Illustration: black smoke rolls up from the burning entrance canopy of a 1970s Las Vegas hotel at dawn, the hotel tower behind it, fire engines small in the foreground.

The MGM Grand Fire, 1980: As If You Were There

A ten-minute reconstruction of the November 21, 1980 MGM Grand fire in Las Vegas: the spark in The Deli, a guest who walks out of the casino just ahead of the flames, a guest on the 21st floor who never hears an alarm, and how smoke killed 61 people in a tower the fire never reached.

October 9, 2026 · 7 min · 1452 words · Justin
The title card of Planet Pueblo, Episode 1 of Life Reels, in cream serif type on a dark background.

Life Reels: 10 Weird Short Films About Tech, AI and Pueblo

A nature documentary about a cell tower pretending to be a tree, a horror trailer about an invisible dictation bubble, and eight more short films. Every one is based on something that actually happened.

September 29, 2026 · 3 min · 489 words · Justin
The title card of 90s KID - Be Kind, Rewind, a pixel-art film about growing up in the 1990s.

90s Kid - The Movie: Be Kind, Rewind

Blockbuster on a Friday night, four-player N64, dial-up, Windows 95 and 98, the Autoplex, and the year nothing broke, in 3½ minutes of pixel art.

September 29, 2026 · 2 min · 233 words · Justin

Getting Cameras Out of the Walled Garden

A camera platform that only spoke encrypted RTSPS quietly refused to talk to the NVR — until I found the plain-RTSP back door it was hiding.

May 10, 2026 · 4 min · 664 words · Justin

90s Kid - The VCR That Blinked 12:00 Forever

You remember the glowing green 12:00 that nobody in the house ever fixed.

March 21, 2026 · 3 min · 502 words · Justin