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The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson Welles or the punchline to an old joke.
💬 Jeffrey Zeldman
Another ‘life truth’.
It gets even worse when the sport is only played in one country and the metaphor attempts to cross the ocean … and yet - even I am on occasions - guilty.
I am looking at you ‘🖇️ playbook’.
I allow it because the original meaning of the term is even older than the USA - let alone ‘American Football’ - and yes I made that discovery was made years after I started using the term - but I’ll still take it 😉.
🎥 Watched 🔗 Death on the Nile ( ★★★ ) over the weekend. Hadn’t I watched it before? Yes of course - but not this one. Another one. I know you know the story - it’s nearly 100 years old so of course you do - just interesting to see the ensemble cast in a murder mystery based on a book written by the inventor of the ensemble cast in a murder mystery - all the way down to the end scene where what ever is left of the cast are stood in a room with the worlds greatest detective reveals the dastardly culprit.
You’ve seen the scene so many times - mainly in films and shows that are NOT Ms. Christie stories.
🎥 I watched 🔗 Rumble in the Bronx years ago and just watched it again last night - ★★★ - not for the acting - can I give negative stars❓ But absolutely for Jackie Chan’s fight choreography - amazing.
📺 Finished watching: 🔗 Unfamiliar Season 1: ★★★ for the second time last night. Not that it particulalrly deserved a second viewing - but clearly it didn’t not! First time just me, This time Jax wanted to watch and I had no objection. Not a bad story at all.
👁️🏗️ 🖇️ Latest Iteration
Every ‘Differality’ I have 🖇️🔎 ever posted (these just on Micro.Blog) - and more - all put together in 🔗📼 a single SNL sketch - brilliant. 😂
.. Also via 🔗Matt
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LATER (260711) - 🔗📼 more ‘differalities’. (Also SNL).
Some commentary for a change. Just spotted a version of this on LinkedIN and tracked it back to the source - Rosie Hatton. Like us all - I do spot a lot of frameworks that I look at move on and never go back to. This one is different. So sharing. Nicely done - and very appropriate for 2026. Thank you Rosie.
📺 I just finished watching 🔗 Shining Girls. Most excellent and no idea how I have not seen this before given that it dates back to 2022.
★★★★
Business is still trying to prove Newton works everywhere.
For 300 years, Newton’s rules worked perfectly. Then Einstein broke physics in half. Your marketing systems just hit the same wall.
📺 Watched 🔗 I Will Find You. Said it before, say it again - Harlan does bad, good and great shows based on his books. This one easily sits in a ‘3’ and at times hit ‘4’. All the usual twists and turns - including the big one at the end. Like he does.
★★★ in the end.
🎥 I touched on this in an 🖇️ earlier post. 🔗 Outcome … Yeah … Nah Nah Nah.
I have tried it. Final effort was earlier tonight. Sorry Keanu … ★
Earlier I wrote 🖇️ this - after reading 🔗 this from Alex Hyett who in turn referenced 🔗 this from Brennan Day. It all came after seeing a post in my feeds from 🔗 Ton Zylstra
💡**I was Inspired. **
If you are keeping up, you will know that I have been wrestling with Web Mentions off and on for nigh on 8❓years.
Q - can that really be right?
A - apparently yes according to Mars Edit ….
As of today - no longer. I am ready and able to receive web mentions.
Now - a little like Alex - I need proof - so here I am.
I’m also just a guy, standing in front of the internet, asking it to show him.
🖋️ A One Man Army
Terry Godier is his name and he seems to be assuming the role of helping us all be purposeful as we seek to slow ourselves down in the the accelerating world of tech that we all live in. I am guilty of that speed. I LOVE slowing down. And it is entertaining at the same time as being informative. Thank you Terry.
📺 I watched the first 1 1/2 episodes of 🔗 Cold Call a long while back and forgot all about it. This weekend as I was poking around - redesicovered and finished it. (The whole thing is only 4 episodes - so an easy piece of homework) - and my goodness - maybe they spent a little bit too much time setting it all up - but somewhere in the middle - it just turns … you might know the lead - Sally Lindsay from 🖇️The Madame Blanc Mysteries that she created, co wrote and stars in. Nice gentle little show with a 🖇️🎵 great theme song.
Cold Call is nothing like that.
★★★
📺🔗 Dublin Murders over on Acorn is a few years old now (2019) but really rather good. Going to give it ★★★ - but - no spoilers now - that last episode might be require me to come back and knock it up to 4.
📺 (Not) watched Widow’s Bay and have been holding off on the final opinion.
No more.
This morning I read Bob Lefsetz on 🔗📺 Widow’s Bay.
So totally with them and him.
I too restarted a couple of times - and have plodded along whenever i think - ‘well it cant get much worse’. And then it does. Which is why
★
One of many similar comments.
I tried 3 viewings and it just seemed dumb.
LATER: 🖇️ Apparently I gave it one star when I did the first review last weekend. At least I am consistent.
📺 Watched 🔗 Boomers Season 1 and Boomers Season 2 - over a very protracted period of time - it has to be said.
★★ - though my gut says one - BUT - I did ‘watch’ them all because there were ‘bits’, so it was clearly not a write off …BUT
Caveats … if you are English and ‘of a certain age’ - it might connect. And if you are ‘of a certain age’ - you might remember Russ Abbott? Yeah .. he’s one of the main characters, that’s why it might not.
{Over the past few weeks I seem to have been in a ‘there’s nothing on’ mood. As I scrolled around a few ‘started and stopped’ shows popped up whilst others I’d forgotten all about reminded me that there wasn’t a post.}