Kel Varnsen

I am not sure it matters. It might be some weird confirmation bias thing but the percentage of pro football players whose families felt they had brain damage and had them examined for CTE after their deaths is already insanely high (like over 90% percent in one study). So it's not like it will change the data in any way.

Ok I guess I wasn't paying enough attention to catch that part. Either way, moving when you are an adult, and have actual stuff, is a huge pain in the ass. So her having to do that again, because of his issues and not being super angry about it was really weird.

But even if he thought he was going to win they would still need money right? They would still have legal bills to pay.

There was a lot of weird stuff this episode. Like I can't believe that Marisol wasn't super pissed that she has just moved in and Eddie said she needed to move out. Because now she has to find a new place to live which sucks. It wouldn't have surprised me if she said I'll move out, but we are done. The only story I have ever seen on TV that is anything close was The Todd on Scrubs who was a super horny super tough guy surgeon. But he eventually realized that he was so horny he didn't care if he was getting it from a guy or a woman. So it makes me think that Buck is more of a dramatic version of that where he is a guy who loves relationships and being in love and doesn't care as much of who it is with. I have never been a foster parent but I can't imagine they would really leave you on your own like that with a traumatized kid to the point where the only options are figure it out yourself or send the kid back. Because what would have happened if Hen's friend the cop hadn't helped her out. Lastly I am super disappointed they didn't get Bruce Campbell to be the guy at the beginning who couldn't control his hand.

Finished the series tonight and I thought it was really interesting in that it showed the whole venture capital/investor world wouldn't really work for something that was almost a pure R&D thing. Because it seems like they were caught in this whole snowball of needing money to pay everything but there is no actual money coming in, so you constantly need to find new and bigger investors to give you more money and attract even bigger investors. But you need to convince them that a company that has no revenue has value so you need to keep grifting and peddling bullshit. It seems like if they were just doing pure research without the worry about investors (like a university or something) they might have come up with something. But they were 10 years in and couldn't even keep the thing from blowing up. Although it was weird how Elizabeth wanted her company to be run like an internet company but ignored how a lot of the big guys built their companies. Google started by just doing search, and only expanded to other stuff like Gmail and maps once they had that nailed. Same with Amazon how they just sold books at first so they could become the biggest bookseller then expanded to other products and then other services. Even Netflix did the mail dvd thing so that they could perfect their recommendations algorithm before they launched streaming. It seems like if she had went with a machine that did one or two tests instead of dozens, it might have had a chance. One thing I did wonder about was Linda and how she couldn't find another job after working for Elizabeth. Was that real though? I mean there are a lot of lawyers who have defended a lot of people way worse than Elizabeth and they keep finding jobs. It's kind of a stereotype. So why couldn't she. That Okay bye was pretty great, both the acting and how funny it was. Although I can't believe Sunny walked away so easily, especially after sinking $20 million into the company. I did like how Tyler and Erika kind of went all in buy going on the record like they did. Because it seems like at that point the only way to stop all the legal threats and harassment is to completely nuke the company from orbit so they have no resources left to go after you.

I looked earlier today and it seems you can stream it directly from the PBS website. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/league-of-denial/

Not sure about actual Elizabeth, but the show has done a great job of making Amanda Seyfried, who is ridiculously attractive, look kind of off and a little weird looking. The scene where she was walking to the car to go to the party was one of the first times I thought she looked really hot. I really don't get this guy and hope we get some more follow up. I mean I understand he felt burned by missing out on Yahoo. But at the same time he is an engineering professor at Stanford. Not some little no name, for profit school that is on the second floor of a strip mall. Elizabeth can't be the first student he has met since Yahoo who was really smart and had a potentially million dollar idea can she? Laurie Metcalf was unsurprisingly awesome though. I am amazed her character didn't stand up and respond when she was being trashed by Elizabeth during that interview.

There was a great PBS documentary that used to be in Netflix called League of Denial about Mike Webster and the pathologist that first diagnosed CTE in football players and how the NFL basically ignored it(it was the basis for the Will Smith movie Concussion). I don't even really like football but watched the whole thing and would watch it again if I could. That whole trial seemed like the perfect storm of issues that worked together to get him acquitted where if even one was not there he probably would have been convicted. There was a poor understanding of DNA, the reputation of the LAPD, poor evidence handling, people not believing a celebrity could be a bad person and people not being able to link the ideas that if someone beats their wife they might also kill them.

I really like how Brendan turned out to be a decent guy. Since when. They brought him in it seemed like there would be conflict between him and the other engineers. The only thing I didn't buy was that a company as controlling and secretive as Theranos would even have an "all employees" email address. I was wondering about that too. I mean it has been 10 years since Theranos started and they still aren't past the "I hope it doesn't blow up" stage of design development. Kurtwood Smith as the lawyer guy was a nice surprise. Although I am disappointed he didn't call Elizabeth a dumbass. Also in the deposition scene why was he wearing his watch over top of the sleeve of his dress shirt? Is that a thing people do? I have worn dress shirts a lot of days of my life and I don't think I have ever thought to put my watch over the sleeve.

If they signed it at the beginning of the meeting sure. But Sunny made them sign another one at the end of the meeting after the deal was off. It's not like they were getting any more information at that point. And what would happen if they had said no?

Wow Doctor J was basically Michael Scott if he had a medical degree. Annoying jokes and nicknames, overly friendly (wants to be liked), weirdly into celebrities and kind of dumb. I kept waiting for him to drop a "that's what she said". He is the one I really don't get since he was there from the beginning when Elizabeth was a 19 year old undergrad with no experience, definitely no investors or money and a maybe decent idea. But he was an engineering professor at Stanford who just have seen that exact same thing 100's of times before. Would they have to sign it at all? An NDA is a contract right? Which means you do something for something. What are the Walgreens guys getting in exchange for signing if the deal is off?

This whole show is very interesting since I know almost nothing about this case. When Elizabeth was talking to herself in the mirror when sitting on the bed it totally reminded me of William Dafoe from the first spider man movie and I almost expected the reflection to talk back. Although one thing I am really wondering about was why she tried to be so ambitious with the machine. Didn't they say it would do something like 20 tests with the single drop of blood on the card. Why not start with making one test simpler and easier for labs to do and then build from there? But last week they were working on sepsis and this week they were testing on cancer patients. It seems like making things way more difficult than they need to be. Also is William H. Macy supposed to be a legitimate inventor or just some kind of con man patent trolls? And with when the last few episodes have been taking place I keep wondering if this version of Elizabeth (not the real one obviously though) ever took a break from work to watch a show on UPN about a young detective trying to solve her best friend's murder.

Is the weird variety of music supposed to show her personality or maybe lack of one. Like one episode she is listening to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the next she is listening to Missy Elliott. It makes me think that she is so focused on being a success she has no time to really get into things like culture and music and just listens to whatever (indie rock one day and hip hop the next). Sure someone can be into more than one music style but I see her more on the side of not caring about styles or being really interested in music rather than someone who is passionate about music and likes everything. The whole thing at the end where he a guy in his 40's was driving through some main street in his Lamborghini and revving the engine at the stop light was super embarrassing. Also I don't get why he isn't a major investor at this point, didn't he say when. They first met he made 40 million off something. But in this episode she said she has only raised $6 million in capital off her parents and family friends.

The Athena's son thing seemed like it was wrapped up way too easily. Seems like something that could have been (maybe should have been) a multi episode story that didn't have the magic security footage that fixed everything. It would have been more interesting if there was no footage or if there was a racist DA who decided to charge him anyway. Then again I was also curious what would happen if he said no to the community service, since it's not like something a judge made him do.

Finished the new season last night as Amazon let me sign up for another free week trial of Paramount plus. Still really funny and I continue to like how they expanding the stories they tell with old and smart Beavis and Butt-Head and Tom Anderson's war stories. I wish there had been a few more music videos and fewer watching YouTube videos. Especially since after two episodes I really thought we were going to see a video featuring Jack Harlow in each one. I also wish we could have seen Butt-Head get hurt a bit more, since more often it seemed like Beavis was the one feeling pain when something goes wrong. And I still want a proper Cornholio episode. We got like half of one when they ate breakfast at that other kid's house but I want more. Especially since in the episode where they tried to egg that house he ate pure sugar.

It's hard to say. There are movies in development through 2027 and 7 live action shows that haven't come out yet or are in development (plus What If season 3). With Disney saying they are going to slow down their output of Marvel stuff it could easily be 2028 before any kind of Young Avengers project happens. And at that point it will be really hard to convince people that it hasn't been years within the MCU since we last saw these characters.

Oh yea the way they shot that scene and how close Phoebe got to Melody it definitely seemed like they were going to kiss. It's too bad they didn't make it more clear, a scene with Phoebe talking to Podcast about how she was dating someone and how great they were but she couldn't tell her family would have been a good use for his character. They could even have kept him at home but have them talking over video chat.

I have been watching episodes on Disney plus lately with my 10 year old. When I pick I usually go with classic episodes, but when she picks it is a bit more random including the most recent season on D+. And while the new episodes still have decent writing I can't handle Kavner's Marge voice or Harry Shearer's Burns voice. How much they have changed is just so shocking when you bounce around seasons.

Yea you kind of just have to roll with it. I did like how when the showed the CGI underwater shot of the ship at the beginning they made a point of having an animated shark swimming towards it. I am just surprised that Bobby and Athena didn't also have to fight the shark when they were in the flooded sections of the ship. Although I would have been interested in seeing a cgi version of the helicopter land on the capsized ship, because I can't imagine any helicopter pilot would do that. Plus there didn't seem enough room in the helicopter for all the people with Athena and the 118 crew so how did they deal with that (even if Buck and Eddie left to go find Bobby).

Watched the first episode last night. It was really funny but probably didn't need to be as long as it was. There was probably 2-3 storylines worth of plot and a bunch of extra random Seth MacFarlane type stuff thrown in. If they had cut it down to 30 minutes it would have been really funny.

When we last saw them together sure, but that was 3 years ago when Kate was probably around 22 or 23. By the time any kind of Young Avengers movie or show actually comes out she will probably be almost 30 (which was my original complaint it takes them so long to follow up on things now). If she still has the same personality and still feels like a kid at that point it will be weird considering how much people generally change in those years. Plus it will absolutely make me think of Wooderson from Dazed and Confused since if she is 30 why is she hanging around with teenagers?

Watched it last night and was happy they fixed something that always bugged me about the original movie. When all the girls are fighting about the burn book, and the principal pulls the fire alarm, in the original it sets off all the sprinklers. But sprinklers don't work like that; pulling a fire alarm doesn't set them off and they aren't designed for them all to go off at the same time. So I was happy here when Tim Meadows pulls the alarm and it didn't happen.

Took my daughter to it and it was a ton of fun. Only thing I didn't like was how bringing back Podcast (and to a lesser extent Lucky) seemed really forced. And the movie would have worked just as well without Podcast since there were already a ton of characters. I noticed that and wondered if I was just imagining things or if they were going with. Because it definitely seemed like Phoebe sneaking out because she was secretly dating someone. Both actresses seemed to play it that way and did really well. And even some of the camera shots were how you would shoot a couple. Which also kind of worked since when Melody betrayed Phoebe it definitely hit harder.

If you don't count the years in the ice, Steve Rogers was only like 28 in Avengers (same age as Natasha). So if the hook is that this new team is Avengers, but they are young it seems like it's already been done.

That's one of the reasons why the idea of a Young Avengers team doesn't really work for me in the MCU. Kate is probably around 25 now. By the time a movie actually happens she will probably be close to 30 so hardly what I would call a "young" avenger. And since you don't have that sliding timeline like the comics do, since actors age,and movies take a long time to come out you only really get one shot to make a movie about young heroes since by the time you make the sequel they are just more heroes.