1999 remains one of my favorite years of film. Not only did some incredible films come out (Fight Club, American Beauty, Office Space), but this was the first year I started downloading movie trailers. I remember downloading American Pie, End of Days, and The Blair Witch Project and watching them over and over in anticipation for their theatrical releases. All summer longer I examined and memorized these trailers, and my favorite one of all was The Blair Witch Project. If you didn't live…

Sunday Asides #114 It's been a month since one of my part-time gigs verbally offered me a full-time job and it has not become official yet. That hasn't stopped them from loading up my schedule with meetings and pinging me on Slack like I have full-time availability though, and it's incredibly annoying. That being said, since I'm still not full-time employed...I'm going to start back looking for work beginning next week. I really hate that for me. But hey...here's some good news. Last week, I…

After the highs of Amsterdam and the exhibition last Saturday, I naturally feel a little low. While we are on the lowlands, here’s the soundtrack of this week’s update: For the last two weeks, I’ve only posted photologs as updates. I’ll cover minor happenings in this week’s update, so there’ll be some small fragments. What have I been watching and reading lately? A friend recommended Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh (Cadáver Exquisito) to me. It was a short book, so I finished it in…

A few weeks ago I posted my pre-basho thoughts on what potential storylines might develop in the first week. I intened to do a folloup at the 8-day mark, but life gets in the way sometimes. The tournament finished today, so let's see how many of these came to fruition! I've phrased them as questions this time whether it makes sense or not - I'm trying to invent a format here, give me a break. Yokozuna Hoshoryu Out After Surgery?Not a lot to report here - he stayed out like he should, hopefully…

top goes on firstI have six coats on the top and I was happy with the look and the shine. Clamped the top to the base - the towel was to keep the clamp heads from marring the top. I was surprised that these clamps alone pulled the top down tight to the base all around. I was expecting the slat sides to have daylight that they didn't. wash, rinse, repeat for the shelfGot the shelf positioned and clamped and then I flipped it to screw in the table top clips.hmm........Clips screwed in and there…

It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets. But the story is a bit so-so. I found it a little awkward making everyone explain everything all the time. And Mark Watney’s good mood with its constant funny-cool slogans went a little on my nerves (together with the partly cheese music). The final space scene is just bonkers. So: “ok”, I’d say.

The distinctive sandstone rock formations known as the Flatirons rise over the Colorado landscape on the outskirts of Boulder. The post At the Foot of the Flatirons appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

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I've put together a 1:144 Albatros D-V, mostly using components from my D-III.It just needed a new tail fin and rudder, and I had to rebuild the fuselage in its more rounded form, and add the undercarriage aerofoil. None of the other detail changes between the D-III and D-V are visible in this scale, so I haven't bothered with them.Although the D-V was the replacement for the D-III, which was struggling against the new generation of Allied fighters, it was not as well liked as the earlier model…

This is so absurd, you can not not be entertained. And if you just take Jack Burton’s view and go with it, you can just indulge yourself in this. Chinese clans fighting themselves in back alleys? Sure! Superfighters flying in form the sky? Why not! Cursed villains with superpowers? Ok!? Surprise monster? Ok, what the hell!It’s a weird Carpenter movie. I liked the old-school-ness of it all. The humour was actually pretty great. But it’s not my favourite from him.

Reading my recent computing retrospective, I realised there was a big section missing: the people in my life that made an impact and helped shape my career. Outside my immediate family, one person made an outsized contribution, and I’m fairly certain that without his influence my life would have taken a very different path. The fact that I’m still here in 2026, still writing code and being fortunate enough to have a career in something I love is testament to him. So I’d like to take a few…

This month, for the Quinns Quest book club, I have been reading Girl Frame, the toxic yuri mech game by Isabelle Ruebsaat. The game was awarded a Judges' Spotlight award at the 2026 Ennies, and generally seems to be all the rage right now, despite existing only in pdf form with no art but the cover. Who said only lavish tomes sell? I was initially reluctant to write a QLBB about it, as the game remains in active development, despite being popular and played - a bit like the early access hits…

[1969]A fuzz monster.Fuzzed up drone-y garage psychedelia. Lysergical fun for all the family..Insane haunting intensity.Heavy man.

During the winter this nor’easter would probably be frustrating because it would be bringing a little too much warm air off the ocean for snow. It’d be wet and chilly, though. That aside, it is late September, so snow is not even in the books. It is nice seeing that storm sitting off the Jersey coast and spinning. It is not racing off to the northeast like so many of them seem to do during the winter. More often than not during the cold season, it is a timing thing about whether it can throw…

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Tella In challenging environments, with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression, Tella makes it easier and safer to collect, protect and hide sensitive data. activism data security storage tools 🔖 AI_CONTEXT AI_CONTEXT is a lightweight, vendor-neutral pattern for preserving the engineering context that normally gets trapped inside one AI chat, one coding agent, or one context window. The idea is simple:…

The Raspby Philip MacDonaldGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 240 Series: Colonel Gethryn #1 Rating: Synopsis: The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn, an ex-secret service agent, and occasional newspaper correspondent. He is assigned to cover the story of a cabinet minister, John Hoode, who was found murdered in the library of his country house, battered to death with a wood-rasp. Scotland yard has only one suspect Hoode’s secretary Alan Deacon. But Gethryn is convinced that…

its a very interesting position to be in. to be temporarily alone yet content with a humble life if it means getting to spend it with my favourite people. to no longer have a drive to do projects to add to a portfolio while im still in school because i cant get a job doing what i enjoy doing. To pass nights with the simple stimulation of some music made before i was born as a clock ticks past. To have the quantity of time that there is no rush to work on the things i make for the sake of…

Poem by Ubayd-i Zakani (14th century), tr. Bernard Lewis in Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew Poems (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 127: Lord, of your grace all that I hope is this— keep the realm of my pleasure prosperous avert from me the calamity of chastity and keep far from me the doom of repentence.

The first rule of gang bang club is that you have to talk about gang bang club: these things don’t organise themselves. Here’s the concept: a group of five friends each contribute a man to the gang bang pool. You don’t need to split by gender, obviously, but I’m doing it here because I’m mostly […] The post Gang bang club: lend a man, borrow a team appeared first on Girl on the Net.

Today’s TDC says: Search for an image of the old Lady Bird books and add your own caption. Read more about this here I searched and found this generator, so here’s what I made Ladybird DS106 flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

I had a few. – “Officer” Dustin Christina This video, called to my attention by Mike Siegel, speaks for itself. The links above it were provided by Scott Greenfield, Kevin Wilson, Nun Ya, Jessica Pishko, IncarcerNation, Ryan Marino, and Mistress Matisse, in that order. R.I.P. Peter Max. Paging Dr. Dolittle. Some things never change. Cop murders student for getting lost. They keep demonstrating exactly what they are. Some studies just prove what everyone already knew. Everything I see makes me…

I built the spring house from left over bits of foam-core.The structure measures a scale 13.5 by 11 feet in 1/87 scale. This one is a bit bigger than some and provides a little area for keeping some provisions cold. The structure is made to look like a concrete building, with a shingled roof. The foamcore takes well to acrylic paint. The structure was based coated with a coat of light grey. I followed with a dry-brushing of another lite gray and a medium grey. The roof was painted with a I…

People like to complain about AI code. But what really sets it apart? Is there a common signature that separates AI code from human code?

At the end of last year I wrote about jailexec, my Ansible connection plugin that manages FreeBSD jails by SSHing to the jail host and running everything through jexec. That article has a section called Security Design. It proudly explains the two-stage file transfer: upload to a temporary location on the host, then move it into the jail with privilege escalation. That two-stage file transfer was a jail escape. Every release before 2.0.0 let a process with root inside a managed jail turn a…

This year I had the luck to participate in plenty of video calls with other people who wanted to publish the recording on their platform. I am always happy to be a team player and generally to chat about shared hobbies or life in general. Below I reproduce what I wrote in my “about me” page. Note that I will not be updating this specific blog post: it is just an announcement. I will, however, be updating the ‘about’ page: https://protesilaos.com/about/. Guest appearances These are videos that I…

8696/21615Round at the in-laws for lunch. They've been donated a big garden trampoline (to replace the smaller one that their neighbours had also given them) and a goal so I played football with the kids and Catie then bounced on the trampoline with them.As fun as these garden trampolines are, they seem like an accident waiting to happen. It's a lot of fun playing on the train tracks until a train comes along . Luckily there were no serious injuries today, but it's only a matter of time.

We’ve been inundated lately with AI-written press releases about AI-built tools and websites focused on beer and pubs. Who is asking for this? When we say inundated, it’s probably been one per week for the past couple of months. And we’re not the only ones who’ve noticed this: Do not in a million years send me a solicitious AI email asking me to endorse your beer guide website. Definitely do not do this if said website is riddled with wrong and/or outdated AI-generated info and covered in ugly…

i find it funny1 that i didn't even get to write 4 posts for blaugust (oops). i wonder what will make it easier for me to write: a penalty? a better routine? a reason to actually write? integrating writing with drawing? or could it be simply letting go of the desire for perfection with my creative pursuits??? (i know the answer is a combination of all of these, sans the first one) for some time now, i noticed that the tendency of being mean to myself increases the more i stay unemployed. i…

📷 A bluebottle (Physalia utriculus), washed up on the beach. #photography #wildlife #Australia