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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201391/
home page (archived on archive.org)
Alien high school students struggle to keep their secret.
It’s okay.
Based on the book series Roswell High (1998-2000 books), by Melinda Metz
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Entertainment > Reading >
A tactically-minded man creates an instruction manual for action and understanding in the realm of high-lords of kingdoms.
At under 70 pages, this book may be thin but it’s incredibly dense. I found myself reading paragraphs three times before moving on. Although nothing in it surprised me, I can still easily recommend it. It’s been, somehow, given a bad name. I only found a slight tinge of “evil” creeping in at about the half-way mark, but nothing inexcusable.
I understood it well enough to add strong commentary, and to give much improved explanation in the latter half which draws from the former. It’s interesting to me that the author himself didn’t catch on to the trends in his own advice.
Like The Art of War – (~476 BC book), by Sunzi, people have interpreted this text for all manner of uses such as the business world.
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Entertainment > Reading > samurai >
A book on Bushido, the old way of the samurai, as created in conversation with an old master-turned-monk.
In a time when the others were softening up, a samurai who had lost his master and left to live in a monastery spoke in hushed tones to a friend about the old ways he grew up in. Although he and others insisted the manuscripts be burned, the promises were broken when they were kept secret. They would be later compiled and published, and even later translated from its original Japanese.
A particularly interesting book. Although most of it is definitely not directly-applicable today, I think anyone who already has a sufficient “wisdom” (whatever that means) will find bits and pieces of insight.
Entertainment > Reading >
Collections of science fiction short stories, curated by.. people I don’t know and who have no authority in my mind. They came into being pre-internet and still cling to relevancy.
I was excited to find these, but their stories are hit-and-miss.
TODO – re-read and especially the other essays.
 Not the cover of my edition.
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Entertainment > Reading >
I’m either stupid or arrogant to say that this isn’t particularly good. I’ll have to re-read it yet again before I can either give a description or a proper opinion.
1942 – The Myth of Sisyphus
(other essays noted below) TODO
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1538403/
A girl learns she has magic powers and stuff when a bad guy and his henchmen who all like demons hunt her down for a thing she has.
A superhero-girl-witch movie. Adorable and stuff. Recommended for girls who are fans of this adorable trope genre.
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1211837/
A distracted surgeon crashes his car and is left with ruined hands, but he’s brought into a magic order who defend the planet and universe and stuff.
A decent movie, although fluffy and of narrow scope.
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
(trailer)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309961/
was cbsfilms.com/afflicted/
Two friends go on vacation, with one of them seriously ill and possibly dying, but a new illness progresses.
How do I describe this without spoiling it? I know a lot of people don’t like found-footage movies, but this one is quite good as it actually shows everything.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner
A computer cleaning tool.
All magical and stuff. I guess. I don’t have a particular need for it, and I don’t miss it when it’s gone, but it’s in my toolkit.
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Windows 10 > Windows 10 configuration >
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10
A straightforward and extremely powerful windows configuration tool.
Where configuring Windows involves digging through various applications and their menus, and editing the registry, by placing all the important things in one easily-navigated tool, configuring Windows becomes easy with this tool.
