wilberfan

wilberfan, 6 months ago

Try this link: archive.ph/CCRPT

wilberfan, 6 months ago

Yeah, and the mop & bucket in the corner of one of the photos… I hope they had fun with that story! Interesting that it was written by a woman reporter.

wilberfan, 6 months ago

(This is the exact scenario that occurred to me.)

wilberfan, 6 months ago

Best Film“Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best DirectorChristopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”

Best ScreenplaySamy Burch, “May December”

Best ActressLily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best ActorFranz Rogowski, “Passages”

Best Supporting ActressDa’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”

Best Supporting ActorCharles Melton, “May December”

Best Foreign Language Film“Anatomy of a Fall”

Best CinematographyHoyte van Hoytema, “Oppenheimer”

Best Nonfiction Film“Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros”

Best First Film“Past Lives”

Best Animated Film“The Boy and the Heron”

Special AwardsKaren Cooper for her five decades of creative leadership as director of Film Forum

wilberfan, 6 months ago

😏

wilberfan, 6 months ago

No, you definitely were NOT the target audience–but I was. That’s why I enjoyed it so much… 😏

wilberfan, 6 months ago

Perhaps the L.A. Times or Variety or Hollywood Reporter could be added?

wilberfan, 7 months ago

BOOGIE DAYS. A BOOGIE NIGHTS prequel. Limited series. How did Jack get into the business? Where did he meet Maggie–and Little Bill? Eddie in middle school. Maurice’s back story. Etc. One episode for each character?

Give Paul ALL the money to write and direct.

I’d watch the shit out of that show.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

😜

wilberfan, 7 months ago

I rarely missed an episode of their shows over the years. If they both liked a film, I almost always did as well. I much preferred Rogers’s opinions–and personality. Gene always struck me as being kind of a mean grump.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

I didn’t take a lot of pictures, but here’s a short vid showing some of the restoration: youtu.be/xYCuATQ_2DY

wilberfan, 7 months ago

I have a friend with FIVE CATS. I worry about her sometimes… Paula Poundstone has…12? 13? 14? I worry about her, too.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

Here’s a thread I can really use! I’m trying to start a new healthy habit, but I’m struggling a bit.

Having a birthday with a zero on the end of it this weekend. It’s a bit of a mind fuck (as they have tended to be in the past.)

I’m a pretty healthy guy in general: still weigh what I did in college, been eating low-carb for several years… Been on a walking project where I decided to walk every street in my ginormous suburb while picking up trash as I go (it feeds my soul).

Which brings me to my struggle: I’ve recently been diagnosed with osteoporosis (fawk) which means, among other things, no longer putting off the weight-bearing exercises I’ve known for years are good for me (us). About a month ago I got some hand weights and have been doing a youtube workout thing (which my sister has been doing most of this year).

So what’s the problem?

I hate it. It’s such a grind. The walks? I look forward to those! The fresh air, the sunshine, the podcasts, the sense of accomplishment, exploring new neighborhoods, seeing the progress… The weights? Ugh.

So I’m wondering what I can or should do to “get my mind right”. It’s very possible that it’s going to be a “just fucking do it” situation? Maybe when I start seeing (and feeling?) some progress it will become self-reinforcing. Maybe I need to put on a podcast and turn down the volume on the workout vids…

Any advice? For you regular weight-pushers, what’s your ‘secret’? What get’s you thru your workouts?

TL; DR: I need to start lifting weights and I hate it. Looking for advice.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

Been using RSS for 15, 20 years? 150-ish feeds? Feedly.com is my reader of choice.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

It’s a challenge, indeed. There’s a whole lot of headline scanning, to be honest.

wilberfan, 7 months ago

Looks interesting, but I wonder why my Pixel 7 is considered “incompatible”?

wilberfan, 7 months ago

Laugh, grimace, or down vote if you must, but I keep one handy and it works wonders. Clog-free in '23!

wilberfan, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Well that’s interesting. I’ve read more than one place the having uBlock Origin is “enough” and that adding Privacy Badger is overkill. I’ve also got AdGuard Home running on a Pi-4. I failed all three tests with Vivaldi Nightly and Arc Browser–both with uBO installed…

Simply adding Privacy Badger to the existing setup, suddenly I had “strong web protection”.

[edit] Firefox passed without having to add Privacy Badger.