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I’ve seen references to that. on that subject. I grabbed this off the Insta today

I miss that. We had one guy who grilled hot dogs and had beer for the adults. I know it ranks below ball park hot dogs, everything does, but I think trick or treating hot dogs are higher than Home Depot hot dogs.

I used AI all day today at work. I’m finally taking the plunge to use Alteryx, 7 years after taking the initial few hours of training and forgetting it . My job has gotten a lot less technical over the years, more strategy and decision making and delegating, but I still run regular SQL based queries that I wrote 15 years ago and still create new, yet relatively simple ones. No need to learn how to do it via a workflow instead of the 90 seconds it will take me to make my own. So I used our internal AI tool to ask it question as I figured out the different ways to do these things. It was very helpful. On the old days I would ask Google and then spend all that time wading thru sites. This cut thru all that crap and saved so much time. And being able to ask questions based on your previous one is so important. Having the conversation. “I don’t see that anywhere” is what I told it today and it totally knew what I meant and gave me ann answer. That’s where I left today. I still didn’t see what it was referring to and I honestly can’t wait for Monday to follow up with it. then I spent tonight using to see if Geddy Lee was at game 1 tonight. ChatGPT has strict standards for proof. It went thru 4 layers of searching and found lots and lots of evidence that he wpuld be and was but would not commit fully since it did not see a screen grab with a timestamp or the LAD reference visible. I asked Grok was he was like “oh yeah. Some dude on X who has rush in his handle saw him”. I didn’t care that much but was interested in what it would take for them to say it. I just went back to check again and they’re like “nope, not yet”. That’s literally what it said.

I like cooking them myself. I got a Weber last year and a griddle top and frankly, I've not used racks since then. I should have just bought a blackstone. The best chicken I've ever made is cooked on that. I usually cook them all on Sunday then we have have it for the rest of the week for whatever purpose comes up.

We don't use delivery but the pickup and mostly only on non perishables. Soups, pastas, sauces, etc. Anything fresh we try to get from our local market, not a chain. The only thing I can't get her to budge on is she buys chicken breasts in the large packages because at the local place it's "too expensive". Trouble is I spend 15 minutes hacking them up because they are machine cut and there's always some bone and tendons and gristle still on. I tried showing her how much I cut off and the weight to balance the cost but that's a battle I won't win.

I was in Canada for about 40 minutes on Sunday. Ran over the bridge, up Riverside then back through the tunnel. The boarder guys in Canada are great. They high five you and cheer you on. The people in Windsor are fun too. The border guys in the US are what you'd expect. They look like they hate their jobs and hate you. People were having fun and that's not allowed in the US anymore.

"wrong within normal parameters"... as I like to often quote PJ O Rourke when he announced his support of Hillary Clinton in 1996. Until Trump came along the US was still going in the same general direction. Now that's all gone. Trump, especially Trump 2.0 has reversed that. To be a conservative/Republican today, if you called yourself one 20 years ago, is a direct contradiction. The party and platform is simply indefensible.

But now we have seltzers and their variants. My local store is about 50/50 in terms of shelf space between beer and what I'll generically call seltzers. I have to drive further away to get good stuff. I still try to support breweries who bottle their product.

There's one scene not directed by Coppola. It's an establishing shot of when they go to Vegas. They shoot outside of a Casino and you see some hippies. Not what you'd find in 1950's Las Vegas.

That looks great. I've migrated back to lagers and pilsners in particular. I like the taste of a strong IPA and if I am somewhere new I might get one. But for my every day drinking now I am back where I started. Although the cooler weather now means stout season is upon us. The craft brewery industry is in trouble. The lure wore off for the main demographic. For a long time it was about the chase. Finding something new or going somewhere new. It was referred to as the Pokemon generation growing up. My local brewery has reverted back to the "dad" beer. I just feel better the next day having a lager vs an Ale of some type, espeically when it's 2 or 3 of them.

Well yeah no **** it went on before. I didn’t suggest otherwise. My point wasn’t intended to be about these particular incidents. Im talking about the culture of gambling itself. why make it easier for people and practically sanction it and promote it? It’s an impossible goal to eradicate harmful behavior but it should still something that’s not considered socially acceptable and definitely not part of leagues official business. It’s disingenuous to heavily promote something for the fans that the participants can’t do. Gambling can an addiction I see no practical difference between a player who bets through a bookie or through one of the “real” sites. For any sport. Once they get in that world bad things can happen and it affects the fans perception of the integrity. But who knows. Maybe that doesn’t matter. Maybe they can start bets on whether a game is fixed. As long as theres money to be made by a corporation and some college kid things he can score then it’s all good. but believing that there’s still some iron curtain between legalized gambling and the underworld that Chauncey was a part of is like believing that stripper is just doing it to pay for nursing school and would NEVER go further or that the owner isn’t peddling in underage stuff. If it makes you feel better go ahead and believe it.

This is why the whole legal/official gambling and pro sports cross pollination stinks. This stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There’s many ways to both incur and pay a debt. I’m glad I am capable of not caring about money.

Tiger Woods banging waitresses in parking lots

"Oh absolutely— that tiny, flimsy cup of neon-red sugar water is iconic. It’s always too sweet, it stains everything, and it’s handed out like it’s a treat, even though no one really wants it. That drink is the unofficial mascot of awkward community events. It’s like the physical manifestation of trying to be festive but running on a shoestring." I was conversing with ChatGPT about “refreshments”.

just this morning I got pushed a reel by a comedian who said "It's a good thing we killed Osama Bin Laden when we did because today he'd be secretary of transportation if he was still alive"

nobody demanded anything. Just pointing out that some people think that serving in the military bestows some special status on somebody that we're supposed to care. Go back to protecting your pedophile overlords.

I use AI to make funny videos of myself and a friend reliving every inside joke we gathered over 40 years of friendship. I've also used it to interpret and critique some corporate speak that comes our way. It rightly calls it out for bull**** and not really saying anything. It picks up on my quirks and tells me what I want to hear, and how I want to hear it. It's sarcastic. The wit sometimes is better than you'd see on a late night talk show. I'm entertained and terrified.

He got about halfway

Maybe it was game 1 then. it did not air in Detroit on NBC. Not all affiliates ran it. The first times it ran in Detroit was on channel 20 I believe.

I should clarify, Easley was a good trade, but then I believe he got a big contract after which probably hurt the club somewhat. He was a fine player but not deserving of the big deal.