If an unimpressive Stanton on its own is weird, and an unimpressive Stanton on a team of impressive non-Stantons is weirder, then an unimpressive Stanton on a team of impressive non-Stantons coached by Barry Bonds is the weirdest.
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Sorry Oscar … The second revision was requested because my solution to fixing the unimpressive fill in the SE corner unfortunately yielded a series of unimpressive longer entries.
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This thinking is unimpressive to undecided Republicans and independent voters.
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The initial reading was an unimpressive 0.3% on March 1.
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But Rubio's unimpressive debate performance calls all this into question.
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Both shows feature liberal use of slow-motion shots of unimpressive people doing unimpressive things soundtracked by edgy music, a gag that at this point has become something of a visual signature for Hill.
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Those unimpressive results are partly my fault for being a wuss.
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Underneath that unimpressive showing lies sharply negative assessments of the president.
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These lizards are born with unimpressive brown and white polka dots.
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These include low productivity growth and an unimpressive record on innovation.
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Worse, every region saw reduced demand from an unimpressive first quarter.
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The décor is unimpressive, but the specialty pancakes are on point.
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In season 6, their murder of Dornish prince Trystane is equally unimpressive.
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And, most important, Bradford has been statistically unimpressive for his entire career.
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By almost any measure, the Mayans' recent GDP growth has been unimpressive.
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The Pixel 4's design is unimpressive, but that's because it's useful.
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Harvey's first outing last weekend was unimpressive, but Friday's performance was better.
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I find [what they've been up to for the last decade] rather unimpressive.
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And you need a beefy Windows PC right now, despite the unimpressive results.
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Second, the market already knows this is going to be an unimpressive number.
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Most of the greats of the past had ratios that seem unimpressive today.
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But his Ph.D. thesis was unimpressive, and he could not find a job.
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Fuel economy is a thoroughly unimpressive 13 mpg city/17 highway/14 combined.
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Over the last few years, Russia's financial situation has been stable, but unimpressive.
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Cars broke down and crashed at unimpressive speeds; others failed to start at all.
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But the broader hedge-fund performance numbers for 2016 so far have been unimpressive.
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There is no doubt that Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn are singularly unimpressive figures.
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After an unimpressive pitch, however, the new potential customer turned down Hacking Team's offer.
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None of this will help already unimpressive economic growth, or the chance for change.
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The LCD screen is unimpressive and flipping it out is an unpleasantly stuttery affair.
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As for Trump's approval rating, it remains an unimpressive 42 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight.
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New England made the move despite Brady being thoroughly unimpressive at the NFL combine.
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But Steph cuts an unimpressive figure, even when he's standing right next to you.
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He also thinks its earnings growth in the next few years looks relatively unimpressive.
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But the collection as a whole remained unimpressive, with one exception: the photography department.
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Their design looks frightfully unimpressive even by 803 standards, never mind our elevated 2018 expectations.
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The trouble for Deutsche is that Mr Sewing's target may be both unimpressive and unachievable.
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So far, centrists have done a singularly unimpressive job of putting their philosophy back together.
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Even Amazon's attempts to become a book publisher have been pretty small-scale and unimpressive.
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Some of these are of very brief changes in facial expression and very unimpressive movements.
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But this unimpressive presidential record has not signaled a party on the verge of collapse.
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This easy dinnertime staple can often seem bland, unimpressive, and just plain boring to make.
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"In terms of EBRD investment the numbers, this year will be rather unimpressive," he said.
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He's watched too as the once mighty local spring has slowed to an unimpressive trickle.
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But partly because of their unimpressive defense, they have yet to beat anyone truly impressive.
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He entered Friday with a 3663-1 record, but an unimpressive 4.07 earned run average.
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Sadly, when we walked into immigration court, we often saw seemingly unprepared and unimpressive lawyering.
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Trump, by contrast, was born rich, and they say his actual investment record is unimpressive.
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Lazy writers appropriated his name and image for their Devil worship drivel is unimpressive and boring.
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Irrespective of the device connected to the Galaxy Buds, they exhibit unimpressive connection range and stability.
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All these unimpressive specs can be yours for the reasonable price of €225, about $242 USD.
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Why it matters: The unimpressive performance could not have come at a worse time for Turkey.
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Its performance hasn't improved since its unimpressive debut and shows no sign of getting a boost.
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In this context, Homo sapiens is a rather unimpressive algorithm, destined for obsolescence—or an upgrade.
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Republicans were then left with a somewhat unimpressive field of candidates, from which Rosendale narrowly emerged.
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For security researchers, however, Hacking Team's tools are still as unimpressive as they used to be.
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Some hiring managers apply the same logic, and are willing to forgive an unimpressive first performance.
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Inflation measures have remained largely unimpressive recently, keeping investors skeptical of an additional hike this year.
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Up came Flores, who had gone hitless in three unimpressive at-bats earlier in the game.
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For example, Ronald Reagan, arguably the last president to win a real blowout, had unimpressive turnouts.
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But some also alleged that the company's tools were unimpressive, convoluted, and never proven to have worked.
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Much of the money went to directly to aid organizations, with results on the ground mostly unimpressive.
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A month later, Barao was relatively unimpressive in his tune-up fight with a game Mitch Gagnon.
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Those teams had been fairly unimpressive, on the whole, and Contreras's slash lines hadn't shown much, either.
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This past year, America made for an unimpressive student, scoring an abysmal D+ for it's overall infrastructure.
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But Apple is unimpressive in a way that often worries investors: It is a slower growing company.
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"The pile of papers is rather unimpressive, rebutting Trump's efforts to make them monumental," the description reads.
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When she opened for business online in April 2015, the first month's sales were decidedly unimpressive: $300.
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In 2006, the first test explosion, while unimpressive, entered North Korea into the club of nuclear powers.
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A frankly unimpressive turnoff from the highway leads away from the mountains and moves toward the ocean.
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And yet, when the time came for choosing, turnout at the polls was unimpressive -- its lowest since 1996.
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When you just see them flit across a room or picnic table, they're relatively unimpressive, even if annoying.
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Individually, they're small and greasy and unimpressive, but together they have power both in numbers and in popularity.
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Host Tom Hanks was David S. Pumpkins, an unknown and unimpressive Halloween character complete with skeleton backup dancers.
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Two months later Nhlanhla Nene, the widely respected finance minister, was fired and replaced by an unimpressive backbencher.
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"Today's latest effort to relitigate the special counsel's investigation remains unimpressive and unproductive," he said in a statement.
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A pretty unimpressive screen The Rs. 7,990 ($121) device isn't going to impress anyone with its specs, honestly.
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It looked more compelling than 3D TVs ever did, but still seemed unimpressive for something priced at $8,000.
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Health stocks slid 0.85 percent, largely as cancer drug makers posted unimpressive trial data at an industry conference.
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Even when the administration has made good on sanctions promises in recent weeks, new measures have been unimpressive.
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The Chiefs defense remains unimpressive, and the Raiders will likely have to throw the ball to keep pace.
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Lugo posted unimpressive numbers in Class AAA, and some scouts doubted that he would ever reach the majors.
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Kerber has been unimpressive in her lead-up events, losing early in tuneup tournaments in Sydney and Brisbane.
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I'm the person who makes immaculate gardens in Minecraft in spite of its unimpressive gardening and farming mechanics.
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I can't think of another instance where a song has been so ostensibly unimpressive, yet equally so beguiling.
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Not every exchange was equally illuminating; candidates ultimately offered relatively unimpressive proposals for closing the pay gap, for instance.
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Their leaders, a charisma-free robot and a superannuated Marxist, are two of the most unimpressive in recent history.
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After 16 years in the House, his résumé isn't unimpressive, but by his own admission it could be stronger.
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Sony's smartphone division continues to turn in unimpressive performance, but the company remains the market leader in image sensors.
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In 2001 the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl with a record-setting defence and a deeply unimpressive offence.
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So, what about Smith's unimpressive stat line after Game 2 (5 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists in 31 minutes)??
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His stats this season — six total games played, and five total points scored as of this writing — are unimpressive.
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In recent years, meal-subscription services have been offered up as a new solution for this outwardly unimpressive problem.
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Siri also gets a lot of shit nowadays for being all-around unimpressive when compared to Google's digital assistant.
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But the thrust behind rallies has been unimpressive and the strength has been selective and shifting within the market.
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The exit velocity of the game-deciding groundout was unimpressive, a mere 218 miles per hour, or six m.p.h.
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From there she traveled cross-country to New York, which, after a three-month journey, struck her as unimpressive.
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Biden's unimpressive fundraising numbers play into an existing narrative about his campaign — that it is not exciting grassroots Democrats.
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His performances on the trail have been meandering and unimpressive; he seems to inspire more affection than genuine enthusiasm.
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To describe the work is wholly inadequate as the materials themselves were unimpressive, some lights, some mirrors, some mist.
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Jamaica's Commonwealth Games champion Janieve Russell won the 2109m hurdles with ease, but her time of 285 was unimpressive.
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For trade hawks, the specifics of the agreement are unimpressive, despite Trump's claim that this is a historic deal.
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Coaches for the New Orleans Saints told stories about how "unimpressive" he was during training, writes ESPN's Mike Triplett.
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Growth in property investment, a major driver of the economy, dropped to an unimpressive 1 percent – a seven-year low.
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All five of those GOP candidates to replace Rubio seemed unimpressive and were viewed as likely to lose to Rep.
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His victory in the 275 Masters was similarly unimpressive, at nine strokes above average and a 250% chance of victory.
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Nordstrom, one of the few retail market bright spots in 2018, announced earnings and guidance on Wednesday that were unimpressive.
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One might notice the failed book proposal, the unimpressive word count, the fact that I was diagnosably lonely and ridiculous.
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Wildlife campaigners have instead focused on convincing Vietnamese businessmen that brown-nosing peers with expensive gifts is unnecessary and unimpressive.
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I duly posted an unimpressive picture of a slipper and began looking for hacks to boost my likes and followers.
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Google's fraught decision-making notwithstanding, the Pixel phones are influential far beyond the unimpressive number of people who own one.
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But it's the Green Party's long history of unimpressive outcomes that makes the sudden shift in political fortunes so striking.
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He himself, small, physically unimpressive, was the forgettable type, and being forgettable was an asset in this kind of work.
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To test players' judgment, Pioneer occasionally feeds them a fake contest, between a past winner and a project considered unimpressive.
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This doesn't necessarily mean that we'll have a recession soon, but we're almost surely looking at unimpressive growth at best.
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Carson Palmer threw a touchdown and an interception, bringing his season totals to an unimpressive six scores and five picks.
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And in the U.S., inflation has been running at more than 2% per year, which makes 3% wage gains rather unimpressive.
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But they have enough financial power arrayed behind them to persist in the race even after an unimpressive New Hampshire finish.
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Released Tuesday, the report and accompanying EEO filing are unimpressive at best, even by Silicon Valley's notoriously low standards for diversity.
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It's an objectively unimpressive film, but smoking will shine a harsh spotlight on how slow, mediocre and painfully unfunny it is.
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Taz has not been performing consistently in ELeague, putting up unimpressive numbers in many of the team's match ups so far.
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The Rams went 7-9 in St. Louis last year while getting unimpressive quarterback play from Nick Foles and Case Keenum.
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He flew to New York to watch his son's first match, an unimpressive win, then flew back to Quebec for work.
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Just as often, it fails when it is little more than a clumsy shorthand for socially concerned art, unobjectionable and unimpressive.
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She said that she had been a mediocre student in elementary school and that her first ACT score had been unimpressive.
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"One day Mr. Trump is making statements that are impressive and the next day doing things that are unimpressive," said Rep.
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Cody Kessler completes two-thirds of his passes and is wildly unimpressive in doing so, but he's just doing his job.
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As has been typical of the young public company, its sales growth has been as impressive as its user growth is unimpressive.
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Android Wear 2.0 has been off to a rocky start, with unimpressive hardware options that either compromise on battery life or design.
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Bumgarner will be opposed by Padres right-hander Luis Perdomo, who has been unimpressive against the Giants in three meetings this season.
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Tiny, unimpressive Delaware realized long ago that to stay competitive, it has to give people a reason to send them their money.
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On that score, Italy's performance since the euro crisis has been unimpressive when compared with that of other former porkers (see chart).
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Two mid-sized Chinese lenders made unimpressive debuts on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Wednesday, in part reflecting concerns about NPLs.
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"I was writing to impress people, and it turns out that when you do that, you write very unimpressive prose," he said.
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There may be more birds and other animals out there that, although cognitively unimpressive, have societies as many-layered as our own.
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However, like unimpressive action films before and after it, Revenge of the Fallen managed to pick up a Best Sound Mixing nod.
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While Akron went an unimpressive 4-8 last season, that campaign did include one upset victory over Northwestern early in the season.
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Those cars will also likely come with better tech, too, as the Land Cruiser makes do with Toyota's unimpressive Entune infotainment system.
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The new high in the S&P a couple weeks ago was tentative and marginal, coming on low momentum and unimpressive market breadth.
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This could help explain why top schools continue to attract record numbers of applicants, despite studies showing their unimpressive impact on future earnings.
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She started off at an unimpressive position in the polls and had some difficulties fundraising, and pundit after pundit declared she was underperforming.
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As every Game of Thrones fan knows, Sansa Stark has come a long way since her unimpressive beginnings — but that might not last.
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After the law expired, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania expressed in a federally funded report that the ban's overall effect was unimpressive.
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One warning sign was that Valeant's profits were unimpressive under generally accepted accounting principles, the standard bookkeeping that all public companies must use.
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For the longest time, Condit seemed to be on the way out of contention—looking thoroughly unimpressive against Tyron Woodley and Thiago Alves.
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As we turned into the main CIA entrance drive, seeing it through their eyes, I realized the guard house ahead appeared disappointingly unimpressive.
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Meanwhile, Katko is sitting on over $900,000 and his current Democratic opponents are unimpressive, so let's hope Ryan makes up his mind soon.
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Perhaps because they didn't get access to Austyn's manager, the filmmakers have Weist dismissively comment on Austyn's unimpressive stats and low fan engagement.
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But it's an unimpressive start to say the least, especially for a movie whose week-of-release trailer was created by artificial intelligence.
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Yesterday, Booker took to Twitter to suspend his campaign — the end of a once-promising journey mired in insufficient fundraising and unimpressive polling.
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Perry, a former most valuable player, finished with a goal and two assists, posting another solid playoff game following an unimpressive regular season.
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The talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel has gotten laughs by challenging parents to give their children unimpressive presents and then record their reactions.
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What most impressed about the pitching was how unimpressive it was, a shruggy assumed competence; you'd have thought they play every game this way.
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But once abandoned, they dissolved in the rain and rotted away, leaving behind unimpressive mounds of dirt and rubble that were swallowed by vegetation.
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I, along with my boyfriend and best friend, tried the dish with good faith but came to the consensus that it was simply unimpressive.
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"I think my irons are good, my drive is straight but unimpressive in length, and my putting's decent, chipping is OK," Obama told Feherty.
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The European Commission has cut the 2019 eurozone growth forecast to 1.2% from an already unimpressive 1.9% -- with concerns over Germany's economic strength abound.
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HP Inc, which holds the computer and printer business that Whitman carved out of Hewlett Packard, slipped 6.5 percent after reporting an unimpressive profit.
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Every other year for the iPhone I see and hear the same things — that the middle years are unimpressive and not worthy of upgrading.
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HP Inc, which holds the computer and printer business that Whitman carved out of Hewlett Packard, lost 2146.00 percent after reporting an unimpressive profit.
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Lineker worked at a pretty unimpressive 28% connection ratio in that bout while Dodson out landed him and worked at a considerably higher percentage.
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Rebounds in recent months have been fairly unimpressive, and the "sell-the-news" response so far to good earnings is keeping traders off balance.
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Google released its Stadia game-streaming platform on November 19 to a tepid reception that mostly focused on the service&aposs unimpressive games library.
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As impressive (and unimpressive) as HoloLens is, Windows Holographic and the success of mixed reality headsets will hinge on developer support and cheaper gear.
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Trading in the U.S. remained strong, but analysts said that it had fared less well in Europe and Britain, and its margins were unimpressive.
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Not coincidentally, Biden's ability to wrap up endorsements from Democratic Party elected officials has been fairly unimpressive for a well-liked former vice president.
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The plain, obvious truth is that Trump is running a racist campaign based on an unimpressive record in business and bad public policy ideas.
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And while Twitter's U.S. user growth and advertising revenue were unimpressive in the fourth quarter, both looked solid in the rest of the world.
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The average savings account in the US pays an unimpressive 0.09%, and some of the biggest banks in the US pay just 0.01% interest.
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Again, we may be seeing real emotion from Getty (even if it takes the unimpressive form of jealousy) tucked somewhere beneath those cold layers.
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Looking at the decade&aposs biggest disappointments for the video game business brings back a list of unimpressive consoles, expensive peripherals, and forgotten trends.
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The results: In August, Dick's announced its strongest quarter since 2016 and raised its full year guidance, after unimpressive sales immediately following the announcement.
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Those otherwise unimpressive features — 1080p display, midrange processor, and blocky design, which allows for a large, 3,510mAh battery — combine to provide outstanding longevity between charges.
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Trading in the United States remained strong, but analysts said that it had fared less well in Europe and Britain, and its margins were unimpressive.
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The technological aspect is just totally invisible and, if you're not paying attention to how challenging this is technically, it feels almost pedestrian and unimpressive.
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In some ways, it makes the genre unimpressive: It didn't spark a trend, awaken widespread desires, or change even a niche audience's perceptions of sexuality.
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About 23 minutes of unimpressive 3D effects, I flipped the shades up to see what I was missing, and, oh, what a difference I saw.
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Mexican stocks were marginally lower with shares of Cemex, one of the world's largest cement producers falling over 218.9337 percent after an unimpressive 20.42 outlook.
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But the plain, obvious truth is that Trump is running a racist campaign based on an unimpressive record in business and bad public policy ideas.
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What the New Unlikeable gives us as viewers is permission to recognize the worst parts of ourselves, and take pleasure in small, generally unimpressive changes.
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There's nothing wrong with this kind of humor if it's done with some originality, and "Wrecked," after an unimpressive premiere, gradually finds an amusing groove.
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Despite its unimpressive real estate, the port here, which was hit with more Japanese bombs in 1942 than Pearl Harbor, has long had strategic value.
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It's worth noting, too, that Netflix's library of kid-oriented content is pretty unimpressive for the most part in terms of quality, if not volume.
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But after writing about this subject for more than a decade, I can tell you that's what every college with an unimpressive Pell share claims.
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The cheese ball barrel weighs in at an unimpressive 1.75 pounds, fooling many people into thinking they could chow down on this tub no problem.
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This is a working proposition within Phish-world; it is also, I guess, why Phish often sounds unimpressive to many people outside of that world.
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HP Inc, which holds the computer and printer business that Whitman carved out of old Hewlett Packard, fell 8 percent after reporting an unimpressive profit.
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The bottom line: The unimpressive market performance of Peloton, Lyft, Uber and SmileDirectClub has poured ice cold water on 2019's stock market IPO euphoria.
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It's on the larger side, with a chunky, unimpressive design, a lower-resolution 1080p display than many other 5.5-inch phones, and a midrange Qualcomm processor.
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Ride-hailing rivals Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc were on the road to their second straight day of gains following their unimpressive post-debut performances.
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But other publishers might not want to build for this new, tiny platform, if it meant producing material that would feel unimpressive on high-end headsets.
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The camera takes unimpressive photos and the app suite is something that can be easily replicated by apps from the Play Store on any other phone.
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Since joining the service in 2013, I've sporadically used the platform to upload selfies, childhood photos, and remarkably unimpressive shots of the New York City skyline.
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The oldest and longest-tenured coach on our list was also the most conservative on 21th downs, and the Bot marked Coughlin an unimpressive 26-2917.
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That sounds unimpressive, but for an app that was basically in pre-launch mode and not open broadly, it's worth noting that it ranked at all.
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Kent Smetters — a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and a Treasury official in President George W. Bush's administration — found Mr. Trump's reasoning unimpressive.
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The new year has only intensified nervousness over slowing global growth while providing a steady drumbeat of unimpressive holiday sales, and slashed revenue and profit forecasts.
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Although it's hilarious to drag their trash polls (and their unimpressive sandwiches), we're starting to think that this was just a weird-ass attempt to troll everyone.
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Harding was not a very bright guy, and even though he had been lieutenant governor of Ohio and became a senator, he was terribly shallow and unimpressive.
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Amazon's annual sales are less than a third those of Walmart and its share of the grocery market is an unimpressive 2%, even after its recent acquisition.
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A YEAR AGO the idea that Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain with an unimpressive career as a congressman, might become Brazil's president seemed outlandish.
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HP Inc, comprising the computer and printer business that Whitman carved out of the old Hewlett Packard, was also down 4.7 percent after reporting an unimpressive profit.
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When I first saw the Force Band nine months ago at CES 2015, it was a somewhat unimpressive looking white plastic wearable with some pretty awesome capabilities.
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But just because the group could be set for unimpressive performance over the next year doesn't mean individual stocks in the group can't exceed expectations, Kostin wrote.
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Despite unimpressive condition scores and the near-term possibility for dryness to worsen, there is virtually no indication that U.S. winter wheat yield is currently at risk.
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P.S.G. IN SCORELESS DRAW Paris St.-Germain prepared for its Champions League game against Chelsea with an unimpressive 0-0 draw against Montpellier in the French league.
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In Salt Lake City on Thursday, voters said they were more disheartened by the acrimonious tone in Las Vegas than they were by Mr. Bloomberg's unimpressive night.
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But the interiors — which had unimpressive moldings and mantels, beige tile and an aesthetic that might be described as "traditional light" — were not quite what they envisioned.
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In Esparza's first title defence, she took on Polish striker Joanna Jedrzejczyk, who had just come off an unimpressive and controversial split decision win over Claudia Gadelha.
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While cooling inflation is expected to have boosted domestic consumption in the second quarter, economists said, growth for that period probably remained unimpressive due to weak government spending.
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In our review of the $300 DTEK50 we thought it was an acceptable-looking but ultimately unimpressive device, outclassed by other Android phones in the same price range.
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This rings true for startups, which need to factor the long hours, unimpressive benefits packages and growing pains — not an ideal environment for those unsure about their future.
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Additionally, the U12's Battery Saver mode kicked in randomly one day early on in my review, making me think the phone's display was particularly dim and unimpressive.
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And even then, the most likely outcome is higher rates for Proton rockets — the Russian-made rocket that destroyed the Mexican satellite and had an unimpressive track record.
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The two left-handed hitters competed for the starting job in spring training but both were so unimpressive that the Cardinals began experimenting with Holliday at first base.
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Internally, it's running on an unimpressive Atom x5 processor, but this is the tradeoff that Lenovo has chosen, valuing real-world, tactile appeal more highly than synthetic performance.
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The Pixel 4's unimpressive design enables radar-powered features like Motion Sense that makes unlocking the Pixel 4 the best unlocking experience on a smartphone so far.
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But they're lots of fun, and given advancements in technology, they're not at all underpowered or unimpressive, even if they ultimately aren't as rewarding as proper muscle cars.
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He will finish with about 21 fewer points than his MVP season a year ago, which makes his 22-23 look unimpressive in comparison, fair or not. 269.
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He notes what appears to be an unimpressive decrease to 6 percent from 8 percent in the number of cardiovascular events in the Sprint study's high target group.
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The San Jose Sharks look to continue their rise in the Western Conference and improve their unimpressive home record when the Calgary Flames pay them a visit on Thursday.
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Two years after an unimpressive IPO, Etsy fired its CEO and restructured the company in hopes of increasing revenue and putting the company on the path toward greater profitability.
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That flop was closely followed by unimpressive data from Roche's Aphinity study that showed combining Roche's two breast cancer drugs Herceptin and Perjeta produced only a modest additional benefit.
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The joy that I'm feeling just thinking about this pleasant but unimpressive event in someone else's life is really making me feel better about myself as a person. Yep.
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Rick Steves named the attraction among his top 10 tourist traps in Europe, and TripAdvisor reviewers say the castle views and gardens are as unimpressive as the stone itself.
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The Nets' average television rating was just 0.47 for the first half of the season, according to Sports Business Journal, down 15 percent from last season's already unimpressive numbers.
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Incumbent Kelly Bryant, who guided the Tigers to a 12-2 record last season and beat out Lawrence for the starting quarterback job in fall camp, was relatively unimpressive.
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In contrast, Sweden squeezed into the quarterfinals in unimpressive fashion, beating South Africa, 1-0; getting steamrollered by Brazil, 5-1; and then playing a scoreless tie with China.
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It's that IQ is a very noisy measure of all intellectual talents averaged together, and some people with unimpressive general IQs can still be extremely talented in particular fields.
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Kentucky's Tyler Ulis shot an unimpressive 34 percent on threes this year, but his 86 percent free throw shooting suggests his jumper won't hold him back in the NBA.
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Folks in the neighborhood had taken to calling it the Wack Spot, a dingy cardboard box of a structure tucked away at the edge of an unimpressive side street.
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The brand's reach remains unimpressive by Gucci standards, but business has been good enough to give Oliver "the ability to do whatever the hell I want" in the studio.
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Sure, Apple always makes the "best iPhone ever," but the latest batch of models was so unimpressive that it almost immediately started offering deals through a sweetened trade-in promotion.
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The dollar had slipped on Thursday following unimpressive U.S. employment data and a surge in the Chinese yuan as Beijing made moves to shake out large bets against its currency.
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They look like any old pair of disposable ear buds, and they come in the cheapest, most unimpressive packaging with only three sets of silicone tips and nothing else provided.
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Ishiguro was in the Lone Star State to promote a number of his products and prototypes, including a small, rather unimpressive-looking robot named the CommU (short for Communication Unity).
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We started the year with the gloomy death of the Wii U, an excellent console that never took off, and lots of talk about Nintendo's shift to unimpressive mobile games.
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That was followed by HP Inc, comprising the computer and printer business that Whitman carved out of the old Hewlett Packard, which fell 5.7 percent after reporting an unimpressive profit.
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In 1946, Thomas and Goldsmith crossed two university varieties, only one of which was widely available, yielding what at first appeared to be an unimpressive plant of uncertain commercial value.
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They technically broke the cycle last week, but should get only partial credit since the win came against an unimpressive Tampa Bay team, and Atlanta's defense still allowed 29 points.
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Foldable smartphones have been promised as the hot new gadget of 2019 — a way for smartphone design to be exciting again — but the results so far have been pretty unimpressive.
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While Twitter's user growth and advertising revenue for the United States was unimpressive in the fourth quarter, the company showed solid gains in both in the rest of the world.
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"Priti Patel", the unimpressive home secretary, "is all we have left of a once-mighty intellectual movement," jokes one minister, as he helps himself to another sliver of salmon sashimi.
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This doesn't imply the market is peaking, simply that — from this perspective — forward returns will be unimpressive over the next few years (in the 5 percent a year range, say).
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Meanwhile in 2202, a gaggle of often-unimpressive Democratic contenders came to be called the "Seven Dwarfs," prefiguring the even more scattered original 2628 GOP candidates for this year's contest.
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Tim Ryan after he exited the 2020 White House race, mocking the Democratic congressman's unimpressive performance in primary polling and failure to participate in the party's most recent televised debates.
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It's because he earns 28,103 times the average salary of a Fleetcor employee, has delivered unimpressive results for Fleetcor's stock holders and just 210% of shareholders voted to approve his pay.
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Beijingers, on the other hand, were far more unhappy even than their city's unimpressive ranking of 28th on the objective index (and an unusually blue-skied winter) would appear to warrant.
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Asus Zenfone 2Other than annoyingly spelling "phone" with an "f," the Zenfone 2 comes with two tragic flaws: a unimpressive camera and an absolute crap ton of software you don't want.
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The big picture: Bankers have warned that direct listings are risky, but the unimpressive IPOs of Lyft and Uber are challenging the notion that companies benefit by going the traditional route.
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But the Parliamentary Labour Party is a deeply unimpressive lot; only in a very small and stagnant pond would profound mediocrities like Hilary Benn or Angela Eagle be the biggest fish.
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Even though the U.S. finished group play without a loss, questions about their ability to claim a third straight gold swirled after three unimpressive narrow wins to close out preliminary play.
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Gabbard's lack of support in qualifying polls left her off the December debate stage, and her relatively unimpressive fundraising haul could threaten her campaign in the run-up to primary season.
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The two-time Swiss Olympian is 47, took up the sport at 33 and quit her job as a bookkeeper to concentrate on shooting after an unimpressive showing at London 2012.
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O'Rourke's loose style and infectious videos snapped in Whataburger parking lots attracted an incredible $79 million in donations, while Cruz raised and spent a not-unimpressive $45 million of his own.
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Beyond that, it also banned accounts involved in a fairly unimpressive influence campaign allegedly linked to the Russian-based Internet Research Agency and others it said appeared to be linked to Iran.
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While by itself that's unimpressive, the key is that these bits can be demonstrated to be random even to a faraway skeptic, by using the telltale biases that come from quantum interference.
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I understand that Republican voters are filled with an insatiable anger stemming from unbridled electoral enthusiasm that still failed to halt unremitting social change, or elect their hopelessly unimpressive recent presidential candidates.
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Hence the existential hand-wringing over Solo's unimpressive box office numbers, or the suggestion that superhero fatigue might be setting in after Deadpool 2's opening weekend didn't live up to predictions.
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I want to be bullish on these devices and voice interfaces as a platform, but they are so painfully unimpressive after several years, even as natural language processing has made impressive advances.
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Official gross domestic product statistics show first-quarter growth in the economy, at an annual rate, was just 6.1 percent — unimpressive for a big, poor country with much catching up to do.
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The 2019 Silverado is by no means a bad or even unimpressive truck; on the contrary, it's easily one of the most exciting new half-ton trucks we've seen in some time.
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The system had its advantages, like great autofocus performance and the best underwater camera ever made, but the image quality was so unimpressive it made no sense for almost anyone to buy.
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There's no disguising how unimpressive this TV movie is, from the T-Bird reject zombies to the maudlin ending featuring the ghost of Wayne reappearing in a glowing orb to save the day.
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Akin Ipek, the fugitive former owner of the conglomerate, asked on Twitter how Koza Ipek's $600 million in cash and $20 billion in mining assets could be acquired by a comparatively unimpressive entity.
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Yelp posted solid earnings for the first quarter but its forward guidance was unimpressive and led to a rout in its stock price to end last week, erasing all of its 2019 gains.
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But a 13-10 loss to the Cowboys at the end of November kicked off an unimpressive six-game stretch where the league's No. 3 scoring offense averaged just 19.2 points per game.
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Those numbers are pretty unimpressive — many of those candidates are lagging the average American in the percentage of income they donate to charity (about 3 percent), despite all having annual incomes above $200,000.
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That, they hope, would prompt a mass exodus from Trump and deny him the nomination, something they deem a necessary response to his controversial stances and comments, as well as unimpressive poll numbers.
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But the French attack, which was supposed to be its strength with players like Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé, has been unimpressive so far except for a few passages of sparkling combination play.
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For the Dolphins, the season finale had the feel of an exhibition game, with thousands of empty seats and David Fales giving a lengthy, unimpressive audition as a potential backup quarterback in 2018.
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For anyone familiar with the principles of personal finance and investing, my trick was unimpressive and easily reproducible: Just spend much less than you earn and pour the difference into efficient index funds.
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It was an unimpressive win for the Republican — with the vote count nearly finished, she led Espy by 8 points, after Donald Trump won Mississippi by 18 in 2016 — but a win nonetheless.
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That's what happens when you limit yourself to a rather short and unimpressive list of acolytes in the construction of a team that is intended — partly, at least — to enhance your own coaching legacy.
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But in the remainder of the op-ed, Barrasso — who has a lifetime score of 8 percent from the League of Conservation Voters — reveals what he means, and as climate policy, it is ... unimpressive.
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Prime-time firebrand Megyn Kelly took off for NBC; given Kelly's unimpressive work at NBC, that loss doesn't look so bad for FNC, but it added to the instability at cable news' top channel.
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After an unimpressive start to the year, Twitter staged a 43 percent climb in the past six months — a trend the analyst believes will continue with daily active user growth and scaling ad revenue.
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If anything, the NHL has lucked out recently because at least the Blackhawks and Kings have won multiple Cups, so it feels like they've been dominant even though their regular-season records are pretty unimpressive.
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Last week, The New Yorker published Kristen Roupenian's short story Cat Person, a tale of a college sophomore's short-lived, wholly unimpressive date with a man and the aftermath of her rejecting his further affection.
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Or maybe it was the USS Ronald Reagan — a massive, 20123,000-foot-long nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier — looming large just across the bay — that made the Izumo seem just a bit unimpressive by comparison.
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Despite growing up in the backyard of college hoops powers Duke and North Carolina, Curry's list of scholarship offers was decidedly unimpressive, with only a single one from a school in a top sports conference.
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LG's first two X phones were mid-range Android devices with generally unimpressive specs that promised to make up for their shortcomings by bringing one premium feature each down to a much less expensive market.
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Critics rating: 9%The live adaptation of "The Cat In the Hat" didn't capture the joy of Dr. Seuss' book and the humor fell flat, making this film an unimpressive portrayal of Dr. Seuss story.
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The "Wanle Gamers Console For iPhone" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, and equally unimpressive is its use of an ancient, segmented LCD screen to play basic clones of 10 different games like Tetris and Snake.
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The Circle, a film adaptation of the best-selling novel by David Eggers about a mega-Silicon Valley company that has sinister plans to control the world, opened recently to tepid reviews and unimpressive box office.
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LA will also soon be home to bike-share programs in Downtown LA, Venice and Westwood—sure to be welcome in a city that ranked an unimpressive 20213th in Walk Score's ranking of bike-friendly cities.
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A recent meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics reviewed every paper released on the topic and concluded corn ethanol offers an unimpressive 0.23 percent total reduction in greenhouse gasses relative to gasoline.
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So instead he directs a series of unimpressive prime ministers while urging his party to wage war on Romania's "deep state", including its anti-corruption directorate, and to pass laws making it harder to tackle graft.
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The engine is still, on paper, unimpressive: only 95 horsepower from a 1.8-liter, four-cylinder power plant, yoked to a continuously variable transmission (CVT) with the electric motor bringing the total horsepower up to 121.
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" Gundlach said the bond market rally has been unimpressive given the stock market woes because of the unusual combination of the exploding U.S. deficit and rising Fed interest rates, which he characterizes as a "suicide mission.
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The dollar suffered its worst daily percentage drop since July on Thursday after unimpressive U.S. employment data and a surge in the Chinese yuan as Beijing made moves to shake out large bets against its currency.
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And while the show's viewership was okay, its first season ranked an unimpressive 68th against all the other shows on TV. Had CBS opted to cancel it, the decision wouldn't have come as a huge shock.
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There are still plenty of episodes left in the season to see where our titular magicians may go, but so far Season 5 is unimpressive, repetitive, and leaves the question of Quentin up in the air.
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Friday's stronger-than expected jobs report follows a recent string of unimpressive domestic data analysts have said could point to the fourth-quarter annualized economic growth coming in below the central bank's 1.3% forecast in October.
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Friday's stronger-than expected jobs report follows a recent string of unimpressive domestic data analysts have said could point to the fourth-quarter annualized economic growth coming in below the central bank's 1.3% forecast in October.
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Bots have become popular for musicians even though they have been slow to catch on over all; at a conference in September, a Facebook executive called the technology "overhyped," and said that early examples were unimpressive.
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And yet as time goes on, and advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and bioengineering grow more magical, the notion that unimpressive technology is keeping the digital era from being economically revolutionary becomes ever harder to maintain.
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A key reason behind Sony's unimpressive quarterly headline numbers, and the cut in outlook, is a 112.1 billion yen non-cash goodwill impairment charge for its struggling Columbia Pictures unit announced a few days before the earnings.
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"The Morning Show" isn't bad, just generally unimpressive, all the more so given the talent involved and the imperative for these new streaming services (up next: Disney+) to make a good impression right out of the box.
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Black levels are unimpressive, contrast is so-so, gaming input lag is rather high, and your options for making color adjustments and calibrating the picture are very limited if you're not satisfied with the included mode presets.
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And while 1.82 million viewers isn't exactly a triumph — even Mad Men, notorious for its unimpressive ratings, averaged 2.06 million during its final season — any sign of growth is a sign of life in a downtrending industry.
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After a rocket rise over the past five years during which it jumped from $17.81 a share in August 2015 to more than $75 a share in April, Planet Fitness' stock has been unimpressive in recent months.
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Even though the United States were the only team to finish group play without a loss, questions about their ability to claim a third straight gold swirled after three unimpressive narrow wins to close out the preliminary round.
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It doesn't even make sense—you don't really have to be "rich" to take a disappearing photo of your dick or your unimpressive brunch (though what he could have meant is, only rich people are valuable for advertising).
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Watsa, who oversees insurance and other businesses in more than 100 countries, expressed disappointment at the company's weak stock performance and book value over the past five years, largely the result of unimpressive returns from its investment holdings.
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Etsy's unimpressive stock performance caught the eye of tech investor Seth Wunder, who bought up Etsy shares and used his stake to push the company toward a more traditional management style, demanding less spending on social-good issues.
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In debates and television interviews since he formally entered the race for the Democratic nomination last April, Biden, 77, has been unimpressive, his energy palpably diminished, his sentences wobbling toward some destination other than the initially intended one.
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The dollar slipped broadly on Thursday after unimpressive U.S. economic data failed to boost expectations for another Federal Reserve rate increase this year, while month-end investment flows and caution ahead of Friday's U.S. jobs report also weighed.
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Sticking a tiny firework into a fishing tank and watching it go off is, on the surface, a fairly unimpressive sight — but when you watch the thing burst apart at 120,000 frames per second it's a whole different story.
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That might be unimpressive to others — just as I might shrug my shoulders at an especially intricate Star Trek convention cosplay outfit — but for fellow enthusiasts for this category of device, meeting people like Val is a genuine pleasure.
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Yet despite his unimpressive record, despite the fact that he's not ranked, he hung in there for five fun rounds with the elite featherweight, and actually managed to land more strikes on him than any of his previous opponents.
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Chinese shoppers helped to push retail sales up by 8.3 percent in the first three months of the year, though car sales were still low and the figure was unimpressive by the standard of the past couple of years.
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Making big fitness gains in the midst of a season is a challenge, but Osaka has lost weight and become more explosive in her movement, even if her results on court were unimpressive between Indian Wells and the Open.
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Their main job is to rouse the public to use Mr. Trump's unimpressive polling numbers as leverage on Republicans, who already are citing the Mueller investigation as reason to slow down congressional inquiries into the Trump and Russia affair.
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South Korea were held to an unimpressive 0-0 draw against Bolivia while Iceland, the surprise packages of Euro 2016 who are looking to pull off more upsets in Russia, drew 2-9003 at home to Ghana after leading 2-0.
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And overall growth, while still positive, is definitely slowing: "nowcasts," which use partial data to estimate what official economic data will say when it's eventually released, suggest an economy growing at an unimpressive annual rate of less than 2 percent.
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Of course, Fitbit's already looking at the next big thing after the Ionic's unimpressive debut, promising a smartwatch with more "mass appeal" in the future — a description that doesn't exactly apply to an Adidas brand version of a fitness first smartwatch.
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Another thing that would have made this laptop more enjoyable for me is better headphone audio hardware: the sound coming out of the X1 Carbon's speakers is perfectly fine for its class, but the headphone output is horribly dull and unimpressive.
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A skein of unimpressive performances by hedge funds as a group, with frequent episodes of severe stress to many of their strategies, has sent a lot of this fast money bolting from unstable market sectors and led to investor withdrawals.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slipped broadly on Thursday after unimpressive U.S. economic data failed to boost expectations for another Federal Reserve rate increase this year, while month-end investment flows and caution ahead of Friday's U.S. jobs report also weighed.
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If the report of terrorists having scanners to fine-tune their concealable devices is accurate, this would be a problem of a different order, and could lead to improvements on the relatively unimpressive device seen in the X-ray above.
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While the movie has allegorical resonances with the political and human rights disasters of 20th-century Romania, by the end, its surfaces, while remaining superficially unimpressive, open up as the film moves from epistemological speculation onto a plane of mysticism.
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To see him embrace an unimpressive policy intended for future undergraduate students — who for the most part cannot currently vote — and ignore the plight of the millions of New York residents currently saddled student loan debt — people who do vote — is baffling.
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I preferred the classes I took after having my older daughter, when she was too young to go anywhere and would basically just lay on the mat and look up at me while I tried to contort my postpartum body into unimpressive positions.
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The relatively unimpressive Democratic performance in Virginia and New Jersey is particularly noteworthy: The two elections are usually entirely omitted from analysis of recent races, even though more votes were cast in those two elections than in all of the special elections combined.
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From late 2007, when I stepped down as head of the M.T.A., until Mr. Lhota became chairman the first time around in 2012, there were a couple of unimpressive chairmen who lacked the management skills and gravitas to head such a crucial agency.
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Excitement over O'Rourke's candidacy has been bubbling just below the surface for Democrats in Texas and Washington for a few months now, with optimism built, largely, on O'Rourke's fundraising ability and President Donald Trump's surprisingly unimpressive poll numbers in the Lone Star State.
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Hocus Pocus, the 1993 movie about a trio of Colonial-era witches who come back from the dead to terrorize mid-'90s Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night, has somehow become a bona fide classic in the 23 years since its unimpressive big-screen debut.
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HILARY POTTS London The lack of successful policy innovation and the unimpressive performance of public services in Scotland since Nicola Sturgeon became first minister ("The not so brave", August 203th) is all the more remarkable given the level of funding available to her administration.
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I rather doubt that this series has been building to Daenerys arriving in Westeros and promptly revealing just how unimpressive she truly is, but "The Queen's Justice" is the first episode that made me think this might end up being just a little amazing.
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The material from Syria and Iraq identified thus far on European and U.S. markets, and through seizures in Turkey, Lebanon and elsewhere, has been mostly unimpressive collections of small finds like pottery, figurines, coins, metalwork (some of it fake), and a smattering of larger sculpture.
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SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Croatia progressed to the semi-finals of the World Cup after a second successive penalty shootout on Saturday but their inability to put away another unimpressive team over 90 minutes and extra time is a major worry for the Balkan side.
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Given tech's propensity to grandstand its own accomplishments, one could assume that the number of moderators tasked with rooting out bad actors on these massive sites is unimpressive, and based on the increasing frequency of abuse, these teams haven't been able to keep up with the abuse.
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Even before he took in a pathetic 7 percent of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary, he was drifting: unimpressive results in Iowa and New Hampshire, a campaign staff that literally quit on him, a moment where he seemed to go catatonic backstage before a debate.
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After being drafted out of Southwestern Junior College in Chula Vista, California the year before, John's first season in rookie ball was unimpressive enough to earn him that second trip to the same team next year—the baseball farm system's version of being held back a grade in school.
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It is not yet clear when the opportunity for a new, good-as-can-be challenge to Mr Corbyn will come: perhaps after the party's inevitably unimpressive results in the local elections of 2017 or 2018, or after a Labour rout at an early election called by Mrs May.
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Onkyo H500M + Detachable, twisted wire with in-line microphone + Comfortable and light + Pretty - Extremely, unpleasantly narrow soundstage - Creaky, unconvincing construction - Absentee bass and unimpressive treble lead to overemphasized mids When edifying friends about technology, I always underline the importance of judging each product on its own individual merits.
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The first time I needed to get rid of a bunch of unimpressive fill in the SE corner, which included ESAI, SHIA, ENLAI and other junk — but which held together, amongst other things, the totally adorable entry I LOVE TRASH, a favorite tune of mine by Oscar the Grouch.
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To say the original Surface was a flop is an understatement, but most of the blame laid with the green and unimpressive Windows RT.As an inexpensive competitor to the iPad running a desktop operating system, it may be easier to stomach buying a Surface for a class of unruly children.
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" With the Pyramid of Khufu looming behind him, he took a picture of this comparatively unimpressive scene: "This visual sandwich of contrasting color, texture and form was intriguing not least because of the oddness of my position; standing at one of the great wonders of the world facing the 'wrong' way.
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"GKN's track-record at improving its operating margins has been unimpressive, yet your team nevertheless claims that it can deliver on its most ambitious plan ever, and that a few potentially qualified individuals can extract the company from its torpor to deliver over a 35 percent increase in profitability," Elliott wrote.
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Germany's 5-year low in economic growth reported this week along with unimpressive reports from Italy, Britain, France and Spain (the euro zone's largest economies) in recent months have given that impression, even as the bank said it would solider on raising interest rates and cut its 15 billion euro per month stimulus.
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There has been enough bad news for Clinton of late — her unimpressive general election polling, her shrinking lead among national Democrats, and her recent losing streak — that even a narrow win could set off alarm bells among her backers, considering that just last month she led the state by 30 points in polls.
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By most accounts, these are unimpressive figures especially when compared to a Boosted Board, which uses a belt-drive system to achieve faster acceleration (up to 20 mph with the Dual model and up to 22 mph with the Dual+) and a 7-mile range (up to 12 mile range with extended battery).
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A core experience of becoming an adult is the gradual realization that there is no stable force in charge of things and no natural progression by which the unimpressive young people who have always surrounded you, eating paste and binge drinking and struggling at math, will be magically transmuted into credible authority figures.
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A critical eye should be cast on the expected benefits (much of the cost has already been paid and so the cost savings may be unimpressive), and a view of the costs should include those to the taxpayer and the consumer, in addition to costs to firms of retiring processes and structures.
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The contrast highlights a central paradox of fandom: even as we pay hundreds of dollars for the privilege of watching mankind's greatest physical feats, we tend to discount the achievements of the most physically gifted athletes as morally unimpressive, cheering instead for less imposing specimens to triumph through hard work, discipline, teamwork and ingenuity.
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Tailor your resume to fit the job description"Sometimes resume are filled with roles from other fields, and while it isn't a bad thing, if there is no connection, it will just make your resume more lengthy and a bit unimpressive since it's not relatable," Joel Dean, a recently hired engineer at WordPress, said.
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But despite the $15,000 sticker price, the jacket that Manafort bought actually looks like this: Manafort's decidedly unimpressive jacket was the centerpiece of the opening statement from Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye, who accused Manafort of avoiding taxes to spend money he made working for politicians in Ukraine on all sorts of extravagant purchases.
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Looking at the decade&aposs biggest disappointments for the video game business brings back a list of unimpressive consoles, expensive peripherals, and forgotten trends, but looking back at these failures also sheds light on where the industry might be headed in the next few years, and which companies were simply ahead of their time.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, April 28.2 (Reuters) - If you were looking for evidence that China's economy has lost momentum, you may be tempted to think that you've found it in the unimpressive growth, or lack thereof, in imports of major commodities in the first quarter.
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Given that Lobov entered this fight with an undeniably unimpressive 13-12-1453 overall record, and a station well outside the featherweight top-15, it was widely claimed that this was an opportunity he didn't deserve; that he'd only been granted this massive step up in competition on the strength of his relationship with the megastar McGregor.
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Thanks to that unimpressive list of games, there is an argument to be made that the biggest blow of the rivalry came not on the field, but in an office in 2001, when Jerry Rice, the N.F.L.'s leader in all receiving statistics that matter, ignored San Francisco's request that he retire and instead signed with Oakland.
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And even though it is likely that Mr. Singer's deep support for Mr. Trump will be used to call Elliott's move a conservative takeover of a social media giant with a huge role to play in the upcoming election, the fact is that this is all about money, in the form of Twitter's unimpressive stock performance.
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Momentum has been unimpressive for six months since the peak, and it's allowing the skeptics to pick apart the market on technical and style points: Groups that are supposed to be bellwethers such as transportation, financial and industrial stocks are lagging conspicuously, which has started a sort of vigil for a market top in some corners of Wall Street.
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He called for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE — who to this point has promoted a very cautious and unimpressive fix for the student loan crisis — to fight for total forgiveness of all student debt.
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Following a pattern we've seen before, it's clear that Game of Thrones showrunners are hurriedly writing in unimpressive displays of Daenerys's flaws so that we feel less guilty when it's revealed that Jon is the true (read: male) heir to the throne, despite Dany being the older Targaryen who also brought dragons back into the world after a hundred years of extinction.
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The administration attempted to meld the two ideas together with a handful of unimpressive prototypes, but it appears to have accepted (at least for now) that any wall getting built will be what the border experts want — though Trump is still fearful enough of criticism from Ann Coulter and company that he has wavered on the subject at least once.
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" Thiel, an adviser to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE, added that almost all the other nearly two dozen Democratic presidential contenders are "equally unimpressive in the sense that it's all identity politics of one flavor or another.
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Just €20123 affords access to an entry area with a fantastic souvenir shop and a little information booth operated by a wonderful woman; an unimpressive chapel, where Cecilia's Monkey Jesus can be found next to photographs of the original and the version that, by 2012, had suffered the aforementioned damage due to moisture and mildew; a room outfitted as a traditional Spanish country kitchen; and an exhibition that tells about the artists' lives and the viral internet sensation that put Borja on the map.
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Here we see one of the swans merely look sideways at a couple of children, and send them screaming and running: Facing a full-throttle swan charge, this adult man jumps up on a park bench and tries to scare it off with his own unimpressive wingspan (it doesn't work): "All [these] funny scenes happened in front of my living room window and so I decided to film it, because I found it very interesting to watch this interaction between civilized humans and uncivilized animals," Jo, who runs the channel as well as several other channels and a video production company called SupraNaut, told me in an email.
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