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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Count Binface

HS2 is the UK's version of California's high speed rail project, i.e. it's a giant money pit. 

Gotta love the UK. Remember Boaty McBoatface? Via Finding life hard?

10 Short Videos #6167

10 Short Videos #6167

A glass tower is growing inside this building - Domino Sugar Building in Brooklyn

You Can’t Kill the Dancing Crab Robot

May 8, 2026 - Bending steamed wood rods to make chair frames

How do you deal with excess MIG wire? The eternal battle between ease and conservation.

Would You Fly the 1956 Gyro-Boat?

THE BRIDGE AT TYRNYAUZ, Russia, collapsed by glacial mudflow

NASA Is Bringing Real Mars Wind to Earth

The vengeance of Olga of Kyiv

The Pistol That Saved Winston Churchill - Sudan 1898

Get it away from me pal - Sam Alkhatib


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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

True Romance - Netflix Movie


True Romance (1993) Official Trailer # 1 - Christian Slater HD
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It's a Quentin Tarantino movie so it's looney toons with il y a beaucoup de gunfights, shootouts and general mayhem. Wikipedia calls it a "romantic crime drama film" and I guess that covers it pretty well. Clarence generally seems fairly normal, but as the show goes on you find he's got a couple of quirks. Pretty great movie all around.

The cast is over the top, though some have only minimal roles. Val Kilmer, for instance, plays Elvis Presley in Clarence's imagination. We never actually see his face, and Samuel L. Jackson only appears long enough to get shot.

The movie starts with Clarence and Alabama going to see a triple feature at the local theater. The movies all star Sonny Chiba. They are:
  • The Street Fighter (1974)
  • Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
  • Sister Street Fighter (1974)
ActorSurnameCharacterSurnameRole
ChristianSlaterClarenceWorleyOur boy
PatriciaArquetteAlabamaWhitman-WorleyOur girl
DennisHopperCliffordWorleyClarence's father
ValKilmerElvisImaginary
GaryOldmanDrexlSpiveyDrug dealer
BradPittFloyd,Dick's roommate
ChristopherWalkenVincenzoCoccottiMafia Lawyer
Samuel L.JacksonDonThug
JamesGandolfiniVirgilMafia Thug
TomSizemoreCodyNicholsonDetective
BronsonPinchotElliotBlitzerDick's friend
MichaelRapaportDickRitchieClarence's friend

The Evil Lawyer - Netflix Series


THE EVIL LAWYER (2026) | Thai Legal Drama Official Trailer | NETFLIX
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Lawyers and judges in Thailand. Mek, a young lawyer working as a public defender, son of a judge, has a 'friend' who is the son of Anan. Anan is the head of the national police, or some such. A big shot in any case.

Our boy gets arrested for the murder of his 'friend'. His lawyer (his uncle) cannot find a way to get him acquitted, so he hires Jittri, the nastiest, highest profile lawyer in town and things start to get interesting. Jittri realizes the system is riddled with corruption, so she has no qualms about doing whatever is needed to get her client acquitted, including threats, blackmail and bribery. A guy they need to testify gets busted, so Jittri digs up a guy to take the fall for him. When Mek asks him why he agreed to go to prison, the guy tells him it has got to be better than working on the fishing boat.

Seems Anan has a fleet of fishing boats and he press gangs refugees (illegal immigrants) from Burma into becoming crew on his boats. If you survive working on these boats and get back to shore in one piece, you might get paid, but more likely you will be deported back to Burma.

8 episodes

The Future is Grim


What Happened to Horses Is Happening to Us
CGP Grey

So what are we gonna do? Put everyone on the dole? Some people will be happy, but idle hands are the devil's workshop. Maybe this is why we have so many wars going on all over the world. Maybe we need to bring back the sun god and start building massive stone monuments, by hand.

Fairey Swordfish

Avenging the Hood - Ron Cole

Wikipedia:

The Fairey Swordfish is a retired biplane torpedo bomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company. Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag", was principally operated by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy. It was also used by the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as several overseas operators, including the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the Royal Netherlands Navy. It was initially operated primarily as a fleet attack aircraft. During its later years, the Swordfish was increasingly used for anti-submarine and training duties. The type was in frontline service throughout the Second World War.

Despite being obsolescent, the Swordfish achieved some spectacular successes during the war, including sinking one battleship and damaging two others belonging to the Regia Marina (the Italian navy) during the Battle of Taranto, and the famous attack on the German battleship Bismarck, which contributed to her eventually being sunk. Swordfish sank a greater tonnage of Axis shipping than any other Allied aircraft during the war. The Swordfish remained in front-line service until V-E Day, having outlasted some of the aircraft intended to replace it.


Fairey Swordfish LS326/L2 Start Up & Take Off
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Swordfish Attack Bismarck
Spiral Film Clips


Fairey Swordfish flight deck operations
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I posted this image before.
Swordfish Takeoff Duxford - short video
Swordfish | Battle of Britain Airshow - short video