Photographs of airships (dirigibles)

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/10/airships/100607/

Beautiful Lego

Interesting scenes made out of Lego blocks:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/10/beautiful_lego.html

Night light in Europe

It's a .gif showing the difference between 1992 & 2010.
http://spaceinimages.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2012/03/night_lights_in_europe/10102843-2-eng-GB/Night_lights_in_Europe.gif

Getting started with Alice Munro

http://bookriot.com/2013/10/10/getting-started-alice-munro/

Old Time radio

Dr. Kildare: "Eddie Jenkins and the Arsonist" 10/20/1950

Eddie was sleeping under the pier next door while playing hookey. He gets headaches when he goes to school. Dr. Kildare says he believes Eddie, but I don't really believe the doctor - still, I think it will all turn out ok.

Oh, I'm betting that the doctor is going to show that Eddie needs glasses. And I was right!

Eddie's having convulsions! Someone's tried to kill him! Good thing he's already in the hospital. Wha?

Oh, but Eddie was sent chocolates dosed with strychnine. I am so happy to hear that Eddie's reaction (convulsions) were the same as what I wrote in Death by Design (my first Nanowrimo effort).

Escape: The Second Shot" 03/25/1954

Lots of stuff about a man dueling lots. He seems to be picking lots of fights over his honor. Killed 5 men in the previous 5 months.

Oh - nice turn in the story: the commander of the shot-happy guy (Daumier) is courting Daumier's promised girl. The colonel doesn't know he's horning in on Daumier's girl, Marianne. Marianne at least is acting sort of confused about it all. Although both of the men in this situation were completely clueless about the fact that one guy was promised to Marianne; and she's fooling around with the colonel.

I think Daumier should challenge Marianne to a duel.

Cool: the colonel has put forth 2 rules: that the distance between the two duelers will be two paces; and that one of the guns will not be loaded. So, one person will die.

Cool, cool! Daumier shot first, it didn't fire. So he knew he was going to get shot. He begged to died, and the colonel talks to him about how those had faced death (like those who were challenged to a duel by Daumier). But then, there's the trick: the colonel had made certain that neither pistol was loaded. So, he teaches Daumier a lesson, and has someone for the next week, when they go off to war some place (Algiers?).

I like the fact that the episode has ended and, yeah: never solved the whole Marianne thing. Maybe both men realized that her shit just wasn't worth it.

Boston Blackie: The Diamond Smuggling Gang" 08/13/1946

Oh, so Boston Blackie is helping to hide a dead body. They had nothing to do with the man's death, but still dumped the body.

Oh, we've got diamond smugglers who are those classic old characters of people with politeness and delicacy, who are actually nutty killers (like Arsenic and Old Lace).

Diary of Fate: "Walter Vincent" 05/28/1948

Ah: grumpy wife who has to state constantly about how disappointed she is regarding everything that Walter is not.

Walter at least has found a notebook with all the notes for the person whose work had been a well-known higher up scientist who had just died. Oh, and the narrator is telling us that this is all because Walter is actually all evil. Oh, because there was a letter from the dead scientist telling him about the notebook that Walter found. Oh, and there are all these things where Walter is doing this stuff to try to get the letter then kill the guy who's getting the letter.

Oh, just too much stuff that could go wrong (we all know that it's not going to work).

Walter kills Philip with a poker; there are lots of deaths from pokers (or falling).

Yes: it went wrong at the last minute, and Walter is condemned to death & his wife is sentenced to life in jail (she didn't kill anyone).

Siskel & Ebert's thumbs down review of Blade Runner

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVHjv5iBveA

I've spent some time the last two days watching old reviews by Siskel & Ebert. They're very interesting, and a nice nostalgia kick. And there was a time in the '70s in which Siskel had a mustache. Yeah - good thing he stopped doing that.