Sandra Bullock and the Rise of Tech. Sandra Bullock movies reflect society’s changing attitude toward tech over her 30-year career.
Sometimes I think about how her super-hacker character in “The Net” orders pizza online, and how that was a big deal when the movie came out in 1995.
A Rachel can be either a sandwich or a haircut. And yet I think this is rarely a source of confusion.
Walking the dog, I saw a house with a five-foot “Christmas Story” leg lamp in the front window.
Google.com was registered as a domain name today in 1997. (via)
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”
Enjoying a quiet evening at home shopping for nose hair trimmers.
“For All Mankind” returns Nov. 10. Looks great! On the show, the year is 2003.
I was thinking last night that my brain is still broken from the pandemic. It exaggerated my normal introversion and homebody tendencies into something resembling agoraphobia. I go weeks without going anywhere but the grocery store, picking up take-out once a week, my daily walk and that’s about it.
Yesterday I was looking through some photos I took on business trips and thought: That was me. I used to do that. I used to be that guy.
The situation is complicated by our being at higher risk than most people. But not going anywhere has its own risks.
Some years ago, a couple I was friends with pressured me to be a clown at the birthday party they were throwing for their little daughter. I firmly and repeatedly noped out on that, and they hired a professional clown, and later they said they were glad because the pro did a great job.
They told me they asked the clown what was the weirdest event he ever performed at. The clown replied that it was an adult party. The clown explained that doing an adult party was no big deal—he often did adult parties and mixed up the usual clown stuff with some dirty jokes and it was fine.
But this party of adults insisted on getting the children’s show, not the adult show, and when the clown arrived, he found a gathering of grown men and women dressed as children, the men wearing rompers and the women wearing jumper-dresses, and they stayed in character the whole time.
That was more than 30 years ago, and since then, every few months I think of that conversation and wonder WTF?
