Finally got a few minutes to dredge the thread and do some proper replies... wow this thing moves fast!
@mnem / med6753 / bitseeker: taaaaaaaants!
@specmaster / @mnem: had a look at the T12. Looks like the tip went short and took the MOSFET with it. MOSFET shorted gate to drain now. Fixable at least! Not too happy about the failure mode. It had a 5A auto fuse in line with it but the MOSFET is clearly a faster fuse by far.
@mnementh: Lego Movie has to be one of the best films ever if you ask me. I may actually go and see Lego Movie 2 this week (on my own)
TAAAAAAAANTS!!! right back atcha dude! The "Battle cry of the TEA Republic"...!
Heh! Not EVEN CLOSE to 48 hours!
"Lego Movie" is quite possibly some of the best acerbic commentary on western culture (and/or the lack thereof) since Monty Python. Right up there with Gilliam and Adams. I watch it with my son whenever he'll let me.
LM II is one of our top candidates for "Family Movie Time" over spring break.
@tggzzz: on dune ... Dune cannot be compared to Farage. Talking of which, some nice Farage wallpaper here: https://imgur.com/a/GHVQ87Q
Successful in his previous expoits, so he has now moved on to similarly successful exploits on a larger state. Yes, I do mean "exploits"
But, yes, there is a direct comparison between Farrago and Dune-the-Movie-1984. OTOH, the first and third books were good, and the later miniseries was tolerable.
Speaking as a longtime fan of the original Scifi masterpiece, I saw 1984's
Dune as doomed from the outset. Trying to boil a story of that magnitude... with so many literal and literary worlds so tightly interwoven with such detail... down to a single 2 hour release was a failure of Hollywood itself, not the poor people given such a Herculean task. There were moments of true brilliance... but like Shymalan's "
Last Airbender", there wasn't time for much of any substance or storytelling, only a sequence of striking visuals and intense but brief scenes that would only make sense to someone who knew the original works intimately. I loved Stewart's Gurney Halleck. Loved Sting's manic Feyd. Even loved Brad Dourif's De Vries and Kenneth McMillin's sociopathic Harkonnen.
Dino De Laurentiis chose Lynch well; but unfortunately, they were up against
'80s Wall Street money people from pretty much day one. At first he thought he was doing a two parter... which he could see was a massive task but felt was possible. By the time Hollywood production was done with it, even he couldn't recognize it and he tried to take his name off it. The "Extended cuts" later sold as DVDs and aired on TV all credited Alan Smithee.
Dune is another of those stories like Tolkein's Fellowship Trilogy... a massive work, deserving... requiring... epic storytelling and moviemaking. The later miniseries with Hurt was the proof that Lynch was right; to tell this story needs the Peter Jackson epic series treatment and nothing less.
For those reasons, Lynch's
Dune is still one of my favorites... I see it as a flawed but brilliant work; one which was murdered by the money people.
mnem
*Huggles his 189 close* Nooooo! Back! Back you fiends! Back to the rabbithole depths that spawned you!!!