Nerd Pride Radio

Kyle

Yeah- Discord would be great.

Kyle

My wife had a weird mole on her leg that she immediately got a doctor's appointment to look at. The dermatologist did a scraping and discovered that it was a melanoma in either Stage 2 or 3. Which means they can't just remove it in the dermatologist's office, but needs to be extracted by an oncologi...

Kyle

You know I forgot I did this for a hot two weeks a long time ago- maybe 10 years ago? I really liked it, but ran into the same problems you're experiencing. There's a bunch of different variants and, if you go down the rabbit hole, a bunch of interactive fiction using that engine that can suck up al...

Kyle

Thanks!

Kyle

Yeah- I've had a lot of conversations with my oldest about this lately. My personal views are this- he was a horrible racist, sexist and xenophobe. But he was also a terrible writer. I've read "the complete works" and it's just so, so very boring. He writes during that time where you have ...

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Listened to the audio book of The Left Hand of Darkness . It's really damned good. I've read a handful of classic SF in the last few years, and have mostly been underwhelmed. But this one deserves to be a classic. I really enjoyed the audio book as well, and thought the story was a sure classic. Ev...

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Hell Bent- Leigh Barduga. This is the sequel to The Ninth House, which I reviewed a little while ago. I loved the first, and I loved this. Just reread my review of The Ninth House, and know that all of it applies to this book as well. High recommend.

Kyle

Across the Universe - Beth Revis. So there's the generational starship travelling 300 years to the nearest habitable/terraformable planet. On board are 100 frozen experts to help terraform the planet, and several thousand people to keep the ship going through the long journey- many of them being bo...

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The Black Girl Survives in This One - Edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell. This is a horror short story anthology written exclusively by black authors. Recognizing that black girls are often token characters, sacrificial lambs without depth, or usually both- the editors wanted to get...

Kyle

Tony Todd, 69.

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Replay - Ken Grimwood. Classic sci-fi books are classic for a reason. I'd never heard of this book, originally published in 1986, but was intrigued by the premise and blurb on the library app that said it was a sci-fi classic. The premise was simple, but not something that seems incredibly unique t...

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Also- I've got three books that I've already purchased that I'm going to finish, then I'm going to stop for a while (although one of the books is over 65 hours and another is over 24 hours). I want to start listening to music again. I might get bored with that pretty quickly and go back to listening...

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One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus. If the Breakfast Club were in an otherwise standard, twisty, murder mystery- that's this book. It was fun! It was well written! I'll probably remember a lot of it, but when I look back in five years, I won't be telling anyone that they should check this out. I...

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The Death of Jane Lawrence - Caitlin Starling. So this is basically two books that kind of didn't work with each other. The first is pretty standard gothic horror: turn of the century woman marries a doctor and has to move into his remote, dilapidated manor house. When she gets there, she realizes ...

Kyle

Yeah, people call him "Cancruz" here.

Kyle

My family and I are going on Saturday to do our part to try to get Ted Cruz out of office.

Kyle

The first season of the Terror was fantastic! I heard the second season was good too (but totally different), but never got around to watching it.

Kyle

I've heard that it takes some getting used to on the curves of your jaw- and I'm guessing that's true for the scalp. But I found it really easy from the get go. But for a $20 experiment, I'd guess it's worth trying.

Kyle

I put the used ones back in the paper wrapper that the new one came from and put it in the trash. I should probably keep an empty, clean coke can in there to put them into. Maybe I’ll start doing that. And when it fills up after a couple of years I’ll throw it away.

Kyle

I tried to find the thread where we've talked about this before, but couldn't. But this always amazes me. In August of 2019, I paid $12.66 for a basic safety razor (now selling for $15.66- thanks, Obama). It looks like this: https://i.postimg.cc/HkLTCrc4/razor.png I also paid $7.29 for 200 razor bla...

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Less - Andrew Sean Greer. What an awesome, unexpected Joy this book was. I only got it because I was looking for something different and the blurb said, "Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Price for fiction!" and described the plot- a gay, 50-year-old author finds out his ex is getting married; ...

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Have I Told You This Already? - Lauren Graham. Lauren Graham is an actor that you probably know as Lorelai from Gilmore Girls. I've never seen Gilmore Girls, but I know Graham from various roles over the years and always found her to be very likeable and relatable. This book is a collection of essa...

Kyle

Being Henry - Henry Winkler. Henry Winkler. The Fonz. This autobiography was an absolute delight. Full of insecurity and self-effacing humor, Winkler tells his life story. From the incredible hardship of growing up dyslexic in strict German family that only ridiculed him as "stupid," to t...

Kyle

I went to the ACL festival this weekend and it's one of the hottest I've ever encountered. Blistering hot and the sun was oppressive (although we still had one of the best ACLs ever). It's weird when people deny climate change. When I was 7 or 8, my brothers and I would go to the Florida panhandle e...

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FantasticLand - Mike Bockoven. Holy crap. Do yourself a favor and read this book. A little context on the weird trip I had to find it. I was listening to the acknowledgments of Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones. And in it, he started by thanking Mike Bockover for writing this book which ...

Kyle

I don't remember the story, but whenever I yell, "BURN THE WITCH" it's usually a good guffaw.

Kyle

I had the same thought today. I guess we don't notice when there's clusters of 1 or 2, but do when they coincidentally falls together, which occasionally would have to happen.

Kyle

I went to X.com to look something up, and forgot that I created an account in 2020 as Abraham J Lincoln, and basically copied Trump's posts, but made them fit Abe Lincoln. I got a real good laugh reading back through it, and completely forgot I had done this.

https://x.com/AbrahamJLincoln

Kyle

Agreed, but now we live in a weird time where ESPN is promoting their own online betting platform in the middle of NFL games, and NFL commentators are paid to do commercials where they promote their "locks of the week." Online gambling (and most gambling in my opinion) is a scourge that pr...

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The Ninth House - Leigh Barduga. I started this book before my cruise and got about 45 minutes into it- then didn't get a chance to continue it for ten days. And honestly, when I came back I almost decided not to continue. From what I heard, this is about a freshman who goes to Yale and discovers t...

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Stan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:38 pmI'm semi-convinced that they look for an excuse to attack Gaza and Lebanon every decade or so to destroy most of their infrastructure.

Several years ago I heard an Israeli analyst refer to this very thing. He said it's colloquially referred to as "cutting the grass."

Kyle

Well... I thought the coroner's report said he died from a fentanyl overdose. Now hear me out: I don't know the circumstances that surround that. But I will say this- if he did die from a fentanyl overdose, this only goes further to prove that Prince was at the forefront of modern trends! And in all...

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I definitely think that's true, right? Reagan was still going to have his assassination attempt. Crazies are always going to be out there. But I think the rhetoric amps it up and makes it more likely. Imagine that you're a mentally ill person that is contemplating something extreme like this, and th...

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Walkie talkies exploded in Lebanon today. I don't know how this- which is indiscriminate injury and death- isn't considered a terroristic act.

Kyle

Link to the article please? It sounds fascinating.

Kyle

Y'all are forgetting what's important in this discussion: fuck the people trying to trash the memory of Prince. His Royal Purpleness was a goddamn saint. Exhibit A, the greatest Super Bowl halftime performance of all time (click through, you deserve it today): https://youtu.be/-WYYlRArn3g?t=38 There...

Kyle

In Texas we have a voter ID law. Which, on it's own seems reasonable- right? Prove you are who you say you are to vote. Except... I got a notice in August that I have to renew my drivers license in person by December (in person because I need a new photo). Why did they send it to me so early? Becaus...

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Came here for this, thank you for doing the honors. He IS Darth Vader... The memory of his voice is burned into this brain forever. a few guys at work did not know who he was. At least one of them has never seen star wars or lotr. I feel like I found a people group that has been isolated from the r...

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The media is the problem. I used to not believe that the media (all sides- not just conservative bullshit) was actively trying to make every presidential campaign as close as possible, but now I am. It's hard to read CNN these days where they equivocate Trump "falling down" at the debate w...

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First and foremost- he's clearly mentally ill. He was a former Trump supporter, turned anti-Trump, and then tried to fight for the Ukrainians against Russia, but was largely seen as ineffective. Like someone else said, he has a history of standoffs with the police. That said, there's something to th...

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The Fury - Alex Michaelides. Michaelides has a thing. He takes Greek tragedies and makes them into murder mysteries. This is his third. And I liked it. It's extremely well written with an unpredictable twisty, curvy plot. It's set in a locale (a greek island) that's basically a character in and of ...

Kyle

Oh shit. That was so fucking good.

Kyle

On my property? Do you know what I pay in property taxes? When those brats start compensating me for their muddy bootprints, then I'll consider making a path!

*shakes fist angrily at the clouds*

Kyle

Also- in reviewing the wikipedia chart it says that in North Carolina you're allowed to marry your first cousin "except in the rare case of double first cousins." So then I had to look up what a "double first cousin" is, because I've never heard that term before. It turns out tha...

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And West Virginia. When I lived in West Virginia for 10 months, I discovered that West Virginians are very sensitive to the "cousin-fucking" jokes. And would point out that West Virginia is one of the few states where it was illegal to marry your cousin or half-cousin. Apparently they hea...

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Mando wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:01 pm *claps and points at his "get off my lawn" sign in a show of solidarity*

Right! What's with all these kids cutting through my grass to get to the bus stop?!? They don't offer to cut and tend my yard!

Kyle

This leads us to issue #2: the deceptive practices where 90% of the seats on the airplane are blocked off and a higher fee is demanded to sit there, and you can choose to sit in the last three rows in front of the bathroom. No. When you advertise a price on the flight, that should be the price for ...

Kyle

I mean... I've lived in Alabama a couple of times in my life.

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I think you hit the nail on the head, Mando. I read an article yesterday about how an Arizona state rep heard about the far-right victories in German elections and tweeted part of the Nazi national anthem to celebrate. Not once, but on two separate occasions. This is the kind of thing that would hav...

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