There Are Certain Times
And seeing this tweet is definitely at least one tick mark in that column.
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friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomizationBrands Tweeting Self-Care/Woke Things is another really strange subcategory of Twitter, right alongside the “Brands Commemorating Large-Scale Tragedies” one from the other night. While I’d consider myself a proponent of discussing mental health, seeing the Sunny D account offered comfort by the Corn Nuts and Pop Tarts people feels a little crass and exploitative, like just just stick to seductive footage of the steamy filling when you split that Wild Berry. By the same token, I don’t need the technically beef sandwich weighing in on the coronavirus, that’s not what I follow you for, just tell me that the sandwich cures it and move on.
Watch This: SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY - available on Netflix
Today Bruce Springsteen posted the full video of a 2009 concert in London’s Hyde Park with the E Street band, to help folks pass the time at home. At least his team did, I assume he’s not sitting around trying to transcode and upload videos to YouTube but who knows, I wouldn’t put it beyond his grasp. While what I’ve seen of the show is great, I’m using it as a springboard to plug his Netflix-produced recording of his Broadway show. Before you get visions of Springsteen in a full-body cat suit, it’s instead a wonderful, mostly-one-man show reflecting on his life and the Myth of Bruce Springsteen, while sprinkling in some acoustic versions of his library. Also available in not-video form wherever music is beamed via bits. It’s all worth your time, really, but the Broadway show especially is fascinating, as someone who’s become a big fan of the guy in the last few years.
While WWE continuing to hold WrestleMania inside an empty Gold’s Gym was definitely An Idea, so too is Dana White securing the use of a private island for a UFC event, which feels like the start to a direct-to-video movie where White ends up hunting the losers for sport or to double-dip on pay-per-view fees. Hopefully this is a stepping stone to holding it on a barge in international waters where Jon Jones can just show up absolutely strapped with the Bane chemical tank from BATMAN & ROBIN and vaporize somebody.
This video raises a series of questions.
The one thing that’s pretty clear is that the fire alarm and sprinklers were set off in the room with the open door, and then anything else beyond that is between that very soaked man on the right and whatever deity he’s into. Mostly the question is why he opts for the dive onto the Nissan rather than the stairs, since he doesn’t appear to be making an escape run or anything. And then there’s the screaming, as though he’d hit the Macho Man elbow on that child’s parents rather than that well-equipped 2013 Rogue. Just art, all around.
I’m looking forward to the next MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film, where Ethan Hunt and team will have to scan and 3-D print a butthole to defeat a security system based around this new technology, from a team of what will obviously turn out to be perverts wearing lab coats and posing as Stanford researchers. Warning, there’s an MS Paint butthole drawing waiting for you on the other side of that link. With four cameras in there, I just want that tech to be used for a ridiculously accurate bidet system, not for whatever freak stuff this is. That or a very awkward iPhone interface.
This is a brief explainer on a bug with the smoke texture in Super Mario 64 that was recently discovered and patched by folks who are still poking around the code for the game.
There was a Great Question posed on Twitter yesterday, about whether calling people ‘Karen’ was hate speech.
Sorry, the question presumes that Karen is hate speech to begin with, and goes right into asking why people use it, and what kind of hate it’s projecting onto the poor people who can’t control their love of calling the police on not-whites. Through that lens, do not show this lady GOODFELLAS.
Finally, it’s chilling to see them finally admit it, it’s just damning that it took this crisis to bring us here.
