at Amazon (by Kevin Mitnick).
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
My favorite toys of 2024
Conclave is a delight
A pleasure to look at, packed with arresting performances, and brisk. It also surprised me throughout--was I watching a locked room murder mystery? A political thriller? A social manners comedy? (Yes.)
As soon as it was over I started searching IMDB to see what else the cast and crew had done.
Today's news and jokes
tell me why my aunt brought the craziest side dish to Hanukkah last night pic.twitter.com/Vh1qku0GzY
— ezra ✡︎ (@ziravale) December 29, 2024
Colorful Graboid sculpture
Graboid. pic.twitter.com/4jy0uakDVX
— Jon Hartman (@jorkmantheking) December 27, 2024
(He takes commissions)
Monday, December 30, 2024
"The Reformatory," a novel that won a bunch of awards in 2023 is $1.99 right now
*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *
Sunday, December 29, 2024
"Before he was president, Jimmy Carter saved nuclear reactor after meltdown"
From the Fox News write up:
"We all went out on the tennis court, and they had an exact duplicate of the reactor on the tennis court. We would run out there with our wrenches and we'd check off so many bolts and nuts and they'd put them back on," he wrote. "And finally when we went down into the reactor itself, which was extremely radioactive, then we would dash in there as quickly as we could and take off as many bolts as we could, the same bolts we had just been practicing on. Each time our men managed to remove a bolt or fitting from the core, the equivalent piece was removed on the mock-up."
...
"They let us get probably a thousand times more radiation than they would now."
Micro Galaxy Squadron Jedi Starfighter two-pack is 35% off
$16.24 for the set at Amazon. Two generations of starfighter plus Ahsoka and astromech figures.
Today's news and jokes
Who wants to meet me at the SW corner of Washington Square park to play chess? Im there
— Wemby (@wemby) December 28, 2024
A good day for chess ♟️ https://t.co/kdlYt9Nwgm pic.twitter.com/NY1f4HJcCy
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) December 28, 2024
Morning in New York playing chess with Victor Wembanyama in the park. pic.twitter.com/fJRqN4X4Xm
— Jordan Howenstine (@AirlessJordan) December 28, 2024
Wemby on playing chess with fans in NY today: "I don't know. I was just feeling like it. That's enough of a reason." pic.twitter.com/9PXfPvXHV2
— Josh Paredes (@Josh810) December 28, 2024
("Today, Mr. Magnus Carlsen breached the dress code by wearing jeans, which are explicitly prohibited under long-standing regulations for this event," the World Chess Federation said in a statement issued on Friday evening.)Chess has just been dominating every other sport over the last few years when it comes to weird scandals and dust-ups. No one’s doing it like them
— Emma Baccellieri (@emmabaccellieri) December 28, 2024
Submachine Gun Wizard miniature
Here is his invisibility cloak btw, it's painted very realistically pic.twitter.com/xa7Wnfj1WK
— Louise Sugden (@Sughammer) December 23, 2024
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Highlights from the Pop-Tarts bowl
https://t.co/Sw15Dd62lg pic.twitter.com/8kxBmX5Sgz
— Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) December 28, 2024
New Humble Bundle featuring a TTRPG about vampire hunting
It's the "Night's Black agents and Dracula Dossier Bundle," starts with three titles for $1, bigger bundle includes "The Zalozhniy Quartet" and "The Dubai Reckoning."
Today's news and jokes
Best jersey swap ever 🥹 pic.twitter.com/mcJxJQXlJI
— San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) December 28, 2024
Never forget when Greg Gumbel lost it on air during Charles Barkley’s hilarious uniform washing story lol 😂 pic.twitter.com/h9ZDiezX9B
— Nick Cammuso (@npc210) December 27, 2024
Great rainbow motif painted on this Warhammer 40K Rhino
Encontrado recientemente tras años perdido en una caja, finalmente he podido darlo por acabado.#oldhammer #warhammer40k #rainbowwarriors40k #spacemarines pic.twitter.com/fYTIVespHh
— Alpharianii (@Alpharianii) December 18, 2024
Friday, December 27, 2024
Roundup of the gifts quarterbacks got their offensive linemen this year
FSO:
Quarterback Jalen Hurts ($13.5 million) and running back Saquon Barkley ($3.8 million) teamed up amid a 12-3 season to give their linemen personalized golf carts donning their names and numbers. Both Barkley and Hurts’ personal logos are on the back of each cart.
Deluxe Batou figure by Damtoys up for preorder
The Kusanagi figure is up for preorder also.
Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 Batou
— Damtoys (@damtoys) December 26, 2024
DAMTOYS, licensed and supervised by Kodansha, launches anime Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 character: Batou#DAMTOYS #Ghostintheshell pic.twitter.com/G5ryvN1GWA
Today's news and jokes
Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾
— BeardedGenius (@beardedgenius.bsky.social) December 25, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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Long interview with Alan Moore about his two new books (and magic in general)
Oh, was it Psychic TV? A friend of mine lived in that house!
Was it? I should have a look in my dossier, but I was thinking it was another band. I have issues with the late Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle and all them. I didn’t think much to his magic and I thought he was a little shit.
[Pause]
He, uh, he maced my wife, Séamas.
A good list of brand projects from 2024
4. Vast by https://t.co/05FoZlfRlu pic.twitter.com/ji0w8lLgwY
— Jordan Jenkins (@jkane) December 19, 2024
My favorite is the space-themed one for Vast (I'd like a keychain), but Manual Creative's site basically crashed my phone, so I'd suggest viewing on desktop.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Today's news and jokes
10/10. No notes #AtUniversal pic.twitter.com/WtNwDYAaiC
— Parks And Cons (@ParksAndCons) December 24, 2024
Neil Patrick Harris's "Box Two" is awfully disappointing
Box One is great, and great to regift. I liked it so much, I bought Box Two without even considering waiting for a review.
The engineering in Box Two's game items commonly failed, the puzzles were mostly either extremely difficult or barely worthy of being called puzzles, and the narrative was essentially nonexistent and unpleasant to sit through. I can regift the package, but only to someone I want to disappoint and/or first warn to lower their expectations.
Beautiful photo of Los Angeles on a foggy day
Current situation in LA 😮💨 pic.twitter.com/APC8zYLFat
— Brandon Yoshizawa (@bay_photography) December 20, 2024
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Threezero also made a toy of K's police spinner from Blade Runner 2049
Deckard's spinner and K's spinner both up for preorder.
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
More Star Wars Micro Galaxy Squadron deals
Jabba's skiff with two minifigures plus a blindbox is around $15 after the coupon. And Shin Hati and her fighter are back in stock at the non-scalper's price.
You can use the extra 50% coupon on the Twitch clearance sale again if you want a cheap Jenga set
It's 50% off listed prices with the coupon (will apply to all items), and here's the "Tumbling Tower Game" listing for around $6.
Today's news and jokes
the fact that bison had different color hats he would pick for vibe based reasons pic.twitter.com/VINlkKtPNB
— Gene Park (@GenePark) December 23, 2024
One of my secret favorite moments in this scene is when Bison switches hats. We never see Bison without his hat on. https://t.co/yF0tXB3C8y pic.twitter.com/mcPJx4ggtK
— Philip Summers (@heyphilsummers) December 23, 2024
Monday, December 23, 2024
The first two episodes of the Fassbender spy series "The Agency" are great
Not just Fassbender, the cast is packed. It reminds me of Netflix's Three Body Problem series, which I also enjoyed--a bunch of super-slick operators, but all they do is screw up. (Streaming on Paramount+)
Today's news and jokes
@espn #BTS on the #Vikings #CampRock #celly 🍿🕺 (via Cambeezy_/X) #disney #nfl #minnesotavikings #skol ♬ original sound - ESPN