In the Mud: Season 2 – Netflix Series

In the Mud: Season 2 – Official Trailer | Netflix
MVSRS

Pretty great. Life in a women's prison in Argentina. This time we have a new female bull on the block, Gringa, and she is vicious, mean and nasty. But Gladys, AKA Borges, our female bull, builds on her base of supporters and ultimately prevails.

Everybody is starved for money, so the warden, the guards and the prisoners are colluding in a scheme to rob rich folks. Half a dozen pretty women prisoners get dolled up, load into a van, and are driven into town where they descend onto a place packed with swells where they latch onto a mark, spike his drink and go to his room. When he passes out, the woman takes everything worth stealing. And then they head back to the van and back to prison. They do this a couple three nights a week and it provides a steady source of income. Amazing what you can get away with in big city.

8 episodes 45 minutes each.

Season one post here.

Shag

Elvira

An old incident popped into my head at lunch today. Is it worth relating? Maybe yeah, maybe nay. We shall see.

Mobile Home Tractor

This was around 1970. I caught a ride with Shag and his old lady back to Newark, possibly from Columbus. Shag was a biker, as in motorcycles. He wasn't a big guy and he wasn't much older than me in years, but he was infinitely older in terms of experience. I have no idea how I was allowed in the same vehicle with him, much less seated next to his woman.

Shag made his living delivering mobile homes, and we were riding in his truck that he use for hauling these mobile homes. Anyway, we're cruising along and we see a car on fire off the other side of the road. Shag stops, grabs his fire extinguisher. runs across the road and attempts to quench the fire. It was basically hopeless, the fire was too far advanced and the fire extinguisher was too small.

We're watching Shag fight the fire and his girl steps on the gas and the engine revs up and starts roaring. This brings Shag running back, where upon the two of them have words. Shag was upset that she could be damaging his truck, the girl (I cannot remember her name) did not want him getting hurt. First time I encountered that kind of behavior.

As I remember her, Shag's girl looked a lot like Elvira (above). Her appearance, whenever I saw her, was always pitch perfect. She worked selling movie tickets at the Granville Opera House. I don't think I ever exchanged more than a couple of words with her. With that makeup and hair she was on another level.

Granville Opera House / Movie Theater

The Opera House was managed by Bob, a pothead in a tweed jacket. He kept a water pipe filled with whiskey in his office. I never understood how this place stayed in business. Maybe the college kids from Denison filled it up on the weekends.

Late to Pi Day

Computing Pi For Pi Day!
Dynamically Typed

YouTube blurb:

Using my 92 year old Walther RKZ mechanical calculator to calculate Pi. 355/113 is a very good approximation for the famous constant. It's a common example for mechanical calculators but it is still fun to see.

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6076

10 Short Videos #6076

People say it’s like Target - picking up surgical supplies

Peugeot's history before making cars

Tarantella - Making pizza

35 degrees vs electric unicycle | Rocket

Raven playing tic-tac-toe

Incredible feat by L&T Engineers - Building a bridge over railroad tracks

Turning a locomotive turntable by hand

When You Sleep In Socks And Imagine An Icositetrachoron

How my salary is trying to keep up - high speed garbage collection

Meet with vortex Bladeless turbines generating Electricity Silently

Strait of Hormuz

Drone, Coast Guard Cutter and US Navy Ships in Strait of Hormuz

I will admit to being curious about how the war on Iran is going, but I don't trust any of the reports I am seeing. I am afraid I will just have to wait six months to see how it all shakes out, then we might have some better information. Of course, the world is always in turmoil, so in six months there will be some other war in the headlines and will we even remember what was going on in Iran?

Meanwhile, G-Captain has got a theory about what's going on. I like it because it puts finance front and center:

The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait? by John Konrad

Introduction: 

The Strait of Hormuz is twenty-one miles wide. Two shipping channels, each two miles across, separated by a two-mile buffer. There is no alternative. Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline to Yanbu and the UAE’s pipeline to Fujairah can handle maybe five million barrels combined. The math doesn’t work. The bottleneck is not political. It is geological and hydrographic.

Every TV analyst in America is talking about minesweepers and carrier strike groups. They are asking the wrong questions. The binding constraint on Hormuz was never a minefield or insurance. It is the US Navy’s willingness and ability to reopen it.

Every talking point suggests the White House and Navy are working hard to reopen the strait but progress is slow. A new post on Truth Social suggests we may have to consider a new hypothesis.

“I wonder what would happen if we “finished off” what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called Strait?” wrote President Trump in a post this morning. “That would get some of our non-responsive “Allies” in gear, and fast!!!”

The article goes on to talk about insurance and the politics thereof. It's a little complicated. Hell, it's very complicated.

CMA CGM Tower Marseille

One thing stood out and that is CMA CGM. Why are they getting mentioned in this story about geopolitics and high finance? Because CMA CGM, otherwise known as Compagnie Maritime d'Affrètement - Compagnie Générale Maritime, is the third-largest container shipping company in the world.

Via Marcel at MONDAY EVENING

 

The Art of Sarah - Netflix Series

The Art of Sarah | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
Netflix K-Content

Entertaining Korean murder mystery. Silly girls, lusting after designer goods that cost more than their annual salary.

Google summary:

The Art of Sarah (2026) is a Netflix South Korean mystery thriller starring Shin Hye-sun as a woman who constructs a fraudulent identity to enter high society, only to be found "dead" while detective Park Mu-gyeong (Lee Joon-hyuk) uncovers her web of lies. It explores themes of class, deception, and the construction of identity, highlighting the gap between reality and fabricated, luxury-focused personas.

While I was recovering from hip surgery I have accumulated a backlog of Netflix reviews. I'm trying to clear them out, but inspired writing is in short supply, so I'm asking Google for help.