Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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The completely cashless society has been predicted for the last hundred years. It'll happen when we have flying cars, personal jetpacks and robot domestic servants.
That look like Uma Thurman or Jessica Chastain /s
Yeah, with All Seated in a Barn, the first thing they do after they get the horses is send them to the vet, and there's usually at least one or two that are in such bad shape they have to euthanized. And they're actually OK with that, to them humane euthanasia is a better fate than being stuck on the truck to Mexico and being brutally slaughtered there. I caught a clip someone posted from a Mexican horse slaughterhouse, and it's really bad.
When it comes to the animals' well being racing is probably one of the worst industries that doesn't set out to kill the animals from the start.
Oh yeah, there are plenty of ways that people work animals that I'm really not bothered by. For me it's just about how the animals are treated, as long as the animals are treated well, I'm fine with it. I even follow several horse trainers and riders, and even a falconer, who's day job is using one of her birds to clear out pests. From interactions with them they seem to be really nice people, who really care about their animals and treat them very well.
Racing is bad (QH way worse than TB even), but there are trainers and others working in the industry that do care and do things properly and humanely, with the horse at the forefront. Christophe Clement and Graham Motion are two trainers I follow who always place the horse first and neither one has had medication positives or accidental overages (I think Motion may have had one in a 40 year career). It's the Jason Servis, Bob Baffert, and Jorge Navarro types that are a scourge on the TB racing industry. The bad outweighs the good,which is why HISA was created (and now being charged by a couple of states). It's a corrupt industry, but what isn't these days? A track Vet taking a bribe from a trainer to run an already injured horse is pretty low even by human corruption standards... and that happens, pretty regularly at some tracks in the country.
I hardly use cash anymore, but there are times when you need it, you really need it.
There's also cases like kids running lemonade stands, you expect them to run credit cards?
There's also cases like kids running lemonade stands, you expect them to run credit cards?
It looks like E.T. accidentally phoned hell.Well, this is absolutely horrifying.
I read an article on the CTV News website about the original E.T. animatronic from the 1982 movie selling for US$2.56 million at auction recently. They included a picture of the animatronic, and, well... it doesn't look quite like the lovable little alien you remember from the movie!
The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean! Maybe Santa has a cloaked island or he lives on a Helicarrier.
Santa is the secret boss of Cobra
There wasn't anything interesting on TV so I found a rebroadcast of a college football game on one of the streaming services to play in the background, and holy crap the national anthem singer was awful. Thought they had gotten some kid to sing but nope, it was an adult!
Yeah, I've come to realize over the last few years that The Star Spangled Banner is really hard song to sing. It seems like even a lot of the big stars have trouble giving us a good version of it. To be honest, I much prefer America the Beautiful, it's a better song, and when you look the lyrics, it fits a lot better with most countries' national anthems.
Oh yeah, I'm sure there are some good people involved in the industry, but overall it's still pretty horrible.
What faction should I cozy up to in Fleet Command?
A challenge that often gets overlooked is the acoustics and PA systems of stadiums really suck for singing. You end up hearing yourself with a significant delay.
I've used wireless intercom headsets and on occasion spoke into a wired system. My voice was delayed in my ears and I ended up talking slower.
Seems perfect for the original concept of E.T., which was a horror movie called Night Skies, featuring a group of aliens terrorizing a family in preparation for an abduction, as sort of a spiritual successor to Close Encounters, just not with benevolent aliens.Well, this is absolutely horrifying.
I read an article on the CTV News website about the original E.T. animatronic from the 1982 movie selling for US$2.56 million at auction recently. They included a picture of the animatronic, and, well... it doesn't look quite like the lovable little alien you remember from the movie!
Spielberg was going to have Toby Hooper, from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre direct it, and he'd produce. The more Spielberg thought about it though, the more he liked the midsection of the script where one of the aliens, feeling remorse about the treatment of the family, befriends the son and tries to help them get free of their tormentors. So, he decided to develop that part instead, collaborated on rewriting the script into the more family-friendly version we have now, and chose to direct it himself.
Meanwhile, the Night Skies script was also retooled from aliens into the ghost horror story Poltergeist, also produced by Spielberg, which he gave to Toby Hooper to direct instead.
Here are some of the Rick Baker alien mockups for Night Skies:
I'm bummed we got Poltergeist instead of Night Skies that sounded interesting.
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i think it's possible that i actually am a mushroom......
I dunno, though. Poltergeist was a pretty good movie, as it was.
Look, I'm not saying that this is what Santa does in the off-season, but this is what Santa does in the off-season. He ditches the reindeer for sled dogs, puts on a slightly different disguise, grabs his laser rifle, and rescues Snake-Eyes.
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