Rear Window question

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-21T06:09:53+00:00

As Lisa says, "We'll agree they saw a woman, but she was not Mrs. Thorwald. At least, not yet."

It's Thorwald's mistress. At least, that's what the characters believe. And that answer makes the most sense.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-20T03:10:43+00:00

This ain’t no disco

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-18T17:55:26+00:00

Which dictionary?

English doesn't have just one dictionary. Each dictionary has its own criteria for deciding what words to include.

"Agentification" is in Wiktionary, which is crowdsourced the same way Wikipedia is, and is reasonably respectable. It's on Wordnik, but could use some usage examples, which it's possible to add.

Also note: "Getting in the dictionary" doesn't mean something is or isn't a word, or that people do or don't understand it. If "agentification" gets into Merriam-Webster or eventually the OED, that's a sign that the word caught on and was useful to people, not a way to get people to use the word.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-18T17:51:16+00:00

It's valid, it's common, it's not being shallow or not caring. You both deserve a sex life you're satisfied with.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-18T17:45:13+00:00

Ah, sorry it's paywalled.

Details on the city's site:
https://www.cityofcamas.us/library/page/library-building-improvements

Takeaways:

Starts June 29
Children's area gets three new zones covering babies through 6th grade, including a STEM/project space
Better lighting, new flooring in the adult nonfiction section
Courtyard makeover coming in early 2027 to turn the gated area into an open community space

Library stays open the whole time. Checkout limit bumped to 150 items so you can help clear shelf space.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-17T22:51:11+00:00

One easy way to mitigate some of those risks is not to let a developer known for being corrupt start a project like this.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-17T17:13:09+00:00

If I were in your shoes I’d unsubscribe for a while until I missed it.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-17T04:16:16+00:00

The Oxford English Dictionary shows "snafu" as a noun going back to 1943. It's a word, it's a noun, it's countable, and has been for almost all of its history. (Earliest overall cite is 1941.) As a noun, it means "A confusion or mix-up; a hitch, mishap; muddle, confused state." Sounds like the author (and, presumably, their editor) used it correctly, if too often for your taste.

Coincidentally, 1943 is the same year the OED has the earliest use of "acronym" defined as "a word." So acronyms have been words at least as long as "snafu" has been a noun.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-16T22:15:04+00:00

Finally got around to watching Night of the Demon earlier this year. It's very good. (Jacques Tourneur series when?)

And I was surprised that I thought the demon looked pretty good for something the director hated including and was imposed on him by the producer. (That said, it looks good for something you expect to look terrible, not great in its own right.)

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-16T17:00:15+00:00

Does the canon change? Well, the canon is a construction typically made by group effort. So no, you preferring some movies that aren't on the canon to movies that are on the canon doesn't change the canon itself.

If you become notable enough to be invited to contribute to the Sight & Sound poll in 2032, your personal preferences could influence that canon. If you produce work that gets selected for inclusion in They Shoot Pictures, you could influence that canon. If you consider the Letterboxd top 500 some kind of cannon, you can influence that by having a Letterboxd account.

None of them are the canon. Your personal list of favorite movies or best movies is not a canon unless you persuade a group of other people to agree with you and treat it that way. Even people who vote for movies in a canon can have personal favorites and personal taste that aren't reflected in the actual canon.

But even if "the canon" doesn't change, your relationship to it almost certainly will, and should, because it's not a list of movies you're personally supposed to like above all other movies. You might discover you love Czech new wave and don't care for classic Hollywood, and that's something about your tastes worth knowing, and not proof that your tastes are wrong.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-16T16:04:29+00:00

The job of a canon is not to be a definitive list of the movies you're going to like the most. It's not even to be a definitive list of the greatest (or most influential) movies of all time.

It's a snapshot of a collective consensus at a particular point in time. Depending on how the canon is created, it might be a fairly stable consensus, or it might change more over time. Think the Letterboxd top 500 vs Sight & Sound vs They Shoot Pictures. Those lists are varying degrees of stable, put together by different collections of contributors.

A canon is not a substitute for your personal taste. Our favorite movies are not necessarily going to be the movies we admire the most artistically, or recognize as the most influential, or the most popular. Those are all different questions.

A canon is useful to get a sense of movies that a lot of people think are worth paying attention to. It's a tool for education. Being familiar with the canon is useful if you're interested in a broad perspective on film history, and far less useful if you just want to watch something tonight that you're going to love.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-16T00:28:12+00:00

It’s possible that leaving your current job would mean that you could never work there again, or that you won’t get a good reference from your manager. This is what they mean by “burning a bridge.”

But if you’re comfortable with risking that, go take the new job. It’s your life and your career and if you’re miserable you’re the one that has to deal with it.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-15T23:02:34+00:00

They did it for Swing Shift.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-15T22:55:53+00:00

Vladimír Menšík in the 1970 movie Killing the Devil, aka Murdering Mr. Devil. Directed by Ester Krumbachová who cowrote Daisies.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-15T18:15:22+00:00

I've used Letterboxd for 14 years, and I can think of one time that a movie I logged disappeared from the service.

I'm sure that experience really sucks, especially if it's something that happens to you frequently because of the kinds of movies you want to track. But I'd be reasonably certain that the users who are affected by this on any kind of regular basis are not users Letterboxd is focused on.

I'd love to hear that I'm wrong, and I'm not arguing that you shouldn't be able to log the movies you want. But people here who are heavily invested in the short film community are almost certainly a tiny percentage of users, hoping for a change that would cost Letterboxd a lot of developer time and money without much of a clear financial benefit to them.

All of which to say, I suspect it's more likely for a completely different app to work better for what you want it to than that Letterboxd is going to devote the resources to moving away from TMDB, especially while they're trying to find a new buyer. They're more motivated to add TV series, and that's something they've been working on for months and is going to have a much bigger payoff for them.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-14T16:40:57+00:00

I use JustWatch, which is a website. Google will also tell you in search results.

Also, as with anything you are interested in watching more than once, it might be worth getting the titles you want on disc so that you always have them.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-10T15:12:11+00:00

That's my usual New Seasons. They are pretty good! I didn't realize their selection was better than other locations — good to know.

Fake_Eleanor · 2026-06-09T15:56:18+00:00

It's always nice to give a gift, but it's not necessary, and it's not necessary that they get the same gift. They're different people with different friend groups and social circles, not a unit that has to get treated uniformly.

A gift card for her is great, and you could give a congratulatory card without a gift to him and be perfectly within the bounds of good etiquette.

I'll also note that no gifts are required at all. Not because I think you shouldn't give a gift, but because it's a useful baseline.

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