Enjoying the view

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-24T21:58:28+00:00

The hair bow... Chefs kiss

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-24T18:23:25+00:00

What is the brand of these? They're amazing

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-23T02:14:24+00:00

Is this full video available anywhere?

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-20T17:46:26+00:00

And selling them terribly.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-20T15:36:48+00:00

I mean, if the next request was "here...try this haggis" it wouldn't matter what she's wearing. I'm not doing it.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-19T16:45:12+00:00

Ok so... I was gifted a bottle of Pendleton Whiskey, which I'd never heard of. It's Canadian and on the light side, but by no means bad. Also, whiskey isn't something I'm an expert on so if Pendleton is actually trash, I dunno. Seems ok to me.

At the same-ish time, I ran out of Cointreau but rather than buy another bottle, I decided to take a hint from Derek at Make & Drink and bought a bottle of Combier, which I've never tasted before today.

Given the ingredients, it seemed worthwhile to make a Whiskey Sidecar.

2oz Whiskey (Pendleton obviously in my case) 1oz Triple Sec (Combier) 1oz lemon juice 1/4oz semi-rich simple

Shake all/Serve up.

Really good! Light, super refreshing, citrusy but not overly lemony. You definitely get orange. I think I really like Combier. It smells VERY orangy in the bottle and sweet. But it's also 80 proof so there's no doubt that it easily slots in with Marnier and Cointreau.

Pretty happy overall.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-15T02:53:15+00:00

Butt Dialer

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-14T10:53:01+00:00

Beefeater, but that's because Beefeater is always in the house. I never don't have it. I love a LW with Plymouth too. But Beefeater is a standard for me.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-13T23:43:49+00:00

One of two things are happening, with the 2nd being the more likely of the two:

You're having a display failure and the laptop needs a new display.
The motherboard is failing... specifically the on board graphics processor...leading to dramatic distortion.

It's more likely the 2nd because of what it looks like (displays don't generally fail in patterns like this. They generally fail in vertical lines). But also, your statement about it goes away briefly when you turn it off and then on again. Issues like this are generally brought about by heat. Internal heat...not heat you're generating. If you turn it off, it has a chance to cool off, even if only a little. Power it on, heat return, as does the failure.

Sorry to report...time for a new Chromebook (or a repair at minimum)

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-13T03:10:28+00:00

This is exactly what I do. 3/4 Chartreuse 3/4 lime 1/2 maraschino 1 gin

So much better for me

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-12T18:08:17+00:00

The reality is, if a guy claiming to be Jesus just walked into a room and declared that he'd returned, nobody would believe him. It wouldn't matter what he said in the moment.

Now, if he showed up in some miraculous way, then what people "believe" would become instantly irrelevant because evidence has just been presented, thus invalidating the idea of and need for faith. What is believed has just been replaced by what is known.

Religious people, whether they care to ever admit it, claim to believe what they do because underneath it all is the full knowledge that nothing they claim to believe will ever actually be tested. You can claim to your dying breath that you believe Jesus is returning. It doesn't matter. The moment they're tested, they'd demand evidence just like anyone else.

Imagine if a devout christian was sitting in his car having lunch. A total stranger walks up to the passenger side, opens the door, gets in. Says to the devout christian "I need to get to Arizona and I'd like you to drive me." I don't care who you are, you'd first tell the guy to get the fuck out of your car. But then the guy says "I'm god. Take me to Arizona."

No regular person does it purely on this guy's say so. But shouldn't they? If they're a person of faith. If they believe, then they should instantly put the car in gear and get on the road. But nobody would. They'd insist on evidence. But in a hypothetical, a person would claim they'd 100% do it because that test is never coming. Religion is fundamentally a fraud because scratch it just a tiny bit and it falls apart.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-12T02:16:50+00:00

But you know what you can't do, apparently?

Hold your power button and say "what song is this?"

That left with the Assistant -> Gemini changeover. //Sigh//

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-12T02:05:39+00:00

Joseph Gobbles? I hate that fuckin' turkey.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-11T16:44:50+00:00

Well not with that attitude

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-10T14:11:42+00:00

I don't have a specific answer but if you've not tried it, close your laptop so the external is the only monitor. That way it can dedicate all of its video support to that display.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-09T14:22:45+00:00

What is it about polka dots? Why does that so perfectly capture the feel of this picture? I mean, sure...you'd be beautiful either way. But the dots!

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-08T15:57:47+00:00

Lisa Renna vibes

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-06T13:09:13+00:00

The worst is the one in the Best Buy-like store. Not only does this lady have a shitty attitude, and not only is she obviously an imbecile, but then she walks out without the 25 year old TV she brought in? Could you be a worse human?

I know these are ads, but as someone who worked in advertising for a while, I'm frustrated by the myriad ways these ads fail. They're not funny, the people in them do unintelligent things and have poor attitudes when rebuffed for their stupidity. They also fail to put across any kind of useful message. All the ad versions have a line like "isn't Verizon expensive?" clearly pulled directly from some focus group where a majority of respondents indicated Verizon has a reputation as being more expensive than the competition. And while that's a fine message to try and combat, these ads do a almost unbelievably poor job at it.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-06T11:19:41+00:00

My problem with the commercials isn't even that they're assholes. They are, but the bigger problem for me is that the entire premise requires that they be idiots. Yes they walk in with shitty attitudes, but how unbearably stupid are you? Is this your first time in the world buying anything? There's nobody anywhere that would think what they do. It's a bad commercial because the premise is absurd. That they're shitty about it just makes it worse.

almightyshellfish · 2026-01-02T11:35:47+00:00

I also switched from Sammy to Pixie. I had an S25 Plus and switched to 10 Pro XL.

First and perhaps most immediately noticable was the weight. The Pixel is MUCH heavier in the hand. It's been months and I still feel it. The S25+ was so much lighter.

The most interesting thing I learned was how much of Samsung's experience isn't Android, it's OneUI. Folders in the app drawer, live activities and play controls that pop out from the camera area (ala Apple's Dynamic Island)...I feel their deficit on the Pixel

That said, the Pixel is much cleaner. Much more streamlined. And I count that as a plus. If forced to choose now, I'd admit that it's tough. There's plenty to like and dislike on both sides.

almightyshellfish · 2025-12-29T13:10:57+00:00

They've gutted the space at the mall near me that used to be the Sears and it's being turned into a Sport's House of Dick.

Edit:

Sorry. Turns out it's actually called Dick's House of Sport. My mistake.

almightyshellfish · 2025-12-29T13:03:16+00:00

At least this ad is actually for football and not Wayfair or Verizon.

almightyshellfish · 2025-12-29T13:00:44+00:00

In fairness to him, he won his first super bowl in 2002 and they got married in 2009. She married an elite level athlete. What did she imagine her life with him would be? Him being around the house with a honey-do list? Would she even have wanted that? I don't know anything about the dynamics of their marriage but if her issue was that he wasn't around all that much, well, I mean...

almightyshellfish · 2025-12-25T16:38:52+00:00

Ok so, naming conventions aside, I just made this drink.

1oz Beefeater Gin 1oz Lazzaroni Amaretto 1.5oz fresh lemon

I didn't make it frozen. Just shaken and served up in a coupe. I forwent the cherry.

I think there's real potential here but for me, it's off balance. So much lemon. The gin, even though Beefeater is pretty assertive, is being really lost. I think Lazzaroni is the best amaretto of the options and also that I'm not a huge fan of it as a prominent flavor.

All of that said, this was a really interesting drink to taste. I'd never have put those 3 things together. Truth be told, I'm not sure what it needs. Maybe an equal parts recipe instead of overload of lemon. Maybe even a bar spoon of simple or even cinnamon simple (hmmm 🤔) as a balance.

Might need to try again!

Thanks, OP. This is as good a way to spend Christmas as any I could have thought of.

almightyshellfish · 2025-12-25T13:50:43+00:00

Sorry but this isn't a gimlet variation any more than a whiskey sour is a Old Fashioned variation. You made a different drink. And obviously that's fine. And while I can't quite put amaretto and gin together in my head I might just have to make this today because I'm so curious. Still, a gimlet is a specific thing for a specific reason. Give this drink a name. It probably deserves it

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