Sculptus Poe

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I’m sure the s&m didn’t make it into the daily newspapers. I grew up reading Gary Larson’s compilations and his descriptions of censorship for strange reasons. If gimp Archie made it in, nothing makes sense.

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Of course, the reader is a huge variable. I have had to crank up an audiobook to 2.5x-3x for one reader. Of course that is usually way too high to be comfortable. I do 2x quite often but 1.5x really is the best and feels the most natural. I can’t do 1x or it feels like the reader has a speech impediment.

Going back and listening to common sense when he did it regularly is an interesting history trip in itself. I don’t usually recommend it now, not as an ongoing show anyway, mostly because I keep thinking he might never do another one, but he does do one when something legitimately important happens that isn’t just a partisan scoreboard talking point, and it is always a good listen.

I drive a lot for work, so I listen to a lot of audio books and podcasts. I got to the point that listening at 1.5x sounds normal. It doesn’t feel like speedrunning, I don’t even do it to get through stuff faster, it is just that people talk so … slowly.

Most of the time I find podcasts by accident.

Hard Core History - (Every series he makes is great but “Blueprint for Armageddon” describes WWI better than I ever heard it described and it is a masterpiece. Unfortunately that particular series is old enough that it is only on Dan Carlin’s website for sale, but his new shows are free.)

Coverville - A very well curated music show that is all cover songs and has been running since 2004. Somewhere around 2005 I was working at the postoffice, and that show got me through the day. It is still the best music show I know of.

Thanks I’ll have to check it out. I miss those guys. 😀

Yeah, we definitely wore out our tape. I can see that egg scene in my head precisely. Heh. I think somebody had it up on youtube years ago. Not sure if it is there now though.

There was a Dinosaur documentary, either in the 80s or early 90s with lots of stop motion scenes. One of the clips they used while talking about dinosaurs in pop culture was moving this brontosaurus. They had some really great stop motions scenes of deinonychus, cementing it as my favorite dinosaur.

Surveys have always been nonsense. I suppose if you are legitimately trying to find something out then that is one thing, but almost every group doing surveys has an ulterior motive. If the data starts looking bad for them, they just don’t release it or they cherry-pick who they are talking to by how they gather the data. Either way, it is always skewed towards the advantage of whoever is paying the tab.

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People don’t understand how stuff like this undermines any point they are trying to make. All left leaning information against trump is a little more suspect every time a fake post like this is promoted as real. Isn’t the truth bad enough?

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I agree. If they can’t afford to man the stores properly, they shouldn’t have stores.

I don’t even think this is intentional. They just under-staff those places so hard that there is no chance that somebody went around any time and updated the prices. I have walked into a half dozen dollar generals, got my stuff and stood at the register for minutes, never even seeing an employee. I could have walked out with a couple shopping carts of stuff unchallenged. Baskets of unshelved items are always stacked in the rows. The GAF is very low when you do see an employee. They must pay minimum wage. Dollar General used to be a pretty good store, so something must have happened in management in the last decade.

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