Ridiculously engaging. Finds this line between operating as a straight deep-state intelligence thriller and as something on the difficulties of commitment. Carries the deep discomfort and paranoia that characterised much of Spielberg's post-9/11 work. the way it builds up to the final 30 minutes is unbelievable, my eyes were full of tears as the end credits began to roll. Found myself really moved by the palpable humanity of it all - a collective cut through government secrecy. Don’t think Emily Blunt has ever been better. Some of the compositions are truly spell-binding - full of haunting mirrored expressions, tracking shots, and some of the best blocking you’ll likely see this decade. And those chase sequences! So much fun. Looks like a real real movie. Actually very weird at times tonally, M. Night-like in ways as others have said (very much complimentary). Not only in terms of humour but also in the way it employs faith as a shield. Really really loved this, can see others not doing. Probably not entirely what you expect.

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Was feeling a little distant for large stretches of the movie and then the third act got me in the “lean forward in seat position” and I didn’t move the rest of the movie

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Wouldn't you like to know, weather girl @starstruck dot letterboxd

This is the kind of movie the guy from Bugonia would have loved.

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Possibly undercooked as a meditation on empathy and finding our sense of meaning, fucking phenomenal as a spiritual successor to Minority Report. Even takes time out of its day to rationalize and redeem much of what Crystal Skull was trying to do. Steve, you shouldn't have! Weirdly enough the best performance in the movie is from a character who only shows up in the final 10 minutes, not sure I've ever seen that happen before!

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Disclosure Day was atrociously bad. I mean, potentially one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Multiple people got up and left the theaters, people were on their phones, fidgeting and completely uninterested. Uninteresting, corny beyond belief, premise sucked. Acting was just bad. Music cringed me out. This felt like a boomer blockbuster, and Steven Spielberg tarnished himself with this one. Rough watch, if you can stay awake. Save your money.

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I was really excited for Disclosure Day. This movie had me hooked from the trailer, and i could not wait until it released. So anyway...yeah, i fell asleep 30 minutes in...the movie was boring and didn't even have the courtesy to tell us what was whispered at the end.

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A simple table I hashed out before bedtime.

This table contains dense code, but JotterPad reduces the complexity

Using JotterPad is similar to what PhotoShop was like back when I had the software running locally on a PowerBook G3. I still have that laptop too. Unfortunately, my aspirations to create my VuePress on that old clunker machine is not compatible (Node.js v.20.9.0 required), but if I ever manage to learn to use Vue.js, I'm sure I'll be able to understand PHP and MySQL a little more. Then, perhaps, I could utilize those languages to build something on it. If I could even build something with Rebol, it would be a huge accomplishment.

Lying in bed, I don't get drowsy until my eyes start to burn from watching TikTok bloggers acting stupid. The funny ones tend to get old and repetitive. When I reach a point when I'm all caught up on my social media fix, this table of miscellaneous pix I ganked from Unsplash gets me drowsy. After spending the whole day discovering new stuff I can do in Terminal and stuff I just comprehend with OpenID (PGP), brainstorming future posts relaxes me. I really like the way livjournal organizes my photos in a blog entry when I email it. It's not complicated, the way lj-cuts are mixes in with the table code. Thinks began to go bonkers when I tried experimenting with image hosting defaults. I wanted to see how attachment photos were displayed, with the lj-cuts, if the image layout was vertical. Then the multiple posts began to happen (and multiple photos too.)

I guess the multiple entries glitch is resolved because I don't see that occurring with my test posts from yesterday. It's going to be awhile until I finish the roll of film in the pinhole camera to post more pix, so last night I brainstormed how I might go about creating a table with images.

I never bothered to format images intended for the web before. The book on Vue.js has prompted me to scrutinize my images more carefully. Downsizing them for size and proportion is a task in itself. JotterPad can be tricky as I struggled to follow tutorials on making tables with markdown code using pipe symbols (|) and underscores (_), etc. When exporting my tables afterward, they just wouldn't formate into html properly. Then I discovered JotterPad has a tool button (+) that drops down a menu where I can select tables, the amount of rows and columns, etc. When I use that technique, the output to html is perfect.

So the plan is to use that when I have a roll of film scanned into my computer. I think uploading the photos into lj's photo album cloud might be the route I take, only because I won't be uploading photos in the same size that I scan them anymore. It will take longer, of course. A task I wouldn't mind adding as a skill to my resume. And that's what the gears in my head are thinking when I came up with this table in bed last night. Unsplash makes it so easy to grab a photo and post it, and if I like the way they look in this entry, my goal will be to duplicate that myself. Manually.

TROUBLESHOOTING

If it still doesn't post, paste the first 3 lines of message.asc (BEGIN line and the Hash line) and the output of

gpg --verify message.asc

Took the whole day troubleshooting. i imagine posting email updates this way, using a public key, works fine on a PC. Maybe it's a Mac thing. So I just changed the PIN on my Mobile settings. I'm watching carefully for duplicate posts as a result of sending so many tests. Another cool feature I didn't know about is I can attach a txt file as my entry (if i use the bundled Mail app that comes with OSX, I guess). I love that because I don't have to worry about accidently pressing the wrong button on my screen and stressing about not having save what I had composed. So, maybe this is cause for a shot. Cheers!

The new editor is wonderful, but with it's limitations of creating image map coordinate hotspots on an image, I guess the old classic editor is the only solution. So, I began to restore the 'verified' email accounts allowable to send blog emails to post.livejournal.com but this time I was determined to utilize the PHP feature.

I already know the the previous Mobile set-up I had, with the PIN number, was generating multiple posts.

Taking a headache break, set the TV for Bugonia. It is doubtful I will ever get tired of watching this movie. Something about the camera angles and close-ups of Emma Stone that makes the movie pleasing to the eye. Then there Jesse Plemons AND his supporting actor Aiden Delbis. Half the time, just couldn't believe the AS character wasn't for real, but as far as Plemons' role in the film, the special effects is what really impressed me; high point being the rollerball scene.

Then there's the dedication of having one's head shaved for the role. We already knew Stone's professionalism in doing nude scenes. Now this? Well, I guess for actors it's all about doing it while you can, because when the golden years come around, it's doubtful anybody is going to care about a nude scene or a shaved head.

This gets downloaded with an attachment that should be under 50KB.

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A walk thru the park. I wore my hiking boots. Cheap waterproof trackers with the sole coming apart after already gluing it back together once. It's not the reason I prefer to tread on the grass at the park. Treading on the grass helps avoid oncoming traffic (joggers mostly).

Does Red-eye occur during daylight? It's almost impossible to walk thru the grass in Echo Park without awakening a goose. Getting really close to the gander to make eye contact as I pass. Keeping fingers crossed that they don't make a scene and try to run me off their turf. Like, 'Get over there on the gravel where you belong, Hoomin.'

…and if it is a thing, how can you tell?

How to depict in (film)script the angle of eye contact wherein daylight red-eye occurs. Like staring down a gander just to see when it makes its move. Fight or flee. These Echo Park geese are too lazy to 'flight'. Some of them, I guess if one approaches carefully enough, will only grunt. It's quite something to hear a grunting goose in the middle of traffic noise. Grunt grunt grunnt grunnnt grnt.

I guess it's the angle, and the longer it lasts might involve the directional movement one heads, as the longer the axis point of eye-contact is maintained, without the goose changing focal point, without pedestrian's POV breaking focal point, that is when 'daylight red-eye' occurs.

I must've been tripping when I decided I should go back to my old editor. I have mutliple browsers on my computer and I use them all, though not for the same reasons. My work website prefers that I use Chrome because the other browsers don't work for their website.

After getting back on the programming development project, I like to relax by updating my lj blog, mainly because it doesn't involve the same brain boggling coding that I've been learning with Vue.js. 

When I log out of my lj account and refresh my blog, Chrome only shows recent entries as far back as December 2025.

Who wouldn't think that was odd? So I started logging off of lj on all my different browsers to check what was going on and they all seem to work normally. Firefox, Safari, Opera. It's only Chrome, on my iMac, that fails to display my entries. Even if I go to the archive, the calendar plainly shows that I have posted entries in 2026. But if I click the link to any particular entry between January and present, the browser returns the message "No entries were made". 

So I submitted a support ticket to livejournal. I don't expect I'll hear from them because the browser seems to work fine on my iPhone. It's only on my desktop computer that Chrome malfunctions.

As depression sets in for the repair charges coming my way soon, for the replacement retna display on a MacBook Air, it behooves me to orchestrate a convincing scenario to convince myself 'these things happen.' Maybe closing a laptop and cracking the screen happens more often than people are willing to admit. I can see somebody leaving a pen or pencil on the keyboard and slamming their laptop shut, when wham! the crackling sound of glass startles them into regret. I dunno. What gets me so upset is the cause for my little accident, resulting from a magnetic charging port designed to prevent a laptop from becoming tangled in one’s feet from the charging cord. In other words, this happened to me when it should’ve been prevented.

Previous to this, the one disappointment that had me down was a revelation I heard online by a writer’s perspective about job postings in LinkedIn being a baldfaced sham. It isn’t just my lack of talent and experience or the competition that discourages, but what today’s administration says about journalism? Fake news. untalented reporters shameful media companies, etc. As depressing as it is, I lock myself in my bedroom for privacy with my laptop teaching myself programming in Vue.js., the VuePress platform enticing me for it’s press association.

Computer wizards make it look easy. I have aspirations to repurpose my old, broken down computers as web servers. And with that, I tell myself this little set-back (breaking my own retna display) is the equivalent of paying college tuition for programming classes. It’s the bullshit I deal with keeping my own miserable company. I know the comparison is a stretch. No curriculum, no foreseeable concrete goal, only reading chapter to chapter in discombobulation of all RegEx and JavaScript code structure. Just before the accident to my laptop, I had finally managed to scrutinize the password obstacle WordPress imposes for synching JotterPad app’s publishing feature. One day I will figure out why gmail lj updates create multiple duplicate entries.

I vaguely recall seeing on livejournal a list of previous entries listed as “email” posts. I felt I might find clues to the problem if I could access the list of entries posted via email. I believe Telegram is the cause BTW. I have so many bots in that app, after trying to develop alternate ways to update blog entries, that I feel I must’ve broken something. However, if that were the case, it doesn’t seem likely the same problem would occur if I used a dedicated email server like Outlook. Unfortunately, multiple/duplication occurs even when I use a different email server/client.

I know this is the easy part, memorizing the dynamic combination of script, template, style. I think it's crazy to try to think this stuff up from scratch. I don't even type this stuff onto the computer anymore (verbatim from the textbook.) Now I'm just going online to the packt github repository and copying the code from that file and pasting it to my computer file. I back up the original "exercise1.10," then create a blank one. I guess I'm learning about those plugins that require fixing for each exercise in the workspace.

My eyeballs tend to wander when I start getting tired reading this stuff. It's like the letters start running all over the place and I have to keep my eye on them, but before I know it, my focus is searching for the point where I left off. Between this text book and the CodeMonkeys tutorial, I'm starting to check the respective tutorial code to get the index to encapsulate entries in cards AND include Navigation bar/head at the top of the page.

I'm glad I found this book. I was getting frustrated trying to come up with stuff on my own that I could use YAML with, to improve my whatever–coding–language–is–combined–with–YAML skill. It's a real treat getting my mind blown when I discover that I can do this or that with YAML. As of now, I wouldn't mind understanding all this stuff just enough to start using markdown for blog entries. The goal I've set myself is to figure out how to use my markdown app JotterPad to hash out .ftn files, then write something into the YAML that would allow Vue.js to convert the file into html. Then, of course, I would need to focus on such things as pagination, where each page would consist of no more than 54 lines of text, all the proper margins for a move script manuscript, etc. Plan B is to continue to hack out my movie script scenes on the typewriter, scanning them into a .png file, and adding the images to a "public" file for my blog entries. A.K.A. the lazy-set goal.

BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES, SPANNING 3 MONTHS

Photo from Feb. 2026

A nice tall tree would be nice in this city-owned plot of earth. Maybe I should write a letter to my councilman about climbing this street during summer. It doesn't have an outrageous incline like some of the neighboring street, but my peach pits aren't going to sprout if nobody adds water after I impale them into the ground with my shoe.

Photo from May. 2026

I'm still on chapter one of this web app programming book I'm drooling over. The exercises are meant to expose the reader to the details of code that Vue (vite?) uses, but this goes in one ear and out the other as I have zero javascript ability. I guess it would be easier if I had some hands-on experience using if/else conditions, but why kid myself? This book is 500+ pages and the rate I'm going, it'll be Christmas 2028 before anything sticks.

Yesterday I spent some time reviewing the already complete CodeMonkeys VuePress tutorial blog. I wanted to tweak it because the tutorial course ended rather prematurely, leaving the index without a header or a navigation bar. I crack myself up thinking I could solve the problem. Soon I'll become so frustrated, I'll abandon the book to spend some time doodling cartoons on a sketch pad. It's the undisputed pattern my brain takes.

I don't know how many times I tried formatting this with tables. I even had to use BBEdit because the old classic editor was cropping out the last photo.

I finally give up. It was hard enough to keep these clips in sequence. But I can see the value now in using dynamic coding for eliminating guess work in gremlins within the code.

The MYSTERIOUS BLOND and the Shaolin Temple setting are combined as the mad Ninja skills enforcing the Shaolin Temple setting and revealing A-lister actress. The brief emphasis of the Katana sword completely dumbfounds the setting when it is revealed that the adjacent room is a morgue. The curiosity this sparks in the audience is also depicted in Swinton when she enters the morgue-like room cautiously. We don't see the hand until Swinton tucks it back underneath the blanket. Satisfied, Swinton exits room, her back turned as the hand spasms underneath the blanket. We have a chance to see the slab with the blanket wrinkles just after Swinton tucks the corpse's hand back underneath the blanket, and after the spasm (something only a computer might be able to detect). Swinton re-appears from behind the door sill to question whether the corpse's hand didn't fall off the slab again.

Jotterpad Templates

This message (photo 6) kept popping up on my phone (every so often.) Just out of the blue. Of course, it would happen while I was doing something important, so it was disregarded. I later found out, through pure frustration over what it was about, Notability was sending me these notices. I still can't figure out why.

I don't think I've ever used whatever service Notability does with my email account. I usually use Notability for converting .pdf files into image files (.jpg and .png). Having gone into settings, I followed the email settings and saw that Notability was in there among all my email accounts AND it had been selected as the default. I'm like, huh-wha? All I can think of was that whatever it had been selected as the default to do, surely it wasn't the defaul email app. I think I have the bundled 'email' app that came with the operating system.

Over the span of 3 years following the University incident in Idaho where students involved in Greek life lost their lives to hi-jinx, some rumors of a movie in development have crossed my attention. Last night I screened Go, a 1999, R-rated dark comedy. What I don’t see from the books and documentaries already circulating is a questionable side, not only of the victims slaughtered, suicided, however demised, but for the high ranking characters whom it’s anybody’s guess might’ve known of the horrible violence before law enforcement.

I sometimes lean towards law enforcement having a stake in the events, but there’s no doubt in my mind that big money was involved. Seeing that the sinister events occurred under the watch of Fraternities and Sororities, I wonder why the podcasters on YouTube don’t expand their views rather than cater to their ‘live’ guests’ input.

I may have suggested that the doctorate student who took the rap, if true, is an FBI agent, but that’s only because he doesn’t fit the bill. Only an agent for an agency like that could disguise himself as a lonely nerd that couldn’t harm a fly. At first, however, my concern was how law enforcement could possibly pin the crime on an individual nobody even suspected. Why not dig into Russ Cox too? I mean, how hard could it be to fabricate a link to just about anybody?

I guess where I’m going with this is, how much worse can a movie about the Idaho 4 be if the last big publication about it was written by a former FBI agent? I’m not bashing the documentaries or the previous books on the subject. I don’t normally read crime novels, or watch crime TV. For a heinous crime that’s received so much hype, I expect something along the lines of The Repentless Killogy. In the many podcast streams I’ve listened to, I may have suggested that the culprits were Malaysian. I have no supporting scenarios for that other than the homocides occurred in a learning depot environment. I don’t mean to stereotype Asians as brainy nerds by doing so. After all, the snippet from the movie Superbad, where a passenger on a public transport bus whom I suggested looked ideally like Pappa Rodger may resemble somebody I remember from middle school too. Roll all these plotpoints into a story, and maybe I’ll be interested in the blockbuster film I hear rumors about being in the making.

In the meantime, I’m making great strides with Frontend Development Projects with Vue.js. I spend my whole day following the exercises on my computer. I even screened the Lynda.com tutorial, now on LinkedIn dot com. But that’s what I’m talking about. Lynda dot com was such a cool website, it’s hard to imagine it got taken over by LinkedIn. With the University, the studies, the laws against marijuana in Idaho, the links between news reporters and Banfield and the resemblances of reporter Banfield with Kato Kaelin there’s gotta be a plot which, if exploited, may even point to shot callers as high as the current Prez.