Bored In Work 2022 (1 Viewer)

[pete]

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This is an RF rip of Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, to date the greatest card magic special ever produced, directed by David Mamet of all people. This special was produced by HBO and to date has never had a home release, although poor home recordings of this special exist online. These rips are, if I am being charitable, dire looking.


The sourced tape is an official HBO production dub, although not the master which I assume HBO still has. Ricky Jay’s personal effects were acquired by the Lily Library in Indiana University in 2023, including many photographs from this special, so it is plausible that they, too, have a high quality master tape. This tape was initially spotted in a lot of other tapes by an online archivist named John Hand of Pulsing Cinema, who himself captured the tape and offered me the chance to do a full RF rip of it with my Domesday Duplicator.

 

[pete]

Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond

🎂

www.ft.com

 

[pete]

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[seanc]

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If it's as technologically next to impossible to build as this guy says it is, then I almost certainly have seen one of these in the flesh.

It was quite a few years ago now, but it was hiding in a cupboard in a well known building in London.

 

[nuke terrorist]

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[magicbastarder]

If it's as technologically next to impossible to build as this guy says it is, then I almost certainly have seen one of these in the flesh.

It was quite a few years ago now, but it was hiding in a cupboard in a well known building in London.

Without watching the video, is that a monster sony telly? A friend had one, claimed it was one of only three in the country.

 

[pete]

Without watching the video, is that a monster sony telly? A friend had one, claimed it was one of only three in the country.

It’s a 43” 4:3 CRT. I think it’s probably safe to say your friend did not have one of that specific model.

I had a 32” 16:9 CRT that I kind of regret selling now, but it took up a whole corner of the room.

 

[magicbastarder]

The TV I was talking about was absolutely enormous. Biggest CRT I've ever seen.
We had a 36" Trinitron for several years, until about four years ago. It started changing channel spontaneously which is why we got rid of it.

 

[pete]

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[seanc]

It’s a 43” 4:3 CRT. I think it’s probably safe to say your friend did not have one of that specific model.

I had a 32” 16:9 CRT that I kind of regret selling now, but it took up a whole corner of the room.

I can't be sure of course. I think I took a tape measure to it at the time. At the time I didn't consider, as mentioned in the video, the difficulty of scaling up a big vacuum to that size. Bigger screens are commonplace these days. So I just thought "that's big".
When I said cupboard, it was in its own credenza type thing, to be wheeled out as necessary. It wasn't in use at the time, just left in storage over there. It did look a bit like something out of James Bond, and that would be sort of in keeping with where I was at the time. I wasn't at mi5 or wherever, I should say.

So I'm going to say I'm pretty sure that I did actually see one once. I'd also be pretty sure it's still there.

 

[ann post]

If it's as technologically next to impossible to build as this guy says it is, then I almost certainly have seen one of these in the flesh.

It was quite a few years ago now, but it was hiding in a cupboard in a well known building in London.

buckingham palace or st pauls?

 

[seanc]

buckingham palace or st pauls?

In between Mr. Bean's house and the trifle tower, which was on loan at the time.

 

[ann post]

In between Mr. Bean's house and the trifle tower, which was on loan at the time.

It's in that harry potter train station

 

[ann post]

I love when he goes down these rabbit holes

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[nuke terrorist]

I love when he goes down these rabbit holes

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What a nice man. I've kept my socks, underwear, bed linen, winter / summer clothes etc. In clean plastic refuse sacks for years and only had to replace one of those plastic bags in that time.

 

[pete]

Train destinations from Dublin | Chronotrains

See how far you can travel by train from Dublin in 8h on this Europe map.

www.chronotrains.com

 

[seanc]

Is it just me or is that colour grading scheme thing a bit wrong? As in, counterintuitive.

Dublin to London 7:17
London to Dublin 6:54

All very fascinating.