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Time Bandits - (1981 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/

A child, with a big imagination and interested in history, has a fanciful dream.

A wild ride of a movie that’s totally immersed in the 1980s style.



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Children Who Chase Lost Voices - (2011 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839494/
(archive of Japanese website)

A traumatized girl turns to hording in a secret hideout, but when she eats spoiled food she lapses into a hallucinatory coma.

Within this popcorn movie is a very adult theme.

  • aka 星を追う子ども

    • Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo
    • “Children Who Chase Stars”
  • aka Journey to Agartha



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Stargate Universe - (2009 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286039/
https://mgm.com/television/stargate-universe

An experimental gate technique strands unlikely survivors on an ancient ship.

A fair show. That’s pretty much all I can say about it, really. It has some significant presentation of humans being human, which is rare and special.



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Stargate - Continuum - (2008 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0929629/
https://mgm.com/movies/stargate-continuum

On the capture of his last surviving clone, an evil alien enacts a time-editing plan to defeat his human enemies.

It’s basically a long episode. As such, it would be impossible to appreciate without having watched much of the series.

Note: I don’t know that I would put it here in this the viewing order.


Time Changer - (2002 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >
Beliefs >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295725/
was timechangermovie.com

A man travels forward in time to discover the future of Christianity.

An adorably heavy-handed piece of Christian propaganda.



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Stargate - The Ark of Truth - (2008 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942903/
https://mgm.com/movies/stargate-the-ark-of-truth

It’s not possible to summarize this movie, as it’s a finale to Stargate SG-1 – (1997-2007 show).


The Man Who Knew Infinity - (2015 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0787524/

A fledgling mathematics genius found in India.



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This is regarding “version one” You probably want Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

Windows 10 logo Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software >
Windows, Linux >

(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

See also:



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Kobo Aura ONE 01a

Computers >
Hardware, Reading >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.kobo.com/
https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one

An E-book reader.

Because this is my first e-reader, I can’t judge it against it’s peers. It works well.

It is spectacular hardware-wise. Its software works, but it is sometimes obviously or even critically lacking. It lacking a file browser and respecting directories is bad enough that I can’t really use it for its intended purpose, and almost regret buying it.



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