All Bloc'd Up

b1-66er: <Wombo>

The Artists Questioning Nostalgia for East Germany's Past https://nyti.ms/3Xs5y7f

Space Kaptain: Looks interesting -- I'll pass it on and read it myself.

Coincidentally, I've been watching a relatively new German drama about a family of Stasi officials that takes place between 1980 and 1991.  I'm strangely attracted to that era in 

Germany.

Coincidentally, I've been watching a relatively new German drama about a family of Stasi officials that takes place between 1980 and 1991.  I'm strangely attracted to that era in Germany.

b1: SURE.

It's an absolute sociological water mark...

... Even moreso for you.

YOU were on the buoy of "Western civilization" in the sea of lampreys and vermin.

YOU helped make it become 'not.'

I feel so lucky to have been able to witness it first hand.

Space K: I feel so lucky to have been able to witness it first hand.

b1: What's funny/weird is, in the future, no one will understand what it was truly "like..."

... Just like other big moments in life...

... Like working at AAPL in the past or the coronavirus now.

SK: You're right -- words simply can't convey the reality.   Even well made documentaries and smartly crafted dramas pale in comparison

b1:  You read the sentence

"...As a result, she had to spend a week in a barrel..."

... Has a little less impact than, say, actually having to spend a week in a barrel.

SK: Precisely.

Put yer nothin' where yer mouth is...

Special K: This year I picked the winners of the first 10 NFL playoff games right, and the last 3 wrong. 

b1-66er: That's funny...

... That could also be the way to lose A LOT of money.

K: True, I'm glad there was none involved. 

Chief'd

b1-66er: (I just looked at the Superbowl score...

... Looks like it was a pretty good game.)

Special K: Very entertaining, until a weird penalty with 90 seconds left basically decided the game. 

b1: Weirdo.

K: Very good halftime. 

b1: What was the penalty?

(I mean, I could read about it...

... But with all things Sport, I prefer K-vu.)

Of what type?

(And what was the result of the penalty?)

K: Defensive holding on Philly. 

It was an iffy call. 

Should not have been called in a tie Super Bowl game with <2:00 left. 

It gave KC a first down around the 15 yard line. Which basically clinched the game for them. 

They probably would have won without it, but much lower likelihood. 

b1: Great analysis. Thank you.

I like the probabilistic slicing there.

K: Yes sir. 

b1: Does it feel like a ref on the take?

K: I don't think so. More likely bad reffing. 

b1: In South American or European futball, that'd get a contract put on you.

Reffy wouldn't make it to Saturday.

That does mean Mister Goodman won his bet, though.

Major Math's Betting Consortium made US$2400.

K: Damar Hamlin (the player whose heart stopped during Monday Night Football last month) came out on the field pregame. 

b1: WHOA!

That'll get you an automatic standing ovation.

K: Yeah.

Trotting along the wall

b1-66er: ¡El Paso!

https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/lost-dog-el-paso-shelter-rings-doorbell/507-934e1958-948e-46bc-b868-696f49d6347b

<Wombo>

Tequilo: Ha! My dog needs to up his skills

b1: Maybe shaving and tattooing it would help?

T: Dogs in El Paso do seem to fare better than cats near Juarez prisons

Wound up and hammered over embedded TXTs

b1-66er: The Space Kaptain has sent me a video of a windup toy that shuffles back and forth. I respond by telling him it reminds me of MC Hammer.

(https://youtu.be/q8WSdypJ4WA)

I go back to sleep giving me my...

2nd sleep dream

I decide to show the KTXT conversation to the birdhead, but with the addition of I'm going to filtering the audio flow and having it put a K on the screen everytime Hammer sez the letter.

My script isn't working right and it's putting @ on the videos instead, they kinda scroll up the video as the song progresses...

The bh is not happy AT ALL and starts going off about how poor the production values are.

Now, WHERE, have I seen that kind of movement before?

birdhead: 2 legit

Baby, It's You...

b1-66er: Burt Bacharach died.

THAT'S a good run.

Suttonhoo: Seriously good run, Pussycat

Once, on a roadtrip with my sister, she looped "say a little prayer for you" until I thought I would lose my mind. But that was the first song that popped into my head when I got the news

b1: That's a perfect Bacharach Moment.

Dino+!

b1-66er: https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/01/27/local-paleontologist-discovers-new-dinosaur-species/ 

b1-67er: Very surprising that was the first nevada dinosaur. 

66: How common are 'new' dinosaurs?

67: Common.  One a week. I've considered that as a retirement project. Discover a dinosaur.  Not easy but feasible.

You could do it without ever going in the field if you wanted too.

In the late 1800s they were hunting dinosaur bones so frantically that some of those bones have never been evaluated since

66: How would THAT work?

67: They are sitting around in crates at Harvard and in museums and stuffed in drawers.

I'd say maybe 1/4 of all dinosaurs are found by people digging through museum collections.

66: Crazy crazy.

Was there a dinosaur-discovery-and-bring-the-bones-in period of time?

67: That was about 1870s I think.  Como Bluffs by Medicine Bow was the height of it.  Some of the professors were sticking it to the native Americans on their completion. 

66: What do you mean by THAT?

67: They told the tribes that the other professors were digging up the burial grounds, hoping the natives would run off or kill the competing professors.

66: That's a harsh and rugged way to play the game.

67: No doubt