The Wizard of WTF?

The Wizard of WTF?

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The Guardian
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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97

theguardian.comYayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97From the 1950s to the 2020s, Kusama produced vivid paintings, sculptures and vast installations that often drew on her experience of hallucinations Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who reached superstar status after decades living in a psychiatric hospital, has died aged 97. Kusama died in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August, her studio announced in a statement on her website on Thursday. Continue reading...
The Wizard of WTF?
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Okay, so the wife's phone got the alert, right on two. The tradie doing the bathroom tiles got it too 3 minutes later - still waiting on mine. 14 minutes and counting.

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AusAlert test live: Experts answers your questions ahead of Aus Alert test

abc.net.auLive: Your questions answered as clock ticks down to nationwide alert testAt 2pm today, millions of phones will be part of the AusAlert emergency warning system trial. Experts tell you all you need to know. Follow live.
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Oh shit, not him too

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Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, dies aged 78

theguardian.comSam Neill, star of Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, dies aged 78New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television * Sam Neill’s 20 best performances Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand actor whose career spanned Oscar winners and blockbusters such as The Piano and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78. The actor’s death was announced on Monday in a statement shared on his Instagram account. No cause of death was given, but Neill had only recently revealed he was cancer-free after being diagnosed with stage three angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in 2022. Continue reading...
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So the cat has returned from the Hyperthyroid Clinic after radiation therapy. Still "glowing" at around 2 micro sieverts at a meter. Awaiting the super powers to manifest but so far only hunger and a demand for attention. Such is life...

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Blue Velvet, 1986 is one of the few David Lunch films I'd previously only seen on video (VHS in the good ol' BlockBuster days). My recollection was scant, limited to a few scenes of Isabella Rossellini, song renditions and an unconvincing animatronic bird at the end (I tend to notice such things).

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Transferring all my old VHS tapes to digital is kinda relaxing (even for those I have on DVD/Blu-ray). Also I'm getting to see the trailers they added at the end of the films. Trailers for movies I'd never heard of and can guarantee I'll never see. . . Unless they do a Rifftrax cover #RIFFTRAX

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So IPrimus are discarding their email service with less than a months notice leaving users having to sign up to another paid service to maintain (fingers crossed) the existing account? #IPrimus #IprimusAU - very poor service that's gong to screw a lot of people over.

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I've been going through video tapes (yes actually VHS tapes) retrieved last year when helping to clear a garage from Canberra. So far mostly boring stuff recorded from TV but occasional "gems" like, 'Ancient Prophecies' Has some amusing disclaimers at the start:

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"The people appearing on camera are not necessarily experts and are expressing personal opinions only", which means these people don't know what they're talking about so don't blame us if you fall for the crap they say.

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and "Although significant opposing viewpoints exist, they are not included", which means no one with actual expertise would lower themselves to appear so we're just going to talk shit in the emotionally manipulative way that the gullible can feast their egos on. Oy

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I remember back in the good old #UNIX days a logon treat of random trivia, listing things like the collective names for obscure things (where I learned of a murder of crows). Does anyone remember what the function was called and is there a Linux equivalent? Just feeling nostalgic. Feeling my age.

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Confirmed that I will be retiring May 1st (as if you care) and now happy at the thought of never having to fill another fucking time sheet as long as I live. Life will now be filled with a different type of boredom.

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So the summer solstice has come and gone once more. Hardly worth mentioning. Curiously in this hemisphere we celebrate the days getting shorter. As I think on this I ask myself if those three ghosts are going to annoy me again this year. When are they going to take the hint and fuck off for good?

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Elliot Mess
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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... *this study looked at people who had facial paralysis from a cause other than Botox, but explores a similar question

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govInability to move one’s face dampens facial expression perceptionHumans rely heavily on facial expressions for social communication to convey their thoughts and emotions and to understand them in others. One prominent but controversial view is that humans learn to recognize the significance of facial expressions ...