BeckonJM

This reminds me of the story I read once about Baseball Reference’s old link naming structure.

It was similar to this scheme, but it took the first five letters of the last name, and the first two of the first name. There were variants and workarounds for players with the same letters in their name, and such.

But then there was the result for Jewish player Kevin Youkilis…

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

otherwise you don’t realise his movies are often in large part a collage of other movies.

Isn’t that the definition of filmmaking? All movies are just collages of influences, style, and form. All art is a remix on previous forms.

It’s okay to not like Tarantino, I don’t care much about that, but your argument doesn’t really hold up for me.

I work on a helpdesk, my phone rings around 8-12 times per day, and most calls are less than 10 minutes. I work a 7.5 hour shift, and at most am on the phone for an hour or so total on an average day. I’m also in an office cubicle farm, not working from home, or behind a series of closed doors.

Lately, between taking calls, I’ve been reading books, looking at my phone, practicing French, and watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on my iPad. The upper management knows I, and my coworkers, kill time this way between calls.

We’re efficient problem solvers who get our jobs done with no issue, so the downtime is spent how we see fit.