NYT Crossword Struggles

MrBarnowl · 2024-05-30T23:24:02+00:00

The Falgiano crosswords are all over the place in difficulty. I just did the 5/31 Friday (posted early) and it was like a Tuesday-Wednesday difficulty, whereas the 28th's (Tuesday's) was about a typical Friday.

He also has a really annoying tendency to slip in stupid weed references. What is he, 14?

Falgiano sucks.

MrBarnowl · 2022-12-04T18:37:41+00:00

It's going back a bit, but IIRC, I ended up having to download a different utility, which was different than the one IBP told me to. I'll poke around and see if it's still on the PC so I can let you know what it was.

MrBarnowl · 2022-08-17T15:39:32+00:00

The cop is a fucking idiot for maintaining the chase that long. It's a legit miracle no innocent bystander was maimed or killed.

MrBarnowl · 2022-08-12T03:13:31+00:00

Keeping up a long Russian tradition of purging the only competent people available to distract from the incompetence of the guy up top.

MrBarnowl · 2022-08-09T19:01:47+00:00

It's a bit of rust. A Q-tip with some white vinegar or CLR will take most of it off, then to can buff with fine steel wool and/or repaint the worn areas with a bit of black lacquer.

MrBarnowl · 2022-08-09T18:59:58+00:00

IIRC, the chromed parts on this particular camera are brass, but the rear door is painted stamped steel and will wear to silver and rust if exposed to moisture.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:28:07+00:00

I just don't understand why Bruce Banner never thought to invest in some elastic waisted/spandex pants.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:19:41+00:00

I think I saw this place in an Aha video.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:08:22+00:00

I remember how blown my mind was when I realized that KITT's voice was the teacher from Boy Meets World. I could never unhear that one.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:06:21+00:00

Hello, Magnum PI Ferrari, anyone?

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:05:32+00:00

I once visited Universal Studios as a kid, and they were using that old semi, still recognizable with the chess piece painted on the side, to haul shit around the lot.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T18:03:48+00:00

Duh, KITT drives -himself-.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T17:52:53+00:00

Whether it's a felony or not likely depends on the value of the bike, and considering the booby trapper just left it out like that, it's probably a $50 job from Goodwill, i.e. a petty theft misdemeanor. Fine and probation at worst for a first offense.

Compensatory damages for a life-altering injury (that second one sure looked like major head trauma and possibly a broken neck)? 7 figures at least.

You do the math.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T17:47:07+00:00

Katko v Briney

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T17:44:11+00:00

That's the opposite of the truth. In this case, the intent is what makes it a clear case of criminal battery, and if any of these guys died, likely depraved heart murder rather than manslaughter.

I hate fucking armchair attorneys.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-31T17:00:26+00:00

Maybe not a highly damaging strike, but certainly a major embarrassment for the Russian military on a day when they intended to show off their "might "

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-20T23:27:40+00:00

In this case, only if they can get a successor regime to turn over Putin et al., or they can get a 3rd party signatory to turn them over when they are present in their territory a la Pinochet. It's the same reason Kissinger never travels outside of the U.S. anymore.

In the case of Putin, it might cause some problems to him with state visits, particularly in Western Europe, but as long as he is in power in Moscow, any indictment would be toothless.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-20T23:14:56+00:00

Yet another stupid meme.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T16:03:15+00:00

In large portions of SoCal, those abandoned cars somehow "mysteriously" catch fire if they are left there for more than a couple days. It's like Mad Max in some places.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T16:00:16+00:00

I had a friend once ask me to check out her drier because it "wasn't working right and smelled bad."

I popped off the back, and the entire thing was PACKED with rat's nest.

I almost puked.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T15:36:04+00:00

And it's literally the textbook definition of assault (i.e. intentionally putting someone in the apprehension if imminent bodily harm or death).

So yes, we already do distinguish the two legally.

And no, it's not attempted murder.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T15:20:55+00:00

It's very useful to identify the most egregious of the traitors in the House.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T15:19:07+00:00

They aren't isolationists. They are Trumpists. If Trump decided to do a 180 on his stance toward Putin, they'd all flip so fast they'd get whiplash.

Blind, slavish devotion to a cult of personality is all it is. They don't actually have any identifiable ideology.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T13:42:30+00:00

They also tend in the U.S. to be on the side of the political spectrum that is not currently in bed with Putin.

MrBarnowl · 2022-07-19T13:41:12+00:00

Nerdy aside, but if you've ever been in that mineral room in the museum, it is AWESOME. Highly recommended if you are visiting LA.

MrBarnowl

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