"It is no secret that David Lynch, the writer-director-composer-painter, has an unusual relationship with Bob's Big Boy," begins a 1999 Los Angeles Times article on the auteur of films like Eraserhead and Blue Velvet. "For seven years in the 1980s he ate lunch there every day, ordering cup after cup of over-sweetened coffee and a single chocolate milkshake while scribbling notes on Bob's little square napkins." He took pains, notes reporter Amy Wallace, "to arrive at Bob's at precisely 2:30 p.m. each day. The reason: It increased the odds that he would encounter perfection."
Month: September 2018
👓 What English Would Sound Like If It Was Pronounced Phonetically | Open Culture
The English language presents itself to students and non-native speakers as an almost cruelly capricious entity, its irregularities of spelling and conjugation impossible to explain without an advanced degree.
📺 “Chopped Junior” Heads Will Roll | Food Network
Directed by Michael Pearlman. With Ted Allen, Maneet Chauhan, George Mendes, Kevin McHale. Chefs Maneet Chauhan and George Mendes and actor Kevin McHale judge; something stares back in the appetizer basket; a cute candy creation and a twist on garlic bread in the entrée round; vegetable brownies in the dessert round.
📺 “Suits” Motion to Delay | USA Network
Directed by Christopher Misiano. With Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Amanda Schull. An old foe backs the firm into a corner. Samantha and Alex try to broker a peace between clients.
📺 “48 Hours” Killer Performance | CBS
A young woman is murdered, police thought her killer was on the run - or was he? Correspondent Tracy Smith investigates.
📺 “Modern Family” CHiPs and Salsa | ABC
Directed by Gail Mancuso. With Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell. When Haley hears that her loopy boss is looking for a product with the magical properties of peppers, she tries to gain favor by convincing Gloria to sell her salsa to NERP; Mitchell gets Cam the police ride-along he's always dreamed of.
👓 What are our ethical obligations to future AI simulations? | Philip Ball | Aeon Essays
Say you could make a thousand digital replicas of yourself – should you? What happens when you want to get rid of them?
German Shedders Unite!
Welcome to the family, Flying Dan! pic.twitter.com/6zlRnGa75b
— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) September 16, 2018Such a gentle boy, and those ears! pic.twitter.com/NzMrYLSD1Q
— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) September 16, 2018He came from a rescue in Alabama. Had his pelvis shattered as a puppy when he was hit by a car. Had his snout broken recently by an abusive owner. I’ve had a number of dogs, but he is the most open-hearted and loving so far, even with all of his past trauma. What a special soul!
— Robin DeRosa (@actualham) September 16, 2018
We got Lily, a German Shepherd rescue, almost a year ago this month in the same situation. Hit by car with pelvis, legs, and ankle broken (while pregnant). She’s also awfully sweet too given her past trauma. But be prepared for all the shedding! #germanshedder #furminator
👓 Is it possible to draw Serena Williams without being racist? | The Spectator
I have spent the morning trying to draw a cartoon of a black person without it being racist. It’s bloody difficult. Especially the lips. Make them too big and anti-racist people will accuse you of being a white supremacist peddling, in their words, the old ‘sambo’ myth. But too small and they don’t look like the lips of very many black people. It’s the same with the colour. At first, on my cartoon, I used a black felt-tip pen and so the figure came out very black indeed. ‘Sambo’ territory again, especially when I added big red lips and very white teeth. In the end I used cross-hatching with a pencil but this was, to my mind, unsatisfactory.
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” Patisserie Week | Netflix
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” The Final | Netflix
An Indieweb Podcast: Episode 10 The Thrilla in Manilla
Running time: 1h 28m 36s | Download (27.0MB) | Subscribe by RSS |
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October 1st will be the 43 anniversary of the Ali/Frazer fight, so this week’s title is apropos after David spent a month in Manila working on many IndieWeb related projects including the Micropub plugin, client discovery in IndieAuth, Post Kinds, etc.
In this week’s episode, we discuss new developments in WordPress and what David has wanted to accomplish for all these years in the IndieWeb community: the ability to read something on his phone, store it on his website to either share or just save, as appropriate.
📺 “The Great British Baking Show” Cake Week | Netflix
With Liam Charles, Noel Fielding, Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith. The new batch of bakers' first Signature challenge is a fruit cake. The Technical challenge is set by Prue, chocolate mini-rolls. For the Showstopper, the bakers must create an illusion.
👓 Linux 4.19-rc4 released, an apology, and a maintainership note | Linus Torvalds
This is my reality. I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good.
🎧 George Lakoff on How Trump uses words to con the public | Reliable Sources podcast
President Donald Trump has "turned words into weapons" -- and journalists are providing additional ammunition.
That's according to Trump critic George Lakoff, a renowned linguist and professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. Lakoff wrote in a recent article for the Guardian that the president manipulates language to control the public narrative. The press, he said, functions as a sort of "marketing agency for [Trump's] ideas" by repeating his claims, even when trying to fact-check or debunk his statements.
"By faithfully transmitting Trump's words and ideas, the press helps him to attack, and thereby control, the press itself," he writes.
As the guest on this week's Reliable Sources podcast, Lakoff spoke to Brian Stelter about Trump's linguistic frames, what the press should do differently, and why journalists need to tackle Trump's words like a "truth sandwich."