Thursday 6/22/23
Celebrate:
National Chocolate Eclair Day
National HVAC Tech Day
National Onion Rings Day
Stupid Guy Thing Day
World Rainforest Day
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In a challenging moviegoing environment, Christopher Nolan knows how to get butts in seats: with the promise that his latest film will wreck your entire day. The director teased "Oppenheimer," his new movie about "father of the atomic bomb" J. Robert Oppenheimer, in an interview with WIRED, describing it as an "intense experience." Nolan noted that after watching it, a filmmaker told him it's "kind of a horror movie," and he doesn't "disagree." Some people leave the movie "absolutely devastated" to the point that "they can't speak," according to Nolan, though to be fair, that could just be because they were daydreaming about watching "Barbie."
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A new survey collected the top 50 moments people love about summer, and it's comprehensive.
Here are some of them:
1. Longer days, more light in the evenings.
2. Not having to wear a coat.
3. Being able to use your backyard.
4. The smell of freshly cut grass.
5. Eating outdoors, both in your backyard AND on restaurant and bar patios.
6. Seeing flowers.
7. Being able to get loads of washing done. (to hang outside??)
8. Sleeping with the windows open. And driving with the windows down.
9. Going to BBQs. And the smell of grilling in the neighborhood.
10. Getting a tan.
11. Wearing shorts every day. And not wearing socks.
12. The first sip of a beer or a glass of wine on a warm day.
13. Occasionally actually wanting it to rain.
14. Being more likely to be spontaneous.
15. Exercising outside.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/22669963/britain-top-50-summer-moments-study/
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"The Wall Street Journal" just did a story on how clueless a lot of recent college grads are when it comes to working in person.
They did most of their classes over Zoom during the pandemic. So they haven't had a chance to learn a lot of that basic stuff. Sometimes VERY basic.
Major companies have started to offer training sessions on how to talk to people in person. They cover things like eye contact, and how long your pauses should be.
One course talks about making sure to pause after introducing yourself, so the other person has time to say their name. It also covers common signs someone's trying to END a conversation.
Colleges have similar classes now too. Other topics include how writing an email is different than a text . . . how to chit-chat in an elevator . . . and how jeans with holes might not be seen as work-appropriate.
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MentalFloss.com put together a list of the 25 best movie trailers of all time.
Here they are, in chronological order:
1. "Citizen Kane", 1941
2. "Psycho", 1960
3. "The Exorcist", 1973
4. "Jaws", 1975
5. "Alien", 1979
6. "Friday the 13th", 1980
7. "The Shining", 1980
8. "The Abyss", 1989
9. "Terminator 2: Judgement Day", 1991
10. "Pulp Fiction", 1994
11. "GoldenEye", 1995
12. "Strange Days", 1995
13. "Independence Day", 1996
14. "Godzilla", 1998
15. "The Blair Witch Project", 1999
16. "The Matrix", 1999
17. "Dinosaur", 2000
18. "Spider-Man", 2002
19. "Cloverfield", 2008
20. "A Serious Man", 2009
21. "The Social Network", 2010
22. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", 2011
23. "Man of Steel", 2013
24. "Mad Max: Fury Road", 2015
25. "Us", 2019
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Well, this is an unlikely TikTok star: A woman in Florida is going viral ahead of her 100th birthday. Her name is Mildred Kirschenbaum, and she went on a rant about how we're all so negative now. Not just young people, but old people too.
She says if you want to make it to her age, stop complaining about everything . . . enjoy your life . . . try to look on the bright side . . . and do your best to never sweat the small stuff.
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Taxidermy has long been used to preserve deceased animals, whether for study, display or to keep a beloved pet close.
But what about encasing lost loved ones in acrylic resin instead?
Twitter user Kelly Port has suggested just this, sharing a haunting photo of a resin-encased dog displayed on a family’s table. Even more disturbing is Grandma in resin.
As an American visual effects artist, it is safe to assume Port hasn’t actually been popping the deceased in resin.
But it's not as far-fetched as you think.
in 1903 Russian inventor Joseph Karwowski designed a solid glass “coffin” for just this purpose.
Addressing the United States Patent Office, Karwowski submitted an application complete with diagrams; showing the option to preserve either an entire body or just the deceased’s head.
Thankfully this is not a thing.....yet.
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - The Internet as we know it is just around 12,500 days old.
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