Last week, got to see the Slackers on day 2 of Slackfest (two days of shows they put on here, they have a robust fan base here), and rushed downtown yesterday to get to the stadium so the girlfriend could see Journey… only for them to start late. Seemed to be more people showing up for the draft section than the concert part, but we left after the Browns made their pick (after trading down).
Have I mentioned we have a robust cocktail bar scene here?
In local news, I doubt this will pass this time, but I’m hopeful.
Yes, I believe IP laws should change. I disagree with the changes that they want.
I’m going to blame IP laws on this too.
/looks around for the simplification we’re all hoping for
Fuck this guy.
JFC. I may be one of the few fans of this movie and I don’t think it needs a reboot.
I don’t think this will go in favor of the publishers.
Personally, I get annoyed any time I can’t save when I want. I’ll give a pass to a game where it’s thematic, and clear before you start (Alien Vs. Predator [2000] is a prime example of that, you had a limited number of saves per level based on difficulty).
Pretty sure I’ve still got my discs for these games.
I remember the first time the horse armor made the news.
I’ve still got my THX VHS copies.
Moving on to this weeks cocktail, we are again going with a classic. This time:
The Sidecar
- 6 parts (1.5 oz) Cognac
- 4 parts (1 oz) Cointreau (or any other triple sec)
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) lemon juice
This is another one of those cocktails that people don’t tend to order anymore, and it doesn’t appear on most menus (unless you’re stepping up to an actual cocktail bar). It’s a shame, because this is a fantastic drink, with several tales of its creation and evolution over the years. To make this drink, first start by placing a coupe glass in the freezer (we’ll get to why later). Fill a shaker with ice, and a small plate with sugar (regular granulated is fine here). You’re going to put the ingredients into the shaker, and shake until chilled. You’ll pull your coupe glass out of the freezer, and assuming you don’t live in the desert, it’ll start getting condensation on it. Use that moisture to rim the glass in the sugar (told you I’d explain why to park it in the freezer), and then pour in the chilled cocktail. To garnish, express an orange twist over the glass and add it in.
That’s all I’ve got this week, hope you all have the weekends you desire.
Sounds like they let you down one more time.
Only if they pick Sanders tonight.
This kid went to the same high school as Mrs. TOK (albeit just a few years later).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/25/nfl-draft-kenneth-grant-miami-dolphins/
Fish Free Friday?
You sound like you have a beef with that.
He chickened out.
You can eat all the fish you want today.
Can he pork out on them?
Increasingly locked down shitty digital content doesn’t appeal to you? Shock. Gasp.
I do have to be honest and say I’m conflicted in some areas. Part of me says “It should be easy — within a fixed time you can’t profit off another’s work, just criticize / parody.” But I also enjoy some reaction videos, some parody can be hard to do without some of the music, etc…. which creates just the sort of legal morass that draws in more lawyerly asses. Being not a lawyer — I’m glad I’m not responsible for the One True Copyright Law… but boy, we need to revisit some and restore the balance to building off works / the citizenry. (Not sure if it is copyright, EULA [tied to copyright] or what… but digital license transfers as inheritance needs to be worked out, preferably with generous tax exemption so you don’t owe “gains” when you get the rights to Grandpa’s iTunes and Kindle Libraries, etc…. the corporations won’t like it… but I’m very sick of the “Pay full price, actually own nothing!” model of today…)
Rant off.
On the topic of Shadowrun – It just isn’t the same when they added Wireless decking. There’s a big difference between when you are anchored to the spot with the head of one of your party plugged into the wall while the security patrols are looking for you. Just being able to pick the guy up and carry him to a more convenient hiding spot just doesn’t build the tension the same way.
100% agreed. I think they killed that in one of the later editions.
Yep. That was a bad idea. And not one that I think was really necessary – any lag or jitter in a full-spectrum sensorium stream would be pretty undesirable…
Everyone knows Cleveland is flush with success.
“I’ve still got my THX VHS copies.”
I have a VHS box set downstairs that I think is the same one. It’s right by the collection of Disney movies on VHS.
I think I had them at some point — I have no idea where they are now. But the sequel trilogy has made me not really want to watch any Star Wars… barring Anakin’s academic thesis….
Why not? District Judges apparently run all other aspects of the Executive — why not foreign policy / economic policy to cater to favored groups?
Bonus points since the judge will likely issue a ruling of “Go directly to Jail. Do not collect $200.” After all, the Judiciary has a monopoly on power.
I remember as well — it was definitely one of the things that made me want to rein in the industry on the whole concept of digital add-ons for purchase. Bad enough that we’re saddled with ever increasing prices for “post launch” bug fix products, no reason to spur them toward more money sucking of the consumer.
Wow, I am surprised at your unbridled anger about the subject.
He was champing at the bit for the chance to voice his opinion.
Better rein it in before Swiss crack the whip.
I vote Neigh.
I don’t want to stirrup any trouble but it’s a cinch some horses won’t like the amore
Moral dilemma
Berlin’s processing is ongoing—“I’m still circling,” she says—but she’s found herself leaning toward a set of principles she believes other designers may find helpful should they ever encounter a similar situation.
“As designers we’ve got to recognize that these babies have a whole life of their own once they’re out in the world. And what our clients decide to do with the work is entirely their prerogative. That’s the way business works,” she says. “I also feel like now more than ever is a time when we need to ask whether the way business works is actually working for us.”
The experience has led her to reevaluate how she will interact with clients going forward, allowing herself more time to decide whether to take on new projects. It’s also led her to a place of acceptance about what she can and can’t control. “I’m really proud of this work. And just because they’ve made a particular decision that I don’t necessarily agree with doesn’t necessarily mean that the work I’ve done has no value,” she says. “It was really a dream to do.”
She’s like a modern day Hugo Boss.
It just now occurred to me…if you have ever advocated for ‘red flag laws’ or ‘extreme risk protection orders’ or any other sub-judicial means of confiscating my guns, and are now whining about ‘due process’ for deporting illegal aliens, then you owe me a fluffy tail.
NYS will send you P’nut’s fluffy tail right away, I’m sure.
” And [tariffs are] totally intellectually consistent with the pro-labor left, the pro-environment left, the living-wage-left, and the left wing people who screamed for lockdown-test-and-trace during Covid which is not possible without a border wall and an import ban.”
Excellent point. Will keep pent in my Rejoinder Wallet.
zOMG I work for company who doesn’t agree with me on every single issue!!!!1!
Now you know how we feel, toots.
I also feel like now more than ever is a time when we need to ask whether the way business works is actually working for us.
The solution has been there the whole time. If you want to retain creative control over your designs, make your clients license them instead of “whoring yourself out” for a bigger paycheck by creating “works for hire”.
You have a choice, money or control. You don’t get both.
The Sidecar looks good.
There has, indeed, been confusion on how these books are classified; a ruling from the Customs and Border Protection from 2024 clarified specifically that Shadowrun’s 6th edition rulebook would be classified under 4901.99.0070, which is for printed, hardbound books.
They got better treatment than Steve Jackson Games.
Unblemished, non-Special Edition versions of the original “Star Wars Trilogy” are impossible to acquire on home video and are no longer considered official according to Disney and Lucasfilm, since those “upgraded” makeover iterations were released in the 1990s. That makes this historical BFI screening of the one-and-only “Star Wars” from 1977 a once-in-a-lifetime event if you can somehow make it to London in time!
Grrrr
I believe I have a copy of the theatrical release on home video. I have to double check some key scenes, but I did recently rip them to backup.
The Sidecar is a great one, any cocktail that survives for 100+ years relatively unscathed did it for a reason. At least one piece I read said that the Sidecar was considered a decadent drink, and the sugar rim was added by a bartender deciding to increase the decadence.
I have a DVD set of the OG Star Wars trilogy where the theatrical versions were included as bonus features. It’s silly that they won’t do something like that again.
Some entrepreneurs are more equal than others
Matthew Hiller, owner of online shop MadPufferStickers, listed the sticker, “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy,” on his store in 2023, after becoming disillusioned with how Musk was running X.
“[Musk] was sort of becoming a bully and sort of pushing disinformation. And due to that, I just didn’t want anything to do with him or his brand.”
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“I mean, some things are more important than just tech, you know, like, I just don’t want to support someone who is so against who I am and what I believe,” Hiller said. “It was a choice and I didn’t want to be just confused for someone who supported him or agreed with him.”
Since then, he’s added more stickers including ones that read “Anti Elon Tesla club,” “Elon killed my resale value” and “Elon is a dogebag.” Sales took off around the time Musk became a fixture of President Trump’s presidential campaign. MadPufferStickers raked in more than $100,000 over a 30-day stretch between January and February, Hiller said.
He should pay Musk a percentage.
I thought filthy capitalism was bad? I just can’t keep up.
You know who else had a name like Hiller?
The Millers?
See, once you use that word ‘disinformation’ I have your number and nothing you say after that means anything. You might as well be Charlie Brown’s teacher.
While my druthers would be a radical overhaul (eliminate copyright and patents altogether), the first thing that should be done is to limit copyright to the law as of the time the piece was written.
If you wrote it in a 25 year domain, you get 25 years. No extensions due to additional laws being passed later.
Collaboration
Now, Uber is looking to expand its autonomous fleet even more. The rideshare giant just signed a new deal with Volkswagen to deploy thousands of driverless Volkswagen ID.Buzz vans over the next 10 years. As with Waymo models in Atlanta and Austin, the electric Microbuses will be available directly in the Uber app.
Uber and VW’s driverless takeover will start in Los Angeles before the electric vans are rolled out to multiple unnamed cities in the U.S. market over the next decade. The driverless tech for the vans will be handled by MOIA, a subsidiary mobility brand owned by Volkswagen.
Is this because VW can’t sell them on the open market?
Celebrity scammers
The fashion industry is the world’s second largest producer of greenhouse gases and environmental pollutants, behind only the oil and gas industry. It’s also rife with waste and excess, having already produced enough apparel to clothe the next six generations.
Now, two recent Stanford graduates are trying to make fashion more sustainable by improving the secondhand shopping experience.
On Thursday, Phoebe Gates, 22, and Sophia Kianni, 23, launched Phia, an app and desktop tool that aggregates secondhand and retail shopping options from across the internet.
“It’s like ‘Google Flights’ for fashion,” Kianni told me. “Phia finds you the best price in one click … and allows you to really easily price compare.”
She added, “How do you know that you’re not getting scammed? How do you know it’s actually the best price possible? We built the tool that we wish had existed back when we were in college,”
Just what the world has been clamoring for.
22 and 23 year old kids…changing the world one sock at a time.
*sigh* kids.
Phoebe Gates? I guess we know who Bill’s high school crush was.
Doesn’t anybody fucking knock anymore?
No shit.
Ohio. Of course it is Ohio. Some time back I heard stories about the police in Ohio. I was a bit surprised…Ohio? Why Ohio? Then I saw videos of cops harassing and threatening defendants and defense lawyers even making veiled threats to judges. Apparently ‘jackboot thugs’ doesnt really cover it.
No surprise to see them getting their nuts cut.
How did they get that way. I know next to nothing about the state and culture.
Same big city cops being assholes and small town cops being assholes to outsiders.
It didn’t hurt (that at least here in CLE), there’s been several police corruption scandals (shocking, I know) some rumored tip offs and information flowing between the vice cops and certain owners of bars, and Tamir Rice was a thing too (but the country forgot about that in favor of Martin and Floyd).
While the pair only recently graduated from Stanford, they already have more accolades than many people twice their age. Kianni is founder of the world’s largest youth-led climate nonprofit, Climate Cardinals, and is the youngest United Nations advisor. Gates — the daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates — interned at British Vogue and has become a notable voice in reproductive rights, speaking at events such as Global Citizen and being named the Reproductive Freedom for All’s Champion of the Year last year.
Isn’t that special.
Oh come on, I’m sure Jane Smith who got a Gender Studies degree from State U has the same opportunities to make big $$$ at nonprofits and the UN.
That isn’t real, is it? You aren’t fooling me. That is a parody of proggie kids, right?
IRS’s $600 threshold was bad
I can barely walk out of the grocery store for under 200 bucks.
Why dont they just have a five page form everyone must fill out and file to the feds for any transaction at all? Every purchase or deposit you make for a penny ore more?
If y ou want a thriving black market this is how you get a thriving black market.
Like the $10,000, don’t adjust for inflation. Eventually the McDonalds value menu will trigger FinCEN reports.
‘Adjustable Difficulty’ would be a game-changer for me. I’m not 12 years old anymore, sometimes I just get tired of rage-quitting. And most developers don’t give a shit about anyone other than the “git gud” crowd.
The linked website (Can I Play That?) seems useless – nothing I sought was present.
I went to the gym that one time, howcome I don’t have a sixpack?
Nearly 100 days into what Trump and tech billionaire Elon Muskhave called a mission to make the federal bureaucracy more efficient, Reuters found 20 instances where the staff and funding cuts led to purchasing bottlenecks and increased costs; paralysis in decision-making; longer public wait times; higher-paid civil servants filling in menial jobs, and a brain drain of scientific and technological talent.
“DOGE is not a serious exercise,” said Jessica Riedl, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a fiscally conservative think tank that supports streamlining government. She estimates DOGE has only saved $5 billion to date, and believes it will end up costing more than it saves.
The examples – previously unreported – span 14 government agencies and were described in Reuters interviews with three dozen federal workers, union representatives and governance experts.
Game over, man. Let’s get back to business as usual before society completely collapses.
Totally unbiased sources.
The scary part is that 90% of people have no idea how to read a story and pick out that sort of red flag. I am thankful for my fellow Glibs though, because you are all keeping my bullshit detector finely tuned.
It’s even easier to predict that bullshit is coming based purely on the source, like “Reuters”.
Yeah…Reuters. They were on the USAID list of recipients weren’t they? Paid propagandists.
Might as well give up.
Crank up the presses!
Because no company has ever asked people to do things outside their scope of work….ever.
Im a sys admin and I was on thr floor pulling up tiles and running a phase for a new circuit, assisting in our tri-annaul inventory of your
tax-dollarsgovernment owned equipment, weed wacking, and painting.Go cry more pussy
I’m sorry. That’s not in the union contract.
When my agency moved back in 2011 or so, I was a sysadmin, but I was also on the team installing workstations and setting up desk phones, because it had to be done.
Now, if my entire workload had become installing workstations and setting up phones, I’d have a complaint for out of title work, but
“You’ll pull your coupe glass out of the freezer, and assuming you don’t live in the desert”
*closes tab*
Just get one of those special toads to lick the rim, and you’ll have a much more intense drinking experience.
The Bee wastes no time.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-agents-discover-17-more-illegals-hiding-in-judge-dugans-robe
Wassup, bitches? Just finished my compulsory Conscious Culture training. It was seriously gay and retarded.
Pregaming to go out with extended family.
Good news is two teens will be visiting next week! We are excited. Now go out and call someone a fag
“Good news is two teens will be visiting next week!”
…are they hot?
I am walking down the sidewalk in Newcastle with a Pommy friend on the way to a restaurant when he says “Let’s stop on the way and pick up some fags.”. He takes about ten more steps and freezes in his tracks. He turns to me and “Hey, you understand what I mean, right?”
I am laughing. Yeah, I understand.
*wipes forehead* “Whew. Ok, good. For a second I thought…”
If you’re into 19 something boys…sure?
Myst was ‘perfectly’ timed for me. Apparently came out in ’93 when I was six. I had rare opportunity to watch others play, I think, but we got our first computer in ’95. Windows 3.1 as everyone else was getting that new fancy thing we couldn’t really afford, or more likely, didn’t care enough back then. Or know *to* care. Children in the internet wilderness. (Yes. I was a late-comer.)
My pornographic trek began in middle school. No shit, my go-to site was openvaginas.net. Or .com, I don’t remember. (Net is funner.) It was good. Anything at that point would have been, but much material. I remember making fun of other kids, or correctly advising them, of where the Real Shit was. For a tween in Evansville in the late 90s, I legit *did* know where to find the Good Shit.
I tilled the garden today, give it another whirl in about 3 weeks or so. It’s really dry but rain scheduled in a couple days. It’s like beach sand but with water, fertilizer and sunshine things will grow.
Fortunately I had the fore thought to dig a well when I was a little younger so water is not a problem.
CNN’s hot take headline: “FBI arrests judge for alleged obstruction in latest Trump admin clash with judiciary”
Not for what she was written up for, eh? Well. Duh. Their lede is not buried.
The active hostility of headlines is a fun experiment to wade through. Every single one has *something* nasty attached to it. I haven’t dared poke that one out in public yet, but it’s ripe.
Mom was talking about getting her *SIXTH* COVID ‘booster’ today. (I poked a bit. She was jovial with her response, but I knew to not dareth respond further.)
6th? Holy fuck. Your mom is a pin cushion. Sad!
This would have been appropriate for Anzac Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=71YvHBkNWco
We’re supposed to upset that state tax dollars aren’t going to be flushed down this particular toilet.
CWAC