And we’re back. But for how long?

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Oct 022022
 

The blog was out for a day for Unexplainable Tech Reasons. Tech support gave up and said they couldn’t fix the problem – I couldn’t log in to either of my blogs, so I couldn’t edit posts, couldn’t make new ones. They gave no hope of the problem being fixed. And yet… here we are. Yay. They work now.

That said, I’m rather sick of the problems popping up with irritating regularity. So I want to examine options. One clear problem is that both blogs (the other being https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/) are on the same host, so if something mysteriously appears to plague one blog, it often plagues the other. I need to separate them.

I’ve tried – and hate – Discord, Facebook and Twitter. I *like* the WordPress blog, if for no other reason than I’ve grown accustomed to it. So what I might do is get new “Unwanted Blog” and “Aerospace Projects Review Blog” WordPress blogs, hosted elsewhere, then simply park a “this blog is now over yonder” post at the top of each of the legacy blogs. If someone has suggestions along those lines, by all means drop a comment.

Mood: annoyed.

 Posted by at 10:59 pm

I’m not convinced that this is a box office smash

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Oct 012022
 

The Woman King

The budget for this movie was apparently about $50 million. Something like half of the domestic box office goes back to the studio… about $19.85 million. About a quarter of the international box office goes to the studio… about $0.325 million. For a total of $20.175 million. Add in anywhere from $25 million on up in advertising costs, and I’m uncertain that $20+ million will pay off an investment of $70 million, even given that it has weeks to months more run time. I can see it getting to $60, maybe $80 million domestically… which won’t be break-even on production, never mind marketing. If it truly fails, I wonder if we might get a sequel to THIS STORY.

“Inspired by true events.” In much the same way that “The Man in the High Castle” was, I suppose.

 Posted by at 11:12 am

Tesla’s robot

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Oct 012022
 

“Optimus” is not exactly a Boston Dynamics masterpiece, but it’s certainly better than anything *I* could cobble together. Musk promises a ticket price of less than 20 grand. It’ll be interesting to see if U.S Robotics or NorthAm Robotics can match that.

 

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