What did you watch?
On 2/21/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
I spent all day yesterday grading, and with that I still only got
through two of my three classes! (Tells you how many students I have
this semester!)
So yesterday I only got through soaps - I didn't even have something
like LMN on as "background" the rest of the time:
soaps: Both Wed's ep's.
DOOL - Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to this episode, as it mostly involved stuff I don't care about. Philip moves into the Kiriakis mansion, and Sarah gives him another warning. (Meh.) JJ and NuGabi "do
it". (Meh.) Shawn supports Jada after the whole (Faux)Rafe mess. (Meh.)
In the only semi-interesting storyline, Belle continues her downward
spiral by doubling-down on her romance with EJ - she must really hate
her sister Sami to continue with this trainwreck!!
GH - Disappointing - they really are going with "Cyrus was being an angel of death" rather than "Cyrus was killing people for base nefarious reasons, and this 'God stuff' is all just an act!" Well, except for
Sam's and Dex's murders... Cyrus confesses all of this to lil' Lizzie,
right before he intended to kill her, but TempLucky bursts in (they
never explain why he came back to Lizzie's) and stops Cyrus, but gets
himself injected with the digitalis instead... Drew and Willow go to
Curtis' night club for Valentine's Day, but Curtis kicks Drew out so
they leave; even Brad feels sorry for Willow in her current pathetic
state. Emma continues to be completely unlikeable, this time hectoring Josslyn about her dumb student group - I wish Gio would drop her like
it's hot!
And that was it.
What did you watch?
Watson - "Redcoat" - episode 2. House, I mean Watson and his team look
into the case of a man who was shot in the head and now claims to be a >Revolutionary War era British soldier, complete with fake accent. This
show is clearly just using left over "House" scripts. They aren't even >trying to hide it.
But they are trying to shoehorn in the Sherlock Holmes angle to give it
a twist.
On 2/21/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
I spent all day yesterday grading, and with that I still only got
through two of my three classes! (Tells you how many students I have
this semester!)
So yesterday I only got through soaps - I didn't even have something
like LMN on as "background" the rest of the time:
soaps: Both Wed's ep's.
DOOL - Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to this episode, as it
mostly involved stuff I don't care about. Philip moves into the Kiriakis >mansion, and Sarah gives him another warning. (Meh.) JJ and NuGabi "do
it". (Meh.) Shawn supports Jada after the whole (Faux)Rafe mess. (Meh.)
In the only semi-interesting storyline, Belle continues her downward
spiral by doubling-down on her romance with EJ - she must really hate
her sister Sami to continue with this trainwreck!!
GH - Disappointing - they really are going with "Cyrus was being an
angel of death" rather than "Cyrus was killing people for base nefarious >reasons, and this 'God stuff' is all just an act!" Well, except for
Sam's and Dex's murders... Cyrus confesses all of this to lil' Lizzie,
right before he intended to kill her, but TempLucky bursts in (they
never explain why he came back to Lizzie's) and stops Cyrus, but gets
himself injected with the digitalis instead... Drew and Willow go to
Curtis' night club for Valentine's Day, but Curtis kicks Drew out so
they leave; even Brad feels sorry for Willow in her current pathetic
state. Emma continues to be completely unlikeable, this time hectoring >Josslyn about her dumb student group - I wish Gio would drop her like
it's hot!
And that was it.
What did you watch?
After an arduous workout, I watchyed:
Nothing.
What did you watch?
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:34:21 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched the first couple of episodes of ZERO DAY. This is a new show
just released on the Netflix. The premise is it is a modern day and we
are watching the day of an ex President. He is having a meeting with a representative of a publisher who has paid the ex-President for a
book. She's supposed to help the book come together but the President
isn't interested in the help so she leaves. Then we see her car get
rammed by a train as it turns out the nation is under attack.
Someone has managed to initiate a cyber attack that has shut down
every electronic device across the nation for one minute and then they
turned them all back on. The attackers then put a message on every
phone that the attack will return.
So with people freaking out the President forms a commission to find
the people responsible. The ex-President is called on to head up the commission which has been given far reaching abilities to find the
guilty parties. Which it turns out looks to be the Russians but isn't.
What did you watch?
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
After an arduous workout, I watchyed:
Nothing.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
I would have watched the first three episodes of REACHER, but prime has >broken their apps so that I could only watch it on the phone.
So just Drew Carey on the iPad.
On Feb 21, 2025 at 10:46:31 AM PST, "shawn" <[email protected]> >wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:34:21 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched the first couple of episodes of ZERO DAY. This is a new show
just released on the Netflix. The premise is it is a modern day and we
are watching the day of an ex President. He is having a meeting with a
representative of a publisher who has paid the ex-President for a
book. She's supposed to help the book come together but the President
isn't interested in the help so she leaves. Then we see her car get
rammed by a train as it turns out the nation is under attack.
Someone has managed to initiate a cyber attack that has shut down
every electronic device across the nation for one minute and then they
turned them all back on. The attackers then put a message on every
phone that the attack will return.
So with people freaking out the President forms a commission to find
the people responsible. The ex-President is called on to head up the
commission which has been given far reaching abilities to find the
guilty parties. Which it turns out looks to be the Russians but isn't.
What did you watch?
Episode 4 of PRIME TARGET on the Apples. This is turning out to be a really >good show.
About a Cambridge post-doc math student whose life starts unraveling when he >turns in his proposed thesis about some revolutionary new math concept >involving prime numbers, and his mentor immediately freaks out and burns the >student's work before (supposedly) going home and killing himself. Then people >start following the student and he learns another Cambridge student proposed >the same theory back in the 90s and she died under mysterious circumstances >and her work was scrubbed from the archives. Meanwhile, the NSA has prominent >mathematicians all over the world under surveillance so they can be alerted if >any of them come up with something that could affect national security and the >analyst who's assigned to the student and his mentor starts asking questions >which ends up getting her whole team slaughtered and her on the run.
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:48:22 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Feb 21, 2025 at 10:46:31 AM PST, "shawn" <[email protected]> >> wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:34:21 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched the first couple of episodes of ZERO DAY. This is a new show
just released on the Netflix. The premise is it is a modern day and we
are watching the day of an ex President. He is having a meeting with a
representative of a publisher who has paid the ex-President for a
book. She's supposed to help the book come together but the President
isn't interested in the help so she leaves. Then we see her car get
rammed by a train as it turns out the nation is under attack.
Someone has managed to initiate a cyber attack that has shut down
every electronic device across the nation for one minute and then they
turned them all back on. The attackers then put a message on every
phone that the attack will return.
So with people freaking out the President forms a commission to find
the people responsible. The ex-President is called on to head up the
commission which has been given far reaching abilities to find the
guilty parties. Which it turns out looks to be the Russians but isn't.
What did you watch?
Episode 4 of PRIME TARGET on the Apples. This is turning out to be a really >> good show.
I've been enjoying it too.
About a Cambridge post-doc math student whose life starts unraveling when he >> turns in his proposed thesis about some revolutionary new math concept
involving prime numbers, and his mentor immediately freaks out and burns the >> student's work before (supposedly) going home and killing himself. Then
people
start following the student and he learns another Cambridge student proposed >> the same theory back in the 90s and she died under mysterious circumstances >> and her work was scrubbed from the archives. Meanwhile, the NSA has prominent
mathematicians all over the world under surveillance so they can be alerted >> if
any of them come up with something that could affect national security and >> the
analyst who's assigned to the student and his mentor starts asking questions >> which ends up getting her whole team slaughtered and her on the run.
The idea behind the student's research is that there is a fundamental relationship between prime numbers that will make it easy to figure
out any prime number. That would allow any modern encryption to be
easily broken because prime numbers form the basis for the encryption.
Also about the surveillance it's not simply keeping track of what they
are doing. They have live feeds from their homes so that the agents
can keep track of their research long before they publish a paper or
even discuss their ideas with others.
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:41:32 -0700, anim8rfsk <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
After an arduous workout, I watchyed:
Nothing.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
I would have watched the first three episodes of REACHER, but prime has
broken their apps so that I could only watch it on the phone.
That's on my list but I think I'll wait for more episodes to come out.
ZERO DAY is proving to be a nice fix in the interim.
So just Drew Carey on the iPad.
How does Carey fit on an iPad? I know he's lost weight but didn't
think it was that much.
On Feb 21, 2025 at 1:34:12 PM PST, "shawn" <[email protected]> >wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:48:22 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Feb 21, 2025 at 10:46:31 AM PST, "shawn" <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:34:21 -0800, "Ian J. Ball" <[email protected]d> >>>> wrote:
What did you watch?
I watched the first couple of episodes of ZERO DAY. This is a new show >>>> just released on the Netflix. The premise is it is a modern day and we >>>> are watching the day of an ex President. He is having a meeting with a >>>> representative of a publisher who has paid the ex-President for a
book. She's supposed to help the book come together but the President >>>> isn't interested in the help so she leaves. Then we see her car get
rammed by a train as it turns out the nation is under attack.
Someone has managed to initiate a cyber attack that has shut down
every electronic device across the nation for one minute and then they >>>> turned them all back on. The attackers then put a message on every
phone that the attack will return.
So with people freaking out the President forms a commission to find
the people responsible. The ex-President is called on to head up the >>>> commission which has been given far reaching abilities to find the
guilty parties. Which it turns out looks to be the Russians but isn't. >>>>
What did you watch?
Episode 4 of PRIME TARGET on the Apples. This is turning out to be a really >>> good show.
I've been enjoying it too.
About a Cambridge post-doc math student whose life starts unraveling when he
turns in his proposed thesis about some revolutionary new math concept
involving prime numbers, and his mentor immediately freaks out and burns the
student's work before (supposedly) going home and killing himself. Then
people
start following the student and he learns another Cambridge student proposed
the same theory back in the 90s and she died under mysterious circumstances >>> and her work was scrubbed from the archives. Meanwhile, the NSA has prominent
mathematicians all over the world under surveillance so they can be alerted >>> if
any of them come up with something that could affect national security and >>> the
analyst who's assigned to the student and his mentor starts asking questions
which ends up getting her whole team slaughtered and her on the run.
The idea behind the student's research is that there is a fundamental
relationship between prime numbers that will make it easy to figure
out any prime number. That would allow any modern encryption to be
easily broken because prime numbers form the basis for the encryption.
Also about the surveillance it's not simply keeping track of what they
are doing. They have live feeds from their homes so that the agents
can keep track of their research long before they publish a paper or
even discuss their ideas with others.
I couldn't figure out if the Governor knew he was under surveillance or if he >was totally clueless about it. A few times he acted like he knew the cameras >were there and other times it was like he didn't.
If the subjects don't know they're under surveillance, I wonder what the NSA >does when someone inevitably finds one of their cameras.
And when is out main character going to learn that when he has possession of >valuable research-- whether it's his own or someone else's-- he needs to make >copies of it! I couldn't believe that the first notebook with his entire >theory in it was burned, that was all he had, especially considering how >autistically important it was to him. Maybe stop by the university library and >make a copy.
And after the hardcopy was burned and it became obvious that nefarious people >were skulking about, make more copies of your backup and put one in a safe >deposit box or something. Give the others to your friends. Or photograph each >page and combine the JPGs into a single PDF of the whole book, copy it onto >several thumb drives and carry one around in your pocket and hide the others >in places where no one could ever find them.
On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:41:32 -0700, anim8rfsk <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
After an arduous workout, I watchyed:
Nothing.
What did you watch?
Hey, thanks for asking!
I would have watched the first three episodes of REACHER, but prime has
broken their apps so that I could only watch it on the phone.
That's on my list but I think I'll wait for more episodes to come out.
ZERO DAY is proving to be a nice fix in the interim.
So just Drew Carey on the iPad.
How does Carey fit on an iPad? I know he's lost weight but didn't
think it was that much.
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