I was recently watching The Color of Money (1986), a sequel to The Hustler (1961), and that got me wondering — how old is the concept of a “legacy sequel,” and could I think af any earlier sequels? After posting my question on farious social medias, and chatting with friends, I think we came up…
UHD Drive Firmware Flashing for MakeMKV on macOS
My old Blu-ray drive just died on me, so I had to get a new one. The only one that I could pick up locally that seemed to be on the MakeMKV approved list was an LG BP50NB40 with the SVC code NB52. As of this writing, they are still available at my local Best…
Plex error musings
Recently, Plex keeps importing old movies in my library as new, and I’ve been trying to figure out why that’s happening. It’s been especially annoying, as it is discarding the custom posters and other metadata that I’ve entered for the movie, and wiping out a lot of work I did to make the metada nice…
Strange (and cheap) camera filters
Came across this by accident today. Love this idea of using polarization to add funky colors
Mac Server Reliability Scripts
NOTE: This is based on a GitHub repo at https://github.com/swizzlevixen/Mac-Server-Reliability which may contain updates from what is written here. Please Check my GitHub, or comment here, if you encounter any errors. This is a collection of helpful notes, and a suite of scripts written for my Mac mini M2 server, that help with server reliability,…
Thanksgiving Drinks 2024
For thanksgiving this year, I made two cocktails for pre-dinner drinks. Here are the full recipes. Flannel Shirt A recipe from Jeffrey Morgenthaler, this whisky and apple cocktail with spiced notes tastes like Thanksgiving in a glass. 13⁄4 oz/50 ml scotch whisky 11⁄2 oz/45 ml fresh apple cider 1⁄2 oz/15 ml Averna amaro 1⁄4 oz/7.5…
Holiday Cards 2023
If you received a holiday card from us this year, your card features a unique collection of snowflakes that was drawn especially for you by a robot (with a very generous helping of assistance from a real live human being). The particular set of snowflakes, their position, and rotation were uniquely generated for each card…