Minor things that please you

[Max Rockatansky]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

[kphoger]

Who is John Oliver?  Why is he "tenderizing meat" on a public social media platform?

I assume he's demonstrating how to prepare rump steak for rouladen.

[Scott5114]

Who is John Oliver?

He's the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO.

[Max Rockatansky]

Who is John Oliver?

He's the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO.

Are meat beating technique demonstrations a regular thing on this show?

[Scott5114]

Who is John Oliver?

He's the host of "Last Week Tonight" on HBO.

Are meat beating technique demonstrations a regular thing on this show?

I wouldn't say that they're a regular thing, but it doesn't surprise me that he was doing it.

Oliver's show tends to be structured around long monologues seated behind a desk, where he does twenty to thirty minutes of material on a subject in the news, often political. These monologues tend to be a weird mishmash of investigative journalism and satire. One famous segment he did involved the medical debt industry, in which he found out that it was so easy to buy medical debt at pennies on the dollar that he bought thousands and thousands of dollars of it on HBO's dime and forgave it all.

As for the meat-beating, I assume it was something to do with the meatpacking industry and he was wielding a tenderizer.

[vdeane]

In this case, it was a web exclusive on Mike Lindell & MyStore in which he used the WhackerSpoon for its intended purpose.

[kphoger]

Tell me I'm not the only one.  Try this out, and let me know it does it for you too:

Do a Google search for {geocities}.
Does the font change?

[Max Rockatansky]

It does

[TheHighwayMan3561]

If you put certain font-type names into Google (Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia), the search results will come out in that font. Not all, as some like Chiller and Wingdings did nothing.

[Molandfreak]

If you put certain font-type names into Google (Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia), the search results will come out in that font. Not all, as some like Chiller and Wingdings did nothing.

If you google Dutch angle, the results will come out tilted just like the cinematic style.

[GaryV]

If you put certain font-type names into Google

To my utter dismay, it also applies to Comic Sans.

[formulanone]

If you put certain font-type names into Google (Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia), the search results will come out in that font. Not all, as some like Chiller and Wingdings did nothing.

Just tried this; you have to add "font" next to Georgia to get that result.

Georgia is my probably my favorite serif font; it has its quirks but they aren't annoyances, compared to Times New Roman. It also hasn't been widely overused, which is amazing, considering it's available on pretty much every Windows PC for over 25 years. That pleases me.

[kphoger]

If you google Dutch angle, the results will come out tilted just like the cinematic style.

Whoaaaaa.......

[vdeane]

With Helluva Boss being picked up by Amazon Prime, the soundtrack is finally available for purchase/download.

[Max Rockatansky]

It is actually pretty nice being greeted by my four dogs when I get home from work.

[webny99]

Just noticed this afternoon that this intersection (Creek St & Plank Rd in Penfield, NY) recently got left turn arrows installed on Creek St. That's not a huge benefit northbound, but southbound this will improve LOS significantly between 2 and 6 PM, and it will also help in the event of an incident on 590.

[1995hoo]

I know I have mentioned it before, but I will mention it again: I love Apple's "Find My" app when I don't trust my wife to find her way to or from someplace. As I type this, she's at Reagan Airport to pick up her brother. I looked to see if she got there OK and discovered that she had gone to the Southwest terminal when he was flying in on JetBlue. So I called her and she answered, agitated that they couldn't find each other. When I said, "You have to walk back down a very long hallway to the other terminal," she was most chagrined because she had just walked down that hall in the opposite direction. (How it is she parked for JetBlue but then went to the terminal for Southwest is beyond me.)

[kphoger]

I know I have mentioned it before, but I will mention it again: I love Apple's "Find My" app when I don't trust my wife to find her way to or from someplace.

It's the third time I specifically remember you talking about it. 

Poor guy...

[1995hoo]

I know I have mentioned it before, but I will mention it again: I love Apple's "Find My" app when I don't trust my wife to find her way to or from someplace.

It's the third time I specifically remember you talking about it. 

Poor guy...

I'm almost certain it's more times than that!

[kphoger]

I'm almost certain it's more times than that!

I stand corrected! 

To be fair, when I posted that one, I only actually remembered one other time.  I found the others through a serarch.

[1995hoo]

I'm almost certain it's more times than that!

I stand corrected! 

To be fair, when I posted that one, I only actually remembered one other time.  I found the others through a serarch.

What was funnier this time is that she initially went to the correct place and then for no apparent reason walked to the other terminal. All she had to do was go down the escalator one floor, but she walked something like a half-mile roundtrip.

[Scott5114]

See, I was starting to get agitated by my wife claiming to "not know where" the grocery store was. Turned out she was just disoriented when we went past it once, and then when she saw my reaction, decided to pull my leg and see how long she could get away with it.

Months. I thought she couldn't find it for months.

Now every time we go through the Washington/Buffalo intersection she is always like "I don't know where we are!" to continue to mess with me.

[kphoger]

See, I was starting to get agitated by my wife claiming to "not know where" the grocery store was. Turned out she was just disoriented when we went past it once, and then when she saw my reaction, decided to pull my leg and see how long she could get away with it.

Months. I thought she couldn't find it for months.

Now every time we go through the Washington/Buffalo intersection she is always like "I don't know where we are!" to continue to mess with me.

Is this the same reason our son claims to not know where anything is in the kitchen?  Just to mess with us?

[Scott5114]

Is this the same reason our son claims to not know where anything is in the kitchen?  Just to mess with us?

Maybe. I was afraid she was claiming to not know where it was just to get out of ever having to go there. Sometimes people do that sort of thing (notably married men who don't want to do laundry).

[kphoger]

Sometimes people do that sort of thing (notably married men who don't want to do laundry).

Is that a real thing married men do, or is it just something they joke about?