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Homercles

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  1. Man I remember 12+ years ago when I first joined the Shag,  I lurked for a good six months and waded into the waters very gently when I finally felt I had something clever to contribute.  I knew I wanted to be a part of this community but had seen the sheer mercilessness inherent in a ‘room’ full of drunken longhorn lawyers.  

    I’ll never understand ‘people’ who go through the trouble to sign up, and instantly either join a contentious thread or burst in with regarded hot takes given it usually ends up poorly 

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  2. 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.  

  3. 1 hour ago, Wally Fairway said:

    If that is signed on the coin holder, then doesn't that need to be inside another case to keep someone from rubbing off the signature?

    Asking for some friends

    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 

  4. 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.  

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  5. 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.  

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  6. On 12/28/2023 at 7:59 PM, Macanudo said:

    This kind of encapsulates how I feel about American life.   We are all just consumsers.   Corporations don't give a fuck about their employees.   If a few pennies can be saved today by paring down the workforce in order to prop up the share price then they do it.  Regardless of whether they are forgoing real growth 2 or 3 years down the road that returns a significant amount more than was saved.   We have to drive that share prices up now! 

    Christmas is a great example of this.   It's an economic event wrapped in "the reason for the season" bullshit.   It's understandable when smaller businesses dorve the economy but with the emergene of the monopolies and oligarchies, only a few really benefit.  

    We're fucked as consumers and employees.  Corporations have had undue influence on politics for a long time but within the last 15-20 years they have gained such a huge advantage that average people don't matter.  With politicians doing corporate bidding over citizens, we're just fucked.

    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.  

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