Thomas Guycott

(Might as well do a full scan before some manual backups.)

DISM and SFC didn't fix anything so doing a routine Windows update for shits and giggles before resorting to a rollback.

Several applications on my Windows 11 laptop have suddenly stopped working because of missing DLL files, SO THATS FUN

They do say that a hot dog makes her lose control...

I only saw it once at about the same time it came out, but it struck me as a visually ugly ripoff of plot elements that were done better in Akira.

Spriggan.

Our first inkling that Abrams doesn’t understand how outer space works.

183 pages into Swann’s Way and the one thing I was most unprepared for was just how funny Proust can be at times.

Demon core experiment

roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do

Star Trek III was released June 1 1984 while Back to the Future was released July 3 1985.

An ad for the streaming service Howdy, highlighting The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft inside of a heart cutout.

I don’t think you really know what The Graduate is about, Howdy, if this is how you’re advertising it for Valentine’s Day.

Well, it can happen to anyone.

Jump into Wing halfway through the series and be initially confused because you thought everything was set on different planets.

Storygraph entry for the album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

LOL, someone actually added it to StoryGraph, but that feels like cheating.

Album cover for Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: a Martian fighting machine burns HMS Thunder Child with its heat ray.

Does Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds count as a book? Because it totally should.

Quotes from 19th century British statesmen synchronize so well with the game’s spandex superhero aesthetic.

there are books out there with stories and facts you currently can’t even dream of. You’re at the imagination ice cream bar with a mile long counter and you’re going to take a tester spoon of vanilla and go “yes, that’s it, I will never try another ice cream flavor again”?

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

YouTube video by SCTV SCTV - Farm Film Report: Brooke Shields

Today’s earworm was Rod Stewart’s “Young Turks”, specifically performed by Catherine O'Hara as Brooke Shields from SCTV’s Farm Film Report.

Large television showing the boonta eve classic

They got the big game on at the bar

Hikaru Utada reveals in recent interview they identify as “tri-bi”: “Bisexual, bilingual and non-binary.”

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I genuinely went back to my fansubs because of this boneheaded decision.

Illustration of the EMS-05 Acg, a pathetically dinky drilling machine that’s barely a mobile suit.

Now bring on the HGUC EMS-05 Acg!

HGUC MSM-04G Juaggu model kit in relaxed pose.

HGUC MSM-04G Juaggu model kit posed with rocket launcher arms raised from a dramatic angle.

Recently completed my HGUC MSM-04G Juaggu, a pretty easy kit to assemble and detail. I really love the amount of personality in these aquatic mobile suits, and it was a fun bonus to get something from MSV.

Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

In Search of Lost Time, the video game: first hour of gameplay is trying to convince your mother to tear herself away from dinner and give you a goodnight kiss.

A Japanese poster for Hundreds of Beavers, renamed Fever Beaver

I need y’all to know

Japan is going to see a release of Hundreds of Beavers soon

And they’ve called it

FEVER BEAVER

Localization is cool, actually

YouTube video by Cloudbuster Lisa Lougheed | Run With Us | 1988

Today’s earworm is “Run With Us” by Lisa Lougheed from that damn Raccoons show, and you can blame @utsanomiko.bsky.social for this.