Preaching to the choir here, I’m sure. The EFF runs down a list of various ways Hollywood tries to screw over artists, making it obvious that their interest in draconian copyright laws is not about “protecting artists.”
Some useful tips from India via NPR on staying cool without AC:
Some useful tips from India via NPR on staying cool without AC:
Just enough breeze to sit outside in the shade with the work laptop.But I …
Just enough breeze to sit outside in the shade with the work laptop.
But I swear, the next time I spot one of these not-mosqiuto flies holding still, i need to snap a photo before brushing it away so I can ask iNat what the heck is biting me.
INat says they’re stable flies.
Actually it only flagged the genus, but they do look almost like house flies, which don’t bite.
I couldn’t help adding snarky comments to the observations.
“Apparently the way to catch them standing still is to take a picture *while* they’re draining my blood. Even through a sock.”
“I didn’t plan on being an all you can eat buffet today, but here we are”
It’s even better because I started the day getting blood drawn for a medical checkup
I’m melting! oh, what a world!
Wow, McAfee’s uninstall survey actually has a *specified option* for “I kept getting too many …
Wow, McAfee’s uninstall survey actually has a *specified option* for “I kept getting too many notifications from McAfee”
If you have to put it in the uninstall survey, that should tell you something.
Or maybe they know it, and the customer retention team is passive-aggressively trying to get the marketing team’s attention…?
“Your subscription is expiring” kinda implies something different than it just being a few days …
“Your subscription is expiring” kinda implies something different than it just being a few days before the monthly auto-bill goes through.
The “sound” of a black hole: pressure waves measured in observations of the interstellar gas …
The “sound” of a black hole: pressure waves measured in observations of the interstellar gas in a distant galaxy cluster, converted to sound, then transposed upward by 57 octaves into human hearing range.
“A scientist behind the project likened the sounds to ‘a beautiful Hans Zimmer score with the moody level set at really high’”
#astronomy #weird
Kid was in an angry mood all day. We started watching the first episode of …
Kid was in an angry mood all day. We started watching the first episode of She-Hulk, which he emphatically did NOT want to watch.
2 minutes in, he walked into the room and proceeded to watch the whole thing, laughing hysterically at the jokes and slapstick.
And he was in a great mood afterward.
That’s…a little more meta than I was expecting.
Death is perfectly cast.And they found a simple, elegant way to work around the …
Death is perfectly cast.
And they found a simple, elegant way to work around the timeline mismatch with the Hob Gadling story that adds another layer to the resolution.
Damn, 24/7 was just as disturbingly fucked up as it was supposed to be.
Gotta love it when expiring-in-minutes 2FA codes show up an hour and a half after …
Gotta love it when expiring-in-minutes 2FA codes show up an hour and a half after you needed them
Anticipating interruptions is almost as distracting as the interruptions themselves.
Anticipating interruptions is almost as distracting as the interruptions themselves.
#Sandman adaptation spoilers
Holy crap, David Thewlis can be seriously creepy when he wants to be. Two people in a car was more tense than Dream literally walking into hell and engaging in a battle of wits with Lucifer.
That’s not what I meant when I asked where the public toilets were!
That’s not what I meant when I asked where the public toilets were!
(spotted on a walk this morning)
Sandman adaptation spoilers
I’m still enjoying the TV series, on several levels: its own merits, seeing the story …
I’m still enjoying the TV series, on several levels: its own merits, seeing the story i remember brought to life, and thinking about adaptation choices. Like using a modern-day Johanna Constantine instead of John because his CW series is still recent, so it helps differentiate the two series, and adding scenes to establish what she does (and the recurring nightmare) in the episode because you can’t expect the *entire* audience to be familiar with the character like 1989 DC horror readers were.
Attention to detail: in episode 3 of Sandman (released 2022), Mad Hettie says she’s 280 …
Attention to detail: in episode 3 of Sandman (released 2022), Mad Hettie says she’s 280 years old.
In episode 3 of the comic book (1989), she says she’s 247 years old.
Hey, sites with restaurant listings? It’s good to know whether the place is open now, …
Hey, sites with restaurant listings? It’s good to know whether the place is open now, but please show the rest of the hours too. I might be planning ahead.
Spoilers for Sandman (original comics)
Ultimately it’s a story about Dream realizing he has to change, but can’t, and how he resolves that problem.
But along the way we get a lot of really cool stories weaving through that.
Re-read the first issue of the comic & got about halfway through 6The second before …
Re-read the first issue of the comic & got about halfway through 6
The second before stopping myself. Watching episode 2, i think they’ve actually improved on it in some ways. Some of the changes are more emotionally impactful.
Plus they have the advantage of knowing where they’re going this time through.
The Corinthian has a line I won’t spoil here that foreshadows Dream’s overall arc for the full 75 issues.