Broken corporate culture. Profit motive. Stock price. Executive bonuses. Mismanagement. Incompetence. Oversight Failure. Excuses. Lack of Responsibility.
Those are the elements of what happened on Wall Street in 2008. Also Boeing, in 2018, 2019, and again in 2024.
Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead
Here we go again, waiting for the once-and-for-all best restoration of the Fleischer Superman cartoons.
https://gizmodo.com/superman-fleischer-cartoons-restoration-1851342887
One of the complaints with the Blu-ray set released last year was about inconsistent color, compared to the source material. On the left is supposed to be the correct color of Lois’ suit.
This screen grab from the new restoration shows the original suit color has been retained.
But hold on. Enlarge the right frame, that is supposed to be “wrong” according to some hardcore fans.
Now compare it to this screen grab from the restoration. It looks terrible, even taking the low-res quality into account.
Being a Patreon-funded project, I have to assume the source materials aren’t the raw high-resolution film scans that were used for the Blu-ray set. The Warner Archive team needs to be given the opportunity to work with those original scans.
The dishwasher died yesterday. It’s a Kitchenaid that’s only six years old. The Bosch that preceded it lasted eight years, and so did the Bosch before it. According to Consumer Reports, Bosch is the most reliable brand. My definition of reliability is fifteen years, which happens to be age of the Maytag washer and dryer pair I bought for $700 on a no sales tax weekend in 2008.
Samsung is supposed to be one of the less reliable brands, but that’s what I bought today for $399 at Lowes. CA says it cleans and dries very well, and I like the handle. I’m less enamored of the door’s pulley mechanism as seen in the photo. Here comes the fourth dishwasher since starting this weblog!
MySqueezebox, the app intermediary for Logitech Media Server, is no more, taking access to TuneIn with it. Being determined to keep live radio streaming on my LMS network, I built a local collection of essential favorites to access the streams directly. It took a while to find all of the right URL’s, but they’re now working within LMS.
I could have picked any number of items about retiring Boomers. It just happens to be this one, because I came across it today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/younger-boomers-less-avoid-running-183834669.html
On The CBS Evening News a while back, Robert Costa referred to the aged presidential candidates as belonging to the Baby Boom generation. NO! Definitely no for Biden, and also no for Trump. Biden’s father was born in 1915, and Trump’s in 1905.
I am proclaiming a new qualification for the start of the Baby Boom, that better defines what actually drove the trend: People whose parents had their first child after WWII.
This implies young couples in their 20’s, as my parents were. Not someone whose father was born before America entered WWI, and certainly not a post-WWII baby with a father who was my grandfather’s age.
If Star Trek is Wagon Train in space, then Dune: Part Two is Lawrence of Arabia in space. That isn’t intended to be a slight. The movie is a bit of a overly long mess, but it’s a fun ride. Which describes a lot of movies these days, I guess.
