Random Shots for Thursday, 26 October 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here —

   From the Carlsbad Current-Argus

   http://currentargus.com/story/news/local/2017/10/24/ipra-request-revealed-explicit-emails-judges-account/759673001/

   It would seem that the New Mexico judicial system isn’t exempt from the Inspection of Public Records Act [IPRA].

   The NM Foundation for Open Government [NMFOG] has the details on how to submit an IPRA request, including a sample request in PDF format.

   http://nmfog.org/submit-records-request/

   http://nmfog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SAMPLE-IPRA.pdf

2. Posted to Facebook here and here —

   

3. Posted to Facebook —

   I would prefer that if a new B5 film or TV series were to be produced, that instead of casting new actors in previously-cast roles, that the new actors be cast in entirely new roles, like Roddenberry did with Star Trek: The Next Generation.

   Reboots are very rarely as good as the original — the only rebooted series that I can think of as being better than the original was Ron Moore’s 2003 Battlestar Galactica.

4. Posted to Facebook —

   That’s OK — I already have them, and read them years ago.

   I just don’t want to see B5 go down the same road as the Marvel comics line — rebooted umpteen times into near-irrelevance.

5. Posted to Facebook —

   Don’t add anyone you don’t know and trust as a group admin.

6. Posted to Facebook —

   What ever happened to all of the business and cash flow that the (State-subsidized) film industry was going to bring to New Mexico? How long are we supposed to wait for thsat one to happen?

   And wasn’t spending piles of cash on the welfare state programs, as pushed by Martinez (the Medicaid expansion), going to boost the economy as never before? Still waiting for that one to actually happen, too.

   At least the brewery owners aren’t soaking the taxpayers.

7. Posted to Facebook —

   For example: Ayudando.

   https://ixquick.com/do/search?q=Ayudando

8. Posted to Facebook —

   Third time’s the charm?

9. Posted to Facebook —

   Facebook has been slow and sluggish lately. Had to crash Firefox three times and reboot my laptop once last night because of this.

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. Black Mirror
2. Adult Swim [as] from the Cartoon Network [CN] —
   1. Robot Chicken
   2. Mike Tyson Mysteries
   3. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
3. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Vol.34, #3: Autumn 2017 —
   1. pp. 52-53: “Citizen Engineer: I Like Your Content But Your Terms Are Not Acceptable” by “ladyada” and “fill”
   2. pp. 54-57: “Obfuscating Biopolitics: A Theoretical Primer for Cyborgs and Other Concerned Citizens” by Emma Stamm
   3. p.58: “Debt Journey” by “Pic0o”
   4. p.59: “Successful Network Attacks – Phase Four: Maintaining Access” by “Daelphinux”
   5. p.60: “Splatter” by Alan Sondheim
4. nmpolitics.net —
   1. Here’s what APS needs in a new school board member by Ali Ennenga
   2. Breweries patch the gaps between oil booms in southeastern NM by Jessica Onsurez, Carlsbad Current-Argus
5. Dokken —
   1. Back for the Attack
   2. Beast from the East
6. Teen Vogue from Condé Nast — Antifa History and Politics, Explained by Abdullah Shihpar
7. Breitbart News — Rosie O’Donnell Breaks Silence on Trump: ‘I Seriously Worry’ How I Will Live Through His Presidency by Katherine Rodriguez
8. Next Generation Gasoline Engine SKYACTIV-X: SPCCI
9. The Daily Wire — Trans Artist Collects 200 Gallons Of Urine To Protest Trump by Paul Bois
10. This Trans Artist Collected 200 Gallons Of Urine To Protest Trump (HBO)
11. Guns & Tech by Timothy Yan — WPA’s new T91 piston AR upper at Big 3 Media Event
12. The Orville