I watched:

Several YouTube videoes.

Several eps of FAMILY GUY.

What did you watch?

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On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted
to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's
Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla Luddington)!

What did you watch?

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On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:30 -0700, Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted
to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's >Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and >annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla Luddington)!

What did you watch?

I watched the same episode. I get what you are saying about Kane's
character's behavior but it looks like she is dealing with her sadness
so that may be changing.

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

What did you watch?

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In <[email protected]> shawn <[email protected]> writes:

[snip[

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single >propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

a handheld acetylene torch cutting through _six inches_ of steel?
Oh, and no fumes to speak of? And the new, err, door... they simply
pushed out weighed next to nothing and wasn't glowing hot?

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators...

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danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote:

In <[email protected]> shawn <[email protected]> writes:

[snip[

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single
propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

a handheld acetylene torch cutting through _six inches_ of steel?
Oh, and no fumes to speak of? And the new, err, door... they simply
pushed out weighed next to nothing and wasn't glowing hot?

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators...

God, I blocked that out.

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In <[email protected]> anim8rfsk <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship"
where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators...

God, I blocked that out.

"The Last Ship" was a good pretense, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.


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On 3/15/2025 10:16 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

shawn <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:30 -0700, Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted
to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's
Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and
annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla Luddington)! >>>
What did you watch?

I watched the same episode. I get what you are saying about Kane's
character's behavior but it looks like she is dealing with her sadness
so that may be changing.

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single
propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

You almost managed to make it not sound galactically stupid.

50 Quatloos sez the cruise ship will go in to orbit before the end of
the season....

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shawn <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:30 -0700, Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted
to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's
Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and
annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla Luddington)!

What did you watch?

I watched the same episode. I get what you are saying about Kane's character's behavior but it looks like she is dealing with her sadness
so that may be changing.

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

You almost managed to make it not sound galactically stupid.

What did you watch?

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On Mar 15, 2025 at 10:23:03 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]>
wrote:

In <[email protected]> anim8rfsk <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" >>> where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators...

God, I blocked that out.

"The Last Ship" was a good pretense, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.

It became a "no show" when they killed off Rhona Mitra. No Mitra, no show!

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In <vr4h6a$2ln9$[email protected]> BTR1701 <[email protected]> writes:

"The Last Ship" was a good concept, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.

It became a "no show" when they killed off Rhona Mitra. No Mitra, no show!

But how soon you forget that Hot Lesbian Sex Action between,
umm, one of the main characters and her girlfriend on shore (who,
it turned out [SPOILER!] was an enemy spy...)

They did have one good line on teh show I still remember
to this day. One of the female officers on board is
preparing a decoy torpedo they'll drop in the ocean
to confuse and divert the enemy.

She calls it "Eric".

When her crewmates ask her why she explains it's named
after a boyfriend who claimed to be a lot bigger than
he really was...

Oh, and when they got a visit (I don't recall the reason...)
from a helicopter staffed by two women, and you could tell
these gals knew every inch, bolt, and screw of that "Huey"
the same way Scotty knew and loved his Enterprise...

(We all know some people who treat their cars, Lionel Train
sets, or 100 year old steam powered tractors that same way...)



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On 3/15/2025 10:24 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 3/15/2025 10:16 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

shawn <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:30 -0700, Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted >>>> to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

Have you tried putting the format extension name in Wikipedia? That
might give you some clues as to if there is a player that supports it.
It might even have a link to the website if it exists.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's
Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and >>>> annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla
Luddington)!

What did you watch?

I watched the same episode. I get what you are saying about Kane's
character's behavior but it looks like she is dealing with her sadness
so that may be changing.

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single
propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

You almost managed to make it not sound galactically stupid.

50 Quatloos sez the cruise ship will go in to orbit before the end of
the season....

That might get me to watch.


This is a two day catch-up. I watched:

Law & Order - "Crossing Lines" - Season 24, episode 15 - A woman is
prosecuted for murder, but her defense attorney (Maggie Siff) is
sleeping with the DA, and she intends to use that relationship to her advantage.


Law & Oder: SVU - "Undertow" - Season 26, episode 15 - Team SVU goes
after a 20 something female teacher for the statutory rape of a teenage
boy, who she thought was over 18 when she saw him drinking at a bar.
There are a few things I could say about this episode, but I'll move on.


The Equalizer - "Stolen Angel" - Season 5, episode 9, Episode from a few
weeks ago which has Team McCall stopping a baby kidnapping scheme. I
know the police don't like McCall since she's a vigilante, but if she
and her friends are going around shooting people in broad daylight
(which they do every episode) you'd think the police would put that
dislike into action and arrest her the next time she casually strolls
into the police station.


9-1-1 - Voices" - Season 8, episode 10. SPOILERS!
SPOILERS!
Picking up where last episode ended, everyone is dealing with the
consequences from Jennifer Love Hewitt into talking a man into killing
himself last week. Except it's revealed that Hewitt didn't talk the man
into killing himself, he was murdered by a psycho cop who faked
everything. And now the psycho cop suspects Hewitt may be on to her so
she kidnaps Hewitt and plans to murder her. To make matters worse, the
psycho cop is in charge of the kidnap investigation. I wonder how hard
she's going to search for the real kidnapper. This was an OK episode.


Cobra Kai (Netflix) - "Sleeper" - Season 6, episode 3. In Korea Kreese
begins to mold the minds of his new students, with a particular emphasis
on the virtues of being evil. Meanwhile in the U.S., Daniel discovers
some previously unknown secrets about Mr. Miyagi. This is just a guess,
but I'm guessing this is laying the groundwork for the new movie and why
Jackie Chan is coming to America looking for Mr. Miyagi.

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On Mar 15, 2025 at 1:32:23 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb" <[email protected]> wrote:

Law & Order - "Crossing Lines" - Season 24, episode 15 - A woman is prosecuted for murder, but her defense attorney (Maggie Siff) is
sleeping with the DA, and she intends to use that relationship to her advantage.

Once again, they're already at trial, a jury is seated, and opening statements have begun when the defense attorney without warning stipulates to the fact that her client committed the homicide but did so in self-defense.

You. Just. Can't. Do. That.

The defense has to give the court and prosecutor notice of any affirmative defense *well* in advance of trial. Any lawyer who did what Maggie Siff did here would be reported to the bar for sanctions. Not to mention the witness tampering she did later in the case.

Law & Oder: SVU - "Undertow" - Season 26, episode 15 - Team SVU goes
after a 20 something female teacher for the statutory rape of a teenage
boy, who she thought was over 18 when she saw him drinking at a bar.
There are a few things I could say about this episode, but I'll move on.

This whole thing was so full of nonsense that I barely know where to start. I'll only say that the kid could have put the brakes on the whole thing by
just denying they had sex from the beginning. He could have told the detective that he lied to his new stepmom and was just trying to piss her off for invading his privacy and that no actual sex occurred.

And later, when he was testifying, he could have worked with the defense
team-- since they would have had the right to depose him in discovery-- to torpedo the prosecution's case. When your 'victim' is unwilling and actually sympathetic to the defense, as a prosecutor, you have to just cut your losses and move on.

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BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 15, 2025 at 10:23:03 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]> wrote:

In <[email protected]>
anim8rfsk <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" >>>> where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators...

God, I blocked that out.

"The Last Ship" was a good pretense, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.

It became a "no show" when they killed off Rhona Mitra. No Mitra, no show!

At first, I was thinking of the last resort, which at least had Dichen
going for it



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Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote:

On 3/15/2025 10:16 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

shawn <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:28:30 -0700, Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d>
wrote:

On 2025-03-15 09:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said:

What did you watch?

Spent much of yesterday going through my brother's collection of old
photo CDs. The good news is that only one CD "failed" (couldn't load
it) and only a couple had a weird file format that had to be converted >>>> to .jpg (though a third was in a file format that could *not* be
converted, and it looks like it's so old that no converter or viewer
app for that format exists anymore!). So, two bad disks out of over a
dozen isn't bad.

So, TV viewing was not the focus yesterday.

I did forget to mention on Thursday that I saw whatever ep of "Grey's
Anatomy" there were showing - it wasn't a very good episode: Adelaide
Kane's character seemed to be the focus, but her character's whiny and >>>> annoying, and she's not looking so hot these days. Meanwhile, Chris
Carmack's character proposes to a very preggers Jo (Camilla Luddington)! >>>>
What did you watch?

I watched the same episode. I get what you are saying about Kane's
character's behavior but it looks like she is dealing with her sadness
so that may be changing.

I also watched the latest DOCTOR ODYSSEY episode where in a pod of
Orcas decide attacking a cruise ship makes sense. Which I guess goes
along with the idea that a single shark driving itself into the single
propeller was enough to knock out all power on the ship. Of course
there were multiple emergencies that occurred during the power outage
and they couldn't fix it until they cut through a bulk head in the
engine room that was locked off once the power went out.

You almost managed to make it not sound galactically stupid.

50 Quatloos sez the cruise ship will go in to orbit before the end of
the season....

We are only halfway through the season and the idiot who wrote this episode
has at least two more coming up so that is a distinct possibility!

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Arthur Lipscomb <[email protected]> wrote:

Law & Oder: SVU

Did you mean Law $ Odor?

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On 2025-03-15 21:57:42 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 15, 2025 at 10:23:03 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]>
wrote:

In <[email protected]>
anim8rfsk <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" >>>>> where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship
through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators... >>>

God, I blocked that out.

"The Last Ship" was a good pretense, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.

It became a "no show" when they killed off Rhona Mitra. No Mitra, no show!

At first, I was thinking of the last resort, which at least had Dichen
going for it

"The Last Resort" was a s***show from episode #1. "The Last Ship" at
least managed a decent first season.

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Ian J. Ball <[email protected]d> wrote:

On 2025-03-15 21:57:42 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

BTR1701 <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mar 15, 2025 at 10:23:03 AM PDT, "danny burstein" <[email protected]>
wrote:

In <[email protected]>
anim8rfsk <[email protected]> writes:

[snip]

This specific part ranked down there with the episode of "The Last Ship" >>>>>> where... due to a power failure they used _kites_ to drag the ship >>>>>> through the water, and the spinning propellers turned the generators... >>>>

God, I blocked that out.

"The Last Ship" was a good pretense, and maybe 1/10th of the episodes
were good, with a half, well, a quarter... being watchable.

But some were so abysmal they made Presidential Debates look good.

It became a "no show" when they killed off Rhona Mitra. No Mitra, no show! >>

At first, I was thinking of the last resort, which at least had Dichen
going for it

"The Last Resort" was a s***show from episode #1. "The Last Ship" at
least managed a decent first season.

Two words: Dichen



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Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:

I watched:

Several YouTube videoes.

Several eps of FAMILY GUY.

What did you watch?

Hey, thanks for asking!

A couple of space launches on the YouTube.

DEATH IN PARADISE S14E07
Spoilers ahoy
Mervin solves his mother‘s murder. I watched the whole thing and then
watched the explanation of the killing again and then watched some more of
it and still don’t understand most of it. Sylvester Fox turned out to be a total red herring. Surprisingly, there’s another episode left. Curtis
minded her manners this week.

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