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maybe red planet were more popular than anybody thought? or maybe the simpsons is to blame? HA! Good Fun!

so, the draft is not the biggest nfl news of the day? Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to return to Green Bay Packers, sources say HA! Good Fun!

opposite: may 10 and our second dose can't get here fast enough. sure, am knowing is kinda our duty to our fellow human beings to get vaccinated asap as there is current a race 'tween % vaccinated and the emergence o' new variants, one o' which may prove to be vaccine resistant. the more people who is vaccinated, the less likely is the possibility o' a variant appearing to f everything up and erase so much o' the positive gains from widespread vaccinations... which is why getting the rest o' the world vaccinated should be no less important for americans than is getting americans vaccinated. personal vaccinated hardly ends the story. that said, every time Gromnir needs spend significant time indoors with a group o' people, we get all twitchy. is no way to know how good is the ventilation in the hardware store or the dentist office waiting room. civic duty sounds like a fabulous reason to be motivated to get vaccinated, but real reason we can't hardly wait for may 10 is to give us a little peace o' mind 'cause am knowing there will be many times in the coming weeks and months am gonna find our self elbow to elbow and shoulder to shoulder with folks whom we know not at all and given our less than ideal health, such proximity is cause for concern even if the concern is not large enough to keep us in a proverbial bubble or anything remote similar. may 10 (two weeks after actual) ain't gonna be some kinda freedom from covid-19 celebration. vaccine doesn't provide perfect immunity. heck, we got the flu vaccine last year and still managed to get the flu in spite o' being ultra careful in part 'cause o' covid. that said, particular given how prevalent is the covid is a hoax narrative in our part o' california, being vaccinated will give us a reasonable response every time our bored brain pesters us with the possibilities o' aerosolized spread o' the virus in confined spaces. HA! Good Fun!

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contrary to the impression john oliver may have left some people with recently, probable cause is not an easy hurdle to overcome. police needing resort to lies should be proof of the difficulty of achieving judicial sufficient probable cause, but somehow mr. oliver got things bass backwards on a recent show. if probable cause were so ez, why would cops resort to lies to meet their burden? nevertheless, according to multiple sources, the doj had probable cause for a search last year and bill barr blocked the warrant. if barr hadn't blocked the warrant, trump coulda'/woulda'/mighta' pardoned rudy assuming evidence was found which exposed the former nyc mayor to criminal prosecution, so barr's efforts may end up haunting rudy. also, given rudy has known this search were a possibility since barr stepped in to squash the warrant efforts last year, this is kinda an idiot test for mr. giuliani. most suspects do not get +6 months to prepare for a possible search of their home and electronic devices. if the feds find anything, and the warrant wouldn't have been served unless there were cause to believe they would find evidence, it would require rudy to be one o' the more comical willful obtuse former us attorney generals in history, although far from a uniquely comical example. HA! Good Fun!

mare of easttown the mystery aspects is solid and the show is taking time to develop characters and subplots. pains us to say, kate winslet is, at best, mediocre in this. good acting should look effortless even if it ain't. winslet reminds you she is acting the part o' a small-town south east pennsylvania cop in every scene. is only two episodes, so maybe winslet hits her stride after exhausting needed emmy moment opportunities? we typical like winslet, so has been disappointing as near everybody else is doing better, particular jean smart but also the numerous young actors. wanted to like this and we will continue to watch, but am surprised by how much am enduring winslet screen time. HA! Good Fun!

2021 NFL Draft Tracker - Prospects | NFL.com we got no predictions for future hall of famers. trevor lawrence is the uncontested #1 prospect, but we never predict qbs to the hof. in fact, am thinking the safest draft prediction for any year o' the draft is that the worst move will be a team trading up to take a qb. trevor lawrence looks like he has all the tools. is no good reason to think trevor lawrence will not succeed save for biggest hurdle o' going to jax. david carr were similar can't miss. kyle pitts is a physical freak at te and he had excellent production at florida-- best player regardless o' position in our estimation. best lineman is penei sewell, a young guy from university of oregon who has all they physical talent needed but needs to work on run blocking, general technique and film study. caleb farley were considered a top 5 overall prospect at the end o' the college season. will be perhaps the fourth or fifth cb taken. mac jones is considered ~40th best prospect by most prognosticators, but he might go #3. mac jones has good/excellent accuracy, so his basement is better than a few o' the prospects who is considered better qbs. dunno. will be a curious draft, and am certain some team will give up too much to grab a qb. HA! Good Fun!

considering how the US antivax movement has become conflated with liberty and personal rights, the demand for employees to not be vaccinated is perhaps not so much surprising as naked hypocritical... in addition to being complete anti-science and nonsensical. is impossible for us to prove that the pfizer vaccine won't turn at least one person into a bridge troll, save to note there is nothing in the pfizer vaccine which would accomplish such a transformation. we similar cannot prove there is a microscopic and undetectable chip in the vaccine which through sooper-science would reveal your every move to the government or bill gates or the illuminati. is equal true there is nothing 'bout the pfizer vaccine as described which would or could turn a person into an ambulatory covid-19 factory, nevertheless, the school is denying choice o' their employees to get vaccinated 'cause o' magical thinking embraced by 100ns and perhaps a few obsidian boardies. also, have mentioned some time past how the legal defense to resist mandatory vaccinations is inextricable tied with pro choice cases. the irony o' far right folks needing rely on a my body, my choice approach to resisting government compelled vaccinations should be a wakeup call for some o' the far right who has curious coopted the antivax movement in the past year. but again, the florida school takes a noteworthy step beyond previous antivax resistance efforts. current efforts is not simple a demand for personal choice in deciding whether or not to be vaccinated but is rather a prohibition on continued employment to prevent others from choosing. so little about the story makes sense to us. is not that the story is surprising, but the abandonment o' even the pretense o' reason is discouraging. HA! Good Fun!

up until knives out, "skippy from tech support" were probable our favorite chris evan role. admitted, this is not much o' a compliment, but we still can't hear, journey's "don't stop believing'" w/o thinking losers and skippy. added scene for those with no plans to ever see losers. HA! Good Fun!

reason provide for the school prohibiting the further employment o' those vaccinated: "until more is known, they are going to ere on the side of caution." tuition runs from $16k per year for part-time pre schoolers to $30k for middle school. Miami private school says teachers who get coronavirus vaccine aren’t welcome, citing debunked misinformation no! no, no, no, no, no! HA! Good Fun! ps worst part is, we would not be surprised if this move boosted their enrollment.

the us attorney's office for the southern district o' florida made their announcement regarding the grennons on a friday, which is atypical but hardly unique. unless there is some kinda motivation to avoid immediate media blowback, fridays is not the expected day of release for this kinda thing. however, friday, april 23, 2021 were the one year anniversary o' trump's disinfectant and sunshine epiphanies. am gonna guess the timing were not coincidence. everybody gives birx heat for not contradicting trump, but the dhs science guy were active agreeing with trump. HA! Good Fun!

am thinking it will take a while for reality to crack the façade so painstakingly erected over decades. HA! Good Fun!

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am also gonna observe how after your first job following graduation, chances are the ranking o' your university means little, and the importance o' school rank decreases with each passing year. go to stanford or san jose state is o' far less consequence to potential employers than is a decade o' experience. there is a few majors we wouldn't recommend the community college route, and if you have the grades and are able to afford four years at an ivy or near ivy then why the heck not? however, am o' the opinion school rankings is given disproportionate importance by too many... and this observation comes from an admitted education snob. HA! Good Fun!

disagree... complete. the cop-out is not giving meaning to the player choices, 'cause is harder to do so in a crpg. chose race or class or weapon should not result in polar better or worse results, but should result in different experience. if the only meaningful difference in gameplay experience is numeric effectiveness o' combat numbers, then developer failed and blame on the vagaries o' role-play choice is the cop-out. meaningful role-play requires different consequences. the problem is the lazy and bad game developers/dms/gms is willing to allow significant better and worse consequences for basic character development options. is much harder to come up with different experiences which is all viable and fun, even if in a math based system there will always be a best or worst. similar, side with the merchants over the church as part o' a critical path quest resolution should have consequences. make the consequences meaningful. however, if the merchant and church quest happens at level fifteen and 'cause you made wrong character development choices at level one thru three you is precluded from making an objective good or better choice, that is lazy and stoopid and limiting... is anti-roleplay as it effective railroads the knowledgeable player into finding the handful o' best ways to play a game, rather than making more role-play approaches viable. as we noted in an earlier post, in a pnp campaign, the dm/gm gets to tailor. even if the game system is sh!te, a decent dm/gm will be able to make sure that a player with a perfectly reasonable character build that 'cause o' poor crafted rules is less effective, nevertheless feels like they is contributing. and of course if the rules system forces weapon specializations to be effective, then the dm is gonna make certain a player with weapon specialization in ___________ is able to find, purchase or craft useful weapons. no matter how much o' an rp purist one claims to be, one guy forced to sit impotent through game session after game session 'cause o' bad level one choices he had no way o' knowing were bad at the time is gonna be fun for who exact? dm/gm will fix in pnp in ways impossible in a crpg. gotta recognize character character generation and development choices should result in different gameplay experiences as 'posed to qualitative superiors or inferiors. gotta recognize crpgs is not like pnp. is ironic, but game developers rare admit that more options frequent makes a game worse as 'posed to better. more choice makes increasing likely there will be busted good or bad combinations o' weapons, class abilities and spells... or whatever is the features o' a particular system. you win choices is obvious a mistake. you lose choices is just as bad. the more options and more complex the system gets, the more difficult it is for the developer to anticipate the win and lose options-- too many possible combinations. nevertheless, the cop out is for the developer to provide more options and then ignore the consequences while blaming the disparate results on some kinda fuzzy notion o' role-play purity. HA! Good Fun!

as a matter o' principle, am against kneeling save as part o' a religious observance. no earthly king or nation would get a bent knee from Gromnir. am not exact ancient greek or republican roman serious, but close. have also observed, much like rbg btw, that the kaepernick inspired protests (keep in mind he originally sat, and sat unnoticed by most) during national anthem observances were misguided-- the federal government cannot fix the problems the movement were trying to raise awareness regarding. however, we have been part o' organized sports teams and if we couldn't work out a compromise our teammates were comfortable with, we might bend knee as a show o' support for our teammates as 'posed to support for anything else. would make sure that distinction were made very clear. at this point those folks who want Gromnir services, and is likely getting gratis or near that, would be unlikely to care 'bout such stuff. am the eccentric guy who retired at fifty after all. HA! Good Fun!

is that from the times list? not a fan. apples and oranges anyways. stanford is private and there are many public alternatives. best public universities in the US show up on the times list by the dozens before one ever reaches 118. however, tuitions does range from ~$7k-$18k for the US public schools, with the exception o' the military academies. military academies, particular looking at long-term earning potential, is arguable the ultimate bargain. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public am not adding 'cause the specific rankings is worthwhile, but is easy to see relevant tuition data and rankings. you go to any o' the schools making top 24 and chances are they is 'bove 118 on the times list. so, is a whole lotta quality public options in the US and is ways to cheapen further. UC (university of california) schools, by law, is s'posed to be free, but it hasn't been that way since early 1900s, and some kinda genuine in-state tuition has been assumed necessary since prop 13 (1978). however, two years of community college is a smarty alternative for the frugal minded future college grad. many community colleges is dirt-cheap in CA... relative speaking. Cal is #7 on the times world ranking list? two years at $14k sounds like a freaking bargain when you put it that way, no? up 'til relative recent, germans had mandatory public service, so free university made a whole lotta sense. am seeming to recall germany put a hold on mandatory service in the 2010s, but we honest didn't care, so we didn't pay attention. "conscription" is still law in germany as am recalling, but they simple ain't actual conscripting? that said, we do approve o' the sanders and warren efforts to make higher education free, but am not always onboard with their specific plans. detail, but important details. the thing is, we got extreme levels o' college dropout here in the US and the dropout rates is less a financial thing than one would s'pose. here in the US we functional demand for ill-prepared kids to go to universities they is almost certain doomed to fail, and then we make such kids pay for their failure for decades. am thinking we need fix this serious issue before we make everything free, 'cause make free just shifts the inevitable financial burden o' predictable failure to taxpayers. edit: am s'posing make serious efforts to deal with college dropout rates simultaneous to making education free would also be an option and doing so would be less likely to trigger hippie liberals and their namby-pamby handholding instincts. we kid... sorta. HA! Good Fun! ps it looks like most o' the top 32 or so public unis from usnews and world reports make the times list pre 118. pps the qs world list is our current least fave as they went all political a few years past and changed their methodology-- made ratio of international students and international faculty serious measures.

am thinking the zucchini is s'posed to work the way well rinsed sauerkraut does in chocolate cake, or the aforementioned sour cream in corn bread. is less a nutrition thing as it is an old skool way to keep some kinda batter moist while cooking. or at least such were likely the original reason. you are probably right 'bout folks who make zucchini bread today. HA! Good Fun!

am getting the concept behind banana bread. bananas are naturally sweet, so add to cake-like batter is reasonable. if you got a couple bananas which are not necessarily bad but definite in the overripe stage, banana bread is a way to salvage ingredients before they is becoming garbage. banana bread makes sense. zucchini, on the other hand, is not natural sweet. aren't too many other zucchini desert items. pumpkin is at least a squash with some noteworthy desert utility. why add zucchini to a sweetened batter? if you got zucchini which has become overripe, throw it away. is not as if you save borderline viable zucchini by turning it into a cake. is nothing wrong with zucchini bread, but it is odd. 'course we don't get rhubarb pie neither. theory behind rhubarb pie is if you add enough sugar to even the most bitter and unpleasant o' ingredients, you may end up with something arguable edible. fine. point is proved. is a curious waste o' sugar to prove. zucchini bread is perfectly ok, but it is a bit weird. perhaps try a nice ratatouille instead? HA! Good Fun! ps so is clear am not targeting keyrock on this, and in sprit o' full disclosure, one o' our favorite soups is czernina, if is done well. is another one o' those weird prune recipes (though we ordinary use apple and maybe pear too) we learned many years past... prunes add depth and take the edge off the vinegar and other more curious ingredients.

the implication is there were a time when the toothpaste were in the tube. am staining to identify such a time. HA! Good Fun!

it is, of course, a matter of taste. however, add a tablespoon (or more) of sour cream to your recipe. fiddle with sour cream amounts to get desired moistness. shouldn't noticeable affect flavour. HA! Good Fun!

Florida Family Indicted for Selling Toxic Bleach as Fake “Miracle” Cure for Covid-19 and Other Serious Diseases, and for Violating Court Orders Friday, April 23, 2021 ... According to the indictment, the Grenons, all of Bradenton, Florida, manufactured, promoted, and sold a product they named Miracle Mineral Solution (“MMS”). MMS is a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite and water which, when ingested orally, became chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach typically used for industrial water treatment or bleaching textiles, pulp, and paper. The Grenons claimed that ingesting MMS could treat, prevent, and cure COVID-19, according to the charges. The FDA, however, had not approved MMS for treatment of COVID-19, or for any other use. Rather, in prior official warning statements, the FDA had strongly urged consumers not to purchase or use MMS for any reason, explaining that drinking MMS was the same as drinking bleach and could cause dangerous side effects, including severe vomiting, diarrhea, and life-threatening low blood pressure. See https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/danger-dont-drink-miracle-mineral-solution-or-similar-products. In fact, FDA received reports of people requiring hospitalizations, developing life-threatening conditions, and even dying after drinking MMS. HA! Good Fun! ps we were brief employed at the usao in pierre, sd. may come as a shock, were not exact night at the improv levels o' comedy. is stretching credulity to believe the presser we link were coincidental on the one-year anniversary o' trump's disinfectant and sunshine epiphanies. for the southern district of florida office to do this is more than a little surprising.

were a young woman we spent some time with when we were in spain and she asked us to make her real american food. still don't know what real american food is, but we did make a decent bowl of red for her. were not easy finding the chilies we thought were essential. made what we thought were an excellent texas red, all things considered. expected wonder and applause. reaction: meh. however, while struggling to get our chilies, we also came across corn meal, so we made cornbread too. kinda an afterthought. is a few things europeans call corn bread, but they use corn flour and not corn meal. try and explain corn meal is not corn flour to a spanish grocer in the late 80s/early 90s is more difficult than you might imagine. as 'posed to the chili, the cornbread were a serious hit. HA! Good Fun!

well, that explains why we insta thought o' robot chicken. HA! Good Fun!

so, kinda like a robot chicken skit, but turned into a full series wherein a whole lotta money is spent to make the stop-action aspects look like something from a tim burton film instead o' an adult swim show? am seeing they finally gave the nathan fillion as wonderman rumors life, and am conceding we have a hard time not laughing at patton oswalt performances, so am gonna give it a fair viewing at some point. am just wondering how seth green and matt senreich is reacting. HA! Good Fun!