John Woodford
@jbwoodford.bsky.social
He/him. Old safety/QA person at quaint US Federal Laboratory. Emigre from the Bird Site.
Or taking their taschengelt, if you want to get meta.
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Or taking their taschengelt, if you want to get meta.
I like James Nicoll's take on it:
December 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I like James Nicoll's take on it:
At least not on purpose, IYKWIM.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
At least not on purpose, IYKWIM.
I won't go into the movie here, as I've only seen it once and it seems to be one that repays multiple viewings (no surprise there), but one technical note I haven't seen elsewhere: Father Jud, the former boxer, looks like he's got a bit of cauliflower ears. If that's makeup, it was a great choice.
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I won't go into the movie here, as I've only seen it once and it seems to be one that repays multiple viewings (no surprise there), but one technical note I haven't seen elsewhere: Father Jud, the former boxer, looks like he's got a bit of cauliflower ears. If that's makeup, it was a great choice.
I think that's because it's the moment that we the audience can really see the depth of Father Jud's vocation (and that Johnson doesn't treat it as a punch line), and Blanc's inability to understand it--those aspects of their characters really define their interactions going forward.
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I think that's because it's the moment that we the audience can really see the depth of Father Jud's vocation (and that Johnson doesn't treat it as a punch line), and Blanc's inability to understand it--those aspects of their characters really define their interactions going forward.
When they make that noise on site, you can hear it for at least a couple hundred yards.
December 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
When they make that noise on site, you can hear it for at least a couple hundred yards.
I also see a lot of similarities to my mom, who had vascular dementia. Her personality stayed intact to the end, but IMCUO she was a much better person than he was--the worst she got was trash-talking one of the other people at the memory care facility.
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I also see a lot of similarities to my mom, who had vascular dementia. Her personality stayed intact to the end, but IMCUO she was a much better person than he was--the worst she got was trash-talking one of the other people at the memory care facility.
So many people for whom Ross could be a plausible Tuckerization....
December 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
So many people for whom Ross could be a plausible Tuckerization....
We're an exception, just not in the ways that most of the people who use the term think of it.
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We're an exception, just not in the ways that most of the people who use the term think of it.
A while ago I realized that Elon Musk behaved like the Rule of Cool trumped physical reality, and since then I've seen nothing to call that into question for him or a lot of other tech billionaires.
December 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A while ago I realized that Elon Musk behaved like the Rule of Cool trumped physical reality, and since then I've seen nothing to call that into question for him or a lot of other tech billionaires.
I don't think they'll need to wonder.
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I don't think they'll need to wonder.
Interesting idea, but that'd be hard when (as happened in 2009) the incoming president made his chief rival in the primary his Secretary of State. That's not common, though.
December 11, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Interesting idea, but that'd be hard when (as happened in 2009) the incoming president made his chief rival in the primary his Secretary of State. That's not common, though.
Yeah. Driving from IL to PA on I-80, we don't stop in IN if we can help it, 'cause their roadsides *suck*.
December 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yeah. Driving from IL to PA on I-80, we don't stop in IN if we can help it, 'cause their roadsides *suck*.
At the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
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Creation Museum - Wikipedia
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
At the Creation Museum in Kentucky.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatio...
Copied from DJT, maybe.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Copied from DJT, maybe.
This. I don't want to have to think about managing health care, I want to pay someone trustworthy* to do it for me.
*And regulate tf out of them, because that's how I know I can trust them.
*And regulate tf out of them, because that's how I know I can trust them.
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This. I don't want to have to think about managing health care, I want to pay someone trustworthy* to do it for me.
*And regulate tf out of them, because that's how I know I can trust them.
*And regulate tf out of them, because that's how I know I can trust them.
The ones I saw in Palo Alto a few years ago had homes, but could only afford one far away from where they were working. So during the week they'd park an RV on El Camino and stay there to avoid a crippling commute.
December 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The ones I saw in Palo Alto a few years ago had homes, but could only afford one far away from where they were working. So during the week they'd park an RV on El Camino and stay there to avoid a crippling commute.
We don't know where he'd be without that level of medical support.
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We don't know where he'd be without that level of medical support.
The rest of you are all hylics!
December 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The rest of you are all hylics!
OTOH, considering how long it took your dad: how much stress was he under for that time? How often did he travel overseas? How was his diet, and did he get any exercise?
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
OTOH, considering how long it took your dad: how much stress was he under for that time? How often did he travel overseas? How was his diet, and did he get any exercise?
As long as he can still say that coherently.
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
As long as he can still say that coherently.
