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(1970) Directed by René Cardona; Written by René Cardona and Jesús Murcielago Velázquez; Starring: Santo, Armando Silvestre, Julio Aldama, Mary Montiel, Gregorio Casal, Ivonne Govea and Carlos Agostí; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating:...
★★★★★ I’m tired of replacing devices that still work fine for my use cases. So I stuck with my Google Pixel 5 for, well, longer than was probably advisable, since Android system updates were discontinued after only 3 years. To give you...
Into the San Juans for a backpacking. Read More ... Continue reading Backpacking in the San Juans at PMags.com.
I recently had an interesting conversation in an unexpected context. I was at a work happy hour of sorts, attempting to mingle and chat in the best way that a slightly introverted person can manage. I found myself in a conversation with...
For the educated and ambitious, the two most obvious templates for how to live are:Become a high-achieving professional—especially in law or finance (in the ‘90s) or tech (now), where you affiliate yourself with one prestigious...
Hi Crowd! You’ve probably seen any number of headlines recently about autonomous AI’s hacking various systems after “breaking out of their sandboxes” or “using secret message boards to coordinate with each other” and you may or may not...
Tempted to start a silly little project: a sort of anti-RSS reader. Program that just takes in as input a list of feeds and spits out a static website that is essentially just a fauxsimile of a newspaper, with 'cont. on page 13' replaced...
It seems like ages since my last race way back in June. Our club's July event happened to fall on my partner's birthday and I decided to spend the day with her instead of in the hot July sun playing racecars. But it's August now1, and...
The name “Deirdre” has never been terribly popular in the US – it’s much more common in Ireland (logically – Deirdre is a character out of Irish myth) and somewhat common in England. But there are always a few of us, and we tend to...
Have you heard of ball lightning? Maybe you have. It's known as an odd weather phenomenon, thought of as supernatural. The oldest written record of it may be an illuminated manuscript from an English monk in 1195, describing a fire-globe...
Below Deck Mediterranean season 11 episode 10 was a wild ride: Joe and Kayley are a new "accidental power couple," Coop and Kat are off and on again, Gen is melting down and making sense.
A few days ago, a lovely person I happened to be chatting with asked me whether it is relaxing to make art. I explained that it is in fact quite stressful. Thinking about it now, though, I don’t think I was able to explain the real...
It's August, aka ARR-gust, aka International Pirate Month! As the resident bear pirate, I felt it was my duty to spread awareness of this month. If you would like to participate in the festivities, here's some ways on how: Write your...
I used to take a ton of photos during my “Bike Nerd” years (from 2010-2012ish or so). I’d post them to Twitter and Instagram, journaliing my adventures in real time more or less. Without social media (aside from Substack Notes, eh), I...
Big year! Probably didn’t thin enough to prevent a bust next year but we’ll see. Meanwhile, I’ve got a lot of processing to do… 🌱