I know I promised to discuss clueing this time but something else came up. Someone, rhywun maybe, made the statement that they didn’t recognize and would have never gotten the quote in the last puzzle. As far as solving the puzzles go, knowing or recognizing the quote isn’t necessary, I can’t remember a single time I solved a acrostic because I was familiar with the quote. That said, I can see how recognizing the quote or being familiar with the source material may make the solving that much more of a fun experience. Most of my puzzles have come form books I’m reading or a liberty themed quote I stumble across, but I realize they don’t have to be. So this time I took a quote from a movie that, if my guesstimate of the average Glib’s age and tastes is correct, most of you should be familiar with or at least have heard of. The attribution in this case is the character who spoke the quote and the title of the movie. Have fun.
*clicks online version*
“Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.”
That is part of the puzzle- figure out how to solve it. 😛
I still can’t believe this isn’t our logo:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zU6JxBY-sLA/WNQvMEueqRI/AAAAAAAAATk/QW69l-uHPI8RvkO6XwHONBZSfjGdsIPawCLcB/s640/SERmcp2.png
Too complicated. There’s an elegant simplicity to the one chosen.
That eagle is stepping on a snek, which you’re not supposed to do.
AAAAAARGH!!! 😞
*monotone*
You rang?
*/monotone*
So you’re an AAAAAARGHonaut?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNwhr_FDHEQ
Fair warning – stay away from Medea, she’s crazy with a capital Filicide.
What a tease.
A million six with a day to go
I wonder what the reserve is.
Someone’s ex-wife is going to be happy with that sale price.
One of the last truly analog cars.
Maintenance on them is high even by Ferrari standards. And because they are so rare mileage and tracking them becomes an issue. So they generally become part of some guy’s rather large collection.
One of the last great cars you could actually drive without being second-guessed or saved by a computer.
Pre-stability control 911s were pretty fun, too.
+1 snap throttle oversteer.
Lol. Germans.
They were still squirrelly into the 80s. A body shop owning friend of mine used to say that the 911s put his kids through college.
I sure do dig those early ones, though.
So what’s the kalashnikov of automobiles? The one where you can just kick the rusted parts until they move again and it’ll go.
One of my favorite things is when something is held together six different size bolts.
I’m sure that each was carefully calculated for what it needs to hold with little thought given to procuring, stocking, assembling and repairing the unit.
VW beetle.
Old Land Rovers (really)
Toyota Hilux.
UCS – probably the Model T.
So there are a couple of options.
Thanks, everyone.
It would have something with a completely undeserved reputation for reliability, maintained only through the dedicated efforts of a legion of dirt-shooting fanboys…
Agree with Tundra. Old Beetle. So simple, engine held in by four bolts. Only slightly more complex than a riding lawnmower. My second would be an original little Honda. But those are so rare. Big Daddy Roth had an old Honda and he drove it everywhere.
A friend in high school had an old beetle. As was common in the 70s, ever red light was an opportunity to drag race someone.
He said there wasn’t a muscle car made that could be a beetle across the intersection. After that, it was about eating everyone else’s dust.
The Toyota Hilux (Tacoma).
For UCS. Top Gear tried to destroy one in various ways, but it just kept on running.
My uncle had an ’83 911SC. It was just pure. A perfect mechanical machine with no extra crap. It was hard to drive slow as that flat-6 would start bucking. Once you opened the throttle, all was right in the world.
Those were amazing. Prices have exploded the last couple years (of course).
Plus lesser crash standards and little safety equipment other than seatbelts results in lighter weight.
US spec version even had motorized seatbelts because of the lack of a driver airbag.
Love those so much.
That is still a beautiful car.
This one is practically my speed, he’s really dumbed these down.
P: cow pies is plural
Everything about it sounds delicious except the name- marketing fail.
(very) Early glibfit question: Does the fact I can do pistol squats imply I could squat my bodyweight?
Pretty quickly, yes. But the mechanics are very different. And I sure wouldn’t go do it today.
Do you currently lift?
I don’t even lift bro.
I sometimes do, but I have been very inconsistent. I am amendable to getting form right before looking at heavy weights, since they scare me.
What work I do is just free weights and bodyweight exercises at this point.
Bodyweight squats don’t translate to barbell squats very well, but the fact that you can do a pistol squat means that you are already stronger than a lot of people.
What’s your age, weight, general physical condition? Do you have access to real barbells?
‘Bodyweight squats don’t translate to barbell squats very well’
Interesting, because of the high center of mass of the bar, or?
‘What’s your age, weight, general physical condition? Do you have access to real barbells?’
Mid 30’s, ~190lbs, 6’2″, generally good condition though I’ve been slacking on everything, especially cardio lately.
‘Do you have access to real barbells?’
Maybe? I have a gym membership (for family reasons) to a dinky little gym I don’t really utilize. I am not even sure what they have in there, but it is conceivable they have ‘real barbells’.
Loading your skeleton is a totally different stress. After a heavy set your CNS is curled up in the fetal position, quietly weeping. It does amazing things for your muscles, skeleton and success with chicks.
With bodyweight, all you can do is more reps. Barbells enable progressive loading. I would just bite the bullet and start lifting.
I don’t disagree with RC about a trainer, but honestly I’ve only seen a couple properly teach the squat. If there is a SS gym near you, you could certainly try that.
Pick up SS regardless. The descriptions of the lifts are excellent and there are literally hundreds of video tutorials. After awhile you will be able to video yourself and quickly see where you are fucking up.
*looks at super dusty copy of SS*
Yeah, I should probably get that book. >.>;
I tried to read that book, but my memory is that he spent too much time on why he thinks is approach is better, but not enough on how to actually do it.
UCS, there is a shit-ton of detail on the lifts and cues for setting up and executing. He goes into great detail on pretty much every aspect, yes, but there is great info there.
Lack, I’m 20 years older than you. I got serious about 10 years ago and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I would have started earlier.
Rip’s program is simple and it works. Getting stronger is always a good idea.
@Tundra, message received. Now to actually find it… hoping my wife didn’t toss it out during our move.
Let me know if I can help. Have fun!
Loading your skeleton is a totally different stress.
Not just loading your skeleton, but keeping everything in place so that you can do a proper squat without injuring yourself.
Lol, Rip is too autistic for UCS.
I strongly suggest you get a personal trainer for at least a few sessions. One who is good at coaching powerlifting. If you want to get serious about it, at least.
That makes sense, I have had people suggest books to me before (starting strength) but I can see how having some eyes on you will really help. I don’t think I’m ‘serious’ about it, but I am looking at maintaining or gaining strength generally without getting injured.
Its the having eyes on you part that is important. When you think you are doing it right, you probably aren’t.
Most likely, though the skills are different and not all that comparable. Pistol squats are at least as much a balance and ankle flexibility thing as a strength thing. I can squat 600-some pounds and I can only do a pistol squat if I prop my heel on a tall block.
Pimping TOS today, apologies to TPTB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMBMzhxam_0
Live discussion of homeland security going in through the backdoor of free speech.
I love it when useless micromanagers decide to tell me shit I already know (or worse, stuff I taught them).
OK – How about this one: You ask a project management team if it has built out any requirements at all for a major migration project going live in a few months. Timelines, requirements, anything. You get the answer back “yes, it’s all done” and they flash it on the screen. It’s your general information documents from the beginning of the project. Totally unchanged or explored.
I’ve seen that with architecture diagrams.
There are some times I want to tell people “My opinion of your intellect diminishes whever you open your mouth.”
One group has asked us to make changes to a call flow. We asked them to document everything so that we have a record of what the changes they want are. They sent back a basic chart with arrows going to boxes with a four digit numeric code. When I asked what the codes meant, they responded, “We don’t know, we copied those from the document we had.”
Ha! That sounds familiar.
I’m going through that at work, but as one of the grunts who has to use the project going live.
Did you get the memo about the TPS forms?
No corrected link to the online version? Am I expected to print this out and use a writing implement, like a peasant?
I can’t even print it, being limited to my phone. 😕 ::descends into acrostic withdrawal::
Edit fairy cannot correct it if s/he doesn’t know what the proper link is, and Hyperbole seems to have vanished.
Oh shit was he within 1000 miles of the capitol on Jan 6?
Probably.
Procedures were followed.
1959 Chevy Corvette Seized by Police Returned to Owner After 5 Years With $28K in Damage
Rich Martinez’s classic ‘Vette was seized by police after the wrong screws were used to affix the VIN plate following a restoration.
That’s nuts.
No, screws.
Riveting, really.
Was a riveting story, though.
They screwed him over.
Cocksuckers.
Do you want Kill-dozers? Because this is how you get Kill-dozers.
procedures
Thanks, I think my T just got lower.
You see this right here? These are the wrong screws for this vehicle. I’m really sorry, but we’re going to have to take the whole thing to protect society.
But Back the Blue, amirite?
A new Fall of Civilizations video is up…
https://youtu.be/0MtIVJ2lcu8
Spoiler: It’s Biden’s speech from last night.
Nah, our episode began(at the latest)the day we passed The Patriot Act.
Philosophically speaking, Mussolini won WWII and bin Laden won the war on terror. Now the state has decided to turn it’s aggression towards it’s own citizens. Passive corruption is out, fervent hatred/persecution towards the other is the new hotness.
This isn’t an entirely left slanted phenomenon, as much as some of us would hope it is. Hate is the order of the 21st century. A civilization can’t survive on hate, especially when a good portion of it is directed inwards towards it’s own culture.
I’m coming to see America as, essentially, a colonized country. Our ruling/managerial class are now populated by, and act in the interest of, a class and culture which are not, really, American.* They are TWANLOCs (Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen). They are hostile, as colonizers are, toward the indigenous culture, and seek to stamp it out where and when they can. They are looting the country, as colonizers do. I just think the patterns exhibited by our dominant class and culture are isomorphic with colonial rulers, not native rulers.
*Shout-out to the recent post posing the difficult question of what does it mean to be a country.
Hellz yeah, best history channel on the youtubez.
Rich Martinez’s classic ‘Vette was seized by police after the wrong screws were used to affix the VIN plate following a restoration.
Huh. All those originality fetishists were right.
Tucker on point.
I eat a quince every autumn and always think now there is a fruit more suitable for cooking / jam / brandy not eating raw
Never tried one. I always assumed they tasted like a sour pear.
not sour more bittersweet… it is not the taste it;s the texture very dry
The make good booze. I have a friend that makes quince wine.
imo in brandy you feel the distinctive flavor of the fruit more than any other fruit brandy I tried, even more than the traditional plum in Romania, which is also distinctive. I had raspberry brandy and I felt little no no raspberry flavor , same with cherry
There’s a distillery in Portland, OR, that makes an outstanding pear brandy. The taste of the pears really comes through nicely.
Not all heroes wear capes
Nice take down.
SWEEP THE LEG
Legit question: who is filming? An accomplice?
Looked like a concerned citizen
Yep.
No reason to assume this was akin to that video of a kid recording his buddy trying to stab a kid in the middle of a high-school hallway until proven otherwise.
I’ll just go ahead and assume a customer caught that prick shoplifting then recorded him doing it again.
It just looked so close and the guy did nothing to stop the recording which I found odd but again, he’s probably thinking: get in, get the stuff, and walk out. Nothing else.
Doesn’t look like he wanted a fight, he just wanted to grab some stuff and leave. He was doing it right in the open in front of everyone, so if they weren’t going to stop him right then, it’s reasonable to assume they won’t come after him later either.
Lax law enforcement towards theft and heavy drug use make for an interesting day at the store.
Not sure why an accomplice would be creating admissible evidence of the crime. I think the guy was just totally unconcerned about being caught or prosecuted, and didn’t care.
He was nice to him even. Glad the guy wasn’t armed or something in a way it could have gone sideways.
Bring back the Hue and Cry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue_and_cry
Isn’t it Ironic; Don’t you think
Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack was in U.S. illegally, immigration officials say
:: opens article, sees FBI jackets in photo ::
Yeah we’re never going to know the truth about that.
“Well…if he’s Canadian, he must be one of those ultrasuperduperrightwing trucker terrorists!”/slave to the D narrative
“Slave to the D”?
OnlyFans handle?
Not bad, but really, aren’t all guys slaves to their D?
These ultramega MAGA types are going global, clearly.
International Socialist Workers Party?
I’m surprised the guy hasn’t been hustled off to gitmo by now.
He must be more valuable as a maga terrorist that an international terrorist.
late to the game, but a good score
Daily Quordle 283
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I should be super confident about the Donks being overwhelmed by a red wave (not that they’re perfect…) BUT all these advanced warnings about how long it will take to count the votes makes me think the days of honest elections in America are over.
There was always a little fraud here and there, some honest mistakes, but nothing that changed the outcome.
The first brazen attempt to steal a presidential race was the interpretation of the z butterfly ballots in Florida. At one point they even suggested that all votes for Pat Robertson be placed in Gore’s column because c’mon, man! Nobody would vote for Pat on purpose!!
I think that’s when the dem operatives started hatching plans of widespread nudges of just a few key counties in a few key states. And now they’ve got the NGOs and the mules to pull it off.
BUT all these advanced warnings about how long it will take to count the votes makes me think the days of honest elections in America are over
Certainly, the days of highly reliable and trustworthy elections are over. Its not just the extended counting, either (why could we hand count paper ballots overnight, but now need days or weeks to electronically count ballots?). Ballot security is a bad joke, ballot counting can be controlled far too easily, and there is no real recourse through the courts or any other institution once a final result is announced, no matter how questionable. Somebody will try to steal anything valuable, and elections are worth billions, if not more. So, yeah, I don’t trust the announced results as necessarily reflecting the ballots that were legally cast.