It’s wild to me that Theodore Levine, the actor who played the demonic Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs” also played the kind, long-suffering Chief Stottlemeyer on “Monk.”
My hands are so dry, cracked and painful this week that I’ve started using hand lotion, which I have never done before. It’s really very nice.
How long do I have to use the lotion before my brain stops saying the “Silence of the Lambs” thing?
I’m disappointed by Zuck’s latest decisions to cave in to Trump’s threats, but I can’t say I’m surprised. Billioinaires gotta billionaire.
These events further cement my decision to consolidate more of my social media activity on mitchw.blog, with automatic syndication using Micro.blog to Mastodon, BlueSky and Tumblr.
Mitchellaneous: Nude Interracial Love Dance
It Was the Day of the Robot by Frank Belknap Long
Coney Island, 1961, Diane Arbus
Nude Interracial Love Dance. via
After reading this explanation of Hookmark, I am thinking of giving the app another try. I like the idea of being able to easily access all documents related to whatever document I’m looking at or working on. “Documents,” in this context, refers to any object on my Mac — documents, web pages, emails, etc.
I’m glad to see Rusty Foster is back writing “Today in Tabs” and I hope it doesn’t consume him.
It turns out that if you look at social media for a few minutes a couple times a day you don’t miss anything and it doesn’t destroy your soul. No one’s gonna do that, I know, I’m just saying.
Simon Wiilson: “You should start a blog. Having your own little corner of the internet is good for the soul!” Two relatively low-effort categories of things to write about on your blog: “write about things you’ve learned, and write about things you’ve built!” And a third: Write about things you found aka linkblogging.
"The evidence is not flawless." Scientists investigate claims of life after death
The University of Virginia school of medicine’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS) searches for scientific evidence of reincarnation or other life after death. They do a lot of interviews of small children who seem to have memories of past lives.
Former DOPS founder Dr. Ian Stevenson devised a simple test: He closed a padlock and put it in a box in the researchers’ office. Only he knew the combination. He died in 2007.
Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It. By Saskia Solomon at the New York Times.
I’m a skeptic, but I love that groups like DOPS exist, studying low-probability but revolutionary phenomena like life after death, reincarnation, magic, time travel, UFOs, etc.
This article reminds me of one of my favorite novels: “Summerland,” by Hannu Rajamieni. The premise is that scientists discovered definitive proof of life after death in the late 19th Century and invented a device to communicate with the dead. The novel’s action takes place in the 1930s, among British spies fighting the Cold War against the Soviet Union in both this life and the next.
“I have been saying ‘What?’ every single sentence.” Rereading “Encycopedia Brown” as an adult is bonkers..
Today I learned Chevy Chase played drums in a college band that later became Steely Dan.
“He could have been famous,” a Redditor joked, according to Carolyn Wazer at Snopes.
The band included Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and was called the Leather Canary.
According to an authorized biography of Chase, “Chevy didn’t think he was good enough and left the band, advising them to find a better drummer.”
Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase; the nickname comes from the medieval English “Ballad of Chevy Chase,” according to Wikipedia.