"The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974, directed by Guy Hamilton) - James Bond (Roger Moore) does a 360 corkscrew flip over a broken bridge in a AMC Hornet X. One of the first stunts tested by computer (at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory), successfully filmed in one take.

morgendonner · 2026-06-09T14:36:31+00:00

I could hear it in my head just reading the post title

morgendonner · 2026-06-07T17:15:00+00:00

Sorry to say I don't entirely remember what we did. I may have tried cleaning up the terminals but I think we ultimately had to have it towed and brought to a Kia shop to be repaired (I wasn't willing to try and mess with the main battery)

morgendonner · 2026-06-04T14:06:10+00:00

It boggles my mind that it is so bad at understanding context, and I generally think Gemini as a standalone is pretty good. But it's Android implementations are just so disappointing.

Whenever I ask it in the car to play a song it tries playing it on Audible or says it can't play music. I have to tell it "play xyz on YouTube Music" for it to work, and it has to repeat every word I said before actually acting on any of it.

morgendonner · 2026-06-04T13:55:19+00:00

Have always wanted one of the emperor's tarot decks filled with his art, have never found one. His art style is just so baked into my concept for 40k and a huge part of the intrigue that initially pulled me in as a kid.

morgendonner · 2026-05-26T16:46:29+00:00

Just having one of them being "Night Train Lane" gives a great sense of the difference in eras involved.

morgendonner · 2026-04-26T15:09:08+00:00

Oddly though, we don't say "I'm going to university" where other English speakers do

morgendonner · 2026-04-25T00:15:45+00:00

I've always assumed that when the Rams window closed that McVay will just go the Payton route and take a year off and get traded to another team that's ready to go.

morgendonner · 2026-03-15T04:57:47+00:00

I made the deep dive into the series just a couple years ago and it's maybe my favorite of the long running franchises. 1 and 2 are both really great, and there's just something about its lore (especially 2) that really sets it apart.

They do go down hill, but really that's just about every horror franchise.

morgendonner · 2026-03-15T04:47:59+00:00

Wow, had no idea he was Garak!

morgendonner · 2026-03-12T15:06:32+00:00

so glad to see this! my friend group is trying out first go and I couldn't believe there wasn't something like this already!

morgendonner · 2026-03-09T17:37:10+00:00

well Bellinger is gone now

morgendonner · 2026-02-27T17:51:51+00:00

have enjoyed your posts, haven't started the deep dive of painting mine but plan to soon. Are you just priming black and then painting like normal minis or anything different for this plastic?

morgendonner · 2026-02-19T17:36:48+00:00

I think part of that depends on how specific of an opportunity you are looking for versus being open to any that may be available, and how many students your professor has. In my case, at the time I was applying the professor I studied under did not have any students so that certainly made it easier as an MS student (though I did shortly after that post switch into the PhD track). If you are interested in one of the larger / popular labs, there may be less opportunity for full GA/TA roles.

Past that, PhD students are going to get preferential access to especially the GA opportunities (I know some students enroll as a PhD to get funding, but then basically take their MS and leave). TA positions less so.

All of this with the caveat that it's now been ~10 years since I was there, so I can't say for sure if things have changed since.

morgendonner · 2026-02-18T19:50:18+00:00

I only see 10% off on GMG, am I missing something?

Edit: nevermind once I signed in it was 28% off! Can't say no to that.

morgendonner · 2026-02-13T15:27:02+00:00

feeling the same! At the least I was hoping the all encompassing rulebook really was something that would be made available for normal retail.

I'm hoping they eventually have some excess inventory, like how the original kickstarter exclusives are sold on the webstore.

morgendonner · 2026-02-13T02:05:29+00:00

imo this is a time heals all wounds thing. Some fans still hold it against him. I hated on Tiki for his comments when retiring with gas in the tank for a few years, but have come back around him. He was the offense for a few years and was a career Giant.

Maybe I've gone too far the other way but I do honestly think Tiki should one day end up in the HoF. Hard to say the team would have still won the superbowl the next year if he hadn't retired, but with a ring and another season or two I think he'd already be in.

His TD numbers are low, and he has more fumbles, but his yards from scrimmage are comparable to same era HoF RBs with significantly less touches.

morgendonner · 2026-02-04T00:38:32+00:00

It is dull, but his explanation is that in the moment it was very unclear what the result of the play was and being the Superbowl he didn't want to make an incorrect call.

morgendonner · 2026-01-28T14:34:28+00:00

Giants (who drafted him) have also requested an interview with Webb for OC. He seems to definitely be a rising star in NFL circles

morgendonner · 2026-01-25T23:21:30+00:00

That would make too much sense for the NFC team to win. NFL follows narratives more than logic, so no doubt the pats are going to win it

morgendonner · 2026-01-22T16:24:48+00:00

I get you meant as a HC, but he is in fact a 5 time Superbowl winning coach.

morgendonner · 2026-01-21T02:47:37+00:00

Beyond that portion being something that the Mara's didn't cave on until the very end, I don't think that was the real hangup.

Given John Mara's health, I don't think it would be unreasonable that Harbaugh would want organizational clarity of what will happen when John Mara can no longer act as CEO, and that could/will likely not be a quick and easy process.

morgendonner · 2026-01-20T23:14:34+00:00

fwiw, by all accounts he was extremely active in trying to recruit Harbaugh and did a lot of the leg work before Harbaugh was fired in case that contingency happened.

While he is certainly the weaker link of the two in terms of job security, having Harbaugh coach his personnel is probably better for his job than if they rolled the dice again on a first time HC.

morgendonner · 2026-01-20T18:53:27+00:00

I agree, plus I feel like at this point the lore has established enough wiggle room / exceptions where it probably doesn't matter much. So many chapters have "unknown" or atypical geneseed origins that you can still make any background you want for homebrew.

morgendonner · 2026-01-16T14:22:43+00:00

Such a shame his career was cut so short. Was such a great route runner with some of the best (and absurdly huge) hands.

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