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Agreed. Now that things are beginning to ramp up, the search function would be wonderful 🙂

Certainly. We can use Walrus for all things Walrus and another category for other odds and ends. But not for odd numbers. Maybe for odd balls, though, like American footballs. They’re shaped like bullets and can hurt! They’re certainly an odd shaped ball!

What did you have in mind?

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Yeah, the cold front caused it to weaken significantly too so Tampa didn’t get hit as hard as expected. 🙂

Sounds good. Will keep giving advice as I think of it. 🙂

I do recall my dad having a lot of issues with his HP twenty-five years ago. We were never able to get them resolved so I tossed Fedora on there for him and that seemed to do the trick. 🙂

Sorry for the long time between posts myself!

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Great, thanks. Will tweak that over the next couple of days and get it published 🙂

Then we can move on to a new idea!

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Ad Astra was incredible. It focused almost entirely on the journey with a slight dash of the politics involved, giving us a nice and relaxing space film. The ongoing narration as opposed to current interactions really sold it as a narrative. You could actually feel the distance and tension it was trying to portray in lonely space. The visuals and music were icing on the cake. Will definitely put that in the list for a physical copy 🙂

Yeah, the international market has it much better. Over here, I think they use us as guinea pigs. 😛 Roku doesn’t have proper categories and only shows a snippet of what’s on the service. In order to find the other stuff, it’s a matter of searching for a title and hoping it’s available. Tubi keeps recommending stuff I’ve already watched on the service and even puts those at the top of the categories. Fortunately, they do have proper categories. Amazon Prime doesn’t have categories at all, which is weird for a paid service. It’s pretty frustrating 🙁

A lot of stuff isn’t even available to rent, such as the aforementioned Woody Allen films. Why they’re not available anywhere is mind boggling.

Amazing find! Futurama is definitely worth it! I may pick up a 4k Blu-Ray player next month during the holiday sales. 🙂

Haven’t seen the film but I did read the books. Probably need to watch them at some point. I never did understand the relationship between the psychedelic spice and space travel. It was never properly explained in the books! 😛

Is it explained in the films?

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And something caused the width on the blog posts to mess up, as well. Will add that to the list of things to look at. It would be so much easier if I didn’t need to keep bludgeoning it! 😛

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Got the start of the hurricane post up: https://stearnvault.com/?p=3074&preview=true

Never been good at a conclusion though 😛

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I remember old cartoons used to riff on that design by making it a hamster wheel or the like. 😀 Would be quite fun, though. Set it up with a gyroscope to keep you centered in the middle while the rest of with rolls around you. Attraction idea for the theme park thread?

Ah, didn’t realize that musical organs were that popular. Yeah, I see them at estate sales periodically for pretty cheap. Even the pianos tend to be more popular at the sales. Now, if someone had a pipe organ…that would be a bit more difficult to sell and move 😛

Not exactly. The Sentinels are essentially robots from an alternate universe that think it’s their job to make sure planets’ resources are untouched. They’re fine if you explore (except on planets where they’ve gone haywire) but will attack if they see you doing anything else. If you keep at it and attack them, the alert level continues to climb until they bring out the big guns: giant mechs and robot dogs. In space, they’ll start with a squadron of fighters and escalate from there to a giant capital ship. You find out the lore by reading old logs left behind at crashed ships (usually destroyed by Sentinels) or abandoned buildings.

Speaking of, do we need a comic thread or do we not have enough discussion yet to warrant one?

Yep. It used to be easy to tell an AI voice from a human. Usually they were very monotonous. Now, it’s very difficult. On the phone, there are a few tell-tale signs, though, such as pauses at certain points. Eventually, they’ll get things to where we can’t tell the difference at all!

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Been a while 😀

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Was thinking about Porky’s for this week but it’s not available for streaming over here. Think I may watch Ad Astra instead. Been a while since I watched a killer space film 🙂

Streaming is getting annoying. It’s getting harder and harder to find stuff on the platforms as the services are beginning to forgo traditional categories and sorting algorithms in favor of “recommendations”, half of which I’ve already watched on said platform. That and a lot of stuff is simply disappearing, such as a lot of Woody Allen films. I’m probably going to start going back to physical media soon. More expensive but at least I’ll be able to find what I want to watch! Either that or simply move back to the antenna 😛

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Sounds good. I’ll see what I can come up with. May need to start using Feedly again to help generate ideas. 🙂

Not a whole lot going on in Pokemon land these days, other than TCG releases. The most recent batch of games was pretty short and underwhelming but we should be getting another Legends game soon so that may help things pick up a bit

Last time I looked at the old Teams database, I could access the content by clicking fast enough to confuse the overlay but I was still blocked from doing much due to the overlay not going away. It made it hard to click the expand buttons. I can certainly take another look, though.

Even though I had posted about Stellarium, it had slipped my mind! 😛 Yep, can try to do a bit on exploring it. 🙂

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Whelp. Neighbor issues again. A little backstory before the recent issues. There’s a small garden plot between our two driveways that originally was filled with plants that I liked. A few years ago, after they moved in, they pulled out all of these plants and put in their own stuff and a bunch of tacky yard art without consulting me or the HoA. This plot is owned by the neighborhood, not either one of us. They were told to restore the area and remove their stuff. They did the latter but not the former. After waiting on them for a few months to do it, getting excuse after excuse from them, I went ahead and did it on my own and never got reimbursed. A few months ago, the lawn crew thought part of it was weeds so they weed whacked some of the plants so I put a tomato cage around them, which is what I had available and the same size as some of their yard art in the same place that they had it. No complaints from them. A month ago, they started pulling the plants out yet again so I alert the HoA. They’re told to stop. The neighbors then yell at me for reporting them and call me a liar even though I replanted the plants from the pile they had. They also tossed the remaining pile of weeds in my personal garden bed for whatever reason. Fast forward to now….They’re now threatening me personally with legal action over the tomato cage, claiming that they’re tripping over it. It’s not in a hazardous location at all and they can simply avoid it. Again, it’s the same size as their former yard art and in the same location. I’ve been meaning to replace it with something that’s not as much of an eyesore, which I’ll try to do this morning, but I’m still going to reach out to the HoA about it. The easiest solution is to simply force them to restore the area as they were originally supposed to. Clearly, all of this is in response to them being called out for their behavior.

I’m getting really tired of dealing with them. /sigh

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Great!

Could be that the dates weren’t convertible so they were just set to the date of migration. There was a similar issue back on Dark Creations before I arrived that never got resolved.

Possibly! There is some discussion on the Talk page that last saw activity twelve years ago about it. Perhaps it’s time to revive it?

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Yuck. Will take a look at it and see if there’s anything that can be done about it. The area is a bit finicky but I’ll try.

Curse the coding standards! I really wish WordPress and associated plugins adhered more to best practices. Would make my life a whole lot easier 🙁

Been saying the same thing about Microsoft’s C++ habits for years. 😛

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So the Wikipedia article on brownouts is severely lacking and nigh useless: it’s basically just a dictionary definition with a short blurb of examples. Been experiencing that a lot on Wiki. Articles that were once well written and informative are now basic and generic. 🙁

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Got a few releases coming up:

Pokemon Scarlet & Violet – Surging Sparks is coming out on 2024-11-08
Disney’s Lorcana Azurite Seas is coming out on 2024-11-15

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Night Shift was a lot of fun. Some of the scenes were heavily inspired by After Hours but Winkler and Keaton had amazing synergy together. 🙂

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Litespeed update as well:

* Crawler Removed barely used Role Simulator from Crawler, to prevent potential security issues.
* Misc Removed mt_srand function in random hash generation to slightly improve the hash result.

Do you want to make another backup before we grab it as well?

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Yep, looks good. I can get that one in the morning if you don’t beat me to it 🙂

Sorry, mind’s been wandering lately. Did get most of the conversion done in the CSS file to variables the other day and then got distracted by paperwork…

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I’ve mostly run the gamut of older horror films now after a couple of years so I figure it’s time for a bit of a change 😛

Could rewatch the old Universal Monsters films but I’ve seen those so many times that I want something a bit different 😛

I’m way overdo for a rewatch of Rain Man. Probably need to fix that! 🙂

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Yep, on the blog stuff. Mostly just trying to add backgrounds that look better on the article pages themselves but I can’t get the editor to play nice. Never been good with WYSIWYG editing, I’m much better with code.

Yeah, the last time I looked at them it looked a bit hairy to set up and maintain so I dug a hole. Could get the shovel and take another look, though.

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