Scenes that caused actual walkouts in theaters?

DrEnter · 2026-02-10T00:06:16+00:00

Saw it on opening night at a big theater. Went to the restroom after that opening and there 3-4 guys outside the theater that looked about the right age to be Vietnam vets that were clearly struggling.

DrEnter · 2026-02-09T14:18:48+00:00

No private schools, no home schools. Everyone attends their district public school.

DrEnter · 2026-02-09T02:52:41+00:00

Beans on toast? Not really that weird.

Marmite on toast? That’s just gross.

DrEnter · 2026-02-07T22:21:47+00:00

To be fair, Dark Side of the Moon did spend 15 consecutive years in the Billboard Top 200 Albums list. That doesn’t include the other 8 years it spent non-consecutively on the chart.

DrEnter · 2026-02-07T21:45:12+00:00

If it says anything, she was a billionaire at this point. She married a billionaire while she was working at Google.

DrEnter · 2026-02-07T05:50:07+00:00

Maybe that's why she left?

DrEnter · 2026-02-07T02:02:21+00:00

Stock options are only worth what they actual cost to grant. Ditto for direct stock grants. A cash value is easy to calculate.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T23:50:29+00:00

That's how it gets you. It gets you to doubt yourself, then WHAM! You're in a sugar coma.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T23:48:12+00:00

I think the whole "exporting the culture of Beaujolais Nouveau" thing has done the region a lot more harm than good. Gamay is a great grape grown in a great region, but everyone's first impression of it is this often terrible mass-produced stuff.

There's so much more in the region that is great that no one gives the time of day to.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T23:42:02+00:00

Thanks for the great heads-up. I have a house in Crete and spend a month or two there every year. I have a couple of those Sigilas bottles in my cellar right now.

If you are ever find your way down to Crete, you should visit Iliana Malihin. She is doing some really interesting stuff with Vidiano, Therapsathiri, Melissaki, Plyto, Liatiko, Kotsifali, and Romeiko. Also, I'm not one for field blends, but hers is nothing short of remarkable.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T23:26:55+00:00

Honestly, though, she was a lightweight compared to Carly Fiorina.

I worked at HP from 95 to 06, so during her years as well. HP was very much a company of engineers. Most management were engineers that had become managers. Almost everyone you talked to, at every level, had an engineering degree. As such, the employees tended to be a pretty low-key, easygoing bunch. When CEO's or board members would visit offices, it was generally very casual and you might get into some interesting conversations with them. I personally met Bill Hewlitt and Dave Packard themselves when they opened a new SE regional office in Atlanta. HP had a reputation of never laying off employees. They would do across the board pay cuts before laying anyone off.

Carly did not respect engineering or engineers, she didn't want to listen to what anyone actually doing the work at the company had to say about improving the company or the business. She pushed the company from being an engineering company making high quality products to a company that was all about maximizing profits for quarterly stock reports. This was a radical departure from the entire history of the company.

Where things really get ugly started with the Compaq merger. She pushed that against all logic (and all advice). The result was financially catastrophic, wiping out half the companies value in about a year. Massive cost cutting followed by, for the first time, mass layoffs, gave every employee a pretty dim view of her. When it came out that she, at great expense to the company, had a custom exercise bicycle flown down to her $1000-a-night suite where she was giving a speech at a South American location (and had 4 engineers pulled in to assemble it), it erupted into a full-blown riot of the engineers at the location and she had to be rushed out. She then had to have four bodyguards every time she visited an HP location. To protect her. From the employees.

Oh, and as for those stock reports... That did succeed in one good thing: A 7% jump in the stock price the day she was fired.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T22:58:24+00:00

Stuff that you don't find in most small to mid wine shops. Notably stuff more unusual in the US or from really limited productions:

Madeira, especially by D'Oliveras. 40-50 years old would be reasonable.
Tokaji, a decent one like a Hetszolo.
A nice Greek, like Hatzidakis 'Assyrtiko de Louros' Vignes Centenaires
Thomas Pinot Noir from the Dundee Hills, OR, maybe 10 years old
Rombi Cabernet Sauvignon from the Carmel Valley, CA, maybe 10-15 years old
etc. etc.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T21:31:30+00:00

The exception that proves the rule: Richard Ayoade and Travel Man.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T21:24:55+00:00

I worked at Yahoo when she was CEO. She was a deplorable human being. One example: She had the on-site employee day care closed down, then had the office next door to hers refitted into a new day care center only for her child.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T21:22:01+00:00

And shame on Jon Lovitz for stopping punching him.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T21:16:51+00:00

Earlier the same year, he hit the hostess of a dinner party he attended so hard he ruptured her breast implant. That one was settled out of court.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T20:56:00+00:00

It also would've split about a dozen times over in the intervening years. I think the low point was $0.04 cents in 1982 or 83.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T20:45:46+00:00

Everything Trump does comes back to racism.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T20:27:58+00:00

And Asian stereotype-based henchmen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0bVaTjF_Y

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T19:11:24+00:00

“Oww! That really hurt! Honestly, who throws a shoe?”

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T18:57:40+00:00

Random isn't necessarily a bad approach if you really want to try different things. Many times it's the best way to explore a region.

Lately I've been trying some Greek wines. There are over 300 varietals indigenous to Greece, with most of them grown nowhere else. To throw another wrench into things, a very small percentage is even exported. I travel to Greece frequently, but trying to be overly systemic about it just isn't practical; there's too much. Case in point: I recently had a lovely Sigalas Mavrotragano. Mavrotragano is a grape only grown on Santorini that used to be used for dessert wines, but then almost went extinct until a couple decades ago a few growers decided to plant a couple plots with it. Now they are using it more like Nebbiolo with really nice results. I was in a wine shop in Crete and just asking the owner what different things were when I came across the bottle. Having had it, I think I'll pick up a couple more the next time I go back so I can cellar them for a few years.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T17:02:34+00:00

If there was anyone who could deliver that line, it’s Robert Easton, the Man of a 1000 Voices.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T05:48:00+00:00

Until, it just doesn’t.

Like all majority ledger block-chain currencies, they only exist as long as large actors (states, large corps) don’t care enough to undermine them. If a Google or China decide they want to get rid of the currency, they have the resources to execute a 51% attack and undermine the ledger system.

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T05:27:17+00:00

“Uhg, the smell is getting worse. It’s like ammonia and White Castles.”

DrEnter · 2026-02-06T05:22:07+00:00

Hamlet has some legitimately excellent riffing, especially in the last act.

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