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I suppose also in the funny side.. but the weirdness of US vs UK English...

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot. Which sounds odder than it is. Actually a very low key film. Sam Elliot as the slightly misanthropic old man, a bitter recluse, who it turns out, was a semi-mythic solider/assassin for the US in his younger days. You get the slow opening of his daily life, interspersed with short flashbacks which establish his history (Which yes, includes killing Hitler), while background news reports on some serial killer on the US/Canadian border crop up. This leads into government officials turning up to tempt him to return to duty for various reasons to hunt down and kill The Bigfoot, which is apparently infected with some strange disease that if allowed to get into the population could be devastating. It's an oddly paced film, and it definitely doesn't fit in the action genre. Much more the slow-paced Adventure/Drama area. An old man pondering how his life led him, the love he lost, whether the people he killed ever actually changed anything.

Just to cover it... Picard: We're putting the band back together. O'Brien: Forget it. No way. Riker: We're on a mission from God.

Just for the interesting effect...

For an old story worth mentioning.. (This needs to be a film.. Kung Fu Nuns?) Hundreds of nuns trained in Kung Fu bike the Himalayas to oppose human trafficking

" Just to be clear, Trump is currently, this morning, calling on foreign leaders to investigate Biden in the midst of an impeachment proceeding about whether he has encouraged foreign leaders to investigate Biden " " Trump encouraged foreign election interference on his behalf from two countries in the course of one 7-minute media availability. "

Have some people I know attending Anachro-Con in Georgia this coming February, and got an invite along to catch up with them. So I decided to take time off work and book a flight over the pond for it. Of course, not originally paying attention to the specific date until after I said I'd go, I've suddenly realised it's that whole 14th-16th February Valentines Weekend... and one of those people is an ex of mine. So that might be a little quirky. Still, steampunk ahoy and all that.

Had one of those long weekends. Took Friday off work, had all sorts of plans and things to get done. Then just that constant stream of petty, minor mechanical issues cropping up to nearly everything I was doing. I mean, sure, we all get those "5 minute job that ends up taking an hour because x happened", that's part and parcel of life. But good grief, EVERYTHING this weekend was that. I'm almost looking forward to Monday for the love of life. With the way Murphy has been riding everything creative I've tried doing this weekend, I've decided against cooking flapjack cookies and pondering on a deep bath, and/or watching Dollhouse on Amazon Prime instead.

Wired - Google's "Quantum Supremacy" isn't the end of encryption

Trump White House - The irony of the Secret System "Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective."