Collected Thoughts of the Day

• 08:29 NYC seems to have been spared the worst of the snow by an airmass from the north. Thanks, Canadian high pressure cavalry! #nosnowpocalypse #
• 12:59 Magnificent Seven on TCM. Its a shame they tried to disguise Brynner and Bucholtz's accents: the Old West was full of foreigners. #
• 13:38 Magnificent Seven on TCM: I imagine Aaron Copeland is listening to the score and shouting "Enough already!" #
• 16:53 Job loss chart 12-07 to 01-10 tinyurl.com/yhb3dq2 #
• 20:32 Movies <1971 = old. Movies >1975 = modern. Movies 1972-74 = indeterminate. I wonder if that's a funct ion of my age. #
• 20:50 Bullitt on TCM - astounding how polite all the tough-guy cops are in this movie. Big contrast to today's rude, yelling tv&movie cops. #
• 20:52 Bullitt on TCM: ER scene of cardiac arrest; no yelling, no "CODE BLUE!!", no "DEFIB! CLEAR!"; just a bunch of professionals quietly working. #
• 21:38 Bullitt on TCM: a 1967 fax machine with an acoustic modem! But at 300BPS, it would take a lot longer than we see to transmit a page. #