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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • Started (maybe) with the classic Roman Empire movies where they also spoke the Queen’s English. No Latin at all.

    Doing other languages is tricky. You either have to just go with pretending it’s not a thing, use subtitles, or something in between. I’ve seen a lot of films start with them speaking the foreign language and then shift to them in English in some way. The original Shōgun did this where the first few exchanges went through a translator but then the translator part was skipped to increase the pace. Or you just don’t have a translation and let the actions dictate the meaning. The scenes in Andor of his childhood memories did this, no need to have subtitles.


  • No, the heat exchangers were fine, the design just sucked. I had seen aftermarket electric fan boosters to try and push more air through the vent pipes and help things. I mean, it had a long way to go! But even the squirrel cage fan in the blower assembly in the truck wasn’t all that big or strong, so the air it pushed up onto the window was far too little to do much. I loved my Beetle though, despite all its issues.