THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE ALONSO DURALDE. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM HERE. WHAT’S NEW ON 4K/BLU/DVD IN SEPTEMBER: LEVITICUS, NOUVELLE VAGUE, GO, AND THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF STAR TREK NEW RELEASE WALL Leviticus (Decal Neon): It’s been a stellar year for indie horror, with films like Obsessions, Backrooms, and It Ends, all of which have racked up healthy box office, audience engagement, and raves from critics. Chief among the horror hits of 2026 is this Australian…

Welcome to the new Sinclair Trails blog!The blog has an all-new design, with easier access to the About page, a summary of modifications, lists of categories and tags, and a chronological archive of all posts.The home page features the latest post at the top, followed by cards of earlier posts. Click or tap one to read the whole post. The posts can be viewed in newest first or oldest first order. And search filtering of posts is available on all pages.The Categories and Tags pages provide quick…

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An ailing man is immediately cured when his physician shows up with a large, branded cup of hot chocolate. Early advertising film showcases how the more things change… Home Media Availability: Stream courtesy of EYE. Chocoholics Anonymous One of the more surprising things about cinema of the 1890s is how early advertising films were introduced […]

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Comics Hawkman Vol. 3 No. 1Cover Date: September 1993Release Date: July 29, 1993Script: John Ostrander Pencils: Jan Duursema Inks: Rick MagyarColors: Matt WebbLetters: Tim HarkinsEditing: Archie GoodwinCover: Jan Duursema Bird’s Eye View This issue picks up seven months after the end of the Hawkworld series. Katar and Shayera were fugitives from both Thanagar and the U.S. During the final battle, Shayera was assumed to have been killed, and Katar was injured or dead. A few months passed, and…

You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not really a fair comparison. There are thousands of species of ants and termites, and just one species of human. But if we’re judging each species based on how much total mass they have – that is, by its “biomass” – who actually comes out on top? Turns out there are some surprising winners. Antarctic…

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Joseph Henrich Feldmeyer/Feldmeier, wool spinner, son of Johann Bernard and Maria Catharina (Lange) Feldmeyer, was born in Telgte 31 August 18071 and died there 26 July 1874.2 He married in Telgte 9 May 1848, Anna Catharina Elisabetha Kortenkamp,3 daughter of Arnold Henrich and Anna Elisabeth (Wischaus) Kortenkamp.4 She was born in Greffen 3 May 18145 and died in Telgte 8 February 1879.6 Child of Joseph Henrich and Anna Catharina Elisabetha (Kortenkamp)…

George O'Brien and Margaret Livingstone in 'Sunrise' (1927) directed by F.W. Murnau.There's still no Hallmark greeting cards yet, but this Tuesday marks yet another Silent Movie Day. This year, I'm marking the occasion by accompanying 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans' (1927) at the venerable Brattle Cinema in Cambridge, Mass. Alas, the Brattle is the only venue in the Boston area that I know of that observes 'Silent Movie Day' with at least some silent film programming. Two years ago, the good…

Knowing what you really value, what you really want, is the foundation on which your success is built It’s springtime here in Australia. The last quarter of the year is about to begin. I’m planning our new handmade family calendar, designing an A6 version for the front of my Hobonichi graph notebook, printing next year’s Teacher Planners, looking after grandchildren, and working on Christmas gifts. And thinking about participating in Inktober again. There’s a lot going on, and I love it! My…

Today’s recording starts with a trail for In Their Own Words: British Novelists. Then it’s a concert from BBC Proms 2010. Introduced by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. The conductor is Gianandrea Noseda, conducting the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. After the opening piece, Verdi’s Force of Destiny overture (familiar from Stella Artois adverts and Jean de Florette) is a more obscure piece, Dallapiccola’s Partita, which features a Soprano solo in the fourth movement, sung by Sarah Tynan, who is interviewed. In…

Kolektyw Kariatyda. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to the bitchy ways of teenage girls and a classmate’s whiny-victorious, “Miss, she has a slam book,” my equally bitchy eighth-grade computer science teacher confiscated the fantastic slam book I’d created.1 We’ll set aside the fact that said teacher was both exasperated and taking great pleasure in the act of discipline—for one thing, because the slam book I made again my senior year of high school was a massive hit that was…

James Bleakman is a self-confessed house music obsessive. Now based in Sydney, Australia, but born and bred in the UK, in Birmingham, he’s recently published a book, titled “1990 – 2000: The Decade That Was House Music”, that documents his journey from teenage Nirvana fan to bedroom DJ to bar / club resident and seasoned clubber. His obsession beginning with a mixtape borrowed by chance, from his older brother, back when he was too young to legally enter any licensed venue. Honing his skills at…

Fishing boat time-warp story drifts from mysterious to calculated and back. George MacKay is a young family man who returns from a few days at sea to an alternate timeline where his wife isn’t around, while his loser/loner coworker (Green Room punk singer Callum Turner) returns to the loving family he never had. This is part of some whispery conspiracy set in place by the locals, aware of the ship’s power, replacing their lost son with an unhappy MacKay. It’s all fine story setup, but after…

It meets the quality bar of any other side-scrolling Mario; no better or worse than any of the other ones While I remember it being a big deal at the time, it doesn’t seem like as big a deal now that this “sidescroller but 3d” arm of the series has been going for several years Resembles Mario 3 more than anything, what with the item inventory and the toad houses and the fact that the worlds are not interconnected The thing that makes this so fun was playing on real hardware, and the sideways…

1. One of the classic parables about loading goes as follows. A building manager had a problem: people were complaining about the elevator being too slow. But upgrading the elevator was an enormous expense, so the manager came with an alternative solution: they put a mirror next to the elevator call buttons. Even though the elevator didn’t become any faster, complaints trickled to a halt, as people were checking themselves out in the mirror and that changed their perception of how long the wait…

Tonight’s pot roast called for a single bay leaf, and I’m certain this one is expired. — Related tangent, culled from the links section: Jason Kottke, author of a wonderful website, recently made the leap to explore the world untethered. This involved sorting through all the things that keep one anchored, and the spice drawer gave him pause. His reflection stirred emotions and went deeper considering the powerful connection between smell and memory. I routinely consider the lineage of things…

Doggy sense This is one of my all-time favourite photographs. We were driving along the seafront in Antibes one sweltering Sunday afternoon when I saw a small dog sitting in the shade of a beach umbrella looking at his master and mistress who were both sunbathing, baking like sausages on a spit. And I guessed that their dog was thinking: “Jeez, humans are weird, sometimes”. I stopped the car, got out and pressed the shutter. It’s a picture that has delighted friends and visitors for years. One…

Jimmy MillerprojectspostsadventtalksgithubCan we Make React Faster using the React Compiler? As you can see from the graph below, the answer is yes. We can indeed make React a lot faster using React Compiler. But also, as I hope you can see from the graph, these speedups are purely prototypes. In this article, you won't find big proposals for the right way to speed up React. This is instead a project I started to learn more about the React Compiler. Time and time again I've found that if I want…

It's finally cooled off a good deal here in Saint Louis. Within a week, we went from heat indexes in the 90s to hovering in the mid-60s or low-70s. Even if we get a couple more random days where it's strangely hot, Fall is officially here. It was nice and brisk today outside, but inside ToyMan, the show was on fire with good finds! There were some vendor tents outside, as ToyMan started doing again for the first time since the COVID era recently, and it was hopping inside too! I began the show…

I've always tilted my aeroplane models for 3d printing, either nose or tail down, because it gives me smoother surfaces overall.However, I've noticed in recent prints off my Mars 5 that long edges Like wings, when parallel with the print bed, sometimes end up slightly distorted.So with the test print for my Albatros DV, I've tilted it in two axes, and from what I can discern in amongst the forest of supports, it seems to have worked quite well.It does increase print time slightly, as the…

Two years ago I compared pg_repack and pg_squeeze, the two extensions most of us reach for when a table has bloated beyond what autovacuum will ever give back and VACUUM FULL isn't an option. PostgreSQL 19 changes the starting point. REPACK brings VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER together under one command, and REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) does the rewrite online. It needs no extension and no shared_preload_libraries, so it works on managed services too. That will bring online repacking to a much wider…

tag(s): #español #linux #emacs Se me ocurrió que esto es algo que es mejor escribir en español, simplemente porque ya hay documentación de cómo hacerlo en inglés. ¡Es la que seguí hasta ahora! Para ser sinceros, no sé por qué asumo que hay menos información en español. En realidad no tengo ni idea, porque siempre que busco algo, lo hago en inglés. Capaz hay una comunidad gigante de estudiantes de japonés en alguna región de España, o Colombia, y todos usan Linux, con apps en Flatpak. Y además…

Given the Green Party Conference kicks off at the end of the week it seemed useful to remind readers that in recent decades the Green Party leadership has been more willing than those in charge of other major parties to raise the issue of the abolition of the undemocratic City of London Corporation. The key Green Party document with regard to this, Green Party Votes To Work For Abolition Of The City Of London Corporation, was published 15 years ago: The Green Party’s autumn conference has voted…

On the blog this week, I compare blank space on your calendar to societal batteries. In other words, your free time is good for you and for the people around you, says me, and anybody who expects us to chronically over-schedule ourselves is Up To No Good. Holiday HEA on the Horizon!!! You will see pre-ordering links finally beginning to populate for A Gentleman in Winter. This holiday novella grew out of A Gentleman of Very Few Words, wherein a romance began to set down roots, but did not have…

Rene Descartes left us with a very insane quote. “I think, therefore I am”. It’s not about existence as a whole, it’s about progress. It’s about thought. What makes us human is the ability to autonomously decide. In the age of Artificial Intelligence, where the frontier is actively fucking up all over the place, the big question is: is it really AI that’s going rogue, or is it replicating Human Nature? In Leviathan (1651), Thomas Hobbes has said that, without government, humans would live in a…

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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Sarah Wang’s novel New Skin is a debut filled with dark humor and a powerfully poignant coming-of-age story. BOMB wrote of the book: “In her debut novel New Skin, Sarah Wang renders a…

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