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Ad Astra

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Film; Published: 18 October 2019; Hits: 1188

Saw the trailer, read the early advance press, went to this movie. There's a lot of movies I want to see, only - small town, a limited selection, this was the one that was playing.

Been a long time since I saw a movie in the theaters, no surprise, given the quality of this film it might be a long time before I see a movie again.

It was supposed to be about - well, from the trailer, a broodingly atmospheric space movie, in the lines of "Solaris" or "2001: A Space Odyssey". But it wasn't.

It was long, though, that's for sure. At the beginning our hero survives a fall off a hundreds-of-kilometers-high space antennae. Whew. It would have been a short movie if he hadn't, and so - initially - you're glad, but then he goes to the Moon and battles Somalian Space Pirates on Lunar buggies, goes swimming on Mars, battles the attack of the killer space monkeys, all in the quest to find his pa, and by this point you're regretting that he survived the fall off the space antennae. If you knew how things were going to go you would have been grateful for his premature demise, but nothing can kill this guy, which, really, is a load of complete and utter bullshit.

And yes, I get that it was supposed to be in the language of metaphor - sort of a "El Topo" in space, but - no, no it wasn't. It was bullshit.

I'll save you 2 hours of your life and recommend you listen to "Mother Fudpucker" instead on youtube - which is also about a man trying to find his father, only - hate to say it - it's about as sincere and at a little under 4 minutes infinitely more entertaining. Not so entertaining that I'd link to it, but you gotta draw the line someplace.

Ad Astra. Ad Nauseum.

Ponzi & Facebook

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Link of the day; Published: 18 October 2019; Hits: 1059

An excellent read on how Facebook keeps growing it's market and increasing it's "value":

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/facebook-mark-zuckerbergs-fake-accounts-ponzi-scheme.html

I gave it up, then recreated it, don't play that game but in the Kootenays it was a way for people to find you (many of whom couldn't afford a phone). And find the good parties...

An old mine by Zincton

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Images; Published: 18 October 2019; Hits: 945

Another one I'd driven by a hundred times and never noticed, you're eyes have to be just right, so once spotted I made a plan to go back and explore. Nothing too interesting, other than the calcite flowing and growing into stalactites from the ceiling.

Prospecting: Black Tourmaline's, Beryl's.... Etc

Details: Written by: Rod Boyle; Category: Images; Published: 18 October 2019; Hits: 998

Basically a bunch of images of places I was prospecting above Creston. Some nice black tourmaline - massive and in crystals, most pieces shattered when trying to get it out of the host rock, some tiny green beryl crystals, gemmy, but too small, and following the vein of pegmatite couldn't find the source, and other photos taken in the field...