For those of you living in Central PA, we're going to have a beautiful day. Temps are going to be in the low 80s (F). Humidity is going to be down. Tomorrow? Probably not so nice. We've got a 59% chance of rain, possibly in the form of a later afternoon thunderstorm. So, if you're not working, go outside and have a blast.
Yesterday was interesting. I had breakfast with my brother. That was interesting. Despite being polar opposites when it comes to politics, we get along well. When I got home, I finished and the posted my blog. And then, I began the publication process. This is usually an easy process. Everything was going along ducky until I got to the cover art. The scanned copy needed to have 300 DPI (dots per inch) and mine only had 195. Well, hell. I've never had this problem before. So I made several attempts at increasing the DPI, including downloading Photoshop. That only raise the DPI to 212. I decided to rescan the artwork and lo and behold that's where my problem was. The Xerox printer/scanner I own allows you to select the level of DPI, either 200, 300, 400, or 500, and I had originally scanned it in at 200. I rescanned it at 400 and voila! No problem.
I went to see Disclosure Day last evening. I liked it. A lot. Some people are having a problem with the last 30 minutes. Quite probably this is because they were expecting something akin to the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, neither does it have an ET ending. Perhaps the film is too cerebral for some. The ending is, instead, provocative. Emily Blunt is outstanding, so is Josh O'Connor. I will watch it again when it streams.
I would love to read this about the movie Waiting for this movie with bated breath.
ReplyDeleteIt was quite good on a big screen.
DeleteThe Republicans have driven away moderates from their party since Goldwater and Reagan. The Democrats have very gradually driven out their more progressive elements since 1946.
ReplyDeleteNow progressives are rising fast in the Democratic Party, you see no such movement for the few moderates in the Republican Party.
2026 will be a bell weather election, the establishment Democrats are in for a comeuppance and Republicans are in for a shellacking.
Rex in DC
The Republicans have gone farther to the right and become crazier, and at the same time Democrats, after Obama, thought that all they had to do was coast.
DeleteAs you said Blunt is excellent …I hated the movie in general though
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of people were expecting another ET, or Close Encounters, soft, comfy, feel-good science fiction, and this was neither of those.
DeleteI read on Snopes that the presidents motorcade drove through the non reflecting pond. They say it is true. He is trampling everything American. He is spending millions of your tax bucks covering up his idiotic fuck ups. We have 64 degrees up here today and it is supposed to stay that as our high. It is very humid and feels like rain will start soon. Hope you can publish your book without anymore snags. Gigi
ReplyDeleteThis is because he only cares about himself. I do believe he hates America. So far the rain we were supposed to be getting hasn't arrived.
DeleteAccording to Snopes there is NO fence or tarp around the Reflecting Pool, and any images thereof are AI generated. But it wouldn't surprise me if it happens. His ego is so fragile anything that doesn't match what's happening in his spaghetti-for-brains head has to be ignored as if it doesn't exit.
ReplyDeleteI just Googled fence around reflecting pond and got pictures, so Snopes is wrong. However, the Park Service is saying that it's not because of the algae, rather it's a safety precaution as we head into the 4th of July.
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