Orange Crate Art: ”’‘“
Finally, I found an answer, from the User Experience Stack Exchange: Why are the right- and left-quotation marks on iOS’s keyboard reversed?
Orange Crate Art
MSNBC, sheesh
“The president said that him and his team are fully cooperating.”
Flight need
“Does the system need repaired and upgraded?”
Fleece
Today’s Zippy makes a point about fabrics.
Chrome: reduce RAM and CPU usage
I prefer not to use Chrome. But if you use it, you should know how to reduce its RAM and CPU usage with Memory Saver mode.
Twelve movies
The Secret of Convict Lake and others.
Cult of Mac top 2022 apps
Cult of Mac names its top apps of 2022 — eight in all, four of them free.
Pocket notebook sighting
From What Happened Was . . . (dir. Tom Noonan, 1994).
Wrinkles
We were turning the pages of an (unsolicited) catalogue this weekend when we started laughing, because we realized that every item of clothing in the catalogue was wrinkled. That must be what they mean by Effortlessly Cool®.
No pictures
A perfect example of administrative overreaction fueled by fear and ignorance.
“Older”
I liked this detail from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s address to the House yesterday, as he moved through a catalogue of American lives: “We are young. We are older.” “Older” — not “old.”
On Arthur Avenue
Women in hats (a mother–daughter pair?), two women in aprons, a man with a cap, a window full of . . . cans of olive oil maybe?, a mystery storefront with . . . fabrics on display?, sawhorses, a sidewalk entrance to a cellar, a tough customer with a tie, improbable watering cans, and a baby carriage.
Domestic comedy
No TV.
A reader wonders about books about writing
Recommendations and non-recommendations.
Today’s Saturday Stumper
“Asset in an appraisal.”
Word of the week: shitshow
Yep, in the House.
Mystery actor
Who?
Sliced Bread
Sliced Bread is an excellent podcast from the BBC.
“Antic grace”
Where does that phrase come from?
Naked Town, a Mad parody
A parody of Naked City.
How to improve writing (no. 106)
I was going to quote a sentence from The New York Times this morning until I realized how awful it was.
Getting things done
Heather Cox Richardson: “The first thing they did was to remove the metal detectors that were installed after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
“Eccentric adventures”
Steve Young: ”Life can be so rich and wonderful when we step off the logical path and embark on eccentric adventures.”
EXchange names on screen
From Mr. District Attorney (dir. Robert B. Sinclair, 1947). The movie is a bit ’phone-crazy.
Recently updated
Still more lies from George Santos.
Look closely
A squirrel, uncertain how to get down.
On the conjunction train
From YouTube user blakrootz: “‘Conjunction Junction’ Model Train.”
Recently updated
A Bronx candy store and the meaning of “light lunch.”
Public Domain Day
Featuring Louis Armstrong, Willa Cather, George and Ira Gershwin, Frank Kafka, Fritz Lang, Marcel Proust, and Bessie Smith, and many more.
A Bronx candy store
Right across from a school.