Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- 8 Best Exercises to Help You Sleep at Night. Especially in older adults.
- Iran stops negotiations with US.
- Just learned of the heroics of General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. On D-Day. Where do we find such men?
- From the archives: Dan Carlin on D-Day.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Douglas Murray: Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs.
- From the archives: How to remember anything that you read.
- Dan Carlin on D-Day: The real war will never get into the books.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Dan Carlin on UFO's - can we handle the truth? As an aside "Contact with Non-Human Entities" would be a good name for a fetish dating site.
- Travel and Leisure's Top Place to Go in 2023. (HT Tim Ferriss)
- Sean Peyton is not holding anything back on how bad the 2022 Broncos were. This is just putting more pressure on him to succeed.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The Sports Section is Dead. "Long live the sports section." Closely resembles my own evolution on the two announcements.
- Dan Carlin has a new Substack account (well new to me). Enjoy!
- Speaking of Substack - here's Matt Taibbi of Racket News on Where Have all the Liberals Gone? Good stuff.
- Used to enjoy Anchor Brewing but understand the move. Anchor was founded in 1886 and would not be surprised if a buyer was found and the brewery moved out of San Fran.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"It is easy to understand things once someone has thought them through. The difficulty lies in thinking them through in the first place." - Carlo Rovelli
"Life would be tragic if it weren't so funny." - Stephen Hawking
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius
"My wish is for an American that matches the marketing material." - Dan Carlin
Sunday I went to see his new movie News of the World - at a movie theater! This was probably the first time I'd been in a movie theater since maybe last February. It was a bit strange. I went with my girlfriend and there was only one other couple there. It was almost like having the place to ourselves.
The movie itself was entertaining. My girlfriend liked it but if I'm honest it was a bit predictable and if Tom Hanks wasn't the star - I probably would not have gone to see it. IMDB has it rated as 6.8 Stars out of 10 and that seems about right.
Last week I re-watched Charlie Wilson's War - the 2007 Hanks vehicle which is similarly rated by IMDB (7 out of 10 Stars) but to me that movie had better pacing and dialog.
Recently I also read the C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepard mainly because Tom Hanks just did a movie based on the book called Greyhound (which I have not seen). I had heard Hanks describe the book/movie on a Dan Carlin podcast.
Strangely enough, of the movies and the book - it was probably the podcast I most enjoyed. Anyway - been on a bit of a Tom Hanks kick lately.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London
"Thought precedes action as lightning precedes thunder."- Heinrich Heine
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." -John Wayne in The Shootist
"Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something." - Plato
"Nothing separates us [more] from human beings from earlier eras than how much less disease affects us. If we moderns lived for one year with the sort of death rates our pre-industrial age ancestors perpetually lived with, we'd be in societal shock." - Dan Carlin
"Crazy plants the seeds of calm, because wild times incentivize people to solve problems and stay alert, like a healthy dose of paranoia." - Morgan Housel
"Show me a man who thinks he's objective and I'll show you a man who's deceiving himself." - Henry Luce
