It’s Sunday! Post a cartoon you love. Lot of old cartoons I love but for a more modern one, Scavengers Reign, which depicted an alien biosphere that was more complex than a lot of sci-fi tv/movies bother to do:

What movie do you consider perfect?

Drop some GLASSES 🍷😎🖤

Another month, another Ansible. news.ansible.uk/a458.html

Visited Durham yesterday to see the Magna Carta exhibition, liked the shadows in the Cloisters:

If I had a time machine How could you tell? No flashing lights Or weird noises The only clue? A small dog A mutt you could say The only evidence Of a wrong finally righted.

Alien Earth E5 teaching us to never leave a water bottle unopened or a sandwich unattended.

The calls of seagulls Far from the sea Are the dawn chorus That herald in the arrival Of autumn.

I read science fiction and so far still breathing . Although these days I quite like fantasy as well.

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If you see this, QTP with a trio of awesomeness!:

Watching the Thursday Murder Club on Netflix and feeling old seeing the actor who played Belloq in Raiders looking so old.

Afternoon naps, something to be ashamed of? I mean that’s not going to stop me having a nap.

“For Mash get Smash”

Sea Fever by John Masefield: “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by”

So I’m curious, I’m reading a non fiction book that consists of small amount connecting text to a large amounts of quotes to tell the story of events. Is the a literary equivalents of a collage cos this book feels like that.

Well so far Storm Floris has blown over a few things:

You can’t beat listening to the rain when having a lazy Sunday morning.

Oh no, it's August, and that means Ansible 457.... news.ansible.uk/a457.html

Currently reading The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown on audio. The character of Izzie is such an arsehole that I literally shouted out “JFC just shut up” as was out for my morning walk. So that’s how my day is going.

I’m sorry but if you are writing an obituary of Tom Lehrer and don’t mention Werner Von Braun you are an asshole: youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?...

Looking through my library of audio books and wondering whatever happened to the author Al Robertson, I enjoyed both books that were released on Audible.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

Watching the 1959 adaption of On the Beach, one of those films I’ve read about and seen clips of over the decades but never got round to watching till tonight. As I get older, catching up on missed films feels like crossing off items on a bucket list.

@projectionbooth.bsky.social So since this month is sci-fi films are we finally going to hear the 2001 episode?

So these were the first two games I bought when I got my first home computer. Both have not aged well but one is considerably better than the other.

Today I learnt a bike I was given as a kid had a braking system called a coaster brake. You pedalled backwards to break. So now you know as well.

This morning my brain is whirring trying to remember the name of a film. IRA bomber refuses a job, goes on the run to Australia, hooks up with old flame (who has a teenage daughter) as a hitman hunts them. Australian film, maybe, any ideas?

Too hot here for any clever comment, but here's the July Ansible: news.ansible.uk/a456.html

Till this week I had not watched a single episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, the one that stars David Suchet. ITVx has all the series available to stream, so started a watch, I may be some time..,

Post your favorite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.

Finally got round to watching the 1946 film adaption of The Big Sleep. What a joy to watch Bogart in one of his best film roles.

I sometimes hear a high pitched tone in either my left or right ears. I then start wondering if this is the time the tone will stay on permanently. When it stops I breathe a sigh of relief till the next time.

For me the answer is always Grosse Pointe Blank.

I do love the Summer Solstice because that means:

Das Boot which is both a film and a tv series (the original was aired as a tv series in the UK)

My pet hate with old movies is rear projection for car or carriage scenes, it almost never looks good even in b/w movies.

Watching Futureworld for the first time since I saw it at the cinema back in the 70s. Looking back, they could imagine a world with human like robots but not how newspapers were printed, that would stay the same as how it was done in the 70s. #bemused

So the running time for Crimes of the Future is about ten minutes less on BBC iPlayer than it’s cinema release. So is this a frame rate conversion thing or did the BBC cut some footage?

Post a robot that’s not from Star Wars or Transformers or RobotJox:

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? “Bladerunner is a really good book adaption.”

Unless you are 100% certain you want new windows, do NOT let a Windows sales rep into your home. This bit of advice cost me money.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, but who cares: here's Ansible 454. news.ansible.uk/a454.html

Stardust:

Nothing like having to decide whether push or not push a button for a major life change that confirms I am a coward.

Ordered my first quality drone (DJI Neo) and wondering how long it will take for me to lose it or break it in a crash. Place your bets…

So this week started a reread of Ilium by Dan Simmons. Great world building but had forgotten there was also some Heinlein level bullshit going on. One character lusting after a 15 year old close relative, but that’s ok cos advanced tech stops inbreeding 🙄

I’ve not read much of Barrington J Bailey’s work but the ones I have read have stuck in my memory over the decades because they were wonderfully bleak. The wizard wiping out humanity by raising the sea level because they didn’t remember him properly. The man who killed God, etc etc,

Quote this with the energy you bring to #BookSky 📚💙

Looking for the writer and artist for a story in a Star Wars comic but was not a Star Wars story (late 70s early 80s). Humanity is extinct and a team of lizard like aliens visit Earth, one of the team finds a museum and discovers a women in suspended animation and goes against orders to revive her.