🎞️ Lawless (2012) | The Weinstein Company
Directed by John Hillcoat. With Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce, Jason Clarke. Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.
Not as horrible a picture as I would have imagined given the late August release date it got. Certainly watchable and interesting.
📺 January 29, 2019 – PBS NewsHour | PBS
Tuesday on the NewsHour, a polar vortex sends temperatures in the Midwest plunging. Plus: The intelligence community assesses the greatest threats to American national security, the debate over Brexit, Sen. Susan Collins on border security, military children with special needs, a new push for the ERA, the author of “Heart” answers reader questions and governors bridging the political divide.
📺 "The Big Bang Theory" The Conjugal Configuration | CBS
Directed by Mark Cendrowski. With Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg. After their wedding, Amy and Sheldon go on their honeymoon.
📺 "The Big Bang Theory" The Consummation Deviation | CBS
Directed by Mark Cendrowski. With Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg. Sheldon tries to bond with Amy's father, but when Wolowitz lures Mr. Fowler away with magic tricks, Sheldon has no choice but to bond with Mrs. Fowler. Also, Koothrappali and Anu try to get physical for the first time.
📺 "The Big Bang Theory" The Confirmation Polarization | CBS
Directed by Mark Cendrowski. With Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg. Sheldon and Amy are thrilled when their super asymmetry theory is proven by two physicists, until they try to kick Amy off the Nobel nomination. Bernadette gets one of her drugs approved and wants a reluctant Penny to head the sales team.
📺 "Suits" Whale Hunt | USA
Directed by Valerie Weiss. With Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Amanda Schull.
📺 "Kids Baking Championship" Macaron Madness | Food Network
With Duff Goldman, Valerie Bertinelli, Jenna Alnatur, Paige Goehner. Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with both happy and sad faces.
I’m not sure why I watch this fluff…
🎧 Gillmor Gang: Dead Flowers | TechCrunch
Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, February 10, 2018.
- Reference to SCAD
- Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple’s home assistants
- blockchain mention with respect to the S.E.C.
📺 "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Method Man | CBS
With Stephen Colbert, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Method Man, Jonathan Batiste. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.); rapper Method Man;
Just watched the AOC interview only. Lots of fluff and not much substance as I expected.
🔖 The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies | Allen Lane (2018)
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question: 'What is information?' To understand the origins and nature of life, Davies proposes a radical vision of biology which sees the underpinnings of life as similar to circuits and electronics, arguing that life as we know it should really be considered a phenomenon of information storage. In an extraordinary deep dive into the real mechanics of what we take for granted, Davies reveals how biological processes, from photosynthesis to birds' navigation abilities, rely on quantum mechanics, and explores whether quantum physics could prove to be the secret key of all life on Earth. Lively and accessible, Demons in the Machine boils down intricate interdisciplinary developments to take readers on an eye-opening journey towards the ultimate goal of science: unifying all theories of the living and the non-living, so that humanity can at last understand its place in the universe.
Found via review.
🎧 Gillmor Gang: Day Zero | TechCrunch
Esteban Kolsky, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Gené Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, February 3, 2018.
An entire episode on water and sustainability.
Without seemingly knowing it they dance around the idea of needing a mixed economy. It’s almost as if they only know about capitalism and competition and there are no other options out there. We need protections (read “regulations” if you’re a Republican) put in by a planning and forward thinking government and then we can use capitalism as the fulcrum to ramp up and accelerate potential solutions when competition will bring them about.