Disney Legends James Cameron, Harrison Ford, John Williams and… STEVE DITKO??
Author: DOuG pRATt
Dishwasher Update
There’s a problem that will delay the dishwasher installation. It has a sealed bottom with no space for this electrical junction box that’s under the old unit. I’ve sent this picture to the plumber with a voice message. After he calls me in the morning I’ll call an electrician.
Their Top Priority?
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
Look! Up on the Screen!
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.
Broken Dishes
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!
Self-Contained Squeezebox
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.
