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Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Go on a tour of the real locations seen in SLOW HORSES. Go to https://www.squaremilesecrets.com/slow-horses and enter the coupon code SLOUGH for 20% off your tour. We are back to break down all the excitement of the season four episode three of SLOW HORSES. I’m joined this episode by returning recapper Mary. We breakdown …

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A trait that seems to be core to my personality, but has definitely gotten me in trouble, is that I’m not one to ‘take sides.’ While I have affiliations (Oaklander, GenXer, Democrat), I don’t have much of a tribal sense. I never had school spirit. Apart from the companies I started, I was never employed anywhere for longer than 2 years. I voted for Nader in 1996 and 2000 (and …

I wrote a bit more on Lee Wittlinger / Silver Lake and WP Engine over on WordPress.org: WP Engine is not WordPress.

Sometimes a line runs right through people and communities, and sometimes that line is in the middle of road we are all travelling on. …how to address the polarization that is currently plaguing our world. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have some ideas, maybe only one idea. But I’m not sure that there is much work that can be done in facilitating conversations across political divides. Instead, I think …

Catherine Wheel ChromeGet It At DiscogsThe original title, Crank, would have been apt. Producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen) was brought in to toughen this band's sound and set them apart from the wave of U.K. upstarts who were pounding U.S. shores. That he did. But it's not necessarily progress; Talk Talk's master experimentalist, Tim Friese-Greene, gave Catherine Wheel's brilliant debut, Ferment, a dripping beauty, opulent textures illuminating …

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, with Deirdre Molumby and Brian Lloyd. At time of recording, it was ranked 3rd on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2024/09/14/391-barbie-leaving-cert-2024/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

With, I have to admit, little optimism, I caught the bus to Canny Farm. Would any of the pubs have survived, or was I on a hiding to nothing?Locals will already have realised that my use of the names Cantril Farm, Canny Farm or even Cannibal Farm is pure affectation, as the area was renamed Stockbridge Village long before I first came to Liverpool. Anyway, I started at the location …

Had intended to head over the Derwent for my next trotanostering session, but a stiff north-easterly wind knocked that idea on the head. Switched my attention back to the Soar instead where I knew I could tuck myself away around the back of the island. However, looking out of the window I was in two minds and nearly didn't go but when I checked the weather forecast and saw the …

For close to two decades now, the venerable YSI Castaway has been the gold standard for small, relatively cheap, handheld CTDs. In the early days of OpenROV, the robot’s little payload bay was sized explicitly to fit a Castaway. When Kersey and I started building the OpenCTD, our benchmark for viability was how well the ... Read More "Comparing the OpenCTD to a YSI Castaway" »

Here's my weekly update with a few interesting random findings that I came across the last week or two. I am going to try to make sure they're here in time for you to enjoy with your morning coffee (or beverage of choice) every Saturday or Sunday, and include some of my thoughts around them.Side note: This is a sample AI generated 'podcast' discussing this post, from a new tool …

I like this silver maple bowl that I just finished, and I liked making it even more. Part of the reason is that it gave me an opportunity to use a curved (cooper’s hollowing) drawknife that I had picked it … Continue reading →

Artist: Coffin Rot Album: Dreams of the Disturbed Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/lI5ZbGiEQao / https://coffinrot-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com Country: United States Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. Slaughtered Like Swine 2. Perverted Exhumation 3. Lurking in the Cemetery 4. Unmarked, Shallow Grave 5. Living Cremation 6. Hands of Death 7. Predator Becomes Prey 8. The Howling Man Witness: -[*]- Fucking killer new album from Portland's Coffin Rot! Thanks to CarlG for spreading …

It's that time of the month again.... stumping time! Here we have a clever scene (at least, we think so) featuring a man in a convertible. No hints, just a picture. Remember this movie? As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to the Impossibly Difficult Name that Movie game or the prize, click here!

So this here is a Destroid Tomahawk. Destroids are land-based mecha used by UN forces to fight alien invaders in the anime Macross, which was release in the United States as part of Robotech.This is the edition of BattleTech that I played back in the eighties. That is not a Destroid Tomahawk. It is a Warhammer BattleMech. As I understand it, the company that licensed Macross to make Robotech then …