@Doctor-Phibes said in Hand off.: @Jolly said in Hand off.: Has there ever been a successful series handed off by the author that maintained the quality of the original? The Bible. Brandon Sanderson managed to actually finish The Wheel of Time series, something that was clearly beyond the original author, Robert Jordan. I’ll agree with Phibes, here. Sanderson did a nice job ending The Wheel of Time. The weird thing is now Sanderson has built this huge fantasy epic tying in like 5 different series, and is at real risk of not being able to finish it adequately.

I was imagining a Trump-friendly wealthy person who would do it to foil the current administration.

A life with intact testicles?

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I notice the OMB letterhead. That's the office that'll be led by Russ Vought, who many tribal wonks consider to be the single most terrifying pick by Trump so far. Apparently he's a Christian Nationalist fascist, but also competent, which is his most terrifying aspect.

@89th said in Elton John comes out..: I am very invested in what a foreign piano player thinks about federal drug legislation. I might be foreign, and a saxophonist, but I do know the legalisation isn't federal. Obviously, saxophonists have no history with drug use, so that part of the equation is completely irrelevant.

Very cool!

@jon-nyc said in Insurance Claim: Do we know if that’s real? She posted about her daughter's death a few years ago. As to the insurance, I can't say. https://x.com/KayeSteinsapir https://x.com/KayeSteinsapir/status/1866948926617821620

"Not found"

@Jolly said in Not me...: Mom ain't no spring chicken. Can you imagine raising your first child at 42? At 42, my wife had one child going off to college... Rachel was 42 years 7 months when the boy was born. I was a couple months from turning 41. My sister’s experience was more like your wife’s. There are pros and cons to early and late. My sister got a masters degree and changed careers after becoming an empty nester at 38. She had more energy for a toddler than I did. But I never worried about the price of diapers or college and I could (and did) show my kid the world. But 60? No way. And then there’s DeNiro at 79….

@Rich said in 28 Years Later: The opening scene to 28 weeks later was good enough I'll probably watch this. It's what I think of each time I hear about the franchise, too. Great scene. Nightmare fuel, too. Link to video

Community notes: https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1867199750145294418

A woman’s work is never done.

Wonder how much of that $1.5 Billion came in that way?

@Friday said in I got an owie!: I don't have high cuffed leather welders gloves like Renauda. But I do have a suede jacket, gardening gloves, and a fencing mask. It's not sexy, but it works. The fencing mask seems prudent. I have welders gloves too. Protects arms and hands.

I’ve made them once with limited success. Commercial gnocchi is awful. I wish you could taste my favorite ones in Southern Pines NC. Unearthly good. I fear it has closed.