THE BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS AND ETERNALS ARE IN MUTINY!
THE TABERNACLE IS PUTTING THEM ON TRIAL! HERE IS OUR JUDGE NOW!
FINALLY, ZARDOZ MAY REVEAL THE DEPTH OF THE PLOTTING AGAINST HIM! AHH, BUT THE PARSNIPS THAT’S…THAT’S WHERE ZARDOZ HAD THEM. THEY LAUGHED AT ZARDOZ AND MADE JOKES BUT ZARDOZ PROVED BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT AND WITH…GEOMETRIC LOGIC…THAT A DUPLICATE KEY TO THE PARSNIP BIN DID EXIST, AND ZARDOZ WOULD HAVE PRODUCED THAT KEY IF THEY HADN’T PULLED ZARDOZ OUT OF ACTION. ZARDOZ, ZARDOZ KNOWS NOW THEY WERE ONLY TRYING TO PROTECT SOME FELLOW BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS…
NO! ZARDOZ…ZARDOZ…DAISY, DAISY, GIVE ME YOUR ANSWER TRUE…I’M HALF CRAZY… *BLOOP*
Oh dear, please forgive us….it appears someone uploaded The Caine Mutiny into Zardoz’s memory banks. We will go and clean that out, so that you may have the normal, Zardozian experience that you have come to expect. Yes…I suppose that means the Tabernacle will have to provide you links this evening. Very well, here they are for you;
- So, Glibertarians…could you contact the cryptid known as “SEA SMITH” and see if he could handle this problem? At least he will not need a bigger boat.
- The Tabernacle has calculated that this will not work. Expect things to get much worse. Soon.
- Ah, this would explain why Zardoz had been learning Russian. His request for a fur hat and a barrel of vodka now becomes clear as well.
- This story would have been more amusing, had she poisoned her cake, don’t you think? Say, that was rather Zardoz of us, wasn’t it?
Comments
258 responses to “ZARDOZ’S SUNDAY EVENING LINKS – THE ZED MUTINY”
Mutiny? First!
I don’t think there’s a lot of baking going on in male prisons. Even in Europe.
Also, I have now turned on confirming Brett Kavanaugh. Not for the rape, but because he was drinking illegally.
You don’t think that there is a lot of pound cake or hot cross buns in male prisons?
*golf clap*
Salads were tossed.
You don’t think that there is a lot of pound cake or hot cross buns in male prisons?
Do those include frosting?
Eventually.
I have the radio on as background noise and just heard a news report about how the Dems are claiming the white house is influencing the FBI investigation about the mentally disturbed woman and Kavanaugh. My kingdom to hear Pie tell the media, “No the administration is not influencing any investigations. President Obama left the residence a year and a half ago and we do things differently now.”
This isn’t a criminal investigation to begin with and no conclusions will be drawn so there’s not much to influence. What’s he corrupting here? The 302’s they turn in?
But to connect the dots more explicitly, Obama commented/give an actual verdict on active criminal investigations. Including a rather important one involving emails and his party’s presidential nominee.
Yes, I find it amusing the crack journalists overlook the enlightened one claiming innocence for his soon to be replacement during an active criminal investigation where anyone else on the planet would have gone to prison for what was publicly known.
Still not sure how the FBI are supposed to be “investigating” an event outside of statute of limitations that falls outside their jurisdiction. Haven’t heard an explanation for that yet either.
They’re conducting a background check. It’s not really an investigation. It provides no conclusions of any kind.
And this is different from their previous background checks how? Just looking more specifically at issues specific to that period vs anything else?
It’s an excuse to delay and keep delaying.
Ted is right. But to answer your question, no one was asked about events while Kavanaugh was a minor. Now they will.
Like I said yesterday, the D’s are going to do everything they can to gum up the so called investigation to string it out longer.
Just call the damned vote already.
Sessions and Kavanaugh should “accidentally” meet on a plane this week just to troll the shit out of the MSM.
+1 discussion about grandchildren
3rd
4th. Here’s your participation medal.
The NFL has so jumped the shark. Nearly half the games, no matter the QB’s, are ending in ridiculous shoot-outs. 400 yards passing is the new 300. This isn’t some natural evolution to the game. It’s the result of constant fuckery from Fuhrer Goodell.
Now you know how baseball fans feel.
I would if the AFC made the QB play linebacker.
Lets make the best QB available for either team play ‘all time Quarterback’ for both offences and make the rushers count 10 mississippi before they can rush the QB, that’ll fix everything.
Well, you’re no longer allowed to touch the receiver or the QB. So, this is what happens.
Ya, whatever. Sharks are the bears of the sea. They all want to eat you given the chance.
See my reply on the previous thread re: animated gifs.
Don’t tell me what to do!Ok, will do, thanks.Damn. I was being a smart ass and now I have to think up an idea that is gif worthy. Perhaps me making a Trailer Park Mimosa. I noticed this morning that the sound of the ice clinking against the plastic glass changed as I descended the stairs. I am thinking it was elevation related or more likely climate change between upstairs and downstairs.
There are no ideas that are GIF-worthy.
Likely temperature.
I have noticed that when I pour a fresh cup of coffee and stir the clinking from the spoon changes pitch fairly rapidly, going higher each swish. It is the cup heating up from the coffee.
I mentioned it to my wife and she was startled. She said she had subconsciously noticed that all of her life but never really noticed it consciously.
There are only a handful of species that are dangerous, relatively speaking, but the ones that are really are.
That kid will have an awesome scar to pick up gals for the rest of his life. Suck it up for a month of pain.
I posted this link in a dead thread this morning, but since this is a Zardoz post, I’ll repost it.
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/Zardoz
Zardoz tees.
This pleases this Brutal.
This one too.
Looks like the Browns game is going to OT.
Yep, just started listening to it in OT. Last I saw on Google’s updates was the Browns had the ball deep in Raiders territory with less then 10 seconds to play. What happened with that?
Semi-related… Has anyone else noticed that DuckDuckGo gives you the nice widget for football scores but apparently ins’t interested in hockey? I mean, come on.
Maybe because the regular season has not started yet?
We’ll see. Google has their widget for pre-season.
Conspiracy-Tres says the NFL is doing this deliberately to drag it into kick-off of the Steelers game, so nobody starts watching anything else, and NFL gets that ad revenue.
They’re not competent enough to do it.
I dont know…just look. Game over a scant 9 minutes before Pittsburgh kicks off. If you’re into football, what are you gonna do now? Watch a pre-empted Simpsons, or a DVR’d 60 Minutes of Flake’s bent nose? Or move over to NBC?
I prefer to listen to the games on the radio.
Tube? Or transistor?
Geranium diode.
Can and string.
*searches furiously for Geranium in column IVA of Periodic Table*
Crystal diode.
“Looks like the Browns game is going to OT.”
Commented on that during the game calls earlier in the week. The Raiders O was underestimated. Just watch the replay. Too bad their D sucks balls, otherwise they’d be a top 10 team.
Browns ripped off on overturned 1st down/4th down call.
Reposting for the evening crew – caught a fun flick last night – different than the average matinee. Worth a ticket if you can catch it locally. The colors really pop on the big screen.
BIF News. The initial e-mail has been sent out. If you didn’t receive an e-mail, I don’t have you on the list for the Autumn BIF. If you received a message, you’re on the list. Pretty straight forward.
If you wish to participate shoot me an e-mail at my handle at Google’s mail provider. Reposting from the earlier thread.
I replied to your email.
This isn’t some natural evolution to the game. It’s the result of constant fuckery from Fuhrer Goodell.
The millenials will watch, if total points per game are in the triple digits.
WRT the happenings with ZARDOZ, no matter what happens, let it be known by The Tabernacle that I #StandWithHim
Tucker interviews actual fascist that believes people should be guilty until proven innocent.
Christ, what an annoying asshole.
The ending leads me to believe that Carlson gave her the old Tucker over the desk afterwards.
How many people on the left ever argue in good faith? I can only think of one and I am not sure he is exactly left – Dershowitz. The rest are such shitweasels and wormtongues with ever changing standards, twisted rationalizations and vapid speak. They just turn my stomach.
Dershowitz is one of the leftover holdouts. IOW, he’s an actual liberal, not a leftist. But no worries, him and the other non true-bleebers shall soon be purged.
Add Jonathan Turley to the list. I’ve also been surprised by Mark Penn a few times.
Under pressure concerning the issue of having to prove your innocence, she admitted that this is about denying him the seat on the court. So what she’s really saying is that when it is politically advantageous to do so, she’s perfectly willing to suspend all individual rights, with a smile on her face.
Now that’s an evil bitch.
The girlfriend’s aunt said that she doesn’t want him impeached off the federal bench. But Kavanaugh shouldn’t be on the Supreme Court because he’s a rapist misogynist.
I’ve told the girlfriend I’m going with a two warning limit for Thanksgiving. I host, so my rules. It may be interesting.
If you’re hosting just make every screen in the house either show a Hat and the Hair story or cartoon. That will eat away at their souls too much to complain.
There’s no screens in the areas that most people will be in. There’s a TV in the basement and the bedroom, and no one else should be in those rooms (unless we’re drinking at the downstairs bar). There will also be children present.
Intellectual consistency is hard
Two warnings. You’re a better man than I.
It’s the girlfriend’s only family who will be the issue. One of which has said “[Nephilium] is the smartest person I’ve ever met.” So, I figure two warnings will be fair. My dad’s still a strong Republican, while the rest of my family is fairly apolitical (with the exception of the Brother in Law, who is in a Public Union, but still seems to prefer the Republicans).
I’ll be wearing the Still Like Beer Kavanaugh shirt though.
Might have been posted already, but Aydin had a great segment in her last stream about “vocal fry” (clip starts around the relevant timestamp so you don’t need to listen to the whole thing). Presumably a psych prof. would be somewhat familiar with the concept and it’s implications.
“While we all know that pee is stored in the balls, I have some qualms about the claims that laughter is stored in the hippocampus. ”
I am a bit buzzed so I have to ask, Am I missing something here? What the hell is she talking about? Humor?
“pee is stored in the balls” is an internet meme.
So you are saying I need to get out more? I hate going out.
If by “internet meme” you mean “physiological fact,” then yes.
Pee is stored in the balls and semen comes from the base of the spine. Didn’t you take biology in high school?
“Do you know who Alexis’ mystery man is? If so, email heidi.parker@mailonline.com”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6224641/Sports-Illustrated-Swimsuit-model-Alexis-Ren-slips-bikini.html
I soooo wanna send her something with “Brett Kavanaugh” in the subject line…..
Do I care who Alexis’ mystery man is?
Well it ain’t me.
“Sorry, Tom, I cannot name that man-bun.”
Meh. She’s no Kathy Ireland 1984.
Pics?
“Meet Mel, she doesn’t have time for the patriarchy. #Charmed premieres Sunday, October 14 on The CW!”
https://twitter.com/cw_charmed/status/1045780185151352832
OFFS
The CW is still around?
It’s being supported by Supernatural and the DC Arrowverse shows (both decent).
Ever notice that in 100 years the USSR produced practically nothing in the way of art or entertainment?
It indirectly produced Bernie Sanders, in the way that classic blues produced Led Zeppelin.
Good pick of the movie. The caine Mutiny is a good picture and an effective leadership tale. My complaint is that it needed another 10 minutes to resolve the characters. That was part of the genius of the book.
“California is 1st state to require women on corporate boards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has become the first state to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, one of a series of laws boosting or protecting women that Gov. Jerry Brown signed Sunday.
The measure requires at least one female director on the board of each California-based public corporation by the end of next year. Companies would need up to three female directors by the end of 2021, depending on the number of board seats.
The Democratic governor referenced the objections and legal concerns that the law has raised. The California Chamber of Commerce has said the policy will be difficult for companies to implement and violates constitutional prohibitions against discrimination.
“I don’t minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation,” Brown wrote in a signing statement. “Nevertheless, recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message.””
https://apnews.com/8d8da31d577b4e63bf1a13154b1de75c/California-is-1st-state-to-require-women-on-corporate-boards
Huh. My last company had a woman on the board and I doubt she was some quota either. Companies are quite capable of signaling without the State forcing them to. Maybe she even earned it! Crazy, I know.
I don’t know about you, but I’m done with this shit.
I can’t imagine such a thing not getting shot down in the courts.
Also, who wants everyone thinking they only got ahead because of a quota?
Progressives, obviously.
“Also, who wants everyone thinking they only got ahead because of a quota?”
There are plenty of people who are fine with that. And a lot who are not. We have to force the ones who are not, because equality.
You’ve never heard of the ninth circuit?
In the 90s, a company I worked for had not one, but TWO women on the board….and we even had a west coast presence in Baldwin Park, CA.
How could we possibly have been so woke, so long ago?
So this is another instance of this asshole stating that something is a bad or unworkable idea but it is good because reasons.
Progressives want total power and to rule with an iron fist. You can only do that if the people you want to rule are weak. This is about creating incompetence in individuals and institutions.
So Moonbeam even acknowledged that the implementation “may prove fatal”, but signed it into law anyway? So he’s knowingly in favor of killing California companies in order to push liberal feminism another step forward?
Damn, that’s cold.
Well, this is the same guy who said that raising the minimum wage was bad policy economically, but the right thing to do. Nice that he thinks making people unemployed is the right thing to do. But yeah, that guy.
The man needs votes, just like a junkie needs a fix.
So A) Corps in CA will all have a new board position – Management Efficiency Facilitator
or B) Corps will all move to incorporate in other states
“…recent events in Washington, D.C. — and beyond — make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message.”
Shorter Moonbeam : “People in a free country aren’t doing as they are told.”
What really annoys me, well OK, a LOT of things annoy me about proggies. Actually, everything about them annoys me. But one thing your post reminded me of, is how they want to force women into the workplace and into jobs that they may not be attracted to. Sure, plenty of women are great in the workplace and in leadership roles in those workplaces. But there are also plenty of women who do not want to work and would rather stay at home, especially those with young children. But the progs are having none of that, they want to dehumanize women who want to stay at home. I hate them, to put it mildly. They’d have us all living in Soviet style work camps if they could.
I hate them too.
Publicly traded does not equal publicly owned.
So pretty much this is another reason to make businesses leave California. Got it.
Lately I have heard some CA politicians say they are fine with the middle class and companies fleeing the state and at least one saying he was glad they were leaving. It is Obama level stupidity.
I’m fine with it too. Until I’m told I have to pay for CA stupidity and malfeasance, that is.
But… the income inequality!
Glad to at least know they don’t want people like me. Good thing there are lot more states to choose from.
Wait til its expanded to companies doing business with the State of California or have a “presence” in the state, however tenuous.
While determining which swamp creature to send to D.C. as a state senator, I look up both Rick Scott’s and Bill Nelson’s pages. Nelson’s says how Rick Scott and his “right extremist” allies have outspent him 5-1. If Rick Scott is “far-right”, I’m just gonna write-in Augustus Sol Invictus for the hell of it.
Rick Scott is the nation’s craziest looking candidate to be sure. He reminds me of Heaven’s Gate’s Marshall Applewhite-I think it’s the eyes.
Actually I’ll simplify this for you, he’s one of ours. And so is Bill Nelson. Now it’s up to you to not let the wrong Lizard win.
I didn’t call the man “Skeletor” for nothing. And yeah I can see where he looks like Applewhite. Too bad no applesauce and vodka this time though.
Whenever you can see the whites of someones eyes over the top of their pupil for more than just a second or two or not during exaggerated facial expression…watch out. You are looking at a moonbat.
+1 Steve Forbes
Otis Rush died
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/inside-edition/chicago-blues-legend-otis-rush-dies-at-84/1487207025
I’ll give the old boy a listen when I get home. But hey, at least we still have Lou Reed right?
-1 YYZ
Dowd never disappoints. https://mobile.twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/1046557614526615553
Wow. Thats some real stupid alright.
Never starting with themselves.
All of that shit presumes you didn’t earn your position. Dowd can kiss my white ass.
I was expecting a different Dowd.
This one’s even worse.
Are they related? That would make the article even dumber.
Christ, he was the 2004 campaign manager for Bush. Now I hate Bush even more than I did.
And he’s dating Maria Shriver. So he’s a wannabe Kennedy. Figures.
What an asshole.
That explains a lot.
Removing competent individuals based on standards that have nothing to do with competence and replacing them with standards that have nothing to do with competence will destroy institutions ability to function. That is the goal.
There are people out there that want to destroy the system intentionally to wreak havoc, but the arguments I have don’t change whether it’s intentional or not. It’s hard to prove motivation but it’s easy to show the results of stuff like this. Also, if you accuse someone of having ill intentions when they are just being stupid, it becomes harder to sway them. That being said, Dowd is a POS and may very well be a nihilist.
And he gets nothing because teenage girls can’t
danceshake-wiggle-twerk their asses to it.Meant for JB’s post.
Just made my first pan sauce…. red wine, cream, butter, shallots, … delicious.
PS. I need to find a butcher for better steaks. The supermarket ones aren’t thicc enough.
Beef base too.
https://www.amazon.com/Minors-Original-Formula-Beef-Base/dp/B007BEPG5C/ref=sr_1_5_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1538358710&sr=8-5&keywords=minors+beef+stock
Or, if you want to cut some corners, Demi.
https://www.amazon.com/Minors-Sauce-Concentrate-Glace-Ounce/dp/B005AK8G6U/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1538358780&sr=8-3&keywords=minors+demi+glace
Prices are better if you shop around.
Minors is ill af. But its hard to find here, and pricey. I just use that better-than-boullion base more often than not.
FWIW I forgot to mention I used chicken stock. And a bit of lemon juice. (Got the recipe from The Food Lab book.)
I probably won’t do this enough to make use of stuff like tubs of beef base but looks interesting.
Oh and I used cream instead of flour. (Flour?!)
I only use recipes as a basic guide…
Flour is a standard way to thicken sauces (first shaken in a jar with water to make a slurry, usually)
Yeah, I know… I’ve just have terrible experience trying to work with it for that purpose. It came out perfect without it so I’m not changing now…
Nothing wrong with cream.
You could also use a bit of that cab you bought to make a red wine pan sauce.
I did exactly that.
I have some Goya cooking wine I bought for this occasion some weeks ago but the cabernet was telling me to use it instead.
Whoops, missed the ‘wine’ in your description above.
IMO, throw out that cooking wine. Don’t cook with anything you wouldn’t drink.
Glass for the sauce, glass for the cook is the standard technique 😉
Do you have Earthfare out there? It’s an organic grocery store chain that’s much smaller then Whole Foods, but beats the hell out of everyone on prices when there’s a sale. As an example, the one near me regularly does surf and turf deals ($5 Wild Caught Lobster Tails + $6 Grass Fed Filet Mignon is one). They also sell whole Grass Fed Tenderloins for $10/lb on a regular basis. If you don’t trust yourself, they’ll cut them into steaks for you. Those deals have paid off the cost of my vacuum sealer.
*duckduckgo’s*
No.
I found a mom-and-pop Italian butcher that’s a 10 minute walk from me and with good reviews. All the closer ones are halal and while I have nothing against that I do find the service kind of lacking in the places I’ve been.
“Do you have Earthfare out there? It’s an organic grocery store chain that’s much smaller then Whole Foods, but beats the hell out of everyone on prices when there’s a sale.”
Our Earthfare sucks. Maybe each one has different pricing/stocking strategies.
Get up this morning and take a look out the window. Beautiful, sunny fall morning. The view is amazing….uh, where the fuck is the 6 foot high metal fence that was in front of my condo? Typhoon must’ve taken it. It’s nowhere to be seen. Hope nobody got decapitated by it.
Ha, yeah, wife is surveying the damage. Our place is good to go but there’s a lot of trees missing or on top of buildings and fences scattered across the roads.
I heard Kavanaugh did it. Prove me wrong.
I can’t even think of a good way to go along with the joke because it’s so absurd.
The Chuo line wasn’t running this morning either. Kudos to the city when it’s due. They already have most of the trees and other debris off the roads.
The Chuo Chuo line?
Good one, Dad.
I’m glad you are all ok
RIP to the fence, Straf. Lost mine a couple years back so I can sympathize with your loss.
No problem. Could’ve been much worse. That fence was about 3 or 4 meters from my daughter’s bedroom. Shudder to even think about what could’ve happened.
Oh jeez, yeah glad to hear you and your family are all right. Same goes to Mustang and I hope the other Gaijin Glibertariat are all right too.
Sound like you shoulda used some…..[dons sunglasses]….D-FENCE
D-FENS… damn it’s been wayyyy too long since I’ve watched Falling Down.
A little late for Not Adahn, but rent almost any car, and you can fit a Billy Bookcase into it – they’re not assembled after all – I could easily fit the box for one (several plus additional furniture) inside my 2008 RAV 4 by adjusting the front seat and lowering the back seats.
Love the Billy. I’ve lost count of how many of them we have. 10? 12? 40?
Much closer to 40. I can see 15 just from where I’m sitting. I’m not going to go count them all in the rest of the house. And we still have no shelf space for the number of books we have.
Because this week needs to end with a laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzKaOp383vA
LOL
Funny.
Technically, today is the start of a new week.
Love that. I’m on my second chihuahua, and everyone expects them to act like that. With the exception of my Malamute, they are the chillest dogs I’ve owned.
“Wow! Just starting to hear the Democrats, who are only thinking Obstruct and Delay, are starting to put out the word that the “time” and “scope” of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello! For them, it will never be enough – stay tuned and watch!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1046473870650290176
I saw Comey was sticking his nose in the Kavanaugh story. What a POS.
Would it be fair to call Dr. Ford a Frontier Psychiatrist ?
What?
No, but it is fair to call her a frontal lobotomy.
Id rather have a bottle in front of me.
Please don’t call her a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists are physicians who completed medical school and many years of residency and other training to be called that, can prescribe medications and could be called physicians for brain diseases. Meanwhile, you can become a Psy D, or doctor of psychology, from the types of colleges that used to advertise on matchbook covers or now during daytime TV. They mostly do counseling or psychological testing.
That comes as a totally unexpected development. Totally.
I wonder if there will be another allegation at the last minute that the FBI will have to start over investigating.
There is a near-infinite quantity of leftist women willing to lie.
No. Now go fuck yourself.
“Stay tuned and watch!”
I’m beginning to think this is the point of the whole kabuki show. Both parties are getting their bases jacked up for the midterms and I’d bet their donations are up big time thanks to this.
So Elon Musk got off pretty light, then.
Young people are deplorably stupid.
Social Justice is an oxymoron for morons.
I find this guy’s comment interesting:
Enon Knives
Enon Knives
2 days ago
The family is the smallest unit of a society, not the individual. A molecule of sugar is the smallest unit of sugar, even though it has components. Break it down into individual atoms and it is no longer sugar. The family is the smallest unit that has all the properties of a society, just as a molecule of sugar is the smallest unit that has the properties of sugar. Break the family (or molecule) down into individual components and all the properties change. The head of the family represented the whole family just as representative in Congress represented their constituents. One family; one vote. If men led families, and societies was composed mostly of families, then women wouldn’t necessarily need to vote. Unfortunately today, most families aren’t led by men. You could argue that they aren’t led at all, just programmed by Leftist ideology.
Cant argue with that logic.
So orphans can’t be part of society.
Sounds legit.
I don’t know about you, sir, but my orphans do as I tell them. They have no need to vote.
You are missing an opportunity. You are supposed to have your orphans vote as they are told. That way you get as many votes as you have orphans.
Probably some civil rights asshole will come along and try to put a stop to that or maybe force our orphans to not have a full vote…like 3/5ths or something….
what you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Textbook useful idiots.
I
For some reason, I didn’t come across Modern Monetary Theory until today.
OMFGROTFLMAO.
I got a free jar of Tostitos spinach dip. I think I got ripped off.
That sounds horrifying.
It’s like the Jolly Green Giant blew his nose.
It was free for a reason.
Its like you never read Modern Monetary Theory until today.
I’ll just leave this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY
I miss Uncle Miltie. I read Free To Choose as well as Capitalism And Freedom and there was no turning back.
Not totally unrelated, but I wanted to watch something dumb and fun last night, so I put on the new Baywatch movie… and it’s nothing but dumb. The fun is dumb. It’s dumb squared. The movie is, front to back, nothing but dumb. It’s so dumb I felt bad for the couple times I smirked. But mostly I just hate myself even for incrementing Amazon’s view metric for the movie up one.
You could have saved some money and just watched Son Of The Beach re-runs on YT
I watched it on an airplane. It was bad but had a few funny moments. When Mitch talked to Mitch it was genuinely funny.
I made the same mistake about a year ago. Something tells me it was an accurate representation of and metaphor for Miami.
I’m pretty much hate-watching Ballers at this point – the plot is so ridculous – but Rob Corddry is a gem.
And JFC, this episode has gone full SJW.
*Sad trombone*
Shameless has gone full SJW too.
As an aside, actor Kevin Durand looks wildly like Elon Musk, to the point I had to check if Musk was doing a cameo on Ballers.
I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was on Ballers. I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her.
/Elon Musk
His guest appearance on Wrecked was good.
I am bored and cant sleep. I was going to put this up tomorrow for Not Adahn but I will put it up here tonight and maybe rerun it when I see him around.
I built these a few years ago. Don’t laugh, we didn’t have a place to put them when we moved in. I custom built them to fit a long wall in our other house. So now they are stored in the garage. It is three sections, a bookshelf on either side and the center unit is a sewing table for my wife. The shelves are matching 49″ wide, 12 inches deep, traveling from bottom to top the shelves are 18″ high, 14″ high, 12″, 12″,12″, 12″. Total height 7’9″. The center piece is 31″ wide with a fold down table 30″ wide and 60″ long.
One side shelf: https://postimg.cc/68wq9YtW
Outside corner detail: https://postimg.cc/bd7d5q52
Inside corner detail: https://postimg.cc/kBRKVj0W
Center piece: https://postimg.cc/zymt3HcX
Center with table down. The measure on the right side is heavy aluminum and embedded to be level with the table top so she can measure cloth and slide it around without snagging.
https://postimg.cc/Q9617vNJ
That’s really beautiful work. A lot of experience behind those, I suspect.
Thank you. I think we have some others around here with more skill but I learn something new every time I build something. I may catch up.
Tension ball to hold the table in up position
https://postimg.cc/JD7jGR8h
Latches for securing the table in up position
https://postimg.cc/wR7JQF78
The legs are hinged and swing down when the table top is lowered. When up they are held in place with magnets.
https://postimg.cc/Wt3MVpSW
large drawer in center piece. Extra strong and smooth sliders. https://postimg.cc/Lhbj8dbH
That looks pretty modular, why come no put some parts in house? No want break up boudoir family? You for open boudoirs?
Space. I dont have a wall long enough to put it all together. Together it’s about 130″ wide. I dont have 130″ with no windows or other furniture. I hate it because I love those shelves.
It was meant to be three pieces together but currently the shelves are stored in the garage and the center piece in the bedroom. The center shelves were custom sized for her sewing machine, surger, etc.
Also the table height is customized for her. She is 5 feet tall, so it is pretty low.
The whole thing is solid wood – poplar and clear pine – and solid as a rock. It is hand stained with Minwax Early American and hand polished with tung oil.
I have no idea what something like that would cost in a furniture store but I made the whole thing in about a month with less than 200 bucks.
I have double office doors with a tension ball on them. Where did you source yours? I’ve gone through a couple and they were junk. Die cast pot Metal instead of being a machined part. The ball on my doors will occasionally launch out.
Off the shelf stuff. The table isnt used that often so no problems yet. I have the same ones on a set of double doors and a double pantry door. Those give me hell. If I had a dollar for every time I have said “…this goddamned chickenshit mickeymouse piece of shit…” just before I threw some crappy component I have purchased down the hill the wife and I would be sitting on our balcony overlooking the gulf and sipping pina coladas.
I wondered. Thanks. Time to learn how to use my dads lathe and make some brass inserts for mine with tighter tolerances.
I’m impressed with your work but I like Q’s photos better.
That’s awesome. My books are all on piles in my office. What’s laffy taffy btw?
Are you anti Oompa Loompa or something?
I remember taffy just not the laffy part.
The Oompa Loompa part was a clue, and you sir are no Columbo.
That reminds me. Just one more thing….
What you did there, it was seen.
Who? What? I dont know, probably something one of the grandchildren brought here.
Super nice.
That would be really useful.
Thank you. I put a lot of work in those. When I posted the photos just now I was surprised at how dinged up they have become. They are about 15 years old and have survived two teenagers and one move. I should probably touch them up a bit.
And six dogs.
Aaaand I was going to go to bed early, but Venture Bros starts in 5 minutes so… another 30 minutes won’t hurt, right?
…New Venture Bros?
Aye, Season 7. Episode 9 tonight. It’s been a really strong season.
Well, cripes. They’re back at it. How they keep this going, I don’t know. Not that it doesn’t deserve to be kept going, but I can’t imagine who’s paying for it. They couldn’t keep Arrested Development alive past season 3, and the scripting was so tight that the margins bled ink. Venture Bros is episode on episode excellent, and the seasons are consistently excellent. Fucking Rick and Morty think they have a lock on this animation shit, they’re five seasons behind the good shit.
Premiered in 2004, season 7 in 2018. 2 years between seasons, on average. It’s amazing.
The fanbase is crazy-loyal and I think it’s the writing that’s taking a long time – I’d guess they’re not getting paid until they turn in a fully written season, and they have other things going on in the interim, so AS is willing to let them do their thing on their own time.
I’m one of those crazed fans. What are the creators working on besides The Venture Brothers?
Nothing that successful, as I understand it, just a bunch of other interests like bands, side projects, etc. I get the feeling they finish a Venture Bros season when they start to run out of money for their other interests (read: hobbies).
Looking forward to picking up the blu-ray season set – never catch anything on TV lately.
I’ve seen Sinterklaas and some of the other folks listed as VAs on a number of other shows/movies the last few years. I think they’re staying busy in between.
They need orphans who can draw faster, outsource to North Korea, as long as they make Kim Jon Un the main character they’d get a good deal.
Cartoon Network somehow futzes with their shows titles enough season to season that my DVR doesn’t record new episodes. Same thing happened with the last few seasons of Aquateens.
Final episode next week. That has gone by far too quickly, as ever.
A birthday I missed. Met the guy at The Big Steer ( restaurant) when I was in high school. Cool guy that drove a POS Renault or something similar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray
Yesterday was my little brother’s birthday, and I thought about calling him all morning while I was at work (worked early shift) but then I forgot when I was free, made me feel like an ass when I remembered today. But then again, he didn’t call me on my birthday, so should I feel guilty?
I only give one of my five siblings a shout out on his birthday every year. You sound fine to me.
You wouldn’t make a good catholic.
Well, I’m in San Antonio. Not visiting, here for the foreseeable future.
TLDR, we had a lot of changes coming at my (now) former job that I didn’t like the look of. My nearly six years in department weren’t being respected in the new regime. My lease was running out. So, I came to SA, staying with family in the short term. Got an interview Thursday.
Another big reason I came is because mom’s here. She’s 82. When we lost dad in July, I missed a week of work to be here. If/when something happens I’ll be in town, not 2 hours away.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Best of luck with the interview!
*turns lights off*
*searches for light switch in the dark*
Just 2 hours and 5 minutes to go to the links
*twiddles thumbs*
yes, I am at work
There is a creepy guy hanging at my window
*ducks*