• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    3 hours ago

    We just rewatched The Dish and drank a glass to both Sam and Tom.

    The last time we watched, it was projected onto a bedsheet hanging off the back of my delivery van at Aileron Roadhouse in the middle of Australia surrounded by optical telescopes, a 2m portable broadband vSat dish, with the Sungroper solar car team during the 2003 World Solar Challenge … vying for the most remote internet cafe … we lost out to Mount Everest 😁

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    9 hours ago

    So this is what my grandmother was talking about when she said getting old was watching beloved friends and actors pass away.

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        7 hours ago

        The only way Chuck Norris could die is if they cloned him and the clone roundhouse kicked him in the face. So that must’ve happened.

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    12 hours ago

    star of two of my favourite movies of all time, Jurassic Park and the Warhammer 40K prequel (it is, admit it) Event Horizon.

    The Emperor Protects, Sam.

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    16 hours ago

    Where he’s going, he won’t need eyes to see…

    Damn this is a shock to me. RIP to a fantastic actor.

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        15 hours ago

        Tbh I didn’t really think about the implications of the quote, just that it’s a good quote from one of my favorite Sam Neill movies, and seemed like a decent “epitaph” kinda thing I guess.

        But yes very dark reference lol.