Watched Which Is The Most Explosive Paper in Hydraulic Press? 150 Ton Hydraulic Press Test from YouTube

500 sheets of paper, books, playing cards, some pulp and other paper products vs. our 144 ton Hydraulic press on this experiment where we test which is the most dangerous paper of them all!

Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!

Who would have thought you could make paper explode with a little bit of pressure?! Excuse me a moment while I go rearrange some books in the library…
Watched How Strong is Pykrete? Hydraulic Press Test! from YouTube

Which is the strongest type of pykrete frozen ice alloy made from wood fibers and water ice? Saw dust, paper or toilet paper? How many tons they can take? We are going to test that out with our 40 ton hydraulic press and 150 ton force sensor. Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!

Watch post testing continues…
Watched Top 10 Worst Weirdest Fan Giveaways in Sports - EVER! from YouTube

Ninh explains the Top 10 Worst Fan Giveaways in Sports. Sometimes sports teams give things away as incentives for fans to come back to the games. But some teams shouldn’t bother because some of these gifts are outright garbage. What’s the worst or weirdest giveaways in sports?

Would you like a free bag of soil? How about 10c beers? Or a free funeral? Bubble wrap? School folders? You name it, it’s in this video!

Can you tell that I’m working at tweaking the workflow for watch posts? I’m trying to watch short pieces as tests, but I’m not always finding the most highbrow content for tests. Clickbait warning!
Watched The Rules of Hurling - EXPLAINED! from YouTube

Ninh explains the Rules of Hurling. A beginner's explanation of the Irish Sport known as GAA Hurling.
Watch this short tutorial video guide on how Hurling is played by the Gaelic Athletic Association Rules.
Learn about goals, points, hurleys, sliotar, puck, free puck, penalty puck and more.

Video: Copyright GAA (I do not own any video footage).
Images: Google, GAA
Music: ‘Horses’ by Jay Semko
Narrated, Directed and Produced by Ninh Ly

Watched "The West Wing" Gaza from Netflix
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney. A fact finding codel to the Middle East is torn apart by an explosion. Key members of the administration and their loved ones are caught in the mess. The President is forced to consider retaliatory military action the unstable area, with possible repercussions that could last decades.
Watched "The West Wing" Talking Points from Netflix
Directed by Richard Schiff. With Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Joshua Malina, Janel Moloney. The president and staff are about to head for Brussels to sign an international free trade deal that Josh has just spent a lot of time and effort negotiating, to nearly everyone's satisfaction; at the 11th hour, the CEO of an IBM-like company tells Josh that the first effect of the new agreement, of which his company is a huge beneficiary, will be the immediate transfer of 17,000 programming jobs...
Watched The Entire Emperor Palpatine Story Explained from YouTube

The Emperor has long loomed over the Star Wars saga. Sometimes, he’s manipulated events from the shadows. Other times, he’s stepped onto the screen and shocked audiences with his crazy powers. From his days as an apprentice to his appearance in Episode IX, here’s the entire Emperor Palpatine story.

Sheev Palpatine, the man who would become a Sith Lord and the galactic emperor, was born on the planet Naboo. According to the novel Darth Plagueis, young Palpatine first discovered the temptation of the Dark Side of the Force while collecting Sith artifacts. As a young man he met Plagueis. The encounter led Palpatine to kill his entire family and dedicate himself to becoming Darth Plagueis' Sith apprentice. As a result, Plagueis gave him the name of Darth Sidious.

Like Plagueis before him, Sidious carefully maintained his non-Sith identity as Sheev Palpatine, and he became active in politics on Naboo. He rose in rank to become a senator after secretly arranging the assassination of his predecessor, representing Naboo in the Galactic Senate. He remained in that position for years, methodically working to accumulate more power, gaining strength both politically and in the Dark Side.

Spoiler warning if you haven’t seen all the movies yet.
Watched "The Mandalorian" Chapter 8: Redemption from Disney+
Directed by Taika Waititi. With Pedro Pascal, Taika Waititi, Giancarlo Esposito, Gina Carano. The Mandalorian comes face-to-face with an unexpected enemy.

A good close to the first season. This episode definitely got better and was more in line with the first three episodes. There was a bit too much deus ex machina here at the end to have a bow tie ending for a season.

The build up of the weapon at the end was disheartening when it turned out to be a much more basic machine gun. I was expecting way more. 

Giancarlo Esposito didn’t have the weight he typically would in most pieces. He definitely was as quietly heavy as his character in Breaking Bad. Shame given who the character turns out to be in the end.

Watched "The Mandalorian" Chapter 7: The Reckoning from Disney+
Directed by Deborah Chow. With Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Gina Carano, Nick Nolte. An old rival extends an invitation for The Mandalorian to make peace.

A relatively solid episode building into the season closer. I’m hoping for fewer plots that could have served as fodder for the 70s/80s Buck Rodgers or Battlestar Galactica episodes.
Watched "The Mandalorian" Chapter 6: The Prisoner from Disney+
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa. With Pedro Pascal, Mark Boone Junior, Bill Burr, Natalia Tena. The Mandalorian joins a crew of mercenaries on a dangerous mission.

A bit better than the prior two episodes, but still in the realm of being a base episodic without providing a broader-based story arc.