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re: The Pitt Season 2 (Spoilers)
Posted by hogfly on 4/17/26 at 9:49 am to Fewer Kilometers
I can't imagine that Robby will adopt the baby, but he did have that conversation with Mohan about his dreams of a wife, two kids, and property with a pond.
Great conclusion to the season, though. They did such a nice job of showing Robby's conflicted nature. He can't wait to get out of the Pitt, but he can't tear himself away, either.
The scene where they're all watching fireworks was pretty great as well. You can see that the fireworks mean something different to each person there, but they're all American with their own experiences of being American. Very nice representation of melting pot pluralism.
Great conclusion to the season, though. They did such a nice job of showing Robby's conflicted nature. He can't wait to get out of the Pitt, but he can't tear himself away, either.
The scene where they're all watching fireworks was pretty great as well. You can see that the fireworks mean something different to each person there, but they're all American with their own experiences of being American. Very nice representation of melting pot pluralism.
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re: Costa Rica first time
Posted by hogfly on 4/16/26 at 2:39 pm to Big Scrub TX
The article never mentions homicide totals in years prior to this politician, unless I missed it. I’m not arguing that it’s gotten more dangerous, just don’t think the risk is very high from a tourist or even average joe perspective.
I should add that when we went 10 years ago, dudes were coming up to me on the street offering me cocaine in front of my two young kids in Tamarindo. I didn’t experience that this year in Quepos.
I should add that when we went 10 years ago, dudes were coming up to me on the street offering me cocaine in front of my two young kids in Tamarindo. I didn’t experience that this year in Quepos.
I get depressed every time I think about this being converted to a live action series by a second-tier studio.
As I've said in the past when they've come up: I do like them a lot. That being said, their whole "white trash, druggy cowboy" lyrics get old after a while, especially on their latest album.
"Missed Call," "Postcard," and "No Vacancy" are all top tier songs for me, though.
"Missed Call," "Postcard," and "No Vacancy" are all top tier songs for me, though.
Jesus' Son is sort of his breakout and best known work. It's excellent, but you need a stomach for drug abuse and crime. Tree of Smoke is great.
Also curious about Islington. Not on Kindule Unlimited, so I'd actually have to purchase the kindle versions. Just want to make sure they're good.
Also: love me some Denis Jonson. I don't think I've read anything he put out since Tree of Smoke. Might have to dig back in.
Also: love me some Denis Jonson. I don't think I've read anything he put out since Tree of Smoke. Might have to dig back in.
re: Costa Rica first time
Posted by hogfly on 4/16/26 at 9:40 am to FLBooGoTigs1
I know the actual crime numbers rising is documented, but I also wonder how much of it (from reading that State Dept. report) has more to do with government corruption and ties to narcos which has evidently recently been exposed. I imagine that CR has had that all along, but it appears that it's really come out into the open as a political issue in recent years.
We had zero issues with "street crime," but I did have my debit card stolen (and by that I'm pretty sure that I left it at a restaurant in San Jose or dropped it somewhere in San Jose). I know I didn't get pick pocketed. Anyway, they ran up like 2.3k on my card, but I got the money back within 24 hours of reporting to my bank. Was still annoying, though.
The biggest "crime" event we saw was when we drove down to La Playita (also called Playa Playitas or just Playitas). Absolutely awesome beach that you can drive you car onto then park at the treeline (don't park under a coconut tree unless you want a shattered windshield or dented vehicle). We went there quite a few days toward sunset, and on the last day, one of the locals waved us down and told us we couldn't come in because there were cops everywhere. I thought he was trying to hustle us and eventually he was like "Have you been here before?" and I said "Pretty much every day this week." Then he said, alright go on in then, but be careful.
We drove past the chokepoint onto the beach and, sure enough, there were cops everywhere. Turns out some, I'm assuming unlicensed, tour company had brought a huge tour group down to the beach in vans, set up volleyball nets, bars, bonfires, tables full of fruit, and big circles of chairs. The cops weren't having it and were running them off.
Now... there are always vendors down in that area selling coconuts, booze, beers, renting surfboard and giving surf lessons. The cops weren't messing with them, but they were running off the big tour company and making them dump out all their stuff. I figure that someone didn't pay the right people and the locals weren't having it. Anyway, that was the biggest police presence and "crime" we saw while there for a week, and it was a very CR flavored incident. :lol:
We had zero issues with "street crime," but I did have my debit card stolen (and by that I'm pretty sure that I left it at a restaurant in San Jose or dropped it somewhere in San Jose). I know I didn't get pick pocketed. Anyway, they ran up like 2.3k on my card, but I got the money back within 24 hours of reporting to my bank. Was still annoying, though.
The biggest "crime" event we saw was when we drove down to La Playita (also called Playa Playitas or just Playitas). Absolutely awesome beach that you can drive you car onto then park at the treeline (don't park under a coconut tree unless you want a shattered windshield or dented vehicle). We went there quite a few days toward sunset, and on the last day, one of the locals waved us down and told us we couldn't come in because there were cops everywhere. I thought he was trying to hustle us and eventually he was like "Have you been here before?" and I said "Pretty much every day this week." Then he said, alright go on in then, but be careful.
We drove past the chokepoint onto the beach and, sure enough, there were cops everywhere. Turns out some, I'm assuming unlicensed, tour company had brought a huge tour group down to the beach in vans, set up volleyball nets, bars, bonfires, tables full of fruit, and big circles of chairs. The cops weren't having it and were running them off.
Now... there are always vendors down in that area selling coconuts, booze, beers, renting surfboard and giving surf lessons. The cops weren't messing with them, but they were running off the big tour company and making them dump out all their stuff. I figure that someone didn't pay the right people and the locals weren't having it. Anyway, that was the biggest police presence and "crime" we saw while there for a week, and it was a very CR flavored incident. :lol:
The evolved squid just didn’t do it for me like the spiders. Also really disliked the alien group mind thingy… but damn that was some serious body horror in the first part when it started inhabiting the humans.
“We’re going on an adventure!”
“We’re going on an adventure!”
Once Dean got into wingsuiting, I knew it was just a matter of time… pretty awesome that you met him. He was always an interesting athlete to follow, but I definitely wish he could have worked through all his personal shite and matured into an elder statesman of climbing. But then… that wouldn’t have been very Dean of him.
Dark Wizard: Dean Potter bio on HBO
Posted by hogfly on 4/15/26 at 8:31 pm
This was the guy who was doing Alex Honold shite way before Honold. Very very different character though who lived even more on the edge than Alex and seemed to have been driven more by demons whereas Alex seems to be driven by his neurodivergence.
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This whole plot line was shite. He couldn’t get a blue pill?
He actually talked about that at some point. For his specific condition, viagra/cialis where ineffective, I believe he said. AI confirms that Peyronie's disease involves a structural issue that can't be fixed with traditional erectile dysfunction meds, but needs to be corrected with injections, surgery or traction. What I think is a stretch is that some other oral medicine (amphezyne) would do the trick where the normal meds wouldn't.
Still a little torn on the last episode (not necessarily the ending). Some questions and observations I had:
1) I'm not sure why they ever really thought it was a homicide instead of a suicide. I guess because they knew there was a second person there from the evidence.. but still... sort of weird to investigate the whole thing as a homicide and keep working the case in that direction and then just sort of run with suicide just because the kid says so (especially the kid who has physically attacked Floyd in the past).
2) Disliked how they suddenly tried to semi-redeem Carol as a reasonable person in the last episode. Set her up as 10X crazy throughout the series and a complete manipulative wacko, then try to redeem her as someone who was just wanting the best for her disabled son.
3) Agree with others who felt like suicide was a little out of character for Floyd. I also think they should have shown a little more devastation and culpability on Clark's end for ultimately being the catalyst for Floyd's suicide. Yes he meant well, but he set him up for rejection first with Tiger Tiger and then by Clark himself, which ultimately ruined Floyd.
4) I ended up really liking the interplay between the two detectives. Homer had me cracking up as he was explaining the swinger world to his superior and he's simultaneously realizing how far down the wormhole toward that subculture being normalized he's come as he's matter-of-factly explaining it and his supervisor is like, 'WTF?".
5) Ultimately a pretty bleak series, but I enjoyed it overall.
1) I'm not sure why they ever really thought it was a homicide instead of a suicide. I guess because they knew there was a second person there from the evidence.. but still... sort of weird to investigate the whole thing as a homicide and keep working the case in that direction and then just sort of run with suicide just because the kid says so (especially the kid who has physically attacked Floyd in the past).
2) Disliked how they suddenly tried to semi-redeem Carol as a reasonable person in the last episode. Set her up as 10X crazy throughout the series and a complete manipulative wacko, then try to redeem her as someone who was just wanting the best for her disabled son.
3) Agree with others who felt like suicide was a little out of character for Floyd. I also think they should have shown a little more devastation and culpability on Clark's end for ultimately being the catalyst for Floyd's suicide. Yes he meant well, but he set him up for rejection first with Tiger Tiger and then by Clark himself, which ultimately ruined Floyd.
4) I ended up really liking the interplay between the two detectives. Homer had me cracking up as he was explaining the swinger world to his superior and he's simultaneously realizing how far down the wormhole toward that subculture being normalized he's come as he's matter-of-factly explaining it and his supervisor is like, 'WTF?".
5) Ultimately a pretty bleak series, but I enjoyed it overall.
re: Is there interest in a traveling sportsman thread?
Posted by hogfly on 4/13/26 at 2:41 pm to Semper Gumby
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I’m definitely interested in this. I’ve visited the OB a few times to ask about sportfishing trips in a few locales. I don’t have much to contribute at this point, but hope to have more experience to share down the road.
The OB definitely has a lot of knowledgeable folks on it who have a lot of experience in a wide range of locales. That being said, I agree it would be cool to see this thread pick up traction. Most of my past and future experiences will be with fly fishing.
I'll get one started:
We will be going to Cabo San Lucas for a wedding next February. My son and I will likely try to hire a guide out of there for a day of fly fishing. Any recommedations? We just got back from Costa Rica and, knowing what I know now, we would have gone offshore and targeted sailfish instead of staying inshore for roosters on that trip. I'd love to target roosters in Cabo, but not if it's as difficult to catch them as it was in CR.
re: Costa Rica first time
Posted by hogfly on 4/13/26 at 8:47 am to KingOfTheWorld
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Thanks. I kind of expected that might be the case. Never heard of Costa Rican food being all that. I’ll be in a condo and it will be easy to cook.
For sure! And like I said, I love Costa Rica. It's such a beautiful country with great people and really set up well, infrastructure wise, for eco and adventure tourism. But I figure it's best to go into a trip with realistic or even low expectations on potential shortcomings of the experience and any bright spots you find in that area will be a bonus!
I should also add that my family are very into food and love places with vibrant food culture (Tucson, Santa Fe, New Orleans, Oaxaca, Italy, France, etc..). Some of our friends we travel with could care less about culinary experiences and they had no complaints about the food in CR.
re: Costa Rica first time
Posted by hogfly on 4/12/26 at 9:40 pm to KingOfTheWorld
Prepare to be underwhelmed by the food. It’s generally average at best and a lot of ticos seem allergic to any level of seasoning. I love pretty much everything about CR besides the food.
They generally have good fruit though. Rice and beans isn’t bad. Some areas have chilero (fermented, pickled peppers and vegetables in a jar as a condiment) and that’s pretty much my favorite CR specific thing.
We ended up cooking ourselves a lot on this last trip because I got tired of paying out the nose for mediocre food.
They generally have good fruit though. Rice and beans isn’t bad. Some areas have chilero (fermented, pickled peppers and vegetables in a jar as a condiment) and that’s pretty much my favorite CR specific thing.
We ended up cooking ourselves a lot on this last trip because I got tired of paying out the nose for mediocre food.
We've done a couple of guided fly fishing trips in the salt recently. My son is left hand retrieve and I'm right hand retrieve. I know it's a PITA for a guide to switch the retrieve on a fly rod, but I let them know on both trips that we had one of each (and asked if we should bring our own rods to accomodate). On the first trip, I ended up having to strip/retrieve with my off hand and on the other trip my son had to. Which is actually pretty annoying when fishing for saltwater species when the ability to strip effectively is pretty important.
and yes, I know you can just strip with natural hand and then swap hands once you hook a fish, but it's still a PITA and adds chaos to the already chaotic situation. I also hate fighting a big fish with my hands swapped.
and yes, I know you can just strip with natural hand and then swap hands once you hook a fish, but it's still a PITA and adds chaos to the already chaotic situation. I also hate fighting a big fish with my hands swapped.
Got out to Beaver with my son on Saturday. We had a lot of rain overnight, so the water was discolored. It's the first time my son has truly out fished me since we started fishing together (that didn't involve a guided trip with limited shots and me letting him take the majority of the shots on game fish or me helping him get rigged out and untangling him and such when he was younger).
He was fishing articulated streamers, and I was going with dual nymph rigs. After he was outfishing me 2:1 for the first hour or so, I swapped over to streamers as well, and we had a ball, landing some nice 18" fish on Beaver tailwaters (which is a pretty nice fish for there).
He was fishing articulated streamers, and I was going with dual nymph rigs. After he was outfishing me 2:1 for the first hour or so, I swapped over to streamers as well, and we had a ball, landing some nice 18" fish on Beaver tailwaters (which is a pretty nice fish for there).
Even the fly anglers and guides often resort to the drift fish nymphing pretty often these days, especially in high water.
I still really like the show, but as others have said and I've seen in season analysis from critics, the turn with Dr. Robby has made for some difficult viewing. Last season, he was like a beatific martyr who was always there for his team and presented with amazing compassion for staff and patients even when he himself was suffering. This season, we've seen his slow slide into snark, cynicism, and fallibility.
One of the things I really loved about the first season was just watching Robby work and handle his shite (despite getting overwhelmed and having a panic attack, which just made him that more admirable for holding it together for others). I work as the lead in a high pressure, fast-paced and dynamic environment, and my wife would constantly tell me that she envisions me acting like Dr. Robby in my workplace. So it's been a little disheartening to see his changes this season. I'm hoping there's some redemption for him, but I think that a "good" Dr. Robby makes for more enjoyable viewing than the version we've gotten this season, even if it makes the character somewhat static.
One of the things I really loved about the first season was just watching Robby work and handle his shite (despite getting overwhelmed and having a panic attack, which just made him that more admirable for holding it together for others). I work as the lead in a high pressure, fast-paced and dynamic environment, and my wife would constantly tell me that she envisions me acting like Dr. Robby in my workplace. So it's been a little disheartening to see his changes this season. I'm hoping there's some redemption for him, but I think that a "good" Dr. Robby makes for more enjoyable viewing than the version we've gotten this season, even if it makes the character somewhat static.
Listening to Volume 2 as I type.
re: LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
Posted by hogfly on 4/3/26 at 9:48 pm to BottomlandBrew
It’s pretty awesome. Surprisingly beautiful film of birds as well as a good story and exploration of subculture.
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