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The Department of Homeland Security must be having trouble finding applicants for this job if LinkedIn’s AI considers me a good candidate for it!

Now here’s a job I know I’d enjoy doing.

Note that not all 70mm showings of Oppenheimer are in IMAX theaters, as is the case here. The interest, care, and attention to detail that is taken by Radioactive Drew isn’t necessarily shared by all projectionists. Not even for the limited number of IMAX showings, as happened at a theater in Canada.

So, what did I think of Oppenheimer? My short review is, I was hoping for another Dunkirk, and it isn’t.

I would like to see it again, this time in digital IMAX, but I’m not sure if that will be before or after I have a lower molar extracted this week. It depends upon whether or not I change my mind and decide to see Barbie instead. 😉

With the 17th anniversary of the blog coming up next month, I see the 5,000 mark has been crossed. Those aren’t as many posts as there are stars in the galaxy, but they’re more than I ever thought I’d do. This is post number 5,012, although there were actually more than that. A small number of them were deleted or hidden from view for one reason or another.

Expanding dograt.com from a domain name with e-mail into a WWW site was purely a technical exercise for me. In 2002 there were a dozen Web pages that I laboriously put together with Microsoft’s FrontPage software and lots of HTML 4 tailoring that was done by hand.

When considering my Web 2.0 options away from static pages, Movable Type seemed to be the more advanced and stable product, but I was looking for a DIY challenge, and I found it in WordPress 2.0.2. The latest version of WordPress, running here now, is 6.2.2.

Every time I feel like giving up, I find an excuse to keep going. The last big snafu forced me to run an outdated version of WordPress for a couple of years, and the site began crashing. After gritting my teeth and finding my way through that mess, I’m no longer hot on fixing technical problems. If another one of comparable difficulty hits, and Prattling Before the Pratfall breaks again, that’s when I’ll shut down.

Saying that reminds me of my years running the Boston Marathon. After crossing the finish line in agony, I’d tell myself “NEVER AGAIN!” By the time I was sitting on the bus half an hour later with my juice and cookies, waiting for the ride back to the starting line, I was thinking, “NEXT YEAR!”

Back in college I did a lot of hitch-hiking, usually for the 100 miles between home and campus. Hey, it was the 70’s. A high point was a ride with a beautiful, dark-haired 30-ish woman who was driving a convertible. Like a scene from a movie, she suggested another sort of a ride, but the circumstances prevented me from taking advantage of the opportunity. Regrettably, it was for the best.

Sometimes I hitch-hiked with my roommate Brad, and on one occasion we were stopped by a Massachusetts state trooper. We thought we were in trouble, but like Daffy said he was a swell guy, and he gave us a ride most of the way down the Mass Pike.

Like Daffy I have flat feet, and I wear custom orthotics in my running shoes. I’m very pleased with my new Asics Gel-Kayano 29’s. They’re much better than the 28’s although your mileage, literally, may vary.

https://www.asics.com/us/en-us/gel-kayano-29/c/aa50124290/

On YouTube there are reviews of the Kayano saying they “fit to size,” but that definitely isn’t true for me. In fact, I need to go up a full size for them to fit.