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Ah, okay the FTA channels and streamers get a lot of content from Britbox over here, so super lucky. If ever reaching out for a rich serving of good ol’ classic Coen Bros. yeehah, look no further than Raising Arizona. The banjo Ode to Joy continues chime in with the tinnitus even as we type. 😛

The Jetty is one where they throw a bunch of characters, mysteries, tropes, moralising and murder into the pot and hope it all comes out right. Would have been bearable if the dialogue had any pith, and the ending was not such a disaster. Nevertheless, a potential salve for depression is there if so inclined. 🙂
Cheat was better, but don’t expect…[Read more]

Fabulous. 🙂 Updated the Wikipedia link.
Oh, the memory has returned – turns out Lucille Ball’s husband was Henry after all. 😛
Great! More info over here:
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Calvin_Ball

According to Role-playing game designer Ron Edwards, “Calvinballing” is when a player in a tabletop role-playing game utilizes mean-spirited…

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The original Evil Overlod list is here: https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Butler%27s_Original_Evil_Overlord_List
Best to get a copy in case, as the original site has gone, and if it exists in IA, not easy to find.
Anspach’s version is everywhere, including at IA where this was crawled in…[Read more]

Is there some element of engagement farming as one critic put it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600730
It’s a bit catty admittedly, it’s not easy to determine whether all of the prose and images were AI generated. No matter, the article is engaging enough to warrant a nod of affirmation at least. 😛
Anaesthesia with diethyl ether impairs…[Read more]

Also came across this one, lo-fi sci-fi comedy with an Aussie tang:

The YouTube link has the episodes. 🙂
Civil War doesn’t tick all of the boxes, especially those for the faint hearted. Sweeping aside the reason and purpose of the conflict involving a…[Read more]

Yeah, the plastic components are sure to degrade faster in sunlight, and as well as algæ there are ants and spiders. Still, an ezy clip/Velcro cover might work. 😛
Funny how our conception of Leonardo’s approach to each subject is as Leoni arranged it, long time taught in schools and in encyclopædic reference. The new Leonardo paradigm will be t…[Read more]

Never got into SpongeBob – from the promos it never looked as if it had added anything to than say the artistic finery of The Simpsons – or Beavis & Butthead et all. It seemed to flounder after a while, too. Did you get any laughs from it?
🙂 There’s a project for a rainy day, a rogue’s gallery of snapshots from your favourite D-grade movies.…[Read more]

Bigger brains aren’t necessarily better it seems, here’s the video btw:

On the radio the other day was Purity, filth and ‘promiscuous defecators’: why we’re weird about poo, note the classification under “Philosophy, Public Health, Recycling and Waste Management.” For a start reverse the order read Waste…[Read more]

Descarte’s notion of consciousness => pain was a good try, bottom line is we cannot feel what animals fell unless we can be imbued with animal traits for experimentation. Which means becoming a candidate for a fun filled jaunt over at the
The Island of Doctor Moreau or similar. Not on this bucket list. 😛
There is a bee that tolerates the poisoned…[Read more]

How about a bit of Yankee Diddly Derring Doo with Roger Ramjet?

Well into the 4th series of Elementary now providing plenty of interest and gimmicks in Sherlocks amazing bag of PI tricks with each epi9sode. One episode plays this clip and others mention math problems such as p vs np. Also a mention of…[Read more]

A seed has everything it wants for the future, all we have to do is give it soil. air and water. Or a GPGP. 😛

Probably best to stick with TLC then. Interestingly, ARK: Survival Evolved with DLC can be half a terabyte, and a modded DCS game can use a terabyte. Hey, we’re falling behind in the fight for game storage to exceed storage boundaries.…[Read more]

Having to play with glasses is a thing though 😛 , pity VR is no longer in the loop.
Ditched ClipChamp in favour of Shotut – quite a good program really. The QT throws in some quirkiness like you can’t vertically expand the Keyframe/Timeline area and so left with the dinky super small RH scroll button. Also a few gotchas such as adding text to a…[Read more]

Another issue for the Labubu mob, arranging for it to be fitted with a vacuum hose for the gathering dust in our houses. And a playlist of cheerful whistles to get it across the task!
He’s gone to a better place now:

Next to some canna lilies in an area kept fallow for years now, and come over a little…[Read more]

Only two weeks after his shot, Shem has become almost immobile in a rather speedy downgrade to Stage 4 End-Stage Osteoarthritis. Difficulty with his eat/drink/motions now as well. Oh well, best to keep him comfortable in his basket for a while, looks like time for the needle in any case. 🙁
On a rather cheerier note, a few showers coming in for…[Read more]

Couple of showers over here which is nice. 🙂
Might be quite nice if the price is right, and if it can negotiate and traverse rough terrain. Can it operate off-grid for example? Mass production then may not be entirely in the spirit of the enterprise, in which case raising an issue for it may not elicit a…[Read more]

So, the flood gates have opened!
https://www.war.gov/ufo
Tried the last one out of interest:
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/western_us_event_slides_5.08.2026.pdf
No dates along with fairly broad event locations. No doubt someone will step up with content curation in mind. 🙂

Jaffa, the young dog incurred a paralysis tick, so in hospital, doing well enough. 🙂 So much for the bank balance and invested time. 🙁
Shem, the old dog, has lost some appetite, very quiet and slow, but still walking well enough. Had a shot for pain, only lasts a month though.
National Clean Up day is today, as well as Mothers’ Day here as well,…[Read more]

Sorry, did read Workers and Resources as a module/DLC of Witcher – somehow didn’t catch on to the mismatch in the naming. 😛
Are you playing it through proton and Steam Launcher? There’s Windowed borderless which apparently reduces FPS, else ALT + ENTER according to this.
Still use Acemovi, reported some bugs via email a couple of months ago with…[Read more]

La Marzocco is mentioned a lot – they were the first with the horizontal boilers. Hefty prices these days though.

Someone suggested Accademia del Caffè Espresso looks like a nice place to discover when next in Italy.
There’s been some success reported with the treatment of fire ants up north, they’re on the march here so preparation is…[Read more]