For some reason, this makes me want to watch The Ref again, a funny Dennis Leary Christmas movie. I’m glad this movie is as good as the vibe I got off watching the previews fo rit.

I wonder if either of their daughters have been writing. Astrid’s mom and dad were Karen and Poul Anderson, and I’d love a third generation family tree in the field.

Out of curiosity, is there any fracking being done in the Middle East, the home of traditional oil pumping? Any chance that the major players in our fracking biz are being financed by Middle Eastern players?

He’s been spinning plates on the world stage for years, and he’s been adding more plates every year, and it’s getting harder and harder for him to keep them all going. I agree, he’s going to have a disaster soon, but I just hope that he gets his BFR working before he does.

If you had a suit with an empty leg, you could load it up with extra chocolate bars, fruit leathers, beef sticks and some Twinkies.

God, I miss Sam Kinison.

Based on the date of the photo and what phase the moon was in on that day, being lit, the lunar disk shown must therefore be the back side that we never see from Earth.

It really has been crappy, hasn’t it?. NASA’s always had a great trove of archived photos, and you would expect a big mission like this one would be better then most, but so far, not so much.

Texas is going to opt out, isn’t it? The whack-a-doodle state government has never cottoned to that new-fangled ee-leck-tris-city

I note that today the moon (from our standpoint) is ‘new’, so the view shown in the photo should mostly represent the backside that we never seen around here.

Linda, I’m still curious about the folks in the building next door, and what they think about the crazy shit going on in your offices. Do you ever look up and see folks just standing there, looking back at you? From the photos both you and Kevin ran, it looked like not only don’t you guys have no furniture, but no…

Maybe they think they own because it’s the South China Sea? The world could piss them off by renaming it

The phrase used in these parts is that it was a publationship- a relationship for publicity sake. The movie’s been out for two months, it doesn’t have legs for anything in the awards field, beyond the Razzies.

I’ve loved the note I just read on IMDB that Johnson toyed with the idea that Blanc would do a different accent in every movie. That would have been great.

No capes, darling!

Don’t know what an Edgelord is, but yeah, sure. The rest of it is right on.

Too bad he didn’t think about being hardcore with client data security. Mr. Musk, you’re skating on thin ice.

Once the Fossil fuel industry takes over the alternative fuel industries and the petrochemicals can be replaced, idiotic regulations in the oil states (like Texas) will magically disappear. I hope it’s soon enough that we’ll still have glaciers and polar bears.

The people who had the codes kept getting kicked out when they tried to use the codes. Fuck Ticketmaster.

Minnesota guy. The unit has to come out in October, and pay attention to the weather in the coming week. If the temp is not hitting 75 during that week, take it out now, while you can get it out without freezing in the room. Once out, vacuum the back of the AC as best you can, and watch for condensation water and be…