Rarin’ to go The Brothers Brick

Just as we’re getting used to tensegrity builds “floating”, builder @loki_loki_29 ups the ante with a build that feels more like “barely restrained acceleration”. It doesn’t hurt that the 10-SGTY Racer is an awesome build all by itself.

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Klingon Bloodwine from Star Trek How to Drink

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Star Trek- The Official Starships Collection #170 Tsunkatse Arena Ship

This unusually shaped starship was introduced in Star Trek: Voyager and now Tsunkatse Arena Starship is a part of our Star Trek Official Starship Collection!

As is normal for these magazines, there’s a wealth of information from behind the scenes that’s pretty interestings, this time an interview with Robert Doherty, who interned with UPN, then was hired to write as a staff writer.

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Nu Deco Ensemble — Humans vs Robots Daft Punk Suite

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Justice League Dark Apokolips War

Directed by Matt Peters, Christina Sotta. With Roger Cross, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Gorham, Camilla Luddington. A Sequel to Justice League Dark (2017) involving Jack Kirby’s New Gods.

Entertaining comic book movie that handles a elseworlds story pretty well. Big fan of whoever it was voicing John Constaintine, which I guess I should look up?

Matt Ryan voiced him, which makes sense, he played him in the live action series and his various guest star appearances on the other CW shows. Well, he stole the show for me.

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Borderlands Science players solve over 36 million puzzles in one month

That’s an average of 1.2 million puzzles a day. Phwoar.

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Telepopmusic-Brighton Beach

“Ateis traukinys.NusiveÅ¡. Sustos. PersÄ?sime į kitÄ?. Ir dar kartÄ?. Pasieksime Brighton Beach. Dabar paplÅ«dimys tuščias. Susirasime sauso medžio ir sukursime u…

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The Last Emperox

 

The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi.

The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems–and billions of people–are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through scientific prediction . . . and yet, even as the evidence is obvious and insurmountable, many still try to rationalize, delay and profit from, these final days of one of the greatest empires humanity has ever known.

Emperox Grayland II has finally wrested control of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of this collapse. But “control” is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people form impoverished isolation, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power, by any means necessary. Grayland and her thinning list of allies must use every tool at their disposal to save themselves, and all of humanity. And yet it may not be enough.

Will Grayland become the savior of her civilization . . . or the last emperox to wear the crown?

The Interdependency Series
1. The Collapsing Empire
2. The Consuming Fire
3. The Last Emperox

 

John Scalzi is hands down my favorite author, but if I were to make any suggestion to him, it’s to never apologize for something that no one knows happened, because then they’ll know it happened and think about that one unforgivable thing as the reason that ‘everything’ went wrong. I’m being severely hyperbolic here, but only just barely. “The Last Emperox” is the third and final book in a series with the end of literally everything that the universe knows about “The Flow” which is how everyone in this universe gets around the limits of light speed.

It’s a good book, but dang if that final act of the book is wrapped up awfully and unexpectedly quick with some story choices that I wouldn’t personally have made, but were interesting nonetheless. I fully expect that the quick ending had everything to do with the apology that Scalzi made in the afterward / acknowledgements with his procrastination. Additionally, I fully expect that the final part of this book could be made into an entire series of books and has a faint whiff of sequel hints that I’ve grown to dislike so much.

Honestly, if there is a sequel, I’ll preorder the signed edition again because even a less than perfect Scalzi novel is dependably enjoyable.

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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart 1995 Remastered Version Official Video

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Coronavirus Has Apparently Been Detected In Semen

The study, though small, indicates that traces of the virus may be present in semen even after recovery

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Doctor Sleep

Directed by Mike Flanagan. With Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis. Years following the events of “The Shining,” a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

As i mentioned in my review of ‘The Shining’, I had no clue that the original story was supernatural in nature, so seeing the trailers of ‘Doctor Sleep’ really confused me and prompted some soul searching on google to see what I was missing.

I’m happy with the direction that Mike Flanagan ultimately took the film, there was plenty of room to make this a gimmicky sequel, but there was never a time that I felt like anyone was elbowing me in the ribs to show me that this was, in fact, a sequel to a very popular movie.

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Jerry Stiller Seinfeld and Hairspray Actor and Comedian Dies at 92

Jerry Stiller, an actor and comedian and father to Ben Stiller, has died of natural causes. He was 92. Ben Stiller confirmed his father’s death early Monday morning, writing on Twitter: &#822…

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Ford v Ferrari

Directed by James Mangold. With Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe. American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.

Fantastic acting with a horrifyingly good story. The cars are amazing and everything I love about them is here, but holy moly they’re small little things, aren’t they?

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Comment Karma has been updated on author pages

I’m happy to report that just a few short years after adding a new comment karma system, the numbers are now showing as you’d expect them to on your author pages.

Here’s mine: www.myconfinedspace.com/author/tiki-god/

My number went up about 700 points when I got the math working right there, so maybe you too have more karma?

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Katie she tested very good

TRUMP: “Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of the sudden she tested positive … this is why the whole concept of tests aren't necessarily great … today, I guess, for some reason, she tested positive." ? pic.twitter.com/xNFEJn3W9s

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020

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Morcheeba – World Looking In Official Video

Music video of Morcheeba has tiny people in a car controlled by giant (by comparison) boys Lyrics; Angels Smiling on my happiness Danger ‘Cause the scene is …

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The 100 Season 7 Extended Trailer The CW

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAVpbnpX7ww

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Emma

Directed by Autumn de Wilde. With Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Mia Goth, Angus Imrie. In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.

I wasn’t expecting to enjoy “Emma.” as much as I did, and only watched it because my wife was head over heels excited about seeing it. There’s a strength of story that really kicks in about 20 minutes into the film, but you really have to paying attention to the whole thing or later plot points and conversations are going to make absolutely no sense, so put down the phone or laptop and give it your full attention.

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The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers. A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

I hate to admit this, but I’d never seen this film before. I’m a Stanley Kubrick fan, I’m a fan of Jack Nicholson, and Steven King’s adapted stories are usually pretty good, but from what I knew of the movie, it was just about a guy going crazy up in the snow capped mountains. I was under that false assumption until it’s sequel was released and the trailers made no sense to me. I mentioned this to my wife and she set me straight. It’s a fantastic movie and definitely changes how I view “Ready Player One” a little bit. Maybe I’ll go back and re-watch that to see what I missed.

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Tron Legacy – Space Paranoids promo

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Joy Division — Transmission

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Midway

Directed by Roland Emmerich. With Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans. The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

I went in fully expecting this to be a mess of a movie with inaccuracies and oddly inserted love stories, but what I got was a heartfelt, well done, and mostly true retelling of the Midway confrontation during WW2. Because they didn’t stray too far from the truth, the actual Midway battle only gets started about an hour into the film, there’s just too much that has to be set up before the battle can take place.

There’s an unfortunate amount of noticeable CGI in the film, but other than a couple weirdly phrased lines (“There’s the man that tried to warn us all of the attack!”), this is a fantastic movie.

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Jurassic Park

 

Before seeing Jurassic World film this June read the original, multimillion copy No. 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park.

 

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind’s most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge.

But, as always, there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park’s defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival…

With this masterful cross of science fiction and action-adventure, Michael Crichton created one of the biggest bestsellers of all time, turned by Steven Spielberg into the highest grossing blockbuster ever in 1993.

 

Currently $1.99 on amazon! I haven’t read this in many many years, but I remember enjoying it.

I’ve purchased a copy for myself, so you’ll see a review from me one day for the book 🙂

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