If you read ‘Umair’, you know this - but this is not from Umair, but rather Sam Bowman.
Sam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a principal at Fingleton, and executive director of the Adam Smith Institute.
🔗 Something Happened - not the book - as JP is quick to point out - but rather a cricket match where ‘rain stop play’ … and yet somehow so much went on.
I know there are few cricket fans out there … trust me, it will resonate - and I am not even a fan!
📼 😂 It’s Monday - a quick scroll through what the world has to offer and I am just not bothered
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
Not to diminish the achievements of either Barbie or Oppenheimer … but I wonder how many people went to the movies this weekend just to get out of the heat?
2023 | 07 | 24
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Holy smoke … if you will pardon the mixed metaphor …
😂
📼 🎵Watching this made me realize that I will need to get this when it comes out in October.
Stunning. 50 Years Later … REIMAGINED.
🎬 When I read sometime next week about how Barbie is ‘out performing’ Oppenheimer at the box office, I will point people to this image. I admit it is but one theatre in the nation - but I bet the proportions of screens are about right.
🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
🔗 Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on.
… picked up on Scripting.com - and missed it at the time (January) … but 💯 … adding bad sound people / sound mixing to the list.
🔗 Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (Apple News)
Follow on question.
If America can’t make wrenches - how are they going to crack Semiconductors?
And with #NoIrony
The machines in the ‘Made in America’ factory to make the wrenches were made in Belarus.
2023 | 07 | 23
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Just testing - ignore me
The post started on my MicroBlog Test Account.
I even had a picture ….
Then I edited the post on Mars Edit and saved it to my public site.
Here it is. Need to work out why the image is stored at the top level of the domain.
Hell No or Innovation?
2023 | 07 | 22
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Asked of attendees in a session I was part of a couple of days ago
“In the midst of doomism and collapsology, where are you focusing your energies? How do you stay resilient and on-purpose in the face of the barrage of bad news?”
How would you answer?
I’m 20 minutes into an interview with Vivek Ramaswamy and I have no idea what he is trying to say. I will continue to listen, but right now I can’t even grok why he is running - other than the usual reason that Rethuglicans run.