I’ll have a go… sunny and warm, possibly hot, with high humidity, possibly up to 100%RH. I can be just as wrong as the weather liars, and saves the hassle of looking it up and making fancy maps. Saturday was actually pretty nice, sunny but not boiling hot, RH below 60%, mild breeze.
I took youngest child with me to my hobby meeting, where she charmed the whole group, while mostly sitting in a corner reading. I learned some things about my hobby, and had a great time talking with some other members of the group that I don’t always get a chance to chat with.
My wife retrieved the oldest child from Girl Scout camp. Child had a good time, met some new girls and made friends. One big difference between my childhood and kids today, we seemed to be a lot more willing to make ‘friends of the moment’ with kids we just happened to be together with for some reason. What I see in today’s kids is less of that, and a more inward focus. I’m glad she went and met some new kids. Wife is leaving later today for the funeral and related stuff back east. I’ll be kid wrangling by myself for a couple of days.
On the way home from my meeting, I swung by one of my local auctioneers and picked up a check. Turned out I was owed a bit more than I thought. About $350 more, so I’m a happy boy. He’s still pushing me off for the next round of sales though. His current facility is full, and he hasn’t closed the deal for more space yet. My other, industrial auction doubled his space, and has a couple of storage containers. One of my other surplus (old school traditional) auctioneers reorganized after the death of the patriarch, and split into several independent houses, and started doing franchise deals with several more new startups. The auction business is booming. SOMEONE has to dispose of all the cheap chinese cr@p that gets returned to the online retailers when it becomes obvious just how cheap and sh!tty it is… and someone has to try to get some value out of all the returns fraud. If I was feeling uncharitable, I’d say that someone has to pick over the bones of our society too.
I also did a pickup at another new seller and we had a chat. He got burned buying bulq.com and liquidation.com pallets of returns. He mentioned whole pallets without anything but garbage in the boxes. I bought a Dell 30″ curved monitor for $35 from him. I’m pretty sure he was looking for more. Many of his items didn’t sell either, because they were just cheap junk. I’ll fire up the monitor today and see if I got a deal or got punked. He didn’t test any of the electrical items, and I’m pretty sure it’s because he’s working out of a storage unit with no power available. I guess $400/ month for the unit is cheaper than office/warehouse, but it’s not cheap enough, if you can’t sell the items.
A guy I used to read, the Head Druid for North America, writing as The Archdruid Report (iirc) talked a lot about ‘catabolic collapse’- when during the decline of society, we eat our seed corn so to speak. The auction business, selling bankruptcy assets, surplus, etc. performs a vital function in a healthy society that gets those assets back into circulation, and at a low price that helps the next round of businesses succeed. John Michael Greer was describing something else though. He was describing selling off the assets that made our culture and society possible, and the collapse inevitable. I think I’m seeing it happen in real time with some of my sellers.
It can be an opportunity to stack some things at reduced cost, assuming we’ll be able to use them later. The key will be deciding which things are just magpie things, shiny and useless, and which are a little bit of our civilization to hold onto just a bit longer.
Choose wisely, and stack it high.
nick
Brad, you just said it was Windows.
Do it. There may be another underlying issue. If you don’t do it while under warranty you may be out some big bucks in the future. If nothing else it gets the problem documented with the dealer, with Ford, while under warranty. Drop the truck off, get a rental for the day, generally about $30.00 if they have a rental. Barring that get Uber to take you back to your business and then return later in the day.
Do it. There may be another underlying issue. If you don’t do it while under warranty you may be out some big bucks in the future. If nothing else it gets the problem documented with the dealer, with Ford, while under warranty
My wife’s carpool friend still has the battery issue with her new-ish Honda Accord — the car eats a battery every six months, and, suspiciously, the dealer just replaces the battery each time without pushback.
The skip button is useful and recommended, esp. to bypass the schmaltz. The 1st 30 minutes were the worst and it’s got every tired trope in the book except a chase scene and a vegetable cart, but it’s still pretty much a glorified Saturday afternoon kiddie movie. 4/10
But I like Saturday afternoon kiddie movies ! Even if it left plot points hanging all over the place. For instance, how did they get the millions of dollars and machine guns to go to Siberia to find the space ship ? And where did the space ship come from ? Don’t think about such things and just enjoy the carnage. Those are questions for the sequel.
https://hypebeast.com/2021/7/amazon-the-tomorrow-war-sequel-chris-pratt-confirmed
And the creatures were certifiably nasty !
@Greg Norton
“suspiciously, the dealer just replaces the battery each time without pushback.”
Time push the dealer to find and fix the underlying problem, before it becomes out-of-warranty, or worse, the problem is tripped by the Critical Need Detector. Make a call and dump docs on the factory rep.
And advise your wife’s friend to keep meticulous records documenting time wasted and inconvenience.
Before I forget — I saw some interesting new tech deployed by the Border Patrol over the last week while driving around South Texas, most notably at the location in the map link below.
We drove through the checkpoints several times in each direction, and I noticed that, in addition to the manual processes NB, the agency had some experimental-looking automated zones on the road NB and SB which included plate reader cameras, RF antennas (Passport Cards fluoresce in RF) , and clusters of imaging devices similar to what we used in one failed project attempting to count vehicle occupants optically at the last job.
Things that make you say “Hmmm…”
https://goo.gl/maps/wRLw7tNbEd2KzAtD7
Sorry, no pictures. Within 100 miles of the coast/border, the Border Patrol is allowed to detain and search anyone along with their electronic devices, and I didn’t want to take my chances with the family in the car along with their phones. We got through the checkpoints with a wave, some sniffs from the dogs, and a positive response to the question, “Are you US citizens?”
BTW, Border Patrol is part of the security for The Real Life Tony Stark’s (TM) “Starship” project out at Boca Chica, with a small checkpoint inbound from the coast but still showing the flag to anyone heading in the opposite direction. The launch pad portion of the SpaceX facility is literally the last piece of US soil heading south along the coast before the Rio Grande.
Time push the dealer to find and fix the underlying problem, before it becomes out-of-warranty, or worse, the problem is tripped by the Critical Need Detector. Make a call and dump docs on the factory rep.
And advise your wife’s friend to keep meticulous records documenting time wasted and inconvenience.
Not my problem beyond the occasional question channeled through my wife. The carpool has a van supplied by Cap Metro, and everyone sharing the ride just has to be at the parking lot at the agreed-upon time.
The friend’s husband does something for Accenture and travels all the time.
But I like Saturday afternoon kiddie movies ! Even if it left plot points hanging all over the place. For instance, how did they get the millions of dollars and machine guns to go to Siberia to find the space ship ? And where did the space ship come from ? Don’t think about such things and just enjoy the carnage. Those are questions for the sequel.
Of course there will be a sequel.
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard filmed new material for the theming of the Velocicoaster at Universal Orlando, which just successfully opened to rave reviews. Pratt’s having a big Summer again.
112F coming up for today dropping to 102F by Wednesday. St 6 am went out to grab the paper. Was only 86F and no direct sun yet so thought I’g take advantage and trim up the over grown bush at the end of the driveway before the neighbors come with pitchforks and torches. No, I was overwhelmed by blood sucking vampires. Mosquitos usually don’t bother me but the buzzing around the face was too much. I at least got part of it including the overhang of the sidewalk. I tried some repellent to no avail. I don’t think I really was bit, nothing is itching. I have had the ankle biters a couple of time this year.
Pool looks murky and I called but doubt the pool guy will come before Wednesday. I think the last service was short. We hadn’t really used it since Monday. Ran filter extra but I don’t keep chems on hand since I pay $100 a month to have that done. Just spent extra $400 for new filter cartridges.
Does it ever stop?
Pools are like inverted boats when it comes to spending money 🙂
I don’t like mosquitos but the bites don’t usually bother me, no redness, swelling, or itching. Used to think it was all the Jack Daniels in my system but that’s long gone… Sometimes though I get a mosquito that feels like I’m being stabbed. The penetration hurts, and that is weird.
91F and only 70%RH, mostly cloudy. Wife’s getting ready for her trip, kids need breakfast. Late night so today is a late start.
n
It’s going to be a hat trick day, weather wise, up here in the high desert.
Single digit humidity, double digit winds, triple digit temperatures…
Already 103F at 9:30am, up from 99 at 9am…
In other news, it was a nice flight and landing for the Virgin Galactic craft today. Congratulations to the whole team, space flight is hard, even at the low altitude end.
My brother mentioned that the control room uses IADS, the flight test software from his company. I was offered there a job a couple times, but could just never get that enthused about C++ programming. But it (IADs) is pretty amazing stuff, NASA uses it at Dryden…er…Armstrong.
So, if I get a pool, will it cancel out my boat?
My brother mentioned that the control room uses IADS, the flight test software from his company. I was offered there a job a couple times, but could just never get that enthused about C++ programming. But it’s pretty amazing stuff, NASA uses it at Dryden…er…Armstrong.
Boost and features introduced in C++11 such as shared pointers, closures and the ever-controversial “auto” keyword have made the language more tolerable than it was in the past.
There is no substitute when you need the performance, particularly out of x86_64.
When evaluating a car purchase, among other things, I take into account if the dealership that will do any warranty service offers free loaner cars.
@nnick, didn’t you have an above-ground pool last summer? Trade it for a boat?
Unfortunately your pool won’t cancel your boat, just SQR the costs, 🙂
Wife decided she didn’t want to put up the above ground pool this year. She’s still dithering on where in the yard, since we took the tree that was in the way down. She’d like to put it where the kids’ play structure is, but that means doing something with it first… so no decisions.
A/C guy hasn’t called back, either doesn’t want the work or doesn’t want it ATM. Electrician put me off until Centerpoint replaces the service drop, and they haven’t even given me an email saying they received my online request.
We haven’t tried the plumber for the water heater install in a while.
n
Sorry, no pictures. Within 100 miles of the coast/border, the Border Patrol is allowed to detain and search anyone along with their electronic devices, and I didn’t want to take my chances with the family in the car along with their phones. We got through the checkpoints with a wave, some sniffs from the dogs, and a positive response to the question, “Are you US citizens?”
Um, those searches are unconstitutional unless you are crossing the border (and I am doubtful about that). But an appeals court has said that Customs and Border Patrol can look at anything within 100 miles of the border. Funny, I don’t find that exception in the USA Constitution. A strict Constitutionalist SCOTUS will knock this down some day.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/10/22276183/us-appeals-court-first-circuit-border-phone-search-decision-fourth-amendment
Um, those searches are unconstitutional unless you are crossing the border. But an appeals court has said that Customs and Border Patrol can look at anything within 100 miles of the border. Funny, I don’t find that exception in the USA Constitution. A strict Constitutionalist SCOTUS will known this down some day.
The Border Patrol facility in the linked map looked pretty permanent. That probably came with the money to turn the State Highway into I-69.
Once someone gets optical occupancy detection working reliably, the checkpoints will blend in with the background, with vehicles dispatched to look at anomalies.
Yep.
Now do gun control laws.
The Tomorrow War
Womaneater (1958) is a British sci-fi horror film
I need to find Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. Now that was a terrible movie. Or The Last Dragon. Those were worthy B movies. Hmm. I think kiddo might be old enough for Adventures in Babysitting. That was an awful movie.
Chris Pratt is going to have to up his B movie scripts if he’s pursuing such dreck as sequels to The Tomorrow War.
The Man with the Screaming Brain was a good waste of time if I recall.
Feeling almost human. Going to catch up on laundry and housework, and spend some time on PluralSight with an SSIS / data integration tutorial. I messed with it Thursday then brain got too mushy from the head cold. I need to get a handle on it somewhat quickly.
Windows and Microsoft accounts. When I replaced my laptop earlier this year I got drug into that hole. I tried to back out but the tarpit was better constructed than my energy to fight it. I had a Microsoft account I used back when I was certifying in things. I kept it isolated for a long time. They got me this last go around. I hate this linking linking linking of all the data. It can’t end well.
Does that include people who have never crossed the border? If so, then all of San Diego and a good bit north would be eligible for no warrant searches. It would also include large chunks of Washington state, North Dakota, South Texas, etc. It would seem to be an overly broad reach of the law.
Adventures in Babysitting. That was an
awfulAWESOME movie.–FIFY My girls loved it. There is a bad word or two, some stereotypes, and name calling that we had to explain… Also some great blues music. And Elizabeth Shue, rrrowwwllll…. 🙂
n
It would also include large chunks of Washington state, North Dakota, South Texas, etc. It would seem to be an overly broad reach of the law.
–That is the point. Much discussion about this when it was first instituted. IIRC something like 80-90% of the US population is included in that. There was also something about inland waterways that made the zones even bigger.
Lack of manpower is the only thing limiting the searches.
n
Being no more than 7 miles from a navigable inland waterway, the extends all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, I guess I could be searched, no warrant, just because.
J, Wesley Rowles made a meme with this text
–And while it captures the thought, it makes the crucial mistake that HIPAA was enacted for OUR benefit. When in the last 100 years has that been the case? IIRC from when I actually looked at the text rather than the description, just about anyone could use your data for research, billing, insurance, or compliance while YOU have to jump over the same or more hurdles than before to see your actual data.
About the only time it limits release of your info is in your Dr’s office.
n
I need to find Amazon Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death. Now that was a terrible movie. Or The Last Dragon. Those were worthy B movies. Hmm. I think kiddo might be old enough for Adventures in Babysitting. That was an awful movie.
Do you mean “Amazon Women on the Moon” or the Bill Maher career highlight “Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death”?
“Amazon Women on the Moon” got two thumbs down from Siskel & Ebert back in the day IIRC, but it wasn’t a complete waste of time if you happened to catch it late one night on HBO. Unfortunately, it is rated ‘R’ in the original form, uncensored for late night broadcast TV.
If you want a poster child “so bad it is good” movie from the 80s that is fairly kid safe and a minor classic, look for “Midnight Madness”, the secret shame of the Disney corporation that the company dumped onto the movie channels at the beginning of the decade. I remember that running endlessly on HBO in the afternoons for a few years until “Back to the Future” hit and made Michael J. Fox a household name.
Michael J. Fox’s first film role is in “Midnight Madness”.
And before anyone says “Family Ties”, the series was not a big hit for NBC in the first two seasons and was still treading water even after the move to Thursdays. Fox’s casting in “Back to the Future” is yet another reason that the studio felt they had a bomb of epic proportions on their hands heading into the Spring of 1985.
I don’t know if I should mess with the warranty at the Dealership
Do it. There may be another underlying issue. If you don’t do it while under warranty you may be out some big bucks in the future. If nothing else it gets the problem documented with the dealer, with Ford, while under warranty. Drop the truck off, get a rental for the day, generally about $30.00 if they have a rental. Barring that get Uber to take you back to your business and then return later in the day.
I am now charging the AGM battery at the automatic mode on my charger (2 A to 24 A) for six hours per advice on the intertubes. We will see what that does.
Pool looks murky and I called but doubt the pool guy will come before Wednesday. I think the last service was short. We hadn’t really used it since Monday. Ran filter extra but I don’t keep chems on hand since I pay $100 a month to have that done. Just spent extra $400 for new filter cartridges.
Does it ever stop?
We had a pool for seven years at the last house. The pain stopped when I sold the house last July.
Dilbert: Write An Enterprise System
https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-07-11
Oh my goodness, this hits too close to home as I am selling the enterprise systems for engineers. And this years sales are terrible to date.
Over The Hedge: Snappy’s Treats
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2021/07/11
Unfortunately, dogs are scavengers. As is evidenced by the dogs in elk story.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html
@Greg
“Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death”
Yes, that was the film I meant. I blame the head cold.
@Nick
Our pup is making progress with potty training. With me she’s about 95% and the last 5% is always my failing to take her seriously when she says ‘now’. My husband and daughter are not enjoying the same levels of compliance. I’m reminded again it’s not the dog, it’s the human. Nearly always.
And if a puppy pee pees in the house, I think it may be dubbed a (wait for it)…
pisstake
Sorry.
Laundry running. Dishwasher running. Magic vacuum (it auto-empties, key to dog hair) running. Most of the detritus is cleared. Sitting down with laptop to learn some SSIS.
Just blew the dust bunnies, tiny bits of paper (where the heck do they come from?) and other debris from the back bedroom to the front of the house, and out the door. I love my little dewalt leaf blower.
Child one allowed the puppy to roam for 2 minutes unsupervised, so I have a puddle in my bedroom. Now cleaned up.
He’s yipping by the door to get out to pee, but waits until he’s back in the house to poop about 1/2 the time. Still, an improvement. He’s getting better. The confinement technique isn’t completely working, but we’re giving it a try.
n
Um, those searches are unconstitutional unless you are crossing the border. But an appeals court has said that Customs and Border Patrol can look at anything within 100 miles of the border. Funny, I don’t find that exception in the USA Constitution. A strict Constitutionalist SCOTUS will known this down some day.
The Border Patrol facility in the linked map looked pretty permanent. That probably came with the money to turn the State Highway into I-69.
Once someone gets optical occupancy detection working reliably, the checkpoints will blend in with the background, with vehicles dispatched to look at anomalies.
There is a border patrol facility (50,000 ft2 shed) just 25 miles away from my house in Wharton County, Texas. I have never seen anybody in it. 18 wheelers park in it occasionally.
Oh my goodness, this hits too close to home as I am selling the enterprise systems for engineers. And this years sales are terrible to date.
The Boss is referring to the more general purpose systems put together in environments like PeopleSoft or SAP.
Adams is a little behind the times since SaaS pushed aside a lot of those legacy deployments. The last place I saw PeopleSoft was at the university, and that was probably due to the product line now being part of Oracle.
Even in their heyday, those platforms’ applications looked like cr*p to the casual observer … like the typical C suite exec.
Oh my goodness, this hits too close to home as I am selling the enterprise systems for engineers. And this years sales are terrible to date.
The Boss is referring to the more general purpose systems put together in environments like PeopleSoft or SAP.
Adams is a little behind the times since SaaS pushed aside a lot of those legacy deployments. The last place I saw PeopleSoft was at the university, and that was probably due to the product line now being part of Oracle.
Even in their heyday, those platforms’ applications looked like cr*p to the casual observer … like the typical C suite exec.
Oh yes, I know. But you would not believe how many engineers have told me they can duplicate our software in Excel if they just got a little time.
I probably will. The battery on both tractors are in front of the radiator and I park in the boatshed for shade and rain protection. The Yanmar is a 3 cylinder diesel and other than the starter and lights, it doesn’t need a battery. Mechanical fuel injection. Hint, don’t run out of fuel. The Mahindra is unknown other than it has a 3 cylinder Mitsubishi diesel. And enough “stuff” that it starts like a car. A compression release lever? Nope.
If I were to bet on which tractor will be running in 50 years I’ll take the Yanmar.
Agreed. I did compare the weights of the cheaper battery to the primo model. I didn’t notice a difference other than different labels and the warranty.
Yes. I always take the smallest dead battery I have for the core. I mean, I don’t know if battery lead is good for bullets but if it is, I’ll have more to trade come zombie time. Grin.
You need to stay outside longer. Buddy the Beagle will pee almost as soon at he gets to grass. Pooping takes longer…. gotta walk a bit.
Jenny, if you’re looking for a godawful movie which you can share with The Offspring, try Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I think Know-It-Allism rises with IQ up to certain point, then drops off. Doctors are particularly prone to the malady.
The station on 281 looks similar. Damn, they have lots of cameras now. One thing I know is a “blue” (more like blueish gray to me) Ford minivan with Purple Heart plates gets waved through.
They probably can, assuming “a little time” is read as “forty years or so”. Why are you doubting them?
@SteveF
try Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
That movie was AWESOME – I watched it every single time it was on the boob tube. Loved it.
Oh yes, I know. But you would not believe how many engineers have told me they can duplicate our software in Excel if they just got a little time.
IIRC, Excel is Turing Complete. Why not implement it in Minecraft? 🙂
(Oh, just wait. You’ll hear it within 10 years)
I’ve spent most of my time at the new job implementing surface functionality from an Enterprise grade data collection server which shall remain nameless but management is too cheap to license so we can develop against properly. My efforts have been successful at providing “just enough” of the server so we can get our real jobs done, but I’m sensing a lot of impatience with my constant reminders that I can’t provide them with the identical system, complete with extreme performance levels and endless reporting options, given the time frame and resource availability, namely me.
On the surface, again, the server product looks like a piece-o-junk, but there is real sophistication underlying its mediocre UI.
Working my way through the Loading Data with SSIS video on PluralSight. It’s slow because I’m doing all the exercises in parallel, and varying them so they more closely resemble what I think I need to learn for the task I’m doing at work.
Eureka – I’m almost certain I’m going to be able to use Derived Column feature in Visual Studio and tuck that into the existing dtsx package our SSIS is using. Of course, I don’t know what I don’t know. I’ll finish the tutorial and do a bit more reading. Looking forward to trying it out on our dev server tomorrow, though.
Husband and child have left for overnight camp. I’ve got a couple precious hours of quiet before husband returns. I’ll put it to good use studying (not yielding to temptation to find Sgt Pepper. Nope, not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent).
Even when I’m not trying to be a bad influence, I’m a bad influence. Fear my power!
Don’t forget about Buckaroo Banzai and His Adventures Across the Eighth Dimension!
“Not my gorram planet Monkey Boy!”
n
I know of course our privacy matters, but how much does it really matter given that probably every .gov TLA agency already has all our medical data, along with our emails and browser searches. Life is too short for me and my data. Have discussed this with my two kids and both have a good awareness of the issues. Hopefully something changes before my grandkids have access to the internet, but that hope is fleeting.
It’s the lies and misdirection that bother me the most.
n
Don’t forget about Buckaroo Banzai and His Adventures Across the Eighth Dimension!
“Not my gorram planet Monkey Boy!”
That one is a tough call from a parent’s point of view because Ellen Barkin’s character attempts suicide.
“Better Off Dead” is also out for the same reason. John Cusack attempts suicide several times in the movie even though one incident leads directly to one of the biggest money lines in any 80s cult flick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6srI0EVwTUE
Stephen Williams of “21 Jump Street”. Delivering that line probably made his career.
But, maybe it can result in a good discussion of the issue of suicide, etc with your child. There are many resources to help with that discussion.
“New York Times: Freedom is anti government”
https://gunfreezone.net/new-york-times-freedom-is-anti-government/
“Cubans Denounce ‘Misery’ in Biggest Protests in Decades
The rallies, widely viewed as astonishing for a country that limits dissent, were set off by economic crises worsened by the pandemic.”
Cubans are starving like Venezuela.
My kids love Better Off Dead. The first time we watched it with them, but they’ve watched it several times since. They even spotted the french girl in a scene in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When they re-watch, they tend to skip around a lot.
That white boy line is one of the funniest lines of the era. Right up there with the granny in Airplane– “I speak jive…”
My wife watched Adventures in Babysitting with them, I was popping in and out.
They love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Which has a suicide attempt too.
Stay away from Fast Times At Ridgemont High, lots of teen sex and gratuitous nudity…
n
lots of teen sex and gratuitous nudity…
–same same for Revenge of the Nerds, and probably Weird Science. They did ok with Sixteen Candles, but it’s def out of step with modern times, both for long duck dong and the drunken date rape implied at the end…
n
“sexy American girlfriend… !!!!!”
Time Bandits, Baron Von Munchhousen, the newish Journey to the Center of the Earth. All of the Jumanji franchise, the original and new Witch Mountain movies, all good, all fairly recent re-watches for me.
n
“The Adventures of Pluto Nash” is great fun.
Rubbish! The original with James Mason and Pat Boone is a masterpiece! 😉
It would be the animated series for me.
I can still hear that Lars crooning over Gertrude.
My kids love Better Off Dead. The first time we watched it with them, but they’ve watched it several times since. They even spotted the french girl in a scene in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When they re-watch, they tend to skip around a lot.
Diane Franklin.
She floats in and out of acting but has a new movie with Jennifer Tilly, another 80s cult flick favorite.
No, nothing like “Bound” — definitely not a film for the kiddies. 🙂
The cast of “Better Off Dead” also includes Mayor Pete lookalike Kim Darby. Every time I see Buttigieg, I think of the line “Its real aardvark fur.”
Rubbish! The original with James Mason and Pat Boone is a masterpiece!
–well yes, of course! BUT! I do like Brendan Fraser in his more kid friendly roles. I also really like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in his kid friendly movies too. He’s hilarious in the new Jumanji movies and pretty good in the Witch Mountain film.
I like it when the guys have kids and suddenly make a bunch of movies their kids can see, like Eddie Murphy did…
n
One of the worst pieces of competent, and even slick writing I’ve run across recently, when I went looking for a bit more info about
https://biographytribune.com/who-is-diane-franklin-wiki-biography-age-daughter-net-worth/
the french girl from Better Off Dead.
That is some pro-level cut and paste, smeared together, and made somehow smarmy by an author who chose not to use a last name…yuck.
n
Someone REALLY REALLY wanted this guy dead.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9779267/Rapper-31-dies-shot-64-times-walked-Chicago-jail.html
“rapper”
not “felon in possession” which would be more accurate.
n
Oh yeah, the golf pro shooter with the two bodies in a stolen truck? Divemedic has some more info on that…
https://areaocho.com/no-description/
Kinda fell out of the news for some reason.
n
For movies, find a copy of “Drive-In”. It’s available on Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Drive-Lisa-Lemole/dp/B007Q0JIFU/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=drive-in+movie&qid=1626107586&sr=8-3&tag=ttgnet-20
Set in a small Texas town in the 1970s, it’s a fun movie. Even more fun is the movie showing at the drive-in theater: Disaster ’77. That’s a pastiche of every one of the disaster movies popular at the time, including plane crashes, earthquakes, cruise ships, etc. We get to see snippets of it during the main movie.