📖 Read pages 86-100 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

📖 Read pages 86-100 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The trip down the river is very close in its dialogue to the version in the original 1974 movie version.

📺 The Boss (2016) | Universal Pictures

Watched The Boss (2016) from Universal Pictures
Directed by Ben Falcone. With Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Ella Anderson. A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
This was pretty god-awful. It had a little bit of heart and a cast which I’ve seen do far better in other pieces, but only about two half-decent jokes. Even the joke of her with her leg up on the wall with self-tanning creme was just trying to milk the same joke from Bridesmaids.

Watched on widescreen television from DVR from cable recording sometime about a year ago. It was languishing on the DVR for ages and I probably should have just deleted it.

📺 The agony of trying to unsubscribe | James Veitch | TED via YouTube

Watched The agony of trying to unsubscribe by James Veitch from Ted via YouTube

It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox. Comedian James Veitch turned this frustration into whimsy when a local supermarket refused to take no for an answer. Hijinks ensued.

🔖 Reproducibility Workshop: Best practices and easy steps to save time for yourself and other researchers

Bookmarked Reproducibility Workshop: Best practices and easy steps to save time for yourself and other researchers (codeocean.com)
Gain insight into a range of tools that can help you share and extend your research. Join us on January 25th at Caltech.
Sadly I missed this having only heard about it after it was already over.

👓 We Want Your VHS! | bavatuesdays

Read We Want Your VHS! by Jim Groom (bavatuesdays)
If you have some old VHS hanging around the house, yet have gotten rid of your VCR long ago—it might be high time to let Reclaim Video take them off your hands. Rather than letting them sit around collecting dust...
Interesting…
Watched "Everwood" Is There a Doctor in the House? from IMDb TV
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeill. Delia and her grandmother throw a festive birthday party for a grumpy Edna who hates this particular day of the year, but everyone winds up snowed in for the night when a big storm hits town. In the midst of it all, Bright collapses from a burst appendix and Andy and Dr. Abbott have to improvise an operating room before the infection spreads; while Andy and Ephram let months of tension and hurt ...

📺 “The Good Doctor” Pain | ABC

Watched "The Good Doctor" Pain from ABC
Directed by Allison Liddi-Brown. With Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Chuku Modu. When the team treats a patient who has to decide about getting a dangerous surgery that could change his life, the man asks Dr. Murphy what he would do.

👓 Here’s More Evidence Broidy May Have Been Covering for Trump in Playmate Affair | Daily Intelligencer | NY Magazine

Read Here’s More Evidence Broidy May Have Been Covering for Trump in Playmate Affair (Daily Intelligencer)
A bombshell AP report establishes that there was a highly suspicious meeting between the two men.
The plot continues to thicken. What’s worse is that the corruption seems to be spreading instead of the swamp emptying as was promised. Teapot dome anyone?

👓 Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé | The Guardian

Read Facebook blocks Pulitzer-winning reporter over Malta government exposé by Julia Carrie Wong (The Guardian)
Temporary censorship of Matthew Caruana Galizia – who worked on the Panama Papers – raises concern over Facebook’s power to shape the news
I agree wholly with Ben Werdmuller.  Here’s yet another example why journalists should be posting their material to their own websites first before syndicating it to Facebook. Sure Facebook may help you get more eyeballs, but it doesn’t help if you’re locked out of your account or the content disappears altogether.

I’d written about some ideas related to this in the recent past: The Indieweb and Journalism.

I’m happy to help any journalist who is interested in creating their own easily maintainable website that uses Indieweb principles.

👓 Marie Kondo v. Tsundoku: Competing Japanese Philosophies on Whether to Keep or Discard Unread Books | Open Culture

Read Marie Kondo v. Tsundoku: Competing Japanese Philosophies on Whether to Keep or Discard Unread Books (Open Culture)
By now we've all heard of Marie Kondo, the Japanese home-organization guru whose book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up became an international bestseller in 2011.
Having minimized many of the things in my life, I’ll say that getting rid of books was something I just couldn’t bring myself to do either.

📺 “The West Wing” King Corn | Netflix

Watched "The West Wing" King Corn from Netflix
Directed by Alex Graves. With Alan Alda, Stockard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney. A day in the lives of presidential candidates Bob Russell, Matt Santos, and Arnold Vinick, who are in Iowa trying to gain support for their campaigns. Iowa is the first state in the nation to hold their presidential caucuses, and issues affecting farmers and rural areas are the focus. The most important issue on the table is the large federal subsidies for ethanol fuel given to corn growers, ...