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YouTube has been serving me clips of scenes where bullies push the hero Too Far.
YouTube gets me.
Billy Jack is even worse than I remember it. So bad. I love it
This scene from “Nobody 2," starring Bob Odenkirk, actually looks pretty good.
The GOAT: “I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!"
A new Robert Charles Wilson time travel novel? Yes, please.
Cover looks great. Has a nice Saul Bass vibe.
Arsenic and Lace: The trial of the Yorkshire Witch. The true tale of Mary Bateman, the villainous Yorkshire Witch, who sold spells and enchantments to the desperate in the late 18th Century. Tim Hartford is joined on the Cautionary Tales podcast by Maddy Pelling, co-host of the After Dark podcast and author of “Hoax: Truth and Lies in the Age of Enlightenment.”
My TV these days is deeply middle-aged. Reruns of Buffy, Stargate, Grimm, The Mentalist, Justified, Inspector Morse and the occasional Golden Girls episode. Last night, we watched the series finale of Grantchester.
I think maybe the only new show we’re currently watching is “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is essentially a reboot of a TV series that debuted midway through the Johnson Administration.
My TV these days is deeply middle-aged. Reruns of Buffy, Stargate, Grimm, The Mentalist, Justified, Inspector Morse and the occasional Golden Girls episode. Last night, we watched the series finale of Grantchester.
I think maybe the only new show we’re currently watching is “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” which is essentially a reboot of a TV series that debuted midway through the Johnson Administration.
I read three print books and have no big thoughts about it.
I have done nearly all my book reading as ebooks since 2010. However, I was unable to find ebook versions of the “Funny Papers” trilogy by Tom De Haven, so I bought print versions.
The experience reading print books after years of electronically was … fine.
It confirmed I prefer ebooks, not for any grand philosophical or esthetic reason, but just because they’re more convenient.
But faced with the same choice again — wanting to read a book that is not available as an ebook — I’ll get the print book in an instant.
In Finland, as in the US, new parents get a package of freebies. In the US, it’s “an underwhelming package: a small drawstring bag containing a few tiny samples of baby shampoo and diaper cream, and tons of coupons.” But in Finland, it’s different, acccording to 99% Invisible:
[In Finland], they get a large cardboard box full of supplies for a newborn and its parents: items like picture books, nipple cream and warm booties for the freezing Finnish winters. The box itself even doubles as a crib. It’s a starter kit of everything a family will need for the first six months of a baby’s life, and virtually every new parent in Finland is eligible to receive one.
… in its almost 90 years of existence, the Finnish baby box has evolved from a basic survival tool to a national symbol, a rite of passage– and possibly the cutest social engineering tool in the world.
The discussion around the Odyssey movie has led me to realize that I have not actually liked most of the Christopher Nolan movies I’ve seen. I liked “Inception” and “Interstellar” a lot, but the rest of them – including the Batman movies — seem like the work of a man who’s dealing with issues that are alien to me.
“You either die a hero or live long enough to be a villain”? No, that’s not true.
I am not trying to disrespect Nolan or his fans. Taste is subjective.
Cyclosporiasis would have been a great name for a 70s jazz fusion band.
A friend who started following me on Facebook when Minnie was a puppy told me he did not realize, at first, that Minnie is a dog. He thought Minnie is my wife. He saw me post about how Minnie puked and it was disgusting and he thought it was disrespectful to say such things about one’s spouse.
Minnie has made a great recovery. She’s eating regularly and gained back a bit of weight. She seems happy and alert.
When she got sick, I cut her back from our usual 3-1/4-mile morning walk to about 1-1/4 plus another third of a mile at bedtime. She seemed to be feeling pretty good this morning so I increased her to more than 1-1/5 miles and she did great — even had energy left over for zoomies. I don’t know if we’ll ever get back to 3-1/4 miles — but I don’t know that we won’t.
Our time together is limited. She’s a 13-year-old medium-sized dog with kidney failure. But we’re enjoying the time with her while it lasts.
I received an email at work this morning, following up on a recent article. The email starts, “Hey, half-bald motherfucker.” I love hearing from fans.
by @dave
“Now, it wasn’t AI that killed all that. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were the main culprits, especially once they started treating corporations like users and users like product, sacrificing quality for quantity. AI just danced on our grave.” : ehandbook.com
Minnie sleeps in my home office and she had a special surprise for me when I came in this morning to wake her up.
She is a senior dog now.
We’re going to start buying Nature’s Miracle Advanced Stain & Odor Eliminator in 55-gallon drums.
If joyriding a stolen backhoe on San Diego streets and knocking over signs and a planter is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
London Gatwick introduces robotic parking service. Autonomous robots park your car while you head to the terminal with your keys.
“The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean,” writes Timothy Pratt at The Guardian.
GrapheneOS uses a feature called a “duress password.” If police demand the password to your phone, you give them the duress password instead and it wipes the phone clean.
When Tunick arrived in Atlanta, agents questioned him about child sexual abuse images. “Tunick asked four times during the interrogation to speak with a lawyer, but was rebuffed each time, according to courtroom testimony. Additionally, the agents produced no warrant and did not read Tunick his rights.”
“I Don’t Know How You Can Look at Minneapolis and Say They Are Better for Choosing Reform Over Revolution”. Hamilton Nolan interviews journalist Justin Ellis, author of the book “The Cruelty of Nice Folks,” about Minneapolis, the failures of white liberalism, and defunding the police.
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed. As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Website operators are crying foul.
