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krpalmer ([personal profile] krpalmer) wrote2026-03-23 07:45 pm
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The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis

“Mr. Bevis” might have stood out a bit in the list of Twilight Zone episode titles. I can wonder, though, if that had to do with the thought that if there’d been one extra vowel in the title, the resemblance to an “edgy” cartoon from the early 1990s would have been that much stronger... (Even if the best efforts of others to promote that particular animated series just made me edge away from it, though, I did wind up delving into a late-1990s spinoff from it.) The next-episode preview did pique my interest for it, anyway.
The eccentric touch )
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krpalmer ([personal profile] krpalmer) wrote2026-03-20 06:56 pm
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Looking Ahead, Looking Back

Perpetual personal uncertainty about “Rifftrax” didn’t block out all thought of contributing to their Kickstarter to return to Mystery Science Theater 3000 for four episodes, but I didn’t rush to make that contribution. Announcements to keep up interest piqued my interest with the news Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff would contribute to one episode; my introduction to Mystery Science Theater having been through MSTings that had “Dr. Forrester and TV’s Frank experimenting on Mike” had something to do with that, although I suppose I have to balance “maybe the ‘riffing’ got a bit meaner afterwards” against “the characters could be ‘casually cruel’ to each other in the ‘host segments’ then.” However, my uneasy caution kicked in again when the second announcement of a movie to be “riffed” involved a “Star Wars ripoff” (which, like “Space Mutiny,” just happened to recycle special effects from an earlier ripoff...)
What helped in the end, and beyond the end was a beginning... )
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krpalmer ([personal profile] krpalmer) wrote2026-03-17 06:06 pm
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The Twilight Zone: A Passage for Trumpet

Whatever carried forward from its next-episode preview to “A Passage for Trumpet” itself seemed to have had me wondering in advance again about Rod Serling’s sentimental streak showing up. As the episode got under way, I was also wondering if I’d be able to keep up a different sort of streak of setting at least a few thoughts down.
A distinctive number in the end )
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krpalmer ([personal profile] krpalmer) wrote2026-03-14 08:01 pm
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Ahead by a Century

As “MARCHintosh” has continued I suppose I’ve been thinking more about the actual antique hardware I set up than doing things with it. One item discovered via mere emulation before the month began did at least provoke an idea, though. Going through a giant disk image of selected software, I happened on a “2020Patch” extension. After a while, I started to think about how the Control Panel only offers two digits for setting the year. Emulators appear to draw their clock setting from the host system such that I never look at files I’ve made in them and realise there’s something off about their date stamps, but that would of course be different with my SE/30. Once I’d examined some recent date stamps on it I realised they’d indeed wound up back in the early years of the twentieth century.
Shifting systems and times )
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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-03-14 01:04 pm

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.