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Friday, July 7, 2023

Indian Jones and the Dial of Desitny

 Well, the end of the work week has arrived.  This means I am scheduled to work tomorrow.  Yippee.  

For the past 2 days the weather has been hot, or perhaps I should say rather warm since both Wednesday and Thursday our thermometers have climbed into the low 90s (F).  They're nothing like what they have down south where the temps are in the low 100s (F).  Of course, we're just at the beginning of summer, things will probably start cooking when we get later into July and August.

I finally got in a decent dumbbell workout (53 minutes) and bike ride (14.02 miles) yesterday and felt so much better.  I find that when I get the workouts in I feel much better.  When I don't I tend to want to take naps, not a good thing.  Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against taking a nice nap, it's just that they need to be taken in serious moderation.  I have no plans on sleeping away the rest of my life.

Last evening I went to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and I liked it... a lot.  I'm sure many of Harrison Fords action shots were done by a stunt double, but for an 80 year old man he was rather impressive.  I suspect one of the problems some people might have is seeing people they consider to be old staring in an action movie.  Get over it, people. The storyline was good.  Mads Madsen played the villain well, smooth and slick, and slimy.  


One thing I found fascinating about the movie is that there really is an Antikythera though I doubt very much if it was built by Archimedes, and though only one has been found, I suspect there were more in the ancient Greek world.


And probably the only really big and very joyful news is that Elon Musk is flipping out about Threads.  While I'm not wild about Mark Zuckerberg, I have no problem seeing Musk's ruination at his hands.  One thing I am seeing, and hope you are, too, is people posting good advice about the haters.  Be certain that Libs of TikTok will show up in your feed.  When they do and try to incite you with inflammatory comments and videos do not respond just mute them.  The fewer responses they get, the more they find themselves muted, the less often they will show up.  This is how you use the algorithms to your benefit.




9 comments:

  1. Two billionaires paying ¿Quién es más macho? is uninteresting to me.

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    1. I find it somewhat fascinating watching them go bucko to bucko

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  2. I think I may watch Indiana Jones in his latest adventure. And isn't it funny how a great grandpa gets a pass in action movies? Eighty, huh? Tom is 61 and jumping off planes. Oh well.

    As for Fuckerberg and Elmo, they can both go choke. I love that Elmo was all butthurt, after he publicly said the engineers he fired were not useful. Hahaha.
    I read you need an Insta to continue the data mining on Threads. It was a very smart move from Facebook: a built-in population of one billion people. And you should report Klanned Karenhood and the such for hate speech. They deserve it.

    XOXO

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    1. I don't like Tom and don't watch his movies, he's way to weird.

      Reporting her doesn't stop her, just grows her hate audience, not responding will slowly shut her down.

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  3. I was wondering if anyone saw this movie. I only saw the first one. But I was wondering if one could see the strings attached to Ford in the movie for movement.

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    1. I'm betting you'll wish you were as mobile as he is when you hit 80, or will you just blame it on tight stays? 😎😎😎

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    2. One never knows! lol! If history repeats most of the members of my family did well till there early 90's before heading downhill.

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  4. I admit I was curious as to how Ford would hold up in the film at 80 years old so it's good to know he's good. Some people do age rather well don't they. Still, that's more convincing than Eastwood still trying to play the love interest to a 30 year old at the age of 80!

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    1. From the videos I've seen of Ford at Cannes this year, he's holding up well. There is this belief out there among young people that seniors act geriatric, that's simply not the case.

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