Diary (July 29, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Wednesday July 29, 2020.

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The Thin Red Line

Oh, my God, The Thin Red Line stands tall among war epics.

It's like Das Boot for ground combat.

I don't know Thin Red Line's reputation, but how can it be anything other than a timeless classic?

I remember scenes from it fairly often ... maybe every other month or so, say five or six times a year, some scene will come to mind for some reason. This is a film I watched twice, some twenty years ago. And yet I think of it five or six times a year, for years and years.

Now I want to watch it again.

• Trailer @ YouTube

Source: Comment @ Facebook

Tardigrade spacecraft

Tardigrade spacecraft, aft berth. Scan-view shows tardigrade passenger in "cabbage pod".

Tardigrade spacecraft

Stairwell Incidents

[Context: Things that only happen at SF/F conventions.]

Stairwell Incidents.

Not Bad Incidents, mind you. Neutral to good to unclassifiable Incidents.

But one normally has no Incidents whatever in stairwells, so to have twelve or fourteen or perhaps twenty Incidents in a single weekend is remarkable.

• Comment @ Facebook

Death Mob Jailer Yokes Me In Gladiator Slave Utopia

Death Mob Jailer Yokes Me In Gladiator Slave Utopia (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)