The Coffee House

[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.

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 ..."

Oh, my.

 

[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 ..."

Oh, my.

Craig’s List has been the largest single contributor to the LA Times demise.

 

[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.

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 ..."

Oh, my.

Craig’s List has been the largest single contributor to the LA Times demise.

Craig's List is crap IMO, and this doesn't improve my opinion of it.

 

[Gary A.]

Maggie, Max, Mike and Gary are back from our morning walk. We are relaxing in the back, drinking our coffee, watching the dogs wrestle, fed the Hummers, fed the fish and reading the morning paper.

 

[davidharmier60]

Dave ran around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I miss read 309 instead of 399 on a watch battery. It makes ALL kinds of difference. Went to Livingston and then to Cleveland. Paid almost $6.50 for the wrong battery.

BTW had 4 hours today. The buffer tossed the pad and won't restart hot. Didn't have too much floor left to buff.
Got two knives I asked for and one bonus knife from a guy on AAPK. Got some sharpening and some tinkering to do.

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[grrr8scott]

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 ..."

Oh, my.

Craig’s List has been the largest single contributor to the LA Times demise.

 

[snowbear117 48]

Gary should post the photo of Gary's new coffee mug so all of us can enjoy it.

 

[grrr8scott]

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 ..."

Oh, my.

Craig’s List has been the largest single contributor to the LA Times demise.

And, unfortunately, a lot of regional newspapers too. McClatchy (publisher of the Sacramento, Modest and Fresno Bee, as well as other papers across the country) has been suffering for a long time. Ad revenue is a small fraction of what it used to be. A couple years ago they shut down their printing press in Modesto and shifted it to Sacramento. We now get our news 2 days late. Friday’s high school sports scores on Sunday which just makes the paper even less desirable.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary should post the photo of Gary's new coffee mug so all of us can enjoy it.

Sure.

Charlie, was very thoughtful and had a pair of coffee mugs crafted with a slightly different image of Cookie on each mug. The above is Gary’s mug. It is his daily go to mug.

 

[Gary A.]

PS- Back to The Post. The LA Times and the Washington Post had there own special “wire” between the two newsrooms. The Times shared stories directly with the Post and the Post shared stories directly with the Times.

 

[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 ..."

Oh, my.

Craig’s List has been the largest single contributor to the LA Times demise.

And, unfortunately, a lot of regional newspapers too. McClatchy (publisher of the Sacramento, Modest and Fresno Bee, as well as other papers across the country) has been suffering for a long time. Ad revenue is a small fraction of what it used to be. A couple years ago they shut down their printing press in Modesto and shifted it to Sacramento. We now get our news 2 days late. Friday’s high school sports scores on Sunday which just makes the paper even less desirable.

That is so sad. Gary remembers when The Bee’s were a powerhouse of local news in the Central Valley and Sacramento.

 

[davidharmier60]

The Houston Comical was once a powerful newspaper. Now it's $2 day and $4 Sunday for something fit to line a birdcage.

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[davidharmier60]

I hope everyone has a good night and a spectacular tomorrow. Even if I don't have to get up at 4am tomorrow i did this morning and my eyelids are getting heavy.


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[SquarePeg37 8]

PS- Back to The Post. The LA Times and the Washington Post had there own special “wire” between the two newsrooms. The Times shared stories directly with the Post and the Post shared stories directly with the Times.

When I was in High School I wanted to be a writer for the Boston Globe. Partially fueled by a paper I’d written about Watergate and the role played by Woodward and Bernstein. I was on the school paper and had plans to go to college and study to be a journalist. Life got in the way and I didn’t end up getting my degree until almost 30 years later and it was in Business Mgmt. With the way things have gone for newspapers and print reporters in the past 2 decades, I’m not sorry that I got sidetracked. When one of my novella length posts hits the forum, now you know why. Frustrated writer wannabe syndrome.

 

[limr31]

PS- Back to The Post. The LA Times and the Washington Post had there own special “wire” between the two newsrooms. The Times shared stories directly with the Post and the Post shared stories directly with the Times.

When I was in High School I wanted to be a writer for the Boston Globe. Partially fueled by a paper I’d written about Watergate and the role played by Woodward and Bernstein. I was on the school paper and had plans to go to college and study to be a journalist. Life got in the way and I didn’t end up getting my degree until almost 30 years later and it was in Business Mgmt. With the way things have gone for newspapers and print reporters in the past 2 decades, I’m not sorry that I got sidetracked. When one of my novella length posts hits the forum, now you know why. Frustrated writer wannabe syndrome.

Funny, I almost majored in journalism, too. Even given the way print news has gone, I think I might have been able to build up some steam in my career before online news started really making an impact. When I was in school, print news was still going strong. There were a good 15-20 newspaper vending machines in the center of campus, including a few with combination locks where the journalism students would pick up their copy of the NYT that they had to subscribe to.

Alas, I went another way, though the part of me that always wanted to be a professional writer still regrets that I didn't go for it.