Dark And Stormy

No!  You're Wrong.  This Is Not About The British Weather
Which was quite balmy and pleasant this morning, until I took Edna for a walk, whereupon the lowering masses of dark grey cloud immediately appeared overhead.  Spoilsports.  They have remained there all day, not going so far as to be stormy, just very glum.
     Nor are we talking about someone like Beethoven.  Conrad himself has floury-white locks so the "dark" epithet cannot be levelled at him, and he is by nature more kind of Silently Simmering Sociopath than anything extrovert.

Proof

     No, I refer - obviously! - to the Dark And Stormy cocktail.  I had not heard of this concoction until last night, when it was brought up as the title for Jason's farewell FB Messenger list, under "Rum and Ginger".  Art?

The drink

     It is a blend of spiced rum, ginger beer, lime juice and ice.  We shall see what it tastes like later.
     Motley!  Let us whip up some Nitromethane Smoothies!

More Of Numbers
If you recall, earlier today I was yarking on about Roman numerals, and how they dealt with fractions.  Rather than being decimal, based on tens, Roman fractions were based on a duodecimal system of twelfths, as this was more flexible.  Instead of letters, fractions were represented by dots.  The symbol for three twelfths, or a quarter, was three dots - ... - which was known as "Quadrans" and is where the word "Quadrant" comes from.  Art?

Foursquare

     Okay, crazy hep cats, the Roman symbol for a fifth was five dots, arrayed in a pattern that Blogger won't allow me to create with text, so perhaps a picture -

Hay Pesto!

     This is known as a "Quincunx", and it immediately made me pay attention because of that splendid sci-fi author James Blish, who wrote -

The dots make sense now, hmmm?

     I think that's enough about numbers.  Mathematics is a field for peculiar people.  

BOOJUM! Reviews Films
Allow me to whistle up which ones I need to be reviewing, my notes are a little spotty.
     Ah, got them.  Okay, just so you know, if you want a proper film review then you can go to Mark Kermode.  Or, I can add in my 5,000 monograph on how modern science fiction films were influenced by "Forbidden Planet"?  No?  Really, it's no bother - "No in a very loud voice"?  <shrugs> well okay.
"Emma": Well, you know, Conrad was hopeful.  He considers Emma Peel to be one of the great television heroines, as redoubtable as she was sexy, in both black and white and colour*.  Conrad has never seen "The Avengers" where her long-lost husband turns up from being lost in the depths of the Amazon for months (I think) but he can't help feel there's a story about what she got up to before working with John Steed, and what she did afterwards.  Art?

<sighs adoringly>

     Instead, what do we get?  Some soft-focus pictures of what Conrad sniffily dismisses as a "Big Skirt Film", made for women.  I bet there's not a single killer cybernaut nor lethal hiccup gas in there whatsoever.
     Bah!

Yawning ennui looms

"Onward": To which Conrad has to bite his tongue in order to avoid saying "And Upward, Through Adversity To The Stars" which is nicking a bit of the RAF's motto.  Again, one has to really reach with a title as bland and generic as this.  Or - am I misreading this, and it ought to be "On Ward"?  A bleak thriller about murder and corruption at a mental asylum, starring Ethan Hawk as the psychiatrist who may or may not be a killer, and with Olivia Coleman as the inmate who knows more than anyone realises, putting her in peril, and it all takes place during the arrival of Storm Irene, when the power goes out -

<sigh> probably not

     Still, the colour palette is reassuringly dark, so it may be quite grim**.
"My Spy":  Oh boy.  I have seen posters for this on the buses passing up and down hill outside The Mansion, and this seems to be a by-the-numbers depiction of the "Annoyed Man Saddled With Unappreciative Child And They Go On To Solve Crime" trope.  The tag line is "He works alone - she doesn't care".  It appears to star Dave Bautista, whom is excellent in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" series, and puts in a good turn in "Blade Runner 2049" as well, so I will be moderately sad if this is a turkey.

"There was NO TOILET ROLL!"

Legal Eagle's Inveigle
It is a rather odd thing, in Your Humble Scribe's opinion, that he loathes television programs that portray the legal profession, and has long felt this way.  I do not care for these programs, whichever shore they hail from, and when I take over the planet this particular trope will immediately go extinct.  And if any of you out there protest, you'll be right alongside them in the uranium mines.
     Anyway!  Legal Eagle is a Youtube channel run by attorney Devin Stone.  Art?

Devin, looking dapper

     His stuff is fascinating, and shows how complex the South Canadian legal system is, given that there are dozens of states that all have differing legislation.  You can be allowed to practice law in one state; that means nothing across the state boundary and you'd have to sit another bar exam to be able to practice there.  Devin points out a lot of the flaws in film and television programs that attempt to depict the law; one being that if you, as an attorney, move towards the judge without being invited by said judge, the court bailiff will physically restrain you, up to and including use of Tazers.

He has guns.  Guns plural.  Do not provoke.

     Now, Devin was tackling an interesting case involving an entertainer called John Oliver, whom I'd never heard of before, and a business magnate called Bob Murray -
     And since we're over the Compositional Ton, I guess were are done for today.

     Later, pilgrims!


*  Stop drooling, you disgusting perv! <a little critical realism from Mister Hand>
**  We can only hope.