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The-Last-Jedi

Wow. Never heard so much criticism of a Star Wars movie so quickly. It took months for the hate against Episode 1 to surface, and 2 and 3 were (relatively) warmly received as being better. Nevertheless, I also remember the harsh takes against "Return Of The Jedi" for its creaky

Cpt.-Jesse-Campbell

... and the 17th Aero Squadron in The Great WarI've finally completed scanning and transcribing my grandfathers diary and a few letters. They're all available at https://netrc.github.io/jdiary/#Introduction Not quite definitive, I'm still tracking down some names and other info, but I think that the map I've

Eclipse

Besides the genealogical tour of Savannah, we also drove up to Charleston to see the eclipse. A couple days of beautiful -- but very hot! -- weather, then the clouds started to roll in Monday morning. We were invited to a friend-of-friend's house on a river a ways north-east of

Ad-Blocking-Rationale

Seeing a bunch more discussion about the use of ad-blockers for news/content web sites. Here’s a good link with interesting data about why people use ad-blockers You’ll see that the main criticisms from people is that a lot of ads now are “annoying”. News sites (as I'll

Way-Too-Much-Nest-Battery-Info

Some extended notes and description of Nest battery and HVAC issues… My storyVery quickly - Nest thermostat installed two years ago. Last night, no A/C on at all, Nest appears dead, little green blinking light. Call Nest, check voltages, suspect odd bevior from blower electricals, recharge the Nest via

Grim-Visag'd-War

Chirstopher's Nolan's Dunkirk is a masterpiece, best of the year. Two main points: Dun-ceptionTurn's out that Nolan's Inception wasn't just a movie, but re-introduced a new way to frame story-telling, not with flash-backs, but with multi-track, multi-timescale story lines. That's sounds bizarre but it enables three different stories, with three

MustSee Movies of the '80s...

Out with the gang a couple nights ago, rambling on about good movies, I mentioned Body Heat as a must see and got blank stares from the rest of the table. One asked sarcastically if it was in black and white. SMH as they say. At that point I was

Screw It

Zarqawi is dead; Rove is innocent; Alberto never became a hurricane....and all the Ann Arbor crowd can do is change the subject and come out *in favor* of cork. They're even selling T-shirts with their extremist conservative message. Why not do it right and go back to the Roman

Banking Melodies

A cute column equating investment banks with pop-music bands: Bloomberg's Mark Gilbert, 12 May 2006

MI:III

The Cruise-produced Mission Impossible:III works well as mindless fun, but maybe someday someone will actually put together a movie based on the old TV show. This version is solely concerned with three (or so) distinct action scenes which could of course be in any order and still make sense.