Directed by Brian De Palma. With Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Reads, Listens, Watches
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of watched movies, television shows, online videos, and other visual-based events
📺 Norma Rae (1979) | Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Martin Ritt. With Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle. A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
🎧 Micro Monday Extra: @verso at Chicago-O’Hare airport, talking about Macstock | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogIn this special extra edition of the Micro Monday Microcast, Kelly Guimont and Jean have enough time before their plane home to Portland to talk about the fantastic experience they had at the 2018 Macstock Expo and Conference, and to start making plans for the 2019 event.
🎧 Episode 17: @eli | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogEli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about how he went from his “angsty LiveJournal” to being a proponent of the IndieWeb, and why he likes the new IndieWeb Ring. Eli is also the maintainer of Micro.wiki: Community resources for the avid Micro.blogger.
Eli’s wiki is truly a hidden gem.
🎧 Episode 16: @vanessa | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogVanessa Hamshere is a musician, a crafter, a photographer, and one of the “fountain pens, paper, and planners gang.” We talk about how online communities evolve and thrive, and how a good mix of technical expertise and interests helps everyone.
It’s nice to have a group of people from across the world with different interests. I love random conversations.
Vanessa gives Colin Walker and I an overly kind little shout out during the episode. I suspect she either knows more than she lets on or she’s got a ton of tenacity, because she has a very lovely site. Lately I noticed that she’s even begun delving into microsub clients and Indiepaper, which I have barely begun to scratch the surface of, so perhaps I’ll have to pick her brain a bit in return.
🎧 Episode 14: @jw | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogJim Withington, joins us on Micro Monday. Jim is currently a web developer in Portland who describes himself as someone who likes getting excited about things and blogging about them. We talk about the XOXO Conference in Portland, about the unexpected delight of photoblogging with Micro.blog, and whether Micro.dog should be a thing.
🎧 Episode 15: @mnmltek | Micro Monday
Micro Monday from monday.micro.blogThis week, Jean interviews the host of the the mnmltek microcast, Chris Powell.
Chris’s passion is sharing tech knowledge and other help for humans. In addition to the microcast, Chris blogs, podcasts, and writes a newsletter. “If you’re not sharing your thoughts, opinions, or what’s inside of you, you need to know that your voice matters.”
I’ll have to take a look at Chris‘ podcast. I wonder if he’s been to any of the Bellingham Homebrew Website Club meetups or perhaps the IWC in 2017?
I’m also interested to hear more about his technology career in higher education. Perhaps he might be interested in joining some of us in IndieWeb for Education?
🎧 This Week in Google 460 A Confusing Number of People | TWiT.TV
Privacy Spats and Flying CarsTips and Picks
- Microsoft Buys GitHub, users promptly freak out
- Apple Screen Time vs Google Digital Wellbeing
- Google cancels Pentagon drone program after protests
- Larry Page's flying car takes off
- Google's Project Oasis puts the world's weather on your coffee table
- Apple and Facebook's privacy spat
- WhatsApp founders and Facebook's privacy spat
- Facebook still wants your nude pictures
- Stacey's Thing: Awair Glow
- Jeff's Number: Sundar is just Sundar
- Leo's Tool: Google Lens standalone app
📺 "Broadchurch" Episode #3.6 | ITV/BBC America
Directed by Lewis Arnold. With Andrew Buchan, Jodie Whittaker, Oskar McNamara, Julie Hesmondhalgh. Ellie and Hardy bring in Ed Burnett for questioning. In a search of his premises, Ellie finds devastating new evidence linking him to the crime.
This seems like a wild goose chase to fill some time until the finale. But it’s at least an interesting and well motivated goose chase.
Watched on Netflix
📺 "Broadchurch" Episode #3.5 | ITV/BBC America
Directed by Daniel Nettheim. With Kelly Gough, Olivia Colman, David Tennant, Hannah Millward. A new witness turns Trish's case upside down. Katie discovers a new link between the case and a key suspect. Beth tells her supervisor about Trish's case.
I’d had some issues making it through episodes 3 and 4 of this season, but it’s finally picking up a bit here.
Watched on Netflix
👓 Tronc Exec Tells Daily News Staff to Their Faces: We Have No Strategy | The Daily Beast
A company exec and the paper’s newly installed top editor told employees Tuesday that they have no actual strategy, prompting audible dismay from the skeletal staff.
Not having a strategy when you’re on the border of collapse is a poor way to run a business.
📺 Gene Editing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | HBO via YouTube
Scientists are developing new ways to alter the genetic code of living organisms. John Oliver explores the risks, rewards, and wolf-related hazards of gene editing.
📺 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah – July 23, 2018 | Comedy Central
President Trump tweets an all-caps threat to Iran's president, Roy Wood Jr. and Ronny Chieng react to bizarre baseball news, and Tip "T.I." Harris talks "The Grand Hustle."
👓 Selfies at Funerals | The Atlantic
A new Tumblr compiles self-portraits taken at funerals and shared with the world. Here are a few, interspersed with more traditional efforts at celebrating life and publicly reflecting on mortality.
An interesting and excellent follow-on from the prior story I read. Somehow the older mores of photographing and arranging the dead seem at least connected to those we’ve lost whereas some of these funeral selfies or so-called “caskies” they don’t seem to be mourning much of anything except the minute amounts of fame they may be losing.
👓 Pictures of Death: Postmortem Photography | The Atlantic
When photography was new, it was often used to preserve corpses via their images. An Object Lesson
Fascinating to read about some of the cultural shifts and norms in our society over the past century or so.