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[NickFitz]

GOOD MORNING HAPPY CAMPERS!!
just got incentivised* to stay with this gig for a while longer.
might stave off senility for a bit. fingers crossed.


*got filthy lucre waved in my face
oh, and I intend to pay all due taxes on it.

Boomed!

[NickFitz]

Tonight’s major motion picture premiere was Hamnet (2025), which I believe I remember ladymuck and HWMBO going to see in the cinema last year, with lm speaking highly of it afterwards. I agree; it’s very good and I thought the ending was wonderful. I should watch films of this nature and calibre more often, rather than all that stuff about robots and such

But beauty and art are variable quantities, as I was reminded the the other day when somebody on Bluesky posited that a person who’s seen 100 films will assert that Citizen Kane is the best, a person who’s seen 1,000 will assert that 8½ is the best, and a person who’s seen 10,000 films will assert that Crank: High Voltage is the best.

I thought it important to undertake the arduous duty of testing the validity of this opinion. I’m not going to waste my time watching Citizen Kane again, because every bit of it has been adapted by The Simpsons so we all know everything there is to know about it. And 8½ is one of those French things involving circuses. In my view, the only worthwhile depiction in film of anything to do with circuses is that minute or so in La Cabina (1972) when the circus people travelling in the opposite direction gaze at the chap in the phone box as he gazes back at them.

So there was only one thing to do: rewatch Crank (2006) (because you have to watch the first film before you watch a sequel) and then rewatch Crank: High Voltage (2009). And I did, and I reckon Crank is better than Crank: High Voltage because in the latter, they try too hard to get clever with the premise and the context, and they aren’t as clever as they think they are. But Crank is simply the film it set out to be: a ludicrous premise as an excuse for mayhem. Therefore, Crank must be the best film ever made

It all started from what somebody I don’t know said on Bluesky and they were just joking anyway, so maybe it was a waste of time. But both films are good fun, so I was fine with it

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

^^ I don't know how many films I've seen (far less than you, I expect) but I would say Constantine or Leon: The Professional are the best films.



Morning all, local time 0915

Very low cloud, fog/mist going on. Currently 14 degrees with a high of 17 expected. A strong wind warning is in force. Barometer up to 1008 mBar.

Sunrise 05:54; Sunset 20:52 EEST

Congrats to SKB. I didn't get the gig I interviewed for on Monday. The agent was a bit miffed that there was no useful feedback as to why.

Today we are going to visit an old KGB listening post hidden in a hotel.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Ah yes: "Crank High Voltage (2009)": the one with Jenna Haze and Ron Jeremy. .

Morning.

Saturday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

20.1 deg in here, 20.8 in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 14 out the back, 13.8 in the saltinghouse.

1016.5 mBar, 30 in Hg, 762.4 Torr, 14.74 psi, (up from 1012 last night), 59% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 2nd of April 2020, between 22:54 and 23:28, I, MrMarkyMark and WTFH popped in, whilst on the 3rd of April 2020, between 00:16 and 05:38, NF, Churchill and Brillo popped in.

Goodness me, the duvet was pressed into use overnight. Well there's a thing.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Dan Do. Miner's cottage Ystradgynlais/Ystalera. 16C house in Conwy.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...-2025-31869842

Catrefi Cymru: 1960s & 1970s. House on stilts Merthyr.

House on stilts: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifest...-home-23585301

Dashcam nonsense. S6 E5, E6.

That requiring the attentions of the iRon has received it & is airing upstairs.

Entertainment: "In the beginning was the " as related by Stephen Fry: a 2009 programme mostly related to The Millennium Bug, that lovely little earner for us all.

Tea: soup etc.

Maigret "The Mistake (1960)". Different ending to this version from the Cremer version.

Dashcam nonsense.

Weird War thing. Hitler's talking dogs. Japanese assassination plot for Charlie Chaplin. Bazooka Charlie WWII (not the same Charlie). Theremin and The Thing.

Thing about the Afghan War(s). (Just the Soviets & the Septics, they missed out our three).

Dashcam nonsense. Very impressive ?Chinese? kids sticking a firework down a sewer grating: Bit Tip: don't stand on the manhole cover whilst doing this since it will launch you a good 10 feet into the air. One of the most impressive demonstrations of why not to do this that they've so far shown: the tarmac lifted like a ballon over a 10m radius and the manhole cover went about 15 feet.

Ditto.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon denizens

It’s another Simpsonesque day out there, still with a bit of a breeze. Currently 19°, it’ll soon reach 20° but stop there before heading back down to 10° before sunrise tomorrow; the barometers are ebullient, having jumped to 1011/1019mB

I’ve just unmade the bed and left the mattress to air. I shall have to decide whether to incorporate the duvet into the remaking process later, but I think I’ll be OK just chucking a throw on top for a few more days

[NickFitz]

A crow just came swooping down and landed on the lawn carrying what appears to be an entire slice of white bread in its beak

[xoggoth]

Nice afternoon at local show, tea, cake and chat with people including the nice burlesque lady. Her rude poem was good, about stripping to classical music.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from KFC

[NickFitz]

There was more new Monkey Life this afternoon, and then further wildlife stuff that hasn’t been repeated too many times before

Tonight, I started reading To Each This World by Julie E. Czerneda

Goodnight all

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Dry.

Sunny.

Blue sky.

19.8 deg in here, 20.3 deg in the kitchen, 18 in the leanto, 13 out the back.

1019 mBar, 30.09 in Hg, 764.3 Torr, 14.78 psi, (up from 1018 last night), 57% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 3rd of April 2020, between 05:39 and 07:59, AndyGarbs, Brillo, Churchill, MrMarkyMark, and WTFH popped in, with Brillo drivelling.

Walk (abbreviated, 3 miles) walked in the sunshine. Brisk breeze cooled things down on the way back.

Entertainment: Catrefi Cymru: conversions: a chapel converted into a house & inhabited by goths judging by the skulls & such. A barn conversion. Carnegie Library in Aberystwyth converted into a house. Goodness me, that was well built back in 1900 and something.

Dashcam nonsense.

More Dashcam nonsense.

Tea: baked spud & baked beans. Nice enough.

Entertainment: Secrets in the Jungle: they took 20 minutes to explain the Chevy Corvaire stuck in the Darien Gap. They also found a steam engine from some railway line the Evil British had built to a gold mine back in the day. Philippines: Giant rhino tooth, 700k years old with signs of butchery: presumably H. Erectus since neither Sap nor Neanderthals were around yet. Island off Brazil: full of golden lancehead snakes even more venomous that the mainland versions due to catching and eating migratory birds. Kenyan cave with a 78k yo child burial: oldest H. Sap. burial found in Africa.

If there be owt else to watch I ain't found it. Not even Danny Trejo since that finished last week.