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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 23/09/2026

It's all about product placement.

Spray bottle of "Old English" Lemon Oil.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 13/09/2026

Marvin the melancholy android. "I've seen it. It's crap."

Picture of Marvin, the Melancholy Android from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I believe this is from the TV version (not using the one from that crap movie). He's lifting his right hand (probably can't lift the left because of the "terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side"). Do yourself a favor: listen to the original BBC radio series, not the audio books. The original series is wonderful, and the wellspring of all the rest.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 11/08/2026

"My Hovercraft...is full...of eels."

Monty Python's John Cleese and Terry Jones in character as a Hungarian customer (carrying a very wrong Hungarian-English phrasebook) and a Tobacconist. They're in the Tobacco shop, across a counter, with the background displaying cigarettes of all description and sundries. Cleese, in a leather bomber jacket, is pointing at Jones, who's holding up a pack of matches, offering it to him.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 05/08/2026

Two requirements for placing a product on Amazon: 1. Don't speak English very well. 2. Don't show any 11-year-old boys your brand and ask what they think about the name.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 24/07/2026

Hegseth, Rubio, Trump and Netanyahu will have this little war wrapped up quickly.

B&W photo, probably movie publicity still, 1930s. Left to right, Zeppo, Chico, Groucho, and Harpo Marx appear in a set that looks like a devastated house or mansion. Zeppo and Chico have helmets on. All have rifles, roughly pointed at the viewer. Harpo is dressed like some kind of military/nautical/emperor type, including a hat that might've been something Napoleon would wear. They're all showing "tough" expressions.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 24/07/2026

Listening to David Lindley and El Rayo-X: "Win This Record!" Oh Mister Dave, I was so sorry to see you go....

Album cover for David Lindley and El Rayo-X album "WIN THIS RECORD!". Features Mr. Dave large holding a Kay hollow-body acoustic guitar (looks like perhaps a Barney Kessel). Dave is on a gradient orange background, and there's a circle of musical notations (things you'd find on sheet music) surrounding the other members of El Rayo-X, Dave's band. Bottom of the picture is a blue bar that says "Featuring • TALK TO THE LAWYER ROCK IT WITH I SOMETHING'S GOT A HOLD ON ME • plus many more!"

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 09/07/2026

Dunno how I missed it (anemic sales near me?) but today I saw my first Nissan Z (out since 2020). Yes, it follows the 'copy our best old vehicle' touches trend, but damn that's a pretty ride. Not so much any recent BMW. Except this AI fantasy somebody made months ago:

AI-generated image of a BMW that combines the DNA of its best models going back to the '74 2002. Two-door, air dam, two modern headlights, a reasonably-shaped kidney nosepiece, ACTUAL grill, low, wide stance, rear flares and ducts. Shiny grey. A wing? Do I see a wing?

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 09/07/2026

I spoke to Mitch for about 20 minutes. He said he was "pining for the fjords".

Picture of Monty Python members Michael Palin and John Cleese, in character, enacting the "Dead Parrot" sketch. Cleese, in a raincoat, is holding a Norwegian Blue parrot, which may or may not be "resting".

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 05/07/2026

Cleaning off my Mac. The pic is a "treemap" viz of the disk by file size. WTF are those four big rectangles? AI apps. Yes. You can see why disk and memory are at a huge premium. This is DiskInventoryX on macOS. "WinDirStat" is similar on Windows. "KDirStat" is supposed to do this on Linux.

A "treemap" data visualization by file size of what's taking up space on a disk. There are four particularly gigantic boxes that dwarf everything else on the disk.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 01/07/2026

I'll take an El Domeano, thanks!

Photo of a black converted (some might say butchered) Cadillac El Dorado turned into a gutter El Camino with a couple big stereo speakers and a pointless "Wing" in the back. It's labeled "ELDOMEANO" and "Baddwrench", has stickers like a race car, and number "3". Street legal, in Florida anyway. Looks pretty 'neck.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 17/06/2026

This one ring any bells?

Young woman in a strangely colored wig and makeup, "futuristic" sweater (as imagined in the 1970s), at a desk near some boxes with buttons on them.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 10/06/2026

Me, when the drugs stop working.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 22/05/2026

Keep fighting people! RESIST! RESIST!

Sign that says:

"REFUSE
TO BE STORED IN
BLACK PLASTIC SACKS
AND PLACED IN THE
CONTAINERS PROVIDED"

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 09/05/2026

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only.

DVD jacket for Idiocracy by Mike Judge. Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) stands arms wide (like 'can you believe this') below the movie title IDIOCRACY on a yellow background, in front of a line of apes evolving to homo sapiens then appearing to devolve.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 09/05/2026

"Scotty, I think we're losing the pattern buffer..."

Still from Idiocracy: diorama of two dinosaurs, (both likely T. rex), one with American flags, the other with Nazi flags, fighting in a diorama of a barren wasteland with office buildings and a body of water. Still captured from the "Time Masheen" (sic) ride scene.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 10/04/2026

Reveling once more in the wonderful "These Things Happen" album by David van Tieghem. So very good.

Album jacket from David Van Tieghem's album "These Things Happen", featuring David in a nice dark sport coat on a black background, skinny tie, pointy shirt lapels, sine wave emerging from his left ear. He's holding a plastic dinosaur skeleton which looks like it's a wind-up toy. His hand's out to you.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 05/04/2026

He is risen, just not very much.

Road sign for US Highway 460 and KY 7 with a poster reading "He Is Risen" which has fallen off the post and is mostly obscured by grass at the bottom of the signpost.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 24/03/2026

Can't stop cracking up about this. Seen in The Verge's "best of twitter" scroll:

Paper towel dispenser with a sticker that says ' Voice Activated - Say Loudly "Paper Towel Now!" '

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 22/03/2026

The V3 will be a huge improvement on the V2.

Elon Musk at a presidential podium giving the Nazi salute.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 25/02/2026

mtpfriends.bigcartel.com/product/what...

Product image of "What's more PUNK than the Public Library???" T-shirt, black with black-on-white text, white rectangle background. Product supports Mt. Pleasant Public Library, Washington, DC

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 23/02/2026

Printing tonight: Crutch mounts for my son's (post-surgical) wheelchair. Boy, they ought to just come with.

3D Printed parts: an orange crutch-foot cup and black attachment for the lower rear of a Drive medical wheelchair. Background, springy 3DP orange & black clips for the upper crutches, black machine screws, white metal nuts (M3 size, hex-socket screws)

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 17/02/2026

Maybe the Preschool Peace Prize has something to do with it.

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 17/02/2026

Best. Program. Guide. Entry. EVAR.

Electronic Program Guide (EPG) entry from MythTV showing (among other TV programs): "Fat Albert (Religious)".

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jimmiedave @jimmiedave.com · 07/02/2026

If headed to Sebring (sadly, gotta miss this year), a tip from decades of shooting there: outside Turn 5, upstream of bridge, late sunset, sun through windscreen illuminates driver's face, gives you some interesting shots. Sunset window for this is short: Practice! This is inside 5, but you get it.