My Bluesky posts

  • Wed, 14:22: I only learned yesterday that Terence Stamp died on Sunday. He had two truly iconic roles: General Zod in SUPERMAN II, and Bernadette in THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT.

    The news prompted me last night to go looking for his movies that might be available to stream. Turns out he had a small but key part in the 1987 film WALL STREET, which is on Hulu so we watched it. The movie was . . . fine. Fascinating for many reasons, none of which had anything to do with Terence Stamp.

    More recently he was in a couple of Tim Burton's late-period (mediocre period) movies: BIG EYES in 2014, and MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (enough with these ridiculously long titles!) in 2016. His final screen credit was the Edgar Wright film LAST NIGHT IN SOHO in 2021, when Stamp was 83. He died at 87.

    A pretty great run. Character actors who are also icons are kind of my favorite. https://t.co/TyBfb14JhO
  • Wed, 16:07: We had our final Office Relocation Team meeting in the current office today—final day in this office is on Friday—and shortly before the meeting ended, Sara went and fetched her surprise for all of us on the team: lanyards, each with a different fruit print.

    Sara handed me the banana one and said, "Something tells me you'll want this one." She wasn't wrong!

    And then, when no one else claimed the peach one, we agreed that it would pair perfectly with the banana. Ha! "You can alternate days," she said.

    (If you know you know … I mean, maybe I should have requested eggplant) https://t.co/5iEbqfDgAq

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Once again I have too much to do at work, so luckily I have very little to tell you about yesterday or last night. Whew! I had way too much for way too many days directly prior to that. And, I've felt like I barely had my head above water at work the last two days, but a lot of that is some kind of bad habits about staying on top of email, and I spent some time on something yesterday that, in retrospect, really could have waited.

Oh well. At least now the couple hundred emails I came back to on Monday are now down to a lean 17. I can see them all at once in my inbox, which I love.

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As for last night, I rode my bike home from work, and Shobhit was all set to fry up the samosas that I asked him to make from the leftover dough and potato filling he had for what he made for dinner at Alexia's last Sunday—and which I have now brought to work for the "Farewell 3131 Potluck" at work, our final office social at the current office. How we'll do these things at the much smaller space in the new office remains to be seen. We can worry about that later, I guess.

I asked him to make about 20; he made, I think, 28? They were smaller than ones he made in the past, and he worried that not enough people will eat them, which is insane because Shobhit's samosas are wildly popular. I'll be shocked if the 20 I did bring have any left over in the end. We ate the other eight of them as part of our dinner last night, which probably should have sufficed on its own for me but Shobhit also fried up puris with the rest of the dough, to have with the potato "vegetable" as he likes to call all his Indian dishes (this was originally made for the potato filling for samosas).

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We ate while watching this week's episode of Alien: Earth, which was definitely a mixed bag, but I'm locked in anyway.

And I only learned yesterday that Terence Stamp died this week—at the age of 87!—so I went looking for any movies of his that are available streaming. The selection was limited, but, even though it was a pretty small part, I went for the 1987 film Wall Street, which I didn't even know he was in, and am not even sure I ever watched all the way through.

Being about finance, I knew Shobhit would lock in. I thought it was fine. It gave us something to do for the last two hours of the evening before I went to bed.

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[posted 1:10pm]