8/25/20

[t-bob]

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What’s the point?

[billhammond]

It's Sean Connery's 90th birthday! (HOW many times have I watched "The Hunt for Red October"??)

[Cornflake]

"What’s the point?"

Bob, without 8/25 we couldn't get to 8/26. Plus we get to wish happy birthday to Sean Connery.

Enjoy your day, everyone.

[theevan]

Aug 25, 2020 12:09:07 GMT -5 billhammond said:

It's Sean Connery's 90th birthday! (HOW many times have I watched "The Hunt for Red October"??)

How about The "Wind and the Lion"? Excellent flick.

[billhammond]

Never saw it -- he was great in "The Untouchables," too.

[epaul]

Aug 25, 2020 12:09:07 GMT -5 billhammond said:

... (HOW many times have I watched "The Hunt for Red October"??)

4.

What do I win?

[millring]

He was great on Jeopardy! too.

[Russell Letson]

I don't think I've seen The Wind and the Lion since its original theatrical release, but I recall we thoroughly enjoyed it--Milius is an interesting director/screenwriter, sort of in the John Huston mold. The cast is very good (though interestingly enough, only one of the Moroccan principals is portrayed by an actor of middle-eastern background--and he's a Jordanian) and the filmmaking is terrific.

[Marty]

Aug 25, 2020 12:09:07 GMT -5 billhammond said:

It's Sean Connery's 90th birthday! (HOW many times have I watched "The Hunt for Red October"??)

When I woke up in the hospital I couldn't talk due to a respirator in my throat. Once that was out I needed a cap or something in there before I could speak. When they were closing that up for the last time I asked the Doc to put in a Sean Connery model, he said it was either my own voice or the Donald Duck model.

[paleo]

94 degrees, feels like 100.
Glad I got my bike ride in early.

[millring]

Clearing out my attic I just tossed my high school baseball cap. It still fit. I'd have thought my head would be fatter by now. The rest of me is. I also threw away my letters -soccer, basketball, baseball. I never bought a jacket or a sweater to stitch them to.

I also tossed a stack of college papers. I'm guessing that they were typed for me by Deb --the girl who is now the wife of the college president.

We got good grades, Deb and me 🙂

I threw away a stack of blue books. I was always ready to be hospitalized for brain explosion after a multiple choice test. But give me a blue book essay test and just watch your local network for blizzard warnings. I could fill a 20 page blue book with 50 pages of writing.

I'm guessing that I saw my grandfather Rodman in person maybe 3 times in my life (once in Indiana, once in Florida, and at dad's funeral). But my Rodman cousin's grandfather (are you following this? -- the grandfather that my cousins did NOT share with us Baumans) was friends with my grandfather Rodman.

When I was maybe 13-14 we took a family trip to Blandford, MA -- home to my Rodman cousins. While there I sketched a grinding wheel that my cousin's grandfather used to sharpen tools around the place they had there.

I don't know what paper I was sketching on -- maybe a paper sack. It has a fold in it. Somehow, though, my cousin's grandfather got hold of the drawing and, being sentimental about the grinder, though I didn't know it at the time, he kept the drawing.

But somewhere along the line he took the drawing to a professional gallery and had it properly mounted and framed. Then he sent it to my grandfather with a note saying he'd met his grandson (me) and that the meeting wasn't altogether as distasteful as meeting a 13-14 year old maybe should have been.

For the last decade or so of my grandfather's life, the drawing then hung on his garage wall.

The frame is beautifully done.

[Village Idiot]

Evan, are you ready for the hurricane? It doesn't sound great. Hang in there, and don't let it blow your spices away.

Is there anyone being affected by all the fires out west?

[Cornflake]

"Is there anyone being affected by all the fires out west?"

We're not much affected here, except for some smoky skies. There are fires here in addition to those in California. My thoughts of a camping trip have been shelved until the fire danger diminishes.

My daughter in the Bay Area has a fire about ten miles away (the SCU Lightning Complex fire). That part of the fire is being contained pretty well and the risk of her having to evacuate appears to be lessening. There's a lot of smoke in their air.

Keep the people on the Gulf Coast and those in California in your thoughts.

[t-bob]

link

You might enjoy this especially for all you people love on the Internet

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You can find it ..... alertwildfire.org

[jdd2]

8 to 5 is the shorter version of 25 or 6 to 4.

[howard lee]

Aug 25, 2020 13:29:36 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Never saw it -- he was great in "The Untouchables," too.

Anyone ever see him in the 1966 comedy "A Fine Madness," as the frustrated poet Samson Shillitoe? I imagine he was trying to break out of the James Bond typecasting.

Bill: "The Wind and the Lion" is very enjoyable. And Candace Bergen is dreamy.

[theevan]

Aug 25, 2020 14:29:13 GMT -5 Village Idiot said:

Evan, are you ready for the hurricane? It doesn't sound great. Hang in there, and don't let it blow your spices away.

Is there anyone being affected by all the fires out west?

We are well-prepared, but we are not going to be much affected where we are. However where Wendy's from closer to the Texas border it looks like trouble

[millring]

I just watched the trailer for the Wind & the Lion and now I'm utterly conflicted. I don't know whether I should be appalled at Connery's cultural appropriation and therefore not watch the movie, or applaud that he wears a mask to cover his mouth and nose. Being a social justice warrior sure has become hard.

[concertinagirl]

Spent the last two afternoons at the Life Striders (horse therapy) Ranch. What an awesome experience. Yesterday, I learned how to brush the horse, lead, put the blanket and the saddle on etc. Basically, all of the basics.

Today I got to work with the clients. How exciting it was to assist the therapists lift the kids from their wheelchairs onto the horses. The excitement in their eyes and the smiles on the faces. Several couldn’t maintain an upright position so there was a lot of starting and stopping. My role today was “side walker.” A client has a side walker on each side to insure they don’t slip off.

I felt at home today. I loved talking to the OT’s & PT’s and learning about what they are doing and why they are doing the things they are doing with the kids on the horses. I also really enjoyed working with the horses. I spent some time brushing them at the end of each session.

There is a big sign at the ranch as you enter. It is a picture of a girl hugging a horse. The sign says, “God created horses to heal a broken heart.” That may very well be true for me.

Excuse me, I have to go scrap manure off of my boots now.

[Cornflake]

Very cool, Jan.