THAT actually makes a lot of sense. This is cover for a military study on crowdsourcing intelligence in general. They call for people to look for something funny up in the sky, and see what flows in.

Too bad he didn’t park his cars in his uterus. Then it would be everybody’s business.

There used to be a Foster’s in West LA/Culver City (I forget exactly where; Sepulveda? Nope, turns out it was on Washington East of Lincoln. A Dunkin now). It was intriguing to me, a transplant from NYC. I got a soft-serve once, out of curiosity. It was good, and I was entertained by the very extensive menu taped up…

I will fight for spelling it doughnought.

Alpha and Omega

He has nothing to do with show business and should get out of it. He should manage an index fund and be done with it.

No credit to Ted Chiang and his recent excellent essay in The New Yorker on EXACTLY this topic?

Simon Pegg: best career in show business.

The parks are, I believe, Disney’s biggest profit center. They won’t close it. But I wouldn’t bet on anyone out-thinking Disney’s strategists.

The obligatory The Onion article:

I am looking to replace my Toyota Prius Prime soon. I’m very interested in Fords, but I’m waiting until the 2nd model year. My impression is that American car companies have serious quality control issues and I’d like to see how that shakes out before purchase.

Let me punch that up. “...just a union for writers whose work actors like, but that isn’t how labor works.” I don’t know the show, but I don’t take her word for it that her not liking a line makes it bad.

Of course! The strike isn’t to improve conditions only for writers who only do excellent things. But (a) the actor’s job is to say the lines and hit the marks, and (b) while I know zero about Ms Ortega, I would trust the writers to know good writing over her. There are certainly actors who write too (and writers who…

That’s right. Also, it’s not just what you get paid, but what you get paid for. Studios ask for more and more development work for free. Used to be you’d show a treatment, and if they liked it, you got a deal (with money) to develop that into a script which they would or would not produce and would or would not put on…

Reminds me of a Yiddish expression, “a shande far di goyim” meaning an embarrassment in full view of the non-Jewish majority. The point is, keep your fights from being seen by the dominant majority. They don’t like you anyway, this will just make them happy.

I’m a little disappointed none of them have approached me. I have a good job as a technical writer, all my teeth, and a drivers license. Also, I speak French and enjoy a Bandol rosé, not overly chilled. I think I’d be a catch.

Is it not? Is “waterfall” a euphemism for something? Oh, dear, just finished reading the article... Sorry.

That is a lot, though I did know one guy who did maybe half that... still a lot. He’s dead. (also smoked, tbh)

If our timeline goes fully dystopian fascist, it makes sense to me that “messianic Jews” would be appointed “protectors” of Jews. And any Jew who wants to feel safe would start to wear a new piece a jewelry: a cross with a star of David somehow embedded in it. Look at the history of conversos.

Well, I like the dada part.