Something I failed to spot in 2015 was the 50th anniversary of the Master FM Antenna installation on top of the Empire State Building. There was a light show, commemorating the date, synchronized to Steely Dan’s “FM”.
The song was from the 1978 movie of the same name.
Ironically or not, we played “FM” on the AM station where I worked. In 1978, for a $15/week raise, I became a one-man news department, like Les Nessman on the fictitious AM station WKRP in Cincinatti, which premiered that same year. Loni Anderson was a breakout star on the show, but for me the one to watch was Jan Smithers.
I’m in tough shape and laying low for the duration. A tooth extraction isn’t an appendectomy, but it’s still surgery. By the end of the lengthy procedure, the dentist was scraping infection out of my jaw bone. I’m taking an antibiotic to clear the rest of the infection. My jaw hurts from having kept my mouth wide open for so long, and I’m wondering if I had a negative reaction to receiving so many Novacain injections.
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.
2008 Boston MarathonExpanding 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!”
