\n\nBased on the bestselling novel of the same name by Tommy Wieringa,\nabout the friendship between the wheelchair-bound Fransje Hermans\nand the adventurous Joe Speedboot, who turns Fransje's life upside\ndown with new dreams and adventures.
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In the afternoon Esme and I watched Joe\nSpeedboot, a Dutch\nmovie. Esme is reading the book with the same title by Tommy Wieringa\nto improve her Dutch. I didn't like the movie much and rate it a 5 out\nof 10.
\n\nIn the early evening I gave a superworm to the Brachypelma boehmei I\nkeep. When I took a photo of the tarantula I noticed that she doesn't\nneed food in the near future again; she has a very large abdomen.
\n![\"Brachypelma](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/brachypelma-boehmei-with-prey.jpg\")
\nI also fed a superworm to the adult female Tliltocatl albopilosus I\nkeep.
\n\n\n\nA Harvard student becomes the Unabomber after psychological\nexperiments. Years later, an FBI agent's pursuit reveals how his\npast shaped his deadly campaign that killed 3 and injured 23 from\n1978-1995.
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In the evening Esme and I watched\nUnabomber. I liked the movie\nand rate it a 7 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nExplores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech\nexperts sound the alarm on their own creations.
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Late in the evening Esme and I watched The Social\nDilemma. To me the\ndocumentary was quite repetitive and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nA talented piano tuner who suffers from hyperacusis discovers an\nunexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside\ndown.
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In the evening Esme and I watched\nTuner. I liked the movie a\nlot and rate it an 8 out of 10.
\n\nIn the evening Esme and I watched\nSupergirl. The movie was OK\nand I rate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nIn childhood something black settled on Mechail Korhlen and drank\nfrom his throat. Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor\ndeformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return\nfrom beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler\nof the sinister monastery.
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In the evening I started in The Blood of\nRoses. Many years ago I read\nthe book, in a Dutch translation, and I recall it being a good\nread. I'm looking forward to reading it again.
\n\nIn the afternoon I finished A Trade of\nBlood,\nAna and Din Mysteries book 3 by Robert Jackson Bennett. While not as\ngood as the previous one in the series, A Drop of\nCorruption,\nit was still very good. I look forward to the next book in this series.
\n\n\n\nA grieving father and his young son relocate to the quiet town of\nGarretton, which was terrorized by a serial killer known as The\nWhisper Man 15 years earlier, while rumors circulate that Whisper\nMan worked with an accomplice.
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In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched\nThe Whisper Man. The movie\nwas so so and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nBaron "Bear" Bailey breaks a novelty charm to force his co-worker\nNikki Freeman to love him, but the supernatural compulsion warps her\nmind into violent obsession, trapping him in a nightmare he cannot\nwish away.
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In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched\nObsession. Jaiden and I had seen the\nmovie before\nrecently\nbut liked the rewatch. Back then I rated the movie a 7 out of 10.
\n\nIn the early afternoon Alice called me that Lina, our cat, had found a\nfrog. When outside, she's on a leash, so Alice could stop her easily\nfrom harming the amphibian that was visiting our garden.
\n![\"Lina](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/lina-and-the-frog.jpg\")
\nAfter sitting frozen for a while, the frog suddenly made a few jumps,\ntriggering Lina to try to catch it. A few jumps more and it ended up\nin the garden of our neighbors.
\n\nIn the afternoon I configured Ubuntu 26.04 LTS to use a Brother HL L2350DW\nlaserprinter via AirPrint over WiFi. Read about it in\nSetting up a Brother AirPrinter on Ubuntu.
\n\n\n\nCat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great\nflood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and\nwill have to team up with them despite their differences.
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In the evening Esme and I watched\nFlow. I liked the movie,\nwonderfully made, and rate it an 8 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nFollows two cops who in a routine stop pull over a stolen car only\nto come face to face with one of the most dangerous criminals in the\nworld.
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In the evening Esme and I watched La\nCaptura (Also known as "Facing\nEl Chapo"). I liked the movie and rate it an 8 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nAfter the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her\nin-laws. As one by one they transform into deadites, she comes to\ndiscover that the vows she took in life - survive even in death.
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In the evening Jaiden, Alice, Esme, and I watched Evil Dead\nBurn. The movie was OK, and I\nrate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\nIn the early evening, while Esme was trimming the ivy, I took a photo\nof Lina, our cat.
\n![\"Lina](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/lina-in-our-garden.jpg\")
\nWe keep Lina on a leash because we live close to a busy road. She's\nused to be on a leash and even joins us on walks in the neighborhood.
\n\n\n\nThe early life of musician Michael Jackson, from the discovery of\nhis talent as the lead of the Jackson Five to the artist whose\ncreative ambition fueled a pursuit to become the biggest entertainer\nin the world.
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In the evening Esme and I watched\nMichael. I liked the movie\nand rate it an 8 out of 10. The ending suggests there is going to be a\nsequel to which I look forward.
\n\nIn the early evening the Logitech multimedia\nspeakers I ordered from Amazon\nlast Sunday arrived. I connected them to the GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra\nAMD Ryzen™ 5 7640HS Mini PC running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I had to\nincrease the system volume otherwise the sound was too low. Next, I used\nDopamine to play System of a\nDown's Toxicity.
\n\n\n\nFollows the Jackass crew as they perform their final series of\ndangerous stunts and pranks, marking the end of the franchise.
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In the evening Esme and I watched Jackass: Best and\nLast. We had a few good\nlaughs and I rate the movie a 7 out of 10.
\n\nThe Satechi Slim W1 keyboard I ordered from Amazon the 19th\nof August arrived yesterday. But because we were late back from\nAmsterdam, just after 10PM, I had not really time to test the\nkeyboard.
\nSo today, in the afternoon, I tested the keyboard by typing this\npost. And I really like it. I turned off the backlight though, which\ncan be accomplished by pressing a key on the keyboard a few times.
\n\n\n\nAndy Sachs reunites with Miranda Priestly as they navigate their\ncareers amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing.
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In the evening Esme and I watched The Devil Wears Prada\n2. Esme liked the movie but I\ndidn't. I rate it a 5 out of 10.
\n\nIn the evening I timed the building of Plurrrr with tumblelog on a\nGMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640HS Mini PC with 16GB of RAM\nand 512GB of SSD running Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. I used the time\ncommand. For example for the Python version of tumblelog via Docker\nI got:
real 0m4.389s\nuser 0m0.012s\nsys 0m0.036s\nAnd for the Perl version via Docker I got:
\nreal\t0m2.516s\nuser\t0m0.018s\nsys 0m0.026s\nBoth runs include the find command I use to determine the number of\ndays Plurrrr has. At the time of writing this is 1864 day entries in a\nMarkdown file of 3.1M. The tumblelog program generates for Plurrrr,\nat the time of writing, 3065 HTML pages and 2 feeds. The speed on the\nGMKtec NucBox is very impressive to me; on my Mac mini late 2014 it\ntakes more than 30 seconds to generate Plurrrr.
You can get tumbelog on\nGitHub and start your own\nmicroblog.
\n\nAfter his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of\nhim, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime -- leaving\nhim on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.
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In the evening Esme and I watched\nMutiny. I liked the movie\nand rate it a 7 out of 10.
\n\nIn the afternoon the GMKtec NucBox M6 Ultra AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640HS Mini\nPC with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD arrived. The device was ordered\nthe 18th of August and was shipped from Germany.
\n![\"GMKtec](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/gmktec-nucbox-m6-ultra.jpg\")
\nIn the early evening I connected the device. I had to wait for Jaiden\nbecause I had to borrow her USB keyboard and she was out. The keyboard\nI had also ordered would arrive on Friday.
\nAfter a quick set up of Windows 11 I started a download of Ubuntu\n26.04 LTS Desktop. I plan to run\nUbuntu on the device. I used certutil -hashfile to verify the SHA256\ndigest of the downloaded ISO file.
Next, I downloaded balenaEtcher to flash\nthe Ubuntu ISO file onto a Philips USB flash drive. When done I\nrebooted the mini PC but it didn't boot the flash drive. So I rebooted\nagain and immediately pressed F7 repeatedly. Now a menu showed up and\nI could select the flash drive to boot from.
\nHowever, during the installation of Ubuntu a window popped up\nregarding a UEFI dbx update. I confirmed this and when it asked if I\nwanted to restart I selected no. And then it looked like there was no\nprogress installing Ubuntu, so I went down to watch a movie with Esme\nhoping it would be done after the movie.
\n\n\n\nWoody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged\nwhen they're introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime.
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In the evening Esme and I watched Toy Story\n5. I was expecting more from\nit and hence rate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\nAfter the movie, I tried to restart the mini PC because the\ninstallation of Ubuntu was stuck, but no luck. So I pulled the power,\nreconnected, and booted from the USB flash drive once more. Again I\nwent to through the installation steps of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and this\ntime, after some waiting, it was successful.
\n\n\n\nFollows the Minions in 1920s Hollywood as they search for\nfrightening creatures for their monster movie, partner with a green\ncreature, and must save the planet after unleashing monsters.
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In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Minions &\nMonsters. I had a few good\nlaughs and rate this movie a 7 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nIf you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it\nto you, would that frighten you?
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In the evening Alice, Esme, and I started to watch The\nInvite. But soon we decided\nto stop watching it: too chaotic, too much yelling. So I decided to\nswitch to Disclosure\nDay. Alice didn't want to\nwatch and went to her room hence Esme and I watched it together.\nIt was a weak science fiction story and I rate it a 6 out of 10.
\n\n\n\nThe heir to one of the Empire’s most powerful families sits in jail,\naccused of murder. His hands are covered in the victim’s blood, and\nhe can neither deny his guilt nor explain his actions.
\nBut if the great detective Ana Dolabra cannot save him from the\nnoose, the farming canton of Sapirdad will explode into war,\nthreatening to plunge the whole Empire into starvation and chaos.
\nAs Ana investigates—her assistant Dinios Kol, as ever, acting as her\neyes and ears—she fears her task is even more daunting than it\nseemed. For this murder is just the latest in a deeper, subtler web\nof death, woven by a mastermind with an ancient weapon at his\ndisposal.
\nWith their customary skill, Ana and Din pursue their adversary\nthrough the canton’s wild ranges, sprawling ranches, and reeking\nslaughterhouses. Yet even they are not prepared to learn the\nhorrifying secret behind their opponent’s powers.
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In the evening I started in A Trade of\nBlood,\nAna and Din Mysteries book 3 by Robert Jackson Bennett.
\n\n\n\nNow a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official\ncase to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy\nignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock\nhimself - to unravel.
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In the evening, at first, Alice, Esme, and I started to watch People We Meet\non Vacation. But soon Esme\nand I were both convinced we had already seen it. I checked\nPlurrrr, but no mention of this movie. Had I\nforgotten to blog about it? I don't know.
\nAnyway, we decided to switch to a different movie: Enola Holmes\n2, which I liked more than\nthe first one\nand rate it an 8 out of 10.
\n\nIn the afternoon, I finished a series of small fixes to tumblelog\nthat I started yesterday. The changelog for version 6.6.0 is as follows:
current_year_week in create_week_page callescape on the href attribute in wrap_in_permalinkid (tumblelog.py)html_for_tagisoformat instead of str with replace (tumblelog.py)tumblelog.pl)our $VERSION (tumblelog.pl)tumblelog.pl)tumblelog.pl)tumblelog.pl)get_end_of_day conform the Time::Piece documentation\n(tumblelog.pl)As usual the latest version is available on\nGitHub.
\n\nIn the evening I finally finished Children of\nStrife,\nChildren of Time novels book 4 by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It took me quite\nsome time to finish this book because it was, in my opinion, not good; a\ndisappointment. I loved Children of Time; excellent. I liked\nChildren of Ruin, and Children of Memory was confusing at times\n(to me) but I liked it. While I tried to like Children of Strife\nit's just not for me.
\n\n\n\nTwo children wake up in the middle of the night to find their father\nis missing, and all the windows and doors in their home have\nvanished.
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In the evening Jaiden, Esme, and I watched\nSkinamarink. Jaiden had\nasked for this movie and considered it scary but too long. To me the\nmovie was way too long and I don't even know how to rate it, so I won't.
\n\n\n\nA 40-year-old executive ends up at a three-day bachelor party with\ntwenty-somethings after being mistakenly included in their chat\ngroup.
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In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched 72\nHours. The movie was OK, I\nhad one good laugh, so I rate it a 7 out of 10.
\n\nIn the afternoon we went to Scheveningen to watch the eclipse. After\nwalking for some time we found a place to sit at "Beach Club Twins".\nWhile waiting for our food we spotted a nice cat. It went to the table\nnext to us. After we had eaten, it came to our table. It found a small\npiece of fish Esme had accidentally dropped and ate it. I called the\ncat and could take a photo of it underneath our table.
\n![\"The](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/the-beach-club-cat-1.jpg\")
\nLater, a waiter picked up the cat and moved it to a high chair out of\nthe way. Jaiden and I walked to it and took some photos of it grooming\nitself.
\n![\"The](\"https://plurrrr.com/images/the-beach-club-cat-2.jpg\")
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