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Wild Target A low key English film from 2010. Bill Nighy as an aging, solitary master assassin growing tired with the life and wanting to retire, only to be hired to kill Emily Blunt's thief. He ends up falling for her, and helping her out, in the process being confused as a private detective, and picking up Rupert Grint as a hapless apprentice. The unhappy client then bring in Martin Freeman's much less reliable hitman to tidy up the mess, and chaos ensues. It's very much reliant on situational comedy and some British understatement, so it does have that callback to the classic Ealing Studio movies.

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistan...t neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

Spent most of yesterday afternoon 3D modelling a custom lightsaber. Saved it. Had the software crash. Opened it back up, saw my files okay, made sure to save it all again. Then opened it this morning to find a corrupted mess and all of my work gone up in smoke. Ah well. Off to face a Monday work day.

Gracias for the info LC. I've been dabbling with the 3D modelling and CAD work lately, was curious what it would be like to 3d print it, got a quote from some of the local companies that do that sort of prototyping for folks, but yeesh, they wanted basically $300 for doing that once. For that sort of money I can pay a little extra and get my own printer and run off all the copies I want to experiment with. Which is part of my interest in getting into it.