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re: What are you reading?
Posted by Tigris on 4/24/24 at 6:49 pm
Cryptonomicon - for probably my fourth time. Amazingly relevant still for a somewhat high tech nerd book from 1999. But funny as hell, something I didn't pick up on during the first, and maybe really the second read. Because the technology ideas are just so dense, and it jumps around so fast (a ...
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re: Is Civil War any good?
Posted by Tigris on 4/24/24 at 6:35 pm
[quote]From what I’ve heard is that most people want more background on why Texas and Cali teamed up.[/quote]
Yeah, that goes WAY beyond suspension of disbelief and the reason I doubt I'll ever watch this one. Just a horrible premise to start with. ...
re: Your Top 10 Movies
Posted by Tigris on 4/24/24 at 12:09 pm
A fairly quick (hopefully) top 10 favorite:
Brazil
Cool Hand Luke
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Breaking Away
The Man Who Would Be King
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Bride
Rushmore
No Country for Old Men
In Bruge
[u]Runners Up[/u]
Blade Runner
Dark City
No Country for O...
re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024
Posted by Tigris on 4/23/24 at 7:59 pm
Merlin is great for sound ID's, it wasn't always the case but has steadily improved. You can also put a pin on a map and Merlin will give you a list of possible birds and show how likely they are for any given date. Merlin and Haiku Box may use the same data base for analyzing recordings since bot...
re: Birds at your Feeder: 2024
Posted by Tigris on 4/23/24 at 7:42 pm
[quote]Bird watching is fun. Y'all must have been doing it for a while to ID all those birds...
Y'all using the old Sibley's book or the Cornell app?[/quote]
The Merlin App (Cornell) is great, as is the Sibley App, and the Audubon App is pretty good as well. eBird (Cornell) is indispensable i...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Tigris on 4/22/24 at 7:48 pm
[quote][quote]Where is this meme that I'm a Nazi lover coming from?[/quote]
From an admin deleted post where you said you wished the Germans won WWII[/quote]
Yeah, admins delete his pro Nazi post, and leave the idiot still posting. Great job admins....
re: Favorite concept album
Posted by Tigris on 4/22/24 at 6:50 pm
Have to add one more - Pictures at an Exhibition - ELP
This thread lead me down the rabbit hole of ELP again. Damn, they have held up well. Pictures especially.
Video isn't even ELP, it's the Oslo Philharmonic playing Mussorsky and it's the most I've ever enjoyed classical. Of course it's...
re: Finding a ripe berry patch is one of life's little pleasures.
Posted by Tigris on 4/21/24 at 6:09 pm
[quote]We just always called them "blackberries," actually never heard them called "dewberries" until now. [/quote]
Dewberries ran along the ground and were earlier than blackberries. Also larger and sweeter. We knew the difference as kids, somehow. I lost all fear of nature while picking blac...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Tigris on 4/21/24 at 5:47 pm
[quote]Russophobia exists, but it’s an Eastern European phenomenon. You see it especially with the Poles and with Eastern European Jews.[/quote]
Awesome. Kind of like Nicole Simpson had OJophobia after he slit her throat. ...
re: How well would the U.S.population actually fare in an all-out war today?
Posted by Tigris on 4/21/24 at 12:53 pm
[quote]What if say Mexico or a South American country agrees to let China user their land as a base?[/quote]
Both are ridiculous but:
Mexico - we would force a change in the Mexican government (probably through military action) and their agreement with China would end.
South America - Chin...
re: Los Angeles...what to do?
Posted by Tigris on 4/19/24 at 2:11 pm
[quote]you can go see the Hollywood sign for the photo op as you meander through someone's neighborhood and they can tell you where the best view is[/quote]
"Look away down Gower Avenue" - Warren Zevon...
re: ‘The Office’ Sets First Cast Members for Potential Follow-Up Series
Posted by Tigris on 4/19/24 at 2:05 pm
[quote]I like Domhnall Gleeson, so that’s interesting at least.[/quote]
He's been very good in the movies I've seen him in. Especially Calvary where he played a serial killer opposite of his actual father (Brendan Gleeson) who played a priest. Amazing performance by Brendan Gleeson in Calvary, ...
re: Favorite concept album
Posted by Tigris on 4/19/24 at 11:11 am
Quadrophenia - The Who
Tommy - The Who
Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
We're Only in it for the Money -Zappa
Joe's Garage - Zappa
Billy Breathes - Phish
Aqualung - Jethro Tull (borderline on being concept)
Tumbleweed Connection - Elton John (borderline on being concept)
Sweetheart of the R...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by Tigris on 4/18/24 at 7:30 pm
[quote]Linking a stupid post by someone else 2500 pages ago is supposed to be some kind of gotcha? I have never made any kind of bold proclamation on here, I am just reading the writing on the wall.[/quote]
He wasn't even talking to you. Get a grip.
[quote]cope however you need to.[/quote]
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re: Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
Posted by Tigris on 4/18/24 at 7:12 pm
[quote]Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.[/quote]
Yeah, soybeans and clover, and others. And have been around way longer than humans. I'm surprised that gene splicing hasn't been used to create nitrogen fixing corn, wheat, etc. People in the fertilizer business have worried about that...
re: Would you rather have a mountain house or beach house/condo?
Posted by Tigris on 4/18/24 at 6:59 pm
Mountains.
Heh, I could have had a beach house. It had a LONG dock that was falling apart, an outside washer and dryer that were rusting away. Flood insurance that was insane. But yeah, the view was nice. Instead I built less than a mile away and have almost 40 acres and three lakes, my offic...
re: The Deer Hunter
Posted by Tigris on 4/18/24 at 3:17 pm
[quote]The cast/acting is great. The movie itself is a chore to get through.[/quote]
It was a chore the first time, liked it better the second time through 4 decades later, mostly because of the actors.
At the time it came out I lived in Pittsburgh and it captures that well. Aside from the de...
re: My Dad gave me some cool souvenirs/momentos from his chemical weapons career.
Posted by Tigris on 4/18/24 at 3:06 pm
[quote]Pine Bluff Arsenal[/quote]
My father worked there in chemical weapons during the Korean war. It may have saved his life since more than half of people drafted at the same time were casualties on the front lines. So I may owe my life to chemical weapons.
My father's great contribution ...
re: What Series Intros Do You Not Skip?
Posted by Tigris on 4/17/24 at 4:52 pm
[quote]Malcom in the Middle[/quote]
Nice, this one, at least half the time. "You're not the boss of me now..."
I can't think of any other I'd watch on purpose.
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re: OT Lawyers - Should My Niece Retain a Lawyer? (Car Wreck)
Posted by Tigris on 4/16/24 at 6:30 pm
[quote]Have her pick a number between 2 and 9 and press it 7 times on her phone. Someone should answer that can help her.[/quote]
5 isn't going to work....
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