My fun Saturday morning was spent cleaning up my carport. It was such a mess that I have been meaning to clean it up for weeks, but somehow I never got to it. I have a work meeting with clients on my screened-in porch this week, so that inspired me to get all the gardening-related crap put away.
Now when I pull into the driveway I see this instead of the junked-up carport, and I am left wondering why the hell I let it look so junky for so long.
Do any of you guys ever do that kind of thing, too, or am I the only one?
Oh, and besides the intrinsic reward of no longer feeling guilty about not getting things cleaned up earlier, I also rewarded myself by watching the final episode of Bodyguard. What a great show that is. I’m sorry it’s over.
I also harvested the last of my tomatoes and pulled out all the tomato plants.
WaterGirl
I had just started watching Harlan Coben’s The Five, and then discovered that it is leaving Netflix on Sept 21.
Does that mean Sept 20 is the last day you can watch it, or will it be up on Sept 21 until midnight?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
I’m pretty sure that means you can watch it through Sept. 21 (11:59:59 p.m.).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Procrastinate and then do the damn thing and wonder why I put it off when it feels so good to have it done? I’m doing it right now. I do it every flipping year with my taxes. I know as I sit here I’ll be doing it next March.
NotMax
Making my way through the (free for this month only) first season of the Danish series The Killing on Prime.
Intense.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Glad to hear that. It’s 10 episodes, so if I focus, i think I can do it.
schrodingers_cat
What is a carport? Some kind of a garage?
mrmoshpotato
Heading to my sister and brother-in-law’s to watch the Michigan game tonight.
Go Blue! And good on ya, Ducks!
Baud
Sigh. The carport is a metaphor for my life.
VeniceRiley
Those tomatoes are lovely. My brother let a cherry tomato plant run wild and it was like Little Shop of Horrors.
schrodingers_cat
My contribution to #Caturday
Using colored pencils
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Think garage attached to the house, but with two open sides.
gkoutnik
Literally fell into my chair and tuned into BJ after saying to my wife, “Well, I think I’ve accomplished enough for one day.” Two big projects, both making part of the outside look really nice – and both overdue – one was weeks overdue; the other should have been done last fall. But it looks great now! Will I learn, and reform, and maintain the great look? Stay tuned.
Hungry Joe
Saw this in a post today by s-f writer C.J. Cherryh: “Arguing evidence with a person who cannot reason is pouring energy into a non-conductor.”
(For those who like intensely realistic down-to-non-Earth science fiction, I can’t recommend Ms. Cherryh’s “Pride of Chanur” series highly enough. Of course, there’s also “Downbelow Station” and “Cyteen” and “Serpent’s Reach” and “Merchanter’s Luck” and the “Faded Sun” series and … )
NotMax
@VeniceRiley
When oh when will Big Science come up with a maraschino cherry tomato plant?
:)
WaterGirl
@VeniceRiley: My tomato plants got a little wild this year, too.
Last year I discovered that with a mix of green unripe tomatoes and ripe tomatoes – on an open platter – the green ones turn from green to white to yellow to orange to red, and the ripe ones don’t age as fast as they would if kept all together.
WaterGirl
@gkoutnik:
Magic 8-ball says maybe. :-)
schrodingers_cat
@WaterGirl: Thanks.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@schrodingers_cat: That’s really good!
SiubhanDuinne
Nope. You’re the only one.
:-)
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Very nice — both the drawing and the subject!
eclare
What a gorgeous hosta! I am so jealous.
mrmoshpotato
@VeniceRiley: Cherry Tomatoes Gone Wild?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
?
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Basically a roof over a car with no sides. I have one, it helps tremendously to keep the car in the shade in the hot summers here in Memphis.
Also prevents hail damage.
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Beautiful! My two kitties are enjoying Caturday on my bed.
schrodingers_cat
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks! The illustration is not mine I just colored it. My pandemic hobby.
Gvg
@schrodingers_cat: it is a porch designed to park a car in. Not enclosed at all. A roof and a concrete pad. I think it is usually in non snow places. Also, it is cheaper, so nicer houses have garages. It’s pretty common in Florida starting in the 50’s and not as common after the 80’s. There is often a big closet sort of room for storing stuff or the washer and dryer. A carport can’t be locked up so it is more vulnerable to theft. I was very happy to get a house that had a garage. When I was young and my family was poorer we had carports, or no covered parking at all.
Many people enclosed their carports to garages eventually but some houses look wrong with the change. A lot of carports are in front of the front door so you can get out and walk in the house, or a guest can. Others are to the side and the Roof is just the house roof extended out an extra 10 or 20 feet.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Should it ever become necessary to have one, Cherry Tomatoes would be my drag queen name.
(And now bracing for a deluge of links demonstrably proving there is at least one already employing that moniker.)
:)
Delk
@schrodingers_cat: very cool. Colored pencils have been on my list for awhile.
Sure Lurkalot
WaterGirl,
It appears you didn’t procrastinate about anything to do with your bodacious and abundant crop of tomatoes. Yum.
WAPO had a food article on…wait for it…how to make a tomato sandwich. They give away the “recipe” in the lead in to the article, which garnered over 200 comments. Here’s a link because I don’t even believe me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2021/07/25/classic-southern-tomato-sandwich-recipe/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10
schrodingers_cat
@Delk: Do you draw/color? What is your favorite medium?
NotMax
@Sure Lurkalot
That ain’t a sandwich, that’s an overgrown canapé.
;)
schrodingers_cat
This is my favorite so far
Catherine D.
I rented a dumpster a few years ago and cleaned out tons of stuff, but it couldn’t include anything with a power cord. In June I found a lovely young man taking over his grandfather’s business, and he took away the rest from my car tent (like a car port, but sides for the snow.) My basement needs a clearout that my knees can’t do, but he will ?
Danielx
Back from four days on Lake Michigan beaches. Sun, wind and water improve many conditions.
Spanky
@NotMax:
Good plan. One never knows when you might find it necessary.
Delk
@schrodingers_cat: I do a little bit of everything. When I turned 39 I gave myself the greatest gift: full time art school. I spent 4 years with kids half my age having a lot of fun. These days I mostly use Procreate on my iPad.
mali muso
Does a leftover slice of apple pie count as “dinner”? Asking…for a friend. ahem.
schrodingers_cat
@Delk: That’s pretty cool. Do you use a pen display? I don’t have any formal art training except what we did in school. I used to do water colors, then all that was on the back burner from college onwards.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Thanks for sharing! LOL!
WaterGirl
@Gvg: Interesting to read your description, very different from mine. My carport is on the side of the house.
So for me, the carport is part of the house, between the house and the patio. I have seen only one carport in the front of a house. Funny how it’s so easy to assume that things are the same everywhere!
This house had a garage and the carport was in front of it. But I had only parked in the garage about 3 times – when it was minus 16 one winter, without the wind chill factor!
So 15 years ago or so I turned what had been the garage into a family room. Best thing I ever did, at least until I added the screened-in porch 5 years ago.
Delk
@schrodingers_cat: Apple Pencil ✏️
gkoutnik
@Sure Lurkalot: Hmmm… I figured out how to make a tomato sandwich – all by myself – during the Nixon administration, and have never found a reason to upgrade. Still love ’em.
WaterGirl
@mali muso: Yes! It can also be breakfast.
dexwood
@mali muso: Yes, and not bad with a good white wine of your choice.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: You might like MI-5. Lots of great actors. There’s violence, but they don’t show any blood & guts.
worn
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: OMG, me too! Literally…just got back from dropping a past due Federal & State return in the mail. You are right. It feels pretty damn good.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Very nice!
I have a weekly Zoom with college friends, and I was so excited today because one of them has a rescue cat (gorgeous long-haired at least part Siamese with big blue eyes) that has not come out of hiding for months now, but is now letting her comb and pet her for 15 minutes/day. She had a great video of it.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: That sounds right up my alley. I just have to figure out how to get Britbox on my TV, which I can’t do with Apple TV because mine is one version too old for apps.
I think that if I sign up for Britbox through Amazon that the Britbox shows will just who up through the Amazon Prime interface. I am not entirely sure of that, though.
JoyceH
Not just the big time consuming things, but the stupid little things. Instance – I have two pairs of ice cube trays and one of the pair were all balky and aggravating. One day last week it struck me – WHY am I still putting up with this? A few bucks, a few minutes on Amazon, wait a few days, and awesome new ice cube trays. Now every morning when I open ice, it’s like “ahhhhhhh!” and also – ‘what TOOK me so long?!’
zhena gogolia
@Gvg: Frank Lloyd Wright favored carports.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Very lovely!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Mine comes through Amazon Prime. But I’m watching on a laptop.
JWR
Christine Amampour did a really good interview with Lawrence Wilkerson last night, but the full segment hasn’t shown up yet. Only this 2 minute clip.
He told a story about Shrub inviting evangelical religious leaders to the Oval Office to pray away his rage, or something like that. (Yeah, memories of Billy Graham counseling Nixon to go “nucular” on Vietnam come to mind.) I don’t remember hearing or reading about that cute little episode.
He also talked about the scene with Shrub standing on a pile of rubble (with some fire chief from out of state who wasn’t there for the actual events of the day, AFAIK) shouting through a bullhorn that “pretty soon the people that knocked down these buildings are all gonna hear all you too”, as being one of the touchstones of the pervading attitude that led to America going off its rocker and going war and torture crazy.
It was a refreshing interview, especially given all the hagiographies we’ve all been seeing on the TV news.
Scout211
WaterGirl, how did your first Shingrix shot go with the gallons of water you drank beforehand? Asking because my #2 is next week and would love to lessen the side effects for this one, if possible.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Thanks ?
NotMax
@Spanky
Pierre was onto something.
:)
mali muso
@WaterGirl:
@dexwood:
Asked and answered! Living in an area that is apple country is extra tasty in the fall. Apple pie, apple cider doughnuts, hard cider…the list goes on and on.
zhena gogolia
@mali muso: Ooh, apple cider doughnuts. I’m going to have to visit the orchard soon.
dexwood
@mali muso: Apple cider doughnuts!? I must live a sheltered life. I’d eat one or three.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: So the Britbox shows are mixed in with the regular Amazon Prime shows? So you could search for MI-5 on Amazon Prime, and it would find it?
If that’s the case, that should be true for regardless of tablet, computer or Apple TV. The trick is that I can’t need a special app on the Apple TV, so if that’s the case, I think I should be good.
There is apparently a free 7-day trial through Amazon, so I could do that and find out for sure.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: I drank however much they said to drink one hour before the shot. And I drank a little bit more than that.
I felt fine on the day of the shot (9 am appt). By evening all of a sudden I didn’t feel great, so I took a REALLY long, hot shower, and took 2 advil right I got in the shower, and then went to bed. Slept fine through the night, in the morning I was fine. Then the evening of the second day I felt a little shitty, took 2 advil but no shower. After that I was fine.
I can’t prove that it helped, but I would definitely drink all the water again, and I will for the second shot.
Let us know how your second shot goes.
mrmoshpotato
@JWR:
Or for the sack of all the fucks!
Good on the thieving, war criminal son of a bitch not showing up for today’s commemoration.
mali muso
@zhena gogolia:
@dexwood:
Apple cider doughnuts…one of life’s simple pleasures. Have that classic cake crumb with a hint of nutmeg, coated in cinnamon sugar. Perfection!
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: If I go to Amazon Prime, it offers me MI-5 as one of the things I’ve been watching.
way2blue
Wow. What are your plans for those tomatoes? (I’m making marinara sauce today. Lots… )
Ken
Remember that from September through November, this pairing must be referred to as “pumpkin pie spice”. No one knows how this tradition started, but it is as binding as any of the rituals of Gormenghast Castle.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
The Britbox programming, if you add a selection to your watchlist, will be interspersed among the choices sporting the Prime banner you may already have put there. Think of it as a discrete sub-channel within the Prime service.
Redshift
Oh, you have no idea…
NotMax
@Ken
Allspice as well or go home.
:)
cope
@WaterGirl: There is a Britbox app at the Apple App Store. If you have solved your AirPlay issue, Britbox on an iPad or iPhone should play through your old Apple TV. Ours is a gen 2 Apple TV and that’s my workaround for not being able to add new streaming apps to the old Apple TV.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
W. was in Pennsylvania.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: okay, I think I’m golden then. I will try it.
thank you!
WaterGirl
@way2blue: I have never made sauce from tomatoes. I’ll be eating anything that goes with tomatoes for the next couple of weeks.
After that, I’ll eat the tomatoes as they ripen.
Though the work meeting is on the screened-in porch, and that’s where the tomatoes hang out, so I will offer some tomatoes to the two people I will be meeting with.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Okay, sounds like confirmation that I’ll be able to watch the Britbox shows through Prime, which is what I need. thank you
WaterGirl
@cope: I have not solved the AIrPlay issue on my laptop. AirPlay crashes the laptop. I haven’t tried it yet on my iPad.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Southern Tomato Gravy.
WaterGirl
@Scout211: P.S. Forgot to mention that the shingrix shot made my left knee mad for a few days, just like the covid shot did.
I am convinced that all these vaccines make – whatever your weak spots are – act up.
Omnes Omnibus
@mali muso: What a question! There is very little that a pie cannot do.
NotMax
@cope
Gimme an R, gimme an O gimme a K, gimme a U.
Bypass the app store mishegas.
dexwood
@NotMax: Now you’re talkin’. A favorite in this house. Try it on baked carrots. Not too much with a bit of butter. To be clear, butter and allspice on the carrots before baking.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl:
Does that mean if one had no problems with them, one has no weak spots?
SkyBluePink
@WaterGirl:
What a lovely and peaceful yard-
And unfortunately yes to procrastination!
Scout211
@WaterGirl:
That’s very interesting. I felt like the side effects of the Shingrix #1 were exactly the same as the Moderna #2, just at about 75% of the severity and length of time. It was like deja vu.
I will drink all the water before #2 and hope that helps. Thanks for the info.
Anotherlurker
@WaterGirl: Can you subscribe to Britbox on your computer and then stream from the computer to your TV? I do this with Netflix. I use the Lightning video (Mac) out to HDMI and from there into the TV.
debbie
@schrodingers_cat:
Such majesty in the apple orchard!
Redshift
@WaterGirl: Is the knee arthritis? Since that’s an autoimmune disease, it would make sense that a vaccine that gooses the immune response might aggravate that.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I’ve had a couple of backyard visits with friends and they always send me home with a bowl full of cherry tomatoes. Walking home, snacking all the way, yum!
debbie
@Scout211:
How much water are you supposed to drink beforehand?
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: I stand by what I said.
mrmoshpotato
@Redshift:
Those ass-grabbing vaccines!
JWR
@mrmoshpotato: He didn’t show up?! Oh well, musta had some ranchin; to do, on his not a ranch down thar in Texas. Swear to Gods, how anybody ever fell for his tough guy image I will never know. :(
jeffreyw
@Anotherlurker: Most all of the streaming services have apps for a PC. I have them loaded on a Dell desktop with HDMI out to my big TV in the living room. The searches are a snap with a keyboard and a mouse, as is tagging shows as favorites. It’s a snap to switch services, I keep a tab open for each. Also on my TV is a Chromecast dongle with the apps. There are issues with older HDMI ports that won’t support 4K, Dolby, or HDR – on computers and TVs both – so most of our viewing is through the dongle or the TV apps.
mrmoshpotato
@JWR: Baud said Shrub was in PA.
42, 44, the legitimate 45, and 46 were in New York.
But, yeah, the whole rancher, blah, blah, blah image of a member of one of America’s richest families… ?
Steeplejack (phone)
@schrodingers_cat:
The other one is good; this one is great! Well done.
Princess Leia
Just finished the new Louise Penny book, Madness of Crowds, and can’t say I feel at all bad about the many things I left undone today.
JWR
@NotMax:
I have a brand new, or never used, ROKU 3. Is there anything I can watch beyond what I can get over the air for free with one of those boxes, because their website seems to be all “try it FREE, for 1 month”, and I’m about as cash strapped as I’ve ever been? Also, I’m mostly into old movies on the MOVIES channel.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, if my theory were taken to its logical conclusion, it would seem that the answer is yes.
frosty
@WaterGirl: Our Britbox comes through Amazon Prime. It’s Ms F’s favorite … station? channel? service? I don’t know what everything is called any more.
(Plea for help from anyone knowledgeable)
WaterGirl
@Redshift: It’s not arthritis, and my knee is fine most of the time. But I did have trouble with that knee after I broke my ankle, and then it resolved (with work and exercise) and hadn’t been a problem since then. (3 years ago)
WaterGirl
@debbie: About the water… that originally came from me. My instructions from CVS before the shingrix shot said to drink 4 cups of water one hour before the appointment to lessen the side effects of the shot.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Princess Leia: I read that last week. A visit to Three Pines was just what I needed
Omnes Omnibus
@frosty: There is a wonderful word in French: truc. It means thingie or whatsis, but sounds cooler. That would have been a perfect place for it. If we were doing all this in French. Which we are not. I’ll stop now.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@Ken: but one can always run away from Gormenghast, as Titus did
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
So it’s Toulouse the Thingie?
Steeplejack (phone)
@frosty:
BritBox is a “channel” on the Prime streaming service. That’s the lingo they use. Some are free, some are subscription.
JWR
@Baud:
Okay. In return, I’ll admit that I knew he dumped his Brush Ranch as soon as it was of no use to his image. But I’ll give him no more! :)
mali muso
@Omnes Omnibus:
I love truc. Such a general all purpose word that can be used in so many ways.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Truc not trec. And, anyway, he would be more of a whatsis.
Mike in NC
Attention Sports Fans: just saw a TV ad for a game between New York and the “Washington Football Team”. Is that name temporary or are they going to stick with that? The old Redskins logo was replaced by a yellow circle with a black “W” inside. They should (will?) hold a contest and let the public submit ideas.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Thanks!
SWMBO
@JWR: I started the rumor that GWB liked to clear the brush because that’s where Laura hid the liquor. I still think that’s a possibility.
Omnes Omnibus
@mali muso:
That and “bof” with a slight shrug can make you seem so much more fluent than you actually are.
sab
@schrodingers_cat: I like that a lot.
Princess Leia
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It was 92 degrees here,but I found myself picking up a blanket halfway through the book!!! A pot of hot chocolate and lemon cookies…a balm to my heart.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone): I see I purchased Berlin Station. Haven’t watched it yet.
JWR
@SWMBO: So you’re the one, eh? Good job! But yeah, the guy had “dry drunk” written all over his face.
Ken
@Mike in NC: Because letting the public name things always works out so well.
piratedan
@Mike in NC: yes… they are the WFT, until they pick a new name and register it for marketing purposes.
mali muso
@Omnes Omnibus: Bahhhh, ouai. In Francophone W. Africa, I picked up several verbal tics like starting a sentence of phrase with “bon….” and ending with “ou bien?”
eclare
@Ken: Teamie McTeamface
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
D’accord. Meaning I agree—and “I agree”—and that’s also something that you can use a lot.
sab
I nave been cleaning out most of the household goods I saved from when I cleaned out my parents’s house. I have had all of my kitchen storage just packed full for about five years. So I boxed up two complete sets of Mom’s matching dishes (complete with matching teapots and serving pieces) and took them over to the Humane Society Thrift Store. Then I went home and reorganized my kitchen hutch. Yay. Found a couple of additional pieces, took them to the thrift store, and the original items were already on display.
Jean
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I just finished reading Madness of Crowds too, and the wait for it was hard. I became used to spending a bit of time every day in Three Pines as I read through the other 16 novels, and I even began making some of the meals served at the bistro. Madness, indeed.
Princess Leia
@Jean: I love the series, but I love Three Pines more…
Redshift
@piratedan: I couldn’t believe they even discussed keeping the non-name permanently. I wouldn’t want a name that’s permanent reminder of “we had to change our name because it was racist, but that’s just me.
frosty
@Steeplejack (phone): Thanks! And all the shows like Midsomer Murders are still shows, I take it.
Geminid
@Mike in NC: Washington will use WFT one more season, and debut their new name for the 2022 season. They’ve already taken suggestions, and may have decided already.
But the principal owner has been “suspended” from team management for a year by tbe NFL for running a workplace hostile to women. It seems he wants to be back in control when the team is renamed.
Kayla Rudbek
@Redshift: they’re leaving money on the table by not picking out a new name and mascot already so that they can go ahead and get all the new merchandise trademarked and set up licensing deals….
(attempts to turn off marketing-chaser attorney [equivalent to ambulance-chasing attorney] mode of thought for tonight)
zhena gogolia
Did anybody post this Texas father at the school board meeting? This is priceless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynudt9tCwKQ
NotMax
@JWR
Gobs and gobs of free channels available via Roku, including plenty with old movies/TV. Literally numbering in the hundreds.
When you first activate and sign up with Roku at their web site you do have to provide a credit card. But that card is charged only if/when you choose to subscribe to a pay streaming service or if you happen to purchase any additional equipment direct from the site in the future. First time out it may take a few minutes for the unit, once connected to the internet, to update the internal software to the latest iteration.
Roku 3 is a legacy model (no longer made or sold) but is still included among the models which are updatable and functional, so not obsolete.
For the record, I have a Roku 2 and more than 50 free channels (mix of video entertainment, audio entertainment and news channels) I’ve chosen to include over the years.
Geminid
I think the Washington Football Team’s owner also hopes to settle lawsuits from a couple of dozen women who were treated in degrading ways by him and his male employees. So he can start the 2022 season with a clean slate as well as a new team name
He’ll still be an asshole, but the fans have known this for many years.
Steeplejack (phone)
@frosty:
Shows or “programs,” I guess, although I have a vague memory of somebody making a snarky “Okay, boomer” joke about the lameness of not knowing some crucial difference between programs and shows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But for purposes of talking here you should be good to go.
Anya
Is anyone following the fraud trail of Elizabeth Holmes the founder and former CEO of Theranos?
I am so obsessed with this woman and Theranos I think I’ve watched every documentary or news feature about this. I am just so amazed at how these powerful former government officials sell themselves to be on these boards. I am conflicted about her case because I don’t really care about all of the greedy criminals who invested in her bogus ‘invention’ but I feel so sorry for the regular people this woman’s maglamaniea hurt but also the whole thing exposes how corrupt our system is.
eclare
@zhena gogolia: I so respect that!
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
I don’t think anybody posted the video, but the story was discussed. There was some confusion (okay, mine) about whether he was for or against masks. I think we decided he was for them.
BC in Illinois
@Mike in NC:
I grew up watching Sonny Jurgensen and Charley Taylor, but I am tired of the game that the team is playing with the name. I just call them the Washington Team of Football. The WTF.
piratedan
@Geminid: there’s also this wrinkle… if the team had a public vote or suggestion box, rest assured that anything that started to draw any popularity would immediately have it’s rights snagged by some cynical entrepreneur who would then “sell” the naming rights back to the WFT ownership.
I suspect that avoiding that “scenario” is a large part of the time spent in deciding a new name… because as soon as you come up with an idea, some marketing agency would be engaged and start floating suggestions, which then would get leaked and the cycle continues.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
ELPs: episodic leisure pastimes.
:)
eclare
@Steeplejack (phone): That was the impression I got, especially when he talked about running red lights and parking in a handicapped spot. He is for mask mandates.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Anya:
I have followed it a little bit. Surprised to find out that she apparently has some intense, Manson-level fangirls who have showed up at the trial.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Ah, that’s it!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (phone): We all know Mattis isn’t motivated by money, so something got him to be serve on the board.
Anya
@Steeplejack (phone): Everything about her is very odd. But the most creepy part is the powerful, very old white men she filled her board with. Her most Ardant supporter was George Shultz. The company’s lawyers basically tried to destroy his grandson and he continued to support her.
JWR
@NotMax:
Oh wow! I had no idea. I think I’ll try this thing after all. Thank you so much! I’ve meant to ask you about this before, but it seems every time I’ve seen you discussing your ROKU, the thread is already a few days stale, so I’m happy to finally catch up with you in real time. Thanks again. :)
Steeplejack (phone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Uh, fembots . . . ?
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone): I’m pretty sure he’s for them. It’s satire.
NotMax
@JWR
Will also link to this regarding older Rokus.
Short version: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (phone): It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone): My husband got all excited when I mentioned the Brasilia scenes. So we’ll watch it one day soon. We had Howards End on the docket for tonight.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
?
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
Yes, I got that it was satire, but from reading the story without the video a week or two ago it wasn’t clear which way he was leaning. All clear now.
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
Saw it (and replied) downstairs.
Betty
@Baud: And his speech is being touted as just wonderful.
Betty
@JWR: He is receiving all kinds of praise for his speech in PA.
Yutsano
@Betty: He smacked around the insurrectionsts in his speech.
He also closed off the Afghan war.
EDIT: Source. Sorry almost forgot!
Jean
@Princess Leia: I completely understand that.
Geminid
@Geminid: The Washington Football Team’s owner was not formally suspended by the NFL. He “voluntarily” stepped down as owner this past July, for an unspecified number of months. His wife has formal control of the team now. The league did fine the team ten million dollars.
This all happened after attorney Beth Wilkinson delivered the results of an investigation into the team’s workplace culture. Wilkinson was originally hired by the team after a series of damaging stories, many by sportswriter Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post. The NFL took over supervision of Wilkinson’s investigation when it understood that there were serious problems with the team that could make the league look bad.
The NFL handled the matter with kid gloves. Wilkinson’s report was not released publically, just summarized in general terms. Various bad actors among the owner’s cronies had already left his employment with no fuss made. I imagine that the league got the word out to the other owners that if they were treating their women employees like dirt they’d better stop. Or they’d make the league look bad, and then be fined and have to voluntarily step back from management for a few months.
opiejeanne
@Omnes Omnibus: At the Moet winery we were handed a little thingie made of nylon or plastic, that makes it easier to discharge the something… sugar? yeast? from the bottle of not-champagne. They called the thingie a (sounds like, no idea how to spell it) bidule, which they told us means a doohickey. Have you heard of that?
JWR
@Betty:
His speech may have been good, but the delivery still makes me cringe. Like a teenager trying to sound tough and decidery.
mrmoshpotato
“I’m the decider!”
JWR
@NotMax: Thanks for the link. Now to find an HDMI cable. Oh, one last question: my internet D/L speed is on the slow side (28-30 Mbps.) Would that preclude me from streaming anything, or does it work like say, Youtube? (I’ll check later for any response.)
opiejeanne
@Geminid: The Washington team’s owner’s wife gave a little speech this week, all about how terrible this all was for her and her family, but mainly for her. She made it all about herself, never mentioning what had precipitated her stepping in to run things, never mentioning the women who had suffered in the poisonous atmosphere.
Another Jamie McCourt.
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: There’s another syllable in deciderer.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: Did Shrub call himself “the deciderer?”
opiejeanne
@mrmoshpotato: Yes!
Ok, maybe he did. Or maybe it was a joke made at his expense because he did talk that way.
NotMax
@JWR
You should be more than okay with the speed you mention. Most streaming channels of any repute do try to accommodate wide variations of speed.
Should you encounter a problem or excessive buffering (again, highly unlikely given your extant speed), there are tweaks to the Roku’s settings which can be modified to manually step down the bit rate.
Steeplejack (phone)
@JWR:
You should be fine with that speed, especially if you’re streaming only on one computer at a time. You might want to run a test to see what speed you’re actually getting. You can type “Internet speed test” in your browser search field, and the first result should be a free test that you can launch right there.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne: He did call himself “the decider” at least once.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Yup. I wouldn’t necessarily consider 25 as slow, more as toward the lower end of moderate. I know folks out in the boonies who, on the best of days (when the planets are aligned just right and the entrail offerings are fresh) might – might – top out at a download speed of 5.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Agreed. I think YouTube actually says 5 Mbps is good enough, although my eyebrows rise a bit at that. But JWR should be okay if the speed is 25-30 Mbps.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Dunno if any of your services includes TCM’s watch later on demand option, but noticed one of Warren Willam’s Perry Mason films, “The Case of the Howling Dog,” was shown this morning.
SWMBO
@mrmoshpotato:
Trigger warning. It is GWB.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=irMeHmlxE9s
JWR
@Steeplejack: @NotMax: Thank you both for your replies! Hmm, I wonder if they gots any fillums newwar channels? Those are my favorite sort of movin’ pickchurs.
mrmoshpotato
@SWMBO: Ahhhh. I’d forgotten that was about that in-Hell, war criminal Donald Rumsfeld!
NotMax
@JWR
Yes indeedy. Even some dedicated channels. Not a comprehensive list: #1 – #2.
There will be overlap of content among some channels (all hail public domain).
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks, I saw that. I try to keep track of my favorite pre-Code horndog—which is pretty much how he plays Mason. Those movies aren’t that great, but I enjoy watching almost anything from that period.
Just finished watching That Man from Rio on Tubi. Excellent streaming experience, and I’ll be going back there for other stuff. Thanks for steering me there.
Also glad to report that the movie holds up very well after 50-plus years. I hadn’t watched it in [mumble, mumble] a number of years. Relieved that I didn’t make a dreadful mistake in recommending it here.
Steeplejack
@SWMBO:
What a colossal asshole.
Steeplejack
@JWR:
Here you go: film noir on Tubi.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Not everyone’s cuppa but if you’ve never seen it you might like the Brit series Misfits there.
Raunchy respite, approaching guilty pleasure. Group of, shall we say, less than upstanding young citizens get super powers. Takes all (or maybe it was most) of the first season for one of them to dope out what his power is. Up to that point I presumed it was to behave as a super-colossal prick. Not a spoiler to reveal that wasn’t his power, it’s his default factory setting.
Five seasons, one of which (3 or 4, I forget which) had a different production team and was comparatively sub-par. However after that season the original production group returned and managed to recover the footing of the show.
JWR
@NotMax: Guhroovy! Two channels, (at least), both dedicated to my favorites! Now I’ve really gotta find that HDMI cable, and once I do, I’ll let all y’all’s know how it’s working out.
NotMax
@NotMax
Oh, also too on Tubi the Brit series Being Human, the early seasons of which were great fun.
In pre-streaming days it was a task and a half to track down sources for downloading both Being Human and Misfits. Another one from around the same time which involved finding not only the episodes but also separate viewer created compatible files with English subtitles was the Swedish series Real Humans, which is currently not streaming anywhere, apparently.
NotMax
@JWR
Happy viewing.
Just so it’s clear, the Tubi TV channel we’ve been talking about is available on the Roku.
JWR
@NotMax: Got it. And thanks again for all the info.
Morzer
Not sure if this has been mentioned already, but apparently the Qunuch of Mar-a-Lardo is so desperate for attention that he’s now giving speeches to… the Moonies:
https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1436861661185409028
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I got to Tubi with just a browser on Win10 (Firefox) and Chromebook (Chrome browser).
I think I’ve seen a season or two of Being Human, but it has been a while.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Yeah, it’s universally available, not just limited to Roku. Just mentioned that as something to keep in mind for Rokuites.
NotMax
@NotMax
Given the choice, I’ll opt for watching on the big screen TV (and audioing via its connected soundbar) any day.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Agree. Just wanted to make absolutely sure that JWR, as a relative newbie, didn’t think Roku was essential.
TheronWare
Those tomatoes look amazing!
way2blue
@WaterGirl: If you ever decide to give it a try—here’s what I did yesterday:
1/4 cup olive oil; 6 garlic cloves, peeled & minced; 8 cups of tomatoes, diced; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tsp crushed red pepper flakes.
Sauté the garlic in the olive oil in a large stockpot for a few minutes, then add the rest of the ingredients. Bring a boil, then simmer till it’s at the consistency you want (it will start out ‘watery’). Serve over pasta with a handful of fresh basil or oregano and grated parmesan cheese… (Freeze the rest.) Yum.