Paraphrasing here, but I’ve taken that from The Lost Weekend, which we watched recently. Of course there is a happy ending to all of the psychological duress, but still, a worthwhile film for 1945-style delirium tremens. Ray Milland, told the role was career suicide before embarking and winning the Oscar, does a fine job of [...]
On Wednesdays there is a farmer’s market on what is called the Village Green. It was very pleasant: sunny, not too hot. Booths were awash with goods. Too much (?) pizza was eaten; brown sugar shortbread cookies, too. And I paid with cash. It was not hard to pay with cash. Not because I am [...]
“…that’s what Einstein said, if it has a flaw and its irreparable turn it into a feature. If you’re always burning the pancakes, put it on the marquee. Burnt Pancakes, 99 Cents. People who can fix anything with string are disappearing. I think most things can be fixed with string, but we need to be [...]
Third day in a row, hark, what madness? Seriously, I thought it worthwhile to post a note on torture and why it is the wrong policy, but not for any original reasons of my own. First, this piece from 2005 by Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky ought to stir some minds. And how did I come [...]
OK, I admit, as I sit here without shoes — that’s to be a new idiom, mind you — that today I did use Twitter, specifically, the Internet Archive’s page, and thus came across this very interesting article in the venerable Chicago Reader, from which I first learned of the also venerable The 2nd Hand, [...]
Hey, I’m complaining again — what’s new? And so why blog? I jest, except to say that upgrading software is perhaps akin to putting on a new roof: it needs to be done, but is it fun? Not really. And so, portmaster -avt on the command line iterates nicely through the entire list of installed [...]
As alluded to earlier, I’m trying to spend less time online, but I thought it worthwhile to mention, ironically if you will, an excellent DVD authoring program called DVD Flick; so far I have successfully created DVDs from .avi and .rm files, and hopefully .mp4 will follow. To boot, it is also released under the [...]