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Homercles

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  1. Just rented it, and can see why this was an excellent pairing with Barbie…watching it after Oppenheimer would be like a sweet, simple dessert after finishing your shag roll at Uchi. In the same vein, Oppenheimer paired well with my on/off fascination with nuclear weapons. I’ve long been enamored with the assembly, operation and controls surrounding them but cared little for the personalities behind one of the greatest wartime engineering undertakings ever. Stuff like Always/Never (Sandia labs video), Swords of Armageddon and Dark Sun fascinate me. Therefore I’m more fluent on exploding bridge wire vs slapper detonators than I am on Oppenheimer’s role in the Manhattan project…or know more about the Teller-Ulam design than what Edward Teller was like as a person. “Oppenheimer” helped fill a void for me. Regarding the movie itself, I really enjoyed it and it left me with one of those ‘existential dread’ feelings that a smart, dialog-driven drama should. It also captured, very well, that transitional period where things went from an urgent wartime science problem into one dominated by the massive government/military personalities over their use. The fact that I missed so many cameos is testament that the story and personalities were the real star. Bravo. Was definitely a Nolan film with non-linear flow, challenging plot points and lack of cgi. I happen to enjoy that kind of film, but I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I agree with others in that this mostly wasn’t a “gotta see it in IMAX” due to fewer “holy shit” visual/score combos than something like Interstellar. Anyways, guess the point of my long cat post here is I’m glad I finally saw it and it’ll fuel my curiosity surrounding the people involved in that whole rodeo…but Interstellar is safely still #1 in my Nolan hierarchy.
  2. Was checking out the thread on Airliners.net and some genius said he’d wished Elon would have bought Boeing instead of Twitter…”at least he has an engineering mindset”
  3. Be careful fucking with someone that much taller than you…and old man strength ain’t got no chill
  4. Looking closely at the pic, looks like you can see the ridges where the pen skipped…so doesn’t look like it’s just the case
  5. We need our defensive backfield to grow up in a fucking hurry. Kills me seeing Jabbar tearing it up with Washington.
  6. Warning: long cat Yeah I don’t know how I feel about that…Rangel didn’t look all that great, and we haven’t even seen Flores yet. Obviously everyone will key on Ollie, he’s likely to get injured at some point, and our defense just isn’t at ‘21 levels to roll with a fully one-dimensional offense. If someone can beat the ‘back-foot throws into coverage’ out of him, and he plays up to his Bedlam-level potential…he’d certainly be more than serviceable. Obviously he knows our system and got us to ten wins, also he overall strikes me as a good ‘kid’…and that still counts with me in NIL/Superleague Land. Gundy always goes with experience and we will be opening with an FCS Team that’s vying for the title this Sunday + Arky so a big step up in noncon and a lot more road games = someone getting ready to withdraw social security ‘under’ center suits me fine. Weirdly I’m sad to see lil Gundy enter the portal. That designed QB run to the corner of the end zone against Aggy was creative, and the kind of ways to solve red zone woes when there’s 8 in the box eyeing Ollie but no respectable threat of a quick slant, effective screen or rub to the flat. I could use a JW Walsh clone in my life. Gundy knows we aren’t Tier 1, and never will be. There’s still a ton of opportunity for a school like us to be an attractive option for players to commit or transfer to, develop in a stable system, practice their craft and win a lot of games. The 12-team playoff presents a lot of opportunity to still be on the national stage occasionally and I hope all the donors ponying up to keep our core OL/RB/WR are rewarded with a successful season next year. And I love gundy as our coach. I hate his track record with QBs, wish he’d get a new OC, that he apparently watches bullshit OAN, and can be a total bonehead…but he loves my school, treats his players right, cut Tyreek Hill immediately, and obviously has character, not a bowl of dried rabbit turds like a Ryan Day.
  7. That woulda been a Georgia/FSU-style beat down of epic levels
  8. Yes I walked in intending to return my $300 tree for $300, but the lady in CS pulled up the more recent $400 purchase without asking me and refunded the new, $400 tree. It happened quickly, there was a big line behind me, and I assuaged my guilt almost instantly. This wasn’t Lucy In Disguise. I adopt a Costco-first policy whenever possible…playgrounds, TVs, my outdoor fridge, etc in addition to the basics. They’ve made thousands off me in profit, and their cheerful willingness to make a small mistake in my favor absolutely endears them to my future business. One time the ATM at a bank gave me an extra $20, off the dozens of times I’ve paid $3+ to use that machine. I didn’t run back in, breathlessly, to alert them. Didn’t mean to thread derail, and I don’t make it a habit to game ‘the system’…my meandering point was it was gratifying to have ‘bank error in your favor’ for once as it feels corporate greed has reached intense levels, esp since Covid. The famously slow government is looking into frequent flyer programs for fucks sake.
  9. So next flood we’ll get bodies in trees?
  10. Uh oh I’ve got Slorch wound up
  11. Head shots to people with a helmet on is some real Joe Rogan-level reasoning right there
  12. Thought not fully in line with the intent of this thread…I had one of my patented ‘rants to sef while driving’ yesterday. I accidentally broke our Christmas tree, bought at Costco a decade ago, by storing it in the bag, upside down. Ran to Costco and bought another one. Returned the tree yesterday, they took it with a smile and gave me $400 back. The conundrum is the lady didn’t ask if it was the old $300 tree or the new $400 tree that broke. She actually thanked me for ‘being the reason I have a great job’ after I apologized for hauling in a huge box on a cart. Costco is one the least-shitified companies I use on a regular basis and try to reward them with my business when feasible. They have a great return policy, pay their folks well, and don’t seem hell bent on screwing me over for a buck. Thus I felt guilty for sorta gaming the system…but then again, large companies consistently used PPP loans to buyback stock, layoffs happen without remorse, Covid was an excuse to jack up prices long after supply chain issues, and my employer is insistent I waste gas to sit in an empty office to keep tax breaks. The proverbial ‘They’ will take whatever they can get. If I have a loophole available, so be it. Use ad blockers, VPNs, etc.
  13. Maybe they’re interviewing Mike Elko
  14. This needs to be posted in any bowl game thread involving Georgia I’ll do the honors
  15. tOSU going way too slow
  16. Uh oh things are happening. Warm up the bunker
  17. Even when things are happening in this game, nothing happens
  18. Inside zone was working…so let’s try a slow ass pitch, or maybe a post with both DE completely unblocked on a critical third down.
  19. I’m expecting this crew to top the “Aggy called a timeout like 40 seconds ago but we sorta just…forgot? Yeah we forgot, that’ll do…please add 40s back onto the clock” that happened in our game
  20. Hey big play! Is it going to turn? This game: You’ll get a failed trick play, blown run and doinked FG
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