An important update on my earlier “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” take: I am informed by car-guy friends that Citroëns were sold in the United States until 1975, so it is perfectly plausible that Giles would have been driving a decrepit Citroën 25 years later.
Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work. In case you wondered about that.
We did not watch the new Star Trek last night, because we watched The Pitt instead. I plan to watch the new Trek tonight. I’m not the only one making that decision, but I expect Julie will agree.
I hated the previews of the new Trek and planned to stay clear, but the consensus online seems to be that, yeah, the previews are dreadful but the show is good-to-great.
As for The Pitt — I’m still having feelings about that.
My oatmeal was the perfect consistency this morning so I know it’s going to be a good day.
Mitchellaneous CLIV: Twelve memes and other curiosities
I’m going to need to take a personal day from work tomorrow to recover from watching “The Pitt.”
Do you know the secrets hidden inside your AI models? Enterprises and telcos face security risks from AI models and cloud infrastructure controlled by rival geopolitical powers, says F5 executive Chuck Herrin. My latest on Fierce Network.
Julie and I were mega “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans. We tried a rewatch recently and one thing that jumped out at me was that the show is set in SoCal and Giles wears tweed and sweaters ALL THE TIME, which is ridiculous. Maybe 20% of the days in the year here are cool enough for tweed.
Also, Giles initially drives a decrepit 1963 Citroën, to comedically illustrate his nature as an impoverished eccentric English academic. But how did he get a Citroën on the U.S.? Did he have it shipped from England? Where does a high school librarian get that kind of money?
I know a surprising amount about men’s style for someone who goes around wearing cargo pants and food-stained T-shirts 97% of the time.
I’m looking for recommendations for a good spam-blocker for text messages that works across the iPhone, iPad and Mac. In addition to general spam-blocking, I want to block all messages containing a specific string of text — I get a lot of spam messages from Democrats seeking political donations, and virtually all of them have links to actblue.