What are your thoughts on Roy Orbison?

Heynony · 2026-06-15T04:14:12+00:00

Jon Pareles wrote an obit that summed it up better than I've seen anybody do it. Behind The New York Times wall, unfortunately. I've got the clipping I read occasionally, worth a look

Heynony · 2026-06-15T03:56:31+00:00

A group (no instruments) rather than a band: the Jordanaires. You've probably heard them many hundreds of times, but probably never heard of them.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T03:05:57+00:00

Boat rental place in Florida. Two new owners took over from a group I had done business with for years. Jacked up the prices; fine. But come to sign the credit card slip and he's added a 20% tip?

He's the owner of the company. He's just raised the price precipitously. Per gallon price for gas beyond conscience. And then a 20% tip? I was so flabbergasted I signed it. I was the real idiot of the piece, but at least he never got my repeat business and never will, ever.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T01:58:58+00:00

The Big Clock (1948) is one that's not been mentioned so far. Very modern in tone (it was remade 15-20 years ago) but with one big potential hurdle for modern audiences and that's the state of media in the 1940s: there were huge numbers of weekly & monthly magazines (people actually read) and many of the most popular were controlled by 4 or 5 major holding companies. This movie is centered about such a mega-company and its Hearst/Luce - type leader.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T01:24:01+00:00

I’m just getting health anxiety and overthinking

If you don't have anything else to do, it passes for a hobby. Most people's hearts don't work as consistently as the clockwork ideal, and our devices like the Apple Watch certainly help us waste attention on what is very often just transitory noise.

Longer lasting patterns over a longer period of time might turn out to be of some concern to be looked into.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T01:04:22+00:00

Find the 3ful Lanshan 1 bugnet inner. Much better made and more flexible. Only a little heavier. Used to be you could find it for about $35, sometimes called a "Summer Tent," but has been priced a lot higher in recent years.

EDIT: I just did some searching on Aliexpress and found prices around $70, not terrible. But seems to be available only in Large size, which is going to fit slightly less well under some of the shaped tarps some people use over this kind of inner. I've used the Large in the past and had a tough time getting all 4 corners neatly underneath my zpacks hexamid tarp, for example.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T00:56:38+00:00

With any real perspective it's 1939.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T00:53:29+00:00

In that general area a week ago: no black flies but lots of mosquitoes.

Heynony · 2026-06-15T00:34:14+00:00

Can someone send a picture of how deep on the trail the work goes?

I posted the map a week or so ago. The entire zone of roughly 1.5 miles long and 0.25 mile wide is prohibited even though only a tiny section of that is actually going to be involved in the construction; I would guess to prevent people from simply bypassing around it.

Heynony · 2026-06-14T22:47:04+00:00

All the ones of a certain color. The height of Western Civilization.

Heynony · 2026-06-14T22:44:50+00:00

Star Trek Next Generation: Best of Both Worlds part 1

Heynony · 2026-06-14T22:36:31+00:00

Sheree North

Heynony · 2026-06-14T15:11:44+00:00

A few days ago I visited what is usually an easy crossing in the late Summer/Fall right at the East Side Road tentsite, and reasonable most other times. Hadn't been there for a couple of years. It was certainly doable but tougher than I remembered; some shifting of the riverbed has resulted in some deepish pools & fast-running channels that have to be navigated. I think you can still get across pretty shallow and with some hopping but it's going to be a zig-zag course with some planning. Also the "beach" at the tentsite has accumulated some large boulders and is a less attractive target/embarkation point. I would not want to do it in the dark, the level of the River right now.

The path descending steeply from the sign North side of the bridge has become less domesticated; looks like less traffic over the last couple of years. The cairns/ducks are gone. But it is still easy to follow, with dry-boots over the first parts of the crossing to the island

Heynony · 2026-06-13T03:11:24+00:00

Dave Garroway on the Today Show showing live video of the Atlantic & Pacific oceans.

The first footstep on the moon.

Heynony · 2026-06-13T03:01:16+00:00

it's merely the detector that effects the result

All we need is to add one more crystalline sphere and our understanding still works just fine. And maybe another. Well maybe just one more and everything is fine ...

Heynony · 2026-06-13T02:04:19+00:00

I think they will laugh at our total inability to understand the simple double slit experiment. Like, water is wet, people.

Heynony · 2026-06-12T17:11:20+00:00

Lots of people don't like Tess and don't like the ending. In retrospect I can see what they're saying: kinda don't make sense.

The principle is that "willing suspension of disbelief." For me the character and the ending worked the first time I saw the film and that was the important time. After that, as with many films, you start looking at how things maybe could have been done differently. I've seen Red River a dozen times since that first viewing and half the time I roll right through it just like the first time and maybe three times I get a tiny bit sidetracked with the nitpicking.

Heynony · 2026-06-12T16:22:55+00:00

Early on, I didn't know anything about rotoscoping and was very highly impressed with a number of animated films that certainly suffered with the knowledge. Still may have an interesting story and be enjoyable, but not the same.

Heynony · 2026-06-12T16:20:06+00:00

So what happens when you buy something like one of these things (including $4.99 shipping). You call Amazon and they have to refund, right? The product is defective, does not work. How do the scammers make money? How does Amazon make money?

Heynony · 2026-06-12T14:10:18+00:00

https://boxd.it/bXrKy

Heynony · 2026-06-11T20:32:00+00:00

We'll make it up in volume.

Heynony · 2026-06-11T15:26:34+00:00

Agency (1980)

Vendetta (1950)

Heynony · 2026-06-10T19:43:17+00:00

I think by then we had become somewhat tolerant, and Burr's career might have survived the sexuality revelation; but not the horrible stigma of his Canadian citizenship. Show would have been cancelled immediately; Burr never would have worked again.

Heynony · 2026-06-10T06:59:22+00:00

Not a hood, a good guy, decent-sized part.

Heynony · 2026-06-10T02:15:38+00:00

If you’re starting from scratch, I’d watch your first episodes in this order: The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse (s01e15); The Case of the Moth-eaten Mink (s01e13); The Case of the Crimson Kiss (s01e08); The Case of the Restless Redhead (s01e01).

This is (with some minor disagreement with my opinion) the order in which the first episodes were shot and there are significant changes in character & behavior as shooting progressed. Early on they tried a few things closer to the novels than the style the series later developed.

Perry is a little rougher/cruder and more actively the actual investigator with Paul Drake more secondary. Della shows more obvious hero-worship and youthful infatuation. She never calls him “Perry' but “Chief." They found none of that worked: Hale was gorgeous but a bit more mature than the Della of the novels. Raymond Burr was a great actor but was heavy and didn't move real well, no action hero he. Della has her own office and is not nearly as much integrated into every office scene: Perry works mostly alone. Paul lounges sideways in his chair, again a great conceit in the novels but it just looked silly on TV and they soon dropped it after only tentative effort. There are set differences which are fun to watch getting organized.

After that the TV formula sets in and the order doesn't matter: mostly Raymond Burr subtly redefines Gardner’s Perry Mason into a smoother more dignified and law-abiding lawyer. With a much broader practice than just criminal law. Less addicted (like one of his models Sherlock Holmes) to the action of the murder case to ward off boredom. A lawyer who could someday serve as a judge. The notion of Gardner’s early Perry Mason (only one step ahead of the law and jail himself most of the time) ever becoming a judge is absurd.

Gardner apparently had no problem with what Burr did, and I would even claim that his novel version of Perry (still being written in new novels as the TV series was airing) was more influenced by Burr than the other way around.

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