Yup! They got the safest of safe Albertan Conservatives to just cuck himself publicly (that’s what they like to say? Right?) for Poilievre’s benefit, because an “unstoppable movement has grown under his leadership.”

1. NFL Football free agency (free transfer)
2. Same
3. American college sports, which is in a bit of an existential crisis because it started 130 years ago as roughly equivalent to Oxford and Cambridge doing rowing regattas, but football and basketball have been “wink and nod” U23 professional leagues for 80+ of them, and the legal underpinnings of its version of amateurism are being eroded in the courts. The “transfer portal” is meant to organize the chaos that comes when athletes request to continue their eligibility for an “athletic scholarship” at a new school.
4. Same
5. NBA basketball mandatory injury reporting.

And I thought… it smelled bad… on the outside!

Fair enough. Is it possible our guy Luthen is growing a conscience? Or at least some better person-management skills?

Folks, I’m gonna say something, and it’s this: IMO this book is pretty bad. I would only recommend it to a dedicated completionist who simply can’t bear to leave any stone unturned, or maybe to people who will simply always prefer books to movies.

HERE is a nice and legal link to some of it.

And here is my take from a post in the dying days of kbin.social. I have read more of it than I had then (probably about a quarter to a third of it), and if the trudge of the plot is often workmanlike enough, I stand by what I said for the passages that are trotted out as something special, but they are not. If anything, they’re the worst parts of it. It’s a work-for-hire adaption of a script that is the worst part of a mediocre movie, one that commits most of the same watchability sins as AOTC. Stover didn’t have much to work with, and maybe sensing that, he overplayed his hand stylistically.

So, the interrogation doctor thing…

Was that Luthen giving them a mission involving some catharis, or did Bix and Cassian go… {lowers KB’s Skeleton Crew shades}… rogue?

Yeah, if Tay died “in a speeder crash”, obviously Vel could have put that together. I guess it still could have been, but I’m persuaded that it must have been something else.

Basically seems like Waltz is the designated fall guy to preserve Hegseth, most likely because Hegseth has a jawline and more pomade.

A figure across the border was noted to have objected, “Bar bar bar, bar bar bar bar bar”

BARBARIANS!

by and large, our manufacturing days are behind us.

I agree, but even if one were convinced that they aren’t, the proper way to do it is to use your congressional majority to come up with a package of actual targeted tariffs that phase in over time and thereby incentivize investment, which you can also do by subsidizing industrial development and getting labor on your side (other than the lukewarm conditional support of UAW and only UAW).

This, though, is a stupid and angry old man desperate for a legacy, being counseled by nativists and Christian Nationalists and nothing is coherent or likely to be effective. It’s tearing down the existing system that, for better or worse, people have had to build their lives around, with nothing more than “concepts of a plan” for how to replace it, and with no real intention to have anything new benefit anyone but the super-rich for whom the worst outcomes are delayed megaprojects and lowered spots on a ranked list of billionaires.

Well, it came out great! I’ve always liked the concept of ortho with normal keycap kitting, though it’s kind of amusing that you went with a custom and unsculpted set for the one and only ortho that didn’t need them. Absolutely no judgment, though. I have spent a lot of time making “bespoke” boards in my garage that are barely any different from commercial offerings.

Is that texture on the case from your build plate or the fancy new topside fuzzy skin algorithms?

Yeah, the dropoff in linear TV viewing is staggering. CBS does the best because their broadcast lineup skews old, not because it’s particularly good. It also makes you understand why the suits sell their souls for live sports (especially gridiron football).

It’s not a super new phenomenon either. The BBT was CBS’s huge comedy hit of the 2010s, but it never had raw numbers that matched “The Single Guy,” a two-season nothingburger that got canceled for not adequately holding onto its Friends lead-in audience.

I guess technically this is a spoiler, so…

• Shop around. For us, PODS was pretty convenient as local storage, but surprisingly pricy for a non-local (~300mi) move. I had a Shopsmith and a cast-iron contractor saw to consider.
• Whether you use movers or not, YOU are the one who knows the machines. Spend time (and it will be a lot) to break them down as compact as they can be. Remove fences, belts, extensions, wings, cutter heads, basically anything that wobbles or offers a point of leverage. Movers (if you use them) know heavy and they know awkward, but they don’t know pulleys, tensioned induction motors, etc., and they sure don’t know that the giant stick of steel tubing is the most precisely aligned part of your saw.
• At least consider selling the big iron. Sawstops in particular hold their value well, and then you can replace with something similar that only had to deal with a local move. Any loss you take should be considered a moving expense.
• Make sure chisels and blades are safely stowed, where “safely” means for both people and edges.
• View the whole exercise as a chance to revisit your tooling, layout, and workflow, and accept now that you will be spending a lot of time reassembling and re-aligning.

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You know what? Go for it. Only existing brands get adapted these days and this is a good one. The book is different from the movie and both are very wink-and-nod about the creative pursuits. Maybe it will be good. Maybe it will suck. More even than other “franchises,” a crappy musical would take nothing away from a good book and a great movie.

An Open Letter to Matt Groening

I may be misremembering, but I could have sworn Groening created the Simpsons for the Tracey Ullman Show specifically because he knew he wouldn’t own them and he didn’t want sign over his Life in Hell characters. They’re sort of just doing what they were created to do. I doubt he could stop the zombie husk of the show if he tried.

Looks to be a late-15th century prayer book, likely illuminated by Robinet Testard and owned by the Count of Angoulême.

Fuck NIL, we need contracts

The genie’s out of the bottle. I don’t even pay attention until the close of fall camp anymore. Figure out a way to retain some essential nexus with the educational experience and sign these kids to three-year contracts with a two year option but also soccer-like buyout clauses.