7:32 p.m. Three young female walk-ins asked for rides home, as it was raining hard and they did not have rides. Officer Cody Normandin spoke with them, and they walked home on their own.
Doughboy on Dope
Heroes for Sale is a 1933 pre-code movie from Warner Brothers, the studio with a social conscience. Directed by William Wellman, it stars silent film actor Richard Barthelmess, who found some success in talkies.
Wellman directed the silent epic Wings, and he displays his skill with war scenes in the opening of Heroes for Sale. Barthelmess plays a WWI soldier who suffers from inoperable shrapnel in his spine and becomes a veteran with an opioid addiction.
He gets out of rehab and finds love with 20-year-old Loretta Young. The always excellent Aline MacMahon is along for the ride that includes a Capitalism vs. Communism theme.
I Never Took LSD. Here’s Why.
I was afraid this would be what I saw.
Are you as annoyed as I am that so many headlines end with “Here’s Why”?
Tripping With Doctor Who
In this clip from The Late Late Show on CBS, pre-James Corden host Craig Ferguson tributes the time-tripping Doctor Who, with an appearance by the 11th Doctor, Matt Smith.
To Ferguson’s delight, Smith’s Doctor regenerated into his old pal, Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. Here they are talking about dropping acid. Which I assure you I never did, or ever had any interest in doing.
Ferguson is about to go on a short tour, and one of his stops will be at the gates of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
https://www.aomtheatre.com/event/craig-ferguson-the-fancy-rascal-tour/
My old Western Mass newspaper cohort and friend Mike Dobbs spoke with Ferguson by phone a couple of days ago.
https://www.thereminder.com/dining/features/craig-ferguson-to-perform-at-academy-of-music-sept/
Picking up on my Cuckoo Month post from a few days ago, you can add Doctor Who to the list. The series premiered on November 23, 1963.
Rootkit Canal
The story of Sony’s notorious rootkit deployment, as told by Dave Plummer, the Microsoft developer whose code made the hack possible.
Credit for the deep digging to uproot the rootkit goes to Mark Russinovich, a founder of Winternals. Before becoming one of the voluntarily unemployed, I was very familiar with their Sysinternals Suite of utilities. Russinovich’s work was so outstanding that Microsoft bought Winternals and brought Mark on board.
Crapto Currency
I’m halfway through Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud, by actor Ben McKenzie, B.S. Economics, and journalist Jacob Silverman. It’s one of the new books covered in MIT Technology Review.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/23/1077693/crypto-foul-play/
CNBC has been breathlessly covering the crypto action since it started, almost invariably with a positive spin. In this short segment there’s an attempt to discredit McKenzie’s view that cryptocurrency is a scam. Which is funny, considering all of the investment nonsense that entertainer Jim Cramer spouts on CNBC. Nobel Prize economist Paul Krugman also sees no valid economic use for crypto currency.
Speaking of economics degrees, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond checks on the popularity of the major in colleges.
https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus/2022/q3_profession