In Danish … 116 minute running time so 16 minutes too long … weird one from Denmark … a thriller which turns into a mystery which turns into a comedy which turns into a rumination on the meaning of life and tragic death and chance and coincidence … I didn’t hate it, it was laugh-out-loud funny in parts, but I also can’t recommend it.
You need to get some help, Dad.
Since my night in Twitter jail, I have been much less active on the service. I only use Tweetdeck to read a handful of private lists, unlike the old days where I really did read everything that everyone I followed tweeted.
Several things ruined Twitter for me, starting with the shift to 280 characters. The 140 character limit forced people to be thoughtful and clever when constructing a tweet, which is not the case with 280. The introduction of an RT button was also a problem, though the worst thing is injecting tweets into your stream that someone you follow *liked.*
I paid a Russian programmer a handsome sum to build a custom Twitter client for me which stripped out all of the nonsense and made the stream readable again, but Twitter quickly banned it and I took the large loss (the Russian programmer made out well, lol).
Anyway, I’m using Discord more and more now, esp. with different groups of day trading buddies, and have shifted away from Twitter. I think everyone else who trades for a living already did this years ago, but I’m slow to change.
Here’s the home screen of my phone now. Is it possible that I’ll stop using Twitter completely one day? Probably not, though I read next to nothing there now. I still like to talk to myself on there throughout the day, mostly tweeting random nonsense and things that amuse me (and no one else); I’ve never once thought about my “audience.”
In his interview with Bryan Burrough on the crime wave of 1932-33 and the rise of the FBI:
LAMB: Why do movies change the facts?
123 minute running time so 23 minutes too long … tells the story of the rivalry between F1 race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1976 season … I don’t follow F1 and knew nothing about it, but did recognize the name Mario Andretti … F1 seems like a sport for rich wastrels, but the movie wasn’t badly made and I don’t think there have been too many movies made about its history.
James lacked zee discipline
In his interview with Anthony Cave Brown on the traitorous Kim Philby:
LAMB:: You write, as I started to say earlier, I wanted to ask you this: As I read it, I kept trying to follow the path through all this. Did you ever get lost in this thing?
In his interview with James Bovard about government abuses and lying politicians:
LAMB:: But how -- I mean, this is -- well, let me ask it this way. How angry are you?
In his interview with Peter Bergen about his travels within Afghanistan:
LAMB: You ever run out of gas over there?
From the movie, Ghost Exchange:
What we were really doing was creating models
that allowed us to take advantage of dumb people
We were turning into code something
that we could predict dumb people would do that would
give us a chance to skim money off them.
Great cover of the old Aretha song, start at 0:40 … Cécile McLorin Salvant … Sullivan Fortner’s show-offy performance on piano a little distracting :
Good song to inhale to…. Gotts Street Park was my #1 artist in the 2021 Spotify Wrap
