looking at the waveform, looks like it’s clipped to oblivion...

Oh, that Galaxy Watch 3 is gorgeous. I’ve held back from an Apple Watch (despite owning most of the rest of Apple’s product offerings), mostly because I have no desire to wear a square watching. Watches for me are at least half fashion items, and almost all of my watches are round cases and faces.

I’m not usually one who wants to spend crazy money maintaining my cars. I have a couple nice rides, but they’re older, and I don’t generally like spending more than twenty percent of the vehicle’s value on a repair/rebuild.

That said, if I’d had a component option for my Jaguar timing chain tensioners that would take…

Honestly Blaze is pretty decent. I was impressed today: they had a lunch rush going even before my party of ten came in, and they managed to pipeline our orders through in 10-15 minutes from first order to last off.

And it was pretty good.

I’m not close enough (nor frequent enough with delivery pizza) to try the new…

I thoroughly agree on the ‘like my own child’ part, that’s ridiculous. Pets are not people. Trees are not people.

But I do have immense respect for bonsai-as-art-form. It’s like an Old Masters painting or something, but it’s a living thing has to be maintained daily/weekly and have the hand of a skilled artist…

I’ve got an iPad Air from a few years that bent somewhere along the line, in its Smart Case, actually, probably due to slipping down between a bucket seat and the center console on a road trip. It’s not impairing the device, really, but it’s very annoying--and I can only imagine how much worse these new ones could…

I’d happily do this, if AMC had half the coverage that Regal has in my area. I’ve been on MoviePass for nearly a year, pay for a relative’s account, and have talked it up to many friends. My referrals have been handed out.

This sounds like a great deal, and I’d pay up to $25/mo for an account that covers my 3-6…

Oh, and ‘Evermore’ didn’t get nominated for Original Song. I’m sad.

Honestly the big surprise to me: nothing at all for Murder On The Orient Express, which I thought was stunning in several categories. I’ve seen a larger proportion of the very rich field of Oscar contenders this year than I usually do, and things felt like they were in pretty good slots for the most part. Really glad…

I don’t particularly think they should be tracking/penalizing people (and I don’t know if they are, which is more to the point), but I also think people shouldn’t seek to take advantage of an already generous service. I don’t want MP to die—I’m enjoying it too much!

(ix) On more than one occasion during any thirty (30) day period you do not view the movie for which you purchased a ticket with your MoviePass Card in its entirety.

I think it’s probably mostly directed at people who purchase tickets and don’t check in. Or those who use e-ticketing, and ditto. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were using location tracking in the app though.

I dunno. I think it’s mostly there to cover directly abusive practices, since they did have that line about more than once in a month.

Just for the record, leaving a screening is directly covered by the terms & conditions. Do that more than once in a month and they *can* cancel your account. Same for the guy below buying tickets for points—directly prohibited.

Interesting. I worked as a film reviewer professionally for some years, so lots of story and thematic analysis does tend to color my opinions...I love some films panned by others, and some crowd favorites I can’t stand to watch.

Iron Man 2 is great. Iron Man 3 was written frankensteined by committee, far as I could tell.

Ha. I want a 17" that feels like a 15. I’m still holding on to a highly-upgraded 2011 17" MBP that I can’t quite give up—a 13" is going in the wrong direction for me!

Don’t take Tom for a joke. The ability to laugh, or sing, or show joy in the face of evil is a sign of power and courage and even inviolability in Tolkien’s universe (something largely missed by the filmmakers who made Elrond into a brooding grimlord). Tom Bombadil can be happy because he does not need to fear the…

Interestingly, there are types of structures where point weight does matter. A key example: sprung wood dance floors, which may bottom out or be damaged between 4-800 pounds within a given area.

That said, Rogue One plays like a different kind of movie than the sci-fi serial the main series was based upon. It plays more like a WWII commando story, replete with supertitles for locations.