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Nice!

Side note:  Am I the only one who sees the disconnect on things like this?  (Not around here I'm not but ..to continue).  In General,  We end up having to fund the things we like ourselves!  Meanwhile we BEG them not to do remakes and reboots of our faves from the 80's and they do it anyways...

OOF!

We hit 113 today. And I'm outside sanding our pillars for our patio because they absolutely HAVE to get sealed before monsoon season hits.

Man... I was so disappointed. I have been on a Frasier binge the last few days. I started with Cheers but... it didn't feel interesting(?) watching it again. Maybe not the right word but I just couldn't do it. I laughed in all the right spots but when it came time for another episode I just said "What else is on..." Sad.

I still like Cheers,  except I've seen them all.  I know what ya mean though (I think).  Due to it being network, and Prime Time, S & P, etc.,  it always feels constrained (Even then, but especially now)...Like the idea of what goes on in a bar is there (kinda), but the execution is G Rated happy (hour)

Seems like I just heard someone (maybe Seth Meyers) talking about how Frasier was when the 7th most popular Cheers guy gets his own spin-off...And then he went on to say, Lessee Niles, Rozz, Daphne Moon,  come to think of it Frasier is also the 7th most popular character on Frasier.

That's okay. I don't like almonds.

Those weren't almonds.  They were chocolate covered squirrels!

(It's OK.    Nobody reads Status Updates anymore 

Love Lake Wobegone.   And I found out, so does actor Wil Wheaton.

Yeah I just ordered it after my brother mentioned it to me

Yeah, that one's great.  Funny thing is I discovered this video first about 16 years ago or so as I was acquiring my own forklift license.

This was one of a bunch of test files we used to QA MPEG playback with back when I was working in OS development 20 or so years ago.  The idea was that we were all familiar with how it should look and play, so could put it on and know exactly what to look for if it wasn't working correctly.

I am forklift trained and licensed as a trainer for others. This video is SO cringeworthy! Thanks for sharing!

It's only about 15 minutes long or so, about the same length as the old Hallmark Greeting card ads they used to run in the 80s, that successfully turned my heart to goo and made me want to run out and get a card. That's where they got their start as an entertainment company.  Of course, chicken inspires very different emotions.

Well for being a 15 minute long sponcon, they have attracted a lot of attention ahead of broadcasting it. Perhaps they will turn it into recurring advertisements, like how George Clooney went from actor to Nescafé spokesperson?

Anything is possible, but much has been done recently with the character,with mixed reception, from an animated spokesperson, to parodies, to more recently an attempt at earnestness again. That's for the US market. There's was this Japanese comic series, starring a young Sanders as a kind of "Chicken Savior", with love interests. Wonder if the ad, err, mini feature, gets some of its inspiration from that, but in a heavily-toned-down form.

Are we talking War Games?   I have not seen that in a long time.   It was in the 80's that I saw it.  I guess it was 1983.

It is War Games. Much of the sound-track consists of screen-specific incidental music, but there is this theme that plays over the closing-credits (I guess one might refer to it as the love theme. )and has a few reprises in the sound-track.  Anyways, it's not one I'd typically seek out, but I had a version of it playing in the back-ground and it had a couple variants of the theme, with a sparser, more electronic synth sound, with overlayed voices, playing at the end. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise.

I think I only saw that one in the theater, Yet I remember it surprisingly well.  Maybe not so much the music, but the plot etc.,  It certainly seems like a quite rentable on VHS title though, huh?  Part of me thinks I may have rented it, but then I remember talking about it with a friend and I'm sure we saw it in the theater.  Pretty sure I've only ever seen it once,  though it may have been on as I flipped through movie channels at some point.  Like, I may have caught a quick scene before moving on...

Hell yes!

Anyone get one on launch day?  

I was 4 years late to the party (family got it in 1981) but I loved that there were well over 100 game variations of COMBAT.  Not a great game but not terrible but ASTEROIDS really caught my attention!

I'll be 43 in October, so I was just a little too young to appreciate the VCS (as it was called when it was new) at the time, but I got the 2600 very early on, circa 1980 or 1981.  Nearly 40 years of entertainment, and I still own a bunch of 2600s today.

Don't give in!  You're better than this!

i have it on blu ray and digital- i think I may have a problem. lol

I have the Extended Director's Special Edition where that scene with them driving in the truck for 30 minutes is 50 minutes. 

Fantastic!   LOL

We all came out of this changed by the experience. 

Better than making a 2 hour movie in 90 minutes!

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From Google?

Yes, search and news aggregators.

Fluid in a cylinder. Shak'n it back and forth!!

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Flipping the power on a 15 billion dollar telescope to the rescue!

It snowballs from the telescope? Whoa!

I had a dream once where the telescope was a huge potato gun. It was all very nebulous thanks for reading.

They tried turning it off and back on again and it worked.

https://gizmodo.com/hubble-telescope-s-broken-gyroscope-seemingly-fixed-aft-1829934018

It is super cute for sure, but at that price... man, you could buy a used car for that kinda money! =O