Grant Gee Puns

From about 2008, The Generalist did a podcast interview with Gee about Joy Division documentary and he talks about Radiohead as well, enjoy! :)

http://www.thegeneralist.co.uk/audio/grant.gee2008-04-19.mp3

…Then where the hell are the 100+ full concert SBDs that contain all the soundchecks?? I'd be heartbroken to hear he destroyed all the footage.

There have been rumors of a possible expansion, so let’s imagine it does happen, but the NBA decides to only add one new team to the league (sorry Vegas), bringing back the beloved Seattle Supersonics. The Sonics are back babbyyyyyyyy!

Now the Sonics need to build their team from ground up, starting with the expansion draft, and following it with signing players in the off-season.

Here are some simplified terms of the expansion draft:

1. All 30 NBA teams will have the right to protect 8 players on their roster. Anyone on the current roster is protectable, including restricted free agents. If a restricted free agent is left unprotected by his former team, he is available for selection by the Supersonics, who would then hold his Bird Rights for the up-coming off-season. Teams will typically have 4-7 players unprotected. Unrestricted free agents can neither be protected from nor selected in the expansion draft -- they are essentially ignored.
   Players who are likely to be left unprotected by their former teams include aging, overpaid veterans, unproven bench players, players who do not fit in financially with their team, or who disrupt team chemistry.
2. The Sonics may only select 1 player per team.
3. The Sonics must work within 2/3 of the normal rules of the NBA salary cap, so there will be salary-related restrictions which apply to the team's selections. The team’s salary cap for the 2022-2023 season will only be 2/3 of the league cap (112.414 million), meaning 74.93 million. The minimum team salary is also 2/3 of the leagues' minimum team salary (101.173 million), meaning 67.449 million.
   The expansion draft occurs after the conclusion of the 2022 NBA Finals, but prior to the 2022 NBA Draft. The Sonics do not participate in the lottery, but automatically get the 5th and the 35th pick of the draft.
4. There are no restrictions on player positions during the draft.
5. The Sonics must select at least 14 players.
6. Here is a list of the players that each NBA team are, in my opinion, likely to protect, and a list of those who may be left unprotected (not all players are listed, but most of them, and all that have any chance of being drafted by an expansion team):

Atlanta Hawks:

Protected:

1. Trae Young
2. John Collins
3. Clint Capela
4. Kevin Huerter
5. De’Andre Hunter
6. Onyeka Okongwu
7. Bogdan Bogdanovic
8. Cam Reddish

Unprotected (Salary this year, Years left on the contract)

1. Jalen Johnson (2.6 million, 3 years)

Do your worst!

This post deals with Subboor Ahmad's "ideas" about the field of evolutionary biology. Some may know that Subboor Ahmad has hosted the young earth creationist Paul Nelson on his YouTube channel to debunk the science of common ancestry. For lengthy demonstrations of how Paul Nelson gets everything wrong (while misrepresenting every scientist he quotes like Eugene Koonin in the process), see here, here, here, and here. In these videos, Subboor had a bit of a concerning and quite ready tendency to accept literally any gibberish that Paul Nelson was spewing. In this post, I'll focus more specifically on how Subboor justifies his pseudoscientific creationism.

As a bit of background. Subboor is a Muslim creationist and apologist who has no clear expertise on the subject. Despite claiming to be a pursuing a philosophy of biology PhD at Birkbeck College (though he seems to have been pursuing it for quite a while now), he's been at this for many many years without ever getting anything he's said published anywhere reputable. So he just puts it out on YouTube and his blog. In a debate he handily lost against James Fodor at the timestamp 1:34:00+, he was asked to name a single scientific discovery / finding that would convince him that his creationism is wrong. He admitted he couldn't think of anything, and that the only way he'd accept evolution is if he literally first became an atheist. In other words, Subboor is rather open about the fact that there is no evidence that could compel him out of his dogma. Here, I'm debunking his blog post "Darwin’s biggest critics are evolutionary biologists".

https://subboorahmad.com/darwins-biggest-critics-are-evolutionary-biologists/

Subboor tries to show that the academic and public understanding of evolution is different, that real specialists think evolution is "just a theory" resting on baseless assumptions. But if that

We're about halfway into the season and I hope your fantasy NBA teams are doing well, despite the challenges this season has put in front of us.

In case you found yourself struggling, don't be discouraged but look to take advantage of the situation. Streaming is more powerful than ever with all the absences and new guys getting a ton of minutes. So if you've got a guy at the back end of your roster not living up to your standards, don't hold on too tight. A streaming spot or two could be worth a lot more.

Here are the fantasy basketball streamers for Week 12.

One word before we go deep into next week. I've been getting some amazing replies to my posts in the past few weeks, and thank you guys so much for this!

I just wanted to let you know that the whole RotoBaller crew is working hard to help fantasy GMs out, and there is a ton of quality stuff on plenty of topics on our website, so if you're looking for information about something else as well, you can probably find it here: https://www.rotoballer.com/category/nba-fantasy-basketball-advice

NBA Schedule Guide - Week 12

Tuesday with five and Thursday with four games will be the most difficult for fantasy owners to have a full starting lineup. Saturday follows them with six games. We will focus on these three days.

Here's the low-down:

Teams with 5 games:

Memphis Grizzlies

Teams with 4 games:

Atlanta Hawks

Brooklyn Nets

Dallas Mavericks

Denver Nuggets

Detroit Pistons

Golden State Warriors

Houston Rockets

Los Angeles Clippers

Milwaukee Bucks

Minnesota Timberwolves

New Orleans Pelicans

Orlando Magic

Portland Trail Blazers

Sacramento Kings

San Antonio Spurs

Toronto Raptors

Utah Jazz

Washington Wizards

Teams with 3 games:

Boston Celtics

Charlotte Hornets

Chicago Bulls

Cleveland Cavaliers

Indiana Pacers

Los Angeles Lakers

Miami Heat

New York Knicks

Oklahoma City Thunder

Philadelphia 76ers

Phoenix Suns

Number of teams playing each day:

Monday: 20

Tuesday: 10

Wednesday: 22

Thursday: 8

Friday: 18

Saturday: 12

Sunday: 20

Back-to-Backs (beware of older or banged-up players who might rest):

Monday/Tuesday: MEM, NOP

Tuesday/Wednesday: IND, SAC, SAS, TOR

Wednesday/Thursday: BOS, DET, GSW

Thursday/Friday: -

Friday/Saturday: MIL, UTA

#Artist: Mach-Hommy

#Album: Pray For Haiti

##Listen:

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• YouTube
• bandcamp

##Background:

Over the past 5 years Mach-Hommy has released a barrage of new age boom-bap projects: from his Griselda debut ‘Haitian Body Odor’ in 2016, to the colossal 2017 wave of ‘Dump Gawd: Hommy Edition’, ‘Luh Hertz’, ‘Fete De Morts’, ‘The G.A.T.’ and numerous more, his 2018 and 2019 releases including ‘Bulletproof Luh’ and ‘Wap Konn Jòj!’, as well as 2020’s ‘Mach’s Hard Lemonade’. Staying quiet after the release of MHL, photos emerged Christmas Day of Mach-Hommy and Westside Gunn together, showing the two had reconciled after a falling out following the release of HBO. After this Gunn announced various albums on Twitter, including a Mach release under Griselda, titled HBO 2 in the tweet. On Easter Sunday, Gunn released ‘Easter GunnDay 4’, featuring Mach-Hommy, in which it was proclaimed that the two would be dropping a project titled ‘Pray For Haiti’. Photos and footage of work on the album in Puerto Rico showed collaboration with the likes of Camoflauge Monk, SadhuGold and Westside Gunn himself. It was announced the album would drop on Haitian Flag Day, May 18th. Despite this, it wasn’t until the following Friday, May 21st, that the album was finally released.

##Review:

When first announced ‘Pray For Haiti’ featured a Jean Michel Basquiat piece as it’s artwork, a precursory glance at the album’s Haitian imagery (the artist’s parents were Haitian and Puerto Rican). The colourful painting, Untitled (Fishing), features a skeletal, black fisherman, a scri

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Before you read, please note that while there has been a conviction in Sally's case, it is extremely obvious who is responsible for her disappearance and likely death, and it may not seem like an "Unresolved Mystery" to some, let me reiterate her remains have never been recovered. Sally is still a missing person and her family still deserves closure.

Background

In 1976, Sally Brown met Gary Rawlings in Pennsylvania. The couple married in Denver, Colorado in 1977. Sally became Sally Rawlings and fell out of contact with her family. She gave birth to a daughter, Kimberly, in 1980. The family moved to Oklahoma City in late 1981.

At this time, they had a difficult relationship. Gary had a temper and was abusive to Sally. On January 12, 1982, Sally filed for divorce. The divorce was granted on February 24, 1982 and Sally was awarded custody of Kimberly. Sally and her daughter moved into Passageway, a YWCA shelter for victims of domestic abuse. She had a history of past mental health issues and engaged in counseling while staying at the shelter. She was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

In March 1982, Sally and her daughter moved again, this time into the Kirkpatrick Hotel, located in downtown Oklahoma City. She reportedly chose this location due to the secured locked front doors. On March 21, police were called to the Kirkpatrick Hotel where Sally was staying. Gary had failed to return Kimberly on time after his scheduled visitation. He arrived at the hotel around 9 pm without Kimberly, and an argument followed. During the argument, he hit Sally in the head. She had a large gash in her head and was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Sally told authorities Gary had also stolen important documents from her, including Kimberly's birth certificate. Gary told Sally the next time she saw him, she would be dead. Eventually, Gary returned Kimberly to her mother and agreed to forgo visitation with her for six months.

Later that same month, she began a job as a secretary at the Kerr-McGee Corporation. Over the course of the next two months, she developed a reputation as a good employee who kept to herself and was just a bit odd. She was overheard talking to herself on multiple occasions.

At this time, Kimberly was enrolled in daycare. Sally would drop her off everyday before work around 8 am and pick her up after work, generally between 5-5:30 pm. She also began looking into local rental properties, paying a private company $45.00 t

Danny's parents told him never to go into the basement.

I was over at his place the first time he tried to open that thick, dark oak door. I remember (we were seven at the time, I think) him flashing me that cheeky, lopsided smile, before standing on his tip toes and straining for the handle. I remember his dad snatching him away a second later, and slamming him back down next to me with a force that brought tears into Danny's eyes. Mr Johnson was a very big man, and, although I'd known him all my life, he had always been a slight source of fear for me. As I grew older, this infantile nervousness around him subsided a little, but he always made me wary.

Mr Johnson knelt, gripping Danny's shoulders. His face was red with anger, but he also looked shaken; I noticed he was trembling almost as much as his son.

'Listen to me, Danny,'

His voice cut like a knife.

'You never, ever, open that door. Do you understand me? Never. I've told you before and I'll tell you again. Under no circumstances do you go in there.'.

Then he bundled his snivelling son into a tight hug, before inviting us to come watch cartoons.

Afterwards, I had asked Danny what was behind the door. He had told me, in a round about way, that it was his basement; he seemed only half interested in the conversation, always distracted by the tinkle of an ice cream truck or an interesting stick. Danny's zealous imagination could take anything innocuous, anything everyday, and turn it into something extraordinary; sometimes, I thought he could actually see the things he dreamed up.

Danny and I had always been friends; we were never really given a choice in the matter. Our families neighboured each other directly, and our parents had known each other since college; they just heaped the infant Danny and I together and waited for a bond to grow.

And there was a bond; in the simplest sense, we were best friends. We were always together; in the same class at school, in the same scout group; we even ducked into and out of each others houses like they were connected. For me, there didn't exist a life where Danny wasn't there to get me into trouble, or to get me out of it.

Of course, we had our differences; I was always the quiet one, good in school, rarely to be found without my nose in a book. Indeed, if it hadn't been for the influence of the popular and gregarious Danny, I might well have been subject to harsh teasing throughout my education.

That was how our unspoken trade-off played out; Danny

Pilot on me!!

Former fundies and evangelicals—what memories do you have from childhood that you know realize were not normal outside of your circle?

• AWANA
• Bible Study Fellowship (ugh, filling out those worksheets every week)
• Kathie Hill musicals “My name is Hans Bronson, I live in Wisconsin…”
• Not being allowed to watch sinful shows like Eureka’s Castle and Rugrats
• GA retreats (Girls in Action)
• Wearing a purity ring
• Adventures in Odyssey
• Handing out Bible tracts at the local family fun center
• Being filled with enormous guilt for watching Grease behind my parents’ backs at the age of 12
• Building Christian Character books like Buzzle Billy and Handy Dandy Helpful Hal
• McGee and Me movies
• Alice in Bibleland
• Ruth Hummel sex ed picture books
• Spending what seemed like hours at the Christian book store with my mom
• Rocking out to Twila Paris, Amy Grant, Newsboys, DC Talk
• Going to see the Power Team live!!
• Giving a testimony in front of your church

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