Just Wow

[spenser1058]

Wow!

[dcluley98]

Indeed.

Apache break warrior. 

THOMK! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.musicradar.com/news/the-10-greatest-drum-breaks-of-all-time-and-where-to-find-them

Hmmm. . . 

Edited June 29, 2019 by dcluley98

[HankStrong]

Just wow!

[spenser1058]

Egad! The apocalypse is nigh! Whatever shall we do!?!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/03/business/taco-bell-tortilla-shortages/index.html

From CNN

 

 

 

 

 

 

[spenser1058]

WE, the People. Every one of us.

[spenser1058]

I’m very sad that MAD Magazine will be ceasing regular publication later this year.

As a kid, the two magazines I never missed were MAD and Boys’ Life (Alfred E Newman and Pedro were my heroes!).

I guess with MAD going away it’s more important than ever we elect Mayor Pete since he’s been declared the latest incarnation of Newman... 20 PETE 20!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/04/media/mad-magazine-cease-publication-trnd/index.html

From CNN

[spenser1058]

The Orlando City Council is expected to extend the lease of the Orlando Federal Credit Union branch under the Dome for another five years at next week’s council meeting.

OFCU pays the city $1/year for the space and in return provide a fee-free ATM to City Hall employees and visitors.

https://bungalower.com/2019/07/03/orlando-federal-credit-union-gets-1-city-hall-lease-renewed/

From Bungalower 

[HankStrong]

17 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

I’m very sad that MAD Magazine will be ceasing regular publication later this year.

As a kid, the two magazines I never missed were MAD and Boys’ Life (Alfred E Newman and Pedro were my heroes!).

I guess with MAD going away it’s more important than ever we elect Mayor Pete since he’s been declared the latest incarnation of Newman... 20 PETE 20!

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/07/04/media/mad-magazine-cease-publication-trnd/index.html

From CNN

Just MAD for me.  I loved it.  I haven't seen one since I was a teen, but that's sort of the lifespan of that magazine.  I'm sad it isn't relevant to kids today.

[AmIReal]

Interesting housing concept I was not aware existed- hotel/ homesharing hybrid. New developments under construction in Austin and Miami. High rise buildings with hotel licensing allows owners to skirt municipal limits on homesharing. The article says there is already a housing based development in the Kissimmee area- Niido- that opened last year.

https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/2/20679910/airbnb-hotel-miami-austin-natiivo-niido

 

[spenser1058]

Why the Sunshine State Is Still In the Dark On Solar:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/business/energy-environment/florida-solar-power.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

From the NY Times 

[spenser1058]

How legislation (at the behest of the automotive and oil industries) drive America’s autocentric culture more than market forces:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/

From The Atlantic

Of course, all of us who’ve seen “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” already knew that...

[spenser1058]

Let’s all take a moment to make “a giant sucking sound” to mourn the passing of independent 1992 and 1996 presidential candidate Ross Perot at age 89 (interestingly, he was not much older than some of the 2020 candidates).

For UP’ers, perhaps one of his most memorable achievements early in his career was to pay to place a huge anchor marquee atop a building along a Texas freeway, even though he was one of only a handful of employees at the time. His company took off almost overnight.

Today, companies (especially tiny banks) do such things all the time but it was Ross who got the trend going. I salute his chutzpah!

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-48927718

From the BBC

 

Edited July 9, 2019 by spenser1058

[spenser1058]

My favorite movie of all time (I saw it at the old Northgate theater 17 Times back before VCRs, DVDs and Netflix were a thing), Breaking Away, is 40 years old this year.

Staffers at the Louisville Courier-Journal were at IU where filming took place and share photos and stories from the movie.

https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3690723002

”Everybody cheats -I just didn’t know.” - Dave Stohler

[HankStrong]

20 hours ago, spenser1058 said:

My favorite movie of all time (I saw it at the old Northgate theater 17 Times back before VCRs, DVDs and Netflix were a thing), Breaking Away, is 40 years old this year.

Staffers at the Louisville Courier-Journal were at IU where filming took place and share photos and stories from the movie.

https://amp.courier-journal.com/amp/3690723002

”Everybody cheats -I just didn’t know.” - Dave Stohler

I have a ton of family in Bloomington, so that film would be neat to see again.  I spent time in the 70s/80s in that area and on the IU campus.  I haven't seen the movie in many years, I should watch it again.  Does it hold up?

 

Only related in the old movies and whether they hold up part, (and it was really bad to watch as an adult) one of my favorite movies as a kid was Heart Like A Wheel - The Shirley Muldowney Story.  Sometimes movies hold up.   Sometimes they don't and that one really doesn't.  A few weeks ago I watched a movie that I snuck and watched as a kid - Stripes - and that did hold up pretty well.  Still funny.

[spenser1058]

6 hours ago, HankStrong said:

I have a ton of family in Bloomington, so that film would be neat to see again.  I spent time in the 70s/80s in that area and on the IU campus.  I haven't seen the movie in many years, I should watch it again.  Does it hold up?

 

Only related in the old movies and whether they hold up part, (and it was really bad to watch as an adult) one of my favorite movies as a kid was Heart Like A Wheel - The Shirley Muldowney Story.  Sometimes movies hold up.   Sometimes they don't and that one really doesn't.  A few weeks ago I watched a movie that I snuck and watched as a kid - Stripes - and that did hold up pretty well.  Still funny.

I just watched it again for the first time in years and several things occurred. First, the Oscar the film won was for screenplay and it’s obvious why. The dialogue still sparkles. Today’s tentpole pics couldn’t begin to approach this because so much of the audience is now international . Not only is English a secondary language for much of the audience (if they speak English at all), but the cultural nuances of an Indiana college town would be lost not only on many outside the US but for a surprising number of Americans as well.

What Roger Ebert picked up on is so true - unlike today’s coming of age sitcoms and movies, these characters truly care about each other. The film was made in 1978 before snark and cynicism totally engulfed  performances of younger actors.

For a low-budget indie film, the cinematography screams Indiana. Interestingly, it works better than the overwrought scenery in Hoosiers, which is also a sports pic taking place in the Midwest countryside.

The bit players here, many locals from Bloomington, also make the film scream authentic. The stars also all work together like folks who’ve been together forever even when they haven’t.

Of course, it’s personal to me because cycling was how I moved from a chubby whiz kid (“the only thing I ever did athletic as a kid was jump to conclusions a lot” was Harry Hamlin’s line in “Making Love” that summed up my childhood) to a touring cyclist and collegiate club team rower. Coming from a working class background, I totally identified with the tension between Dave and his dad.

IU was the site of the national Junior Achievers’ Conference, which was nirvana for budding Alex P. Keatons like myself. I loved the campus (still do) and stayed in McNutt and Briscoe dorms during August over several years.

So yes, I think it holds up. More importantly,  it’s probably a film that could never be made now.

[nite owℓ]

On 7/4/2019 at 12:48 PM, spenser1058 said:

WE, the People. Every one of us.

Just now seeing this, bittersweet to watch. What a contrast to the vitriolic twilight zone that we're living in today. "MAGA" indeed!

 

 

 

[spenser1058]

A lovely bit of schadenfreude today. Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball notes in its article about Rep. Justin Amash that Kent County, MI (home of Ada and Amway) is slowly but surely turning blue (western Michigan has long tended to be ruby red).

So the DeVos family, one of the most right-leaning crews in the country now has a basketball team in one of the most Democratic counties and their home county is now headed that way also. 

A tip of the hat to the folks in Grand Rapids. Betty and Steve Ford would be proud!

http://crystalball.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/notes-on-the-state-of-politics/

Edited July 18, 2019 by spenser1058

[spenser1058]

Orlando outshines the Southeast and Florida in clean energy improvements:

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/environment/os-ne-florida-city-energy-scores-20190725-i4kcyrlwl5ctxjtt2fd3qnhnci-story.html

From the Sentinel 

Miami notes a big reason is the city’s ownership of OUC. Meanwhile, the idiots in Jacksonville (and I’ll let you guess which party controls The Bold New City of the South) is trying to privatize JEA.

Just remember, in addition to working on clean energy, our public utility charges less and is more reliable than the private utility in town. An Inconvenient Truth, to be sure.

[spenser1058]

Sure hope you like crowds - based on current trends, Florida is adding the equivalent of a new Orlando every year.

At least the Panhandle is still mostly empty...

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/07/26/more-than-300000-new-residents-are-moving-to-florida-every-year?media=AMP+HTML

From Orlando Weekly 

[spenser1058]

For those of you who like trains, this is pretty awesome. A Big Boy steam locomotive, one of only 25 built and the largest steam locomotive ever, is being pressed back into service to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/amp/big-boy-worlds-oldest-locomotive-trnd/index.html

From CNN

I was an engineer on the MK’s WDW railroad for almost two years in college so I still am a big fan of the steam trains. Now, if we could just get a locomotive back downtown at CSS...

 

[dcluley98]

As previously mentioned: 

[jgardnerucf]

Kudos to Matt Bratelli for the cool branding concept!    Y'all please stop with the swan song.

[spenser1058]

This could be interesting- Osceola County schools are ditching AdventHealth as their provider for district workers with RosenCare. 

It will be interesting to see if Rosen and company can scale up what is a really innovative program. If it gains traction, it could be another significant local business.

Give ‘em heck, Harris!

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-bz-rosen-osceola-county-20190806-j6tpdnc2s5dpxfb7prpl6l2em4-story.html

From the Sentinel 

[spenser1058]

NPR suggests something worth pondering , “If the economy’s so great, why did the Fed vote to juice it?” (with major pressure from Dear Leader, we might add).

That also leads to the fact, as the Sentinel noted yesterday, that five major projects are in the pipeline right now (in addition to things like I4 Ultimate already well underway).

One could argue that developers are thinking Orlando may miss the brunt of any downturn that may come nationally due to the continuing investment in infrastructure.

It’s happened before - Orlando’s economy performs best when there’s major investment taking place in the tourism economy (it didn’t help that wasn’t happening in 2008, unlike now). It’s also aided when there is government spending on the military (aka, “weaponized Keynesianism”, which benefits our defense-oriented tech sector). A wild card this time is all the private investment on the Space Coast.

It’s too early to read the tea leaves but there are interesting signs for us locally.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/08/06/748416143/if-our-economy-is-so-great-why-did-the-fed-vote-to-juice-it

 

Edited August 6, 2019 by spenser1058

[dcluley98]

This may sound weird to you all, but it was because there wasn't enough inflation. 

I know, right? 

 

Edited August 6, 2019 by dcluley98