Year: 2024

The Year is 1975

While looking around Amazon Prime for something to watch I found this little blast from the past, A Boy and His Dog, in the “Prime, Recently Added Movies” section. This movie came out in late 1975 and it was set post World War IV in the distant future year of 2024.

Donna and I were dating at the time and our go to date night was a movie at the on base theater at NAS Patuxent River, so I’m guessing we saw this together. It was 25¢ each to get in and we took turns, one would pay the admission and the other would buy the popcorn and drink. I certainly remember seeing this and being a sci-fi buff, I probably enjoyed it. The female nudity probably helped in that regard as well. I’m guessing Donna enjoyed it not so much, she has probably totally forgotten it.

The original trailer is totally unhinged:

And the trailer perfectly represents what you’d see if you watched the entire movie which if you are so inclined, is available to watch for free on YouTube. And when I say inclined, I mean under the influence of the brain chemistry altering substance of your choice.

Personally, having watched that trailer and some of the other clips on YouTube, I don’t think I could watch it again even if I did partake in a gummy of the finest Indica cannabis available to me.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

No Reserve Edition of SORT
As of Monday, July 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
1955 Lancia Aurelia 1996 Land Rover Discovery 1965 Ford Thunderbird
All these cars are listed as No Reserve so there might be a bargain to be had here. But probably not the Lancia because it is also a Premium listing.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 2022 Porsche Boxster Sold for $94,500 on 7/10/24
Off-Road: 1960 Porsche Tractor Sold for $26,000 on 7/11/24
Touring: 1991 Porsche 928 Sold for $23,928 on 7/12/24

Clone Club Redux

A couple months ago I started rewatching Rumpole of the Bailey and of the 43 episodes total (7 seasons of 6 episodes plus 1 feature length film) of the show I got through a little more than half before needing a break. Not that I’m not still enjoying the episodes, but the show is from the 70’s so it is kind of tough to watch the typical low resolution format of that time period.

Because I have been revisiting some of my favorite older TV shows, I decided that maybe it was time to rewatch what was a nearly 5 year obsession a decade ago, Orphan Black. I was exposed to this sci-fi show like nothing else before it, all because I saw a promo video for it on io9:

The first thing I was surprised by was that I forgot how much we get to see of our protagonist. I guess BBC America was not afraid to go full cable TV as we get to see a rear view of that male cast member too.

I’m only 3 episodes in of Orphan Black of the 50 total (5 seasons of 10 episodes) and if my recollection is right, it gets weirder as the seasons progress, so I just might not make it all the way through all of this show before giving up too.

Jordan Is A Car Guy

We go through the dive-in line at Chick-Fil-A and when we get our order there are stickers on the both the drink lids and the food bags. The info on those stickers consist of which of the two lanes we are in, the name you gave the order person and a description of the vehicle. This lets the runners know the correct car to bring the food to.

We have been going to get that tasty chicken in numerous forms about once every 3 or 4 weeks since we have been here and every time the Vehicle ID is listed as a White or Silver SUV. Our regular ol’ Cooper, not a Clubman or Countryman, has only two doors and when was the last time an SUV was produced with just two doors?

Today our stickers said Silver Coupe because Jordan must be a car guy and he correctly knew Mini does not equal SUV and 2-doors equals coupe.

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

An All Porsche Edition of SORT
As of Monday, July 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2022 Porsche Boxster 1960 Porsche Tractor 1991 Porsche 928
The first two generations of the Boxster were too bathtubby looking, but this 4th gen looks right. I’ll probably never go trail running, rock crawling or slick rock driving, maybe I’ll take up farming. Call me crazy for picking a 30-year old Porsche with a 150 thousand miles on it, I won’t mind.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder Bid to $70,786 on 7/3/24
Off-Road: 2015 Terradyne Gurkha RPV Bid to $230,000 on 7/3/24
Touring: 2017 Mercedes-AMG GT Sold for $65,500 on 7/5/24

Sport, Off-Road, Touring

Oh Canada Edition of SORT
As of Monday, July 1, 2024 at 5:00 PM pacific time:

Sport Off-Road Touring
2007 Lamborghini
Gallardo Spyder		 2015 Terradyne
Gurkha RPV		 2017 Mercedes-AMG
GT
Everyone should own a Lamborghini, especially in bright giallo. For off-roading or on road after the Zombie Apocalypse. The GT stands for Grand Touring, so touring is right in its name.

Here is what last week’s cars sold for, or bid to (if the reserve was not met):
Sport: 1993 Mazda Miata Sold for $7,100 on 6/29/24
Off-Road: 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser Sold for $78,000 on 6/29/24
Touring: 2006 BMW 325i Sold for $10,000 on 6/24/24

That Didn’t Work Out So Well

I’ve been watching the FRS play baseball for a week now on MLB.TV, so yesterday when I tried to watch all I was offered was the audio. WTF. Turns out the game was on Apple TV+, who has worked out a deal with baseball to broadcast 2 Friday games every week.

Let me go and see if I can get a free trial just so I could watch the game. I already was a subscriber about a year ago, so I thought maybe if I use Donna’s name and a different email I could get one. Wrong, they are smarter than me I was denied. Might have worked had I used a different charge card…

Well, the lure of the game made me plunk down the one penny less than a 10 spot for a month of Apple TV+. My reward was after watching 5 wins in a row on MLB.TV, the Red Sox lost the Friday game 9-2 to the San Diego Padres.

The $9.99 is not a total loss though as now I can watch the third season of Slow Horses.