good writer, but she borrows an awful lot from Cornwell and his Sharpe series. It’s enjoyable, if schlocky, and she likes to repeat themes at times that can get tiresome.
We really don’t need another round of chuckling banter between the company officers and their Colonel as they discuss the Colonels very unorthodox independent and beautiful wife kind of thing.
I’m very familiar with the era and the military campaigns she sets the story in, so that does help because I have a lot of background info already. I’m on book three, and I’ll finish the next two as well I think.
Oh, and one frustrating thing, she uses first names an awful lot instead of surnames, and it can be hard to remember if Johnny is Jones, Smith, or Black. Much easier to identify characters by distinctive last names or nicknames.
Suzanne
I am annoyed. I took two hours out of my day to take Spawn the Elder to get his COVID shot. Because he is 17, he can only get Pfizer. But somehow the stupid Giant Eagle website screwed up and booked the appointment at a store, where they only have Moderna, vs. a clinic, where they have Pfizer.
HOWEV, now everything is so much easier than just a few weeks ago, and I already booked two more appointments for him. One at a County site, and one at a UPMC clinic. I will hold both appointments and figure that at least one of them will work out. The County site specifies which vaccine will be available at each location, so that is helpful!
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
I’ve been there, lovely spot.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: It’s a good sign that you’re reading on! I’m reading Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. It’s about a character trying out various lives in parallel universes.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne:
So one of these don’t have their act together?
Roger Moore
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
They’re more different than you might think. The FDA is actually pretty good at requiring something like the traditional method of making cheeses, so the details differ substantially.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
As you said, so many books, so little time.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
I imagine it looks something like this.
Betsy
Exciting, salacious, enjoyable new bad news for Matt Gaetz, if it’s to be believed. At the Daily Beast
ETA: I have to delight in what I can, after reading the joe manchin thread
Roger Moore
@Ken:
I think people in the post-war era were still amazed by the convenience and plenty. They had lived through the Depression and wartime rationing, so having more than enough to eat and having everything prepared for you was a huge deal. I also assume some of these recipes were originally invented by people at the big food processors’ test kitchens to use as many of their company’s products as possible.
Haydnseek
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m about to start book two of a long science fiction series of books. They’re well written an plotted, with a nice dollop of humor. Looks like they’re self published in some way but have good distribution. Book Two has the greatest cover blurb ever: “It’s a great read!”
———anonymous Amazon customer
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Velodrome is a fun word to say out loud.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Haydnseek: I’d kill for good distribution.
Finding a long series you like is like striking gold because you know you’ll have good stuff for a while
J R in WV
@Roger Moore:
NO, no,, NO!
Sharp cheddar on whole wheat seeded multigrain, grilled with butter. Real butter. Slowly. And thin sliced sweet onions on it too.
Jeffro
Except that apparently Tucker Carlson has once again gone full ‘replacement theory’ on Fox News, which is more than Hannity, Ingraham, or BillO ever did…and well, we ought to be figuring out a way to send him packing.
Haydnseek
@NotMax: There used to be a venue called The Palindrome. Two teams of riders raced in opposite directions. While action packed, the races were very short.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Isn’t that the guy John Oliver has been trolling the absolute pants off of?
I’m a roadie but watched the track cycling from Germany a few months back and it was a hoot. They be crazy. Also watched the mountain bike championships from Austria and it seemed more like organized torture than biking, but the talent and utter balls were obvious. Also fun watching a carbon wheel explode. Always wondered what that looked like.
Narrator: “That wheel cost more than your entire bicycle.”
Yes, yes it did.
Haydnseek
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I don’t know anything about the business, but if it’s available on Amazon, that’s good distribution in my book. You are so right about a series. As soon as I come across an author I really like the first thing I do is research their entire body of work, anticipating good reads in the future.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
It ranks up there with natatorium in the list of great names for sporting venues.
Roger Moore
@J R in WV:
I do think it’s a good idea to make homemade processed cheese using first rate cheeses, since it keeps them from turning to oily goop when they melt. I’m not suggesting using American slices in place of something good tasting.
Roger Moore
@Haydnseek:
The baseball stadium in Rancho Cucamonga was originally called the Epicenter; it’s home to the Quakes.
frosty
@Suzanne: Good for you! I browsed vaccinefinder.org and found out my 20-something student/grocery worker son is eligible and there are a bunch if Rite Aids reasonably close with appointments. So I expect him to get his first in a week or so. Huge relief! PA has been such a CF.
Ms. F and I have appts at Rite Aid in 29 Palms CA for our second tomorrow. Via the website they think it’s our first. Could be interesting!
HumboldtBlue
@Roger Moore:
Gymnasium works well too. Although it’s much more common and doesn’t have the same fresh snap.
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: It was Giant Eagle that didn’t have its act together. So then I booked a UPMC appointment. Then I found a County appointment. I will cancel the UPMC if everything goes well with the County.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
If you haven’t done so, I can’t imagine you wouldn’t find yourself gleefully immersed in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series. It’s a brilliant work and some of the finest fiction I’ve ever read.
And dog and Star Wars lovers will love this clip.
Haydnseek
@Roger Moore: I’ve been there. My cousin and her family live in Rancho Cucamonga. It’s a very nice little ballpark. Single A ball, but hey, it’s still baseball and those teams have some talented kids.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Grilled cheese secret:
Allow the slices of cheese come to room temp before putting on the bread to be grilled. Better ensures full and even meltiness.
rikyrah
@Mike in NC:
?????
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Good video
On point
J R in WV
@Haydnseek:
How about an author name, book name, series name?
No fair telling me about a good series I can’t find!?!?!!!!!
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Is their fiercest rival the Quisps?
/cereal humor :)
J R in WV
@Roger Moore:
OK, then. Processing real cheese at home is all different, isn’t it!?!! Glad to hear it, also too.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: I tried those some years ago because a friend is a big fan, but I couldn’t settle to them then. I have them set aside to try again when I’m in a different mood
Gin & Tonic
@Roger Moore: I have to say that the Olympic velodrome in London is spectacular, both as a building and as a track. Just unfortunately far from the nearest Tube station.
Haydnseek
@J R in WV: Gladly sir! The author is Craig Alanson. The series is called Expeditionary Force. Book two is titled SpecOps. A quick google search will give you more info. Careful though, there’s a site that give capsule summaries of the plots of each book, in other words spoilers. Inexpensive in large format paperback on Amazon.
@J R in WV:
J R in WV
@HumboldtBlue:
I was enjoying that work when I learned that O’Brian had abandoned his family and faked a whole new biography. That kind of ruined the fun for me…
But the historical aspects, and the sailing aura was all very good.
piratedan
@J R in WV: depending on your speed:
Mystery: Donna Leon – the series is set in Venice and the city acts as a character in and of itself. Her Protagonist is named Brunetti.
Lawrence Block – multiple series, multiple protragonists, such as the Hit Man Keller and the Burgler books with Bernie Rhodenbarr
Tony Hillerman – The Leaphorn and Chee books are always worth a read
Glen Cook – Garrett PI – fantasy noir series, have a metallic theme throughout in the story titles
and I’m sure that others will chime in as needed…
Gin & Tonic
@trollhattan: Berdimukhamedov is easy to spoof, but not as much fun as his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, who titled himself Turkmenbashi, or Leader of the Turkmen. He is still, as far as I know, President for Life, despite being inconveniently dead.
I just think going there would be a hoot.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I understand. I remember the first time I picked up Master and Commander and started reading. I got 30 pages in and tossed it aside as dense and pedantic and dreary.
About six months later it was summer and I needed reading, so I saw a copy on M&C on my mom’s coffee table, picked it up and started reading.
I never stopped. Each Friday thereafter I went to the bookstore and bought the next in the series and to this day I can pick up any book, begin reading and find myself back in that extraordinary world O’Brian created.
A fellow on Twitter said to me:
I howled.
HarlequinGnoll
only sane way to think of NFT’s are to think of them as slightly less stupid donations with a terrible patreon tier instead of very stupid investment at a commodity bank
Gin & Tonic
@HumboldtBlue: 20 pages on rope? Bah.
HumboldtBlue
@Gin & Tonic:
Hahahaha, the next comment was something like “so Moby Dick then.”
HumboldtBlue
@J R in WV:
Go back to it, it’s well worth the time despite the peccadilloes of the author.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: That is hilarious.
Which writer is it that spends like 5 pages talking about how to eat Cap’n Crunch?
Mike in NC
Thanks for all the supportive comments. Wife is to be another annoying ex-smoker.
citizen dave
NFTs are beyond stupid. Our local news reported yesterday on the Peyton and Eli Manning NFTs on sale Friday. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/manning-brothers-dive-nfts-together-130056420.html
Slyly a “portion” of the proceeds are going to two of their charities. Makes the enterprise more palatable than a simple cash grab.
HumboldtBlue
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Not sure.
HumboldtBlue
@Mike in NC:
That’s great news.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@HumboldtBlue: Stephenson! Neal Stephenson. That’s it.
citizen dave
@Gin & Tonic: You made me look–beautiful building. Spent 10 minutes on the architects’ website. Thanks.
citizen dave
@Gin & Tonic: Had to click on this. Around Cincinnati parts, the “Roebling Bridge” is the one that crosses the Ohio River; born 1866. That guy got around!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Roebling_Suspension_Bridge
Ken
@Gin & Tonic: One of the very few cases where the movie is always better than the book. Even if the movie is an Asylum mockbuster with a bad CGI whale and Ahab played by Kevin Sorbo.
Gin & Tonic
@citizen dave: Yeah, I was there for the World Championships in 2016.
MisterForkbeard
@HarlequinGnoll: @Dorothy A. Winsor: Was that Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash?
ETA: yep it was.
mrmoshpotato
@J R in WV:
That sounds damn good.
Anyway
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I just finished Haig’s -How to stop time-, kinda interesting premise but poor writing and execution. Protagonist came across as whiny and uninspiring – I did finish the book though.
Uncle Cosmo
My fifth-grade teacher thought that the loveliest sounding phrase in the English language was “cellar door”.
(Frequently astounding what sticks in one’s head for no apparent reason ~60 years on.)
Uncle Cosmo
Neil Stephenson in Cryptonomicon IIRC. (Weighty tome but great read.)
(FTR I dove into his Anathem & 20 pages later flipped to the back, muttered Oh no, I have 800 more pages of this?? & relegated the monster to its proper use as a doorstop. OTOH I am now 1/4 through Alexandra Richie’s 859-page Faust’s Metropolis: A History of Berlin and am enjoying the hell out of the journey. Go figger.)