I lived in Orlando or Tampa Bay for close to two decades. It’s super bright there all the times, so wearing sunglasses while outside or while driving was effectively mandatory. Those glasses needed a place to go once inside a retail space, though, yeah? Shirt pocket was always the best option, yeah, but what if the…

That’s all great, but can they figure out how to adjust the channel levels so that speaking characters aren’t 20 decibels more quiet than the music and sound effects? I’d pay an extra $4-$5 a month for that.

That Sharks rally in Game 7 was amazing. Is Joe Thornton the next Ray Bourque, just without needing to be traded away? I’m hoping. I would make for a great story.

One of the workarounds I’ve been using for apps that store my CC info — Starbucks, Chipotle, Panera, etc. — is to change the payment method to use Google Pay instead. My Google Pay settings are such that either my password or my biometrics are required to Auth the payment, and I only use my biometrics on the apps.…

Ah. Gotcha. Subjectivity is a funny thing like that. Have a good day.

Are you implying that the skills required to create the proper digital skeleton, to attach muscles and skin to that skeleton, and to adjust textures and light sources and the refractive and reflective nature around everything in the scene are less difficult than drawing or coloring by hand? (Yes, there’s some…

cobatltbluenight nails it. Scar admits it during the final battle, Simba rallies and forces Scar to say it loud enough for the rest of the pride to hear. Scar ... doesn’t recover.

I think just Netflix adding the existing show in it’s entirety again would be enough. That’s where I watched it for the first time, in 2012/2013. I have Prime as well, so I can watch it there, but the interface is clunky compared to Neflix, so I watch less stuff on Prime.

And don’t even think about trying to take The Metro in to Nats Park on a busy game day. Whoo. It’s brutal.

Where was I?

Montgomery, Alabama, a High School Senior getting ready to graduate and head off to college at UCF to double-major in Computer and Electrical Engineering. I owned “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” on widescreen VHS. I’d seen a fan-subbed VHS copy of “Tenku no Shiro Rapyuta”. I’d seen “A Walk in the Clouds”…

I’ve taken the Northeast corridor train from BWI to NYC once, and that was only because my flight out of BWI was cancelled and I was able to scramble over to the Amtrak station and buy a ticket.

All told, from D.C. to Manhattan the time is about the same on the train as it is fighting through airport security,…

On the 40 mile stretch of I-95 south of The D.C. Beltway, I have the interesting phenomena where driving the speed limit on cruise control means that trucks pass me driving downhill, then I pass them again driving uphill. It’s an uncomfortable game of catch and release that often has me moving left another lane and…

I live near-ish D.C. in Virginia (too far north to be considered Central Virginia by Richmonders, too far south to be considered Northern Virginia by the elites in Arlington and Fairfax) where a LOT of Lidl grocery stores have been popping up. The small footprint (the size of two Trader Joe’s, basically), fresh…

In 2011 in St. Pete, FL, my wife and I watched a lot near our house that had a 2002 Lexus IS 300 for sale. That car sat for months, as we watched the price slowly fall from $9000 all the way to $3000. It sat because the previous owner had tuned it, then ripped all the mods out before selling it. The air intake wasn’t…

I was working late a few weeks back and created an entire artist playlist from my Android phone without a problem. I wanted all of their music in a single playlist that I could download, so I searched for the artist, pulled up their page, scrolled down to Albums, selected “See All Albums”, and on the three-dots…

I have friends who have met him at Cons and also been pulled into uncomfortable, unwanted touching. None of them ever want to see him again.

You left out BT, Orbital, and Paul Oakenfold there.

We are just naming producer DJs who make complex, layered, well orchestrated music that produces entire soundscapes, yes?

I’ve lived in Houston. I’ve lived in St. Pete. The air in St. Pete gets more hot, more humid, and more mosquito filled than Houston, on average.

When I lived in St. Pete, I wanted the Rays out, the Trop demolished, and a nice extension of the budding local markets and restaurant scene built out where the Trop is now.

Bas…

“I don’t agree with the LGBT lifestyle” is akin to saying “I don’t agree with the black lifestyle” or “I don’t agree with the blue-eyed lifestyle”. It’s how people are born, mate. What’s next, not agreeing with the Air Breathing Lifestyle?

That you fail to see people for who they are and instead try to tell yourself…

WHICH Lutheran?

‘Cause I’ll tell you right now, raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod inside the U.S., I was told loud and clear that anybody who has sex outside of marriage is going to hell, and that marriage is only between a man and a woman, and it’s not that they hate gay people they just don’t approve of…