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4 Jan
@GinaMurrell1 I was watching an overview of the production of French Connection and since the two cops who the story is nominally about were producers, and still on the force, they pulled insane connections to get the shots they wanted and the locations they wanted.
There's a scene where there's a traffic jam on the bridge. How did they get it? The crew just BLOCKED THE BRIDGE and the cops used their connections to slow down any police reaction to it!
The famed car chase where they drove through the streets at 70mph? They got it by JUST DRIVING THROUGH THE STREETS AT 70MPH WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE. The first, like, 5 blocks of it were blocked off and they KEPT GOING
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29 Dec 20
2021 is just around the corner, and it's the first year since Hans Reiser got sent to jail that he can apply for Parole.

Since he went to jail for strangling his wife to death while their two children were in the house, he probably shouldn't get parole.
As part of his plea deal, Reiser had to completely describe the killing and disposing of Nina Sharanova's body. During this confession, he showed remorse in the fact he'd used an "embarassing" judo grip to strangle her. (He was trained in judo).
This wasn't the first bargain he'd tried to strike in the case; refusing to admit he'd done the crime, he instead bargained to even reveal the woods where her body was buried in return for a 3 year sentence, which would have put him out months after the trial. They declined.
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27 Dec 20
@DavidEDaveWall1 Aw, Dave. You wandered in on this one.
@DavidEDaveWall1 So, my least favorite response to tragedy and tales of people being hurt (intentionally or unintentionally) is the person who steps in, and with the pale of authority, says "Well, if I had been there, I'd have done things quite differently, and not made such a mistake."
@DavidEDaveWall1 Because I don't know - maybe when one stands over a tragic car accident, one's first thought shouldn't be "Well, *I* for one would have worn a seat belt." and then walk away from the carnage.
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27 Dec 20
This was terrible game design. But I squeezed some lemonade out of it. I'll explain
Call of Duty Warzone added a new map, "Rebirth Island". It's a new battle royale island, which is great, but it's very, very small. Super small, actually. They even know this because they currently only have about 50 people on it max.
To "celebrate", they added an "event" with about 15 "achievements" so you could win themed watches, patches, the usual. One of them was that achievement, "BRB", which is "Pilot a Vehicle on the Island for 20 Minutes".
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26 Dec 20
So, the whole "Maybe you could die so capitalism keeps going?" trend of 2020 wasn't very good or encouraging, but I do confess a complete bushel of entertainment that a whole range of folks have painted themselves into a corner of "Wearing a Mask Destroys Freedom"
The inverse situation has been pretty patently true for years now - wear a mask in public, ESPECIALLY inside businesses or places of governmental function, and SOMEBODY comes over to tell you to knock it the hell off. You could be detained or arrested out of that situation.
The fact that everyone is walking around like a character in a Philip K. Dick is like me being told that Egg Nog is free or everybody's being assigned a vintage radio; it's just grandiosely beautiful fortune out of tragedy. Masks are amazing and awesome.
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25 Dec 20
It's up! The Little Phone Phreak Library is a set of scans from this pile of photocopied sheets, with full runs (sometimes photocopied horribly) of TAP, TEL, YIPL and a host of Phone Phreak articles. Historical context and all readable/downloadable at archive.org/details/Phone_…
Pretty much all the information is completely and utterly invalidated in the contemporary times. But the playful and smart spirit lives on.
I should rush to say this is absolutely not the first time this material's online; there have been scans and we actually have them up online. There's even a CD-ROM available with (also) crappy scans of YIPL and TAP. It's at archive.org/details/TAP_an…
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