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Some four years later, looking here and there around IT posts, this: I agree. I don't like this movie either. :)

OK Watched The Brutalist on HBO, and happy to see serious, ambitious, complex, smart, etc. stuff can still get made. Great historical world building, and yes, great acting from Brody (and, years later, still think of The Pianist as one of the most moving and memorable things I've ever seen.)...

Yup. Want to respond to these thoughts, (and to show that i appreciate your taking the time to think them :) ) but, honestly, in kind of hurts my brain to think about such thoughts. Anyway, I'll get back, But, basically, I agree, although my main concern is, not that I will become less...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. A bit of word salad that only sounds as if it should mean something. Blade Runner. A movie of the novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, (or some such; Philip K. Dick often had clunky titles) would have...

Yup. This is getting really close; the fearful future where human actors are no longer needed. You can still identify the robot-people as AI, but just barely, and it's hard to pinpoint exactly how. One kind of interesting thing I just read, though. AI writing, and so I'm sure AI acting, can...

This could go on and on and on. My robot friend (maybe like its hu-mahn friend) is nothing if not loquacious. And (unlike its humahn friend) is nothing if not tireless. But I just had this little back and forth, continuing the above, and again, thought it interesting enough to share. I...

Re. The Curse: Yup, I agree--big swings. I've done the first few episodes, and am still kind of knocked out by Nathan and Co., for doing something that is well-made, smart, interesting, entertaining, and, again, different. I'll probably have more to say once I'm through the whole thing. As...

OK. I admit. Pretty hekking cool. It reminds me some ancient music from my misspent youth--progressive rock from sometime in the last century. And got a kick out of this google translate: Let me know when you discover the specificity of the invoice :); & thanks for the link.

Cool, thanks. Unfortunately, I no longer have the hardware; even my old desktop doesn't have a DVD slot. Hopefully, eventually, it will end up streamable somewhere.

Maybe this info is somewhere in the thread above, but I'll ask anyway: When, where, can i see it? :). Anyway, of course, huge congratulations on (mostly I guess) completing the project!

OK. Watched the first season of "The Rehersal," except the last episode, which, maybe for some reason I can't explain, I am reluctant to do. I will, of course, eventually watch it--when I think I'm up to it. And this, reading the Rotten Tom page on this season, isn't an unusual take. People...

In another thread, I got into a little discussion about the hurdy-gurdy, and since, have become kind of fascinated by the thing. Anyway, I was "chatting" a little about it with my robot friend (Scholar GPT) And here's a bit from that exchange that kind of knocked me out, that i thought might...

Chatting a little with my robot friend (Scholar GPT) about its talent for creative writing. My perspective: none. It agreed: no creative talent. But then added: "But I can fake it pretty well." LOL Anyway, it sent me, unsolicited, this pic: Editi: And I just got a kick out of the...

Dang, Ms. Tobie Miller--the baroque hurdy-gurdy master!. I have to post one more, a better quality recording of the famous Cello suite Prelude. I don't know if this is peculiar to Bach, but I always think it's cool that looking up any one piece of music on the you tube returns dozens of...

Wasn't sure i believed you, but just ran into this: Harmonious scrapings indeed :)