Washington Post Misleads With Statistics On First Republican Debate

The photo above is how WaPo decided to illustrate their poll results after the first Republican debate. They say:

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came out on top Wednesday night, with 29 percent of Republican voters who watched the debate saying he performed best."

And his head is much much bigger so it's clear who won. Except buried in the small print this is a three percentage point difference in a small poll with a +/- four percentage point margin of error. In other words, flat.

To be clear I want neither of these gentlemen installed in the White House. But this is pretty crappy data reporting.

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Catfood WebCamSaver 3.22

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, September 23, 2023.

Catfood WebCamSaver 3.22 is available to download. This release updates the webcam list.

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Catfood Earth for Android 4.30

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Saturday, September 23, 2023.

Catfood Earth for Android now supports random locations. The slice of Earth displayed will change periodically throughout the day. You can still set a manual location or have Catfood Earth use your current location. Install from Google Play, existing users will get this update over the next few days.

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Reviews for August 2023

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Sunday, August 27, 2023.

Spoilers!

Movies

Brooklyn 45
Heart of Stone
Luther The Fallen Sun
Paradise
The Pope's Exorcist

Music

Where is my mind

Podcasts

Search Engine

TV

Hijack
Jack Ryan Season 4
Silo Season 1
The Outlaws Season 2
The Witcher Blood Origin

Movies

Brooklyn 45

Both a sensitive movie about coming to terms with the transition from war to peace at the end of WWII (as well as foreshadowing some other transitions) and a really average seance horror movie. Overall I don't regret watching it but this didn't need the hokey special effects (down to an actual shot of a photo with its eyes moving a little bit).

Heart of Stone

80% Mission Impossible, 20% Minority Report. Nothing new to see here, but it's a fun enough ride.

Luther The Fallen Sun

Luther hits the big screen. Really not the same without Ruth Wilson. It's fun and over the top but more silly than dark.

Paradise

Scientists figure out how to transplant literal years of life from the poor to the rich. What could go wrong? Lots of twists and turns, this was pretty good.

The Pope's Exorcist

Russel Crowe shows off his Italian, retcons the Spanish Inquisition and shows the devil the door. It's OK.

Music

Where is my mind

Amazing performance of an incredible song.

Podcasts

Search Engine

PJ Vogt's something turns out to be Search Engine, which so far has consisted of idiosyncratic deep dives that remind me of another podcast that died too soon...

TV

Hijack

Two hours of thrills unfortunately packed into a 7 episode show. A couple of episodes in I was rooting for the Hijackers. By the fourth, I just wanted the plane to be shot down. They spend three episodes figuring out the guns are loaded with blanks, although to start with they insist the guns are fakes which is a different proposition entirely and then it turns out that they also have real bullets. That's about 3 hours of plot. Feels like it was written in one sitting and then never checked for continuity or tension or interest. When Generative AI is making TV shows on demand this is what I imagine they'll be like.

Jack Ryan Season 4

I've got some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that you get to make one more season of Jack Ryan.

The bad news is that we really had to scrape the barrel to fund it. Your primary sponsor is the State Tourist Board of Myanmar. Their goal is to keep people away so you only get to include shots that look like the suburbs of LA and the plot can't do anything to upset the Junta. Other than that you have complete creative freedom. Although Jeff insists that one scene can be summed up as "No, Mr. Ryan, I expect you get to wrapped up like a cucumber".

We also got a few bucks from JLR so every third shot has to be a Range Rover looking awesome. Have fun!

Silo Season 1

Foundation was a big disappointment to me, de-Azimov'd generic SciFi, so I was pretty nervous about Silo. It's an adaptation of the first few installments of Hugh Howey's epic Wool series. The TV version doesn't dare to be quite as good as Wool, but it's pretty decent with a great cast and spot on production design. Looking forward to the next series already. If you haven't read the books then you're missing out.

The Outlaws Season 2

At this point it's Breaking Bristol. It's rare to get dramedy right, this is great.

The Witcher Blood Origin

Ever wonder where Witchers came from? Me either, but they're going to tell you anyway. This has an awesome cast - Michelle Yeoh with Lenny Henry! And the special effects and production values are similar to the main series. It's not that good though. Four episodes is a really awkward canvas. It might have been a tight film or an entertaining series but it's both not enough and too much for the space available.

(All images included with ITHCWY reviews are the property of their respective owners and are used to illustrate reviews only.)

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Red Swamp Crayfish

By Robert Ellison.

Google Pixel 6 Pro 7mm f1.9 1/320s ISO44

A Red Swamp Crayfish at Stow Lake in San Francisco. It is confronting an 85lb lab and is not interested in backing down despite being only six inches long.

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ITHCWY Newsletter for July 2023

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Tuesday, August 1, 2023.

Snowdonia Milky Way Time Lapse

ITHCWY is now part of the Fediverse (Mastodon etc), follow @[email protected].

Time lapse of the Market Street Laser Rainbow for Pride, and the Shenandoah Valley.

Hikes with Hyperlapses: Presidio of San Francisco, Philosopher's Way.

Reviews for June and July.

A 3D printed kong holder, if you hate kongs falling over while you stuff and freeze them.

Photos of a Black Crested Night Heron and, sadly for the heron, a frog several thousand miles away.

Previously:

2022: Snowdonia Milky Way Time Lapse
2021: Teague Hill Preserve
2020: Did anyone tell Material Design about Gesture Navigation?

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Federation

By Robert Ellison. Updated on Thursday, August 1, 2024.

Federation

ITHCWY is venturing into the Fediverse. This is the second attempt, I had a brief-lived API implementation to a bot account that didn't go so well. This time I've hooked up Bridgy Fed, which is free and easy and so far seems to work pretty well. I added webmention support last year which helped with the process. You can add me as @[email protected] or use the form on this page. If you reply to a post in the Fediverse it will end up as a comment on this blog (and vice versa).

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