evidently, Tom Stoppard passed away recently. Reminds me of: https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/20761.html (... could be time to rent "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" -- unfortunately, imdb is not turning up any adaptations of "The Real Thing", which is the one I'm actually curious about -- […]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYcGSL-rHz4

wait. that's it? we don't even get to see fungus fucking off into the sea? one star minus. #Monsterdon

ok, time to set fire to the busses #Monsterdon

"everybody out of here!" and go where? #Monsterdon

I would have thought "point of no return" would be a LOT farther west than Santa Barbara. #Monsterdon

oh well. so much for all of the baggage #Monsterdon

Not a full flight, I guess #Monsterdon

Looking for **A GIRL** #Monsterdon

"typhoid Mary" yeah let's not panic anybody or anything. #Monsterdon

I guess "good looking brunette" really nails it down. #Monsterdon

I'm supposed to be rooting for her to make it onto the plane, right? #Monsterdon

c'mon spores. do your stuff already #monsterdon.

"now she must change her appearance as well." Thank you so much, Mr. Narrator; I would never have figured this out. #Monsterdon

wow, those public loudspeakers everywhere are really useful! #Monsterdon

is her picture in the newspaper already? #Monsterdon

I guess it's good that they're following Proper Procedures. #Monsterdon

hm. I think they reused the payphone set. #Monsterdon

so they're going to narrate the whole fucking movie?? #Monsterdon

umm. yeah. fumigate those tapes!! #Monsterdon

yay "An American in Paris" soundtrack. just another busy day... #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the social skills are strong with this one.

#Monsterdon "will proceed to devour it" yeah. Nothing bad is going to happen here!

I think those end credits could use a bit more DX7 #Monsterdon

"What a Finale!" um, okay. I do like the birdcalls #Monsterdon

wait. actual special effects? I sense budget being expended. #Monsterdon

I guess this *was* back when MTV still showed music videos. (was this their bid at getting extra air time there?)

and a "Beach" scene. And I guess the mask guys were supposed to be Vampires so, all boxes checked. yay. (why is this song break STILL going...?) #Monsterdon

I guess they've got the "Bikini' part of the title covered #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon SONG BREAK and MONTAGE!

ok, so all of the vampirification happens offscreen? oh wait... ask and ye shall receive (nice masks!) #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "figure it out on the computer" oh sure. chatgpt will have all of the answers

#monsteron (just tuning in) there's a narrator??? what for

Why TF am I getting Seattle Police recruitment ads? (I thought The Algorithm knew me pretty well by now. Is Google finally choking on its own AI slop? Or is this SPD being super-desperate and completely indiscriminate in its targeting [or being scammed by somebody?]?)

MERCER ISLAND SCHOOL BOARD Wow, you really do have to watch the downballot races. Mercer Island School Board has two (2) candidates (O'Callahan is and Gaspar) that are *both* software CTOs touting their "AI" credentials. Gaspar explicitly wants "free AI classes". Here's a hint: The only "AI […]

Today's curiosity questions: For MIT People (read: anyone who's been there studenting/facultying/visiting/trespassing/whatever within the last decade or two): (1) Is 'Toad Sexing' still prohibited nearly everywhere? (I figure that either it was a passing fad in the early-mid 1980s and the […]

#lambdamoo (...guess it'll wait until *after* I announce that I discover some outstandingly stupid mistake, so... time to get this out of the way: ) I have now dropped LambdaMOO 1.9.0alpha Should I make it to an actual ready-for-prime-time release, this will be the first since 1.8.1, roughly […]

gahh... feels like Mark Watney at Scapperelli crater, breaking open that last "Goodbye Mars!" meal packet. (... such a good movie. Ridiculous, but still... Probably the most realistic of the Mars movies. Still ridiculous. Because he really should have died. NB: This is *not* Apollo 13 where […]

How did anybody **EVER** think that having TABs vs. spaces be significant in makefiles was a good idea? Yes, I'm well aware that I am not the first person in history who has ever had this particular complaint. Still, it's been 40 years since I first encountered this, and I am **still** boggled […]

I've now decided that Tacoma Narrows Bridge 1.0 was built by idiots. Or, at the very least, the people who decided to open it to traffic were idiots. You'd think **somebody** would have said, "Um,... you know... Bridges really aren't supposed to do that."

Note to self: Make sure your backup scripts aren't trying to archive things like /proc or /sys or /dev/urandom 2nd note to self: Creating chroot jails for things can cause files like /proc or /sys or /dev/urandom to show up in places you might not originally have been expecting them to.

Banacek has not aged well.

still boggled by Don Rickles in a Rare Dramatic Role. I mean, he's still a ways off from unseating Mary Tyler Moore doing "Ordinary People", but, man, that was a creditable performance. #Monsterdon

wait, so that just ended. whut? #Monsterdon

he's going to get taken out by a TRAIN? guess that's as good a place as any to end this #Monsterdon

Does Nevada state police even *have* helicopters? #Monsterdon

so weird: Don Rickles has actual range as an actor. #Monsterdon

oh, it's serious now: We can see studs and joists. #Monsterdon

weird: Don Rickles playing an actually-somewhat *major* part #Monsterdon

so weird: Don Rickles actually Playing a Part. #Monsterdon