The film is directed by Rob Reiner. Do you remember Aunt Ginny?
Kaffe: “I was expecting someone older.”
Aunt Ginny: “Me too..”
That’s his daughter-in-law, Maud Winchester. She is married to his son, Lucas.
J.A. Preston, the judge in the film, does an exceptional job in the role, and I think everyone who has watched the film would totally agree without hesitation. He’s still alive at 92, and his last film credit was in 2006.
Colonel Jessup sure showed his true colors, when, during his diatribe, he calls out Lt. Weinberg for no good reason.
Ah heck, here’s the full clip.
I had The Godfather Part II on in the background on Saturday.
Here’s an idea: how about a new TV series of Michael Coleone’s time in the Marine Corps?
My kids and I have this inside joke about them eating fresh pretzels and sipping on ICEEs at my funeral. So, when I came across this clip from The Family Guy, I just had to send it to them.
Last week, on Last Week with Jon Oliver, the host shared something I didn’t know about Eerie, Pennsylvania:
Intrigued. I had to look up more about that story.
You know what’s a funny coincidence? The president and CEO of VisitErie, Erie County’s tourism promotion agency, is named John Oliver, just like the television host. Their first name is just spelled differently. And of course, VisitErie is doing what it can to capitalize on the attention.
A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s atmosphere suggests an abundance of a molecule that on Earth has only one known source: living organisms such as marine algae.
Have you ever wondered how astronomers learn what’s in a faraway planet’s atmosphere? Here’s your one-sentence answer: Gases appear as different colors through the various colors of light in a prism; that is, each gas in a planet’s atmosphere blocks specific colors of starlight. Here’s your more detailed explanation that I learned from watching a couple of episodes of the rebooted Cosmos.
Each gas absorbs very specific wavelengths of light, like taking tiny, precise “bites” out of the spectrum.
For example, if you pass sunlight through a prism, you see all the colors of the rainbow smoothly changing from red to violet. But if that same light passes through a gas first, the gas will absorb very specific wavelengths, causing thin dark lines to appear in certain spots of the rainbow spectrum.
These absorption lines are like fingerprints – hydrogen absorbs different specific wavelengths than oxygen, which absorbs different wavelengths than carbon dioxide, and so on. Each gas has its own unique pattern of these dark lines.
So when astronomers look at starlight that has passed through a planet’s atmosphere, they don’t just see “the color blue” and think “that must be water.” Instead, they see specific patterns of these thin dark lines in the spectrum and can match these patterns to known gases.
She briefly explains it here and has some other fun info on the subject to share.
How long has McDonald’s sold steak with breakfast meals and sandwiches? This was news to me. I usually keep up with this sort of stuff. I tried asking the drive-thru employee how long they had been selling them, but she just shot me a confused look and tapped a fellow employee, as she didn’t speak English. After a chain of four, all for the same reason, I just smiled, waved goodbye, and drove off. How does it taste? Not bad, all jokes aside, about what you’d expect.Of course, I had to conduct a little research, and here’s what I found.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
I excelled at some productive procrastination yesterday morning. Not sure what productive procrastination is? That’s when you really want to start on a task, but before doing so, you start to do a lot of other or little tasks you normally wouldn’t do.
The most obedient and pleasing dog in the history of ever.
I received mail from TxDOT stating that it’s time to renew my driver’s license, and I can do so online. I thought it was interesting that the video embedded on this government website was flagged as age-restricted and can only be viewed on YouTube. It’s just an innocent six-second spot about a forgetful father going camping. I reached out to them via Twitter, but they have yet to respond or fix it.
Chinese suppliers have been flooding American social media this week, urging users to outflank President Donald Trump’s 145% tariffs on Beijing by buying directly from their factories.
Here’s a pretty cool and easy-to-understand image that compares the flights of Blue Origin and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets that return to Earth.
A minor league team scored 3 runs on a bases-loaded walk … and it was all somehow completely legal
THE ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES SCORED THREE RUNS ON A BASES-LOADED WALK AND THERE IS VIDEO pic.twitter.com/HhVkCwc5F5
Dallas’ own St. Vincent (Annie Clark to some of us) had a killer performance on The Late Showwith Stephen Colbert last night. Love that girl.
They took the bait.A group of Mariners fans wore shirts that spelled out GO MARINERS and got put on the Jumbotron. Then they turned around to reveal the backs of their shirts that spelled out SELL THE TEAM.
I’m not a fan of promposals to begin with. I understand this dude’s masked heartbreak, but he shouldn’t have added the “marry/jk” part.
“Protect your focus.” I heard that on a podcast recently, and it’s been something I’ve chewed on ever since. Here are a few of the first images you’ll find when you do a Google image search on that phrase.
FanExpo Dallas will be at the end of May and looks like something I might attend.
It will host a 40th anniversary celebration of Back to the Future featuring appearances by stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Tom Wilson.They’ll be joined by both actresses who portrayed the role of Jennifer Parker: Claudia Wells, who appeared in the original 1985 film, and Elisabeth Shue, who appeared in the two sequels from 1989 and 1990. Other stars appearing include Huey Lewis, James Tolkan (who played Principal Strickland), Donald Fullilove (Goldie Wilson), Harry Waters Jr. (Marvin Berry), and more.
They even have something for you White Lotus fans: The expo will also feature appearances by Parker Posey (Best in Show, Lost in Space) and Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight, Justified, Fallout), fresh off their roles in season 3 of buzzy HBO series White Lotus.
Heck, I just might go to see some childhood crushes. Here’s an article if you’re interested.
Another AI tool I’ve been playing around with is Claude. To my surprise, yesterday they announced it now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference your emails in Gmail, scheduled events in Google Calendar, and documents in Google Docs. Some former Google dudes founded the company, and with a partnership like this, I wouldn’t be surprised if Google buys them within the next two years.
There’s a bug on the blog that’s been hard to fix, and it’s why my formatting looks funky from time to time. For some reason, when I try to leave a blank line either by a hard or soft return, WordPress doesn’t recognize it when I publish it, so all of a sudden you see a sentence attached to the period of what I intended to be the last sentence of the paragraph. It also happens when I try to add a blank line after an inserted image. Here’s an example from a few weeks ago. Notice the words “interesting” and “Ive” on each side of the image. That wasn’t done on purpose. A blank line appeared above and below it, and the placement of the words looked correct when I scheduled to publish the post. It even happens when I add a line break [<br>]. Grrr.
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