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Double NAT, 40 Terabytes, and a Christmas Miracle
I spent my Christmas downtime replacing a fragile, port-forwarded network with a resilient Tailscale mesh. I managed to overcome double NAT headaches to sync Synology units peer-to-peer, fixed the inevitable MTU “black holes,” and automated the DSM 7 sandboxing hurdles to build a private, encrypted family network.
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3 Days to Kill (2014)
Kevin Costner, obviously seeing how much of an action star Liam Neeson was turning into in his later years, was wanting some of that action. Having a script from Mr Transporter himself ( Luc Besson ) we have Costner, a older CIA agent who finds himself dying. He decides to reconnect with his ex wife and daughter who are living in Paris. Of course it would pretty damn dull if this was…
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
I remember the first time I seen this movie. It was the opening weekend in Leicester Square, London and the whole place was decked out in a very Shakespearean theme. We follow Will Shakespeare in Elizabethan London as he attempts to finish his play; Romeo and Ethel – the pirate princess. So already you know this is not a serious retelling of Britain’s most beloved and favorite playwright. It is a…
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Calvary (2014)
I am such a huge fan of Brendan Gleeson and for that reason I keep an eye on his output. A lot of his movies don’t make the mainstream press and this one was no different, hopping in and out of the cinema fairly quickly. Usually the ones that don’t make mass appeal are the one set in Ireland with a very Irish lilt to it. The Guard for example…
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Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
So after 3 nights in Las Vegas what better movie to watch on the flight home than Ocean’s Eleven – the Clooney/Pitt version. I do have the original rat pack version in my library which I will review at some point on this movie-a-day-for-a-year journey. Amusing that the stranger, sitting beside me on flight, she opted for The Hang over, another Vegas set movie. Here we have Clooney and his…
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Hard to believe this movie is 21 years old, yet still as funny, sharp and clever as the first day it was viewed. You wouldn’t think this would age terribly well but it is holding up extremely good. Jim Carrey proved his comic genius when he burst onto the screen as Ace Ventura, the Columbo of the pet world. Just as Mike Myers introduced many a catchphrase to the cultural…
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Michael Jackson: One (2013)
Okay, while strictly not a movie, this was a show that was taken in while visiting that oasis in the desert they call Las Vegas. This was my first ever Cirque Du Soleil show and I wasn’t disappointed. I am a Michael Jackson fan and with such an iconic catalog of music, the very least was I going to be entertained. I had no idea what I…
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Plastic (2014)
I will confess that this one was an impulse watch on Netflix. Sometimes the odd gem pops up on Netflix that missed all the usual marketing hype. This isn’t one of them. Here we have a bunch of college students, who are apt at acquiring credit cards through fair means or foul and then spending on them before the card is canceled. Sometimes a good cast can make a bad…
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Beasts of no Nation (2015)
I always knew coming to this movie was readily admitting you were willingly stepping into an emotional roller-coaster that was going to throw you around and have you screaming to get out, but you have to stay to the end. Netflix’s production of Idris Elba’s story of child soldiers in Africa did not disappoint. The African country is not named, but pick any of the current warring nations at the moment…
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The Angels’ Share (2012)
This was one of those movies that you would have had to seek out. It didn’t make the cinema and went straight to DVD release obscurity. Yet this, amusing Scottish comedy, about a young Glaswegian man who finds himself on just the wrong side of the law, escapes a prison sentence decides that he isn’t going to have his new born baby live the same life as he. So…
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