messyjesse

re: Hall of Fame offensive lineman Larry Allen has passed away.

Posted by messyjesse on 6/3/24 at 9:25 pm

I remember when he almost murdered that jawjacking kicker teammate of his [img]https://i.imgur.com/tcnAc.gif[/img]...

re: A Perfect Circle released their debut album, “Mer de Noms” today in 2000. A Perfect Album

Posted by messyjesse on 5/27/24 at 10:34 pm

[quote]4. "Judith" 4:07 5. "Orestes" 4:48 6. "3 Libras" 3:39[/quote] I'm not a huge APC or Maynard fan but this is probably my favorite three-track sequence on any album I've ever heard. All three are fantastic....

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re: Check in: Do you have your American flag out and flying?

Posted by messyjesse on 5/27/24 at 3:03 pm

My last three flag brackets all met untimely ends due to shitty weather and Old Glory was either completely destroyed or nowhere to be found in all three cases. So I'm superstitious about flying the flag lately. But just yesterday I was playing jacks with my son when he bounced the ball into a li...

Political Talk

re: Random sports events you reference regularly

Posted by messyjesse on 5/26/24 at 6:53 pm

Carly Lloyd's hat trick goal from midfield against Japan in '15...

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re: "Franchise" actors/roles - who other than Harrison Ford?

Posted by messyjesse on 5/26/24 at 5:14 pm

[quote]Clint Eastwood as Philo Beddoe & Dirty Harry[/quote] Man with No Name, too. That's a formidable trio....

re: Bluey is the goat cartoon. What’s your favorite episode?

Posted by messyjesse on 5/25/24 at 10:17 pm

Leaving out the episodes that always get high praise (Camping, Sleepytime, Baby Race, Flat Pack, etc)... BBQ was the first episode I watched where I knew the show was special. Some of the earlier episodes were really funny, but BBQ puts me in the happiest mood I've ever felt watching a TV show. S...

re: Jesus Shuttlesworth vs Kermit Wilts / Ray Allen vs Anthony Edwards

Posted by messyjesse on 5/22/24 at 10:22 am

It's been a while since I watched HGG but I don't remember Allen being terrible. Serviceable acting for the part. Certainly not the worst acting job by an athlete. The big problem is sharing screentime with Denzel Washington, who makes 95% of other actors look like amateurs....

re: Random Google Maps browsing of the day.

Posted by messyjesse on 5/10/24 at 3:48 pm

[img]https://img.atlasobscura.com/FdZ17Poj0YKkdAHMYsGb1RpC8vGGOXyFanNruVaXEFA/rs:fill:200:200:1/g:ce/q:81/sm:1/scp:1/ar:1/aHR0cHM6Ly9hdGxh/cy1kZXYuczMuYW1h/em9uYXdzLmNvbS91/cGxvYWRzL3BsYWNl/X2ltYWdlcy8yN2Y4/ODhkYy05YzNlLTRl/MjYtYmQ2MS04MTZj/OGYyYzgxMTZlZDY0/YWE3YmRiMGE5YWU4/N2VfU2NyZWVuIFNo/b3QgMjAy...

re: OSU AD: Michigan’s 3 game winning streak over us should definitely be asteriskisized

Posted by messyjesse on 5/9/24 at 7:19 pm

OSU is undefeated against Michigan if you just ignore all of the losses....

re: Do Keanu Reeves’ characters have the highest body count than any other actor?

Posted by messyjesse on 5/7/24 at 12:47 pm

[quote]Brolin as Thanos[/quote] Does it count if they all come back?...

re: Excel Help - Suggestions

Posted by messyjesse on 5/3/24 at 12:46 pm

Gonna echo what others have suggested and recommend giving Power Query a look. It is not a substitute for a true ETL tool but it is still powerful and flexible, and integrates seamlessly into Excel and Power BI. The amount of random junk you can use as a data source alone is incredible....

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re: What are you reading?

Posted by messyjesse on 5/2/24 at 10:40 pm

Picked up Steven Wright's book [i]Harold[/i]. Steven Wright is my favorite comedian, but he's not everyone's cup of tea. I'm about halfway through it and although I can only really recommend it to people who like Steven Wright's style of humor, to those people, I [b]highly[/b] recommend. Weird, e...

Book Board

re: What is the scariest natural disaster?

Posted by messyjesse on 4/29/24 at 8:41 am

[img]https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1080/0*M1bYPmqK_sMAcU9X.gif[/img]...

re: Famous roles nearly played by other actors! I’ll start.

Posted by messyjesse on 4/24/24 at 9:48 pm

Jean Claude Van Damme was the original choice to wear the Predator suit. He's all of 5'9 though and everyone else on set averaged like 6'3 and 250 pounds. Also he hated the suit and couldn't move for shite in it. So they got 7'3 Kevin Peter Hall to do it instead....

re: What's the highest level of Math you use regularly?

Posted by messyjesse on 4/24/24 at 7:48 am

I only completed Algebra 2 in high school but I somehow tested out of trig, precalc, and calc 1 entering college. My degree plan required paired math and so they placed me in calc 2. Never worked so hard for a C- in all my life. I'm a business analyst by day now. Aggregates, pivots, that sorta th...

re: Matt Ryan Retires As A Falcon

Posted by messyjesse on 4/22/24 at 4:51 pm

Still remember his great comeback win against VT during that wild '07 season, followed by him blowing chunks all over the sideline :bow:...

re: The Deer Hunter

Posted by messyjesse on 4/19/24 at 4:01 pm

Decent movie but way too long. A good 45 minutes could've been left on the cutting room floor no problem. There are a lot of novels in the Western canon that I want to be able to say that I've read, but that I don't actually want to sit down and read. Deer Hunter is the cinematic equivalent for m...

re: Should Komodo dragons be exterminated?

Posted by messyjesse on 4/16/24 at 11:56 am

[quote]idk watching them swallow an entire goat whole and hearing it cry while in the dragon's stomach is pretty baddass[/quote] There's a video out there of one of these things absolutely mauling a (still living) pregnant deer. At some point the newborn fawn falls out and the dragon just nonchal...

re: Bluey : The Sign

Posted by messyjesse on 4/14/24 at 11:40 am

[quote]Bluey is in my top 10 shows of all time. No doubt about it. Honestly, maybe top 5.[/quote] It's legitimately the best thing on TV right now. No caveats, no strings attached--the best....