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by mjklin 6y ago
Scorsese’s editor Thelma Schoonmaker has been known to use takes that don’t match up (e.g. cup in hand, cut, cup not in hand) as long as the emotional truth carries through.
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“Var inte ängslig! Jag klarar mig alltid!” - Pippi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physician,_heal_thyself
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“Egon, your mucus”
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I think you can look at the success of the Jerky Boys in the mid-90s to see the power of the New York accent. You have two caricatures brought to life, the mob-boss-talking Frank Rizzo and the Woody-Allen-clone Sol Rosenberg (plus a few oth
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From Wells and Huxley’s The Science of Life (1929): It is difficult to imagine this world with all its land surfaces lifeless; yet for more than a half of its history Life played out its drama under water, and the continents were pract
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The book “Gödel, Escher, Bach” was printed with a special process only available at one printer far away from where Hofstadter was living, and was extremely time consuming. At the last minute the whole thing had to be redone, so he had to g
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The intellect of man is forced to choose / Perfection of the life, or of the work, / And if it take the second must refuse / A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark. -W.B. Yeats, “The Choice”
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There was a remake of that movie made in the 90s with Tony Danza, a different take but also worth watching. In that movie the racist tirade is made by a non-white juror who is stopped by the grandfatherly German juror in a calm tone: “You j
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In Virginia we have pawpaw fruit that taste like custard, but must be eaten soon after picking since they bruise very easily and don’t store or ship well.
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As David Allen says once on a podcast, the real crisis comes not in the thick of a project but after you’ve finished and need to decide what to work on next. I think it was this one [0]. [0]: https://www.humanmedia.org/produ
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Fun fact: in Chinese the movie “The Matrix” is known as 黑客帝国 or “Hacker Empire”.
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I’ve been reading a lot of H.G. Wells’ nonfiction. As a child in a one-room English schoolhouse, he was still being taught the four “elements” of earth, water, fire, and air. Aristotle would be proud!
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There is a Chinese saying 当局者迷, 旁观者清 “the one involved is baffled, the one watching from the side sees clearly.” The observers see more than the players.
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When I was ten I memorized “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll for performance. Still remember that frabjous poem!
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I clearly remember one sequence from Tom & Jerry I watched while waiting for a plane in London (I guess because of the violence it must be one of the originals?): * The neighbor’s bulldog is chained up. * Tom figures out how long the ch
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by mjklin 7y ago
Sure, here you [go]( https://www.dropbox.com/s/8d3ei2bojkvg69l/book%20%20The%20Pr... )
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Zen Mind, Noob Mind
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Here's a [pdf]( https://www.dropbox.com/s/oca3awkis0ql830/book%20%20The%20Pr... )
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The Priceless Gift by Cornelius Hirschberg, a very down-to-earth book by a man who gave himself an education by reading books on the New York subway. Although a bit dated, it includes great recommendations on how and what to read to becom
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The Make-Work Principle: As long as you pay people to do something, they will find something to do. (from the book The Truth About Everything by Matthew Stewart)
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American girl on a bus going to Chichen Itza in Mexico: “¡Estoy excitada!” (meaning aroused). Then after being told her mistake: “¡Estoy embarazada!”
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Here Trilly Trilly!
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In the excellent book The Science of Life by HG Wells, GP Wells, and Julian Huxley (published in the 1930s) the authors mention that burning carbon would eventually warm the atmosphere. Interestingly, their solution to counteract this was
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The basis for one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best rhymes! This gentleman is seen with a maid of seventeen A-taking of his dolce far niente And wonders he’d achieve, for he asks us to believe She’s his mother, and he’s nearly five-and-twent
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Wait till you see how they spell “coordinate” at The New Yorker
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Now for some Vogon poetry
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I find that alcohol, when taken in sufficient quantities, can produce all the effects of drunkenness. - Oscar Wilde
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There was a song at the time to help folks remember: “Håll dig till höger, Svensson” (Keep to the right, Svensson) [0] [0]: https://youtu.be/6ODZtwkBYPs
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Also: Jerry’s Brain [1]. As far as linking ideas, TheBrain software is unmatched IMO. Cross-platform and well maintained too. [1]: https://www.jerrysbrain.com

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