@Aqua-Letifer said in Worth a bullet?:

@LuFins-Dad said in Worth a bullet?:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Worth a bullet?:

November's going to be crazy.

On Wednesday, November 5th, I am supposed to move a Yamaha Concert Grand and multiple other pianos into the Washington, DC Hilton for the College Music Society convention. I wonder how that’s gonna go… I’m also scheduled to be there everyday.

Holy shit bring a flak jacket.

Just stand outside the convention with a "Rach 3 Ossia cadenza > Toccata cadenza" sign and see who really gets fired up. (BTW the Ossia is way better IMO)

From @George-K 's data link. Red line is a 15-year moving average. The next chart is average sea temperature. Anyway... conclude what you will. I think there is some correlation, but not as much as some folks want you to believe. Note the above is in the "opinion" section.

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Ha... back in Virginia when I replaced a bathroom vanity mirror I placed a skeleton toy behind it with a note that said "Finally, I've been dying to get out" or something stupid like that. One day it'll be found...

One of the guys I went to high school with, worked his butt off at different PT and odd jobs. His mom and dad helped him go to college, but he bought his own vehicle once he had enough money.

A solid blue 1978 Chevy C10. 256 in-line 6 with a three speed. I think the only options he had was A/C, AM-FM radio and a cigarette lighter

IIRC, he paid a little over $4000 for that truck.

@George-K said in Tat Stats:

"I've seen old tattoos...."

😂 😂

I was thinking of you and that statement. LOL

@jon-nyc said in The Exploding Pagers:

@bachophile

The EF English Proficiency Index puts them below Italy, Spain, and South Korea

https://www.ef.edu/epi/

I would like to know how they do that. Not sure I agree with it.

For example, India has 13(?) official languages but the one common one is English. I suppose if you look at the total population, including the poor, illiterate ones, then maybe.

Also, ranking South Korea above Thailand (and by quite a bit) does not match up with my experience. Of course, Thailand has a much larger population of poor people, so that may dis-help with the ranking.

So monreg71, tell us a bit about yourself and how you found our corner of the internet.

https://deadline.com/2024/10/denis-villeneuve-dune-3-plans-1236119697/

Denis Villeneuve says that his “break” is over and that he will ”go back behind the camera faster than I think” to film the third instalment of his “deep” immersion into Frank Herbert’s Dune universe.

“I’m in the writing zone right now,” the filmmaker says, referring to Dune: Messiah, though he was careful not to call it Dune: Part Three.

Villeneuve insists that Dune: Part One and Part Two are ”for me like one entity. It’s a movie made in two parts. It’s finished, it’s done.”

The Canadian-French director says that he could have stopped at Dune: Part Two, “but yes, like Herbert did with Dune: Messiah, I think it’ll be a great idea to do something completely different. The story takes place like 12 years after where we left the characters at the end of Part Two. Their journey, their story is different this time, and that’s why I always say that while it’s the same world it’s a new film with new circumstances.”

That new movie, he continues “will finish the Paul Atreides arc.”

Somebody is losing a job.

Segregationist.

I am too lazy to read her work. So I’m just going to key off the term “Rhode Scholar” and believe that she has better-than-even odds then the typical Ivy League B.A. degree holders to make it to a somewhat influential public policy position.

I don’t know why he doesn’t just promise to remove tax for anyone who votes for him

No, FFP.

Fat Flute Player.

Stupid. I can get them 1800 Haitians working at $15 per hour. That’s total, mind you, PPG won’t have to pay FICA or benefits. Or overtime, for that matter. All I need is for Jon to help me finance buying a couple of buildings…

Left or right?

I want to grow up to be the guy that did the measurements in @Jon s thread.

Glaring admission.

Another one that deserves an honorable mention, from back when A&E actually made some pretty decent tv movies... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287535/

@LuFins-Dad said in Accept Cookies?:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/oakmont-bakery-presidential-cookes/

TLDR: Trump’s up 21,000 to 6200.

If you adjust for average BMI by party affiliation that’s a dead heat.

I’ll be impressed when one of the judges is an AI