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learned from that GEFS-on-OpenBSD post? 😆

#TIL too!

#TIL Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster in The Munsters, Leo Schnauser in Car 54, Where Are You?) presented a series of VHS releases of horror & scifi movies, mostly public domain & several shown in the #Monsterdon watch party, from Amvest Video. Him doing a brief intro & outro, not movie-specific (he pauses while an off-screen "Igor" says the name of the film), while appearing very "Grandpa Munster"-esque.

Although he actually did it as "Grampa" (not Grandpa Munster), I guess so Amvest & Lewis could avoid having to license the Grandpa character from the rights owners of The Munsters.

He also used the legally-distinct "Grampa" brand in other ventures like his Italian restaurant Grampa's Bella Gente and licensed the Grampa's name to a mafia-owned comedy club in Staten Island!

I also learned Al stood as the Green candidate in the 1998 New York Governor election, & on Howard Stern's radio show repeatedly chanted "Fuck the FCC!" until Stern snatched the mic away from him!

Back to the topic, I discovered this because on Sunday 13 September, the #ReMonsterdon #WatchParty will be showing ゲゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦!南海の大怪獣 (1970), a.k.a. Space Amoeba, a.k.a. Yog, Monster From Space (previously shown in #Monsterdon), & I came across "Grampa Presents Yog, Monster from Space"!

It's on the Internet Archive, so I suppose folks can watch that version if they're "hardcore" :D

• Munsters Fandom Wiki - Grampa Presents - some info
• Vimeo - Grampa Presents (clips) - ~7 minute video, typical Grampa Presents intro & outro, plus list of all the Grampa Presents films
• Audiovisual Identity Database - some info on Amvest Video
• Internet Archive - Grampa Presents Yog, Monster From Space - full movie, 1:27:47, VHS rip, no subs
• Wikipedia - Al Lewis
• NeoDB/Eggplant - ReMonsterdon Watch Party - watch party info, non-Grampa movie links

#FCC #Horror #SciFi #Censorship #Kaiju #Toho #AlLewis #TheMunsters #GreenParty #Monsterdon #VHS #AmvestVideo #HowardStern

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VHS cover for Amvest Video's "Grampa Presents" release of Yog, Monster From Space, US title for ゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦!南海の大怪獣 (1970), a.k.a. Space Amoeba

#TIL I've recently learned that you can use #Bitwarden as your #ssh agent. In other words, it can both store ssh keys and use them with quite a simple integration. I've tested this workflow with both Flatpak and Snap versions of Bitwarden. Now I can securely sync my keys between devices 🔑

I was going to facetiously post a few paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum #today but then went down the rabbit hole of learning its #history. Oh boy.

It's quite fascinating that it's not just #typography #placeholder #text. It actually comes from an #ancient #Latin #text dating back to 45 BC by the #Roman #statesman and #philosopher #Cicero. The title of the text was "De finibus bonorum et malorum" and it was about #ethics and #pleasure. It was mistranslated years later and used as #dummy text since around the 1500s.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lorem-ipsum

#til #loremipsum #post

It made me really appreciate the composability of CLI when I could type git remote add forgejo .../$(basename $(pwd)).git && git push ... to get that micro-automation going.

#TIL

Same thing happened to me with #git and Linux earlier. Now that I think about it, I'm surprised I learned gdb CLI so late.

The original is written in #OCaml with quite involved setup, but #TIL about two single-executable #Rust implementations: Kodama and Weibian.

I'm still trying them out, but luckily both support @typst@mastodon.social so at least I can keep a common content format between them and final document

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