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Sep. 11th, 2017 06:28 pm1. The Mary Sue is getting on my nerves again...(ie. yes, I know you think such and such movie is a hateful racist or anti-feminist or both bit of scorn, that needs to be boycotted and can't be permitted to exist...but honestly, it's just a movie. And one of about a trillion movies made yearly. Where people get a salary, so they can make better movies or send kids to school or feed themselves. Find something worthy to rant about. Like, I don't know, the DACA repeal? Climate Change and the burning of the northwest?).
Co-worker said what we are seeing is a failure of our educational system. I tend to agree. There's a lot information out there, but no one has been taught how to critically disseminate it. And way too many people skip over foundation - such as the humanities, art, social science, history, literature, music, and skip to business school, computer school, hard sciences, etc. Which honestly, you can pretty much teach yourself -- once you have a good foundation. But so many people don't. A lot of my co-workers for example, are financial and computer whizzes, but have no idea who Lyndon Johnson was or any knowledge about the Civil Rights Act or the First Amendment. It's scary.
2. Good news...I'm feeling grateful today. All of my family members weathered the hurricane from hell with no serious injuries. And to my knowledge no major damage to their homes. My cousin lost power in Orlando. (My mother doesn't know yet if her new house suffered any flooding or damage from the storm surge -- there's flooding on the island. But she's rather blase about the whole thing. Figures -- if there's damage, she'll just stay in her old home later, and wait for them to fix it. Her old/current home which she's selling, is fine. No damage at all. She heard from her neighbor.
And tonight's movie is Notting Hill, which will be shown to the evacuees on a big screen.) My Aunt didn't have any problems, nor did my Uncle -- there was no flooding, power outage or anything in Tampa. Apparently the storm surge hit the east side of the peninsula not the west. Very weird storm -- it was 500 miles across, and the locations opposite where the eye landed got hit the worse. Miami had more damage apparently than Naples, where it came in. And Orlando was hit worse than Tampa. Also Tybee Island and the Islands along the coast of Georgia suffered more of a storm surge than the areas along the Gulf Coast...yet it went up the West Side along the Gulf.
My mother tells me that they are getting the winds and rain now in Charlotte, North Carolina. So it is moving a lot faster than predicted.
3. Saw The Orville last night. Seth McFarland's homage/spoof on Star Trek and various other sci-fi shows. And...I agree with the critics. It's stupid. Also the acting is very stiff. Poor Adrianne Paleki(sp?) the actress from Friday Night Lights cannot catch a break. I felt sorry for her. She plays McFarland's First Officer and ex-wife, and is the best thing in the show. McFarland, I noticed has an asymetrical face, one eye is differently shaped than the other, also he's a bit stiff as an actor. I was disappointed.
The story is rather cliche. I feel like I've seen it before. It feels like a poor rendition of the original Star Trek. Lacking the charisma of the former players. Galaxy Quest this isn't.
It might get better, but I doubt it.
Sigh. Why can't this be on CBS All Access, and Discovery be on Fox -- where I can watch it for free?
Co-worker said what we are seeing is a failure of our educational system. I tend to agree. There's a lot information out there, but no one has been taught how to critically disseminate it. And way too many people skip over foundation - such as the humanities, art, social science, history, literature, music, and skip to business school, computer school, hard sciences, etc. Which honestly, you can pretty much teach yourself -- once you have a good foundation. But so many people don't. A lot of my co-workers for example, are financial and computer whizzes, but have no idea who Lyndon Johnson was or any knowledge about the Civil Rights Act or the First Amendment. It's scary.
2. Good news...I'm feeling grateful today. All of my family members weathered the hurricane from hell with no serious injuries. And to my knowledge no major damage to their homes. My cousin lost power in Orlando. (My mother doesn't know yet if her new house suffered any flooding or damage from the storm surge -- there's flooding on the island. But she's rather blase about the whole thing. Figures -- if there's damage, she'll just stay in her old home later, and wait for them to fix it. Her old/current home which she's selling, is fine. No damage at all. She heard from her neighbor.
And tonight's movie is Notting Hill, which will be shown to the evacuees on a big screen.) My Aunt didn't have any problems, nor did my Uncle -- there was no flooding, power outage or anything in Tampa. Apparently the storm surge hit the east side of the peninsula not the west. Very weird storm -- it was 500 miles across, and the locations opposite where the eye landed got hit the worse. Miami had more damage apparently than Naples, where it came in. And Orlando was hit worse than Tampa. Also Tybee Island and the Islands along the coast of Georgia suffered more of a storm surge than the areas along the Gulf Coast...yet it went up the West Side along the Gulf.
My mother tells me that they are getting the winds and rain now in Charlotte, North Carolina. So it is moving a lot faster than predicted.
3. Saw The Orville last night. Seth McFarland's homage/spoof on Star Trek and various other sci-fi shows. And...I agree with the critics. It's stupid. Also the acting is very stiff. Poor Adrianne Paleki(sp?) the actress from Friday Night Lights cannot catch a break. I felt sorry for her. She plays McFarland's First Officer and ex-wife, and is the best thing in the show. McFarland, I noticed has an asymetrical face, one eye is differently shaped than the other, also he's a bit stiff as an actor. I was disappointed.
The story is rather cliche. I feel like I've seen it before. It feels like a poor rendition of the original Star Trek. Lacking the charisma of the former players. Galaxy Quest this isn't.
It might get better, but I doubt it.
Sigh. Why can't this be on CBS All Access, and Discovery be on Fox -- where I can watch it for free?