I had never heard of Isaac Slade until a month or so ago. The Fray are currently touring and did a show near me, at Woodinville’s Chateau Ste-Michelle Winery. As a venue, they’re not getting arena-filling acts, but they’re usually bands/artists who had several hits a few years back, and will appeal to a 40+ year-old audience. This year’s lineup included Beck, Tori Amos, and Sarah McLachlan. The Fray was one of the weaker bands in the lineup, as evidenced by the number of emails I received telling me that tickets were still available.

Meanwhile, Isaac Slade happens to be somewhat local. Following The Fray’s show, he put on his own rival show – at the Kirkland Performance Center, a small community theater. I’m on their mailing list, because I took my daughter there to see the Amazing Bubble Man (a guy who blows bubbles – to be fair, it is pretty cool).

Hopefully that provides context on where Isaac Slade is as a celebrity.

Better yet, know why you don’t see any vampires in Africa?

Thievery Corporation begs to differ: Vampires

Kind of — Bob Hope made the joke in the late 1950s:

Bob Hope, back from his Russian junket, noted that there had been TV in all the rooms of his Moscow hotel–”only it watches you”

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-soviet-russia

I run a ceiling fan over my stairs while simultaneously running the air conditioning in order to help move the cold air upstairs. The thermostat is downstairs, which isn’t impacted by the hot sun hitting the roof. It may be pleasantly cool downstairs, while it’s still unpleasantly hot in the bedrooms. The fan helps to circulate the air between floors.

Obviously this has nothing to do with running a fan in a closed room. That’s generally silly.

I’m a straight middle-aged man who regularly wears pink shirts and sometimes pink pants. I honestly don’t think anyone has ever given me any kind of look and I’m not the least bit self-conscious about pink clothing.

11 years ago, I was dropping my daughter off at kindergarten and a kid walked up and said, “Hey! boys can’t wear pink!” I smiled and said, “Whoever told you that was wrong.” That’s the only time I’ve ever seen anything.

Is there something specific about sneakers?

I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an “s” with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn’t part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an “s” with a cedilla.

I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

I had read previously (and just confirmed on Wikipedia) that Mia Khalifa (real name Sarah Joe Chamoun) got her stage name from her dog, Mia, and Wiz Khalifa.

So, familiarity with Wiz Khalifa is directly relevant to knowing how Mia Khalifa’s name is spelled.

I don’t have it on Steam yet, but I have Balatro’s Completionist++ on mobile.

I’m working on getting it on Steam too. Once you’ve done it once, getting it again isn’t hard, just time-consuming. It’s a 0.2% achievement, I think.

This is a very old topic, such that IMO, it’s not worth putting in the effort to discuss it online. Fortunately, it’s also a very well-researched topic.

For the question of whether disruptive protests help or hurt, the answer seems to be slightly more on the “help” side (mostly in terms of drawing attention, as I understand it). Here is a recent article that looks into the question in depth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13064859/

Specifically, I think it’s a reference to Dean Browning.

Yeah! That’s why I put all of my secrets directly into the code.

Horizon Forbidden West added a “photo mode”, I think mostly just to show off how good the graphics can be (when nothing is being animated). It does look awesome. If you zoom the camera in, you get anatomically correct facial features.

There might also be some conversation scenes with close-ups of Aloy. Depending on your graphics settings, you might get some extra details rendered.

I am absolutely convinced that the game is not rendering fine hairs while you’re fighting robot dinosaurs, since, as you suggest, that would be kind of ridiculous.

But, hey, you really kicked the shit out of that straw man! Great job!

Manbearpig

Doucy was term-limited and didn’t run in 2022. Hobbs beat Kari Lake.

Oh, I remember the controversy about that show! For Love, Death, and Robots season 1, Netflix randomly put people in one of four buckets (probably a hash of your account ID mod 4 or something), and your bucket determined your episode order.

Apparently, they thought it would be a neat way to present an anthology series (since order doesn’t matter). Conspiracy theories arose that Netflix had sussed out peoples’ sexual orientation and were using that to determine the episode order.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Love,_Death_%26_Robots_episodes

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-will-need-years-to-replenish-stockpiles-of-advanced-weapons-used-in-iran-war-new-analysis-finds

It doesn’t imply that he’s technical. The Merriam-Webster definition of scion being used here is “a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family”.

His family is wealthy because of technology (Oracle) and he’s the descendant.

I think I’ll wait for the third or fourth 1.0 release, just to be safe.

While the article focuses on Mercedes-Benz, as a Volvo owner, I was immediately concerned about what will happen when my lease is up.

Buried at the bottom of the article are these three paragraphs:

Volvo, which is majority-owned by Shufu’s Geely, said on Tuesday that it received specific authorization from the U.S. government to bypass federal bans restricting connected vehicle software and hardware linked to China.

Volvo confirmed its special authorization but did not immediately respond to questions about the other bills and their potential impact on the company.

Volvo Cars sold 121,600 vehicles in the U.S. last year. Mercedes-Benz sold 303,200 passenger cars and 12,400 vans in the country during the same period.

Clearly, the correct answer is Dr. Acula.