Basement is now flooding. It appears that the water table is now up way past the foundation, whether you live on a hill or not. Two points of entry, one is from the ground-level crawl space opening, the other a foundation crack.
> Cranston hopes that "Breaking Bad" will earn a place in the canon of American tragedies, and argues that the show will be tragic only if the audience believes to the end that walt can still reverse his course.
> In the second season, he told [Vince] Gilligan, "I really think Walt's doing it for his family," and Gilligan replied, "No, I think he's actually kind of selfish."
> Gilligan says, "It dawned on me, slowly, that I was telling the actor he's mistaken about his own character—and that my stupidity was jeopardizing the whole show. You don't have to be Freud to know that Hitler thought of himself as a wonderful guy."
@RegDwighт ^ (From this week's article 'The One Who Knocks' by Tad Friend, writing in The New Yorker)
I have rewatched the last episode, BTW. And just as I expected, it is sort of growing on me already. If only because that's what I'm rewatching it for in the first place: to see it for what it was meant to be, not for what it is.
I mean, I don't want to be mean and say my opinion got better because it couldn't possibly get worse. That'd be an exaggeration. It still was a fine hour of television, just not the finest hour of Breaking Bad.
Anyway, the thing is. It really is the execution. I am sort of okay with the general direction this is going, even though I don't like those scum nazis one bit, but that's sort of the point. Just like the TV Critic said, to get rid of some not-so-fine people Walt had to unleash even worse people, the worst kind of people, and rather than controlling them he's now under their control.
I have never seen the National Weather Service use the word “biblical” before!
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
941 AM MDT THU SEP 12 2013
.UPDATE...MAJOR FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING EVENT UNDERWAY AT THIS
TIME WITH BIBLICAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS REPORTED IN MANY AREAS IN/NEAR
THE FOOTHILLS. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AND
A QUARTER ON GPS SENSORS CERTAINLY SUPPORT LOTS MORE RAIN TODAY
AND TONIGHT. 13Z HRRR RUN HAS ANOTHER 1-3 INCHES OF RAIN
PREDICTED IN THE FOOTHILLS THROUGH 04Z SO THINGS ARE NOT LOOKING
GOOD. WILL EXTEND THE AREA OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE
@RegDwighт It's the least they can do. No, really—the least.
@tchrist That is alarming on so many levels. A: When the weather service runs around yelling "The sky is falling!" and B: When they use such imprecise terms as "biblical" alongside precise measurement scales, C: WTF, why you bring religion into dis shit?
@RegDwighт I rewatched it as well, and the little giddy disconcerting moments went away for the most part, but I agree that this was a low point in terms of execution. Who directed this mess, anyway? Hmm, Michael MacLaren directed from a Sam Gastras script. They've done this shit before without fucking the pooch. What gives?
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes. You kind of get the feeling that Christianity is the religion of Battered Wife Syndrome. God comes home pissed off, kicks the shit out of you, then leaves sometimes for weeks with no word.
Another one. Damn, these YouTube folks realize normalize the waveform within an inch of its life, don't they? I don't think they could crank the gain any higher without clipping.
@JohanLarsson I drove through a rainstorm coming up from Galveston to Houston and the rain was so thick I couldn't see the front of the car. So my girlfriend and I took the exit, crept off at a snail's pace, and wound up in the parking lot of a mall. We took a nap. Two hours later the sun was out. I needed a bathroom break, so I got out of the car and stepped into — six inches of water. In a parking lot. In the flattest place in Texas.
If there is a complex word that consists of two simpler words, what would you call each component, or individually meaningful building block, that the big word consists of relative to the big word? E.g. the word makeshift consists of the words make and shift. What would you call each of those tw...