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A blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.

TV - Jean Clause Van Johnson

Here's one from May. I started this short series in January, but I really didn't get back to it until May.  I was bummed to learn that this came out a few years ago and I missed it, because it means that it most likely will not get a sequel.I don't know why JCVD dropped off the face of the planet in the 90s, but this mini series was a fun way to poke fun at all the tropes of action movies of that
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TV - People of Earth

Here's another show from my sci-fi catch-up watch.  This one was on Hulu, I think, and it's a comedy about alien abductees.The series follows city journalist Ozzie Graham, played by Wyatt Cenac, who travels to Beacon, New York to write a piece on a support group called "StarCrossed," who are survivors of alien encounters. The abductees are stereotypical tin-foil-hat folks. Although skeptical at
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A bit of a twitter troll

 I was logging into the web-client for Tumblr recently when I saw this funny troll for Twitter's (short-lived?) blue tick program 😂
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This is the 80s...

 Just something a little funny from around the web recently... A mashup invoking the iconic scene from the movie 300.
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Mr. Afternoon T

 Seen it somewhere on the internet this week...
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MBTA Alternative Modes of Transport

Well, this is one humorous take on the current situation with the MBTA...
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Rewinding Laserbeak

I found this on my feed on Facebook and found it amusing ;-)  In attempting to amplify stuff less over on that site, I decided to post it here. Back when my VW Beetle had a tape deck, I had seen iPod adaptors that converted the audio using a tape casing that had no magnetic tape in it.  I wonder if this is what Laserbeak had on the show ;-)
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Course in explaining NFTs (humor)

 I came across this during April Fool's this year, but I completely forgot about it.  I found a screengrab while cleaning out my desktop the other day :-)
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One last round of April Fool's jokes...

 OK... here are some screencaps of some things I saw around the web last Friday that made me chuckle a bit :-) That's all for April Fool's 2022 ;-)
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Duolingo personal injury, Grape Jerky, and the 2D printer

 Another set of April Fool's jokes from this year.  This time from Duolingo, Sunkist, and Form Labs :-)
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