Michael Z Freeman

In the final scene of the 1982 film Blade Runner the “replicant” says, as he is dying, that his memories are being lost “like tears in rain”. A reference to the fact that he is crying. This betrays the fact that the Harrison Ford character is in fact hunting down real humans with real human […]

Starting on campus here its nice to have salvaged my old Laser Printer. Laser printers may still seem like elite only devices exclusive to office buildings but really they will save you a lot of money. Second hand Laser printers are very affordable and the toner will last for months, even years. By comparison ink […]

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Ever feel like some heavy lifting needs doing around here ? This is how I feel when dealing with various self professed “mental health campaigners” and/or most people who at least claim to “want to replace coercive psychiatry in this country”. In reaction to these same activists asking coercive psychiatry to change its ways, psychiatry […]

I have an Acer Swift SF113-31. A sort of mid range laptop. It’s amazing what it can do as its its not hugely powerful. The one thing it has fared badly at is recording video of my KDE desktop. I wanted to record something in the browser to video. FFmpeg recommends a few methods. But […]

Previously I published a script that selected a random audio file (or any file). However it assumed that the folder where you have your files is exclusively filled with audio file types. As a DJ I save mixes to a folder along with text and HTML files that hold the track list. It was getting […]

WARNING: Please consult a trained medical professional before proceeding with any treatments. I previously wrote about this here. Chiropracty resets the nervous system using physical techniques to home in on where the problem is. Then physical techniques are used to “reset” the nervous system. This is very dramatic. So called “ECT” resets the nervous system […]