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Gun Crazy - (1950 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042530/

A overly-enthusiastic gun enthusiast falls in love with a professional sharpshooter who has aspirations of living a life that can only be built by crime.

A very good movie!



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Coneheads - (1993 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106598/

Aliens crash land on earth and vaguely assimilate.

It’s quaint, choke-full of stars and amusing in it’s era. I don’t know that I’d consider it particularly good these days because it leans all the way into an alien culture clash, but it’s nice.



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Blade - (1998 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120611/
https://www.marvel.com/movies/blade

Born as the survivor of a bitten-pregnancy, a part-vampire “day walker” continues his crusade amidst one of their ranks’ power play for leadership.

A classic movie, before the whole superhero genre got entirely out of hand. It’s an unfortunate rewriting of the original comic book, but it does well with what it has. It’s blunt and stiff, yet entertaining.

It has only a couple of moments of technology which feel old, otherwise it has held up well.



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Real Genius - (1985 movie) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

A boy-genius is brought into an elite university to work on a laser project with a genius-misfit, but after its spectacular success they learn of its nefarious purpose.

While old, it holds up perfectly. A great movie, with a bunch of laugh-out-loud moments. Unlike the “frat boy” movies which are all about booze and boobs, this one shows genius with its hacker spirit.



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Windows 11 logo Linux logo - 'Tux'

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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

  • aka wsl
  • Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows

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The Terminator - (1984 movie)

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/

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