The New Coffee Room

Jon at the grocery:

“One for the scanner, one for the bag. One for the scanner, one for the bag”…

@Mik said in Hay Lufin:

I've had relatively good experiences with chiropractors. But none of them have ever wanted to get invasive.

There are chiropractors and then there are Chiropractors…

Dropped the car off at the Silver Rock approved car place yesterday. They had given me 4 different places to choose from. There were not highly regarded, but one is considered an above average shop, so I took it there. They need to keep the car for a few days but have started the claims process. Carvana approved extending my guaranteed return date by 3 days to match.

The guy at the shop said they’ve had decent success with Silver Rock approving the claims overall, and he only recalled one that he felt Silver Rock hadn’t treated the consumer well… So we will see.

@Mik said in Hay Lufin:

Ugh. Witch doctor stuff

It was at the team facility. This stuff is pretty common in the NFL. IMO, it’s right up there with chiropractors. Karla agrees. But with a very different slant…

Partially collapsed lung from a dry needling session gone bad. FFS.

The bigger issue here is the disorganization and the clutter. Was her parent's home cluttered?

Ugh. Happy wife, happy life… Keep chanting it…

I’m thinking an infection. But very weird -“all the way around.

Actually met a mental health counselor at a Chamber of Commerce Meeting, yesterday, that looked an awful lot like that. She runs a children’s mental health clinic. She also had They/Them on her name badge.

So apparently the whole cat scene was unscripted and off the cuff. There was a stray cat that had appeared on the set the first day of filming. There are 3 basic stories. One says that that Coppola just had an instant revelation, picked up the cat and dropped him on Brando’s lap. The other says that Brando saw the cat, reached down and scooped him up and Coppola nodded. The third is that the cat walked across the set like he owned the joint and jumped onto Brando’s lap on his own. What all 3 stories agree on is that no verbal direction about the cat was given, that Brando and Coppola both recognized it instantly, that a stagehand came to pickup the cat but Brando stopped him, saying the cat’s the only one on the set that knows it’s cues.

The cat was purring so loud that it actually drowned out some of Brando’s lines. A sound guy was bitching about the noise but one of the grips shut him up, saying it doesn’t matter. A lot of people credit that scene with setting the tone for the entire movie. Showing a tenderness and a compassion to Corleone while calmly discussing taking a life. It both humanized Corleone and made him somehow even worse of a monster at the same time…

Nobody actually knows what happened to the cat after that…

Wait, so are we going to start adding new qualifiers? Like “she’s a Starbucks at 2PM 6, but a Jake’s Pub at 1 AM 9”?

@89th said in Did something new today…:

Cool, or warm, I should say. When we got our van we also got the heated steering wheel which is as fantastic as everyone who has one says, at least if you live where it gets cold out.

I just wish that feature and the heated seats had a remote start function…

So I picked up the car yesterday. Showed up, showed my driver’s license and proof of insurance. They gave me a coin to drop in a slot, but I had Finley do it instead. It was mildly entertaining watching the elevator come down with the car, then it comes forward to you at a window, it spins for you to see it and inspect it, then takes it to a bay for you to inspect it quickly and get it the hell out of there so they can get the next car offloaded. There was supposed to be a test drive and walking around the vehicle to truly inspect and note anything, but the “advocate” just wanted me the heck out of there, giving me the whole “you have 7 days to return it, so don’t worry…

Overall, the outside of the car looked nice, I found 1 issue that I would like addressed (they detailed small scratches in the clearcoat, but I did find one that went deeper. The car was cleaned on the inside, but I don’t think they detailed it, and it needs a wash on the outside. It’s not a big deal, but something that you would get from a dealer. The gas tank was only 1/4 full, too. Again, a small detail that would have been better at a dealer. Also, the interior smelled a little stagnant. Not musty or anything, more just like it’s sat for a good long time.

While the interior is not my color preference, buying used is limiting, and this is a short term car… It was overall in good shape with some nifty features. But on to the important stuff…

It drove great… The sport mode handles nimbly and is a fun drive, especially for a sedan. When I hit rush hour, I switched to eco mode, and the gas mileage was great. The car is super quiet, and Finley fell asleep in the back, so I used the rear window screen to keep him from being baked in the sun. Nice feature. The heated seats were nice and hot, as was the steering wheel heating… Everything about the performance of the car is superb. But..

I did get an AWD alert on my way to the mechanic. It wasn’t an urgent note, but the yellow alert stating it’s performing suboptimal… I already had an inspection scheduled so took it to my mechanic. They performed the inspection and found 4 transfer case codes. These codes are apparently common on Hyundais and are referred to as the codes of death because non-dealers cannot reprogram them. Hyundai keeps the info proprietary, and the transfer case can only be replaced and programmed at a dealer. Aside from that, they found a few issues with the airbags that need fixed, and evidently the undershield was missing and a bumper was replaced with an OEM. The tires on the vehicle are in good shape but cheap. According to the mechanics, getting the undershield replaced and upgrading the tires will reduce the road noise even more…

Except for those issues, everything else seems to be pretty decent and as expected for the age of the vehicle. So we are going through the warranty process now to see how many of these items will be taken care of. If all of the problems are resolved, great, otherwise, the car will be returned or exchanged. I did see a slightly newer and lower mileage Genesis coming available that I might try to exchange for. The exterior color is my second choice, but the interior color is a little better.

@jon-nyc said in The Netflix-Warner Bros acquisition is of Paramount Importance:

Ellison is a trump supporter so I already know how this ends.

So they aren’t going to trans Hermione?

There weren’t any threads about it, but I assume that everyone is aware of the Netflix-WB acquisition, which is sending the entertainment industry and government regulators into a tizzy. This would really result in Netflix controlling over 1/3 of the streaming content available, and would also give Netflix considerable sway over broadcast and cable TV. This is one of those horseshoe political deals where Elizabeth Warren is screaming big corporations = evil, and MAGA conservatives are yelling that Netflix is going to gay up everything. It really is quite interesting, but now there is a TWIST!

Paramount is trying to pull a hostile takeover of WB, offering up $108 Billion considerably more than the $82 Billion offered by Netflix. Part of the difference is Paramount also wants Discovery, while Discovery was not part of the Netflix offer.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/paramount-goes-to-war-with-netflix-for-warner-bros-discovery-with-hostile-108-4b-bid/

Get some popcorn! I wonder if Robin Hood might not choose this time to muck around…

Never heard of it.

Got to see the Browns 2026 QB play last night…

Most likely the kid doesn’t know about the medical problem because they talk 1-2 times a month.

If they talk more often than that, the kid probably doesn’t know about the problem because they either didn’t listen, or actively ignored the issue. Mom mentions Dad’s having trouble sleeping for months… Then his moments of weakness, then even mentions cardiologist visit and the kid chooses to ignore it…

Hockey is pretty cool. Basketball should just give each team 90 points and start the game with 5 minutes left…