Adolescence - Netflix Series

Adolescence | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix

Unpleasant story about a 13 year old boy accused of stabbing a female classmate to death. Four episodes, one hour each. Story opens with a British swat team conducting an early morning raid on a nice suburban home. It looks patently ridiculous. We've got a nice, white family of four with two teenage kids and we've got half a dozen coppers with assault weapons busting down the door threatening to shoot everyone. Standard procedure, I suppose, you never know what you're going to find behind the door of someone's house and there's no telling what people will do when they've been found out.

It looks like a case of mistaken identity until the cops start pulling out the videos recorded by various security cameras. After that it's just the slow realization that maybe this kid really is guilty.

The school is a disaster, the kids are a bunch of snots. Maybe they are a little more wound up on account of the death, but I suspect they are all just little shits, i.e. typical teenagers. Schools should make good behavior a requirement for attending class rather than trying to enforce good behavior on people who are required to attend to class.

The Buckingham Murders - Netflix Movie

The Buckingham Murders | Official Trailer | Kareena Kapoor Khan
Netflix India

Curious kind of show. It's an Indian production about Indians living in England. All of the leading characters are Indian, but there are plenty of English cops around, but they are all just background. The story is twisted as all get out. School-age boy goes missing and is eventually found dead, by drowning, sitting in a car, so we've got a murder. We also have drugs and a faggot who rather be convicted of murder than sent back to India. There is also have usual panoply of generic misbehavior: adultery, dysfunctional families, and misogyny. Worst of all, there is vengeful a woman. Not a happy story.

Floppies

Floppies

Back in the early 1980's, at one my first computer jobs, I took on the task of configuring the Intel's iRMX86 Operating System for a custom Multibus computer system.

Intel Blue Box

We were using Intel Blue Boxes which we were renting from Intel for the princely sum of a thousand dollars a month. These machines had (3) eight inch floppy drives. Generating a version of the operating system entailed firing up a program and then loading a series of floppies and letting the program run. This took hours and inevitably there would be something wrong and the newly generated OS would not work, so I would change something and go through the process again.

Figure 2-7. Multibus Data Line Use

This went of for days. Finally we got an Intel consultant (Bruce Warmbrod) to pay us a visit. When we sat down to debug the problem, we discovered that one the of boards in the system, probably our own custom memory board, was not following Intel's Multibus byte-swapping protocol. That was both a Eureka moment and a Mount Vesuvius moment. What spawn of the devil had designed this memory board? Turned out we had stolen the design from the cheapest memory board we could find. Learned a lot about the computer business that day.

Starbase at Night

Starbase at night, with a SuperHeavy booster in transport along the curved road

Click to embiggenate. The Silicon Graybeard has the story.

Silk Road Bust & Pardon

Drug Trafficking on the Dark Web | True Crime Reports
Al Jazeera English

How is that I had not heard anything about this? I was aware that Silk Road got busted, but after 2015 it dropped off my radar. I suppose that's what I get for hanging out on the fringe, or maybe I'm just on the wrong fringe.

Arizona Nightclub Budapest 1938

Arizona Night Club

Continuing to read Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst. Nicholas Morath, our hero, take the night train to Budapest where he visits the Arizona night club. It's kind of a wild place.

Dancers of the Arizona Nightclub in Budapest in 1938. They Are Climbing Onto A Boat Under The Dumbfounded Gaze Of The Sailors.

From a story in the Independent:

Around the corner in the magnificent green-tiled building at Nagymezo utca 20 you come to the Hungarian House of Photography. The first-floor shop displays the depth of Hungary's photographic tradition (think of Kertesz, Brassai and Moholy-Nagy) and the temporary exhibitions are usually worth a look. Before the Second World War, the building housed the Arizona Club, which wowed Patrick Leigh Fermor when he visited. But in 1944 The Arizona's owners were killed in the Holocaust – a reminder that the wartime ghetto was not far away on the other side of Andrassy ut.

Mai Manó Ház, Nagymező utca 20, circa 1900

Near as I can make out, this poster is advertising the accomplishments of the photographers Mai & Tarsa

Mai Manó Ház, Nagymező utca 20, Today

Chain Bridge and the Hungarian Parliament Building

The Chain Bridge connects Buda & Pest and is not far from the Hungarian House of Photography / Arizona Night Club.

Palais de Justice, Bordeaux, France

Palais de Justice, Bordeaux, France

The title is a misnomer. The architecture firm that designed this building (RSHP) calls it Bordeaux Law Courts. Construction from 1992-1998.

What makes this building unique is that the courtrooms are housed within structures resembling giant wine vats—an evident tribute to Bordeaux’s renowned winemaking tradition. - 281archdesign

Palais de Justice, Bordeaux, France

Look on Google Maps for Palais de Justice, Bordeaux, France and you get a big pile of Tram Stops and no obvious indication of this building. It took some looking to locate it. Google calls it the Tribunal Judiciaire.

Via Construction Physics by Brian Potter