The Mind’s I lead me to Lem, which lead to Tarkovsky which lead to “serious film” in general…

I Think We’re Alone Now by Tommy James and the Shondells is about a pair of terrorists on the run after planting a bomb.

An ex had ferrets. They were fantastic. I don’t think I’ll ever have any of my own though.

Political disagreements with my dad would have been along the lines of: who was the best revolutionary, Trotsky or Ho Chi Minh?

Ha ha.

I kept turtles back in the 90s. I had a fantastic setup: a blocked off room, with a kiddie pool in it, with ramps leading in & out of the pool.

The soundtrack to Haider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaVuTF_PgXM

I never recovered from the 3g network being shut down.

I had a great setup with a 3g modem & a 3g phone. sms messages from friends would come to my laptop when I was sitting at my desk, and when I was away would be forwarded to my phone. I had all sorts of commands I could execute on my server from my phone via sms. Home automation, media player, etc.

I replaced the 3g modem with a 4g model from the same company and… no one would give me cheap sms-only service. Everyone considered it a “hot spot router”, so 10x the monthly fee for service. No way. (The REALLY frustrating thing there was that the 4g modem was much nicer from my perspective. Talking to the 3g modem took a few hundred lines of C. Talking to the new one was a 20 line shell script.)

Also, 4g coverage apparently sucks here. I have to walk out to the front of the building to MAYBE get a signal.

I’ve given up and switched to xmpp over wifi, which works great in some ways, but doesn’t replace everything I had working with the 3g setup.

The default is that root does not have root access over nfs. In some situations, that results in root seeming to have LESS privs than other accounts.

But there are options to change that. On my home lan, root is root over nfs.

It’s certainly interesting! Definitely a glimpse into a very distant culture.

Oz or Moomins. Two great series.

(Especially after any language studies reading, which is stressful.)

Good stuff! (I don’t have this system anymore, though I do still have access to it.)

There was a nest of ducks next to the river behind my building a few years ago:

Not much. Sometimes nothing. There’s a Salvadoran bakery a block from my house though, so that’s always tempting. Pastry, empanadas, or just a few rolls.

I do all my youtube viewing via yt-dlp.

The day I stopped trying to like Frank Zappa was a huge weight off my shoulders.

Canadian animation was fantastic!

Ryan Larkin was briefly going to be the future of animation, and then he crashed and burned. The handful of shorts he managed to create are INCREDIBLE though.

• Walking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAMtmK7ObkA
• Syrinx - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnK1hL1EVtw

Yeah, me too.

Brothers Boris and Arkady. The second most important Soviet-era Eastern Bloc sci-fi writers, after Lem.

Lem wrote Solaris, the Strugatskys wrote Roadside Picnic (adapted as Stalker).

The Other Side is one of my favorites.

Do you like the Strugatskies?

She’s primarily a filmmaker.

The bit in a Beyonce video of walking down the street, smashing every car window you pass, was taken from a Rist film.