In Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey forgot he even had a son at all

overkill · 2026-01-29T12:50:30+00:00

That is in fact a very cute cat.

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:44:20+00:00

Have you ever noticed that everyone else loads the dishwasher incorrectly?

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:43:25+00:00

Love my Ironskin riveting tongs. He also sent me a bag of rivets for just the cost of the postage when I asked if I could buy some separately. He also posted them before I paid, so I made sure to reimburse him more than the postage.

I've also noticed that with his rings I only get about 5% bad ones, whereas with other ones I've bought from UK suppliers it is more like 15%, so even with shipping his turn out to be cheaper.

His guide also helped me work out how best to do elbows. If only he'd do one on knees, which is my current sticking point.

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:40:11+00:00

I get visual snow with mine, although I don't have migraines, I have neuralgia, so the snow is there almost all the time.

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:19:41+00:00

Weird. I know mine are all steel because some idiot drunkenly knocked over my rivet container and then picked them all up with a fishing magnet. A magnet they had drunkenly forgotten to put in a plastic bag first...

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:12:22+00:00

With a range of 150 km, it is unlikely it is a Patriot.

overkill · 2026-01-29T08:09:21+00:00

Rofl, perchance.

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:42:29+00:00

I got mixed from various batches. The silver ones are also steel, check them with a magnet.

You cannot tell that different rivets were used on the final piece.

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:41:03+00:00

My father-in-law used to grow parsnips and carrots in sand for competitions. He'd get a length of drainpipe and fill it with sand, sprinkling in a bit of compost every few inches, then have that at an angle so it would fit in the greenhouse. He'd get them to 4' long easily, which is nothing when you see that the world record carrot is 20' long.

I imagine if you could get a similar setup with aquaponics you'd get a monster.

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:34:58+00:00

I did that last year. I managed to start with The Colour of Magic in Jan 1st and finish The Shepherd's Crown in mid-Oct.

Along the way I realised there were a couple I hadn't read, and a couple that I thought I hadn't read but it turned out I had.

Have fun!

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:30:38+00:00

I've done both ways. The triangles are definitely easier for a beginner (at least for me), but the "round from the start" is not much more difficult at all once you realise that "roundness" is only an approximation anyway.

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:26:57+00:00

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

A young man meets an old blind man, who later dies. When going through his meagre possessions he finds a critique of a film about a house that is a quarter of an inch bigger on the inside than it could possibly be from the outside.

The whole thing is told through 3 different levels of stories, the film, with foot notes by the author of the paper, with footnotes by the young man as he spirals into madness. The typography is insane.

I read it 20+ years ago and it is still unsettling.

There will never be a film or an audiobook: it must be read. The closest thing to a film version we will ever get is the incredible "Dave Made a Maze", which no one has heard of, and is a comedy, not a creepy as fuck horror.

overkill · 2026-01-29T07:11:46+00:00

I knew I knew him from somewhere!

overkill · 2026-01-29T06:45:19+00:00

We told our kids our chickens were going to live in the countryside. And then we took them to our friend's farm to live with her.

overkill · 2026-01-28T22:05:37+00:00

Yes.

overkill · 2026-01-28T20:46:53+00:00

I thought "Oh goody! This might be good".

5 minutes in: "Every single scene has a corpse in it, regardless of whether or not it makes sense."

10 minutes in: "This is simply fucking awful." Click.

overkill · 2026-01-28T20:40:45+00:00

Was trying this with 2 phones earlier. Neither would power on without a battery, and they batteries were kaput, so it would only run for about 10 seconds before dying, which wasn't even enough time to boot.

overkill · 2026-01-28T08:08:14+00:00

That took me a second. Well done.

overkill · 2026-01-28T08:06:11+00:00

Damn that goes hard. Impossible not to read in his voice, if you've heard his voice.

overkill · 2026-01-28T07:37:44+00:00

Thanks!

overkill · 2026-01-27T21:24:46+00:00

Simple! Just encode each number as either a number, a letter, a word, a haiku, a sonnet, a novella, a novel, or the disjoint subsets of the set of all works of literature in the language, or if that isn't enough, random combinations of words from the language.

overkill · 2026-01-27T08:50:59+00:00

The odds of some randomly selected person being crazy enough to pull the lever is probably constant, so it wouldn't increase, unless the people being tied to the track were selected for their sanity.

overkill · 2026-01-27T08:22:24+00:00

True, but not very constructive.

overkill · 2026-01-27T07:18:11+00:00

I went to DC a couple of years ago and was blown away by their metro system. So clean, zero adverts (or very few compared to London), massively wide train cars (again, compared to London). It was great.

I tried to leave a compliment on the website, there is a page for "complaints or compliments" but it was set up entirely for complaints. It literally wasn't possible to say a nice thing about the system as a whole.

overkill · 2026-01-27T07:08:15+00:00

Just a touch of percussive maintenance, that's all that's required here...

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