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Hobosexual
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A late night at the bar, the woods' got a cop and a homeless guy, they're talking, both are local, they're swapping dating stories, the cop has a few but the homeless guy won't be outdone, long dirty blonde hair and a beard, he tells us proudly that he's a "hobosexual', I've read "Down and Out in London and Paris", I know what he means, I want to listen but I gotta close this bar up and leave him to regale the cop with the tales of his omnivorous voracity ...
Fargo
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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The daughter's recommendation "It has the best villain EVER", and so I commit to season 1. And binge watch them all.
They're OK, I thought I recognized Martin Freeman from " The Office", and after later googling it realized it was him, although he's aged considerably. And Colin Hanks, others, and Billy Bob Thornton is a good (not great) villain. But, somehow it's...well, it sucks you in a bit, it's good, but the "folksy Minnesota humour" is done to death, what was charming done once in a movie is overdone in the series, in the end the real joy lay in recognizing locations around Calgary, largely Inglewood, and some of the outlying areas.
But it inspires you, there's no need for a big budget, this story could be told without the big names on a fraction of what it would cost to film most other TV shows, what is important is to know some talented people, have a good writer, some careful editing and directing, and you'll be off...
And so if there's a value to it, this is it.
One Hundred yards to an impaired
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No fucking computer so I'm back to blogging with my thumbs.
So I'll be brief.
Chef, drunk first thing in the morning, and an hour before he's done work, borrows the dishwasher's car to run to the Superette to buy himself some beer.
The Superette, it's 150 yards from work, a 2 minute walk, 50 yard walk from his place...
But chef doesn't like to walk, that's why he's borrowed the car, his own, it has no insurance. And there's word the police are around...
I used to rib him that if the police ever set up a check stop in our parking lot he'd be done...
Anyways, the cops see him pulling in, run the plate, dishwasher hasn't paid his insurance...
...he blows a warning, 72 hour suspension, the vehicle is impounded, that'll be another 200$ or so...
Strange to say he's lucky. Even he was surprised and used the occasion to celebrate with another couple of beer when he got back to the restaurant.
And I'm laughing because only here, only these people, and it really isn't funny but...
And it would be funny only none of these people can afford it, in theory it's great, in practice it's another fucking tax on the poor and least able to pay.
The Microsoft Kill Signal
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Rants
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Thought I was done with this shit, it's been years.
The computer, nagging me to update it, stop my routine of hibernation, restart it, download all the new and latest updates...
And the nagging turns to bullying, and the computer interrupts me to threaten a restart in "choose my time", 4 hours, 10 minutes, and eventually just restarts without warning when I'm off grabbing another coffee......
And, the slow rebooting, 30 minutes before I see the "Starting Windows" screen, another 30 before the login screen....login, and another hour before my desktop appears, slowly, slowly loading, these updates, a slightly more modern or contemporary graphic layout, that is all. And then begin the errors. Every loading application throws them up, I need touch nothing, the update, the Microsoft Kill signal, it's fucked everything. 4 reboots later, 10 hours later, still trying to reboot to safe mode, roll back this fuckery, and there's no saving this, and I console myself with the thought that Gates, that asshole, is too busy saving Africa with my involuntary investment in his shit operating system...
I thought I was done with it all, thought in 20 plus years of computers they'd have figured this out, but they still haven't, or maybe they have and this kill signal they send out is part of the planned obsolescence, another perfectly good PC in the trash so Gates can send my next donation to Africa....
Fucking Bloody Hell
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