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AlfredoLlaquet that's the guy who does various movie pitch meetings, which can be funny. But that one was more scary. :)

Cool (no pun intended). I think I'm too set in my ways but that's good to know. Also at Kai Burghardt I might be misinterpreting your post but units uses degF and degC, upper case, e.g. You have whatever degF, you want degC

A friend had a system to do it in her head. Cx2+30=F. F-30 divided by 20=C. It's a rough estimate and off by a few degrees, but works fine for temperatures around 20 to 80 F, which in NYC is usually what we deal with. For example 20 F is -6.6 C. So 20- 30 is -10, divided by 2 is -5. So about a...

I just use a small script I wrote years ago, because I'd look up the temperature and my wife is more familiar with Celcius. So, I'd look up the temperature in Farenheit, from a local site. Then #!/bin/sh echo "Enter Farenheit temperature" read ftemp ctemp=$(echo "scale=1; ($ftemp - 32.0) * 5.0...

Speaking of AI, I just watched this week's episode of Have I Got News For You. So.. In Washington State, if you pressed 2 (or whatever number) to get Spanish, you got someone speaking English with a Spanish accent. Blamed on AI. In the same vein, saw a collection of funny tweets and one girl...

FWIW, as I mentioned in the CA thread I did eventually send snail mail to Governor Newsom. I made the points that these would probably not deter young people, that they did give an advantage to MS and other large companies, and that in a way it seemed like a first step to intrusive surveillance...

I agree with AlfredoLlaquet it would probably only last 20 seconds. The payoff was worth it in my opinion. Shucks, here's another Monty Python on why Michelangelo didn't paint the last supper. It's about 4 minutes and change, but worth it in my opinion. enough, the The jokes start pretty early...

Thanks, I've got a bunch to read right now but seems interesting. I see from a Wikpedia article that someone or other felt it showed China in a negative light and some company then changed their mind on publishing it.

In the 80's I read Eji Yoshikawa's book on Musashi. As far as I can tell, it's more historical fiction than biography---It's a long book and I've seen it divided into several shorter paperbacks. Anyway, at the time I thought, Gee a young Mifune would be perfect for this. Soon after, I went to...

Going back to reading, my wife often watches Korean shows on Netflix. She has the subtitles set to Japanese, so I sometimes will try to read the subtitles. (Usually aloud, which annoys her, but I only do it a little).

Well, I did send an email and got it returned with a 550 error. The address was correct, so, perhaps he no longer receives messages there. I'll try snail mail.

Thanks but keep in mind most of it was written back in the time of FreeBSD-10.x.

astyle, I just use mpv to watch these things. I used to be more into multimedia--I have an old page on working with multimedia, though most of it was written when the issue was making DVDs. https://srobb.net/dvds.html Most of it now is pretty outdated. But mpv usually gives me everything I...

I always disable those. For those interested, e.g., you might want to put Windows 11 on a Bhyve VM, Tom's Hardware has a good article on removing the TPM requirement when installing Windows 11. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement. Those also struck me as MS...

Black Adder--darn you fernandel now I have the theme song in my head. Did you set me up with a "clever plan?" Scenes of it are running through my head now. "That's not a head. That's a pumkin". drhowarddrfine, how did you like that movie? I expected it to be overly arty, and within 15 minutes...

As was said towards the beginning of this thread, the bill's already passed. On Governor Newsom's site you can't even leave a comment about it that I saw, there are limited means of web commumication. I do wonder if it's worth writing a snail mail, pointing out that if he does run for another...

fernandel, Yes, that's a classic. I saw it quite awhile ago, when I was still doing martial arts. One of my favorites of his was Yojimbo. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/ Trailer View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT_GmHTE I saw many of the Kurosawa films long before I met my wife...

Ok. Here's a Japanese film. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455577/ kame wa igai to hayaku oyogu Youtube calls it, Turtles are Fast Swimmers, I'd add in Surprisingly Fast, but it doesn't matter. My wife asked me to watch it, I thought I'd be bored, but I loved it. When describing it to a...

I agree that a trailer is usually more informative than IMDB. But, I'm no movie buff, and IMDB might have more information for those who can tell a director's or actor's style. And as I type, I realize I haven't seen too many movies I'd share here, most of my stuff is usually mind candy, good...