I have tinnitus pretty badly, so restaurant noise is a real issue for me: I can’t hear very well, and loud noises are painful.

This guy lost over nine pounds in just a few minutes. That’s a heckuva weight loss plan.

“What I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let me and my kabab alone, that’ll be the end of it.”

“A Quinn Martin Production!”

(I am thinking about buying a second identical SSD just to back up the first one.)

Wow. Many eons ago, near the dawn of time, I worked at a national lab in Boulder Colorado. Our goal was to scale up our mass storage system - a hierarchy of big disk drives, robotic tape silos, and a ginormous offline tape library - to (now get this) *one terabyte*. The system took up a bunch of space on the computer…

I routinely use “10-4" in texts. But I have had to explain it from time to time. A friend of mine uses “Acknowledged.” which I also kinda like.

I dunno about “emotional support animals” but my spousal unit and I are for sure our two feline overlords’ “service animals”. We might as well wear vests that say that.

Pretty sure the spousal unit and I will be seeing this film. And I can almost guarantee I’ll be buying the soundtrack.

At least the posters all around the mess in the main terminal remodel are pretty entertaining.

I second the suggestion of Root Down.

Denver resident here. Was in our airport yesterday. What they said. As long as you’re sticking to the concourses - there are three, A, B, and C, and you can move between them on the train without leaving the secured area or going to the terminal building where services like ticketing and baggage claim are located -…

We watched the 1963 THE HAUNTING last night. Somewhat to my surprise, I was okay with it. Instead of being scared shirtless, I focused mostly on the repressed sexuality of the Elenor character and the implied sexual orientation of the Theodora character. Really a fun character study of both. My conclusion: Elenor was…

It was okay. I liked the movie better. It didn’t cause me to get up out of bed and turn all the lights on in a one bedroom apartment the way Stephen King’s SALEM’S LOT did when I read it.

I was maybe 10 when I watched the 1963 version of THE HAUNTING on television. This would have been around 1966. This film has no explicit gore, little violence, and consists mostly of psychological horror. It terrified me so much, I was afraid to go to sleep that night.

Not a crazy idea, IMO.

Susanna Clarke came out with an anthology of stories in the same vein as JONATHAN STRANGE. And I’ve heard rumors of a forthcoming novel set in the same universe.

I agree. My spousal unit drove a Subaru Outback station wagon for eighteen years. When she finally replaced it with a (then) new 2016 version of the same model, I thought it was a lot more like a crossover - Taller, longer, wider, etc. than her old car. It’s still a great car... but it’s no station wagon.

The Lovecraftesque stories by Caitlin R. Kiernan in her “Black Helicopters” and related works fall into this category too, I think. I liked them quite a bit. (But then, I liked Vandermeer’s “Southern Reach” trilogy, too.)

This reminds me of how much I miss C&D during its David E. Davis years.