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I was watching a SciShow video that made me worried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsaJdS3OgV4

The first half was a simple observation that we need more psychological research into the interpretation and use of Emoji.

The second half made me worried.

Apparently labs have been breeding / engineering mice to become more effective and aggressive hunters and killers on demand.
What the host failed to mention is if there is a way to turn these mice off.

How worried should I be?

Is this a Heinz Doofenshmirtz? A Drakken?  Or a Lex Luthor?

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I'm at the theaters. Gonna watch Avengers: Endgame for my birthday. Oop, phones off gotta go bye!

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Been watching YouTube, oddly enough mostly TheTimTracker, DisneyFoodBlog, and SuperCarlinBrothers.  Am I heading towards another Orlando trip in the near future, or just trying to find a substitute to soothe the urge to?

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Stumbled across the old TV series "The Dead Zone" on cable, and then found it's on Amazon Prime so I started watching from the start.  This has led to reading the book, and adding to the TV Tropes pages for both, and downloading the audiobook version, and now I've checked out the DVD of the movie from the library.  Sometimes I get like this.

I even looked in the library computer for a book on comas (the main character was in one for several years), but it came up with about fifty different "Fiction" categories and absolutely nothing under "Non-Fiction".  So, I found the Medical shelves and skimmed, coming up with a few books on head trauma, concussions, etc.  I even looked on amazon for books, and am semi-seriously considering buying a textbook on the subject.  As I said, sometimes I get like this.

Anyway, so much for my plan to binge Stranger Things and find out what all the fuss is about, for a while anyway. ;-)

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Watched this happen this morning without even knowing what I was seeing

Because of the launch time, the lift off was in darkness but the contrail and booster separation was fully sunlit on a black sky.  Quite a dramatic sight from the Gulf Coast.

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Whilst browsing the Ewe Toob, I came across an early Muppet appearance on Ed Sullivan.  Back when Cookie Monster was constructed with Teeth.

Henson, Oz, et al reused a LOT of material in the first few seasons of the Muppet Show that they had previously performed on Ed Sullivan, Jimmy Dean, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street, and a whole lot of variety shows, talk shows, and specials.  Yet some how it seemed "Fresh" then and is still entertaining.

Meanwhile, most of what is on television today is tiresome before I even see it.

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36 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

I've been watching the original Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons on DVD

I am now hearing Grace with the June Foray voice, and I don't mean Natasha

Has Grace ever said "Hokey Smokes" in canon?

Grace is a more interesting character than Rocky ever was. He was a kind of bland know it all. In the whole show, he maybe beat out Sherman, Nell, and Dudley's horse.

Bullwinkle was the true star, evidenced that much later, it was renamed to be his show. Elliot would be Bullwinkle, even to the personality. Elliot is a bit sharper, but he's not Einstein. (Just read an article, apparently neither was Einstein.)

I'd rate Boris second, and either Natasha or Peabody third.

But June Foray was amazing.

I got curious, so i looked it up. You're just south of St. Petersburg. I have an ex-sister in law that lived in Tampa and Clearwater for a while. Her current husband is from there. I've never been quite as far south as you are.

 

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July 30th, "Lochdown" the Grand Tour Scotland.  Need to block out some time to watch the Grand Tour back catalog during the week running up to that.

Actually not really sure about the date. Source vary on it. Need to watch the back catalog any way. Might do that instead of re-re-re-watching Mythbusters.

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Games of the XXXII Olympiad

So far the games seem to be going off without serious incident, despite being hit by a tropical storm

But that shouldn't be surprising.  This is Tokyo.  They could keep the games going if Godzilla and Rodan used Shibuya Crossing for a Judo bout

I am sorry that the most emotional competition must occur with almost no spectators

What surprised me most so far was associated with the Swiss women's team sweeping the podium in Mountain Bike.  The sweep itself was not surprising.  Who in the world knows more about mountains than the Swiss?  No, what surprised me is that the Swiss have not swept a podium since the 1936 games in Berlin (Gymnastics-Men's Floor Exercise).  For some reason, I thought the Swiss had a much more dominant tradition in sports.

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Yesterday evening I watched "Lochdown", the Grand Tour's Scotland special. It was more like some of the 10 years ago Top Gear specials and not like the Grand Tour specials. Not saying that's a bad thing, just making a comment. I'd say watch it, but to really enjoy it you need to watch at least the 3 years of Grand Tour stuff first, assuming you have no knowledge of Clarkson, Hammond and May to start with.

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42 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

The Paralympic Games - Wheelchair Rugby

OUCH!

This may be the most vicious "Sport" I have ever seen

 

From what I know about Rugby I can only imagine what that must be like.

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46 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

The Paralympic Games - Wheelchair Rugby

OUCH!

This may be the most vicious "Sport" I have ever seen

 

Search YouTube. 
 

Ouch is right.

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The first series of Top Gear isn't nearly as much fun as the later ones.  Less lunacy and no James May.  Plus way too much time on what deals you can get on used cars.

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Paralympic Games - Goalball

First, this may be the most accurately named of all games.  You have a ball that you roll or throw into a goal.  

Second, someone just walked by me and asked "Are these people blind?"

Yes they are.

 - - - - - 

What really strikes me is that this seems like a game that might be played in a 7th grade gym class by giving all the kids blindfolds

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On 9/1/2021 at 9:52 AM, mlooney said:

I've been watching Top Gear, Motor Mythbusters, Mythbusters, and Battlebots.

Saw the first taping of a Battlebots session yesterday. We watched 11 fights over a 4-hour span (!). There were some real doozies in there, including one that did some damage to the ceiling of the Battlebox. Can't say more, you'll have to wait for when Season 6 airs around Thanksgiving.

Being an audience member was physically draining. Mrs. Prof had to do a lot of standing up and sitting down while yelling and clapping. Me, I had to stay seated because of my knees, ankles, back, and so on, but I did my fair share of yelling and clapping. We nabbed a bit of swag from some of the teams, who were passing out signs and stickers. Mrs. Prof got a picture with Faruq, the announcer, and got an autograph from one of the teams for our son.

For me, there was a lot of walking. The arena is within "walking distance," meaning we didn't rent a car or hire an Uber. Mrs. Prof had no trouble handling it, but me ... let's just say I had some difficulty keeping up with her. My replacement knee didn't like all of the stress I was putting on it. At least my heart didn't flip over into an attack of PVCs, although it was beating pretty hard by the time we reached our destinations (arena/hotel room).

Our taping session begins this evening at 6pm PDT and runs until 10pm. We're going to try and scope out a bit of the casino part of the Bally's hotel in which we're staying. We might even lose a few bucks. I'd love to play a table game, but the minimum bet on these damned things is an average of $10 a pop. Can't play too much on that level.

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56 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

Being an audience member was physically draining. Mrs. Prof had to do a lot of standing up and sitting down while yelling and clapping. Me, I had to stay seated because of my knees, ankles, back, and so on, but I did my fair share of yelling and clapping.

Yeah, I could tell by watching it that being an audience member would be a pain.

 

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I'm back from Las Vegas and, after a day of recovery, ready to tell the final part of my story of being an audience member of the Battlebots show.

For the session that we went to mentioned above (Friday 6pm-10pm), I brought a sign. I didn't want anyone to think that I was not standing up because I was lazy (I was in the front row of the audience for all 3 sessions we saw (Thursday Noon-4pm, Friday 6pm-10pm, and Saturday Noon-4pm)), so my sign read, "I'M CHEERING EVEN THOUGH I CAN'T SELF-RIGHT!" A bit of explanation here - Bots are expected to be able to "self-right," or get back up after being knocked over on their back. I equated that with my inability to stand up quickly (hell, almost at all) after sitting down in the low front row seats (if I'd sat anywhere else, I wouldn't have been able to have seen through the forest of legs in front of me when everyone stood). The sign got a few chuckles, and I think the camera workers zoomed in on it a few times.

Obviously, I can't give any spoilers about the Battlebox action. Sorry. Outside the box, during Friday's session, some girl proposed to their boyfriend in a reversal of traditional roles. Very cool, as was some of the team swag we collected. Once we finally trudged back to the hotel room (yes, I trudge - see earlier posts re: handicap), I discovered I had split open a blister on the outside of my right big toe. It was draining, with a little bit of blood tossed in for good measure. We made a post-dinner trudge to a CVS Pharmacy on the Strip for bandages and gauze.

I came armed and armored to Saturday's early session. My blister was wrapped up, and the back side of my FoamCore sign had another had a new saying which, unless you read the Battlebots subReddit or were at Friday night's taping, you won't get, so I won't spoil it for you. However, it got big laughs, and at least 5 people stopped in front of me to ask if they could take pictures. I told them I'd be honored and said please, go ahead, which they did. Mrs. Prof had her own sign, a modular design that allowed her to switch out any of three parts on a horizontal line. One I'm sure will make it to the broadcast is an "I (Heart) Faruq" sign. One which absolutely SHOULD make the broadcast (unless the producers are prudes), since it got lots of screen time between fights, was a variation that said, "Chris (Heart) Kenny" (Chris and Kenny being the play-by-play and color announcers for the show). Anyway, Mrs. Prof and I wore matching Battlebots shirts and gathered more Bot team swag. We saw more incredible fights, did an incredible amount of yelling (again, with me seated), and saw some of our favorite Bots in action.

By the end of the return hotel trudge, I'd found that my dressing on my right big toe had slipped down, leaving it exposed, and it hurt all the way home the next day. I'd also developed a new, big blister on the underside of the - wait for it - left big toe. Yes, the one that put me into the hospital. Both got wrapped prior to our flight.

My sole regret: we couldn't bring our signs home. They wouldn't fit in our luggage.

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4 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

It's supposed to air around the end of November - beginning of December, or so say the pundits on Facebook and Reddit.

I should still have my discovery+ subscription then.  I'll check it out.

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