td11 wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:congrats man. i like the low key wedding. i'm definitely eloping when the time comes.

thank you man. we have an actual wedding planned in october, but this was pretty special for the two of us

WheelsFellOff wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Had to go see a Dr. this morning to schedule a colonoscopy. (Fun, fun--why I couldn't have done this over skype or something rather than drive an hour both ways I don't understand but whatever.)

So your proposal to forego visiting the doctor is to instead shove a webcam up your ass and skype them?

slugsrbad wrote:I think you need to find a new place to live my friend

td11 wrote:omg my team at work just surprised me with a weekend getaway for 2 in Mt Dora as a wedding gift. holy shit. these are all kids making less than 40K a year, had me damn near tearing up in the meeting. just speechless right now

PrattRules wrote:Just made guacamole.

PrattRules wrote:Just made guacamole.

azrider wrote:You are aware I have done an exhaustive investigation as to your identity, whereabouts and vital statistics, Bucky. Or should I say Joe?

Bucky wrote:

azrider wrote:You are aware I have done an exhaustive investigation as to your identity, whereabouts and vital statistics, Bucky. Or should I say Joe?

Slowhand wrote:Cheer up, its Groundhog Day!

Kudos to Simon Gallagher over on Obsessed With Film. In honor of Groundhog Day last week — when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring (so we got that going for us [and, yes, I am mixing my Bill Murray movie references]) — Gallagher pinpointed the exact number of Groundhog Days Murray’s Phil Connors endures in “Groundhog Day:” 12,403 days. That’s 33 years and 358 days, well above director Harold Ramis’ original on-record guess of about ten years, but right in the range he later gave after further consideration, which was between 30 and 40 years.

Gallagher arrived at that total by adding up every day we see Phil endure, plus any day he specifically mentions but we don’t see (he claims he’s been “stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned,” but we only see the electrocution, so tack on six more days). It must be noted that Gallagher’s precise number actually involves a bit of conjecture as he had to estimate, with what seems to be a fair amount of deductive reasoning, how long it would take Phil to learn the skills he displays by his final Groundhog Day. For example, on guessing how long would take someone to self-teach themselves to sculpt ice:

“Malcolm Gladwell has stated that it takes anyone 10,000 hours to become an expert at any one subject, and Phil is clealy an expert ice sculptor, since the ice sculpture is the one thing in ‘Groundhog Day’ that is entirely quantifiable by what we can see on screen (playing one song well does not make anyone an expert pianist, and speaking one French poem perfectly likewise is not an indicator of expertise). Broken down that is an hour a day for 27 years, but we know Phil by now, and we know that when he figures out that something gets him closer to fourth base with Rita, he’s likely to pursue it a little more rabidly than that. So I’m suggesting an average of 4 hours per day – based also on his willingness to stick to 4 or 5 hours of card flicking for six solid months, and the impending threat of frost bite over longer periods – which brings that to just under 7 years, based on him working for consecutive days for that whole time, or more likely 10 years sticking to a traditional 5 day a week working directive.”