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The plot thickens! I just did a bit of a dive and they just removed the link from the site, the pages still exist. The quickly thrown together Wikipedia article from information gleaned from the paywalled article says it was due to permitting and construction worker shortages but, again, I haven’t been able to find any other articles and no…[Read more]

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2024/09/18/area15-land-immersive-attraction-las-vegas-sale.html

Not too surprising as they made very little progress on it but I was really looking forward to it.

If that guy on the sax had all the moves, they were sure busting to break out – just had to call 00111Loverboy for a primer! 🙂
Fast Five was fun, and the soundtrack didn’t disappoint:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arctic-seed-vault-shows-the-flawed-logic-of-climate-adaptation/

I understand the point they’re making but the seed vault is still better than doing nothing at all. If we don’t have it, we’re definitely more likely to have issues than without it. That said, one option is to move it to a more favorable…[Read more]

So, yeah, this thing was announced: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/09/kitchenaid-evergreen-mixer-status-symbol/679896/

Highly impractical and expensive. For the same price, you may as well get an Ank and have a much better mixer.

Always been a big fan of Columbo over here. It has been a while since I’ve seen it so I may go ahead and watch it again. Looks like Tubi has it!

Saw this B-movie. Wasn’t intended to be a comedy but the acting was so bad that it wound up being hilarious. Those are some of the best ones!

Pretty sure I mentioned The Woods several years but when and…[Read more]

In shelling the breeze, lets mention the collection of nice utilities on CodeProject, for example Intellifile is a shell replacement for explorer written in C.
A little hiccup occurred after logging to the site- have you seen the error before?

Interesting, but completely useless, tidbit of information: Melbourne, Australia and Fairbanks, Alaska are currently experiencing the exact same weather with roughly the same temperature and precipitation. Why, yes, I did get a little bit bored. 😛

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that the Scarlet & Violet – Stellar Crown set for Pokemon just hit general availability yesterday.

In related news, the 2024 Yu-Gi-Oh tins hit general availability on 2024-09-20 while OTS stores will have them 2024-09-18

Oh, Falk is terrific in Colombo, too. Pencil in the Spielberg directed première classic “Murder By the Book” along with “Candidate for Crime” for superb entertainment. 🙂
Problem was, the original b/w Village/Children of the Damned movies set the damned bar too high. 😛
Contrary to the criticisms of The Last Castle and a personal innate aversion…[Read more]

Yay! Looks like they finally fixed the battery drain issue that’s been plaguing me since February.

Saw the 1995 version of Village of the Damned the other day and it wasn’t much fun, even for a bad film. Everything was very formulaic and predictable while the acting was stuff as though they were just going through the motions. To be fair, there were a lot of children in the cast who may not have had much acting experience but the crew could…[Read more]

Ooh, nice. May need to give it a whirl. Should probably shoot System76 a message to make sure they don’t have any system scripts written in Bash that will break if I try a new shell 🙂

Apparently, Elite: Dangerous takes place in a 1:1 scale version of the galaxy. Haven’t tried it yet, either. Haven’t tried Universe Sandbox yet but it has been on…[Read more]

The Cheap Detective is always fun. Just watched it again yesterday 🙂

Saw Happy Birthday To Me and it can probably be skipped. Well made in terms of crew but in terms of quality of plot and all? Nope. Little coherent plot and the flashback sequences just happen out of the blue, confusing things further. It also brought nothing new to the table.

Switchblade Sisters was pretty fun. Good bits of humor scattered throughout to lighten up the tone but the fight scenes weren’t well choreographed. Lots of unskilled flailing of fists 😛

Didn’t realize Jeffery Dean Morgan did a whole lot outside of TV shows.

Got Sleeper on the list. Pretty sure I’ve seen bits and pieces of it but that’s okay!…[Read more]

Oh my Zsh looks like a really friendly interface for terminal wrox, with the added bonus of batteries included, they say. 🙂
Yeah, a spaceship simulator to navigate the wide open parsecs, guess that’s all in NMS – heaps of others like Universe Sandbox for instance.
Hibernation has reared its hiber-finicky visage yet again, now N++ will drop loaded…[Read more]

I’ve never had much luck with QR codes myself. Often, the autofocus craps out right as the camera is trying to snap the code. Haven’t tried with other applications, though. And these devices are supposed to make our lives a little less frustrating! 😛

Great! Hopefully the testing notes mean you won’t need to return it any time soon 🙂

At some point, I’ll probably wind up with an NAS. Still need to do a lot of tidying up before one can go on the wish-list. Also need to find a place to stash the Thelio box until the warranty is up. The box is huge! 😛

Rigs of Rods looks like an interesting driving simulator. Depending on how accurate its physics are, it could be a useful training tool. Will need to download it at some point to find out.