John_Brian_K

1-1/2 episodes into 3 Body Problem....and gotta say this is my kind of series. Really enjoying all the possibilities.

Finished the first season just after we finished catching up on the old series. Not as great IMO, but pretty good.

I have always assumed something along those lines would be the next thing. Even if they are 10-15 years away...it would take that long just to get a budget plan for revamping the rail lines.

I do not think that USA map is very inclusive. Also I think the time of rail is closing to an end so it make sense for the USA to wait until that next break through with travel. It is too late to spend billions on new rail lines IMO. MAYBE replace the current lines with bullet trains which would need new rail and cars etc, but a full on revamping of a way of travel that has been around for 200+ years? Seems like a huge waste. There is a next gen way of fast/convenient travel and I doubt it is on a rail line.

It is fine, but they still could have made it much bigger.

We are missing the MLS portion of the pie....sad.

A question as old as time itself, but we all know who is really to blame.....

That last bit is spot on. The "Accidently sent you money" thing has been around awhile now.

Another series I am way behind on, but started watching the Wire last night. 2 episodes in and I really enjoy it like I knew I would. I have heard such good things about the show. I wish it was based in Detroit, but other than that I like it alot.

I had not even heard about this sign until it was done, but if the concept art is what they were advertising then they did a crap job. It looks about 6-7 times smaller than what the concept shown. This is not a pumped up big mac on tv and a flat crap patty at McD's...this is a bait and switch. It is just a principle thing for me. I am sick of people just being ok with being lied to.

"Watch it fly!"

Into Mastodon and slipknot lately.

Use a trad external drive then back that up with a static external 3 tb. Back up the disc one to the static one every 6 months or so....mostly for pictures. Google now has many of my pics, but I dl those every few months also on the HD so they cannot hold them hostage in 10 years asking for 1000.00 a year to store them or something.

Little late to the party, but started House of the Dragon a few weeks ago, almost done with the first season. Different that the original...not amazing, but it has good sets and the acting is ok.

It took me 2 hours to get to work today...normally a 30 minute commute, 40 tops.

What the hell did they need CGI in a movie like that for? Did Godzilla make an appearance?

Had my first one last year. Nothing about it was bad at all IMO. Not that I want to party with laxatives and gallons of gatorade, but it was not bad at all.

This one hits a little for me. 2 brothers basically retired who I barely see anymore, also 2 special needs boys at home. My father just passed last month and the amount of argument over minute details about the funeral sucked the life out of me.

Have you read all 19 books? I am on 5 right now on chapter 30 and think I got it figured out just based on his past books, but could be way off.

I was 18 I think and paid by the minute on the contract. Had to unhook the battery, attach it to a charger that plugged directly into the wall. I thought I was sooo cool.

Yeah feels like it happens much more than would be considered just a coincidence.

Same, I very rarely use it to talk to someone....the only time I use it as a phone is when it is connected to my car and I use it that way with speaker phone, but never really just up to my ear.

Yeah like I just grab my phone to check the time or something and the phone rings with a random number, so I am looking at the phone...my phone case is a fold over and always facing up...so the back camera always just sees my desk or whatever and the the front camera sees nothing because the case is covering the camera...I unfold the case to look at the screen and a call comes in at that moment. Not before...like a second after looking at the phone.

The number of times I will pick up my phone during the day and immediately have some random number call me is pretty disturbing. Beyond coincidence IMO. I feel like all this kind of thing is basically just accepted as a part of modern living in the 2020's..."You did nothing wrong...what are you scared of?" I guarantee every single generation goes through a similar thing, but it is sad IMO.

I am on the plan and mine have stayed the same for the most part even through the reassessing process.