Quick Look

The trailer for "The Brink."

Back By Popular Demand

The British version of "The Office" was far superior to the American version.

Here is a clip of a performance evaluation meeting.

Orange Blossom Time

It's orange blossom time in Phoenix, at least in my neighborhood which once was an orange grove. I love the smell especially in the evenings when it is particularly strong. I wander outside in order to test the effect on my allergies. 

Several years ago, my doctor ran a flawed allergy test which said that my sole allergy is juniper. The test also said that I'm not allergic to cats. That alone causes me to question its accuracy since the mere presence of a cat can puff up my eyes. Perhaps cats hang around juniper.

All of which would be acceptable if cats smelled as good as orange blossoms.


[Photo by Rana Sawalha at Unsplash]

Classic

Cultural Offering has Suzanne Vega with "Luka."

When the "Incrementals" are Good

Surround yourself with enough good people and good strategies and after a while the good "incrementals" will start to kick in.

And they are more likely to last than a single big win.

Fun Doing Math with Siri

Political Calculations on what happens when you ask Siri "What's 1 trillion raised to the tenth power?"

As if you don't know the answer.

Our Man in Florida

FutureLawyer has posted an important message.

On April 1st.

Seek First to Understand

The committee didn't like another committee's proposed practice and could see no benefit in adopting it. They thought it was a power move. Instead of proposing an alternative of their own, they entirely ignored the matter.

No one said, "Assume they're not crazy or simply driven by emotion. What could be a reasonable basis or argument for the proposed practice?"

That omission was a big mistake.

Am Awaiting the Disney Version

The trailer for "Stalker."

First Paragraph

On Vikar's shaved head is tattooed the right and left lobes of his brain. One lobe is occupied by an extreme close-up of Elizabeth Taylor and the other by Montgomery Clift, their faces barely apart, lips barely apart, in each other's arms on a terrace, the two most beautiful people in the history of the movies, she the female version of him, and he the male version of her.

- From Zeroville: A Novel by Steve Erickson