Month: February 2015
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my 2nd Thursday evening movie: Jupiter Ascending (2015)
tt1617661“>www.imdb.com/title/tt1617661 Only watched like less than 30 minutes, could not stand it, left the movie theatre.
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my Thursday “sneak preview” movie: Still Alice (2014)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316960 Quite touching, worth watching.
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“all hyperlinks have been vetted” – “to vet” – what does it mean?
https://library.oreilly.com/book/0636920030195/mining-the-social-web-2nd-edition/9 – this is where I came across “to vet” http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920030195.do – “Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition” – Preface / “Conventions Used in This Book” / the very 1st paragraph https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vet#Etymology_3 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/09/vetting_vet.html – the origins of vet, verb tr.
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silent movie film: Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! (1923)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014429 http://www.babylonberlin.de/stummfilme.htm – “on Saturdays at midnight for free” saw this silent movie on 2015-02-14 at midnight
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Shlomo Sand’s Wikipedia page under Chabad attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shlomo_Sand – see the history of this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debresser – Rabbi Dovid de Bresser, a member of the Chassidic movement Chabad I assume de Bresser this way (in his thinking) is adding credit points on his way to eternal happiness – he is fighting a religious war against a scientist
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IFTTT is a web-based service in which users can create “recipes,” that are triggered based upon changes to other web services
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFTTT
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Yasmin Levy is an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judeo-Spanish music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmin_Levy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnZ7-qhEqeCqtejmFF2WHcg – #YasminLevy on YouTube
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watched tonight “Midsomer Murders” The Ballad of Midsomer County (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3782714 : “Midsomer Murders” – The Ballad of Midsomer County (2015) http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=midsomer-murders-1997&episode=s17e03 watched it over the Internet, but I got asked not to tell the website (in public) – so that it does not get shut down – I doubt …, but still … I looked up a couple of words / expressions, and here they are: English German…
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now I understand, why Facebook urged me to name my “close friends” – they started buzzing me for every single post of my “close friends”
It hurts a little, but in Facebook terms I now drastically reduced the set of my “close friends”. I do need my silence.