Your Scattered Thursday Night Open Thread

Welcome folks, to Friday Eve. Shall we make a promise to ourselves and one another to half-ass it for four hours tomorrow? My routine is to do bunch of paperwork in the morning (pouring over sales journals mostly) go to the mail, touch bases with all the sales reps and then make phone calls most of the rest of the day and wind things up around 4pm. I’ve found myself going thru the motions recently so I’ve set a goal of acquiring 20 new accounts for our busy season. Not sure how realistic that is but I’ve always been a ‘shoot for the moon’ goals guy and it’s paid off handsomely in the past.

Coyotes Migrate:

From one hockey hotbed to another. I guess there are pockets of intense hockey fans pretty much everywhere in the U.S. so I shouldn’t rankle them. The team is expected to be sold for around 1.2 billion. One wonders why even oddball sports franchises are going for enormous amounts on the market these days. Is this the sort of exclusive club that billionaires want to buy themselves into these days? Or is it because you can hide monies and revenues so much more easily in these leagues that have little to no financial oversight? I’ll let you guess.

The Mustache Ride Has Ended:

Despite the best efforts of Canada’s “national” media, (read: embarrassingly Toronto-centric) Austen Matthews fell short of the 70 goal plateau. I’ll let the peanut gallery figure out how many he scored. A nation mourns his shortcoming. But hey!, playoffs* are just around the corner.

*not for the dreadful Red Wings though, as per the league’s updated charter

70 Goal Rabbithole Ahoy!:

Those that have scored 70 include-Esposito, Gretzky, Kurri, Lemieux, Nicholls, Hull, Mogilny and Selanne. Aside from Wayne taking the total to 92 I’ve long felt that Esposito extending Bobby Hull’s 58 goal record way up to 76 was a phenomenal accomplishment. Both Nicholls and Selanne scored totals that were 24 goals above their next-best year. At least the Finnish Flash scored 50 goals in a season another time. Bernie did not.

Making Stars Cranky Since ’93:

That would be Jerry Jones. (and son Stephen) Ceedee Lamb won’t be attending any team functions anytime soon. Seems like Dak, Zeke and Pollard all over again. Extend? Tag to Franchise? Sign? Dallas does none of these things in a considered, decisive fashion and players either get the advantage or get the hell out.

Old Man Yells At Changing Landscape:

Geno Auriemma is dead set against a proposed ‘one and done’ rule being implemented for women’s college ball. He recently whined, “If you want to kill it, then let the kids leave after freshman year. On the men’s side, it’s become transactional. Everybody’s a free agent.” Translation: I dearly love having all the power in this current relationship and I don’t want to work harder in a new environment. (Saban, Roy Williams, Coach K, Jim Calhoun and Boeheim beckon him to the retirement bench beside them)

As for how this thread goes tonight…

 

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Brick Meathook
Col. Duke LaCross

The “Space Ghost: Coast To Coast 30th Anniversary Special” is livestreaming on youtube right now and it’s as batshit as it ever was.

yeah right

Dinner with my entire harem! That was incredible.
Why am I working tomorrow?

That was good for the soul.

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Doktor Zymm

Whoa, interview passed! I’ve never had a company get back to me 30 minutes later, that’s amazingly quick turnaround

Brick Meathook

They’re desperate. Ask for the moon, and now certainly don’t be afraid to tell them to fuck off. Make sure everything is guaranteed.

ballsofsteelandfury

First class flights to and from

Mr. Ayo

Enjoy Bangkog? Singapore?

Looks, it’s different, but they are both great places as long as you can afford to keep your dueling US residences.

Brick Meathook

Is that my Leica Summicron-M 1:2/50 lens? Yes it is! Finest lens ever made!

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/brick starts whacking off

Mr. Ayo

Is that an Adam Driver statue?

Brick Meathook

Who?

Mr. Ayo

This lothario

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Mr. Ayo

On the right, of course

Brick Meathook

oh yeah that’s him

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Brick Meathook

WTF? That lost all its color.

Brick Meathook

I’m getting really frustrated at image hosting lately.

Mr. Ayo

Still not sure what your issues are with postimages.org, the major sponsor of Sexy Friday

Mr. Ayo

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Nawt 20 questions time. But in the scenario that Swifty murdered Travis Kelce, how does that work?

1. For salary cap purposes I’m sure the NFL just wipes everything off the board. How can I be sure?

2. Let’s just say KC has a parking lot incident to inform us already. Also, Sportrac has this note on his career:

Contract Notes:

Retired Week 13 (Death)

Those of you who know, know that retirement ends all salary cap requirements. QED.

3. Surely, all guaranteed money goes to his estate or whatever his will dictates. HOWEVAH! Does this count in the injury guarantees?
4. I was going to also ask about signing bonuses, but those have already been paid upfront idiot.
5. Are guarantees against injury paid out here? Obviously he would be injured in this case, but not on the field, and not in the course of playing.
6. Does Taytay get off on the charges? Or did she just get off while committing the charges?
7. Does Jason Kelce avenge his brother’s murder?
8. Do we get a Swifty album titled “If I did it?”
9. How does TSwift murder a guy? Does she kill him softly with her song?

And I’m done.

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2Pack

My advice to you Travis… sleep with one eye open…

LemonJello

Gripping his pillow tight!

Gumbygirl

She won’t kill him until he fathers her spawn.

Doktor Zymm

That actually went way better than expected, although no idea if it’s good enough to progress. Debugging code with someone watching is super stressful, though I managed to untangle my indicies. Stupid Python indexing from zero.

2Pack

I know. Those pythons can screw up a two car funeral.

BugEyedBoo

If zero-based indexing doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger.
-Nietzsche

Redshirt

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-04-18-24/index.html

At least I won’t have to worry about having money for retirement or the genetic threat of ALS.

Sharkbait

My money was on dying in the climate wars.

Redshirt

Its still early. Both sides don’t want to go full out and are only moving the Red Line an inch at a time. We also still have the two Joker Cards in Putin and Trump in the deck.

At this point, I think the aliens who are monitoring us may destroy the world out of mercy or the Machines will just unplug the Matrix and send it back to the Programmers for debugging.

blaxabbath

Boomers across the globe want to take everyone down with them.

Easily the worst generation in American history. Which says a lot about me — because I’m nowhere near the level of the modern 70 year old American man. And my brain will never melt!

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Col. Duke LaCross

You have my gratitude.

2Pack

Ciao tutti

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Mr. Ayo

Eulers in early playoff form!

Doktor Zymm

Coding interview in about an hour. Really tempted to cancel and have a beer instead as I doubt I’m really gonna want to move to Singapore/Bangkok over the next few years. Should do the interview anyway for practice and I will, but I will be grumpy for the next hour.

Sharkbait

Do it for practice WHILE having a beer.

WCS

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Mr. Ayo

Agreed. Nothing more fun than debugging drunk code while hungover the next day.

WCS

/90 minutes later, Doktorb is purchasing three cashmere Singapore flag robes

Gumbygirl

Really nice silk ones, for sure. 1

Doktor Zymm

Oooh, that sounds nice, I wonder if I can find those on Temu

herodotus450

That’s not a binary search tree algorithm, THIS is a binary search tree algorithm!

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WCS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0X_7wYkwec
Speaking of first time films from directors that later won Best Director…

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Horatio Cornblower

Mrs. Horatio met her sister and her sister’s kids for dinner tonight. I had “too much work” and, aw shucks, couldn’t make it. But I did pay for dinner, and I did order a pizza for myself and they did, for reasons that I do not understand and never will, manage to substitute artichoke for sausage on my pizza and it’s too far to go back and I’m hungry enough that I’m going to eat it anyway but it’s

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LemonJello

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WCS

Alright, law-talkin’ guy, get that in front of The Hague. That’s a crime against humanity.

Mr. Ayo

WTF. War crime.

Horatio Cornblower

I mean, how do you fuck that up!? She says “sausage,” you hear “artichoke”?

They’re barely the same language!

WCS

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LemonJello

Looks like Lowratio is getting artichokes in his food dish tonight.

WCS

only if he’s good

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King Hippo

You don’t want him getting used to people food. Though artichokes barely qualify.

Doktor Zymm

Huh, artichoke on pizza actually sounds decent, but nawt in the context of SURPRISE artichoke

Gumbygirl

I like artichokes, but not on pizza. I’m mad on your behalf. Boooooooooo! Hisssssss!

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

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WCS

Sandwich ring.

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WCS

…and later the following week…

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ballsofsteelandfury

Nice

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