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Memento posted:I did this about ten years ago, it was starring a comedian named Rocky LaPorte and it was the most contrived unfunny bullshit I've ever seen. I sent the review in tearing it to shreds and they sent me a gift card for my review. Never got picked up so I feel like I did a good thing that day. It makes you wonder how many unsold pilots are sitting in a vault somewhere in Hollywood. I always thought it would have a good idea to give these to MST3K.
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Mister Kingdom posted:It makes you wonder how many unsold pilots are sitting in a vault somewhere in Hollywood. It's not quite the same but there's this podcast which has various actors performing TV pilots that never got produced and usually interviewing the writers: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/dead-pilots-society And then there's this podcast which is about watching pilots that managed to get produced, but which failed to actually get a show out of it: http://theconsumption.net/podcasts/failure-to-launch/
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fishmech posted:It's not quite the same but there's this podcast which has various actors performing TV pilots that never got produced and usually interviewing the writers: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/dead-pilots-society Cool. I'll check those out.
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GWBBQ posted:They haven't gotten approval to treat and release the water they recover, so they've been building an enormous tank farm to hold it. Interesting. I didn't read that article but was talking with someone who's wavering on a trip to Japan because he has young kids and is concerned about radiation levels.
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Feb 12, 2017 20:22
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socketwrencher posted:Interesting. I didn't read that article but was talking with someone who's wavering on a trip to Japan because he has young kids and is concerned about radiation levels. Unless they're planning to specifically visit the reactors, that's not an issue. And for that matter, the closest tourist spots to the reactors got more or less completely destroyed by the tsunami so even though they have mildly raised background radiation, there's nothing to visit there anyway. Major cities you would visit in Japan like Tokyo are over 100 miles away from the plant, and Osaka/Kyoto/Kobe are over 300 miles away.
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Feb 12, 2017 20:46
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socketwrencher posted:Interesting. I didn't read that article but was talking with someone who's wavering on a trip to Japan because he has young kids and is concerned about radiation levels. They'd probably get more radiation by being on the plane, than when they got on the ground quote:Typically, passengers flying from London to Chicago could expect to be exposed to around 4.8mrem, and those travelling from Washington DC to Los Angeles would be exposed to close to 2mrem. This compares to an airport body scanner which delivers around 0.1mrem and a chest X-ray that can vary between 2mrem and 10mrem. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131113-the-supernova-inside-your-plane
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Feb 12, 2017 21:38
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fishmech posted:Unless they're planning to specifically visit the reactors, that's not an issue. And for that matter, the closest tourist spots to the reactors got more or less completely destroyed by the tsunami so even though they have mildly raised background radiation, there's nothing to visit there anyway. I wouldn't think it's an issue either, but he's more concerned about radiation levels in food than background radiation and he doesn't trust the figures put out by the government.
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spog posted:They'd probably get more radiation by being on the plane, than when they got on the ground Agreed. He was telling me about a doctor who moved out of Tokyo because independent readings diverged from government figures, but a 2-week vacation seems harmless as long as you don't eat natto (j/k).
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socketwrencher posted:I wouldn't think it's an issue either, but he's more concerned about radiation levels in food than background radiation and he doesn't trust the figures put out by the government. There ain't much food grown or caught near the reactor site these days, and what there is is usually consumed/sold locally. And all that aside, over 60% of Japan's food is imported from other countries, with that percentage tending to be higher in the major cities.
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Feb 12, 2017 21:54
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fishmech posted:There ain't much food grown or caught near the reactor site these days, and what there is is usually consumed/sold locally. And all that aside, over 60% of Japan's food is imported from other countries, with that percentage tending to be higher in the major cities. Good to know. I think this is mostly a case of overly-worried-parent-syndrome.
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Nighthand posted:Neilsen sent me one of those household surveys with a crisp $2 in it with a promise of a whopping $5 if I fill it out and send it back. I'm sure this is some kind of trap -- they say doing so consents to calls from them -- but I'm wondering how big of a trap it is, if this is on the scale of multiple calls per day and tons of spam mail, or just the occasional call I can easily ignore. Anyone done this before? I got one of these letters like 3 years ago. They invited us to do the whole Nielsen thing. You get a large chunk of money to start and then $25 a month per person in the house, provided you remember to wear your meter. We weren't asked to keep any diaries because the meter records "invisible audio signals" from whatever you're watching or doing. They do call you every so often to make sure you haven't moved and forgot to tell them. It was kind of annoying, but it was a fun feeling that our opinions of media mattered, and they effectively bought us a nice dinner out once a month.
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Thanks for all the Nielsen info. I suspect they wouldn't want anything to do with me anyways since I only listen to the radio in the car and I haven't had cable for years. My GF binge-watches Netflix and I watch Twitch streamers or random poo poo on YouTube more than anything. Though I suppose I could lie right up until they want to verify something, though it's probably just not worth the effort for the minimal amount of cash.
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Feb 12, 2017 22:18
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This might seem weird, but there was an amazing little online cartoon/video I wanted to share with a loved one and it appears to have gone missing from the internet... Does anyone have a link or copy of, "I will play for you the banjo"
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Nighthand posted:Thanks for all the Nielsen info. I suspect they wouldn't want anything to do with me anyways since I only listen to the radio in the car and I haven't had cable for years. My GF binge-watches Netflix and I watch Twitch streamers or random poo poo on YouTube more than anything. Though I suppose I could lie right up until they want to verify something, though it's probably just not worth the effort for the minimal amount of cash. The fact you aren't watching cable is information too. We didn't have cable the entire time we were doing it, just Netflix and dvds.
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Feb 13, 2017 00:08
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socketwrencher posted:I wouldn't think it's an issue either, but he's more concerned about radiation levels in food than background radiation and he doesn't trust the figures put out by the government. Japan goon reporting in. My family and I live in Tokyo and eat Japanese food three times a day. We have all the appropriate numbers of limbs/fingers, and I do not glow in the dark. Fear of radiation is a senseless reason not to visit.
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Besides, it's not the radiation you have to worry about, it's the radiation-mutated giant spiders. Actually, no, they have giant combat robots to deal with those. So all you have to worry about is accidentally getting crushed when a combat robot hurls a giant spider into your hotel.
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Grundulum posted:Japan goon reporting in. My family and I live in Tokyo and eat Japanese food three times a day. We have all the appropriate numbers of limbs/fingers, and I do not glow in the dark. Fear of radiation is a senseless reason not to visit. Glad to hear it. Is there any talk over there at all about radiation levels in food, water etc.? I don't mean near the reactors but in Tokyo etc. Thanks.
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socketwrencher posted:Glad to hear it. Is there any talk over there at all about radiation levels in food, water etc.? I don't mean near the reactors but in Tokyo etc. Thanks. It's not important enough that I hear anyone talking about it, but I think people are still afraid to eat food grown in/fished from the areas around the accident. Lots of stores/restaurants state where they source their various products from so you can see for yourself it didn't come from near Fukushima Dai-ichi (note: they may have done this even before the nuclear incident, but I didn't notice it until I returned in 2013 so I am attributing it to concerns about radiation/heavy metals in agricultural products). I've never heard anyone express any concern about the drinking water, or seen any sign that it's not perfectly safe. My daughter and I drink plenty of Tokyo tap water, and so far we haven't developed superpowers.
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I have a massively important and extremely busy day of work tomorrow and I have been trying to get to sleep for 5 hours to absolutely no avail Is it better to get one hour of sleep or just power through an all nighter and caffeinate myself to death tomorrow
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Ezzer posted:I have a massively important and extremely busy day of work tomorrow and I have been trying to get to sleep for 5 hours to absolutely no avail If it's literally one hour, don't worry about sleeping. Try to get a good dose of sunlight if at all possible.
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Methanar posted:If it's literally one hour, don't worry about sleeping. Try to get a good dose of sunlight if at all possible. Kinda difficult when you're trapped inside a freezing warehouse at 4AM
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Ezzer posted:I have a massively important and extremely busy day of work tomorrow and I have been trying to get to sleep for 5 hours to absolutely no avail Have a mug of hot chocolate, set your alarm and watch/read something relaxing in bed You may fall asleep, you may not: but either way, you'll stop stressing about not falling asleep
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Xenoborg posted:I just received a mystery package. It was one of those heavy paper bubbled bags, and all that was inside it was a Roku Streaming Stick. No note or invoice. My name an address are correct, and its from Kingsley Security in Las Vegas, which google turns up nothing having to do with Roku. I guess I'm going to hang onto it for a few weeks and see if I hear anything more... A followup on this: Turns out it was my work sending me something, but Amazon put the wrong item in the package.
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Xenoborg posted:A followup on this: Why would amazon put a return address of Kingsley Security on a package?
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There was a surreal take on Garfield comics where Garfield was some kind of inter-dimensional abstract horror being. Can somebody remind me what it was called?
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You might be thinking of Garfield minus Garfield(literally Garfield but with Garfield photoshopped out)- some of the panels certainly fit what you're saying.
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CrazySalamander posted:You might be thinking of Garfield minus Garfield(literally Garfield but with Garfield photoshopped out)- some of the panels certainly fit what you're saying. Nah that's not the one, although that is funny. This one is original drawings.
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How do I act around my crush? I know it's easy to say "just be yourself", but I can never do that around them. I become a shell and lose my ability to say anything interesting when I'm around her.
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Motronic posted:Why would amazon put a return address of Kingsley Security on a package? The item that I should have received is sold on amazon by that company.
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weab00 posted:How do I act around my crush? I know it's easy to say "just be yourself", but I can never do that around them. I become a shell and lose my ability to say anything interesting when I'm around her. Just be nice and ask questions about things that she likes to talk about. When she expands on that ask about some detail that she expanded about. Have a few (short!!!) default stories that you can basically tell through muscle memory for if you need to provide conversation.
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weab00 posted:How do I act around my crush? I know it's easy to say "just be yourself", but I can never do that around them. I become a shell and lose my ability to say anything interesting when I'm around her. Ask her about her interests without using too many yes-no questions. Don't pepper her with a bunch of specific questions, just get her talking about something she's interested in. It's a lot easier to guide a conversation that it is to run one (which you shouldn't be trying to do anyway), but eventually you'll get better at holding your own. She mentions hobby X: So how did you become interested in X? She mentions her mom: Are you close to your family? She talks about her cats: run, bro.
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weab00 posted:How do I act around my crush? I know it's easy to say "just be yourself", but I can never do that around them. I become a shell and lose my ability to say anything interesting when I'm around her. Face away from her to conceal your erection. If that isn't enough, try distracting her by pretending you are a cat and crawling out of the room on all fours.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Face away from her to conceal your erection. If that isn't enough, try distracting her by pretending you are a cat and crawling out of the room on all fours. You have to meow, or else your cat impersonation will be awkward.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Face away from her to conceal your erection. You'll never get the girl with that attitude.
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Grundulum posted:It's not important enough that I hear anyone talking about it, but I think people are still afraid to eat food grown in/fished from the areas around the accident. Lots of stores/restaurants state where they source their various products from so you can see for yourself it didn't come from near Fukushima Dai-ichi (note: they may have done this even before the nuclear incident, but I didn't notice it until I returned in 2013 so I am attributing it to concerns about radiation/heavy metals in agricultural products). I've never heard anyone express any concern about the drinking water, or seen any sign that it's not perfectly safe. My daughter and I drink plenty of Tokyo tap water, and so far we haven't developed superpowers. Sorry to hear about the superpowers but cheers for the insight. I'll pass this and the other comments to my buddy- thanks to all.
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I have a bunch of pics on my iphone I want to send to someone. What's the best way to do that? They are on android so I can only do direct like 2 at a time
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Alan Smithee posted:I have a bunch of pics on my iphone I want to send to someone. What's the best way to do that? They are on android so I can only do direct like 2 at a time Email.
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Why can I listen to an album endlessly on youtube but lose all interest in it if I actually acquire it? Is there a marketing name for this behavior?
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Alan Smithee posted:I have a bunch of pics on my iphone I want to send to someone. What's the best way to do that? They are on android so I can only do direct like 2 at a time google photos, Dropbox, box, onedrive, etc.
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Google Photos would be the integrated solution. Any of the above (^^) will also work with Dropbox being my #2 choice.
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