I just had one of those conversations with a friend where the alcohol flows freely and things are said that would never be said were all parties sober. I'm rather touched and feeling a little emotional as a result. I suppose it's always a bit of a jolt 'to see oursels as ithers see us'. Today is the 11th of November. My boss and I are both former servicemen. We observed the silence, but did not discuss it at all. Normally, we swap fun stories from our time in our various uniforms. Not today.
This is one of the few years of my life thatI didn't observe the silence. I was at work telling stories to 18 pre-schoolers and their parents and siblings. Tomorrow. The thought is the same even if the timing is off. Thank you all for serving.
Few, if any, things in my life have ever said "writer's block" more plainly than having two blank screens in front of me.
While doing some research for a story just now, I came across some fascinating facts about the moon. I arbitrarily went with imperial measurements here. About 6000 pounds of asteroid material and dust collide with the moon every day. On average, 100 ping-pong-ball-sized asteroids collide with the moon every day, which makes it about 33,000 per year. They impact with a force of 7 pounds of dynamite. Larger asteroids also hit the moon regularly, but only about once every 4 years. The most significant recorded impact occurred on March 17, 2013. An 88 pound asteroid smacked into the moon at 56,000 mph. It sounds like a lot of impacts, but if you pick a random square kilometer of lunar surface, it will on average only have one of the ping-pong ball asteroids strike once every 1000 years. Still, it's just another reason to be happy we have an atmosphere here on Earth.
In the original versions of the game Cluedo, the murder weapon which is now a revolver, was a semi-automatic (a Dreyse M1907 in the UK and a Colt M1911 in the US).
[QUOTE="Set2Stun, post: 1982665, member: It sounds like a lot of impacts, but if you pick a random square kilometer of lunar surface, it will on average only have one of the ping-pong ball asteroids strike once every 1000 years. Still, it's just another reason to be happy we have an atmosphere here on Earth.[/QUOTE] And our little orbiting shield.
Casablanca is one of the most quoted movies. Men talk to men, and men and women converse, but nowhere in the movie's 103-minute time frame is there any dialogue between two women.
I was reading today about the Bechdel Test, a popular movie evaluation tool. There are three requirements to the Bechdel Test: A movie cannot "pass" the Bechdel Test, as it's now commonly defined, unless the film: Contains two female characters (most sources add the caveat that they must have names). Those characters talk to one another. Their conversation is about literally anything other than a man or group of men. Some movies that have failed the test: The Godfather Star wars: A New Hope Lawrence of Arabia The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Some movies that have passed the test: Stella Dallas Some Like It Hot Goodfellas Mean Girls Mad Max: Fury Road What the Bechdel Test Says About Women in Film
Interesting. I didn't feel deprived of female on female conversation but I did think Yvonne deserved a better role. That beaded top she wore into the bar was one of the best costumes in cinema.
The director knew including that scene would have caused the movie to far exceed the allotted run time.
Do 20 squats in two minutes and you get a free bus ticket in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://www.themayor.eu/en/a/view/squat-20-times-and-get-a-free-bus-ride-in-cluj-napoca-5994 Spoiler: Getting a "health ticket"
