jordanlund

Sounds like the dinner was on Fyre...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyre_Festival

Gesundheit!

Buy the US House and Senate.

$5 B / 435 = 11,494,252 per person. Sounds do-able. Shit, Bob Menendez sold out for $480,000. 11 mil. would go a LOOONG way.

On his property? I'd be boarding that ship...

Tattoos are proof of MS13 though...

Acronym? 🤔

Adaptations of three superhero books that make you feel good about reading superhero books:

James Robinson's Starman:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starman_(Jack_Knight)

Starman, Ted Knight, is a legacy Golden Age character who invented a device called the Gravity Rod, later refined into a Cosmic Staff, which collects energy from the universe, granting the weilder the ability to fly and project force fields and force beams. Similar to a Green Lantern ring, but not as detailed.

Roll forward to the present day, Ted has retired, his son David has taken over for him as Starman, and his son Jack wants nothing to do with any of it, he's happy running an antiques and collectibles store.

An old villain from Starmans past, the Mist, comes back for one last gasp as he's terminally ill. Assisted by his two children, they kill David and attempt to kill Ted and Jack. Jack has an old Cosmic Rod stuffed in a closet and uses it to escape. He agrees to take up the Starman name if his dad promises to use his science to make the world a better place.

Very strong father/son dynamic, the power of inheritance, the power of what a legacy means. 81 issues plus assorted crossovers. Just a great run of comics.

Alan Moore's Tom Strong:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Strong

Kind of cheating here because Tom TECHNICALLY isn't a superhero, he's a SCIENCE hero... but really, what's the difference? ;)

Around 100 or so years ago, Tom's parents treated him like a science experiment. They raised him in a high pressure chamber to simulate a higher gravity, and fed him an elixir which gives him good health and an extraordinarily long lifespan.

Tom and his family use science and advanced technology to advance human causes and fight other science threats.

It's a Doc Savage pastiche in the same way that Fantastic Four is. So you have Monk and Ham in Doc Savage portrayed as Ben and Johnny in FF or King Solomon and Pneuman in Tom Strong.

Kurt Busiek's Astro City:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_City

There's no singular character or storyline here, it's a retro futuristic city FULL of super characters, but the differentiator is you witness the world from the perspective of the humans living in Astro City.

AFAIK it's tied to GamePass.

Our driveway is bizarre.

Yeah, it fits 2 cars, but not side-by-side. So one person backs into park, then gets parked in by the other car.

Generally not a big deal because I drive more than my wife does.

The shape of the driveway makes it easier for that car to back in than back out.

So... just like the real thing then! 😁

Get the 2TB WD Black card. The price has been dropping lately. Generally it's $250 but I've seen it drop under $200 a few times. Was $190 back in December:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/26/24329530/western-digital-2tb-wd-black-c50-expansion-card-umbra-cono-smart-lamp-deal-sale

I also added a 2TB WD SSD to the PS5, totally worth it.

I work with a lot of folks in India with super long names and they generally have a shorter version everyone calls them by.

I think the longest for someone I've met is "Vishnuvardhan" but everyone calls him Vish.

Then the problem is having a dozen Vish's.