Agreed on all counts. I’ve never thought of my AeroGarderns as IoT devices and in fact never configured the wi-fi, which was always kind of a goofy stunt anyway: It’s got front panel controls.

“Politicians hide themselves away; They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor”

Black Sabbath, “War Pigs”, 1970

I love docs about civil engineering, especially bridges and dams. Modern Marvels has a couple of good episodes on the subject, told/produced in that program’s typical format, including the Golden Gate Bridge and The Hoover Dam.

But my favorite is a 1997 episode of Nova called Super Bridge ( https://thetvdb.com/series/nova/episodes/1357201 ). The footage is great, the narration is great (I think its Hal Holbrook!), the storytelling is great, and it showed a great deal of stuff I didn’t know I would be fascinated by, while remaining down to earth.

Seconded for Pikmin Bloom. it really his am walking app as much as much as it is a game. I like Pokemon Go and Ingress too (from the same company), but this is the lightest weight, cutest, and most suited to being able to put it away during your walk if you want.

This is a great answer. They not only have a couple of goofy songs like Boris but also let their goofball personalities shine like on the album (The Who Sell Out?) that has the little ad jingles and the cover with Townsend using a giant deodorant stick and Daltrey in a bathtub full of baked beans.

Totally agree. PWHL Hockey is fantastic in that regard. So fast!

Quotation marks for a question is a beautiful way to say that!

This is quality shit.

Amusing how many of the bottles in the picture are Scotland’s alcoholic drinks, not Ireland’s ;)

I was excited about most of the stuff I saw in this trailer. I hope EA never EVER abandons a game the way they did NHL 23, but the focus they put on 24 during the abandonment does seem to have resulted in some good stuff.

Archive.org gets crapped up this way, too. Repulsive people posting repulsive stuff, “troll” is too kind a word.