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Wargames (1983)
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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One I missed in the theatres as a kid and so watched. With a spectacularly young Matthew Broderick, which is saying something, given we're about the same age...
There's the nostalgia for cars, computers, the optimism of the age - the foreshadowing of AI - deep learning programs like AlphaZero and Deepmind, and I knew kids in school that did this, hacked into airlines and printed tickets, enjoyed the general cheesiness and lack of gravity, but - in the end - very much of it's time, no Dr. Strangelove by a longshot. Maybe one to terrorize the kids with, but I doubt they'd forgive me...
This is not science
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Technology
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Looking at my Google News Feed - under science:
Lol. Sorry Google. That's not Science. Nor is it news.
Insect in Opal
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Insects in Amber are, while interesting, rather commonplace. This isn't. Someone is going to get rich...
Insect in Opal: https://entomologytoday.org/2019/01/18/fossilized-insect-discovered-amber-opal/
And, bonus, almost entirely unrelated: http://digg.com/video/opal-reveal
And a good day of losing shit
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Miscellany
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A good day of random shit selling. Bulk purchases, one lady, grotesque chalkware piggy bank head, 3 tip-n-strip pens, a file drawer and old clock. Another a set of Irish Linen Tea-Napkins. Another a wood block (clave, apparently, is what they call it in the percussion world, and when I knew that I wanted to charge a dollar more...). Dive watch gone to buddy who wanted to smoke a joint with me outside...
I have this feeling that a lot of these people are just buying junk trying to work up the courage to ask about the Banana Pump.
And a load of random stuff for Batshit to shopdrop next time I'm passing through Nelson - an artist's mannequin with a fishhook to replace a missing hand, a horses tooth, a scarab from the Tomb of Tutankhamen, a preserved souvenir alligators head, a voo-doo doll, more, more... all with notes as to provenance...
So it goes. slowly, slowly, there's no predicting - I mean NO predicting - as to what will sell, and after 12 weeks it hasn't gone, why, wait another 2, relist it, and it'll sell. This is experience speaking. It's keeping me in cigarettes.
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