SNOW! Our first snow of 2016... just a little flurry. Time for some Winter stuff:
HealthCentral.com says:
1. Mittens keep your hands warmer than gloves.. they keep your fingers together, so there is less surface from which heat can escape.
2. Hot drinks do not keep you warm in the cold. A cup of hot cocoa might keep your hands warm for a couple of minutes.. but you would have to drink a quart or more of it in a short time, for it to affect your body heat.
3. You CAN get a sunburn in Winter. Think about the sun reflecting off of snow drifts.
Mystery?
In an old crossword puzzle (from 2013), one of the clues was "Owling and planking, e.g."... the answer worked out to be "fans".. but I could not find decent explanations for the clue words. I guess something passed me by on this.
Unsung Computer Pioneer
The year 2013 was also the year that Douglas Engelbart died. He invented the "mouse" in 1964. What would your computer experience be without a mouse? (The official name was: the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.")
In 1978, Engelbart told everyone about what his experimental research had been doing at Stanford University. He demonstrated word processing, video conferencing, and desktop windows, 13 years before the IBM PC.
He also developed hypertext!
Doug never got the recognition that he deserved, but he didn't really care. He was too busy working to obtain funds for his Stanford group.
INFINITY
A Comcast technician visited this morning and gave me a new cable box and fixed it us so that we can access all the features of Infinity... I've been paying for it for three or four months, but have not been able to utilize it. Now I can... looks like fun.. it has some new features that are tempting.
Wine by mail?
My son joined the wine club that mails you different wines every month or so. I thought that Maryland did not allow such mailing. But Chris says he gets his mail through the mail. I'll look into it. The New York Times advertises a wine club in every issue.
Marvelous Movie!
Last night, I was reviewing an old VCR taping and was surprised to find that the taped movie was
Reflections in a Golden Eye.... a remarkable movie. I never get tired of seeing it... this was perhaps the tenth time ... as a classic, every time I watch it, I see something I missed before.
Marlon Brando plays the closeted homosexual Army Major who stalks an enlisted man, who just happens to be able to sneak into the Major's wife's room while she sleeps in a drunken stupor, so that he can sniff her undies while watching her sleeping and snoring.
Elizabeth Taylor, the wife, was in excellent shape for this movie.. she plays the spoiled daughter of
a former General. Julie Harris plays a neurotic cuckolded wife who is best friends with her effeminate Phillipine houseboy, Anacleto. Brian Keith is the cuckolder, who is messing around with the Major's wife. All of this observed by a naked horseman (Private Williams.. played by Robert Forster).
In my opinion... everyone in this movie should have received an Academy Award... they played it perfectly, in my opinion. I will be ordering the original novel for my Kindle and look forward to reading it.
John Huston directed this movie in 1967.. based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Carson McCullers. Mr. Huston had all of the scenes suffused with gold color, except for one object (like a red rose) normally colored in each scene. Unfortunately, the public could not handle the color, so it was quickly redone... but the movie still bombed. I guess it took too much thought to make it easy to watch.
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