Big week for the men of Right Angle as they use up almost all of the Betamax tape on this Backstage episode.
https://youtu.be/vvf6kdz4iWc
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Right Angle: Backstage (03-22-2022)
Big week for the men of Right Angle as they use up almost all of the Betamax tape on this Backstage episode.
https://youtu.be/vvf6kdz4iWc
39 replies on “Right Angle: Backstage (03-22-2022)”
Oh, but you are mistaken! It all clings to the dust…and only the dust. Will I ever be currently caught up with your shows? Not likely…
If Kamala Harris was stoned she would make more sense.
Gents, Ketanji Brown’s response that she could not define what a woman is should be a disqualifying answer. As Scott pointed out somewhere, the Southwest case could hinge on what is a transportation employee. If she cannot define a woman, how can she determine a transportation employee?
additionally, title IX protects women and women’s sports. How could you adjudicate cases if you cannot define what a woman is?
My Bengal cat awakens me every AM, regardless of how much I feed him the night before. No alarms needed. If I don’t react immediately, he cups his paw around the nearest picture frame or TV remote and slings it off the bedside table across the floor.
Why do I allow this “training” (of me) to go on? Despite this, I like the cat. Reminds me of why I stay married, too. The behavior is related.
My brother came home to the farm after his first year away at college and was keeping late hours. Dad gave him grief about it until one morning when he went to wake up my brother, there was a note on the bedroom door that read “early to bed and early to rise, your girl goes out with other guys!” Never again did Dad say a word about the late nights out!
If I got out of bed past 6 AM, my dad would greet me with “Good afternoon”.
Scott, you have hit the nail on the head. To ask for psychological affirmation of a sin-disorder (you suggested “gossip-affirming therapy”) is showing just how much our country–and the rest of the world, for that matter, is sinking into a sin-pit that will eventually be impossible to dig our way out of.
Stop it!
If you guys watched that Falcon Heavy launch much later, damn you! You acted as if it was happening, because both Bill and Scott were just about 2 or 3 seconds behind Steve, so he was seeing it just ahead of the other two. Great acting all three of you if that was as fake as the old “Notre Dame Football Highlights” back in the 60’s. I have watched that R/A over and over, mostly for that one shot of the Falcon Heavy gleaming white just before MaxQ, with Spacex right-reading for the camera. Your reactions to that one shot made the show. That, and the landing of both boosters simulatneously for the first time ever.
Had 4 heart surgeries, I’ll take an hour plus of Backstage, any day!
The floor of my office is nice and neat, and clean. It’s my desk that looks like it’s inhabited by a giant, messy, cable weaving spider.
No, Bill, a secondary SSD for the pagefile will not significantly speed up your computer. The bottleneck is the bus, which carries the information from the drive(s). When the data stream on that bus is full, it’s full. Your primary SSD is as fast as you’re going to get a drive read/write wise.
Unless you care to go to a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) configuration of several (usually 5) disks. That will get you some boost in speed due to the disk buffers. Then several disks can be operating at the same time so you get a bump in program loads but it still won’t help a lot for your graphic rendering projects. Most any decent motherboard can be configured for RAID but it’s expensive (contrary to the name) and can be a pain to set up and get working right. Plus you’d have to start from scratch and reload your OS and everything else. The real advantage in a RAID array is compensation for disk failures. Which I would imagine if you’re working for hours or days on a video rendering and a disk fails with all your work on it … That would be a bad thing.
Never, ever trust a disk. Murphey builds them.
Yeah, not knowing the full specs of his system I would guess he needs one of those absurdly expensive graphics cards in addition to his 256GB of RAM. Probably a higher end CPU as well.
Something along the lines of an nVidia RTX 30-series or RTX A5000 would probably make a world of difference, if he’s not already using something like that. Those are the pro graphic cards movie studios use and they’re not cheap.
Of course, you have to consider what the minutes of your life are worth too. If you do a lot of that sort of thing then that’s the only way to go. Unless you like staying up to the wee hours of the morning waiting for a file to finish, often to find out that there was a problem and you’re in for further editing or have to start over.
Then too, the next tier down in video cards is very close in performance and considerably cheaper. If you can find them, there’s been a real strain on the market since COVID.
I’ve been burned too many times by AMD graphics cards, I’m avoiding them until they’ve got a good, solid decade or two of sterling reports before I’d even consider one.
Their CPUs are a different story and very hard to beat. For workhorse applications they’re fast, stable, and a lot cheaper than Intel. I’m running an old overclocked FX-8350 Black 125W on water cooling @ 4.9GHz in the machine I’m typing this on. With six monitors fed by three graphics cards, two browsers with 25+ tabs open per, RadarScope weather radar, a 20 camera Blue Iris surveillance system server, a commercial grade TP-Link wireless system software controller running commercial grade APs, an Emby server, 20 hard drives, a bunch of other smaller stuff running and playing Enya FLAC files in Groove Music through my AVR — It’s hanging at about 20F over ambient with the load bouncing between 40% and 60% with no discernable performance problems. On 16GB of decent RAM, which is only 78% utilized just this moment. This CPU is rated for 3.6GHz so … You can really put the spurs to an AMD processor if you do it right.
Not everyone is a video creator or a gamer and for us an AMD is a real winner CPU wise. When this one eventually blows up I’ll replace it with a Rizen and top end ASUS board. That said, they can keep their video cards.
For a high end video creation system I’d still stay with the Intel and buy the top of the line. That’s the main place where you’ll see any significant differences with AMD CPUs.
Think of AMD’s as Peterbuilts or Kenworths and Intels as sports cars and you’re in the right frame of reference.
Of course, that kind of card needs to match the rest of the system or … bottlenecks and performance hits on expensive gear can be very frustrating.
The thing I’m wondering about is how Bill didn’t know that offloading the pagefile to anything but your root disk was a good idea … back when there was no such thing as an SSD. Then it was the only way to go, not so much nowadays.
So maybe Bill needs some tech help and doesn’t know about high end graphics cards with tons of VRAM and scads of processing cores?
Dunno.
Hey Bill!! If you need some help with this stuff you have only to ask.
Wow you just blew my technical knowledge out of the water! I think Bill should get you to improve or at least look at his system.
Steve Green – “Sleepless in Bagdad?” — I’m pretty sure I saw that movie…
MadTV was much more consistently funny than SNL ever was.
Spy vs Spy in Mad Magazine was the best thing ever. I have several of those collections.
Most brilliant ending to a sitcom ever.
Absolutely. Newhart was under appreciated as a comic. But that show ending was one of the best bits of tv ever. Then he tells Suzanne, you should wear sweaters more. Brilliant. Suzanne pleschette was one of my unabashed crushes as a kid.
The “Bob and Ray” radio broadcasts were very good and underappreciated.
The PR guy with Lincoln was one of my all time favorite bits. No, No Abe. On the back of an envelope. It looks more authentic that way.
Fly swatting. Flies take a small jump back when they take off, so come from behind when swatting and you will be successful.
I got a “Bug-a-Salt” for Christmas and now I just shoot ’em. If, of course, the salt won’t damage anything. It’s not a good idea to blast ’em with salt if they’re sitting on a TV screen or on my Yamaha AVR etc. Hydrophilic salt is not good for electronic components. It makes a dandy electrolyte which also has the benefit of being highly corrosive.
My husband shoots flies firing rubber bands off a ruler.
Yeah, I used to do that before my sister armed me with the latest bug blaster last Christmas. I still use my electrified bug zapper tennis racket thing too. That’s safe for things where salt would be a problem, all the juice stays in the racket. I have no problem using chemical warfare on the little mongrels either. Bug spray and skeeter dope are some of the crowning achievements of our species.
Bill, it’s an hour. get a grip.
“A Ring of Bright Water.” My sister and I went to see it at the drive-in. I was not a little kid. I bawled my eyes out for hours.
That’s a very good movie. And I would not recommend anyone watch it.
Another great film not to watch. Watership Down, a 1978 animated adaptation of Richard Adams’s fantasy novel of the same name. It follows the adventures and conflicts of a highly anthropomorphised group of rabbits in southern England. It’s lovely, with characters voiced by the likes of Sir Ralph Richardson, John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Hannah Gordon, Sir Michael Hordern etc. Art Garfunkle contributes the song Bright Eyes, and let’s just say not all the rabbits make it.
Ed Power of The Independent said the film was a classic that also “arguably traumatised an entire generation.”. Not often I agree with a ‘Dependant journo but, yup, I was eight when it came out, he’s not wrong.
I saw that when it was released. Gawd that was the most depressing, cloudy skies, lonely actors, otter and a shovel….scarred me for life. That and “Born Free” came out at the same time. it was a depressing summer for movies!
Regarding the bill passed in the Senate about Daylight Saving, what I read was it would enable each state to pick what they wanted to do. That would mean CO can pick Central Standard all year.
Biden might want Congress to waive the student loans so they can do it “bi-partisan” and blame Republicans if things go wrong.
To Scott’s second topic, the left keeps saying Speech has Consequences, so if these people want to claim free speech when shouting down a speaker, not getting hired is a consequence. Also, though the campus is federally funded, there are rules of behavior for events and people who violate them can be removed from the room. Professors are not badgered and spoken over by students. Speakers shouldn’t be either.
Bill’s suggestion of students with airhorns would be good if Scott’s predicted court case goes the way he was predicting.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian did have a bit about a guy wearing a dress and treated like a woman, and the others refuse.
Great show! Just shattered that 1 hour mark by almost 10 minutes! Definitely, one of the most entertaining episodes of Backstage in a while.
If by some miracle William Thomas actually could become a woman, she’d never be a LADY.
Now if there was only a way to use Backstage as a recruiting tool? You guys already said it Rumble where viewing can be done free but it costs to comment. It would harvest from the regular YouTube viewer who hasn’t made the commitment.
It costs to comment on Rumble? If so, I’d like to know who’s paying my bill.
Same – although I will admit to being completely ignorant of how Rumble works.
256 GB of RAM — that is a good start. 😉
WOW! More than an hour entertainment begins with blatant cable envy on display in Bill’s cave. Nice.