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I’m more of an SF person, but I really enjoyed the Raksura series, by Martha Wells, about a guy who can shape shift into a sort of dragon. I’m also currently rereading the Amber Chronicles, by Roger Zelazny, and it’s very good.

In case it helps any, I made a post with a giant number of spoiler-free short reviews of SF and fantasy books I’ve read over the last few years, and many of the books mentioned here are in them.

I’m in my early 60s and went from walking to jogging a couple years ago. I did it differently than you. My usual walk was about two miles, and I just started jogging the portion I could and walking the rest. At first, my jogging was only a couple blocks, but as I kept doing it, I got to be able to go further, a little at a time. My goal was really just to keep my heart rate up for 20 to 30 minutes and get some cardio.

So I’m there now. I jog a couple miles every other day. Takes me about 25 minutes, so I’m not breaking any speed records, but my heart rate is between 150 and 170 for much of it, so I feel like I’m meeting my goal.

Okay, good info. Sadly, is hard to trust anything with the Google name these days.

I’m an old guy with a CS degree. I watched the Internet and the web come into existence. I had so much excitement and hope for it. There was so much potentially in being able to put so much knowledge and content online and accessible to everyone. To have applications you could run from a common interface. I thought it would be so glorious.

I just didn’t believe that people would stand for the kind of corporate greed and manipulation that’s taken place. It’s one of the saddest things ever.

Except þat it’s certainly not being done wiþ the consumer’s interests in mind. It’s done for surveillance capitalism, and it’s done for control.

That was my whole point. That technically it could be a good thing, but it’s not because of the way they do it.

Not sure I could trust a TV made by Google.

I still have to have a separate device with cables going to it.

I don’t agree. I don’t need my TV to keep up with the latest software like I do my computer. I’d like it to load apps for the streaming services and search YouTube videos. If it can do that today, it can do that five years from now.

Fewer devices, my TV is mounted to the wall, so fewer cords. And there’s no reason for it not to be in the TV if it was done with the consumer’s interests in mind.

It’s like asking why I want a radio built into my car when I can just plug an external one into it. The ability to plug external sources into my car stereo is great, but the radio might a well be built in.

The smart TV part is conceptually okay, but the bullshit is unspeakable. I actually like that TVs have apps for the streaming services and stuff, if they didn’t have to be evil about how they implement it. But they’re evil, so here we all are, wanting completely dumb TVs.

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It’s so completely enjoyable.

Dr Strange love, 2001, and Being John Malkovich are all movies I’ve seen more than three times.

It’s so great. Like Princess Bride, very quotable, too.

When I was a kid, I got into watching old movies, and that one became my favorite. I loved that movie.

In steam of consciousness order:

• Young Frankenstein
• Princess Bride
• Double Indemnity
• Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Breakfast Club
• The Fifth Element
• 12 Monkeys
• The Terminator
• Star Wars (first trilogy)
• Harvey
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Men In Black
• The Incredibles
• Inception
• E.T.
• The Sting
• Grease
• Ghostbusters
• West Side Story

Probably a number of others

I don’t know what you’re on about. I watched the speech in france with auto-translation on, and it was a lovely speech given in a language he is clearly not fluent in. He’s 64 years old, and looks fine for his age. It doesn’t look like he’s had tons of plastic surgery, though maybe his eyes done? He’s a little heavier than when he was young, which isn’t surprising.

Good point, though the person you’re responding to only said it didn’t have a sequel.

A remake isn’t a sequel

Doesn’t look like you’ll be affected for that. If I’m understanding the release right, it’s only needed if you’re trying to access age restricted content or to get messages from people you might not know. I use it the way you do, and it doesn’t look like that’s impacted.