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Up in The Air

Not me, which given my status as acolyte of the Church of the Blessed Kendrick is a bit of an oversight.

Compose using the text tab to avoid gubbins.

Isn’t Mork Mindy’s alien pal?

@thane16 – syzygy   I think Dr Who was confronting Missy? With Capaldi’s Doc? All the monsters could be a hard lesson in life, the monsters a back-drop, a good portion of the time.  Chernobyl is on our order list having been nudged by not 1, not 2 but 3 close mates. I don’t know very much about Lizzie Borden, Missy: that’s pretty scary though.…[Read more]

@thane16   It was funny I just wasn’t paying attention. I was up and posting long after my bedtime and easily confused or maybe it was heat stroke.

What is a mork ? Although being said about George it is probably good.

@thane16   Yes BC is British Columbia , a very beautiful part of Canada where @blenkinsopthebrave and my daughter live. Many movies and TV shows are filmed there,mostly in Vancouver.

We watched Dead Like Me way back when it first aired.I think on Showcase. It also has Mandy Patinkin in it.

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So you are just going to let death by space toilet seat slide, eh? You’re losing your touch!

First Man is, indeed, a film with Ryan Gosling as Armstrong and the excellent Claire Foy as his wife. I was unaware of Wyck Godfrey, but First Man in some way atones for I, Robot which completely ignored the well defined nature of Asimov’s Robot…[Read more]

Couple of things:

Those in the UK with an Amazon Prime subscription (possibly other markets, don’t know) can enjoy Dead Like Me, an absolutely delightful and bittersweet, but sadly short-lived, series from 2003-04 (cancelled for reasons of internal Showtime politics, so no good reason). It is an early Bryan Fuller show and concerns Georgia Lass,…[Read more]

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Olivier (with an i).

A lot of Shakespeare productions seem to induce excessive..er..actorliness… in the cast. I may be that, because they are stage plays, people get sucked into ‘projecting’ but the effect can be a little distancing in stories that are often quite intimate.

The other occasional source of coding text is when you copy…[Read more]

@thane16 We did Macbeth in Year 11. We were fortunate to have a wonderful English teacher who loved the play and inspired us with a love of it too. It is said that Shakespeare is taught badly in Australia, but I think the real problem is the plays are meant to be acted out not read off the page and as we have a dearth of theatre here we don’t…[Read more]

ooh – is it @thane16 ‘s birthday?

Happy Birthday Puro!

And you’re having to spend it in a hotel!!
Hope you’re not having too much in the way of upheaval and that everything gets sorted at home.

ha ha @thane16 – don’t worry I don’t beat myself up too much, honestly.

And those ladieez can have me all they want – I’m just not a doctor!

Just seen film Arrival for first time and even with ad breaks etc its still left me with teary eyes.
And this is a lovely place to share that.

aww I know @blenkinsopthebrave @thane16

Last night I was grouchy and not fun.
Apologies.

fwiw I’d read something on another place (probably Guardian) and the commenter just irked me as it sounded like they were talking about the actor as if they’d only watched clips of the great moments (like in soccer forums where people watch YouTube…[Read more]

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I know many of us have seen this before, but nontheless:

It is both incredibly moving and demonstrates the genius of his acting.

@thane16 – that’s a brilliant connection to We Can Work it Out!

and will admit I keep learning how great a drummer/ percussionist Ringo is.

Also (entirely unconnected) bit on re-listening I realise I sometimes (usually?) shudder when time rhythms (signatures?) change in prog rock songs – like they’re trying a bit too hard to show off how…[Read more]

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OK, I promised something even worse (or better, when you think about who you were at that moment in time) and here it is:

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OK, I will start here, and I will admit, this isn’t even the worst of it!

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In light of your post, I am starting to think that there should be a sub-thread where we reveal the embarrassing musical tastes of our youth.

when I find it on youtube, I promise to reveal it.

@pedant – I share your amazement at the calm of Armstrong and Aldrin.
The heartbeats that were monitored were also amazing (especially Armstrong’s in the music @thane16 shared).

I think I mentioned after the article from @blenkinsopthebrave shared about Ed Dwight, that actually, the decision to use test pilots was probably the right decision…[Read more]

So, this day 50 years ago, the astronauts are on the surface getting final bits and pieces done, back to the Eagle and reconnecting to Columbia on the far side of the moon (itself an amazing manoeuvre of flying!).
That’s a helluva few hours these guys have spent!

So, lets have something monumental about giant…[Read more]

@pedant and @blenkinsopthebrave  Thanks for the links to all that information , like @thane16 I learn something new here all the time. I am still amazed after all these years at the technology and lack of it involved in the space race at the time.To watch the guys and one lone women in the control room using pens and paper to make calculations…[Read more]

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Are you editing in Word or similar and then copy-and-pasting? If you do that you need to use the Text editor, not the visual one on this site. That stops the gubbins getting treated as text.

Indenting quotes is good style when you want a clear separation from what someone else said and what you are saying. As with many things, you…[Read more]