Big Blue Huddle

I somehow got it in two today, BUT I also managed to forget to do it yesterday, and as a result my streak ended at 95. So annoying!

Solid current NY Times article about Netflix:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/business/netflix-stock-market-earnings.html

Six for me and took me forever today. Was close to giving up but eventually got it. By far the toughest time I have had in quite a while. I had been on a nice run of only 3's and 4's for the past two or three weeks.

I find it annoying as well when people talk excessively loudly on their cell phones. You see it all the time though.

This made me think of a funny scene from "Curb Your Enthusiasm." This one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtdpJlZ07u4

Today was the trickiest we have seen in over a week in my opinion. I had three greens on the third guess, and it still took me six guesses.

Warren Buffett. He has lived an incredible life, and I have always greatly enjoyed hearing him speak. Not only is he obviously one of the greatest investors of all time, which interests me greatly, but I believe he has great wisdom about other topics, among other things, politics and world affairs. He also is a very decent and humble man. I would be delighted to spend an hour with him.

Quote from: nb587 on April 17, 2022, 08:36:53 PM
HELP.   Not much of a techie but I do  listen to podcasts on my iPhone using their app.  Not able to,find this podcast & really want to hear it.  What do I do?

If you just click the link in the OP you can listen to it that way.

Great stuff, guys. Very informative. Nice to get some in depth color on some of these later round O line prospects, especially from a Giants' perspective.

Quote from: ps11yat14 on April 15, 2022, 05:29:11 AM
It took all six tries today. Had 4 of 5 letters in the right place after 3 tries but it took 3 more attempts before I finally got it.

Bill

Same thing happened to me. I had three greens on the second guess and four on the third guess, and it still took me six to get it. One of those process of elimination ones where a bunch of single letters work.

We finally got around to watching "CODA" the other day.

I would give it a B+, and my wife agrees. Very solid, plenty of good acting, and engaging throughout. In my personal opinion, for it to have won Best Picture at the Oscars feels like a bit of a reach to me, but maybe it was a weak year for movies. I thought it was definitely very good but not some all time cinematic achievement.

Quote from: Jolly Blue Giant on April 09, 2022, 11:50:58 AM
Same here, got it in three attempts. Seemed easy after the last few. Maybe the Times got complaints...LOL

Ditto. Not one of their more challenging ones today.

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 08, 2022, 03:42:04 PM
I heard reports that they asked Will to leave but he refused.  If that's true, that is why I am good with 10 (5 for the slap and 5 for refusing to leave)

Those reports seem murky. Initially it was reported that he was asked to leave and refused. Then that seemed to be amended or at least differing reports came out. Sounds like it was something they discussed but it's unclear if anyone actually asked Will Smith to leave.

In any event, whether it happened or not, I don't have a problem with the decision.

Does this "ban" mean he is just not allowed to attend future shows, or does it also mean he will be ineligible to receive awards during this 10 year period?

At this point I think there is basically zero chance this was fake. Better chance in my mind that the Apollo moon landing was fake.

Quote from: MightyGiants on April 08, 2022, 03:14:31 PM
Sounds fair to me


Oh and I thought SNL was hilarious


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRng89HjJw

I actually thought five years would be where they landed but I have no objection to 10. What he did was pretty outrageous, and if he doesn't get sued or charged with any sort of crime he should consider himself lucky. Sorry but you can't just physically assault people.

Agreed on the SNL skit; amusing.

Will Smith banned from the Oscars for a decade.

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/academy-bans-will-smith-oscars-ceremony-10-years-chris-rock-slap-rcna23461

Today was a four-bagger for me, but I feel like that was a very good result as it was another relatively less common word. I had a fortunate guess in the 3-hole which really helped me.

I feel like they have definitely raised the difficulty level of the words in the past few weeks.