Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 5th December 2024.

5th December, 2024.

Right … I think we can say I’m expecting a delivery, today.

What do I mean, ‘think’?

I know I’ve got a delivery coming, today.

One that includes an airer.

I don’t know about you, but the ones I have, don’t have enough room for everything.

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I’m on a drug called Mounjaro: one that helps keep my blood sugar levels down.

And, as a side effect, helps me lose, and keep, my weight down.

Which is nice!

I notice, though, that the BBC’s all over the stuff.

Telling us the Government’s approved its use by the National Health Service, specifically for weight loss.

Along side diet and exercise.

That’s generally a good thing, I think.

But I also note the report tells us this is supposed to be rolled out over some twelve years: in order to try and manage demand.

I can only hope that works.

I can remember how excess demand caused a shortage of Ozempic: and a shift to other medications, one I felt weren’t as effective.

Here’s hoping.

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The Daily Teaser — 5-12-2015

You know, there’s an old saying: ‘red sky at night, shepherd’s delight, red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.’

The reason I mention this … ?

Is the simple fact I wish I’d grabbed a photo of the view outside my window, this morning.

To the point I’m kicking myself for not doing so.

Ever seen some of those Japanese watercolours: where the sky’s depicted as stunning — and incredibly intense — shades of red?

That was what the sky looked like.

It got me thinking: that either there’s one heck of a lot of bad weather coming.

Or something’s on fire.

Makes you wonder … 

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Metropolis: Head, Heart and Hands …

6th February, 2013

There comes a point when — literally —  you have to sit down with a classic or two.

I’ve always prided myself on being something of a science fiction fan, so for me, that means sitting down with a vintage classic or two.

Including — back in the late 1970s, when it was re-shown at my local cinema, post-Star Wars — 2001: A Space Odyssey.

That’s an experience, I should add.   Catching Kubrick’s work on the big screen is something of a delight: which ever one of his films you see.

2001 is pretty good.   Watching it on a TV — however hi-definition/widescreen that TV is — isn’t quite the same.

But I was saying about classics, wasn’t I … ?   Yes, I was …

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You see, there’s a school of thought that says — every-so-often — you should make a point of seeing those films that generally feature on bucket* lists: in other words, they’re the sort of film to see before you die.

God alone knows how many of those there are.   I’m willing to bet that if you ask one hundred people for the title of just one such film … you’ll get about three hundred suggestions.

It possibly gets easier if you narrow things down by specifying a genre.   Even then, you’ll, probably still get an argument.

Especially if the genre in question is something like science fiction: complete with Star Wars at one end, Bladerunner at another, and — keep with me — Star Trek at a third end.   Oh, and the original Russian version of Solaris, along with 2001: A Space Odyssey forming a fourth and fifth end to a multidimensional stick.

Things like Weird Science floating around, give people tension headaches.

The less said the better, there, I think.

At any rate … ?   I managed to rent one of those films that’s been seen as a classic.

If not a classic: then certainly genre defining.

The 1927, Fritz Lang film, Metropolis.

Let me try and explain, shall I … ?

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