Random thing you loathe right now.

I'm rooting for your dog, halfwaywrong!

halfwaywrong wrote:
halfwaywrong wrote:

My dog's not doing so well right now, but all we can do is just wait and see.

He's still doing pretty bad and we're no closer to finding a reason. He had a couple of x-rays and a blood test - they all came back looking good. He perked up a lot when he had to stay at the vet for half a day, for whatever reason. Otherwise he's just laying around and not doing much else. He can walk, but really weakly. He can eat and drink, but not like he normally would. He's got some painkillers to see him through the weekend, then pending that, an abdominal scan.

This breaks my heart. I wish the best for you and your ol’ pal.

Thunderstorm knocks out the power right as I'm video chatting with parents. So phone down to 50% and text from power company estimates 4 hours to fix.

6 hours later no power. WTF. Fridge stuff is probably ruined. Most stores closed. Could have went and got ice to put some things in cooler but trusted estimate. f*ck

Crap!! That’s the worst!

Stele wrote:

6 hours later no power. WTF. Fridge stuff is probably ruined. Most stores closed. Could have went and got ice to put some things in cooler but trusted estimate. f*ck

Six hours in the fridge should be fine, unless y’all are leaving the fridge door open a lot.

Everything I've googled says 4 hours in the fridge. Maybe more if it says closed. Luckily we have a thermometer in there. So when it finally came on at 3am (10 hours) I went and opened the fridge and the temp in there was 50. So we're going item by item for things that might have spoiled at that temp. What a pain.

At least the freezer is ok.

Jeopardy is dead to me. The former executive producer of the show has appointed himself the new host despite the fact that Levar Burton was the runaway fan favorite. And the woman chosen to be the “backup host” is an anti-vaxxer and a snake oil peddler. Yes, I’m talking about Mayim Bialik.

THANKS FOR RUINING JEOPARDY ASSHOLES

Levar was terrible the week he was on, he even said so himself in an interview. Richards was by far the most entertaining host of all the guest hosts.

I don't like him for other reasons but he was the best one on camera in 2021.

People clamoring for Burton are giving away that they don't actually watch the show. He was god awful. I wouldn't say Richards was entertaining either. He was a competent host but he was very robotic.

David Faber was far and away the best of the non-former contestants. That's not exactly a high bar as Robin Roberts was the only other one that I thought was good but I thought he was spectacular.

Ken was good mainly because he fully understands the flow of the game. I liked him quite a bit but I could see why casual viewers wouldn't. His problematic tweet issue isn't anywhere near Richards' sh*t and he admitted fault and apologized. Buzzy was the second best host after Faber and I hated Buzzy when he was a contestant.

Mayim Bialik is a terrible person. Telling regular people to do their own research is the same thing as being anti-vax. Never trust anybody that constantly points out that they have a PhD. The brain pills she's currently hocking on TV tell you just how worthwhile that PhD is. Buzzy should have gotten the special event job after his ToC performance.

What was bad about Burton?

(Not arguing, I haven't seen any of the shows)

He wouldn't take off that stupid visor claiming he couldn't see without it.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

People clamoring for Burton are giving away that they don't actually watch the show. He was god awful. I wouldn't say Richards was entertaining either. He was a competent host but he was very robotic.

David Faber was far and away the best of the non-former contestants. That's not exactly a high bar as Robin Roberts was the only other one that I thought was good but I thought he was spectacular.

Ken was good mainly because he fully understands the flow of the game. I liked him quite a bit but I could see why casual viewers wouldn't. His problematic tweet issue isn't anywhere near Richards' sh*t and he admitted fault and apologized. Buzzy was the second best host after Faber and I hated Buzzy when he was a contestant.

Mayim Bialik is a terrible person. Telling regular people to do their own research is the same thing as being anti-vax. Never trust anybody that constantly points out that they have a PhD. The brain pills she's currently hocking on TV tell you just how worthwhile that PhD is. Buzzy should have gotten the special event job after his ToC performance.

Maybe Richards was good in contrast with Ken Jennings? But there was a lot of noise with friends I talk to and twitter about this guy is good. And people were asking who the hell is this guy, why have I never seen him in anything? Oh he's not an actor/celebrity. But I also shrugged it off at the time as well he's a producer, they won't make him host, and went back to rating others.

I may have only seen Faber once or twice that week. Olympics coverage. He seemed good, but didn't stand out to me. Lots of the news people were good (Roberts, Anderson Cooper, etc.) but I assumed they all had day jobs and weren't really going to be considered. Most of them are not quitting their full time news gigs.

Agree that Buzzy was a very good host. I'm not sure I caught his original run but maybe saw him in tournaments later. He didn't make an impact before either way like Ken and James tend to stand out. But I did really enjoy his hosting, and probably would have picked him, especially considering so many other potential hosts' issues.

The only week I didn't watch was Dr Oz, f that guy. And yes, Bialik trying to sell crap pills reminds me a lot of Dr Oz. She was really good as host for her 2 weeks, though. By most accounts I've seen, she was top 3 or 4 out of the guest hosts.

fenomas wrote:

What was bad about Burton?

(Not arguing, I haven't seen any of the shows)

He just didn't seem comfortable at all, especially the first night. There was an issue with him saying an answer was incorrect but it was actually time expired or something. Came back from break and awarded points. Although the "times up" beep didn't ring, so it seems like that was a technical issue. He even talked about it in an interview the week his episodes finally aired that he felt like he wasn't good, and his wife, who does his makeup, told him after the first taping to relax and be himself. But they record 5 episodes in a day sometimes, and it didn't seem like he got any better through the week.

Maybe if he had a second week (day) it would have been better.

The timeout sound doesn't play when someone's individual time expires, only when the time for the whole answer expires.

Why does Burton have to be the perfect game show host on his first week of doing it? He would have settled into the roll and become more natural over time. And yes, I’ll admit, I didn’t watch any of the new hosts because I hardly watch any TV and I’m not the type to jump through hoops to watch a game show, even if it is Jeopardy. But if Burton was the regular host, I’d DVR the show and watch it with my wife from time to time. I won’t be watching Jeopardy at all with these pretenders at the helm. I meant it when I said that Jeopardy is dead to me now.

Stele wrote:

6 hours later no power. WTF. Fridge stuff is probably ruined. Most stores closed. Could have went and got ice to put some things in cooler but trusted estimate. f*ck

I used to hate that system back when I was a network tech for Comcast (basically the same estimate system). It has nothing to do with reality, but policy. When I got paged for an outage, by policy, I was supposed to be assigned within 15 minutes, or the secondary on-call person assigned by 30 minutes (if I didn't grab it within 15 it fell to the other guy). Then be on site within 30 minutes, and have it completed within 2 hours. When you go to the app, the estimate is 3 hours, because it's built on that information, not anything to do with what's wrong.

You'd get the same 3 hour estimate for a blown fuse (5 minute fix), a blown power pack (maybe 30 minutes of troubleshooting to find it and a 5 minute fix), a cut underground copper line (a couple hours of digging and 20 minutes of splicing), or a cut fiber line (10+ hours between troubleshooting, finding it, and at least an hour of splicing for a small count). It also doesn't account for the fact that I lived 45 minutes away from the furthest nodes in my coverage area, so it wasn't uncommon that it'd be over an hour before I even showed up to try to figure out what was wrong, even if I had a good idea before I left the house from outage patterns and design prints.

And it doesn't take into account how many outages there are. If it's the only outage, yeah, 3 hours is probably fairly accurate. If there's 100 outages and 5 guys out there clearing them (common during winter and summer storms) then 3 hours is an absolute joke. It wasn't terribly uncommon for customers to come hunt me down to scream at me for being outside of that window, when I never had a chance to meet that expectation anyway.

Yeah the final update was fallen trees. And when I looked at the outage map on the website you could see there were tons of others around us. Ours was 600 customers while one adjacent to us was 1600. Although it looked like ours happened 45 min before that one and that one was still out when ours was fixed.

The outage map was weird though because it showed "status updating" the whole time. If you clicked on the ? beside it, it showed many possible status, like "crew assigned" or "repairs underway" but none of those were ever set for our outage. When the power actually came on I checked the map again and it updates every 10 minutes. It still showed the same thing as it had the wholeile time. Oh well.

And yeah last time there was an outage in July from a storm, the estimate was the same, 4 hours, but it was fixed in 45 minutes.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

He wouldn't take off that stupid visor claiming he couldn't see without it.

They could have used Brent Spiner. "That answer is incorrect, I cannot award you points for that. Had you answered with the proper answer, I could have given you the sufficient dollar amount to increase your score."

MaxShrek wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

He wouldn't take off that stupid visor claiming he couldn't see without it.

They could have used Brent Spiner. "That answer is incorrect, I cannot award you points for that. Had you answered with the proper answer, I could have given you the sufficient dollar amount to increase your score."

Daily Double... you tiny little Daily Double... you precious little Daily Double... where are you?

halfwaywrong wrote:
halfwaywrong wrote:

My dog's not doing so well right now, but all we can do is just wait and see.

He's still doing pretty bad and we're no closer to finding a reason. He had a couple of x-rays and a blood test - they all came back looking good. He perked up a lot when he had to stay at the vet for half a day, for whatever reason. Otherwise he's just laying around and not doing much else. He can walk, but really weakly. He can eat and drink, but not like he normally would. He's got some painkillers to see him through the weekend, then pending that, an abdominal scan.

He didn't make it. He was perfectly healthy just over a week ago, then deteriorated so much. We're devastated.

stupidhaiku wrote:

I'm rooting for your dog, halfwaywrong!

RawkGWJ wrote:

This breaks my heart. I wish the best for you and your ol’ pal.

Thank you both, it's really appreciated.

Hugs to you and your family.

I'm so sorry halfwaywrong. I'm sure you gave him a great life.

I'm really sorry for your loss, halfwaywrong.

Sorry, halfwaywrong.

Scooby Doo speaks in complete sentences now?

RHEE RHUUUZ?

Turned 41 this morning. Not really talking to my parents as my step-dad is all in on anti-vaxx and politics has driven a wedge between us. Sucks he cares more about Glen Beck's approval than he does ours. Really weighing heavily on me today.

I'm sorry about that Sally -- Happy Birthday anyway.

Happy Birthday Sally. Not to get to P&C but man does it suck seeing that happen to people and families. I really hope one day this will all get reversed, and people will learn from it.

As for a loath. A true first world problem. My two week break is ending and I'm dreading going back/starting work. I work from home yet the stress of a 9 to 5 still weighs on me too much. The idea of retirement sounds nice.

master0 wrote:

As for a loath. A true first world problem. My two week break is ending and I'm dreading going back/starting work. I work from home yet the stress of a 9 to 5 still weighs on me too much. The idea of retirement sounds nice.

I hear ya man. Burnout is real. Longest I've had off work since the summer after I graduated college 22 years ago has been the 5 weeks when my kid was born, and the thing I most want to have is no job.