Technico Support

Bam Bam was a big, impressive dude and that flame bodysuit made him look smaller and somehow more round, like a fat lil' Easter Egg. Awful.

They could’ve made it out of something more appropriate, but shit doesn’t keep its shape for long in the Vegas heat.

Hot weather is back, which means running shorter distances as I have to reacclimate to the heat, fluid loss, increased exhaustion, etc. Tried to shoot for 6 or 7 miles Wednesday, but my body was like "that's a no from me, dog" after 5. It's slightly cooler today, BUT it's also been mentally exhausting week, so we'll see how it goes. Lifting this week (maybe 70 minutes Sunday, Tuesday, yesterday) has been awesome.

I just glanced at it and thought 1) the left hand was pointing to the sky and 2) "why is HHH next to a statue of Sabu?" Word. These corporate money grubbers would hold Mania in winter in Anchorage on an ice floe if the price was right.

They should have just brought Terrence Howard back to the MCU as the recast Kang. Kang monologuing about how 1x1 simply must equal 2, while Reed Richards is just shocked at his madness, would be awesome.

Darby winning the title in the manner Sting should have won it is crazy.

Spider Man 2 was rushed and feels like a jumbled mess of plot ideas, and changed antagonists just as the third act began, but isn't nearly as bad as the SM2 subreddit makes it sound.

I used Copilot at work to do some spreadsheet shit that I didn't feel like doing and would have taken a long time manually. It worked out pretty well but Copilot is really dumb. I wrote a very in-depth prompt to get the first deliverable, but then fine-tuning and adding detail to it was a pain in the ass, with Copilot making dumb mistakes like 1) not providing a link to the doc when it said it had and 2) not populating the one column that was integral to the update we were working on -- it legit created a "department" column, but with zero data in it. I guess what I'm saying is that AI can be very helpful if you treat it like the dumbest intern at your company (eager to please but not very smart) and keep fine-tuning until you get what you want. It's a tool like any other tool, probably best for saving time with a first draft or helping you think through things, but not whatever the fuck the C Suite thinks it is.

I enjoyed Aubrey gingerly carrying the Dynamite Diamond ring away while yelling "THAT WAS IN YOUR PANTS!"

If some movie, show, or comic featuring alternate timelines doesn't have an easter egg featuring a Metallica lineup of Hammett, Ulrich, Bollea, and Mustaine, what are we even doing? Just a quick little deal like Bioshock Infinite's "Revenge of the Jedi" bit.

"I stick a gym sock down there! Hackenschmidt taught me that!"

I doubt Bruno would have turned heel, teamed with Heenan, and been part of this big sports entertainment circus. Still, imagining Bruno in the Andre part through, what, Mania 6ish, is hilarious. Bruno in the twin ref angle. Bruno part of the Megabucks, distracted by Elizabeth disrobing. Bruno in a tag title run with Haku. All amazing.

I was at that show!

Maybe it's a reality game show where released talent compete for a contact to get back in. My money is on Trench, but you could convince me that Big Swole or Jose the Assistant has a shot, too.

You're showing your age...now they make songs with the intent of getting play in commercials and TV shows. See: everything Imagine Dragons has ever made.

This is the relevant part I hadn't considered. It just blows dog dick to see what was the best match on every Mania until that point marred by some past his prime gimmick handing the win to the otherwise deserving babyface. Like I said, there were ways for Steele to get involved, tying up that storyline, without directly causing the finish and negating all that came before, but it's Vince, and he's never understood that a guy can lose and still stay strong. Speaking of, did Savage do any TV angles between Mania 3 and his face turn? Looking at arena reports, he spent post Mania (after Steamboat lost the IC title) beating Steamboat and a few other babyfaces, the for the rest of the year was programmed against heels (HTM, Reed, OMG, Herc, Race) BUT also did title jobs vs Hogan. Weird. The only reference to a TV angle I can see is Savage taking offense to HTM claiming to be the greatest IC champ of all time, and then he's on the face side at Survivor Series. Why is the pic of Harley Race over a year old?

Savage/Steamboat loses points for me because of the finish. You have this awesome, show-stealing, state of the art match, and then washed-up ass George "The Animal" Steele has to help the babyface win? Yes, I know that was the culmination of Steele's story, but it was unnecessary. Steele was a lower-carder who played a part in the build; he was the B story to occupy time while Steamboat healed from the injury angle. There was no need to pay off the B story on the big show, and at Steamboat's expense. If they really wanted to tie it all up, just have Steele there offering moral support, but not getting involved physically. Have him take the bell from Savage, and that's it, at least. Putting the title change on Steele's back lessened Steamboat's win. Imagine Hogan beating Andre the same night because Lanny Poffo interfered to get back at Andre for busting him open in that battle royal. It's like that. Pick any great, definitive Mania match and then imagine a lower midcarder interfering to help the babyface win. It sucks every time.

Damn, good on you! I checked Exit 8 listings for this weekend, to take our daughter to see it, and the theater near me only had it last weekend, up through today. Waiting for streaming.

Aw shit, I had no idea and just looked it up. That’s awful.

In case you’re playing Modern Corporation C-Suite Bingo, today’s squares are: “Can’t we just do it with AI?” “We can just use the gig economy model!”

Thanks! I already have that disabled, and the ad was was actually popping up on my desktop, which I've never used for gym-related activities. Maybe location services fuckery.

You can digitally de-age but can you digitally take your cast out of Rascal scooters and walkers?

I wonder if Jericho is at least self aware enough to stick to his “hits.” I remember a friend telling me he saw one of those tours a while back, late 90s/early 2000s, featuring a handful of pop radio acts. Like you’d see Smashmouth, Sugar Ray, Natalie Imbruglia, whoever. Lou Bega started and ended his set with Mambo Number 5 and my friend swore he played it once or twice in the middle. I hope Jericho does that with Judas.

If the alternative is listening to Jericho speak sing through an hour of Dollar Tree Stryper songs, I’ll take my chances on the open sea.

Seeing the gym I belong to pop up in these banner ads is fucking with me.