Shit That Impresses You

I was watching PBS American Experience about Elizabeth Friedman, the main US codebreaker in WWI and WWII and in between helped bring down Capone. Quaker who left the fold, married a Jewish guy and together they pretty much invented codebreaking. She organized and trained the US codebreaking team in WWII, getting paid half of what her husband was getting in another branch of the govt. She broke a version of the Enigma machine German spies were using to transmit trans Atlantic shipping info to the U-boat command. Turing had an actual Enigma machine to work with. Friedman didn't, she reverse engineered it by breaking the code mathematically. Then she and her team were put under the command of a man, because a woman couldn't be in charge of men, and J Edgar Hoover took all the credit for taking down the German spy ring.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexp...s/codebreaker/

A day late, my daughter and I watched the whole MLK "I have a dream speech". The piece that often gets played, the part I am super familiar with, is only about 1/3 of the whole thing. I am not sure if I had listened to the whole thing before, certainly not closely. Thoughts:

1. He advocated peaceful protest, but holy shit was he a revolutionary. His speech was not peaceful (even though he does say you have to be careful to be peaceful when you protest). He was truly advocating for revolution.
2. Wow, what a preacher and speech writer.
3. The final punch, the 5 minutes or so that we all know, was even more powerful having heard the whole thing.
4. Millions of people that freak because a guy kneeled during the national anthem at a sports event, yet hold MLK in high regard, would be going apeshit if they actually heard all of what he had to say, it wasn't "I'm just gonna kneel here during the anthem" stuff. It was 100% revolution.

It may not be earth-shattering to call the whole thing impressive, but it is more impressive then you might expect, even if you were expecting impressive.

Amanda Gorman reciting her poem today... Outstanding!

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^ I was gonna write that. Stunning.

It was stunning.

There was a part of her poem that very clearly gave a nod to MLK's I have a dream speech.

In other news, the current cost, technology, and build quality of non-stick pans blows me away. Haven't owned one for 30 years, and this $20 one I just got is magic.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VHRPZX7/

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A day late, my daughter and I watched the whole MLK "I have a dream speech". The piece that often gets played, the part I am super familiar with, is only about 1/3 of the whole thing. I am not sure if I had listened to the whole thing before, certainly not closely. Thoughts:

1. He advocated peaceful protest, but holy shit was he a revolutionary. His speech was not peaceful (even though he does say you have to be careful to be peaceful when you protest). He was truly advocating for revolution.
2. Wow, what a preacher and speech writer.
3. The final punch, the 5 minutes or so that we all know, was even more powerful having heard the whole thing.
4. Millions of people that freak because a guy kneeled during the national anthem at a sports event, yet hold MLK in high regard, would be going apeshit if they actually heard all of what he had to say, it wasn't "I'm just gonna kneel here during the anthem" stuff. It was 100% revolution.

It may not be earth-shattering to call the whole thing impressive, but it is more impressive then you might expect, even if you were expecting impressive.

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The speech was given first in Detroit following a march down Woodward Ave, shortly before the March on Washington. The visit was organized by Rev CL Franklin, Aretha's father. Only minor differences between the two speeches. GOAT American speech? I think so.

Below zero temps plus wind and snow in Chicago--an alderman turned the basement of his house into a warming shelter. Just heard on TV news--I don't find an online source.

^ In a weird way it impresses me that anyone chooses to live in Chicago.

thats fair

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^ In a weird way it impresses me that anyone chooses to live in Chicago.

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As far as a city goes its pretty great though. Sure you get cold snaps but the average January high is 32. Lots of big cities have shitty weather, NY, Boston, Seattle, DC (and while I know most wouldn't agree, anywhere in the South, FUCK their summers)

Yeah, if I had to live in a major metro area in the United States (and Seattle, Portland, SLC, Denver are all far too small and provincial to count), Chicago would be high on the list. It's a great city, as far as cities go.

It’s a great place to visit


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^ Right?

Great pizza in Chicago. (I'm AC/DC as far as pizza goes.)

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Great pizza in Chicago. (I'm AC/DC as far as pizza goes.)

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Cheese soup in a bread bowl.

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Great pizza in Chicago. (I'm AC/DC as far as pizza goes.)

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What are your thoughts on Detroit style pizza?

I'm from Chicago and I don't like the pizza, but it's a great town.

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What are your thoughts on Detroit style pizza?

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I used to deliver it in Detroit and ate it for dinner every night and never got tired of it. Whether it was Detroit-style or not I don't know. Place was owned by a 30 something Italian immigrant whose 3 brothers also owned pizzerias but I'm guessing they learned how to make pizza in the US, because it was nothing like the pizza I had in Italy.

Edit--after looking it up, I guess our pizza wasn't Detroit style. He used mozzarella and it was round. New York style I suppose. I've never had Detroit style pizza.

Detroit wasn't a bad place to live in the 50's and early 60's. Good schools, housing stock, parks, 4 pro teams, libraries, museums--at least if you were middle or upper class. All that changed with the riot, the decline of domestic automaking, the abandoning the city by said middle and upper class. People talk about a rebirth in Detroit but it will never come close to what it was.

I'm impressed by that shit

Damn, he must have needed a few courtesy flushes for that.

Saw a piece on Simone Biles tonight. She's impressive, and not just as an athlete. Not the easiest life--single drug addict mom, foster care until adopted by her grandparents. The Larry Nasser thing. Refused to take crap from the Karolyis. And she has a mind--although at 23 she's obviously more interesting to listen to than the average teenage elite gymnast. She's hoping for one more Olympics--for her sake alone I hope they go off this summer. It's going to be tough.

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I'm impressed by that shit

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Not impressed--try having major major surgery. When you finally poop you'll need a wheelbarrow to take it out to the backyard to bury it because it won't fit in the toilet.

Weighing myself before and after, the biggest one I have recorded is 5.4 lbs and that felt like I shat my entire innards out. Who knows what the biggest one ever was.

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Weighing myself before and after, the biggest one I have recorded is 5.4 lbs and that felt like I shat my entire innards out. Who knows what the biggest one ever was.

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I have to say that weighing myself before and after a shit is something I haven't yet stooled . . . . I mean stooped to.

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Weighing myself before and after, the biggest one I have recorded is 5.4 lbs and that felt like I shat my entire innards out. Who knows what the biggest one ever was.

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That’s fucked up.
I’m consistently at about 1.5lbs


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That’s fucked up.
I’m consistently at about 1.5lbs


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On Jupiter that would be close to 4 lbs.

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That’s fucked up.
I’m consistently at about 1.5lbs


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Ya, that's more my usual.

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I have to say that weighing myself before and after a shit is something I haven't yet stooled . . . . I mean stooped to.

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Hey, the first time I did it was because the scale happened to be sitting there and I thought I wonder how much weight I'll lose dropping a deuce.

My wife just submitted her first crossword to the New York Times. It's pretty good, but I'm sure it's not easy to get one published. The going rate is $500 for a published crossword and it goes up to $750 after you've had three published. That's for the Monday through Saturday puzzles, the Sunday rates are quite a bit higher.

Perhaps she could do a TGR crossword puzzle?

Down
1. Part of NY state not able to be delineated. Ans. Upstate
2. Formerly known as iceman. Ans. otzi

etc.

"CHANGEFORANICKEL" would be the obvious long clue, but it's one character too long (15x15 grid).

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My wife just submitted her first crossword to the New York Times. It's pretty good, but I'm sure it's not easy to get one published. The going rate is $500 for a published crossword and it goes up to $750 after you've had three published. That's for the Monday through Saturday puzzles, the Sunday rates are quite a bit higher.

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A monday puzzle ya think or a saturday one?

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A monday puzzle ya think or a saturday one?

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I'd say it's too tough for a Monday. Probably Tuesday or Wednesday level.

Science fact of the day...

"Fish poop is full of carbon, and the ocean is full of fish poop. A new study estimates up to 16 percent of all the carbon in the world's oceans come from fish faeces, fish breath, and other fish excretions."

damn fish...

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"CHANGEFORANICKEL" would be the obvious long clue, but it's one character too long (15x15 grid).

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13 with a couple black spaces? "Leeroy Jenkins"

Full moon skinning and skiing at the local hill. That shit is tits.
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Phone pics just don’t do it justice.

Edit: this place might need a full moon skiing thread.

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Full moon skinning and skiing at the local hill. That shit is tits.
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Phone pics just don’t do it justice.

Edit: this place might need a full moon skiing thread.

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Hell yeah! [emoji106]

the commentary is pretty funny but the work action is impressive. Wish I knew where this is.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreak...fter_a_couple/