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Abbott Elementary: Career Day Part 1
Welcome back to a new school year. Janine's got plans. Ava's got a new outlook. We get to meet some of the people from the school district.
Well, here's your viewing for the week decided.
Do you like Star Wars lore? Exactly how much do you like Star Wars lore? I ask because A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and is chock full of Star Wars lore. "This is not a defence of Episode 1, nor is it an attack. The idea is a detailed, fair, and informed analysis. We'll go over the entire movie, giving credit and blame as needed."
Movie: Leave the World Behind
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door.
Criminal Record: Emergency Caller
An anonymous call puts DS June Lenker in the path of the formidable DCI Daniel Hegarty.
Death and Other Details: Hidden
As the manhunt for Jules intensifies, Imogene uncovers his criminal past - and finds a new witness.
Finding the Air Cannon
For about three weeks, folks living in Corvallis, OR have had their sleep disrupted by a sound of mysterious origin. Retired software engineer K Lars Lohn engaged in some clever acoustic detective work to pinpoint the source.
Dogsandsnow
These Happy Dogs Love Sliding Down Snowy Hills [3m15s] That's what it is.
How to Comment on Social Media by Rebecca Solnit
On Lit Hub, Rebecca Solnit writes about how to comment on social media:
1) Do not read the whole original post or what it links to, which will dilute the purity of your response and reduce your chances of rebuking the poster for not mentioning anything they might’ve mentioned/written a book on/devoted their life to. Listening/reading delays your reaction time, and as with other sports, speed is of the essence.
Star Trek: Voyager: Threshold
Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, Adult Mutant Starfleet Salamanders, heroes on the Threshold! (Amphibian power!)
Re: Orange Peel Theory
In Vox, Alex Abad-Santos explains what TikTok’s true love test is all about: Would you dump someone if they didn’t peel you an orange? So far, everything I've read about this is specious, because nobody's specifying what kind of orange.
Movie: Poor Things
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a debauched lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Movie: Train to Busan
While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Death and Other Details: Troublesome
Interpol seizes control of the investigation. Rufus and Imogene must now investigate the Colliers in secret.
Death and Other Details: Sordid
Cotesworth interrogates the passengers and crew about the murder.
Death and Other Details: Rare
Imogene Scott finds herself as the prime suspect in a locked room murder. To solve it, she must partner up with the man who failed to solve her mother's murder, Rufus Cotesworth.
"You can think of it sort of like a idiots version of Slack"
"Current Boeing employee here – I will save you waiting two years for the NTSB report to come out and give it to you for free: the reason the door blew off is stated in black and white in Boeings own records." In two comments on an aviation blog, someone claiming to be a Boeing employee details the exact steps leading to door plug bolts not being installed on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9. The Seattle Times investigated and called the account convincing.
Faircamp: Like bandcamp but Free
A beautiful and free platform for Musicians.
In the aftermath of Epic selling Bandcamp to Songtradr, Bandcamp has found itself in a place of instability. Half of the company’s employees were laid off post-acquisition, leading many to speculate over the beloved platform’s future. Most importantly, many artists who depended on the service are left looking for alternatives.
How we made an animated movie in 8kB
In November 2022, we set ourselves a challenge:
make a real-time animation that looks like a standard short animated movie, with the constraint that it should fit in 8 kilobytes. The goal was to have decent graphics, animations, direction and camera work, and the matching music… Yes, 8 kilobytes, less than half of this post, for everything.
Lessons in Chemistry: Living Dead Things
A surprising discovery leaves Elizabeth feeling isolated and alone, but she finds comfort in her new friendship with Harriet.
Lessons in Chemistry: Her and Him
In pursuit of a prestigious grant, Elizabeth and Calvin join forces in the lab. Their partnership yields unexpected results.
Doom Patrol: Portal Patrol
Our heroes' crosstime quest for their lost immortality leads to unexpected reunions.
Reacher: A Night At The Symphony
Reacher and his team head to Boston to track down a political aide with insider knowledge of a top secret military-defense contract that may be the reason behind their friends' deaths. (IMDb)
Reacher: Picture Says a Thousand Words
After more of his friends fall victim, Reacher forges an uneasy alliance with a dogged detective, and their only clue in the case leads the 110th to a troubling discovery. (IMDb)
“If you don’t get privacy, what do you get?”
When she had started that process of probing the Bitcoin ecosystem, Meiklejohn had seen her work almost as anthropology: What were people doing with bitcoin? How many of them were saving the cryptocurrency versus spending it? But as her initial findings began to unfold, she had started to develop a much more specific goal, one that ran exactly counter to crypto-anarchists’ idealized notion of bitcoin as the ultimate privacy-preserving currency of the dark web: She aimed to prove, beyond any doubt, that bitcoin transactions could very often be traced. Even when the people involved thought they were anonymous. from How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity
What If...?: What If... Hela Found the Ten Rings?
In which Odin sends Hela to Midgard instead of her room own personal dimension.
Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road
Long ago, on Christmas Eve, a baby was abandoned in the snow. Today, Ruby Sunday meets the Doctor, and perhaps, the secret of her birth.
"He was such an iconic element of the early Internet"
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85. Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
In Memoriam
This is intended as a picnic table at the bottom of the garden where anyone who would like to, can come over and share something about a mefite who has died, either this past year or any other.
Ello? Goodbye.
Social Networking site Ello, is no more.
Fargo: Bisquick
A man frees a tiger so the tiger can finish her fight. This does not mean the man is finished with her.
I didn't expect to be here. I'm small time.
Dorothy Gambrell of Cat and Girl (which has been running for almost 25 years now... pre·vi·ous·ly) has a new comic reflecting "on being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train Midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends and Willem de Kooning."
What If...?: What If... Kahhori Reshaped the World?
A different sort of What If...? with a point of divergence in a much earlier time, in a different place.
Doom Patrol: Tomb Patrol
A dying Doom Patrol contemplates launching a last ditch effort to save itself but mostly can't summon up the interest. Meanwhile, Vic reconsiders his recent life choices, and there is, if you can believe it, even more little theater.
Do Like This
Favorite Dance Moves.
Ed People gets people to show their favorite dance moves from all around the world.
Our Flag Means Death: Mermen
Stede, Zheng, Spanish Jackie and the rest of the Revenge crew team up to take down a nefarious common enemy threatening the world of piracy.
Reacher: What Happens in Atlantic City
The investigation into Franz's murder takes Reacher and the surviving members of his former Army unit to Atlantic City where the mystery deepens, danger awaits, and an old flame is rekindled. (IMDb)
Reacher: ATM
Reacher and Neagley investigate the murder of a member of 110th, a group of Special investigators assembled by Reacher, only to realize the whole unit may be at risk. The first 3 episodes have dropped, weekly thereafter on Amazon Prime.
What If...?: What if… Captain Carter Fought the Hydra Stomper?
The Watcher does not normally do sequels but...
What If...?: What if… Iron Man Crashed Into the Grandmaster?
Here we have the 'missing' episode from season 1 that was the source of the Gamora we met in What If…The Watcher Broke His Oath?
Doctor Who: The Giggle
Upon their return to Earth, the Doctor and Donna find the world inexplicably descending into chaos. When the Doctor discovers the return of a long-ago foe, he faces a fight he may not be able to win.
Echo: Chafa
Young Maya Lopez leaves her hometown of Tamaha, Oklahoma following her mother's death and moves to New York City, where Wilson Fisk raises her to be a ruthless assassin.
30 Coins: Cobwebs
The quiet town of Pedraza is shaken by the unsettling birth of a mysterious child.
What If...?: What If... Happy Hogan Saved Christmas?
This holiday season, things are gonna get... purple.
Pounded in the butt by the Texas Library Association
THE TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION TELLS CHUCK TINGLE TO STAY HOME BUT WE PROVE LOVE ANYWAY
“just when you buckaroos thought 2024 would be a break from book drama, here comes chuck tingle in the mix. recently i was asked to be a featured speaker at the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION annual conference. a few days ago they rescinded my invitation. here is what happened….”
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder
The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna to the furthest edge of adventure. To escape, they must face the most desperate fight of their lives, with the fate of the universe at stake.