@Doctor-Phibes said in So what was your day job?: After Googling her name hoping for some better pics Ok that me chuckle. I did the same... purely for research purposes. Yeah her real estate license was revoked for some fraud. So let me get this straight... checked sex history, fraud, loves orange, makes a duck lips face in mugshot.... yup, Trump's new VP!

@Jolly said in The Broadband Infrastructure we were promised.: Sadly, it's something that is badly needed and maybe one of the best things to come out of the Biden Administration. Yes. Deeper in the article, it talks about the percentage of the US which has broadband from the private sector. Surprisingly high. Also, Starlink is a reasonable, and almost reasonably-priced, alternative. The kit is $500 and it's $120 a month for unlimited data. https://www.starlink.com/service-plans

Cool.

Besides, Reid Hoffman was already paying, were his billions not enough?

I watched one of the pretrial hearings. Apparently the defense had a list of witnesses whom they may call. They submitted the list by the deadline (as did the state). Once the list had been submitted, they discovered that one of the witnesses will testify that s/he saw Baldwin pull the trigger, which he has always denied. Having learned this, they want to disqualify the witness. State objected to the motion. Judge upheld the State. This judge, by the way, is the same one who presided over the Guiterrez-Reed case. She can be a bad-ass.

The thing is, he’s not getting the award for that, but for 50 years worth of work since. He’s been the director of all the Steelers videography for 30 years and has done an amazingly job, helping to define the modern camera placement for TV broadcasts, the All-22 Coaches Tape, and more. But, it started as an extra 5 cameramen needed for the Wild Card Game. So he came in for a one game gig and just happened to catch a pivotal part of one of the most controversial plays of all time… That brought him back the next year, and the rest is history.

The Judge High-powered obnoxious Chicago lawyer (Robert Downey Jr.) goes home to Indiana to bury his mother. His two sibs (Vincent Dinofrio and Jeremy Strong) and father (Robert Duvall) have a strained relationship. Duvall is indicted in a hit-and-run and Downey defends him. Kind of sappy, formulaic, etc. But watching these actors was amazing. Downey dominates every scene...except those where opposing counsel, Billy Bob Thornton is in. On Netflix for another 3-4 days. Watch it at 1.25 speed.... Link to video

First thing I’ve heard from him I liked. But I really liked it.

@Renauda said in Beethoven's hair - again: Beethoven’s health was at best, a mess Yeah, no kidding. Somewhere I read that the cause of death was "jaundice and dropsy." Sounds like liver failure to me. Also, his gut was awful. I believe it was Rossini who visited him in Vienna and was appalled at the condition of his apartment. There were chamber pots stored under the piano, filth everywhere. Robert Greenberg commented that the Second Symphony might have been Beethoven's way of externalizing his cranky gut. The whole 4th movement is a bunch of hiccups, burps and farts. Link to video

@Renauda said in Brexit, a still life.: @Doctor-Phibes Wazzocks. and pillocks.

celebrate

@Horace said in Cruz files bill...: A loophole in an unimportant law that solves a non-problem with small stakes gambling being part of a product purchase? Yes, in all honesty this whole thing probably isn't that important, which was kind of behind my point about how our positions would all be reversed if it was the other guy making the suggestion. It's not really a genius move either, of course, it's just political opportunism. I do also have to admit I find Ted Cruz to be one of the most unbearable individuals I can think of, which probably sways how I feel about pretty much anything he says. I know, I know, in this highly rational, scientific environment that shouldn't matter, but that's complete bollocks as we all know.

Won't be much today, we're putting up pickles and peas. Be lucky to get a fish stick...

@George-K said in I did it. I'm sorry. Now kill me.: Swift justice, amirite? Should have had a dirt bath 15 years ago.

I'm not checking...

@89th said in Fun with VEEP URLs: zombo.com Now there's something I haven't thought about in about 15 years.

@Doctor-Phibes said in SCOTUS: Government censorship of Social Media OK...: isn't that like saying The Bible or Jesus condoned slavery because they don't condemn it? No. It's like saying "There's no speed limit, drive as fast as you want." Lack of prohibition is permission. @Horace said in SCOTUS: Government censorship of Social Media OK...: It's like a mistrial rather than a finding of guilt or not-guilt. So, the merits can be retried some other time, when this sort of censorship is actually coercive, and does some specific harm. Good point. It never was adjudicated, so the precedent stands.