Wow. Always been a fan, but that holy shit. With the short hair, mother of Bleergh. Dear God. Holy Jesus. What I mean to say is, um, yeah, she’s really purty.
Mark Bowen?
I love his stuff. Guests of the Ayatolah was something else.
It included a line that made feel proud of the America I grew up in and ashamed of the country it has become.
When the Iranians were releasing the Americans, one of the Iranians who’d tortured one of the I think, Marinre Guards, offered to let the Marine beat him on his bare feet with a piece of rubbe hose. The Marine said he looked at the guy and said, “I’m an American. We don’t do that.”
Only in Africa would overthrowing a man like Mobutu lead to greater suffering.
Is this rain delay going to be quick? The answer is important for me now that I’m on the last lagunitas. I have to decide if I go to bed or crack open the scotch.
Just finished Killing Pablo (awesome read), about to start Dancing the Glory of Monsters, an historical look on the First and Second Congo Wars. It’s sure to be an uplifting and light-hearted book. I also just ordered All the President’s Men.
I just finished Miles Davis’s autobiography, which was insane and entertaining, and I recently finished book three of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle. Good enough to make me keep going to book four, and worth needing to tell people it’s nothing like that other My Struggle written by you know whom.
You mean the tagalog, Duke, Cowboy/Patriot(depending on the year), Yankee, and Notre Dame fan. The man who was most vehemently opposed to circumsicion, even more so than Andrew Sullivan.
I just re-read Tim Powers’ Three Days to Never, an amazing novel about Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and time travel. His books are always incredible, because he takes a real-world event or person, and then ascribes a supernatural or secret history reasoning for everything that happened. He wrote one of the best spy novels I’ve ever read, Declare, where basically all of the 20th Century is just a way for humanity to gain favors from djinn.
I also just started Don Winsolw’s The Cartel, sequel to The Power of the Dog, about the rise of the Mexican cartels in the 80s. Winslow wrote the novel that the sadly terrible movie Savages was based on, but don’t hold that against him.
Meant to put in for my reading, just finished John LeCarre’s A Most Wanted Man. Really good War on Terror age spy novel. I think one of his stronger books.
Currently rereading for fourth time in last 8-10 years Aubrey/Maturin series.
I don’t usually post pics, but now that I’m back from the bar I’m taking entropy’s admonition to heart. Why aren’t there more pictures of Jennifer Lawrence around here?
Photoshop just crashed on me and I lost an hour’s work on a recent illustration.
I save often, so it’s not catastrophic. But by GOD that was a solid hour with some nice results, if I do say so myself, and I won’t ever get that back. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
I don’t like autosave, because I’ve burned myself in the past with something I didn’t like, closed out, and was stuck with later. Eff that, I will take my twice-in-three-years crashing.
Man, an old version of PS crashed on me years ago, so now I’m all about the CMD+S. Still, you get working away without paying attention and realize, “Hey, it’s been like 4 hours since I saved…maybe I should do that!”
Both teams have monster lineups, and right now the Jays are cold, so I can see wanting to face them. Problem is the Jays can start hitting again at any time.
Sill Bimmons
October 23, 2015 8:20 pm
RWC Semifinal One open thread tomorrow at 2:00 ET.
Should be plenty of time to clear the smoke from teh morning’s futbol.
Both horse and rider were ok. And eventing isn’t the place to look for danger to the horses. Racing first, but that’s mainly due to breeding and the age at which they start racing. Hunters second, because they’re concerned with aesthetics rather than function, so they do horrible stuff like leave side reins on in the stall to fuck up muscle distribution.
I’m right there with you, Sill. I read a few words in there that I thought I knew the definition of, but based on context, am completely lost. On a side note, I now have something to do Monday rather than pay attention at work.
What exactly do you mean by Hunters? Are you talking about horses that are used for Fox hunting? BTW, not a fan of it for the most part today, but I understand the importance in more agrarian societies.
Not fox hunters. Hunter/Jumper is a sort of equestrian competition. It is based on fox hunting, but the separation is far enough away that it’s kind of a football/rugby type split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_seat
Read up on dressage. It’s my favorite, has a great military history, and is basically impenetrable to the casual observer. The pursuit of perfection is never boring. Or just look up spectacular cross-country falls. That’s the equestrian equivalent of a hard hits compilation.
Probably the most obscure thing I’m talking about there is the side reins in the stall. Side reins are an excellent training tool when used properly. When you lunge a horse (basically putting the horse through their paces on a long, adjustable line) side reins mimic the action of the riders hands, asking the horse to bend slightly to the inside, stretch down through their back, and engage their midsection and hindquarters for a powerful, graceful stride. This promotes muscle growth along the top line of the horse, from the base of the neck, along the back, and through the hindquarters. When the horse is not moving, side reins serve as a tether, pulling the horse’s head towards their chest, with no dynamic resistance or feedback. This promotes muscle growth at the top of the neck, but also promotes the horse holding their head in such a way that it looks like they are carrying themselves using their core muscles. It’s the difference between using resistance bands in a workout and wearing resistance bands while watching TV.
One more thing. Fox hunters are crazy and pretty damn fun. They mostly don’t hunt foxes anymore, at least in the U.S. There’s a pre-dragged trail for the horses to follow, and it’s basically just a crazy ass run at high speed across whatever gets in the way. Especially for the opening hunt there’s a fair amount of drinking before and after. They’re the equestrian version of that crazy friend that you always had fun with, but were never sure if you would wake up in one piece in the same state…or country.
This is the first and only time you will ever see me express this sentiment: can it be Tuesday already? I just want the Series to start. Plus, I’d know if the damn Jets beat the stupid cheatin’s cheater Patriots.
I agree completely with your entire statement. This will be the second time, in my lifetime the Mets have played on my B-day. The last time was game 7 in 86.
Seriously, though… wouldn’t an analytics convention be more interesting to the people who didn’t go, and instead mined the data of the attendees for relevant patterns?
One of these days, one of us needs to live blog an outing at a bar. Kinda like the old Smorgasbord the Mighty MJD used to write but at a bar with no football on.
Next time I go to the Giants bar when there’s no game, I’ll LB it for everyone. It’s usually insanely fun, and random weirdness happens often enough for it to be interesting for those not present.
God how much better would history be if an entire period of American history was just one long sarcastic farce? Other a few presidential administrations, I mean.
I would be the biggest history nerd in the world if at the end of some random 25 year period, someone just wrote “Roll Credits, resume normal operations, we are out of satire mode” at the end of the chapter.
Basically, in hard science, it’s the amount of energy in any closed system no longer available to do work. Or in thermodynamics the measure of heat lost in any exothermic reaction. Or, and this is my favorite, in information theory it is a measure of the level of disinformation in any sampling of information.
Ahhh. It makes sense to me know. Sort of akin to military commander working without fresh and accurate observations, he reorients himself slower, his decisions become less accurate, and his actions become less effective, eventually leading to losing the battle and/or war.
Not really; that wig is FREAKING ME THE FUCK OUT, MAN!!!!!!
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
October 23, 2015 5:46 pm
I just got really good german pretzels with technically stolen and illegally imported lye. Zymm. I take back my earlier comment. Really good bread here in whatever form you want. Still voting you go somewhere else. Here isn’t great.
Vegas is always fun. You could probably go to Vegas during the apocalypse and bet on the winner of the Michael/Lucifer fight, with decent odds and free booze.
Marc Trestmans Windowless Van
October 23, 2015 5:20 pm
I can’t find the Alison Brie pic with the photoshopped head. Here is another one just because
My @ got deleted. I blame you Martin But I can never hold anything against you so I think we are ok. Can we blame Rikki? I picked a name out of a hat and want to blame him.
Jenny Love:
http://www.starer.ru/images/jennifer-love-hewitt/gq-magazine-2001-daniela-federici-photoshoot/1.jpg
Jesús!
Hope Sandoval, Mazzy Star:
http://cdn1.ticketsinventory.com/images/last_photos/concert/H/hope-sandoval/hope-sandoval-tickets-paradiso_13045706889892.png
Scarlett Johansson.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/14e6fa95c3d4502b34bd5f131b442cbf/tumblr_nvuy8bGwTR1ric2iqo1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/06e48caebbd8a6f9c1053ff9c898f4dc/tumblr_ns9aingKBh1qmm37vo1_1280.jpg
Wow. Always been a fan, but that holy shit. With the short hair, mother of Bleergh. Dear God. Holy Jesus. What I mean to say is, um, yeah, she’s really purty.
Man, I wish she was still working:
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu102/zcb/Bridget-Fonda-2.jpg
Alice Eve playing around in the pool.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/7c83800976fd11cfbababdead88d1f5e/tumblr_nvuyg3vW441ric2iqo2_1280.jpg
Delightful
Temperature dipped below 60 again. Sweater weather!
http://i.imgur.com/EQP9P.jpg
I wanted a moaner, but I got a sweater for my birthday.
“…..and that is why dad has eight fingers.”
http://41.media.tumblr.com/bb038f60b5e394945a008f0054fc4957/tumblr_ne9eigvy3r1qksihqo1_1280.png
For the Nice Legs portion of our evening, Leighton Meester:
For brettfavrescolonoscopy:
http://www.loodzwaar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lz_gd_23_01.gif
This week in Nice Jersey.
http://40.media.tumblr.com/5c690f88c80154a12b0c48e19977007b/tumblr_nne53x33vs1uq3x5lo1_1280.jpg
This week in Nice Dress.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/f9549d81253eea996316552499949cd1/tumblr_mov8u1Dlg81srqi39o1_1280.jpg
Jesus. That’s some nice work there.
I would enjoy having a nice coffee with this woman; I’d even consider buying her a snack, perhaps a danish.
One of my favorite pics of Kristen Bell:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/24/article-2090871-116CC668000005DC-489_634x688.jpg
http://33.media.tumblr.com/4eadfb93683c6689483e9a71c6372efc/tumblr_mrgmctF6b81r5k2x5o1_250.gif
Mark Bowen?
I love his stuff. Guests of the Ayatolah was something else.
It included a line that made feel proud of the America I grew up in and ashamed of the country it has become.
When the Iranians were releasing the Americans, one of the Iranians who’d tortured one of the I think, Marinre Guards, offered to let the Marine beat him on his bare feet with a piece of rubbe hose. The Marine said he looked at the guy and said, “I’m an American. We don’t do that.”
Only in Africa would overthrowing a man like Mobutu lead to greater suffering.
Like my love life; reply fail.
It’s actually written by Jason Stearns. I still tolerate your existence, bud.
I meant the Pablo book, bud. But I am glad you aren’t being sent off on iceflow.
Jimmy Howard making some nice stops for the Ice Lions.
I really think we should think we should refer to Detroit’s football team as the Turf Wings.
Done and done
Is this rain delay going to be quick? The answer is important for me now that I’m on the last lagunitas. I have to decide if I go to bed or crack open the scotch.
Start pourin’.
So, anybody reading or recently read anything good?
Just finished Killing Pablo (awesome read), about to start Dancing the Glory of Monsters, an historical look on the First and Second Congo Wars. It’s sure to be an uplifting and light-hearted book. I also just ordered All the President’s Men.
I just finished Miles Davis’s autobiography, which was insane and entertaining, and I recently finished book three of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle. Good enough to make me keep going to book four, and worth needing to tell people it’s nothing like that other My Struggle written by you know whom.
You mean the tagalog, Duke, Cowboy/Patriot(depending on the year), Yankee, and Notre Dame fan. The man who was most vehemently opposed to circumsicion, even more so than Andrew Sullivan.
I just re-read Tim Powers’ Three Days to Never, an amazing novel about Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and time travel. His books are always incredible, because he takes a real-world event or person, and then ascribes a supernatural or secret history reasoning for everything that happened. He wrote one of the best spy novels I’ve ever read, Declare, where basically all of the 20th Century is just a way for humanity to gain favors from djinn.
I also just started Don Winsolw’s The Cartel, sequel to The Power of the Dog, about the rise of the Mexican cartels in the 80s. Winslow wrote the novel that the sadly terrible movie Savages was based on, but don’t hold that against him.
Trying to complete Black Swan Green (David Mitchell) … not quite as good as the rest of his, for me.
Meant to put in for my reading, just finished John LeCarre’s A Most Wanted Man. Really good War on Terror age spy novel. I think one of his stronger books.
Currently rereading for fourth time in last 8-10 years Aubrey/Maturin series.
I don’t usually post pics, but now that I’m back from the bar I’m taking entropy’s admonition to heart. Why aren’t there more pictures of Jennifer Lawrence around here?
http://cdn3.teen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jennifer-lawrence-2011-BAFTA-awards-dress-falling-down-wardrobe-malfunction.jpg
Jose Bautista is a grown-ass man.
Otto’s brain is consuming all the Jell-O shots in the distant past right now.
God damn it it’s Sexy Friday and we are shitting the bed in Spud-from-Trainspotting levels here.
So here’s a pretty picture of the B**** from Apt 23 while I go on a beer run:
http://www.savemefromboredom.com/images/Krysten_Ritter/krysten-ritter-in-bed.jpg
She and her show were greatly underrated.
I have long been a fan, and she looks perfect as Jessica Jones on the new Netflix series.
Plus. she pulled off the greatest non-censored network TV coke joke in history, so she will always have a special place in my heart.
Colin Cowherd ads drive me beyond the brink of insanity.
Conflict works. On your sanity, it appears.
Single play coming up…
Double play coming up…
Photoshop just crashed on me and I lost an hour’s work on a recent illustration.
I save often, so it’s not catastrophic. But by GOD that was a solid hour with some nice results, if I do say so myself, and I won’t ever get that back. Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.
boo
Photoshop NEVER crashes. I think this is a sign that maybe I need to put down the art stuff and get down to serious Friday night drinking now.
No autosaves? Bah. At least you have the experience, FORWARD TO FUTURE ENDEAVOR!
I don’t like autosave, because I’ve burned myself in the past with something I didn’t like, closed out, and was stuck with later. Eff that, I will take my twice-in-three-years crashing.
Ayup, screw autosave. It only saves what you don’t want saved, because it hates you and wants you to jump off a bridge.
Man, an old version of PS crashed on me years ago, so now I’m all about the CMD+S. Still, you get working away without paying attention and realize, “Hey, it’s been like 4 hours since I saved…maybe I should do that!”
Triple play coming up…
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/events/hof_2001/ph_hof_smith235.jpg
Go Royals.
I honestly am not sure who I want the Mets to face in the Series.
Royals.
In any case the AL has to win this one.
Well, true, the AL *does* have to win this one… it’s the ALCS. Sort of implied in the name.
Oh. Wait. That’s not what you meant at all, is it?
I think I’d rather face the Jays. The Royals don’t strike out very much,.
Both teams have monster lineups, and right now the Jays are cold, so I can see wanting to face them. Problem is the Jays can start hitting again at any time.
RWC Semifinal One open thread tomorrow at 2:00 ET.
Should be plenty of time to clear the smoke from teh morning’s futbol.
TOUCHDOWN SEAHAWKS!
Hahahaha come on now they can’t play San Francisco EVERY day.
Doesn’t that image re-enforce the danger to horses that equestrianism presents?
Both horse and rider were ok. And eventing isn’t the place to look for danger to the horses. Racing first, but that’s mainly due to breeding and the age at which they start racing. Hunters second, because they’re concerned with aesthetics rather than function, so they do horrible stuff like leave side reins on in the stall to fuck up muscle distribution.
Just curious, as I know nothing about horses.
That was a thoughtful and informative reply.
I’m right there with you, Sill. I read a few words in there that I thought I knew the definition of, but based on context, am completely lost. On a side note, I now have something to do Monday rather than pay attention at work.
Zymm,
What exactly do you mean by Hunters? Are you talking about horses that are used for Fox hunting? BTW, not a fan of it for the most part today, but I understand the importance in more agrarian societies.
Not fox hunters. Hunter/Jumper is a sort of equestrian competition. It is based on fox hunting, but the separation is far enough away that it’s kind of a football/rugby type split.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_seat
Aaaaaand there goes my Monday plan.
Read up on dressage. It’s my favorite, has a great military history, and is basically impenetrable to the casual observer. The pursuit of perfection is never boring. Or just look up spectacular cross-country falls. That’s the equestrian equivalent of a hard hits compilation.
So, what you’re saying is I have another reason to dislike the Romney’s.
Never too many.
Probably the most obscure thing I’m talking about there is the side reins in the stall. Side reins are an excellent training tool when used properly. When you lunge a horse (basically putting the horse through their paces on a long, adjustable line) side reins mimic the action of the riders hands, asking the horse to bend slightly to the inside, stretch down through their back, and engage their midsection and hindquarters for a powerful, graceful stride. This promotes muscle growth along the top line of the horse, from the base of the neck, along the back, and through the hindquarters. When the horse is not moving, side reins serve as a tether, pulling the horse’s head towards their chest, with no dynamic resistance or feedback. This promotes muscle growth at the top of the neck, but also promotes the horse holding their head in such a way that it looks like they are carrying themselves using their core muscles. It’s the difference between using resistance bands in a workout and wearing resistance bands while watching TV.
One more thing. Fox hunters are crazy and pretty damn fun. They mostly don’t hunt foxes anymore, at least in the U.S. There’s a pre-dragged trail for the horses to follow, and it’s basically just a crazy ass run at high speed across whatever gets in the way. Especially for the opening hunt there’s a fair amount of drinking before and after. They’re the equestrian version of that crazy friend that you always had fun with, but were never sure if you would wake up in one piece in the same state…or country.
This is the first and only time you will ever see me express this sentiment: can it be Tuesday already? I just want the Series to start. Plus, I’d know if the damn Jets beat the stupid cheatin’s cheater Patriots.
I agree completely with your entire statement. This will be the second time, in my lifetime the Mets have played on my B-day. The last time was game 7 in 86.
The most interesting thing I’ve learned at an analytics convention. The Zappos app rains cats when you shake your phone.
There’s a lot to unpack in that comment.
Agreed. No wonder she sent them back in time instead of the future.
Seriously, though… wouldn’t an analytics convention be more interesting to the people who didn’t go, and instead mined the data of the attendees for relevant patterns?
Maybe, but they wouldn’t get the free food and open bar.
Can’t be that good an open bar, you’re futzing about with raining cats on the Zappos ap.
If I was good at networking I wouldn’t be relying on my brains to make a living.
I’d like baseball to introduce something akin to a penalty shot.
Evening folks.
Random landmines in the outfield, Carlin-style?
MULTIBALL MULTIBALL MULTIBALL
Every time I scroll through and read this, it cracks me up. Much appreciated.
Evening, lady and gentlemen.
Howdy.
How many pounds of BBQ have you put away?
Happy B-day, by the way. I think, anyway. I recall you saying something about it.
Evening!
Slow night around this door. I’m heading to the bar.
See ya!
http://img004.lazygirls.info/people/kat_foster/kat_foster_kat_foster_62576111_HfYCNWe.sized.jpg
One of these days, one of us needs to live blog an outing at a bar. Kinda like the old Smorgasbord the Mighty MJD used to write but at a bar with no football on.
Next time I go to the Giants bar when there’s no game, I’ll LB it for everyone. It’s usually insanely fun, and random weirdness happens often enough for it to be interesting for those not present.
I love bars like that. There is one close to me where some weird random thing has happened every single time I’ve been there.
Blazing Saddles was the movie that came closest to capturing the spirit of the Old West.
I will punch you in the face til you accept that as a lie
Punch away….
God how much better would history be if an entire period of American history was just one long sarcastic farce? Other a few presidential administrations, I mean.
This is how I imagine the Teapot Dome Scandal
I would be the biggest history nerd in the world if at the end of some random 25 year period, someone just wrote “Roll Credits, resume normal operations, we are out of satire mode” at the end of the chapter.
I assume this is what will happen after a successful Trump presidential run.
I will post 50 pics just because. 20 more because. That second sentence was random. You are just dealing with a drunk assholel
I am much too lazy to follow through
I like reading your comments, MTWV. You’re like our very own Charles Bukowski.
If he hits on ONE twelve year old, I’m out.
But twelve year olds deserve to be smacked ever… Oh, never mind carry on, good sir whos name describes so many seasons for our Metsies.
But not this one, and that’s what matters.
Remember, though, in any closed system, entropy tends toward the maximum… and they usually close the doors on bars. This is important information.
I hate when they close the doors on bars. I can’t anything to drink.
In all seriousness, I really don’t remember much about entropy, in the technical sense. Too long since I had a hard science course.
In my soft science like brain I always remeber it from Yeats’ “The Second Coming”.
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold…
Basically, in hard science, it’s the amount of energy in any closed system no longer available to do work. Or in thermodynamics the measure of heat lost in any exothermic reaction. Or, and this is my favorite, in information theory it is a measure of the level of disinformation in any sampling of information.
Ahhh. It makes sense to me know. Sort of akin to military commander working without fresh and accurate observations, he reorients himself slower, his decisions become less accurate, and his actions become less effective, eventually leading to losing the battle and/or war.
The OODA loop by Col. John Boyd USAF.
Drinking Night Train on a night train?
Sitting in a hotel bar in downtown Memphis. Finally checked in to my room, gonna get some barbecue and drink.
My name is King Hippo and I approve this message.
Why would you believe what I said? Have I been honest once?
Now that comments are working. I hate you… I can’t lie I love you
Zymm is accidentally linked to comment. ignore me
I will never win Zymm back. She will accidentally accept me back or show up at one of the many shitty Chi places… yeah on team she hates me
My mom just tried 2 calls to get ahold of me. Zymm gets this
http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzAxLzI4L2I1L3ZpbmRpZXNlbC41M2ZkMy5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgkxMjAweDYyNyMKZQlqcGc/ab63366d/5c5/vin-diesel.jpgphones
I back up my comment with… Fuck what I say Zymm wins
That image picked random words. Ok I know I am fucked anyways
He’s bringing sexy back.
http://ian.umces.edu/imagelibrary/albums/userpics/10001/normal_iil-ian-aj-0172.jpg
I figured this would be in Sexy Friday. It’s from Emily Ratajkowski’s Twitter with the question “Debbie Harry Haloween?”
http://41.media.tumblr.com/bd3b109a2d0b7021332d9611476ed58e/tumblr_nwox9bsq5Z1syvjuco1_500.jpg
Emily Goes Tranny?
speelin iz hradt yu guys
Moose just came.
Not really; that wig is FREAKING ME THE FUCK OUT, MAN!!!!!!
I just got really good german pretzels with technically stolen and illegally imported lye. Zymm. I take back my earlier comment. Really good bread here in whatever form you want. Still voting you go somewhere else. Here isn’t great.
The default option is always Vegas. I’ve never actually spent a football Sunday in Sin City, could be fun.
It’s a truly fun experience. The sports books are a blast on football Sunday.
But they are packed.
Vegas is always fun. You could probably go to Vegas during the apocalypse and bet on the winner of the Michael/Lucifer fight, with decent odds and free booze.
I can’t find the Alison Brie pic with the photoshopped head. Here is another one just because
http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Alison-Brie-GIF-01.gif
Hello Memphis!
My @ got deleted. I blame you Martin But I can never hold anything against you so I think we are ok. Can we blame Rikki? I picked a name out of a hat and want to blame him.
#wouldpen
Oh god damnit. I have to go pretend to be sober again because my ice has melted. I smoke half cigs, I should be able to fake it but I can’t
That might be a real pic but it looks like Alison Brie’s head was photoshopped on