Wikipedia, unsurprisingly, has a list of all the Best Movie Oscar winners. For no readily apparent reason I decided to look them all up and see how many I’ve watched. Starting in the forties (because why not): 40s: 4 50s: 5 60s: 4 70s: 7 80s: 8 90s: 9 00s: 4 10s: 2 20s: 0…
Circa 1980 Lockheed jumped on board the “X-Wing” bandwagon. For those unfortunate enough not to have been graced to grow up in the 80’s, the X-Wing was a concept for a four-bladed helicopter where the rotors were rigid and could be stopped in flight, turning into two forward swept and two aft-swept wings (see Aerospace…
The very latest in breaking news from a year and a half ago: Armed ex-soldier allegedly storms animal shelter to get cat back An Australian former soldier broke in to an animal shelter to get his emotional support cat back. The cat had apparently been lost and someone found it and took it to the…
English traditions confuse me: Manchester: population and cultural replacement. pic.twitter.com/jarZ6HBHdu — Tony #VoteAnyoneButLibLabConGreen (@Tony40335450) March 12, 2023 I guess that slots in somewhere between “Cricket” and “Blimey.” Oh, and something to look out for in the future of a culturally enriched Britain: “Taharrush.” Such as: On Pakistan's independence day on the 14th August, 2021, a…
So it looks like Silicon Valley Bank employed people to do fundamentally pointless time- and resource-wasting stuff. This, sad to say, is hardly unique; lots of companies devote surprising amounts of effort end employees time to things that have nothing to do with the companies business or mission. Company baseball teams, for example, have nothing…
My preference with the cyanotype diagrams is to not tinker with the actual image other than the needs of cleaning them up. However, in a few cases the diagrams are such that they make inconvenient fits, or could be made into convenient sizes… or need additional stuff added to them to flesh them out. One…
Banks failing are hardly good news. But for most people, FDIC insurance *should* mean that most people shouldn’t lose a dime, though there will definitely be heartburn and inconvenience. This insurance covers up to, IIRC, $250,000 in savings, which is more than most people have. But some people have a *lot* more than that. The…
Yeesh. Bad news on the culture *and* economic fronts: ‘You’re probably going to see a dumbed down version’: Amazon Diluting Henry Cavill’s Warhammer 40K Series Like They Did With ‘The Rings of Power’? Nobody knows *anything* about Amazons 40K adaptation yet… but basically everyone assumes that it’ll be trash. not because of the soruce material,…
I will be posting some more cyanotype blueprints to ebay in the coming days. These were made from old transparencies I’d had made prior to the move from Utah. But I also hope to have some “brand new” cyanotypes in the near-ish future. The transparent film remains astonishingly elusive; two separate companies are trying to…
“You are who you choose to be.” “Superman.” The question I’ve seen asked before: “why didn’t the giant simply blast the missile?” Because he chose to be Superman, and Superman isn’t a gun (let’s ignore the “heat vision” for just a second). This guy’s channel is definitely worth watching. He also had the correct response…
