Kansas Crimson

Of course

Plus, in the middle of what looks like the worst natural disaster in the history of mankind….they will find a way to have sex

Hell yes.
Side nip?
Or just, since mid 2000s, male butt.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:55 pm Ok so possibly still bad good.

That reminds me of an article I saw yesterday after the CPI, Consumer Price Index, (inflation #s), for June were announced yesterday morning. They showed that inflation is continuing to trend downward, which initially, I thought was good. But apparently in this case "good" is a polite way of saying "weak":

Weak CPI Data Is Bad News For Stocks And Growth

I think Shirley we are at a different stage of life where I’m ok with my stocks/401k taking a hit as long as it makes the current day to day easier.

But I love a good bad movie.

Goonies is a good bad movie.
Tremors is a good bad movie.
Big is a good bad movie.

Goonies and Big are GREAT movies

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 5:45 pm I think Shirley we are at a different stage of life where I’m ok with my stocks/401k taking a hit as long as it makes the current day to day easier.

But I love a good bad movie.

Goonies is a good bad movie.
Tremors is a good bad movie.
Big is a good bad movie.

Ok, now name some bad good movies.
I'll start.
Avatar, Star Wars (I don't expect people to agree), Black Swan, Lost in Translation, Moulin Rouge, American Beauty, Titanic, The Crying Game, Ghost, Working Girl, The Towering Inferno.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 5:45 pm I think Shirley we are at a different stage of life where I’m ok with my stocks/401k taking a hit as long as it makes the current day to day easier.

But I love a good bad movie.

Goonies is a good bad movie.
Tremors is a good bad movie.
Big is a good bad movie.

^^^

I don't necessarily agree with the conclusions of the author I quoted. I'm very happy to see inflation coming down. I was just adding to the bad is good, good is bad examples.

If I'm not mistaken, you're ~ in your early 40s. That puts you in the acquisition phase of money management. As someone who no longer collects a salary or wage to add to my savings, I've entered the preservation of capital phase, so there's no doubt our sequence of risk diverges, widely. However, as a trader who sells options on ~ half of my savings/investments, I have the luxury of viewing the ups and downs, volatility of the market, as a good thing. The more change, generally, the better.

And for the other half, the buy and hold portion of my investments, downturns are a buying opportunity, as long as the downturn doesn't exceed ~ 4 years. (Which is the amount of living expenses I try to keep in cash/T-Bills all the time.) Most downturns are much less than 4 years, especially in the period after the great recession ~ 2008-'09. Since then downturns are brief, V-shaped, (on a stock chart) occurrences, and if they threaten to last longer, the government has a policy for it, which can be described as "here's money, keep buying, everybody"... Until it isn't.

Lost in Translation?
gtfo

Dow had a new high. Imterest rates expected to be cut.

Instead of the RNC, I watched Oppenheimer last night. I normally avoid 3 hour movies but this was pretty good. Had to turn the subwoofer waaaayyyyy down.

jhawks99 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:16 pm Instead of the RNC, I watched Oppenheimer last night. I normally avoid 3 hour movies but this was pretty good. Had to turn the subwoofer waaaayyyyy down.

Fucking loved that movie.
One of the better ones i've seen in years.

I watched music on YouTube. Very relaxing

Finished Silo last night.

Pretty good!

Some weird pacing, but (without spoilers whatsoever) it's a fun mystery box show that could have been sparked by the question, "What if we made an entire world based on the Dharma Initiative from Lost, but scratch the polar bears and other supernatural shit?"

This Sunday Aug 25 on the Smithsonian Channel. "How Did They Build That?"

I asked them if I could cuss on British TV. They laughed and said it airs after 9:00 PM on BBC so "sure". But they cut my "10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag" comment anyway. And decided not to interview me on site for the show. My business partner has a much more congenial personality anyway.

Oklahoma Contemporary ( Folding Light) is a cool building, and a great piece of architecture. And Rand is an underappreciated genius.

https://app.shift.io/review/66ba33884e7 ... 21e9a28423

Rumor has it they may do an episode on the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, as well. The technical issues on that project were much greater. I will describe the movement of the rigid frame slip joints in a seismic event as, "it looks like two pieces of pipe fucking". Maybe THAT will get me on BBC.

I am reading the Three Body Problem series right now, and it is very difficult reading but MILES richer and more fun than the Netflix adaptation. It makes sense to me, now, why the series was considered unfilmable. The show did as good of a job as is reasonably possible, but it’s not close.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 8:47 pm Lost in Translation?
gtfo

Yeah that and American Beauty are great. Though, admittedly, American Beauty gets weird for weird’s sake.

new Air McNair true crime limited series dropped on netflix

KUTradition wrote: ↑Thu Aug 22, 2024 3:32 pm new Air McNair true crime limited series dropped on netflix

I watched it last night.
Crazy.

Travis is 8n Grotequeruie. Watching with Mrs. 99. Hope it's good

https://www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com/

This is on Prime, but you can watch this adult documentary (90min) on a lot of different streaming services.

I often tell our right-wingers here to "change the station." Well, I found this documentary last week and it supported my claim (not rocket science, of course).

From Wikipedia:
The Brainwashing of My Dad is a 2015 American documentary film directed by Jen Senko about her father's transformation from a nonpolitical Democrat into a political Republican. The film was mostly funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

Synopsis
As Jen Senko tries to understand the transformation of her father from a nonpolitical Democrat to an angry Republican fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under President Richard Nixon for a media takeover by the Republicans, the 1971 Powell Memo urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion (especially the media, universities, and courts), the 1987 dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine under President Ronald Reagan, and the signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act under President Bill Clinton. The documentary aims to show how the media and the nation changed, which leads to questions about who owns the airwaves, what rights listeners and watchers have, and what responsibility the government has to keep the airwaves fair, accurate, and accountable.