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How the Grinch Stole Christmas - (1966 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060345/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/how-grinch-stole-christmas

A Christmas-hating sociopath works to sabotage it as vengeance against the town that fears him.



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Logan's Run - (1976 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

An enforcer for the survivors of a ruined world learns that he lives in a utopia that stagnates population.

Although it got slow later on, it's quite nice even with its age.



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Kin-dza-dza</th>
<th>- (1986 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

Two strangers press a button and are whisked away to a capitalist dystopia.

It's alternately boring and stupid.



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Blue World Order - (2018 movie) poster

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4457678/

The world has been selectively-nuked somehow, an EMP is actually a virus or something, and people are being mind controlled somehow I think, and a man is an exception somehow. I don't get it.

It has a strange unevenness to it, where it's not light enough to be bubblegum and not serious enough to be.. serious. It does keep on going, with no pause to let you think about how stupid or strange things out.


TODO - add my notes, and scripts

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Git >

Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.

I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.

I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.



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So I've been farting around after a long break from doing much of anything on Linux.  I was prompted by my new hard drive arriving.

I spent some time migrating data from five separate hard drives and a stack of DVDs.  One of my next goals was to get backups working, so that I can back up from my SSD to this new drive.

I have an old backup script, but I decided that I could spend this afternoon screwing around with it to optimize it a little.

Using the wonderful mcedit which comes with Midnight Commander, I hacked away.  Linux being what it is, there was a tangled horror of stuff I needed to try to remember, look up through my notes, get answers to and/or figure out.

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