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Hey, I'm Leo Z. I hail from New York City. I am interested in things. Most things. Possibly all things with varying degrees of interest.
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| Cyberpunk movies and Swedish fish 2026-09-30 02:57:22 ET |
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Wow, I've not posted here since June! It only feels like a month has passed since.
Went to Sweden for a conf. Obviously brought a bag of Swedish fish as a peace offering. The joke failed when it turns out that Swedish fish actually are of Swedish origin and taste kinda close to the Swedish version of it. Oh, well. Maybe next time I'll bring some Swedish films over.
....and Urban Dictionary surprises me with its lack of entry for "Swedish film" which was 70s slang for a porn film. There goes that joke,
Also, in unrelated news, there's a 90s cyberpunk film that takes place in Staten Island. It's called "Fresh Kill" (the infamous landfill was called "Fresh Kills").
Here's a review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VO7MhjFeRo
Here's a trailer for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQfsc4dVZSQ
and here's the actual movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvAXDkuXaNk
Oh, and I found out about the movie after somebody pointed out this line in the Wikipedia article on the term "Hacktivism":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivism
"Writer Jason Sack first used the term hacktivism in a 1995 article in conceptualizing New Media artist Shu Lea Cheang's film Fresh Kill"
The source is Info-Nation:
http://info-nation.com/skinhead.html" target=_blank>https://web.archive.org/web/19970207061623/http://info-nation.com/skinhead.html
Enjoy!
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| Found a "classic web search engine" 2026-06-21 19:34:33 ET |
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Found a "classic web search engine":
https://wiby.me/
"Surprise Me" is the button that makes you go to a random site
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| IMDB message boards 2026-06-01 10:18:00 ET |
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So Amazon is extra dumb. They bought IMDB but now you need an account to even read the reviews on that site. They're doing their best to kill their own source of data that they use for their streaming services and stuff.
Anyways, remember when IMDB got rid of their message boards?
They moved to https://filmboards.com/ so I figured I'd mention it so more people would go there since they're not part of imdb. I should make an account on there as well.
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| Found an old NY Times article about the old NYC hackerspace from the 90s 2026-05-26 12:11:32 ET |
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https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/14/nyregion/the-good-the-bad-the-geeks.html
Mentions nyc2600, notwork, "Parse: Hack/Phreak" (the old streaming video hacker show on the Pulse network that was possible due to realplayer being a thing), mentions of the guys from the infamous MTV True Life: Hackers episode, etc.
Little sprinkle of interesting memories from the past as inspiration to make good memories for our futures.
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| So... 2026-05-25 12:53:01 ET |
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Instead of fully focusing on cleaning, I finally configured irssi to autojoin servers and channels and now I'm back on irc. It's running off somebody else's shell server so I can mosh into it from my phone while I'm on the train and stuff.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/O2rGTXHvPCQ
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| Went broke 2026-05-19 09:52:44 ET |
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Was hanging out with friends at the beach on Coney Island. Ended up going to the Coney Island Museum for a lookaround. Found out they were having a bookfair. Anyways, I'm now broke. BOoks and me are like gravity and a waterfall.
Also I need to actually start writing out my ideas since writing stories gives me a reason to do "research" by actually exploring places. Might need to visit a few boat squats for research purposes. I'll meet up with people there and they'll be like "so what do you do?" and I'll honestly reply with "I procrastinate." Because, hell, I definitely do.
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| TV dinners are so cyberpunk 2026-05-05 12:34:13 ET |
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I recently realized that I should just be buying tv dinners. They're a massive time saver for me and also they're so much cheaper than ordering food. Also it's got those cool cyberpunk vibes. And by "cool" I mean "frozen until microwaved". I bought 2 last week and ate 1 yesterday and 1 today and they're pretty good. I should cook but... I don't. The issue is buying ingredients that are just going to go bad from me forgetting about them in the fridge. MAybe I'll do that anyways? Who knows? Who cares? We'll handle it as needed.
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