18 results for “norombasic”
🎞️ 🍿 🎃 October #MovieNight
Monster House (2006)
Yeah, my film tastes are very eclectic, but this is a smartly written and fun little animated haunted house film.
Zee: What is your problem?
DJ: Uh... puberty! Yeah, I'm having lots and lots of puberty.
I guess I shouldn't really find it surprising that I have been getting more MAGA-related SMS messages than scams this last week.
But I am surprised that the vast majority of them are threatening and/or intimidating. Is that really proving to be effective in getting people to respond to these?
Microsoft offers a quarter of its global workforce (60k) voluntary buyouts as AI spending accelerates:
https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-buyout-ai-layoff-xbox-c5a639f53615be198db1799adf6837e1
While I have not lived/biked in every U.S. city, it is still hands-down the best one for biking that I have lived in:
Is Minneapolis America’s best bike city? This expert - Ray Delahanty - @nerd4cities - says yes:
Expect to see more of this as public transportation agencies continue to confront the double-whammy of funding cuts at the federal and state levels along with skyrocketing operating costs:
BTW, there was a long history of the local reporter at the RR getting my title wrong.
At various times I was called the:
Chief Innovation Officer
Chief Intelligence Officer
Chief Infrastructure Officer
Chief Operating Officer (which pissed off several SJC board members)
Chief IT Officer (close...)
One of a handful of odd little milestones in the next few weeks.
Was straightening out my home office yesterday and ran across this, which is (hopefully) the only time I end up as front page news somewhere.
I remember being quite surprised when this got printed, as:
I had not interviewed for it.
The Rensselaer Republican ended my long and odd history as a news item for them by getting my title wrong (Chief Intelligence Officer?)
I hated that picture.
🎞️ 🍿 🎃 October #MovieNight
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Let's be real, this is all about Al Pacino.
It's not that Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron aren't great actors (they are), but only Pacino could do such an over-the-top, scenery-chewing, scene-stealing portrayal of Lucifer and make it work.
"Who, in their right mind, Kevin, could possibly deny the 20th century was entirely mine?"
"All of it, Kevin!"
"All of it!"
P.S.
Fun fact - My Mom has no diplomas - not even High School.
She was forced to drop out when she with child (uh... that would have been me).
But... she is probably one of the most intelligent and well-read people I know.
At (soon to be) 82 years of age, her and I still talk regularly about the world, politics, history, and what we have both read lately. To this day she surprises me with her insights and he knowledge.
And it many ways it began with a mostly-forgotten, $1.25 mass-market paperback book, but a relatively obscure author, published during what was likely the height of the fiction-printing era.
I'm so glad to have been around during that time, and so thankful to have had a parent that encouraged me to leverage it.
By the time I was thirteen I had read several hundred books.
Still predominantly Science Fiction and Fantasy, but as ideas and concepts came up in those adventures, I also moved into mythology, history, philosophy and more.
Much (if not most) of my education came from the ability to obtain and read whatever I wished to, in whatever direction I wished to go in.
By the time I was ten, I had read every Science Fiction and Fantasy novel we had in the house. Which was considerable as both parents read a lot.
Burroughs, Norton, Bradbury, Silverberg, etc. became my friends.
My favorite days were the ones we would visit the used bookstores right after I got my allowance.
But... the inevitable happened, and after a couple of years of this I got a bit too demanding and began pushing my preferences for certain kinds of novels (her romance novels for example were really my thing).
This resulted in an evening in which a somewhat irritated parent informed me it was time to start reading these novels on my own and handed me a copy of this.
I never looked back.
Since my Mom was an avid reader of her own, with a strong liking for Science Fiction and Fantasy, and did not want to interrupt her own "quality reading time", she simply began reading the stuff she was into out loud.
These times remain one of the most treasured early childhood memories for me.
First Edition of the novel The Cloud Walker, by Edmund Cooper. (April, 1973)
I was so very tickled to get this in the mail after spotting it for sale on eBay, as it is an exact duplicate of the very first novel that I read on my own.
One of the greatest gifts that my Mom gave to me was the love of reading. She would read to me and my sister a few evenings a week, and like most kids that age, it was fairly image-rich and simply worded content.
I however, started asking for more.
When you are so cool that you get your own traffic cones...
Continuing to dabble with a Black and White mood on this #SilentSunday...
It seems everyone knows about Bixby Bridge, to the point where the selfie-culture got so silly that parking around it is now banned.
But it's not the only spectacular example of the open-spandrel bridge design that was the go-to for Big Sur spans in the 1930's.
The Big Creek Bridge IMHO is just as pretty, tucked into the rugged coast near San Simeon
#Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #PacificOcean
🎞️ 🍿 🎃 October #MovieNight
Corpse Bride (2005)
Tim Burton's fascination with stop-motion gave me three of my favorite films. The Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenweenie, and of course this one.