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Oh right, are you still on Debian or were there plans to change to Arch Linux/OpenSuse?
OpenSuse looks cool for the VM: prefer Leap to Tumbleweed?

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Ok, looks like a bit going on with it, especially when the docs refer to using version x of this with version y of that, what happens when the versions change? Well, the good news is a new Windows rig coming this way this week, details of which will be posted accordingly.
It’s preferable to use that instead of the HP, as the security here gets a bit wobbly about program installs and such. No reason why a virtual Linux box can’t be created on there anyhow:
https://notepad.onghu.com/2025/windows-virtualisation-and-running-linux
Mint is the go-to version these days, no?

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Thanks – will keep in mind electric fence etiquette:

They chose a mighty fine song to wind up Shrek 4:

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Never experienced anything like a crypto themed dream- the complexity of a musical one is sure to be enhanced by different tuning/scaling. Come to think of it, how about some kind of psychometric device for downloading dreams and converting them to text?
Wow, an absolute monster indeed. Looks like it’s ready t0 go in a Linux system – do you use SquashFS much at all? Reception is cool at best:

Littered with archaeological remnants of its history… a palimpsest of a landscape, written over and re-written over by feuds between players, hacks injecting vast structures into the world, and by different waves of Internet communities arriving and rampaging or attempting to settle within it.

Gaming at its best. 🙂
Comic Chat was a very good idea, cannot recall if it was available in this country initially. Was HexChat one of those favourites?
Jurassic Systems specializing in an eclectic mix of MHZ driven clunkers! What a joy! 🙂

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The worms suffered a near mass extinction event soon after- possible reasons being new home/acidity/heat – all of which were checked out. In the case of heat, the bin is well protected under the house, and some worms in castings in a separate area exposed to sun were fine. Population recovery is slow but sure. 🙂
Have a young Indian guava outside which hates frosts. A plastic sheath and a larger piece of gal. iron might save it. 🙂
Have been onto the bindii for years with manual removal, there is still mass germination as viability from old seedings continues. Was planning to catch up on posts today … oh well. 🙁

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Consensus is pretty good! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/249785452-mad-about-dc-2026–1-mad-about-dc
Weird – Amazon offer a Kindle version and another which won’t ship to this location. Going into a newsagency/magazine shop used to be so easy. 🙁
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In what day of the year do all parents decide to focus greatly on their progeny and issue?
In Dependants Day!

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Ren and Stimpy also had La Femme from the same composer:

Funny as there seems to be a foul-up with the KPM listing. This and this have it as by Caesar Giovannini & Wayne Robinson.
La Femme doesn’t have piano for a start, and the arrangement style is more akin to Frank Samuels. Not sure though.

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Titan’s too cold for us at present – is there hope in establishing a colony underneath the surface of the moon? Bio-engineering our brain processes to vicariously sense robots skating and cavorting on the icy plains above is another possibility.
It might also depend on the provenance of the coffee itself. It seems 6-7 bars works for many – in which case the machines should accommodate for it. Still percolating here while waiting for the perfect espresso model to emerge. 🙂
Outdoor or indoor hobby?

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All those things would certainly add multiple dimensions to the game experience. Especially when balancing stuff like this:

Yes, the links to Calvin Ball in that section are tenuous at best.

Never put a candidate in a hat

And then pull out a rabbit instead. Which probably means Penn & Teller want to get involved. 😛
Back in the nineties Macromedia Flash was great. Games using Flash were sometimes too large in size for ADSL connections though.
This electric eel packs an electric punch, using 6000 elctrolytic cells in series. Give that ability to us, what would we want with tasers?

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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 to chime in with the tinnitus even as we type. 😛

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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 detailed insights into how cheating works in universities, rather the progress of an obsessive-compulsive student intimidating some teaching staff in search of an advantage. More of a typical psycho-thriller rather than an expose on the mechanics of cheating in class, so a bit of a cop out on the promise of the title really. 🙂
At the end of the 27th season of Silent Witness now, the trope of this series is the clicking and flashing of cameras by the investigators in the crime scenes. Have a feeling they will continue the series well into the thirties. 🙂

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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 misinterpretations of the rules to one-up the other players and gain control of the game.

And that spitballing goofball will now be blackballed from the game!

Steve Jackson Games’ Knightmare Chess uses a deck of cards, from which each player draws with every move, to turn chess into calvinchess. Typical card effects including blowing up pieces and rotating the board ninety degrees.

FIDE will want to look at adopting that for all future challenges. 😛

There’s also a card game with Calvin Rules:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130425023401/http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485251

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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 1998!
https://web.archive.org/web/19981205135911/http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Skippy says:

164. There is no such thing as a were-virgin.

Excellent idea for a bad horror/scifi flick though. 😛
Have you read Parasite Eve? It’s themed on Symbiogenesis, a marvellous theory that present day organelles were once free roaming bacteria, all looking for a good home and host! We had better not disappoint them. 😛

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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 jasmonate signalling in the carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

Diethyl ether completely inhibited the generation of action potentials and trap closing reactions, which were easily and rapidly restored when the anaesthetic was removed.

Amazing – as we all know anæthesia usually applies to organisms with nervous systems. 😛

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

Edit: As the link in the video has the playlist indexing stripped, this 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 president “gone rogue”, the film quickly focusses on the journey of a group of journalists and photographers in search of the ultimate shot on route to HQ. There are some poignant scenes with tension, all rather disjointed leading towards a less than satisfying conclusion. A massive project though, perhaps a reworked pilot movie to a multi-episodic story would better match the title.
Charlie’s Angels the movie is a bunch of fun and worth a gander. 🙂

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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 the original!
Tuned in to This American life and heard Act 3 of:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/888/not-today-hades
The initial prospect of a fruitful encounter with the soccer star slowly erodes as a succession of (un)foreseen events intervene. A frequent bugbear of sports journos. 😛

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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. Here’s one:

A friend is watching the independently made Red Horizon movie/series released last year.

The 30-minute episodes have enough tension to hold interest in the series apparently. Made by one guy with AI tools.

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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 to read “Waste Management, Recycling, Public Health and Philosophy”, as this is a recycled universe – at least as far as we humans are concerned. Not for others in the animal kingdom as they all march to the drum of “nature takes care” of all that. 😛
This is the book: Spectacles of Waste, not, unfortunately, a candidate for this year’s best sellers’ list. Oh, and even though goodreads do not remove inactive accounts, using one to get in there can be a heartache. 🙁

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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 nectar of the death camas, turns out so does the fly Earomyia melnickae, and the fly Eristalis nemorum. Amazing stuff, from the shots of the latter, looks like the flies are fairly social creatures too.
The 1% club offers a diverse bunch of questions – most of which are direct and unambiguous. If you’re not on top of the game and 30 seconds isn’t enough time for one’s own quixotic and neuronic call and fetch routines to play out, some questions can throw you, like this one. Thing is, I saw llama in there first, you know, because they are always on my mind.

1% club policy is one answer for each question, thus the ploy of informing the game host “look out, there are llamas” isn’t going to fly. 🙁

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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 from Sherlocks amazing bag of PI tricks with each episode. One episode plays this clip and others mention math problems such as p vs np. Also a mention of “86”, rhyming with “nix”. used recently in connection with James Comey.
Very interestingly, an episode themed on old games referenced The Nottingham knights, supposedly one of the worst games ever made.
Six Degrees of Separation is very engaging despite tapering of a little towards the end somewhat.
Hadn’t seen O Brother, Where Art Thou yet so tonight was the night, fun, whacky, violent and totally non-believable. Quotes like this from the neuro atypical bank robber:

George Nelson: Okay, folks, hold the applause and drop your drawers! I’m George Nelson, and I’m here to sack the city Itta Bena!
Delmar: He’s a live wire, though, ain’t he?
George Nelson: [approaches the tellers] All the money in a bag! What are you looking at, Grandpa?
Everett: Pardon me, George. You got a plan for getting out of here?
George Nelson: Sure, boys. [tosses the money bag to Everett] Here’s my plan. [opens his jacket to reveal sticks of dynamite, then laughs] They ain’t never seen ordinance like this! [to the crowd] Thank you, folks! And remember, Jesus saves, but George Nelson withdraws! [laughs] Go fix the auto voiture, Pete.

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