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joey con carne wrote:Spent $1,400 on new shades for all the windows in my house. I got the honeycomb cellular ones with cordless top and bottom up and down.

Pretty sweet. My friend got them in her apartment recently and when I was there on Thanksgiving I saw the quality. Pretty okay. She tried to hook me up with her military discount but, unfortunately, we could not stack military discount on top of Black Friday discounts. But Black Friday discount beat her military discount by $150 so I guess it's a win.

Time to get rid of the crappy vinyl blinds from Home Depot and my shitty Ikea curtains.

joey con carne wrote:I'm going to see what Western Digital can do as a deal for a 2TB SN850x. It's $170 now with only 5% cashback on Rakuten. Last year their cashback during Cybersex Monday was 20% so I'm holding out. If it is more expensive on Monday then I'm going to skip it.

joey con carne wrote:My old blinds are likely just going in the trash. No use for them anymore once I get my new ones installed.

This will be good. I can now drop the blinds from the top while keeping the lower half down so privacy plus plenty of natural light.

joey con carne wrote:I ordered my 2TB SN850x from Western Digital and a Dell laptop. Took advantage of ebates and my capital one cash back. Big savings this year with that. That's pretty much it for me this year. Mostly just electronics.

joey con carne wrote:Please be careful with the electric toothbrushes. They are bad for your enamel and you can wind up damaging your teeth if you use too much pressure.

As my dentist always says: Don't brush harder. Just brush more often. Gently.

joey con carne wrote:Please be careful with the electric toothbrushes. They are bad for your enamel and you can wind up damaging your teeth if you use too much pressure.

As my dentist always says: Don't brush harder. Just brush more often. Gently.

WyldeMan wrote:I've only used electric toothbrushes for the last twenty years and as Joey said, as long as you use light pressure it does all the work for you. I'm 37 and I've never had a single cavity, so clearly they do good work.

WyldeMan wrote:It's started snowing again.

UltimateMarvel wrote:I'm sure people will appreciate the snow with all the Wildfires in the area.

How's your back by the way? Mine has completely healed.

WyldeMan wrote:Yeah the snow is definitely needed in the mountains right about now. I'll take snow over fire any day.

My back is doing better, it's not completely healed but the considering that I could barely move for the first two weeks, I've seen a marked improvement through massages.

WyldeMan wrote:What do you guys use for torrents these days? Do you still use things like Vuze or Utorrent or something else? Been having a lot of issues lately with the web based subscription service I've used for the last four or five years and now I'm kind of left SOL. Everything has changed since I last needed a client or any of that nonsense and I can't easily find a replacement service right now. Any help would be appreciated.

joey con carne wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:Yeah the snow is definitely needed in the mountains right about now. I'll take snow over fire any day.

My back is doing better, it's not completely healed but the considering that I could barely move for the first two weeks, I've seen a marked improvement through massages.

"Massages" or massages?

joey con carne wrote:I use qBittorrent (www.qbittorrent.org). There's no ads, no stupid add-ons during installation. It's also open-source which people love because that really stops anyone from slipping something bad into the code. It is very customizable if you're a superuser but for someone normal like me, it is very easy to customize how I want the program to behave. Simple interface.

WyldeMan wrote:I've been meaning to ask, on the home page have you guys started seeing all the recently posted images here?

A few days back I noticed for the first time all the images below the forum menu.

WyldeMan wrote:What do you guys use for torrents these days? Do you still use things like Vuze or Utorrent or something else? Been having a lot of issues lately with the web based subscription service I've used for the last four or five years and now I'm kind of left SOL. Everything has changed since I last needed a client or any of that nonsense and I can't easily find a replacement service right now. Any help would be appreciated.

WyldeMan wrote:I've been meaning to ask, on the home page have you guys started seeing all the recently posted images here?

A few days back I noticed for the first time all the images below the forum menu.

UltimateMarvel wrote:WebTorrent seems to work fine for me.

joey con carne wrote:That's an interesting outcome. I'm surprised they called a mistrial after only two days. Two days doesn't seem like a long time to deliberate but I suppose those in the jury room have a different experience.

The judge set a retrial date for March 2023 but no one knows if it will actually go back to another trial.

Speaking of court, I have been summoned for jury duty next week. I gotta call in by phone tomorrow and then report in on Monday. yay

Brad William Henke, a former NFL player who segued to acting and appeared in TV series including Orange Is the New Black, Justified and Lost and such films as Pacific Rim and World Trade Center, has died. He was 56. His family said Henke died in his sleep November 29, but no cause was given.

Born on April 10, 1966, in Columbus, NB, and raised in Littleton, CO, Henke played college football at the University of Arizona, where he was team captain and an All-Academic student journalist. Drafted by the New York Giants in 1989, he went on to play on the defensive line for the Denver Broncos and appeared in Super Bowl XXIV.

After injuries forced him to retire in 1994, Henke moved to Los Angeles to pursue coaching. An open call for “big guys” to do a commercial soon led to a new career. He began to score guest spots on such TV series as ER, Chicago Hope, Silk Stockings, Nash Bridges and Arli$$ and continued to work regularly until this year, racking up nearly 100 credits.

The actor landed his first major recurring role on the 2000-02 WB Network comedy Nikki, starring Nikki Cox, and was cast as a lead opposite Sam Trammell in Showtime’s road-trip dramedy Going to California, which lasted one season.

Along with more guest roles on series including CSI, Crossing Jordan and Judging Amy, Henke had small parts in a number of features during the early 2000s. He appeared in The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Must Love Dogs, The Zodiac, North Country, World Trade Center and Hollywoodland before being cast on Showtime’s Dexter as Tony Tucci, a murder suspect-turned-near-victim who recurred in four episodes.

Henke got his second series-regular role on ABC’s short-lived 2007 drama October Road.

After that, he guested on such series as Law & Order, Life on Mars and CSI: Miami before being cast on ABC’s Lost as Bram, recurring on a half-dozen episodes in in 2009-10. Henke went on to play Coover Bennett in seven Season 2 episodes of FX’s Justified and did an arc on Fox’s 2011 Shawn Ryan drama The Chicago Code.

He also appeared in the feature Choke, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and shared a Special Jury Prize for its ensemble cast. Henke also did mid-2010s arcs on FX’s The Bridge and Prime Video’s Sneaky Pete. He then scored perhaps his best-known role.

Henke was cast in Jenji Kohan’s Showtime dramedy Orange Is the New Black as Desi Piscatella, a gay corrections officer at Litchfield Federal Penitentiary. He appeared in more than two dozen episodes from 2016-18 and shared a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2017. The cast was nominated again the following year.

Henke also recurred as Big John in the second season of Discovery’s Manhunt in 2020 and as Tom Cullen in CBS All Access’ The Stand in 2020-21. His other most recent credits include Law & Order: SVU and the 2022 films Block Party and Run & Gun.

Henke is survived by his mother, Tammy; his sister, Annette; his wife, Sonja; stepson Aaden; stepdaughter Leasa; and grandchild Amirah, hundreds of friends, fellow actors, and students. He was proceeded in death by his father, Bill, to whom he paid tribute with his professional name.

Source: Deadline

WyldeMan wrote:

What in the fucking fuck is Justin Long doing to his career in 2022? Now its a Christmas romcom co-written by Vince Vaughn? Jesus fucking christ man...

UltimateMarvel wrote:Damn! Just when I thought he was turning things around.

Rusty wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:

What in the fucking fuck is Justin Long doing to his career in 2022? Now its a Christmas romcom co-written by Vince Vaughn? Jesus fucking christ man...

I'd actually watch that. lol.

joey con carne wrote:At least Christmas with the Campbells is not like the Hallmark Christmas movies that are filmed in the summer with lush green grass and trees and fake snow only on the one house being filmed. LOL

At least this one appears to have been actually filmed in cold weather.

joey con carne wrote:Jury duty tomorrow. Yay

Pokebowl nearby. Guess that's what I'm eating for lunch.

joey con carne wrote:Unfortunately, I do not get the $40 because my employer will pay my daily wages.

The last time I did jury duty must have been ten years ago.

So we all sat in the waiting room. The court officer put on a movie for us to watch to pass the time as we waited. First up, Jurassic Park. I was so happy I didn't have to just sit around reading. Then when that movie ended, he put on Mrs. Doubtfire. I was losing my mind how great of a day it was turning out to be. Two fantastic films back to back. Then he called my number and said I can go home and gave me a letter that excused me from duty for the next six years. Oh, and at that time I was between jobs and I cashed out $40 to watch two movies. If tomorrow is even half as fun as the last, I will be stoked.

Fast forward to the morning and no such luck. The waiting room is massive and there are no TVs. Thankfully, there appears to be very many competent looking people here so hopefully i can go home early.

joey con carne wrote:I did not even make it to selection. I was watching movies the whole time and the court officer said “I have good news and bad news. The good news is I saved a bunch of money switching to Geico! Just kidding. If I call your name you are free to go and excused for six years.”

joey con carne wrote:Okay so I was called into the courtroom and then of 40 of us they called 14 to interview. Of the 14 they chose three. Looks like they already had a jury selected, they were selecting alternates.

I am so glad I was not chosen. But not because I did not want to hear the case. Well, I say that like it is a double edge sword.

The case was a burglary in the first degree and sex abuse in the first degree. Definitely would have been interesting but the sex abuse victim, a twelve year old girl (ten at the time of abuse) will be testifying. Man, I don’t want to hear what this guy did to her. Poor girl reliving the trauma and then it will stay with me for a long time.

So that was my day.

Tyger wrote:The one time I got called for jury duty I didn’t even make it in the building, they were turning everyone away and just said we were good

WyldeMan wrote:Oh fuck that's some horrible shit.

I'd only want to sit in if the murder case involved an angry beta cuck who snapped and brutally murdered the man he caught banging his wife. But the hot wife would definitely have to not be dead so that she could come around to testify about what a dirty dirty wife she is. Now that's a case I wouldn't mind.

joey con carne wrote:That sounds exactly like the plot straight out of an SVU episode.

joey con carne wrote:I've been getting back into Law and Order lately. Watching the regular, SVU, and Organized Crime. I like that Jeffrey Donovan is one of the main guys in the regular.

I saw FBI on Paramount a while back and I was thinking how much this reminds me of Law and Order. Then I saw Dick Wolf's name in the credits.