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Loong career. Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Frank Sinatra in ANCHORS AWEIGH. With Myrna Loy and William Powell in SONG OF THE THIN MAN. Also with Gregory Peck in GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT.

RIP Dean Stockwell of Quantum Leap, Paris Texas, To Live and Die in L.A, Dune, and Blue Velvet https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/09/dean-stockwell-quantum-leap-blue-velvet-married-to-mob-dies-aged-85

One year ago today...

Bad luck, but good outcome.

Got in a Hemingway wormhole this morning. Two of them... Last interview

Sushi in America https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/05/magazine/sushi-us.html?campaign_id=52&emc=edit_ma_20211106&instance_id=44772&nl=the-new-york-times-magazine&regi_id=78835134&segment_id=73747&te=1&user_id=d8e28ecb31abfc66412f87150dbdd4c4

I'm not sure these notes are really useful for the Metaverse

If you’re able to forgo the Amazon ecosystem (I wouldn’t) why not look wide like Onyx or reMarkable?

Arooj Aftab's Vulture Prince, based on an Elvis Costello article where he said he had a little trouble finding new stuff until this one. Sample:

The second year of a pandemic seems more kind to Halloweenish fun than the first. For Friday's school Historical Halloween she was kickass Jeanne/Jean Baret/Barret/Baré (1740–1807), botanist and first woman to circumnavigate the global (disguised as a man on Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s 1766–1769 expedition). For today/tonight's choice she was inspired by 2013s mega-meme-Ylvis-zeitgeist-experience The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?).

Wakey-wakey

Woz's take on iPhone 13... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-co-founder-wozniak-cant-tell-the-difference-between-i-phone-13-and-previous-phones-211847252.html

Seeing if I can be the most geekiest.

^ I'm doing the same on the video front.

To be fair there is the advantage of creating a more seamless transition from computer screen to car windshield. If only there were virtual wipers that occasionally appeared.

Finished the last of three episodes of The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. She seems so normal.

Hope it's a fun day.

So the TouchBar is dead? That makes me sad. That was a joke.

How many times its own weight can an ant lift again?

Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony-brought-to-life-by-artificial-intelligence/

What are the guesses for next collaboration?

Just a reminder... https://www.theonion.com/interim-apple-chief-under-fire-after-unveiling-grotesqu-1819572211

Looking slick Al

A True Story About Bogus Photos of People Making Fake News https://www.wired.com/story/true-story-bogus-photos-people-fake-news/