How’s it going, everyone? Are we still following the “Safer At Home” or “Stay At Home” rules? I hope so.

Here in California, I’m hearing we will be on those orders until at least the end of May. That means another month and a half of working from home for me with the occasional trip into the office. On the bright side, people are slowly realizing that this working from home stuff is not only possible, but has some great benefits for the environment. I’m hoping those companies, like mine, that have been hesitant to allow telecommuting will change their minds.

Having less people on the road and less pollution in the air is a wonderful thing.

Many things happened at DFO last week. Let’s talk about them.

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BC Dick’s Curling Updates

Our awesome Master Curler has come up with a wonderful idea to keep us in Hot Curling Content until the league comes back. He’s taken a page from Senor Weaselo and come up with a wonderful Women’s Curling Championship Poll. Here are your winners from Week Three:

and

Your Final is Canada v Sweden for all the marbles and the glory!

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Psych Marathon Update

I have finished Season 8 and, with that, the entire run of Psych. I didn’t quite enjoy the final season as much as I enjoyed the others. You can tell that they knew the show was ending.

On the one hand, it turned out to be a good thing because they were able to tie up storylines and come up with a satisfying ending to the series. On the other hand, you can tell that the chemistry was still there and they were still running at full strength.

It doesn’t surprise me that they ended up doing a movie after the show ended and just recently finished filming a second movie. That was supposed to air in April of this year, but with everything happening, the premiere date has been pushed out.

I do hope it does well when it finally airs. The chemistry of the co-stars was enormous and the writing was still of high quality. Unfortunately, the USA Network, at the time of Psych’s cancellation, was moving away from scripted shows and heading towards whatever the fuck they’re airing now.

I honestly don’t know. The last thing I watched on USA was Temptation Island and everything else I see in the channel guide is a rerun of something,

I know that USA Network decided to run a Psych marathon this month and is promoting it, but I recommend watching instead on Amazon Prime. You have no commercials and can zip through entire seasons much faster and on demand.

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Since I’m now out of Psych episodes, I’ve started bingeing other things. Rather quickly, I finished Season 4 of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix. Damn that is a fun show! If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend a binge.

I also finished watching the three seasons of a German show on Netflix called “Babylon Berlin”. It’s a police drama set in Berlin in the roaring 20’s that deals with post-WW I politics, sexy hijinks, and a police inspector dealing with PTSD through heroin. It’s very well-made and I found myself understanding German better as I ran through the episodes. Next time someone tells me something stupid, I’ll reply with a nice “Vas?”

I also just finished watching Hot Roads on Amazon Prime. It’s an 8 episode series on some of the craziest roads in the world. As expected, they included the Bolivian Death Road featured on Top Gear with James May, Jeremy Clarkson, and Richard Hammond. There were also Russian and Canadian ice roads, Tibetan and Indian high-altitude roads, and some other randomly dangerous roads. I suggest a watch, it goes by fast.

Lastly, as I mentioned last week, Amazon Prime has picked up all of the James Bond films for the month of April. I’m planning on watching every single one, in order. My first post on the Bond films of the 1960s will publish this week.

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The Week in DFO

These are the things I read in DFO this week that reminded me how much I love this site:

Let’s start things off with a reminder that there are a lot of good films to watch while we’re stuck indoors:

and a reminder that Spring is starting:

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BANKS!

– Federal Reserve

Mr. Ayo

BANKS!

– Me, when asked about my favorite Elizabeth

Dunstan

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What a subtle way to train young women not to use their hands as they try and swallow something.

ArmedandHammered

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So it’s not just Agholor but his entire team that drops the ball…

Senor Weaselo

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Found a funny:
Alanis: I’m a bitch, I’m a lover, I’m a child, I’m a mother, I’m a sinner, I’m a saint
Barrista: I’ll just put Alanis

h/t rockindog

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If you haven’t taught your kids how to play “Mix Daddy a Martini,” then I don’t know why you bothered to have kids in the first place.

Dunstan

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My Mom has called me twice and spent an hour trying to copy an email on her phone she can send it as a text. Please kill me

Low Commander

Did she try turning it off and on again?

Litre_cola

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So you’re saying that Ann Hart was a bad University President?

nomonkeyfun (read Blax’ whole piece, it’s great!)

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I, for one, welcome our new poutine-and-enchilada-producing overlords. Looking forward to the extra “u’s” and the upside down exclamation points and questions marks. Can I have some of that sweet sweet north-of-the-border socialized medicine?
Do Canadians pronounce it “aluminium” like the Brits? I like that, too.

Viva La Tabula Raza

They spell it like that, too. We do not. Canada gets to play both sides. Half our shit is metric and half is standard. And it’s not defined, it can be mixed and matched. Grocery stores here advertise in per pound and then price it in the store by kilogram. But only some of it. The rest is done opposite.
We’re like a mistress with two phones. We know we should be with the brits but there’s a real history there. And then those Americans with their big Hollywood movies and shiny guns. We try to resist. We act superior but only because England does it to us. And don’t even get started on France.

BC Dick

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I don’t know why the Falcons went to all the trouble to design those new uniforms when they could have just gone to Goodwill and bought 53 Red Bull- and vomit-stained No Fear t-shirts for like a hundred bucks.

WhyEaglesWhy

“Feeling a bit disrespected right now.”
-“Who Farted?” apparel

scotchnaut

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You know what this war needed? Some of Marty Mornhinweg’s wacky weapons.

Rodney_Peete_is_1337

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“Did someone we hate die?” – Dr. Mrs. Deadly, Esq. (ret), upon hearing my shriek of joy upon seeing this posted.

RTD

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When a blanco comes along
You must mix it
You should never wait too long
Until you mix it
Before it goes away
You must mix it
Now mix it
Into drinks
Drink it up
Get crunk
Lean forward
Fall on your head
Try not to retch it
It’s not too late
To mix it
MIX IT GOOD

SonOfSpam

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“Your love of shitty music knows no bounds. Trust us on this.”
-Green Day

scotchnaut

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I’ll say it: I miss Australian football

BFC

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Anyone else go to Catholic school and have to spend three hours on your knees in church on Good Friday? Fuck that, Jesus!

Gumbygirl

If you had better technique, it would have been over in five, ten minutes, tops.

Dunstan

I earned my chocolate bunny and peeps the hard way!

Gumbygirl

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Found a funny:
Business casual is now grey sweatpants.

rockindog

pants?

Balls

I saw a tweet that said “if you’re still wearing pants, you’re a cop”

BFC

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Honestly, this doesn’t make any less sense than your “normal” soccer posts

BFC

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Thank you to everyone one for providing quality gifs to keep us entertained as we are quarantined in our homes. You may now resume working on your fingering skills:

Please stay home and avoid other people. King Hippo approves this message. See you next week!