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<p>&quot;If you see fraud, and you don&#39;t say fraud, you are a fraud.&quot; N.N. Taleb</p><p>Finally, a bio. Past and present interests: <br /><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/rpgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rpgs</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/environmentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environmentalism</span></a> <a hre

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    #3goodthings 1. Dad&#39;s surgery went fine. 2. First film tonight, Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996), a 1996 Serbian film directed by Srđan Dragojević, about the Bosnian war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Village%2C_Pretty_Flame 3. 2nd film tonight, Bird (1988), directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Forest Whittaker and Diane Venora. It&#39;s another jazz movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_(1988_film) #film #physicalmedia And some not so good things today, headed up by th...

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    #3goodthings 1. Made a couple jars of salsa. 2. Watching a couple films. See below. 3. Dad still has a will to live, despite an amputation set for tomorrow. First up, Catch .44 (2011), directed by Aaron Harvey, starring Forest Whitaker, Bruce Willis, Malin Åkerman, Nikki Reed, Deborah Ann Woll, and Brad Dourif. It&#39;s a crime thriller. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_.44 Second up, &#39;Round Midnight (1986), directed by Bertrand Tavernier, starring Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet,...

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    #3goodthings 1. I know which hospital my Dad&#39;s in. Sometimes that&#39;s all you can hope for. 2. I mowed the part of my lawn that the public sees. Cool enough that I barely broke a sweat. 3. Watching a French TV movie, Baby Blues, aka Le Boiteux (1999), starring Vincent Winterhalter, guest starring Audrey Tautou. It&#39;s a police procedural. I guess it&#39;s one of three in a series. https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt7906134/

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    #3goodthings 1. Hit one church sale today. Crowded, overpriced. 2. Did some dishes and laundry, not in the same batch! 3. Made a green bean casserole, classic, but with non-classic ingredients. It&#39;s good.

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    #3goodthings 1. Regular Saturday morning time at coffee. 2. Breakfast with my friends then dinked around town with one, including bookstores, library and a nature walk. 3. Supper from my fave Chinese takeout plus board games tonight. I&#39;m stuffed. No movies tonight. I did pick a few up but they will have to wait.

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    #3goodthings 1. Had the afternoon off, spent it with friends. 2. Watch the 1990 miniseries Stephen King&#39;s it, with friends this evening at my house. Not bad. We had fun. 3. Cheap movie haul, including a garage sale and a used DVD store. #film #movies #dvds #blu-ray #physicalmedia

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    #3goodthings #goodinquotes 1. I&#39;m going to have to call some people tomorrow about my water incursions. Because rain happened. 2. My friends are coming to visit from out of town tomorrow and I don&#39;t know exactly when, but one has already picked activities out that I&#39;m not excited to do, and I don&#39;t know whether #3 is getting picked up to be part of this. 3. My dad&#39;s complaining about stuff and I need to go see him at some point either before or after my friends&#39; visit.

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    #3goodthings 1. Productive day at work. Also, picked up 4 milk crates at a garage sale. 2. Heated up some vegetables on the stove, after putting one of my volunteer butternut squashes in the oven to bake. The veggies I&#39;ll eat right now. 3. Two movies tonight. First, Army of Crime (2009), directed by Robert Guédiguian, about a WWII French Resistance unit led by an Armenian. Serious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Army_of_Crime Second, Paint (2023), directed by Brit McAdams, starrin...

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    #3goodthings 1. Dad&#39;s now at a rehab facility after his operations and nearly weeklong hospital stay. I had a little walk with my friend after work and missed his call. I&#39;m sure now that I&#39;ve started a movie he&#39;ll call. 2. First movie is Dark Journey (1937), a British spy movie directed by Victor Saville, starring Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh and Joan Gardner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Journey_(1937_film) 3. Second, I Am Omega (2007), a straight to video film directe...

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    Hey. #3goodthings 1. Dad got through his toe surgery well. He has an angiogram set for his legs tomorrow as they&#39;re fully blocked, which wouldn&#39;t have been found if he hadn&#39;t gone through the hospital intake rigamarole. 2. Got some cool movies in the mail today. I haven&#39;t been sharing hauls with you for a week but you&#39;re about to get slammed. This one includes an Assayas film, six Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman films, and Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple, all on DVD, th...

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    #3goodthings 1. Ran errands for my Dad today at lunch and after work, so I ate one of last season&#39;s stuffed peppers for lunch. 2. After the last errand, I stopped at a flooring place and priced out what it would take to redo the floors in two rooms. Affordable. 3. When I got home I decided to make a veggie lasagna, which I just put in the oven. Also: 4. I was able to move my project work to a different stage and run up against another obstacle to ask for help with. 5. Thinking about w...

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    #3goodthings 1. Afternoon off to see some friends. 2. Used media haul from an afternoon trip with friends. #haul #physicalmedia #film #books #dvds #whaddyawant 3. I think I&#39;ll watch Queen Margot (1994), directed by Patrice Chéreau, starring Isabelle Adjani. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reine_Margot_%281994_film%29

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    1. Thrift and used store haul. #dvds #vhs #bluray #physicalmedia #haul #3goodthings 2. Currently watching Bombay Talkie (1970), directed by James Ivory. It&#39;s charming so far. 3. The second film on deck for the night is The Sure Thing (1985), directed by Rob Reiner, starring John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga.

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    #3goodthings 1. Didn&#39;t leave town and spend a lot of money. 2. Got my mowing done. 3. The cat whines to go outside but isn&#39;t running from me when I pick her up before she does something stupid.

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    #3goodthings 1. No known decent garage sales in area for me to spend money at. 2. Making some progress at work. 3. Cat spent a few hours lounging about indoors this morning, leaving only after she pooped in the wrong places.

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    #3goodthings 1. Cat cleanup dooty is the new normal 2. Former boss call-out in a polite, private way after he dismisses your concerns on an email chain 3. Lots of dips available today

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    Nappy Days #SleepyTVShows #HashTagGames

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    #3goodthings because I just saw someone else&#39;s from earlier 1. Knowing the evil that lurks in the hearts of men 2. Coming to a safe stop on a slippery road 3. Having a 3 mile walk with someone who needs to tell me a stressful story to get it out of her system

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    Arrow sale haul. #film #physicalmedia #blurays

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    The Tough Love Boat #AltRealityShows #HashTagGames

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    #3goodthings 1. Chocolate chips. 2. Cats who use the litterboxes. 3. Workplaces and coworkers who don&#39;t shit the bed all the time. Who take ownership either way.

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    Three movies tonight, if you will. First Bloody Sunday (2002), a docudrama directed by Paul Greengrass, starring James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley, and Kathy Kiera Clarke. It&amp;#39;s about the Troubles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(film) After that, a duo of Shinya Tsukamoto films. First, Tokyo Fist (1995), starring the director, his brother Kōji Tsukamoto, and Kahori Fujii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Fist Second, Bullet Ballet...

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    Too hot for outdoor exercise. I&amp;#39;m a wimp. Two movies tonight. First up, Spun (2002), a drug crime black comedy directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Peter Stormare, Alexis Arquette, Deborah Harry, Rob Halford, Eric Roberts, Chloe Hunter, Nicholas Gonzalez, Brittany Murphy, and Mickey Rourke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spun After that, The Lark Farm (2006), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, starring Paz Vega, Mo...

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    Wealth represents a demand on future resources, which may not ever materialize. It also prevents use of present resources by the poor (or by the public).

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    Welcome to the hot take and spitballing machine that is social media.

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    Two movies tonight. Don&amp;#39;t ask. First up, Red Surf (1989), directed by H. Gordon Boos, starring George Clooney. Crime story about surfing and drugs. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100468 Second, Robinson Crusoe (1997), directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, starring Pierce Brosnan, William Takaku, Polly Walker, Ian Hart, James Frain, and Damian Lewis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_(1997_film) #film #physicalmedia

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    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w2XnggQCSvk The Onion is absolutely killing it with the new Infowars upgrade!

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    Screw this whole business. I&amp;#39;m starting Reacher S1, D1. No, I haven&amp;#39;t read the books, but I&amp;#39;ve seen the movies and some clips from this show. I&amp;#39;m ready to go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reacher_(TV_series) #tvshow #physicalmedia

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    It might just be cool enough yet to go outside. #WhenTheSunComesUp #HashTagGames

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    A lot of negligent, thirsty-ass vampires gonna bite it. #WhenTheSunComesUp #HashTagGames