"Real-life Star Wars tech" confused me, since it's a missile defense system IRL, but it's talking about:
The massive screens and virtual set technology pioneered on more modern shows like The Mandalorian.
“Yes, it grew increasingly difficult and frustrating to go out into the woods of British Columbia and pretend it was another planet”
I quite liked the feel of the series being in woods so much, and it made sense given that many of those "worlds" were pre-industrial (plus alien tech).
Nick's a magician, though, and he did all the usual magician tricks like signing the envelope. I suspect shenanigans, perhaps the crew being in on it.
gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt)
Ah, so nothing to do with incels harassing women. Do incels have a queen?
Bravo! If this is a harbinger of the memes that we can expect from Davulcan Mitchell, then it's going to be good.
I think Jack Dee has been the name Alex would routinely say when asked who he'd most like on - I'm looking forward to see how he handles Taskmaster.
It's interesting that the author and most others went with 403, when 426 seems to be the most appropriate.
Neither are perfect matches, since 403 is about authentication and 426 is for Upgrade semantics (i.e. the upgrade is over the same transport protocol, not switching from http to https). npm isn't sending an Upgrade header, which is required, but I think if it sent Upgrade: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1 then that would be claiming they supported TLS on port 80 (STARTTLS style) - possible but unconventional.
Spyware app driven out of business. Oh no!
At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that's used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.
So American house ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.
I haven't used atuin yet, but I believe the histories from other machines is more like accessible than mixed - you don't just hit ↑ on machine1 and see machine2 commands.
A fun article, and I really like the idea of pataphysics. I've klnown of SCP for a long time but I've never delved into it - it seems more bottomless than TVTropes, and I've spent/wasted enough time there already!
I didn't realise that Cheryl was her first name, I thought they'd made a mistake (like how they've spelt it Ryker).
But Wikipedia informs me that her full name is Cheryl Gates McFadden and she uses both names:
She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress
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Sorry to make you memorize this random string of digits. If it helps, it can also double as a mnemonic for remembering your young relatives' birthdays, if they happened to have been born on February 5th, 2018.
While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).
http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm
The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.
The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.
This is "The Frigatebird and the Diamond Ring" by Liron Gertsman, shot on a Canon EOS R5.
Source: https://liron-gertsman-photography.myshopify.com/products/the-frigatebird-and-the-diamond-ring
Article: How a Photographer Captured His Spectacular Dream Eclipse Photo (lots more pictures here)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17292833
Abandoned industrial building 2/8
Brand new #Taskmaster starts 28th March on Channel 4 and 29th March outside the UK on YouTube.
From this teaser (Youtube short): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Acq7mRa9ZYk
Contestants: Joanne McNally, John Robins, Nick Mohammed, Sophie Willan, and Steve Pemberton.
I'm hoping they have musical tasks to allow Nick Mohammed to shine. I still can't hear the Jurassic Park theme without singing along with his words.
I posted a comment with the message "Don’t let doomscrolling lead you into despair and apathy over climate" and got a fair few downvotes, so I thought this was worth sharing.
YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9p5VKd8VkE
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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an 'eHit'.
Or the same old quarry with a different gel over the lens.