dahmage

Tools required: 1 light saber, one human hand (detached)

nah, those are probably IKEA style instructions. pictures only.

That’s a bit harsh. Ready Player One was a fun nerdy beach read. You are correct in all your criticisms, but it was still a book I have no problem saying I enjoyed.

RayRogers said:

Still Stephen King’s IT. Page 391 of 1041.

Shoulda bought the whole book. 😉

suspiciouscoffee said:

Blade Runner 2049

Finally.

about time, you know, the film ‘bombed at the box office’ because of you!

TV’s Frink said:

Sorry to hear that, but why on earth would she want to watch My Little Pony? :p

hehe

My 2 year old fractured her ankle today 😦

Thankfully it is not severe and should heal just fine, but it sucks all the same. She will have to be in a cast for 6-8 weeks.

i expect there will be much more Dora the Explorer and My Little Pony being watched around these parts than usual for the next few weeks.

yhwx said:

Warb, you don’t have to stop with the *sigh*s. Just don’t overuse them.

Hang on a second. You don’t speak for all of us yhwx. I think it would be in everyone’s best interest if Warb did his “thing” a lot less often.

http://www.npr.org/2017/10/23/559545666/comey-fesses-up-claims-ownership-of-suspected-twitter-account

not sure if i care if he is running or not, but it is better than reading anything about Trump right now.

hey, we were all thinking it.

I really hate the first Tuesday of the week sometimes…

Tobar said:

Welp, looks like Discovery has been “borrowing” from an indie adventure game:
Star Trek Discovery & Tardigrades

‘oh my’. and they just got renewed.

TV’s Frink said:

https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/922467296479768578

Trump: NFL players disrespect the flag by kneeling.

Trump, 35 minutes later: Myeshia Johnson, widow to soldier killed in battle, is lying.

The insanity of having a moron for president.

dahmage said:

time loops are so predictable

TV’s Frink said:

SilverWook said:

I simply can’t imagine browsing the forums on anything with such a tiny screen. 😉

When you’re in the Legoland Hotel waiting for dinner, there’s no other choice.

I trust it went down like this

Also, geocities still exists?

We might using these “temporary” measures for years to come 😉

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

No, since the purpose of that picture was not to inflame.

the purpose didn’t seem to matter before.

Warbler, don’t get hung up on this, please!

Possessed said:

I still don’t understand why it needed new firmware. You burned the image with a program like imgburn and not just windows explorer right?

i am gonna guess it was 100 years old and just couldn’t handle a non-commercial disk (one without encryption) correctly. or whatever. don’t need to figure out how he fixed it.

TV’s Frink said:

The Kevin Timeline

LordZerome1080 said:

TV’s Fink is a Newt.

what are you on about? not sure if you are being insulting and should be reported, or if you are trying to be funny.

i have now read the part you quoted, and i agree with you.

i still mean what i said above, but i now realize i was talking about a different part of what Kelly said (he was also explaining why Trump made the exact comments he did: http://www.npr.org/2017/10/19/558836022/watch-kelly-denounces-congresswomans-public-account-of-trump-s-call-with-widow)

Kelly then said he told Trump what his friend Gen. Joseph Dunford, now the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told him when notifying Kelly that his son had been killed in action.

"[Dunford] said, ‘Kell, He was doing exactly what he wanted to do when he was killed. He knew what he was getting into by joining, that 1 percent. He knew what the possibilities were because we’re at war. And when he died’ — in the four cases we’re talking about Niger, in my son’s case in Afghanistan – ‘when he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth, his friends,’ " Kelly explained. “That’s what the president tried to say to four families the other day.”

perhaps in the future i should not jump to conclusions and read things? … nah

Challenge accepted!

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/john-kelly-son-trump.html

WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, delivered a searing, personal defense of President Trump’s phone call this week to the widow of a slain Army soldier, describing on Thursday the trauma of learning about his own son’s death in Afghanistan and calling the criticism of Mr. Trump’s condolences unfair.

In a public relations mission that was part emotional catharsis and part political attack, Mr. Kelly lashed out at Representative Frederica S. Wilson, Democrat of Florida, for publicizing the call between Mr. Trump and Myeshia Johnson, whose husband, Sgt. La David T. Johnson, was one of four American soldiers killed in an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger.

Mr. Kelly accused Ms. Wilson — who was in a car with Ms. Johnson when Mr. Trump called and is a longtime family friend — of being a publicity-seeking opportunist. He said that the congresswoman’s willingness to breach the confidentiality of Mr. Trump’s words is evidence of a broader decline in the values of an American society that no longer treats women, religion, “life” or Gold Star families as sacred.

“It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation — absolutely stuns me,” Mr. Kelly said during a somber, 18-minute appearance in the White House briefing room. He said that he was so upset by Ms. Wilson’s appearances on TV news shows that he had to collect his thoughts by walking through the graves at Arlington National Cemetery for more than an hour.

He also displayed scorn for a society that he said does not appreciate the sacrifice of those in the military. “Most of you as Americans don’t know them,” he said, bemoaning that “there’s nothing in our country anymore that seems to suggest that selfless service to the nation is not only appropriate but required.”

A retired Marine general whose son Second Lt. Robert Kelly was slain in battle in 2010, Mr. Kelly has long guarded his personal story of loss even as he served as a high-profile public official. He broke that silence in dramatic fashion on Thursday, offering — from his personal and professional experience — a detailed, even excruciating description of what happens to the remains of those killed in combat, and how the grieving families back home are notified.

“Their buddies wrap them up in whatever passes as a shroud,” Mr. Kelly told an unusually hushed room filled with reporters. “They’re packed in ice, typically at the air head, and then they’re flown to — usually Europe, where they’re then packed in ice again and flown to Dover Air Force Base, where Dover takes care of the remains, embalms them, meticulously dresses them in their uniform with the medals that they’ve earned, the emblems of their service.”

He testified to the deep pain that parents feel when they get an early-morning knock on the door from an official to tell them that their son or daughter has been killed in action. “The casualty officer proceeds to break the heart of a family member,” Mr. Kelly said, his eyes reddening as he spoke.

This is fucking insane. Projection (for his boss) of the highest order. I couldn’t even finish reading it.

I didn’t read this article, but did hear the audio of his statement. After much fuming, I finally reached the opinion that this is yet another example of Trump being unfit for his job. A good leader would not just parrot everything he is told, and a good human would know how to not make consoling a widow all about themselves.

Seriously, Trump’s big take away was, “wow, Obama didn’t do this I can totally be better than him if I do this”, and not “sometimes it is better not to say something”. Trump is the one who turned this whole thing into political manuvering. What a f###ing moron.

joefavs said:

My MoviePass card finally arrived this week, so I’ll be going to the movies a whole lot more often. I plan on finally getting to It and rewatching Blade Runner 2049 soon.

I have a few friends who got those cards, has worked well for them. Sadly I rarely go to the movies, and love IMAX, so it is not a good fit for me.

Can people other than DE post in that thread?