A few weeks back, Alexa changed the ‘OK!’ reply to commands for stuff like Smartthings and the new, lower key version was disturbing enough that there were multiple threads on reddit asking if she was depressed - which indeed, it sounded like she was.

Probably because the Ocean’s Eleven’s cast doesn’t consist of only of awful, banal, shallow characters who have no particularly redeeming qualities.

we’re meant to feel empathy for the emasculated, ennui-stricken middle-aged white man

You’ve touched on the main reason I haven’t rewatched this in some time: it’s hard to watch a film where the primary driver of pretty much all the characters is selfishness.

Also keep in mind that the Castilian accent is nigh uninterpretable for even a lot of native Latin American Spanish speakers, so it’s another reason there’s a region specific dub for Spain proper.

There’s also the French adaptation of Nancy Cartwright’s classic Bart Simpson-takes-over-the-plane gig, save for they did it on the high speed rail.

“Nobody likes it, yet we are obliged to use it?”

Ratto captured all that you need to know in one sentence.

One of the best comments about the Giants’ July run came during the MLB Network’s trade deadline coverage, where Dan O’Dowd went “Yeah, but that remaining schedule is brutal.”

Mix shift stuff like this actually does matter quite a bit in the restaurant business, which in fairness kinda tends to suck overall unless you’re either high growth (like Shake Shack) or high end, which has good margins.

Having actually worn them for many years for their original design intent - to increase traction on a sloshy boat deck, which Sperrys and a handful of other brands do indeed significantly help with - it will be very difficult for me not to laugh if someone slips and goes flying with one of the fashion adaptations.

The one related gadget that deserves a mention here is the introduction of the Tivo that April. I was a little late as I think I bought my first one in 2000.

The thing I remember most about the Sopranos in 1999 was the pre-release trailer being played over and over on the channel guide.

It took 71 years and a lot of work by a MCPON for the Navy to acknowledge that the lyrics to Anchors Aweigh basically implied that only those who had gone to the Academy were worthy of the service’s fight song, so I suppose the speed of realizing the tone deafness is progress of a sort.

While recently browsing through the CR for something else, I randomly stumbled onto an news article by a young Mark Shields from late 1979 or early 1980 that was a unanimous consent addition to ordinary Senate business.

One of the many amazing things about the Lust in the Heart interview is that it showed both how honest and good hearted a man he was - but also just how utterly naive and politically incompetent he would turn out to be for the next four years.

I have several of the compendiums of the interviews on my bookshelves.

That would imply that Billy Bean is Centauri.

I’ll go further: They Shall Not Grow Old is the single best movie I’ve seen in the last several years. It’s also probably the only movie I’ve ever watched where 3D added significant value to the media.

I remember reading the article you linked when you posted it originally. I thought it was a great illustration of what the league could potentially draw if the NWSL happens to be the premiere entertainment option in a town for that particular point of the year.