Short Circuit in Astoria June 6-7, 2026

Short Circuit in Astoria June 6-7, 2026

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I loved the movie Short Circuit. It was filmed here in Oregon in various locations, but mostly in Astoria, OR (the same place Goonies, Kidnergarden Cop, and a few other films were made).

For it’s 40th anniversary during the Astoria Film Celebration, June 5-7, 2026 there will be Cast & Crew appearances, Panel Talks, Licensed Merchandise, Film Screenings, Workshops, Trivia, an 80’s Prom and more across multiple venues.

If you’re feeling the urge, you can Airbnb Stephanie Speck’s house, visit the Goonies home, and learn all about the filming locations at the Oregon Film Museum.

Can’t install Windows Sandbox on Windows 10

Can’t install Windows Sandbox on Windows 10

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Windows Sandbox is a great little completely isolated environment in which to test out software you’re not sure is safe or for experiments that might corrupt your environment/installations. It pops up a virtual machine running Windows 10/11, is completely isolated, and then deletes everything when shut down.

However, it’s not always easy to get started. Even after installing the latest Windows 10 updates and turning all on virtualization features in bios, I still could not see the Windows Sandbox feature in the Turn Windows Features On and Off program.

It turns out you may need to do some extra setup, and the entire process is here in tenforums. They have a script (below) that helps, but there may even be other steps to follow and they’re all outlined on the post.

@echo off

echo Checking for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

echo Permission check result: %errorlevel%

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
echo Requesting administrative privileges...
goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
echo UAC.ShellExecute "%~s0", "", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

echo Running created temporary "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
timeout /T 2
"%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
exit /B

:gotAdmin
if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" )
pushd "%CD%"
CD /D "%~dp0" 

echo Batch was successfully started with admin privileges
echo .
cls
Title Sandbox Installer

pushd "%~dp0"

dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\*Containers*.mum >sandbox.txt

for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . sandbox.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"

del sandbox.txt

Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Containers-DisposableClientVM /LimitAccess /ALL

pause

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She’s not wrong

She’s not wrong

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“You appear on a weekly television program and are non-profit? Boy, have you got a crazy sponsor.”

27 Rather, God chose those who were regarded as foolish by the world to shame the wise; God chose those in the world who were weak to shame the strong. 28 God chose those in the world who were lowly and despised, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who were regarded as worthy, 29 so that no one could boast in the presence of God.

1 Corinthians 1:27-29
Psychoacoustics

Psychoacoustics

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Binaural beats, tritone paradox, pitch and tempo circularity, wason effect for faking high performance audio, biological audio effects, and using missing fundamentals for playback on phones and low-quality devices? Casey Connor demonstrates some fascinating audio effects and illusions in his multi-part series of audio illusions and effects. Some of them are used to simulate high performance playback on cheap devices like phones. Good headphones are required for some of them.

Here’s the first video go get you started:

So much truth

So much truth

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Wow – I can’t tell you how familiar this sounded. I didn’t work for Amazon, but what she is describing here is almost exactly what my experience was at a different top 25 high tech company. She left early in this down cycle to pursue more healthy environment, while other coworkers stayed only to be laid off.

It brought up the point of how long does one hold on before moving on?

  • Mass hiring during COVID that was not justified for the work being done nor profitability
  • Senior engineers that spend the majority of their day not doing technical work but stuck in roadmap, planning, alignment, turf war meetings to get real work done. Meanwhile not one thing is shipped on time.
  • Senior leadership using ‘investing in AI’ and return-to-office mandates as ways to trim headcount to cover their over-hiring. (Using AI every day for work now is a real thing – but not as justification for the kinds of layoffs we’re seeing).
  • Culture rot: moving from an innovation driven environment to one more focused on headcount and political manuvering.
  • Feeling hollow and empty realizing you’re spending 60-80% of the average day doing planning, paper shuffling, org alignment, and meetings instead of real work.