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Kyle

Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson. Read my review for the Way of Kings or the second book in the series. I loved this book for all the same reasons I loved those. The only reason I rank this book below the other two is that, having listened to all three in succession, I got a bit of "Sanderson F...

Kyle

Beef I swear I wrote a review of this show. Please ignore the above rambling report unless you seek absolute trash Netflix, and instead watch Beef. It's SO GOOD. In a nutshell, these two angry people have a chance encounter that continues to escalate because they're both crazy and angry. So many un...

Kyle

BOOM! And that's 100 books in a year! Pressure's off! Yes! Now you can get sucked into the world of Sanderson, where you will take two months to finish a book! Ahahahahaha! I mean, I just finished book three today on my drive in (54 hours) and I'm going to start book 4 (57 hours) on the drive home!

Kyle

Holy shit. Get ready for your new obsession.

https://www.cinenerdle2.app/battle

Kyle

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/1 ... aul-weitz/

Kyle

I want the grandkids to draw pictures or leave sweet messages and vice versa. The two year old doesn't have a phone.

Kyle

As a gift for my mom, I want dual touchscreens connected through the internet only to each other. When something is written on one, it appears on the other and vice-versa. I can't find this. Does anyone know if something like this exists?

Kyle

Oath and Honor - Liz Cheney. Great read. Warning- Liz Cheney reads it herself which means, because she's not a professional voice actor, it can be a little slow. But I remedied this by speeding it up to 120% speed and it was fine. This book is essentially a plain-english walkthrough of the Select C...

Kyle

Exactly. That lady will still think that people living in Texas are being overrun by shoplifting gangs.

Kyle

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail ... 023-12-06/

Kyle

The thing about reading these Sanderson books is that you don't post up much. I'm 34 hours into the third book (Oathbringer) and I still have 20 hours left. I felt like I was getting a bit of fatigue so i listened to Liz Cheney's new book during a trip yesterday, but now I've only got 20 minutes lef...

Kyle

You know, I got the impression from the book that things had cooled off in more recent years. But Oates did say so many good things about Hall and his talent. But there might have been subtext in there that was just between the two of them, and we couldn't pick up on it.

Kyle

I got my Covid and Flu a week and a half ago (Tahlvin- always schedule these on a Friday in case you have side-effects. What are you doing?). Fortunately no side-effects other than a mildly sore shoulder for two days. I've got an appointment with Dr. Vaclav Hruska overseeing it all. I guess he's my ...

Kyle

Yeah. When I got done with Book 2, I immediately started book 3.

Kyle

Words of Radiance - Brandon Sanderson. Book 2 in the Stormlight Archive series! I loved it! I loved it more than the first book! Everything I said about the first book holds true for this one, but more! So instead of restating all that, I'm just going to link to my review for The Way of Kings! http...

Kyle

So look- I agree with your points. I also agree that Israel's strategy in Gaza should be considered horrifying and condemned. Hamas are terrible, awful terrorists and we should encourage finding the instigators of these atrocities and bring them to justice. But not the way Israel is doing it. As I s...

Kyle

[vc="Chandler Bing"]Could he die any less embarrassingly?[/vc]

Too soon?

Kyle

Trick 'r Treat The ultimate Halloween anthology movie. I bought it on Amazon and we watch it every year. Several stories, all loosely intertwined. Child murder, in a funny way. The most despicable principal you've ever met. Anna Paquin after her Oscar nomination, but before she was taken seriously ...

Kyle

There's a debate going on in my house and I need everyone's input. My youngest and I were talking about how he sometimes counts sheep to help go to sleep. So that got me wondering and I said that I've never counted sheep to get to sleep, but when I picture it, I picture a field and the sheep file pa...

Kyle

But I do think it's unfair in this way - not that the government is forgiving loans, which is nothing compared to the payouts it gives to whole industries that get into trouble - but that nothing is done for people who struggle financially because they paid to be rid of the same kinds of loans (i.e...

Kyle

I got the news today that my student loans were forgiven. It's a long story and I don't talk about it much because I've gotten a lot of critical, patronizing replies from people who all say, "How can you not have paid off your student loans yet?" And then they add some reproachful comment ...

Kyle

Oooooooooooooooo!

Kyle

Since we're into computer talk, let's talk passwords. I've been hearing for almost 10 years that the "era of passwords" is almost over and soon we'll not have to use passwords at all. And despite all this prognostication- I still have to maintain hundreds of passwords. I was that guy that ...

Kyle

Also- and I know there's a way to change it- but I'm tired of outlook always opening every email link in Bing. I hate Bing. And then I go change it, because I hate Bing and all, and then the next time there's an update to Outlook, what happens? Shit starts opening in Bing again. My solution to your ...

Kyle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va ... oplifting/

Kyle

It was some kind of wire work, not bungee, which is what made it cooler. He just jumped off and slowed down just before he landed. It's not christian or country- it's firmly 2010s emo pop. I think christians hate him, and if they didn't before, they definitely did when he did the Jesus pose and jump...

Kyle

To be clear, I think this is all race-based. It turns my stomach. And I know people wouldn't be using these barely-veiled code words if they were playing Notre Dame.

Kyle

Never heard of him.

Kyle

The highlight of Day 2 was definitely the eclipse- it was such an awesome, surreal, shared experience between hundreds of people. It was really cool to be there for it. The shows were pretty disappointing-- Mt. Joy was dull; Snooper, a punk bank in track suits I was excited for, had their sound mix ...

Kyle

My wife and friend thought the eclipse looked really cool, but it didn't look any different to me. Weird:

Kyle

Very cool! But was there an eclipse?? It would be good if like halfway during the festival they were all plunged into momentary darkness! As if it were planned. The eclipse was yesterday. It was a ring of fire eclipse, which meant it didn't get dark, but looked really surreal- like it was dusk, but...

Kyle

It's week two of Austin City Limits Festival and we have weekend passes. It's always a blast. Some shows were great-- Kendrick, Maggie Rogers, Emlyn (a little-known musician at her first festival, either as a performer or attendant), but Lil Yachty was hands down the best. Some shows were surprising...

Kyle

On June 5 of this year my youngest son challenged me to lose all my pandemic weight before our cruise two weeks ago. I weighed in at my all time high of 330 pounds. My goal was to get to 285, which was the weight limit on the ships water slides. Two weeks before the cruise, I was at 290.6 when we tr...

Kyle

I want to clarify something in all this- when we talk about "irrational fear of people different from us"- I'm not talking about Phoebe being a part of that group. And I assume no one else does either. If I'm correct, it's just something Phoebe mentioned that made Mike remember the convers...

Kyle

Thanks for the research, because this same issue never sat right with me. It seemed to much like those bullshit stories the media likes to feed us- like how everyone thinks people are handing out pot gummies at Halloween- that preys on unfounded white suburban fears. I've also noticed a racial eleme...

Kyle

The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson. You may have thought I stopped reading because I haven't posted a real book here in a while (I'm not counting Amish Country Ransom). Nope. I've just been reading this MASSIVE novel by Brandon Sanderson... AND I LOVE IT SOOOOO MUCH! Let me start by saying how da...

Kyle

Mike wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:28 am The kids today say, "That's rizz!"

Try it out on your family. Make it your own.

You’re too late. Jack has been calling himself the Rizzler for over a month.

Kyle

Love him. And I love how angry he makes white people. He doesn’t curse. He very devout. But he refuses to code switch for white people despite becoming successful and influential. And this is what angers white people. He doesn’t act like white people “proper.” Fuck all of them. Coach Prime is great ...

Kyle

Epilogue ONE YEAR LATER! They get married. The end. Seriously. Super shitty epilogue. Rose and Other Lady were the bridesmaids. SARBros were the groomsmen. The dogs were the flower girls. Oh, Jathen finally kiss. I guess they were waiting for marriage. Here's what really pisses me off. They didn't e...

Kyle

Look for the pictures on Facebook. They'll be lit.

Is that what the kids say? Lit?

Kyle

Amish Country Ransom- Mary Alford. The worst book I've ever finished. Read the summary here:

https://nerdprideradio.com/babble/viewt ... ?f=6&t=774

Kyle

Well, not yet.

But tomorrow I go on a cruise! Here's the deal- I'm out of internet range and only have access to Facebook through the cruise package I bought. WHICH MEANS that I need everyone here to hold down the fort for me while I'm gone.

Kyle

Chapter 21 This chapter is stupid. It's all about Jathen talking to Other Lady-- remember, the one that the book HARDLY MENTIONED for the whole book-- about her back story, and something about amnesia, and something else about how she thought she was Amish but wasn't, and how that wouldn't have matt...

Kyle

Chapter 20 This is getting so hard to keep doing. You'll see why in a second. The whole team gets there and, as I suspected, Ethan, Jade and the dogs (?) take the lead. There's some snipers and a bunch of perps, but they're all just inexplicably taken care of by faceless feds. So Jathen (a couple na...

Kyle

I saw this last week. What a tool. "Yeah, the problem with the economy is that the working class is too greedy. They need to remember who's in charge here!"

Kyle

Chapter 19 Whoa. So apparently after talking to his dad, the Senator, Keller is ready to sing like William Hung on American Idol. He confirms that they have suitcase nukes and were planning on a coordinated strike across the country. But he won't say, because the guy who he's working with is very po...

Kyle

Chapter 18 Ethan reunites with the SARBros and Sheriff is there too! The feds get the perps under arrest but no one knows where Keller is. They get to the Farmhouse and they all storm inside, but Keller isn't there. Ethan tells them he's in the basement. As they go down, shots ring out. It's Keller,...

Kyle

Chapter 17 The two perps start marching Ethan and Jade into the woods- because it would just have been tacky to shoot them dead in the road. Suddenly they stop. Did you hear that? There's someone else in the woods. Wait is that... Just then the three SARs dogs come charging out of the woods to attac...

Kyle

I mean, to be fair, I took some artistic license in my summary about the palm snotting (thus the disclaimer confessing speculation).

Kyle

I do all the dishes and laundry in my house. But I'm weird because I like doing dishes and laundry.

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