Ben Davidson just seems to be an internet nutter, I wouldn't burn the time considering him.
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Yeah, I have an implanted heart monitor now that talks to my phone, it sends a signal back to the docs if anything goes wrong.
My heart has stopped a couple other times, nothing as dramatic as 8 seconds, 4 or 5 seconds here and there. Doc says not to worry as long as it only happens when I'm sleeping and I'm like "Dude! How am I supposed to sleep now?"
They all have apps, so I downloaded each of them and, what the heck, I'll try out all four and see what I like! Might be a good thing to add to year end 2026... "Here's what I read and here's how the book apps compare!"
My kid gifted me a part time job for Christmas...
I had been telling my wife that, yeah, I love our library, but the shelves are 30 years old, cramped and bending. I really should replace them.
Our kid texted her asking what I wanted for Christmas... surprise! 5 new bookshelves showed up.
And I'm like... oh... oh no... You don't understand...
FIRST - I have to empty the 6 bookshelves we have and move them into a back bedroom. But in order to do that, I had to move a bunch of storage boxes in that room to make room for them.
Then, I pulled all the books off one shelf, stacked them up and moved empty #1 into the bedroom.
Books from rack #2 went to empty #1 and so on until all 6 racks were empty, moved to the bedroom, and re-filled.
THEN, I HAVE to do something about the ugly ass wall the bookshelves were hiding. When we bought the house, the only thing I hated was this one wall in what would become the library.
I did a temporary fix by, you know, burying it with bookshelves.
Now that the wall is uncovered again, I'm fixing it for real. I've started by pulling all the crappy wood slats off that the prior homeowner just... stapled up, and I have a guy coming tomorrow to patch and repaint the wall.
So this is where we are right now.
9 AM tomorrow, I have the guy coming to re-do the wall. Once the paint is dry I can build the 5 NEW racks, and re-build the library from scratch. The new shelves are wider and taller and will add something like 200 linear shelf inches or thereabouts.
Pull all the books out of the back bedroom, re-org, and then use those shelves for blu ray and DVD overstock, which means re-organizing the media shelves in the living room too...
And while I'm at it, I may as well replace the two blonde racks in the library with matching ones so all 7 library racks are the same, take the two blonde ones, put those in the living room with the other blonde shelves and then donate two of the smaller ones...
Yeah... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I'm beat, I'm exhausted, my right arm is sore and bruised from moving all those books one shelf at a time and I still have to move them back starting next week. Good god graphic novels are HEAVY! Heavier than "normal" books for some reason. I think it's the paper!
“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,”
A) They were never deployed in the first place and 2) They weren't allowed to do law enforcement at all.
I'm seeing a lot of stories along the lines of "I read xxx books this year" and, well, fuck me, I don't keep track of that kind of thing.
2026? I absolutely will. I don't know HOW yet, but I'll take notes.
You and me both, brother, but mine was January, 2024.
Had my 2nd heart attack in an emergency room, in the middle of a snow and ice storm, as the power goes out.
"OK, you need a stent, but we can't do that here, we have to get you to a different hospital and the ambulance can't get here because of the snow and ice. It's coming."
Ambulance doesn't come. I wake up at 6 AM and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
". . . Um, 'thank you'? I don't know the correct response to 'your heart stopped for 8 seconds'."
"Mister Anderson..."
My wife suggests Rocky Horror, keep Tim Curry.
How many 1/6ers were arrested and imprisoned before Trump pardoned them?
Yeah, they take it seriously. Trump doesn't, but he's a moron.
To impact an election? I guess they could, but that wouldn't impact vote by mail as ballot collection is also done directly by the elections department and isn't dependent on mail.
As soon as they announced a delay in postmarks, people would just stop mailing ballots.
If they did it specifically to interfere in an election, that would be a federal crime and the Post Office takes that shit seriously.
"The rule clarifies that the date displayed on a machine-applied postmark represents the 'date of the first automated processing operation' performed at a processing facility, rather than the date the mail was dropped off."
🤔 Isn't that the way it always worked?
If I go take a card right now, after hours on a Wednesday night, and put it in a blue mailbox, it's not going to get picked up tomorrow because it's a holiday.
It would get picked up and processed on the next mail service day which is Friday, which would be the post mark date, even though it was placed for delivery Wednesday.
We've all seen how Costco, Target, and Walmart have eliminated their Xbox sections, looks like Best Buy is not far behind...
I saw this tonight at the local Fred Meyer store (now owned by Kroger).
When we bought this lovely mid-century modern house a few years ago, my only real complaint was "I hate that fucking wall!"
Short term solution was to bury it behind bookshelves, but it's still there... LURKING. It irks me just knowing it's still there, that half-assed wainscoting made of plywood strips and blue paint.
At a minimum, my plan is to pull the plywood off and re-paint before putting the bookracks back, but there has to be something nicer.
Maybe something like this above the bookracks where the wall is exposed? I dunno. I'm open to ideas.
I had been talking with my wife about long term organizational plans... The bookshelves in the library are 30 year old, bending, crappy plywood that need to be replaced, and my plan was:
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Clean out the back bedroom.
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Get new bookshelves for the library that are taller, wider, and will add over 200 linear inches of shelf space.
Current library:
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Figure out how many of the old bookshelves can be moved into the back bedroom (four! four bookshelves! Ah ha ha! Maybe 5 if I get super lucky.)
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Put the empties in the back bedroom for more DVD storage, then fix the wall they sit in front of because I hate that wall treatment (long story).
Ugly ass-wall:
(It was like that when we bought the house, loved the house, HATED that wall. I need to pull down the plywood slats and re-paint to get rid their janky ass-wainscoting.)
- Put together the new racks and re-assemble the library.
All told, a lot of work. My plan was to do all this a little at a time over a period of months.
WELL... Our kid asked my wife what he should get for Christmas.
Turns out... 5 new bookshelves show up TOMORROW.
I can't be mad... it's a gift. But holy hell... I wasn't ready to start the project TOMORROW.
2 PM showing, 15 minute intermission, back to the car just before 7 PM... that was an experience!
The changes are actually pretty minor:
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The anime sequence that provides O-Ren's backstory is extended, showing how she got her revenge on the assassin who killed her parents, not just the boss who ordered it.
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In the original fight with the Crazy 88, she does an eye pluck and the rest of the fight is in black and white, this cut remains in color for the full run of part 1.
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Part One ends right after The Bride's speech to Sophie, "And I want them all to know they'll soon be as dead as O-Ren." Break for intermission. No cliffhanger.
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Part 2 opens with the Church scene, a recap of part 1 not being necessary.
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Added material after the end credits including a new scene set after the killing of Vernita Greene showing the end of the Pussy Wagon. Gogo's sister flies to L.A. for revenge.
That whole sequence is weird as it's, not kidding, animated in Fortnite and seems to follow Fortnite violence rules. Uma Thurman does return to do the voice of the Bride though.
Overall, it's a good flick, but I think I like the original versions better.
First, the second movie also has sequences in black and white, and because the big fight scene is now in full color, there's no precedent for the B&W footage, it just kinda comes out of nowhere.
Second, the cliffhanger at the end of part 1 is epic, it seems criminal to cut it.
Third, Fortnite? Seriously? They couldn't even be bothered to call the Pussy Wagon "Pussy Wagon", it's "😸 Wagon".
Edit The Fortnite clip is on the Fortnite YouTube channel:
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Yeah, it's not Wonder Man from the comics, but it (so far) looks like an absolute delight! Can't wait!
For the folks going "Who?" Wonder Man in the comics, Simon Williams, is an in-universe Tom Cruise level actor who happens to have been juiced by a mysterious energy and turned into an Avengers villain, briefly:
After that he joined the Avengers as a Thor/Hercules level tank:
Wears red shades because his eyes glow weird: