Tawny also was married to the frontman for Whitesnake for a few years (although they were involved for much longer). Seems like she had a good life.
She was also on Dr Drew's Celebrity Rehab because she was taking horse tranquilizers to sleep and mixing it with alcohol...
But since now I understand the Suzanne Sommers bit, I will throw in Cheryl Tiegs and her iconic pink bikini:
Like, I knew the "Reaction" genre on YouTube was a huge business. Lord knows, I've gotten tired of seeing the 5,000,000th "Non-American reacts to NFL's biggest hits" video, but I didn't realize it's gone all fractal too.
Like, a reaction reacting to another reactor reacting to something else. Reaction inception.
A more cynical person might talk about the death of culture, and that we're making less and reacting to what we already have, and then reacting to that reaction, but I am definitely not that person.
Definitely not.
There's a TMNT (1987) marathon happening on YouTube right now and seeing the episode where the Mousers get introduced triggered a memory for me.
I was a huge TMNT kid in my youth, and I remember my parents, my poor, unthinking parents, getting me the original Eastman & Laird comic, which was just......... So. Much. Bloodier and More Violent than the cartoon.
Like, it's kinda hilarious that THAT got turned into a long-running piece of children's franchise.
Somehow, 100% zoom is too small and 115% is too big for me.
Somehow, 100% zoom is too small and 115% is too big for me.
Have you tried... 112?
112. 113. Whatever it takes.
Buying my wife's birthday present 6 weeks in advance: good.
Having to search for an hour yesterday because I forgot where I hid it: not so good.
I was messing about with a long table in the hall when something fell down from behind it. It is a cast iron image of a dragon, intended for the garden, with the words ‘Dragon’s Crossing’ under it. It’s something I bought as a present for a friend multiple years ago and had thoroughly lost. Each birthday and Christmas since I’d vaguely wondered about the sign but never found it.
Since buying that elusive sign I’ve become friends with someone who is potty about dragons in all forms, so I shall give her the sign (presuming I don’t lose it in the meantime) and get my other mate different presents.
When I get home from work, or from anywhere, if I take my shirt off and sit down, my cat will sit in my lap and lick my armpits. When I'm sleeping she wakes me up when she licks my armpits. Weird.
Hah yeah we had HBO for free in those days. I definitely saw some things.
When I was home sick once in the early 80s, I discovered a show on HBO called The Great American Pleasure Hunt, on during the day with nudity. I was surprised to see it but we didn't have a VCR yet.
Okay, so I'm no Trekkie, but I have watched a little bit of DS9 and Voyager, and now I'm idly watching Lower Decks.
And I'm left with a question. Is Starfleet the military or civilian? Because it's not the latter, but it also appears to be a colossally undisciplined, lackadaisical, badly-run version of the former. And I have enough military family to know the real thing is mostly "Unsupervised Boy Scouts with several million dollars of taxpayers' money" so calling Starfleet badly-run is being MEAN.
Starfleet is essentially the military wing of the Federation, but it's not exactly "military" in the same way our military is though. It handles the defense of Federation territory, true, but it also takes care of all the exploration, diplomacy, and research.
It's not a canon explanation, but my headcanon is that the many, many shortcomings of Starfleet command present throughout TNG, Voyager, and DS9 are due to the events of the Conspiracy episode from the first season of TNG. Parasitic aliens infiltrated most of Starfleet command and killing them killed the host too, so Starfleet lost almost all of of their competent and qualified leadership. It helps lessen the sting of all the bad decisions Berman made that undercut Roddenberry's vision of the Federation.
I mean the premise of Lower Decks, other than the fact that it's a straight up comedy, is that it focuses on "the other guys", meaning one of the worst run starships instead of the best. While at the same time being a love letter to all the Trek that came before, chock full of references you will probably miss if you haven't seen all the series multiple times.
"Is Starfleet a military?" is a long-contested question. Generally the accepted answer is "Yes, and...."
Supposedly Gene "Big Rod" Rodenberry took a lot of inspiration from the Coast Guard, which is kinda-sorta-almost-but-not-really military, military duty isn't their primary function but they sometimes fill a similar role depending on circumstances and they have a vaguely military-ish command structure. So if Starfleet seems that way too, that's by design.
I want to see a loose adaptational series of "The Culture". But of course it would be absolutely destroyed in the Conservative press for it's "Progressive Vision" of a culture of endless resources...
Good, "it pisses off conservatives" has become one of my top indicators that something is potentially worth my time and attention these days.
The Coast Guard is actually one of the six military branches and the only one under DHS control. Says so right on the "About" page on their recruitment site. Soldiers have the same pay and benefit systems as the equivalent ranks in other services, and are subject to the UCMJ rather than civilian law (in the appropriate circumstances, of course). Their ranks and insignia identical to the Navy's, but have a blue background, rather than black.
Right now, I'm about to shake and bake.
The year is 2023 and I am playing bloodrayne.
speaking of "things I liked when I was a horny teenager"
That game would've been so much better.... well, if it were a better GAME, but also if it leaned more into Bayonetta-style tongue-in-cheek silliness. I haven't played it in forever, but I remember feeling that it took itself far too seriously for a game as ridiculous as it was.
Like, it didn't need to be a Monty Python bit, but there needed to be more of a nudge and a wink.
speaking of "things I liked when I was a horny teenager"
That game would've been so much better.... well, if it were a better GAME, but also if it leaned more into Bayonetta-style tongue-in-cheek silliness. I haven't played it in forever, but I remember feeling that it took itself far too seriously for a game as ridiculous as it was.
Like, it didn't need to be a Monty Python bit, but there needed to be more of a nudge and a wink.
Bloodrayne back flipped so Bayonetta could pole dance.
I'm not usually one for watching bad movies because they're bad, but one night in 2006 I did a triple feature of Bloodrayne, Aeon Flux and Ultraviolet and enjoyed the experience.
I'm pretty sure Bloodrayne is still the only Uwe Boll movie I've ever seen.
The year is 2023 and I am playing bloodrayne.
I liked the movie which was very bad.
Bloodrayne back flipped so Bayonetta could pole dance.
The funny part is... I think you're kinda right. 
It was the final fight of our D&D campaign last night, so it was time to pull out all the stops. I had a grey bag of tricks from which I could pull fur balls that, once thrown, would turn into anything from a weasel to a dire wolf or a giant elk. I had once summoned a dire wolf with the bag but pretty consistently I was getting weasels or big rats.
Having read over the rules for the bag again I realised, with some delight, that you could throw as many as three furballs per day rather than just one.
At a crucial point in the fight, when the enemy forces were charging forth, I reached into by bag with both hands and pulled out a fur ball with each. Yelling, “Say hello to my little friends!” I threw both fur balls down at the feet of the oncoming enemies and got double weasels (having rolled two ones.)
I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from that moment.
Fantastic end to the campaign though with a 12 foot Ryth holding Braga aloft so he could wallop the final form of an ice god, shattering it to pieces in a cloud of sparkling ice crystals.
Woke up with an email saying that someone I've never heard of transferred $500 to me for some unknown reason. I checked my bank account and, sure enough, the money is there. Now I'm on the phone with the bank (at 5AM) to see if I can get that reverted and returned to the sender. It doesn't seem like they can do it, and I have no way of contacting the person who sent me the money.
Looks like I'll have to sit on it and wait for them to contact me, somehow. Hope they realize their mistake quickly...
Looks like I'll have to sit on it and wait for them to contact me, somehow. Hope they realize their mistake quickly...
Could be a scam or some form of money laundering. If someone does contact you, use extreme caution and don’t do anything without consulting your bank first.
bobbywatson wrote:Looks like I'll have to sit on it and wait for them to contact me, somehow. Hope they realize their mistake quickly...
Could be a scam or some form of money laundering. If someone does contact you, use extreme caution and don’t do anything without consulting your bank first.
The bank ended up opening an investigation to see if they can send the money back in full or in part without my intervention. We'll see what happens.
One thing I did is deactivate the automatic deposit on my account. Next time, before any money gets in, I will have to answer a security question, and approve the transfer. Hopefully this is the last time something like this happens.
It is exactly a scam. Usually, it's a laundering scheme. They tell you that they're sorry, it's a mistake, and ask you to either convert it into gift cards, or (more likely if they think you can do it) to send it to another account. This "washes" the money by disconnecting the sender from the receiver.
This could also mean that some of your private information has been compromised.
It is exactly a scam. Usually, it's a laundering scheme. They tell you that they're sorry, it's a mistake, and ask you to either convert it into gift cards, or (more likely if they think you can do it) to send it to another account. This "washes" the money by disconnecting the sender from the receiver.
This could also mean that some of your private information has been compromised.
I considered that. I looked back at the email, and it looks legit, sent from the etransfer company's domain. Looking at the complete email headers, I noticed the sender's email address in the 'reply-to' field (which was not visible to me from the Gmail default UI), but I will not contact them for now and just wait and see what the bank says.
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