Nerd Pride Radio

Kyle

Apparently when you're sixteen, you don't think it's funny when your dad lights a firecracker and rolls it under the bathroom door as you're getting out of the shower. But... and this is so weird... but if you're fifteen and you're watching your dad do this, you think it's hilarious.

Kyle

I dreamed I was an action hero (just like in an action movie, but it wasn't a movie) and my family vacation at a water park was interrupted by terrorists who we (apparently my family are decent action heroes too) had to chase through the park and the rides. We were also chased. In the end my 21 year...

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I just have this vision of a person who secretly wants to make Olympic Aerobic Dancing a viable sport so they can win a gold medal. They know chances are slim, but they keep plugging away at it every day just in case.

Kyle

See, I don't think you understand the real star of the movie is Ken. Let me mansplain it to you... oh wait... I think I get it now. One of the things that I really appreciated about the movie was that it was legitimately laugh-out-loud funny from beginning to end. People can argue about all the issu...

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Whoa. Climate change is important, but what a way to bury the lead here! What is the deal with this woman and the stroller? It seems so performative. Like- is there even a baby in the stroller, or does she just want you to think that? Is the stroller just a prop so she can do these complicated dance...

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I live on a lake in a tourist town, so this is common here. And really annoying because its often the rich, entitled, elderly people who do it in golf carts, and they drive 5 mph in the road taking up the whole lane, even though its illegal to drive them in the road. It's just selfish and indicative...

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Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch. I'm trying to read lighter fare right now because when I exercise on my treadmill every morning, I find that this makes it faster because it's more fun, even if not earth-moving and deeply meaningful. In a nutshell- this book is Harry Potter for adults. The novel...

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Awesome! Season 2 is just as good!

Kyle

I thought it was funny as hell and really enjoyed it.

Kyle

If Republicans nominate Tim Scott, he would soundly beat Biden. I think Republicans are slowly coming around to that.

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I’m doing Barbenheimer tomorrow. I’ll report back.

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It does not. Season 2 is as good as Season 1.

Kyle

I'm going to watch it this weekend because my youngest son and I have sworn to watch every Goose movie. I'm looking forward to it. Should be a gritty political thriller.

Kyle

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine. I got this book from my library app because it won a Hugo award and it looked like a meaty space-opera that was the first in a series. Wowza. First- it's not a space opera, but it is sci-fi. Second- this book freaking blew me away. The story involves the new...

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Disgusting. Did you read about the protests because an Italian judge dismissed charges against a home supervisor that sexually assaulted a minor resident by coming up behind her and sticking his hands inside his underwear and fondling her? The judge said it was clearly a joke and lasted under 10 sec...

Kyle

Yeah. So I'm a generous tipper in most situations that are traditional- normally tipping 20-25 percent. But these new hits on tipping- like every time you make a square payment, or when you're just picking up your food at the sandwich/cafe counter, I tip nothing. It feels like extortion to me becaus...

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Do you tip the housekeeping staff when you stay at a hotel? This is inspired by Phoebe in another thread. I never do, and hardly think about it. When I travel, I'm normally staying for one night (on business) to stay in a budget hotel (Comfort Suites/Hampton Inn/Holiday Inn Express). Tipping isn't s...

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I think I'll make another post about it, but it makes me wistful hearing other peoples' restaurant experiences now that my dietary restrictions are so limited.

Kyle

Just more evidence that it's become acceptable again to vilify minority groups and extremely qualified individuals for promoting diversity- even when that has nothing to do with their hiring.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11 ... ournalism/

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This isn't what you think it's about. And I wish I could find the original article I read on this earlier this morning. Studies are being conducted on using sleep deprivation as a treatment for depression. Rather unintuitively, they've discovered (in young people- the effect is not significant in el...

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They're probably right. I don't know that's a reason to ban the movie, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. Hollywood has been doing shit to appease the Chinese censors for the last decade.

Kyle

Do you sometimes find it hard to convince people to play Secret Hitler? Or you play Secret Hitler and find that some people are... way ... to disappointed to find out they weren't Hitler? Well, let me suggest an alternative. Donner Dinner Party! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219638/donner-dinn...

Kyle

I have a theory that every fun, dark comedy TV show eventually falls prey to the Desparate Housewives syndrome: eventually things get over the top and ridiculous and they run out of people to kill/people who kill that it jumps the shark. That will happen to this show too. But right now I'm halfway t...

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Eliahad wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 8:13 pmBut settled on that it would have been cooler if all the flora and fauna had mustaches and goatees.

Oh shit, that one really got me.

Kyle

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/10/exopl ... louds.html

It's so hot that metal particulate populates the atmosphere as clouds, creating a mirror-ball effect when looked at from space.

Kyle

So look y'all. Not good. It suffered from the pacing of 70s movies- lots of slow, lingering shots on peoples' eyes, slow pans across the courtyard (so many slow pans across the courtyard), and a lot of dialogue that was "movie writer" dialogue, not the dialogue of a bunch of kid cadets bet...

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The Long Cosmos - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. This is the fifth and final book in the Long Earth series. I've talked about it a shit ton because I've read all five this year- so just scroll up if you want to know what it's about. Love sci-fi? You'll love this. I got a little sentimental rea...

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I adore that movie. The acting in it is a masterclass. It's easy to forget how good of an actor Colin Farrell is because of some of the big, dumb movies he makes- but he's really one of my favorites right now. The movie is all a metaphor for the absurdity and destruction of the Irish Civil War, but ...

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Me too! No worries! HAPPY 4th! Blow shit up!

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The Long Utopia - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. I've said this before, but while there are diminishing returns on reading the Long Earth series all in a row, the concept is so good and fascinating that I kind of don't care. These are just fun books with characters that are developed just enou...

Kyle

Sketchie Potato Head is doing great. Watched it last night. Will comment this weekend.

Kyle

Loved it. Good read. Told like a modern fable. Beautiful.

Kyle

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore - Matthew J. Sullivan. Well written. A twisty mystery. Good characters. But I think I need to stop reading mysteries for awhile. Too often I figure them out in the first third and then I'm just... kind of bored... waiting for the end. That's what happened here...

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Wait. If you’ve parked the car, why are you still sitting in it? Unless you’re waiting for your drug dealer to show up?

Kyle

You’re right and I’m sorry. We had a firm meeting and decided to hire a sharpie-faced potato on an interim basis to replace me while I watch Taps this week. Whew. That feels good.

Kyle

Shit! I forgot about this! (We had a lawyer quit and I've been traveling out of town four days a week this month.)

Next weekend?

Kyle

Two points:

One: Maybe you shouldn't have a gun in your house. It sounds like a recipe for shooting a kid's boy/girlfriend who snuck in the house and is drunk/scared.

Two: DO YOU KNOW HOW HOT IT IS FOR THE DOGS?!?! I'm readying my volcano to dip you in.

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The Long Mars - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. I'm mixed on this book. This is the third in the Long Earth series, and I won't go into all the details of what the premise of the series is- just read the reviews Mike and I posted for the original Long Earth book to get an idea of what it's all ...

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I understand the family ties and, as a vocal LGBTQ+ supporter in a deeply red Texas county, I relate to the hatred and vitriol being spit at you. (We've been called groomers and pedophiles for participating in the local Pride celebration which is comin up Saturday.) That said, I also really respect ...

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I weirdly thought this meant one of your kids was having a baby.

Kyle

The Cabin at the End of the World -- Paul Tremblay Award winning horror novel, made a bunch of Best Of lists, etc. One page in I realized, "Oh shit, this is the novel that Knock at the Cabin is based on (which I haven't seen). This'll be awesome!" I am one chapter in, and we roll up a mov...

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The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides. Oh my god- what a great mystery novel! Our main character is a therapist at an institution where there is a patient notorious for shooting her husband in the face five times and then slashing her wrists. She's not said a word since the crime (thus, the title)....

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Walk in bathtubs. No shit, about three years ago I saw an ad on TV for a walk in bathtub and I thought, "How does that work?" So out of curiosity I googled it to figure out how they work. It wasn't very interesting. To this day I still get at least one ad a day on FB or google ads for walk...

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Home Before Dark - Riley Sager. I don't know why I keep coming back to Riley Sager books. That's not true- I do. There's not that many people writing horror novels anymore and Sager's writing is proficient enough and easily digested. Here's the problem: you figure them out right away. Sager has thi...

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This indictment seems straightforward enough and consists largely of things Trump has confessed to proudly in front of cameras. It should be a no-brainer. But I can't get excited, because the man has failed forward so many times that I fully expect him to Berlusconi his way out of it. What's so dis...

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Y'all are summing it up for me. For D&D nerds, it's fun. My wife would hate it. Loved the animated character cameos, but also there were so many Easter eggs in this movie, I'm sure I missed 75% of them.

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The Archive of the Forgotten - A. J. Hackwith. I'm going to be sparse with details about this book because I know Mike wanted to read it, but I don't know if he did yet. This is the second book in the Hell's Library series (the first being the Library of the Unwritten)... AND I LOVED IT! I loved th...

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Before the Fall - Noah Hawley. I've started exercising again, so I've decided to take a break from non-fiction and "heavy" material because I find it much easier to exercise with lighter fare. So I was recommended this "twisty thriller" by my library app. The premise is that a p...

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Ferguson is also great in Dune.

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Sorry, akiva.

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