It's been a few years since I have read this book and I remember enjoying learning not only about the people involved but also some of their specific motivations behind their ideas, companies, and projects. I don't think this book is meant to be in any way a fully comprehensive on all the people involved which is why I'd also love to hear about any other people or stories that could work alongside this book as further reading material.

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Sick day meant we got to finish our Lego Sherlock Holmes book nook

Forgot to show everyone my new library card.

I made a zine the other day so that I could have a physical copy of Nemik's Manifesto from the Star Wars TV show: Andor.

You can read it, print a copy, and share with others if you'd like.

My neighbors have a cool gargoyle

Their crime is curiosity.

Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

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Entries

• IndieWeb Movie Club: Hackers by Meadowhawk
• Hackers (1995) by sigmarootpi
• Hack the Planet! by Nick Simson
• Hackers by Michael Kupietz
• Hackers(1995) and Other Movies About Misfits by Crystal Touchton
• Movies in October 2025 by Trevor Morris
• M. Hackers (1995) - Crash and Burn! by Ginny
• October 2025 IndieWeb Movie Club for the movie "Hackers"

I've been using all of these pieces on my site for a bit but I wanted to put them all together in one place just in case it could help others start their own site.

Now that the code is done I've been having fun sketching out some icons and naming my projects. I have no idea how to draw a "barnacle" though.

Anyways, here's wonderwall...

I made it!

This little buddy has dug themselves a burrow in one of our garden boxes. Pretty sure they are also eating the watermelons O has been attempting to grow for the past two years.

We had a VHS copy of Disney Sing-Along Songs: Heigh Ho (1987) which my brother and I watched a ton. There were a bunch of great songs in that but for some reason Let's Go Fly a Kite always was a favorite of ours. This is all I knew of Mary Poppins for a long time.

In my mind, Mary Poppins was a film about a magical nanny that takes care of the kids as their parents are busy with work. There was probably singing and sheananigans but at the end, the kids got to fly a kite with their parents. Kinda like a 2hr version of an episode of The Nanny.

When I started college I went through a phase, as I assume most of us do, of going through Julie Andrews' filmography. Once I eventually watched the movie, I realized how much I didn't know.

The film is delightful in its music and use of animation, but the background of these kids and their need for parental comforts hit me hard. For a "kids" movie, it felt darker watching it from that point of view as an adult. When it gets to the end, I couldn't help but wonder if "Let's Go Fly a Kite" is the start of something new for the Banks family or if this is just a break as Mr Banks ends up with his job in the end. It wasn't until Mary Poppins Returns (no spoilers) did I feel like that previous question was answered.

We only just started reading the first book to our kids so I wonder if it feels the same here. Maybe it won't to them because I'm specifically looking at it from a different point of view. I hope the joy, magic, and whimsy of this story is what they get out of it.

I asked O what he thought about this movie. Since we first watched at the end of March, he's probably watched it another three times so he's well versed in the movie and lore.

I liked it but it was very long. I don't want to watch it right now. I want Lightning McQueen.

One question that I've thought of a lot in the past is "what exactly is Mary Poppins?" Is she a witch, a God, a Time Lord, or something much more sinister?

Once you get past how stern Mary Poppins, this is a delightful adventure for these kids that probably are not allowed to have too much fun to begin with. It is definitely reflective of the parenting styles of the time and it is a reminder of the fun of a movie musical.

Had to add all the songs to my mp3 players after the listening party for the new Revengeday LP: https://revengeday.bandcamp.com/album/kybernetik-lp-3