Belabor Puns

Seriously what the christ was that quantum mechanics shit?

Standouts for me are:

Thwaites as Dick Grayson. We all had concerns about this version of Dick being too dark, but to be quite honest, Thwaites interpretation of this character is ripped straight out of New Teen Titans & early 90s Nightwing and I think he’s killing it. He also looks the part to a genuinely impressive degree.

Curran Walters as Jason Todd. He may be the best of the bunch. He steals every scene he’s in, and this guy deeply understands the character. I felt that Jason beating up cops actually made perfect sense, as his post-Crisis personification was a loose cannon, angry guy who was having a little too much fun doling our violence as a vigilante. I also think Walter does a great job demonstrating how desperate Jason is for approval from Dick. I think he’s my favorite part of the show and I can’t wait to see him become Red Hood.

Esai Morales as Deathstroke. This guy has a serious presence. He barely said three words last episode but still felt like a main character with how well they were delivered, how imposing they made him. I can’t wait to see more from him.

Ryan Potter as Beast Boy. I find most animated versions of Beast Boy annoying and trying way too hard to make him the class clown. I love how he’s portrayed in this show as a being the right mix of levity, courage, and excitement at becoming a hero.

I’m not yet sold on this version of Bruce Wayne. I think his characterization in S2 is kind of opposite of how he was described in S1 (almost like a Frank Miller kind of Batman), but I’m willing to see it through.

Tl;dr I’m loving this cast and I can’t wait for the next episode.

I'm going to try to keep this as focused as possible. Full disclosure: I own and adore Birkenstocks.

Reading some of the recent 'literature' about the return of the Birkenstock to popularity, I've noticed that everyone and their mother has to call the shoes "so ugly that they're hip/cool/etc."

Am I the only one who doesn't think they're ugly? At all?

In fact, I think they're a gorgeous, timeless design in the great, practical German tradition. The shoe is a triumph of form as function. Like Dieter Rams or the perfect curves of an older Porsche.

And it blows my mind to hear them compared to Crocs. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But I really can't figure out where that particular extreme view comes from.

Shrug.

The woman sitting next to me on my way home from work tonight on the 38L had her phone grabbed right out of her hands. It was grabbed with enough force (and she held on tightly enough) that the guy pulled her straight to the ground before darting out the back door at Geary/Filmore. I know the point gets made often, but it bares repeating these days: Be careful with your phones--or any electronics or valuables, when you're on public transportation. I know it would be great if we didn't need to worry about these things, but unfortunately we do.

And a big thanks to the rest of the people on the moderately crowded bus who didn't even try to stop the guy or call the police.

>Don’t belabor your body and mind, for there is nothing to attain. All that is necessary is to avoid belaboring sound and form at all times; just set aside your activities hitherto, and you will suddenly shed bridle and chain, and forever remove cover and wrapping.

>When a single thought is not produced, then linear succession is cut off: without cogitation, without thought, there is nothing at all that can affect your feelings. How can you even attempt to express this in words? You have a lot of intellectual understanding, but have you ever perceived It face to face? Renunciants and others up to the tenth stage bodhisattvas with satisfied hearts cannot even find a trace of It. That is why the celestial angels celebrate, the earth spirits offer support, the Buddhas of the ten directions sing praises, and the king of demons wails. Why? Because this void, leaping with life, has no root, no dwelling place. If your eyes waver at this point, then you miss it.

>Don’t seek Buddha, for Buddha is a mass-murdering robber who has seduced who knows how many people into the pits of the demons of lust. Do not seek Manjusri or Samantabhadra, for they are bumpkins. What a pity to be a fine upstanding individual, but take someone else’s poison and then try to imitate the appearance of a Chan teacher, seeing spirits and seeing ghosts. After that you’ll go crazy, running around to other houses looking for gypsy women to tell fortunes. You have been slipped ‘fortunes’ by ignorant old baldies who tell you to bow to the ghosts of ‘Patriarchs,’ the ghosts of ‘Buddhas,’ the ghost of ‘enlightenment,’ the ghost of ‘nirvana.’

Note: Not sure what "don't belabor sound and form" means. Don't attach to? Don't discriminate as good and bad?

Deshan doesn't venerate Buddha. Do any of us? If we do, why?

Link to Dahui Shobogenzo: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N3BJK1Y/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1494021624&sr=1-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=treasury+of+the+true+eye+of+the+teaching&dpPl=1&dpID=51vcf8SdkGL&ref=plSrch

then they're almost definitely belaboring the point. If they're anxious about coming across annoying enough to have to make that preface, then they simply shouldn't say anything at all.

• Investors tend to buy their biggest bag of popcorn ahead of what many see as the U.S. economic calendar’s feature presentation: the monthly nonfarm payrolls report. September’s employment figures were more highly anticipated than usual because markets were eager to see if the recent slower pace of hiring has continued. Turns out it has. Monthly job creation averaged 177,000 from September 2018 through August 2019—a healthy number but down from 212,000 over the prior 12 months.

• markets also digested disappointing U.S. service-sector data: The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) nonmanufacturing gauge fell from 56.4 in August to 52.6 in September, touching a three-year low. That release came on the heels of ISM’s manufacturing PMI, which retreated further into contraction territory (47.8) in September for its worst showing since June 2009. Not surprisingly, many of the survey’s subcomponents disappointed. In particular, new export orders and employment registered steep declines.

• But in a case of “dueling PMIs,” a similar manufacturing indicator from Markit edged upward in September, to a lukewarm-but-still-expansionary 51.1. Why the discrepancy between the Markit and ISM numbers? Overseas developments.

• The ISM gauge tends to be more influenced by global economic growth and foreign earnings than the Markit metric. With the eurozone and China in the midst of abrupt economic decelerations, ISM’s reading has weakened to a greater extent. In contrast, Markit’s more domestically focused PMI is currently higher because of relative U.S. outperformance.

• Regardless of which survey you follow, the important context is that manufacturing is only around 10% to 12% of U.S. economic output. Even so, September’s shaky PMI data has led markets to price in a faster pace of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts. But with third-quarter GDP growth still in the 1.5%-2.0% range, we think it’s too soon for the Fed to begin aggressively easing. That said, an October rate reduction now seems like a foregone conclusion.

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I was riding last night (around 8:30pm) and merging onto the freeway. I was wearing a helmet, armored jacket, gloves, sweatshirt, jeans, and sneakers. The pictures above were from my cell phone while in the ER. I had a small abrasion to my left hand, more abrasions to both knees, a serious abrasion with split fascia (the tissue between the skin and muscle), and about a 3" square region of road rash to my right hip.

I was making a hard turn on the ramp and made the mistake of pulling the clutch in to shift. Unfortunately, as a result, my back tire lost traction, and the bike slid out from under me at about 45 mph. The bike went flying across three lanes of highway traffic (untouched otherwise) and I slid across maybe 20-30 ft of pavement.

Thanks to the fact I was wearing a helmet, I was able to quickly stand up, run over to my bike, and wait for emergency services to arrive. Thanks to the fact that I was wearing a helmet, the extent of my head/neck injuries include slight muscle stiffness from the impact--no scratches/abrasions/anything on my face. Thanks to the fact I was wearing a jacket, most of my upper body remained unscathed. Not really sure how my hand got scraped like that since I had to take the glove off after; my hip was only from where my jacket slid up on my body. My ankle is pretty good testament to wearing boots--they had to stitch up the fascia tissue, but that's about it.

The only reason I walked into the ER and walked out 4 hours later was because I was wearing my gear.

Unfortunately, the bike isn't in good shape right now. I probably won't be getting back in the saddle for awhile, since I'm still a little shaken, my family is glad I no longer have the bike, and I won't be able to afford repairs/a new bike purchase.

But are there any people out there that honestly think that Lee Evans/Sterling Moore play was a catch? I've seen a surprisingly large number of articles claiming that it was a travesty that play wasn't reviewed, but it seemed like a pretty clear incompletion to me. Of course, I'm a Pats fan, and I've been known to have homer-vision before on plays like this, so I need to get some more objective opinions.

The play in question (for those of you who have had their heads buried in the sand for the last 24 hours).

\ bih-LEY-ber \ , verb;

1. To explain, worry about, or work more than is necessary.
2. To assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule.
3. To beat vigorously; ply with heavy blows.
4. Obsolete. To labor at.

"Yours and everybody else's, thought Swiffers, but he didn't wish to belabor the obvious" (Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates).