Llamatron

Sometimes when I’m bored I’ll open up YouTube on my TV (yeah I know, smart TV bad, sue me) and search for latest movie trailers. I’d always look for the official studio channels to avoid the stupid fakes. But I swear lately it’s gotten to be like a fucking plague drowning out the actual real trailers. I’ve stopped bothering.

So good. Fuck 'em.

Maybe the gulls had a meeting to look at the impact of humans and this was how they decided to tackle it.

Is that the fish where the male latches on to the female and then is slowly, I think, absorbed until only the testicles remain? The females can end up swimming round with a whole bunch of different balls on them and can choose which to fertilise with.

Nothing will improve until the rich fear for their lives.

Self-extract himself? As opposed to self-extracting someone else?

Lies all the time?

He should be president!

And yet nothing will be done

It’s extraordinary how Americans have elected someone who is actively weakening the country and no one is doing a fucking thing about it.

Putin is a genius.

WTF is wrong with these people

Land of the free indeed

It blows my mind that so many Americans saw this petulant, orange manchild and thought yes, this man should lead us.

I miss Reaper

*scrapping

Sooner or later they’re gonna run out of feet to shoot themselves in

Oh all the time. Sometimes while riding a tiger. It was the style at the time.

Well shit, 80s kid here and we kinda did this. We had a pile of old mattresses and cushions. The mattresses were the super cheap and crappy kind with no springs so were actually really good for landing on. The ground floor of our house was maybe 6ft higher than the back garden and we had a kinda small raised patio at the back door with steps down into the garden. We piled up the mattresses on the lawn, beyond the flower bed. And threw ourselves off the wall at the edge of the patio down onto the mattresses. Lots of fun.

My siblings and I used those same mattresses to slide down our stairs, crashing into them at the bottom. That was fun too.

I also remember finding these long smooth metal sheets somewhere and using them to make a slide down our garden steps. Then using a sledge sliding down it and crashing into the mattresses.

I miss those days.

He’s such a fucking toddler

Your satellite just needs to be able to survive the extreeeeme G forces of launch. Hmmm, maybe they could offer Musk a free go.

Nosferatu. Everyone acts their socks off and it’s entertaining enough but the drama felt, I don’t know, a little overcranked? And I’d call it creepy rather than scary. I enjoyed it though.

And last night I rewatched The Transporter for the first time in years. It pains me to say it’s not as good as I remember. I don’t think I’d noticed how edited the fights are, sooo many cuts so it all seems so much faster than it is. And I love Jason Statham, his movies are reliably entertaining if a little formulaic, but his acting wasn’t great in this, I felt he came off a little wooden at times. I remember at the time finding Matt Schulze’s character a bit weird and he still is. What’s with stroking the envelope of cash? And had Ric Young had plastic surgery? Super weird looking. Anyway, even with all my complaints it’s still good fun.

*hear

I’m using a raspberry pi with a ‘sonoff universal zigbee 3.0 USB dongle’. But I’ve no clue what I’m doing. I originally got into it just so I could automate a bedroom light for the wife. Beyond that I’ve got a couple of lights and contact sensors and the recent attempt at controlling a dehumidifier. Googling and blind luck has got me this far.

I wonder if it helps that the door contact sensor is in the same room as the zigbee dongle? Maybe 20ft away