Tabonga

A modern day Leinigen!

Just started Double-Booked - the 8th book in the Dan Shamble Zombie PI series - it is the usual romp (which is good) of an odd universe with wacky characters and in-your-face pretty dumb simplistic (deliberately so) humor.

Heh - it wore out its welcome for me back in, oh say, 1971 - about a year after I graduated from high school. Back then people listened to a lot of radio - wasn't much else to do while tooling around in your car unless you had a tape player - which was ok (if somewhat uncommon) except that you soon got sick of hearing the same tapes over and over and usually went back to the radio anyway. They played the hell out of it and even in the college dormitory you couldn't get away from it since someone on your floor always seemed to have the platter going. Great song but just got constantly over played. Imagine by Lennon was a close runner up to it in terms of being everywhere. Daryl in The Walking Dead got off easy - he could have had to listen to Stairway to Heaven instead of this:

This video is the first tv broadcast in the US - in 1928! RCA/NBC first tested their nifty experimental toy and they needed something to broadcast. One of the engineers' daughter had left a Felix the Cat doll in the backseat of the family car so they grabbed that and used it.

I think they outsource the goodies in the collector's eofditions from different places and have to wait until they all get in to package up the collector editions. On the bright side they sent me an email letting me know that that the Shadowrun Collectors Edition had been delivered - so I was able to bring it in form the front door within a few minutes of the arrival. I am not aware of any porch pirate events on my block but I figure it is only a matter of time. Being retired has some advantages. Anyway the email about the delivery is a giant step forward IMHO. I have to say LRG is really stepping up their game (as it were).

I just got an email from LRG that my copy of Shadowrun Collectors Edition is arriving today - which is a step up since before all I got was a pretty worthless DHL tracking link. This is a big step up since I like to get my stuff in as quickly as possible.

It's 3 AM - do you know where your driveway is? https://www.autoblog.com/2024/01/09/scammers-steal-entire-driveway-from-florida-womans-house/

When Big Bird goes bad! https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/police--man-stole-costume--caught-wearing-it-at-bar-across-the-street-205637476.html

Barry Lyndon is amazing IMHO. It should bore one to tears but there is so much going on both visually and plot wise that it can grab you if you are paying attention. I was pretty intrigued with the main character's constant ability to make lemonade from lemons and scam his way to ever better situations. My favorite bit of narration from the film: "This heart of Lischen's was like many a neighboring town that had been stormed and occupied many times before Barry came to invest it." After Barry Lyndon my favorite is Clockwork Orange.

What the flock? https://news.yahoo.com/flock-birds-takes-over-texas-165545313.html

I can't say that I find fault with the grand jury in this case: https://news.yahoo.com/houston-grand-jury-declines-charge-231759105.html

Another WTF moment. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/lake-lewisville-texas-death-keith-johnson-little-elm-police-sink-car/287-7c420310-3b47-4d69-894b-595b9197614c

At least this perp had lined up a secure rids! https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/wheat-ridge-burglary-uber/73-2bf48f9d-029f-4d2b-ab4b-ac0bf3ef7f9f

Binx - the heroine cat! https://kfor.com/news/local/cat-saves-dog-from-coyote-attack/

How not to get free chicken - unless of course they serve it at the county lockup. https://www.yahoo.com/news/chipotle-worker-beaten-furious-customers-143747029.html

Never really been into full sets for games (I do for some other things I collect). The only format that ever tempted me was the Sega CD - those blue spines display really nicely. I have about 75 (including all of the heavy hitters as far as I know - never really actively monitored them) so it would not be a stretch to finish that set fairly reasonably.

Yeah - but the black background kinda goes at odds with that. .

What happens if you put them up next to the mistletoe?

It is really nice to see them finally putting out some of the stuff that they have committed to.

https://news.yahoo.com/father-says-daughter-car-melting-221012733.html

Heh - hit the jackpot today and got three LRG games in the mail - Dark Deity, Tokyo Dark - Remembrance and Dungeons of Aether.

The Post Office just delivered the Annapurna Limited Collection from Iam8bit. Life is good!