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My wife asked me to try out a couple of DVDs in my new Model 70 laptop that wouldn't work in hers. That put me in the mood to watch full-length DVDs. After watching a few movies from the rack at my local library (RB branch of SDPL), I started a campaign to watch all the Oscar Best Pictures nominees. I have watched 14 DVDs in the last 4 days (counting all 3 DVDs of the 6 Wives of Henry VIII (2 wives per each 3-hour DVD)). I didn't find all the DVDs I was looking for in the RB racks, so I put others on hold with delivery at RB (even a couple that were supposedly "available" there). I think I am nearing my limit on holds.

It's a real assault on the brain to go from Birdman to The Artist.
 
I followed one of those FB clickbait lures to find out that Larry the Cable Guy dropped his History Channel show Only in America with LTCG, where he followed ordinary Americans in their lives, because he didn't like having to do some of the things ordinary Americans do, like cleaning out portable toilets. Instead, he makes meet-and-greet appearances at corporate gatherings for $200k and up a pop (plus expenses).

Only in America!
 
The great Richie Ashburn supposedly holds an unusual unofficial baseball record (unofficial because foul balls are not recorded in the game stats). He supposedly hit the same fan with two foul balls in the same at bat, the second foul striking her while she was being taken out on a stretcher.
 
Lately I have been getting a lot of calls from people who identify themselves, and then hang up.

"Hi, this is Joe, a counselor, on a recorded call." <Click>

And I think that number is on the do-not-call list (is that still a thing? Or was it drained out of the swamp?)
 
espola said:
Lately I have been getting a lot of calls from people who identify themselves, and then hang up.

"Hi, this is Joe, a counselor, on a recorded call." <Click>

And I think that number is on the do-not-call list (is that still a thing? Or was it drained out of the swamp?)
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I think Trump may have signed away the "Do not call list" in one of his "LOOK! I'm doing something" EO's.
 
More on foule balls --

Luke Appling asked his team owner for a box of balls to hand out to fans before the game. The owner refused. In his first at-bat, Aplling fouled off 17 straight pitches. Then he hit a triple. When the play was over, Appling asked for the ball at third base, and tossed it into the stands.
 
Secret numbers --

My credit union merged with another, so I ended up with a new ATM card and, of course, a new PIN to memorize. This one was easy - I take my favorite number, double it, go down to the nearest prime, and square that - but make the obvious arithmetic error.

Biggest weakness - I have told my kids my favorite number, and why it is so.
 
The Padres are offering a 5-victory package - buy tickets for the first 5 home games in June, and they will throw in succeeding games until they win 5. Someone on their staff is a pessimist - the offer has a June 30th cutoff on the freebies. At their current W-L rate, it may take 15 games to get to 5 wins.
 
Driving around yesterday shopping for my wife's birthday present, I heard a radio report about number intuition. It seems that most newborns can tell the difference between 6 and 7 objects, but not between 9 and 10.. Based on that it should be no big deal for an open-minded adult to see the difference between groups of 4 and 5 identical objects.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Buying two gives one twice the chance.
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You are more likely to die by Saturday than win the Powerball. But if I don't have a ticket, I won't care about the drawing at all. This way I theorize what I am going to do with the money all the way up to the actual drawing.
 
espola said:
You are more likely to die by Saturday than win the Powerball. But if I don't have a ticket, I won't care about the drawing at all. This way I theorize what I am going to do with the money all the way up to the actual drawing.
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I always say I want to win, but never buy a ticket to get in . . . I'm usually too busy making money or too tired to want to stop. I do get one on the rare, very rare, occasions I find myself in a place that sells lotto tickets.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
I always say I want to win, but never buy a ticket to get in . . . I'm usually too busy making money or too tired to want to stop. I do get one on the rare, very rare, occasions I find myself in a place that sells lotto tickets.
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My wife bought me a ticket for Christmas a few years back when the pot was this big. I won one of the smaller prizes, $100. I used some of that house money to buy another ticket, and that won the smallest prize, under $10. Once more and nothing. So I'm still ahead.
 
Scanning through the DVD return cart at the library, I came across a documentary on the making of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. They dissect and reassemble the whole record track by track.. Some of the best sequences are Alan Parsons, their sound engineer, running the tracks through a modern sound board, showing how he added, subtracted, and multiplied the sounds.

Paul McCartney wandered over from his band rehearsal studio to add "...I was really drunk at the time", and the last line "...It's all dark" was spoken by the Irish doorman.
 
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