I honestly forget who at this point, but I think a few people still believe that I met my wife during a brief educational stay in her home state, when in fact it was online and years later.
Throwing heavy clickies and no-name caps onto a budget 1800...
It's a loud, cheap MF'er, and I kinda like it.
Just that whatever level of fame he achieved, his talent and performances warranted more, IMHO, and between being choosy on projects, the occasional commercial dud, having a few of his greatest performances before he was a major name, and finding success in supporting roles while having "classic Hollywood" looks, there was just a disconnect. I have enjoyed his work much more than I have Tom Cruise's, for instance.
Not entirely surprising I guess, but still a sad one. Somehow stayed just a touch under the radar despite some of the most iconic roles of the 80s and 90s.
Imagine if they’d let it end when Agrestic burned? It would be remembered as an unblemished gem.
”hope that our relationship will only grow stronger in the coming years”
This hits different given the rhetoric of her husband and his (nominal) boss.
The Office (US) could have ended when Jim proposed in the rain. It maybe should have ended at the wedding in Niagara. Dear god it definitely should have ended when Michael left. The rest was just a shambling husk with nothing to say and tired gags.
Parks and Recreation also flanderized everybody (on a show that didn’t have much room to spare with how delightfully silly everyone already was as of season 3) and brought on new blood that didn’t work. I still haven’t seen most of the final season.
From Springfield.
As a Jags fan, Minshew magic was really fun, though only for a team where being about .500 in one's starts is a drastic step up. Sounds like he's got the full-time-starter bug out of his system, at least barring a good run if/when Mahomes gets hurt. Apparently his Wonderlic and ability to digest a playbook are off the charts, so he should be able to follow the Backup/QB Coach/OC career path at some level if he wants to.
I've been reading the Honor Harrington books, but they're getting harder to wade through. They're... uneven.
Going to finish the one I'm on
and then take a long break. First stop will be the first "Captive's War" book from the Expanse guys.spoiler
(Whitehaven thinks Honor is, like, SOOOO cute!)
Yup. Anyone other than an equity partner is literally a little money machine made of meat. A third-year will bill 2000+ hours (and most can bill maaaaybe 80% of their working hours) at $800-$1200 per hour and take home maybe $300k in salary and bonus.
Well, then there's the Indiana Jones brainstorming session with Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan.
G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.
G — It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time. S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.
G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…
I guess by the time the movie gets made, between script changes and casting decisions, nothing is certain and 17-22 is probably most likely, but George is a product of his time and place, and not exclusively in good ways.
From the "No Ideas of My Own" Department...
I get it. Personally, I can't do ISO-style left-shift where it's smaller and has another key between it and the nearest letter. I don't use Right shift much, and when I do I land on it's left side, so that wasn't an issue, and it didn't take me long to get used to curling my thumb a bit more on the numpad. Layouts that compress things a bit but retain a numpad are my sweet spot.