Chris Pariso

Thankfully yes, no damage done beyond what's pictured. But I'm going to be without power for a while, and internet for even longer.

A fallen ash tree in the corner of my yard dangling from telephone pole wires.

A tree in my yard and the surrounding wires experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly this morning.

Five minutes after Maria Bartiromo covered Tom Cotton's criticism of Intel's CEO's "potential ties to communist China," President Trump called for the CEO's removal.

Left, Fox Business, 7:34 a.m.
Right, Trump, 7:39 a.m.

For almost 30 years there has been a joke on web forums:

"The internet: where men are men, woman are men, and minors are FBI agents"

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Fleeing Texas was the only way Democrats could block Trump’s plan to rig the midterms “The Republican members have outsourced our democracy to Mar-a-Lago”

Re-gerrymandering a state to rig an election & then threatening to arrest and expel the members protesting that election rigging is pure authoritarianism

Texas Dems who fled state are fighting for very survival of American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For what it's worth:

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YouTube video by The Call of Metallica Metallica - S&M 1999 [Full Concert]

Anyway, I'm once again rocking the Metallica S&M album while woodworking. Bourbon may also be involved. This is a good night.

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My nephew shipped off to Navy boot camp this week. Ultimately, he's interested in cybersecurity.

It's a surreal moment in adulthood.. not my son, but I've known and loved the dude since he was born. The first kid between my brother and I, he means a lot.

Fair winds and following seas kid.

Definitely how you should go about things.

Most people don't realize the single points of failure in their daily lives until those point fail...

If any service, platform, game, or other software only offers an online/cloud-based operation, be prepared to do without it on little or no notice.

Dunk on this guy all you want, the underlying is is one you'll likely face.

It's happened with games ("purchased" games are only playable online, and servers shut down).

It's happened with popular/useful platforms (Google Reader).

It'll likely happen to a load of embedded AI services.

I personally think the counter to the gop argument is trans people are Americans with the full rights of all Americans so eff off. I don’t find the “there’s only a few of them” argument particularly compelling or moral

Stores should not start selling holiday themed merch until the month the holiday takes place.

Absolute top-tier banter to kick the movie off.

Post someone who looks good in a hat.

(Also, some of the best cinematography ever)

Whenever you're feeling down, just make yourself a SANDwich and you should be fine.

Now, the kids want to see every Animanics video there is..

I'm not upset in the least, I'm just trying to figure out how to parse them out to make them last.

YouTube video by Smple50 Animaniacs - Ballad Of Magellan

7yo: daddy, do you know who Magellan is?

Me: the explorer?

7yo: Yeah! I learned about him on my game - can you teach me more?

Me: [mentally scrambling] I.... Yeah, I might...

[Old childhood memory activates] here, watch this:

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It's simple: corporations funnel boatloads of money to them; voters don't.

This cat is fully charged and should be pulled off the wireless bank to prevent damage to the battery.

Just a little empathy for the crew not getting a break between flights went a long way.

Flying back from CO to CT with my family last week, our flight was delayed slightly because the incoming crew was delayed on their flight.

Boarding, my wife asked one of them "did you get a break at all? No?! Oh, I'm so sorry!"

In flight 30 min later, crew comes up and says "hey, drinks are free"

Right from the opening scene, Deadpool was an absolute nerds delight!

I don't know the dude, but I was right there with him my first time through.

Four panel meme of a man putting on a yellow hazmat suit, and entering a room marked Urban Dictionary

In that case:

....how a deer or horse runs? Like, a long, loping gait?

Or, are you asking in more of an Urban Dictionary sense?

Midnight premiere of Star Wars EP II: Attack of the Clones, when Yoda hobbled out toward the end to confront Doku, the tension and anticipation in the theater was PALPABLE.

Foreplay done, Yoda drew his lightsaber with a little force flourish and exploded in, and the audience straight up ERUPTED.

I will extend them precisely the same amount of respect, grace, and good will they extend to myself, and those I love and respect.

If a person has to lean on a machine to articulate their own feelings or emotions, that's a problem.

MAGA's New Russiagate 'Evidence' Was Likely Made Up by the Kremlin The Trump administration declassified a Durham Report "annex," which indicates that supposed Hillary Clinton emails were fabricated by Russia.

MAGA’s New Russiagate ‘Evidence’ Was Likely Made Up by the Kremlin

Wow. Who could’ve guessed the party that’s led to country to a recession every time they’ve been in charge in the last 40 years would lead the country to a recession again?