Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985) 乱

In fact, this post has prompted me to play it on blorp today.

We do exude odors from the foods we eat. You may have noticed individuals who smell of garlic or onions. Asian friends have told me people in the U.S. tend to smell like milk/dairy or meat. It seems probable that, yes, your diet gave you a lingering odor.

Agreed, but only if they don’t want signed confirmation of the change for their records. Things change if the change is affirmed by both parties.

I love bay leaves but I’m confused if you mean to add bay at the end? I typically add about 6 dried bay leaves when boiling a bag of dried beans and pluck the leaves out before putting other stuff in. I know other people who can’t tell the difference so they never use them, which I can only account for as a genetic difference.

I know it’s not the main complaint but…the secret to chili is you can add whatever you want. You don’t need need a particular recipe – just some tomatoes (fresh or canned) and a bag of dry beans. Ideally you should also have a bunch of peppers, garlic and onions. Soak the beans overnight if you have the time and change the water before boiling, but you can go straight to boiling them if you can’t pre-soak. You might put some bullion in, but don’t add anything else until the beans are almost done. Acidic ingredients like tomatoes will hinder softening and over-cooking will reduce the flavor of other things added early.

If you fry the onions/garlic before adding them, they’ll give you an extra layer of flavor, but that’s optional. Chop everything while you wait for beans.

Anyway, when the bean are soft, check that there’s only enough liquid to cover the beans. Pour off excess and reserve in case you want to add it back later. Then dump chopped stuff in pot: tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers (fresh, dried, or canned: examples: chipotle in sauce, poblanos, anchos, serranos, jalepenos), and whatever else you want – even if it isn’t considered ‘proper’: squash, tofu, celery, corn, or whatever. You can add a bit of oil for body. When that stuff is cooked, add spices such as cayenne, paprika, chipotle, powdered chili (note that sometimes ‘chili powder’ refers to just chilis and sometimes is mostly salt with a mix of spices). If using black pepper and fresh cilantro, add those last to retain maximum flavor.

We don’t store words or the rules that tell us how to manipulate them.

• “i before e except after c”
• “believe contains a LIE”
• hear/here they’re their there
• spectral colours = ROY G. BiV (if you include indigo)
• Great Lakes = HOMES
• “negative b, plus or minus the square root of: b squared minus 4ac, all over 2a”
• “dy/du du/dx”

I’m not saying we know how that information is stored, but without seeking the information, those rules, spellings, and how to use them automatically pop up into my head without delay. I understand subject/verb agreement, and while I often fail stick to proper use of tenses, I can usually catch my own failures when re-reading what I’ve written.

I can’t draw a dollar bill. I can’t because human brains are great at pruning. We purposefully don’t keep a record for most of everything we experience. We are highly lossy from the outset, and delete details over time. To put a computer in the same position, if I hook up a camera and microphone to my computer but don’t actually record anything, the computer is not going to replicate a dollar bill, either. If I take a jpeg or make a short highly compressed mp4 of a dollar bill as seen through fumbling fingers at the check out, that image also won’t have much detail for a computer to copy, and a generic computer would be unlikely to even know the bill has a rectangular shape. Sure, you could write a program specifically to figure out the planar dimensions of such object, but that is a lot of work for partial recognition.

Also, the definition of computer has changed over time. It used to be a profession for humans good at math. Now we only think of those boxes of equipment that require an operating system, supporting software, peripherals, and electric current. More than that, I don’t know who thinks brains are at all like computers given computers are completely lacking emotional responses. Yes, I know you can set up ‘points’ to get them to favor one result or another, but they don’t get frustrated and rage quit if they can’t score. Yeah, they seg fault and blue screen, but not out of frustration, or love, or boredom or from distractions. Computers and people have different designs for different functions. Can we leave it at that?

yup

The phone lists get circulated everywhere, so you will be blocking them forever. You can stop particular callers, but since they are mostly from volunteers using their own phones, you might get called from hundreds of different people. That said, here’s the U.S. rules:

During an election season, it is likely there will be an increase in calls and texts from political campaigns. While campaign calls and texts are exempt from the National Do Not Call Registry requirements, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) contains specific rules they must follow.

In general, robocalls and robotexts to mobile phones require prior consent. Political robocalls to landlines are allowed without prior consent, but there are exceptions as detailed below. In addition, political robocalls made to residential landline phones without the prior consent of the called party are limited to no more than three calls within any consecutive 30-day period.

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Political Robotexts

Robotexts – text messages generated through autodialing – are also considered a type of call and must comply with the same rules as robocalls.

Political text messages sent to a mobile phone using an autodialer require the called party’s prior express consent. Messages sent manually can be sent without prior consent.

If you are receiving texts that you didn’t ask for, report the sender by forwarding the texts to 7726 (or “SPAM”).

Campaigns should also honor opt-out requests if you reply “STOP.”

I liked it, too! I forgive for making it ANOTHER story about an Italian American when it should really be about an African American because it was taken from the white guy and his son’s recollections of what it was like. That said, I wouldn’t mind hearing the more important and missing view from the point of view of Don Shirley.

Here’s why I’m against that: even in recent history, people have beaten and killed people for being homeless, or gay, or cross dressing, or being the wrong ethnicity for that part of town. The community’s idea of a ‘broken step’ could be my right to simply exist. There has to be a discussion on whether the behavior is actually harmful or just unlike the typical. Walking through a neighborhood by itself is not bad – not even if you look atypical. Walking through a neighborhood with, say, a political sign might be an issue in some cases but fine in others – unless the sign has easily recognized hate speech, a swastika, or such, you’d have to spend some time figuring out if your objection is legitimate.

That said, creating a community, book club, gaming group, or other voluntary subgroup can put hard limits on allowable behavior by members, and if the rules aren’t followed, you can educate violators or kick them out, but you still can’t beat them up just because they didn’t act as expected… Who’d join AA if people who relapsed were beaten for it?

Do they also do vacation on the honor system? That is: is any/all time off coming from the same pool? I hope not, but it is something various companies try to do to entice people to work more, relax less, and remove the need to pay out unused vacation time when you’re suddenly downsized. In such cases (when there’s no payout for accrued days) always take plenty of vacation time. As for sick time, you should obviously take sick time whenever you are sick. Your coworkers will especially appreciate it if you don’t come in while symptomatic even if you can tough it through. Also take off if you need a personal day. If that sick time (not vacation) ends up being more than 6 days a year, perhaps you should look for stressors that may be harming your quality of life.

My dad is also a… problematic person. I don’t know what to say at times like this, but I can at least relate what worked for me: When my dad was hospitalized with a terminal condition, I went into a daze and wrote out a three page speech to give at his funeral that included some of the most awful things he’d done. I didn’t know if I would read it, but I wrote it. A few days later while he was still hanging on (but supposedly 30 pounds lighter in just two weeks of hospital care), I rewrote the speech shorter, but kept several issues intact. Then he didn’t die. His personality remains the same as before the scare, but he’s frail now. I still have the ‘remembrance’ I wrote, and it no longer matters if I read it because I took the time to write it out and I’ll always have to share and grieve over even if I don’t make it a public spectacle.

tl;dr: consider writing something for his funeral now – ‘just in case’ – so you won’t be stuck trying to figure out what to say if/when things get chaotic.

It can block all scripts, but the current version lets some stuff through by default. You can allow or forbid scripts for each site, so you might, say, allow scripts from hexbear, forbid doubleclick, and leave gstatic on default.

Caramel has wrapped. Next up:

Harold and Maude starts in about 10 minutes!

see you there!

Caramel has wrapped. Next up:

Harold and Maude starts in about 10 minutes!

see you there!

5 minutes to movies and I must cut Adam’s Rib because it has stalled on the server! Aaarg!

Harold and Maude is still playing in 2 hours, but right now we’ll have this completely unrelated film:

Caramel (2007) سكر بنات

(romanized: Sukkar banat) is a 2007 Lebanese film and the feature film directorial debut of Nadine Labaki.

Synopsis: In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

Per Rotten Tomatoes, the critical consensus states, “Caramel is both an astute cultural study, and a charming comedic drama from a talented newcomer.”

Content Warnings: PG for thematic elements involving sexuality, language and some smoking Sex & Nudity: Mild Violence & Gore: None Profanity: Mild Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking: Mild Frightening & Intense Scenes: None

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/65503 shaving/cutting cheating mannequins hospital scene menstruation sudden loud noises watched without knowing babies or unborn children alzheimers/dementia car honk or tires screech

Yeah, I’m a big fan of the film as well. I was saddened to hear the actor passed, and it seemed fitting to show his best work. I think it still holds up, and I think it works for young and old alike.

Join us in remembering Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon for today’s Hairy Harmonies!

imo. you can skip both of those even though Carpenter did Halloween. My Carpenter picks are: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, The Thing, and Big Trouble in Little China. I might add They Live to the list, but there’s a couple things about it that keep me from recommending to the unsure. Prince of Darkness has some redeeming qualities, and In the Mouth of Madness is great for people who care about Lovecraft, but I think it that’s a requirement to enjoy it.