The Coffee House

[Gary A.]

Am.So.Unmotivated.Today.

Me too. I'm answering TPF threads rather than grading papers. My justification? I know we have a fire drill in 15 minutes. How much could I really get done between now and then?

For the record...it's during that one class I have to teach today, but I have zero responsibility during the drill, haha.

Grading papers is easy ... making up the justification(s) for the grade is the tough part.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary have just returned from watching The Post. What a movie. It really really takes me back. Gary cannot speak to the Washington Post, but ... everything looked and the actions/reactions/interactions would have been similar to the Los Angeles Times during that period.

 

[Frank F.]

Friday is horse day!
Happy horse day!

 

[limr31]

Horse day but only one picture of the horse? MOAR HORSES!

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

Mary Lou and Gary have just returned watching The Post. What a movie. It really really takes me back. Gary cannot speak to the Washington Post, but ... everything looked and the actions/reactions/interactions would have been similar to the Los Angeles Times during that period.

Agree, awesome movie! And unfortunately very relevant to current events. I was surprised that Hanks didn’t get nominated for an Oscar.

 

[snowbear117 48]

State GIS group meeting today. Had lunch at local Irish pub. Shepherd Pie must have been made from the German variety. Kicking my . . . stomach.

We had a presentation on obtaining a commercial remote pilot license (drones); Though having one would be an asset in my career, I will pass for now, and concentrate of the other important items: using mastering key parts the software platform, programming (Python and JavaScript), and making useful and pretty maps.

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary have just returned watching The Post. What a movie. It really really takes me back. Gary cannot speak to the Washington Post, but ... everything looked and the actions/reactions/interactions would have been similar to the Los Angeles Times during that period.

Agree, awesome movie! And unfortunately very relevant to current events. I was surprised that Hanks didn’t get nominated for an Oscar.

To Gary, it seemed obviously written to reflect today's world and political players ... but then again ... the similarities between then and now are/maybe so similar that perhaps the writers didn't have to go out of their way to create relevance. The LA Times newsroom was nearly identical with editor offices ringing the open desks ... the pneumatic tubes, ever the deadline pressure, the constant debates to run or not run stories. The LA Times printed six different issues a day with the last deadline at midnight. Printing from wet negatives was commonplace. Working news was either slow or fast, sitting or running ... nothing seemed to move at a moderate pace.

 

[jcdeboever]

Mary Lou and Gary have just returned from watching The Post. What a movie. It really really takes me back. Gary cannot speak to the Washington Post, but ... everything looked and the actions/reactions/interactions would have been similar to the Los Angeles Times during that period.

Did you see the Nikon F's in the movie?

 

[terri35 7]

The movie was brilliant on many levels. I got choked up watching the damn type setting. ...it was just so cool.

Possibly the political overtones pushed back the likelihood of too many Oscar nods. Clearly Hanks as well as Streep was excellent, along with a strong supporting cast.

 

[Frank F.]

Horse day but only one picture of the horse? MOAR HORSES!

There are so many horses. The Fuji X100 is not great at capturing motion. Her field is emotion! Next week I might bring my Nikon and hope to capture more of the animals

 

[davidharmier60]

Morning peeps. Pretty soon I gotta go.
And goody it's raining.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[Gary A.]

Mary Lou and Gary have just returned from watching The Post. What a movie. It really really takes me back. Gary cannot speak to the Washington Post, but ... everything looked and the actions/reactions/interactions would have been similar to the Los Angeles Times during that period.

Did you see the Nikon F's in the movie?

LOL ... yes at the end. Many were hooked up to Metz 'Potato Masher' flash. Those potato mashers were heavy but powerful. They could singe the hair off a cat at 30 paces. A good unit to bounce off a wall behind you.

 

[Gary A.]

The movie was brilliant on many levels. I got choked up watching the damn type setting. ...it was just so cool.

Possibly the political overtones pushed back the likelihood of too many Oscar nods. Clearly Hanks as well as Streep was excellent, along with a strong supporting cast.

The old linotype machines ... the operators who put the pages together were true craftsmen. The presses at the Times were in the basement and went up stories. At the height of its game, the LA Times had more than one million subscribers. They owned forests and paper mills. Recently, a friend took a tour of the LA Times. He said the regular tour guide was absent and replaced by a reporter. The reporter started the tour with "Welcome to the Titanic ..."

 

[tirediron]

The old linotype machines ... the operators who put the pages together were true craftsmen. The presses at the Times were in the basement and went up stories. At the height of its game, the LA Times had more than one million subscribers. They owned forests and paper mills. Recently, a friend took a tour of the LA Times. He said the regular tour guide was absent and replaced by a reporter. The reporter started the tour with "Welcome to the Titanic ..."

 

[smoke665]

"Welcome to the Titanic ..."

My last three years in college I had the privilege of meeting a burgeoning newspaper man who later became my mentor, business partner, and friend. He offered me a job at his Printing facility and newspaper where I started at the bottom of the process, but being the quick learner I fast advanced to the point that I was running full color on a sheet fed Heildlberg. From there I advanced to training on the new (at that time) newspaper Web Press, that could print and fold a 12 page section. Loved it all maybe that's why I learned so quick.

Rust Communications began as a small "free" paper that survived on advertising, but quickly grew to devour everything in the region. The local dinosaur was a daily that had been around for years and made few advancements in technology, while Rust was constantly doing it better and faster. The young upstart finally devoured the dinosaur for pennies on the dollar, as well as many others in the region, moving on to own 19 daily newspapers, 25 weeklies, more than a 100 websites and specialty publications, and minority ownership in 17 radio stations. The Gary Rust that I first met was a human dynamo, constantly on the go, always working, always thinking ahead. He was an inspiration and model of what it took to succeed.