I uploaded a video
to YouTube, which took over an hour, but then when I posted it on Facebook it
seemed kind of blurry in full screen, so I tried for the first time uploading
directly from my computer to Facebook. I seem to recall that that didn’t used
to be an option. I don’t know if it was any less blurry in full screen though.
I read Emmanuel Levinas’s
“Meaning and Sense”, though I couldn’t very well discern its meaning or its
sense. He thinks that there are ethics beyond culture.
I did a virus scan
of my external hard drive that took two hours. I wonder if I really need all
the Windows files from my previous system.
The program called
Dropbox that I’d downloaded in order to get the essay that my Short Story
instructor had posted there had rearranged some of my files to an annoying
degree, so I uninstalled it. It seems to me that when people design programs
they should engineer them to behave on someone’s computer like guests in
someone’s home. They should take the little space they are given and only go
elsewhere when specifically invited to do so. When I open my documents folder
and look up in the left hand corner where my Favourites are listed, I want to
see my Downloads there. Dropbox moved my downloads so I had to search the menu
to find out where they were and then I had to move them back to my Favourites.
Grrrrr!
I rubbed a rack of
ribs with brown sugar, mustard, cayenne, paprika, cumin and salt; grilled it in
the oven and at half while watching two episodes of Father Knows Best.
In the first
episode, the teenage son, Bud, was having trouble talking to girls. When a girl
his age came to the door selling Camp Girl cookies, he hid in the closet and
came out wearing a Halloween mask that had been stored there. With the mask on
he took on a different, more confident persona and the girl thought he was
funny and charming and told him he was “a top”. His sister, wanting to break
him out of his shyness, arranged for a girl to call him on the phone, but found
he even needed to wear the mask to talk to her. When he did, he was again very
confident and asked her out on a date. Afterwards though, he realized that he
couldn’t go out with her because he couldn’t wear the mask in public. The
solution was to throw a masquerade party, but that night his mask went missing.
His father told him he could recreate the mask with theatrical make-up. When he
was done, Bud wanted to look in the mirror but Jim said there was no time
because the guests had already arrived. So he went downstairs, not realizing
that his father had tricked him and had only drawn on his face with a clear
pencil. Halfway through the party he realized he didn’t have make-up on, but
realized that he didn’t need it. He still had the fake persona though.
The
second episode began with Jim complaining about how no one keeps their promises
anymore. Princess wanted to cancel a date with a boy that she said was a dope
but her father made her keep the date. Meanwhile, the youngest daughter, Kathy,
was building something out of old crates in the back yard. At dinnertime, Jim,
with his mouth watering, was about to dig in to some of his wife’s roast sirloin,
when Kathy reminded him of several promises he had made to her when she had the
measles. He’d promised her she could have a playhouse in the back yard, that he
would eat with her there and that he would also spend the night with her there.
So he had to eat graham crackers with butter and sleep with Kathy out in the
rickety little shack she’d put together, because he’d promised.
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