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The architect of the Louisville City (now Metro) Courthouse is rolling over in his grave. Impressive neoclassical structure in the vein of the White House. Only building on the block on that side of the street. Wide street, big sort of plaza area in front of it with about a 15' tall statue of Jefferson, standing on top of the Liberty Bell.
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Big wide steps leading up to a rotunda inside with a gallery around it and another life-sized statue in the center. Designed to inspire awe and respect.

Well. For whatever reason, they decided to close off the main entrance and make people go around back and enter through a little back door where you have to step through security and be issued a temporary badge/sticker. I guess I understand the modern reasons for it but it totally negates the entire point of the building. Ruins the whole experience of going into it.
 
Fun wildlife fact: Yellowjackets live in little holes in the ground. Also, they do not like lawnmowers. I learned this a few years ago and therefore keep a can of yellowjacket spray handy for when I discover a new burrow/nest. Haven't seen one in awhile but I found a big one right next to my garage the last time I mowed the lawn. Luckily I was wearing long pants and I spotted it so I was able to finish up mowing without getting stung. But I realized I was out of spray.

I'm also doing some digging in the crawlspace under the back of the house, so I look for low spots in the yard to dump the excavated fill in. I was doing this today and remembered the yellowjacket hole. Spotted it quickly because it was very active. During a lull I dumped about 3 gallons of dirt onto a 2-3" diameter hole. The flaw in my carefully developed plan is that at least...2 dozen yellowjackets were outside the hole when I dumped the dirt and now they're furiously swarming around the pile of dirt. :/
 
I stopped off at the boozeterium on my way home to pick up a couple of six packs for the weekend and the guy in line ahead of me was holding one of these little curly-haired dustmop dogs and I said "Hi, there, pooch!". And I swear to god the thing started quacking at me. The guy behind me heard it too because he said "WTF? I thought there was a duck in here."

It's shaping up to be an interesting weekend.
 
Holy fuckknuckles. As much as I bag on MS Solitaire, 2 days in a row now, I've lost a game with a deck of cards where I wasn't able to make a single play. All red cards except for a black jack (and no red 10). Went through the deck and there were no cards to play. Forget what it was yesterday, but same deal--zero playable cards in the game.
 
I have a paid Solitaire app I use on my iPad, and that happens once in a while for me too.

On the good side, it's showing you that the shuffles are truly random and not skewed I guess...
 
Some times I fall down a YouTube rabbit hole, and suddenly I am watching a bunch of unlikeable construction workers build a millionaires house, and I wonder, why the hell am I watching this shit.
 
I say again: I DO NOT LIKE BEING OLD. It happened in the past few years. My brain will pick out a day worth of normal, achievable tasks that I'd have easily been able to do in the recent past and by 9pm I'm exhausted and feel like I've been dragged behind a truck.
 
On a related note, I still think of Kari Byron from "Mythbusters" as young and hot (I still have a shark week photo of her in a bikini around here somewhere). She's now 50 and endorsing Consumer Cellular. :(
 
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I don't watch Star Wars very often. And if I do, I fire up the VCR and watch the version God intended us to watch, but farting around on YouTube, someone had a "RotJ" reacts video that was only 10 minutes long so I thought I'd watch it. Turns out it was only a first part one that only got to where Luke is starting to rescue Han from the Sarlaac pit. That said, someone needs to talk some sense into George Lucas because the CGI in it is really jarring and terrible. Even on a small screen. Even the "reacter" immediately spotted the CGI. And none of it actually improves on the original footage. I've only seen the CGI version of "Empire" once and actually liked some of the stuff they did in that, but the other 2, the CGI is absolutely terrible and detracts from the story.
 
Story was doing a marathon block of some half hour show called "Command Decisions," where they take a historical event--The Spanish-American War, WWII, etc, and a leader--Teddy Roosevelt, Churchill, etc, and have periodic multiple choice questions on various steps in the story--i.e.: Hitler accidentally bombs London, how do you respond: a) Attack the German Navy, b) Attack German factories, c) Bomb civilian targets in Berlin. It was c, BTW, one of the few Churchill ones I got wrong. To be fair, a big part of that may be that I read Churchill's book about WWII, but also I think because I understand strategy and think like a modern civilized human.

I mention this because after that was Stalin and Stalingrad. And the first quiz was: How do you stop Panzers? a) Throw bundles of grenades at them, b) wire dogs with explosives and train them to run under tanks, c) lay mines. It was b. Stalin had dogs trained to blow up tanks (and themselves). Fuck. Me. I did really well on the Churchill episode and I bombed on the Stalin one because I can't think like a fucking monster. By the end I was like "How do you lure German troops into the open?" And before they could list the choices I'd be shouting "shoot a baby in the stomach and throw it out into the street." (The answer to that one was actually surprisingly humane--make dummy soldiers and when the Germans shoot them and go out to confirm the kill, snipe them.)
 
Volpone said:
On a related note, I still think of Kari Byron from "Mythbusters" as young and hot (I still have a shark week photo of her in a bikini around here somewhere). She's now 50 and endorsing Consumer Cellular. :(
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Kari and Tori have a podcast now.

 
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