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One Day Behind

I feel so out of touch. There was an Apple Event yesterday and I was not able to follow along with any live blogs or anything. I missed almost all of the new gadget revelations.

I know there’s a new iPad that I want.
I know there’s a new WatchOS.
I know there’s a new iPhone.

I know these things, but I know nothing about them.

My step kids’ father loaded a release candidate of the new iOS onto their phones. Last night my step son loaded a release candidate of the new WatchOS onto his watch. I’m not going to do either of those things. When it comes to software releases, I prefer to play it safe(er) and wait for the actual release. Still… they have stuff on their devices that I don’t have! I am so far behind the curve right now. I have actual gadget envy over gadgets that I actually have!

Moving Out

At last!  I have packed up most of my desk (not my computer, that has to wait until 5:30) to move to a new office building.  For the first time in forever, I will be North of the Mass Pike!  Southerners be damned, we’re moving North!

David Crosby

David Crosby from Crosby Stills and Nash is on Twitter. As celebrity Twitter users go I think he’s my favorite. He answers tons of fan questions, usually in one word answers, and he’s always an entertaining read.

I saw this tweet yesterday:

Well, speaking as one who plays in a cover band, I take that as a challenge! We have three singers in the Lizardfish, but we don’t have three Crosby Stills and Nash level singers. Pulling off songs recorded by what is probably the greatest three part harmony vocals of the last 50 years would be quite a stretch for us.

Fortunately one of my favorite Crosby songs doesn’t have any vocal harmonies at all! We could probably make this work, sort of…

A Night to Remember -Recap

We watched A Night to Rememberlast night.  How did it match up with James Cameron’s Titanic?  

There was no love story, so no Rose/Jack garbage.  There was a couple traveling to their honeymoon.  They were used to sort of up the tragic factor, but they weren’t really a focus.  The focus was definitely on the people dealing with the situation, or not as the case may be.

Our main interest in viewing was to determine if Cameron ripped off the older flick while making his.  The answer?  Yeah, he kinda did.  Maybe not as badly as the trailer lead on, but there were a few scenes that were alarmingly similar.

The architect standing in front of the clock just before the end was almost exactly the same.  The only difference was that he walked over to a chair before checking his watch.  Also, the captain’s tour of the bridge was just about the same.  The rich folks in the dining room just before the end, talking about going down like gentlemen.  The musicians playing until the end.  Hell, the first violin player even looked exactly like Cameron’s first violin player.  The smokestack falling on swimmers.  Yeah, there were a lot of really similar shots.  A Lot of similar shots.

I’m not going to say that A Night to Remember is better or worse than Titanic, but I will say I really liked it and if you liked Titanic, you should check it out.

A Night to Remember

Jen just saw a trailer for an English movie from 1958 called A Night to Remember.  It’s the story of The Titanic.  In the trailer, at least, it looks like almost every shot matched exactly to the James Cameron movie.  Did he steal his flick from the older one?  We are watching it to find out.  We will let you know.