Alan C. Baird's Blog: The Snoozeletter @ snzltr.blogspot.com, page 11

Getting Jerked Around By Wells Fargo Bank.

We had a safe deposit box for a few months.
But we don't need it anymore, so we wanted to close the box.
I visited the bank on Monday, and emptied out the last few trinkets.
I tried to leave the box keys, but nobody would take them.
They said I had to make an appointment, and talk to a bank officer.
So I hurried home to use their online appointment system.
It gave me an appointment for Thursday at 9am.
But the bank officer called and left a voicemail.
It seems the appointment system f*cked up, and she wanted to change the time.
So I tried to return her call: "This number doesn't accept incoming calls."
But her voicemail mentioned another number, which said: "This is a non-working extension."
So I waited by my phone, ready to pounce.
Sure enough, she called again, and we agreed on a new time: Thursday at 10am.
But I had no confidence that she would actually be there.
You see, I've been jerked around by Wells Fargo Bank before.
So when I walked into the bank at 10am on Thursday, I was ready.
I had written CANCEL across the payment slip, in big block letters.
When a teller called me over, and asked why I was there, I told him.
He looked doubtful, and started to say, "I don't think she's here today..."
So I slapped down the payment slip and the keys: "Just give these to her."
And I headed for the door.
The teller yelled, across the lobby: "You can't just leave these here!"
I growled, over my shoulder: "Watch me."

LibreOffice restarted my computer, and forced an update. Twice!

 

In the early hours of May 13th, I stepped away from my computer. And when I came back, it was rebooting! Sheeyit, I never gave it permission to do that. After it finally came back up, a new LibreOffice icon was smirking at me, from the upper left corner of my desktop. So I vented some of my outrage on the LibrOffice help forum:
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-restarted-my-computer-and-forced-an-update/77483

They basically said I was crazy, and tried to silence me. So I went away, with my tail between my legs.

But then, in the early hours of May 26th, IT HAPPENED AGAIN! SAME D*MN THING, IN THE SAME D*MN WAY!!
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffice-restarted-my-computer-and-forced-an-update-2nd-occurrence/77972

Once again, they said I was crazy, and tried to shut me up. These guys are very predictable. And obnoxious. It's like they wanna out-Microsoft Microsoft. And it looks like they're succeeding. Congrats, guys!

Triple-boosted... or double-boosted and confused.

 

Hm. I just got Shot #5, but Apple Wallet can't handle all 5 doses... only the last 4.
Dose #1 06Feb2021
Dose #2 27Feb2021
Dose #3 16Aug2021
Dose #4 21Jan2022
Dose #5 22May2022

Another weirdness: There are now two files in Apple Health Immunizations, instead of just one. The first one contains Doses 1-4, and the other contains Dose 5. (You'd expect the second one to contain Doses 2-5, in order to produce the Apple Wallet Vaccination Card mentioned above.) Also, when you read the latest CDC guidelines, they keep moving the goalposts: a primary series is now 3 doses, making dose 4 into booster 1, and dose 5 into booster 2. Nota Bene: "You can self-attest to your moderately or severely immunocompromised status. This means that you do not need any documentation of your status in order to receive COVID-19 vaccine doses wherever they are offered."

Pfizer-BioNTech schedule for the immunocompromised:
2nd dose given 3 weeks (21 days) after 1st dose.
3rd dose given at least 4 weeks (28 days) after 2nd dose.
4th dose (1st booster) given at least 3 months after 3rd dose.
5th dose (2nd booster) given at least 4 months after 1st booster.
So the 5th dose could theoretically be given less than 9 months after 1st dose.
What in holy h*ll took me so long? 😉

PS: Shot #4 was Pfizer purple.
Shot #5 was Pfizer gray.
I just hope they didn't dilute it...

Double-boosted & ready to roll.

 

OK, so I now have four COVID-19 shots in my arm.
https://sites.google.com/view/CovidVaxHelpLW ~ (Volunteer)

I also have a SMART® Health Card (get yours):
https://smarthealth.cards

I've scanned the SMART® Health Card into my smartphone wallet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bnaF0FHPyg

And I have verified everything:
https://www.thecommonsproject.org/smart-health-card-verifier

So I can go anywhere now, right?!
Click to enlarge:

Double-boosted & ready to roll.

 

OK, so I now have four COVID-19 shots in my arm.
https://sites.google.com/view/CovidVaxHelpLW

I also have a SMART® Health Card (get yours):
https://smarthealth.cards

I've scanned the SMART® Health Card into my smartphone wallet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bnaF0FHPyg

And I've verified everything:
https://www.thecommonsproject.org/smart-health-card-verifier

So I can go anywhere now, right?!
Click to enlarge:

Double-boosted & ready to rock.

 

OK, so I now have four COVID-19 shots in my arm.
https://sites.google.com/view/CovidVaxHelpLW

I also have a SMART® Health Card (get yours):
https://smarthealth.cards

I've scanned the SMART® Health Card into my smartphone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bnaF0FHPyg

And I've verified everything:
https://www.thecommonsproject.org/smart-health-card-verifier

So I can go anywhere now, right?! Click to enlarge:

Zoomiversary #2, 03April2020 - 03April2022.

 

[Facebook story.] The next get-together is this coming Friday, with participants Zooming in from Lakewood Colorado, Mesa Arizona, Philomath Oregon, Suffield Connecticut, Niwot Colorado, Fougères France, San Diego California, Virginia Beach Virginia, and Swampscott Massachusetts.
--With Jim Gusek, moi, Patrick Kamins, Michael Rood, Bert Cashman, Robert Grace, Michael Kay, Stephen FitzGerald, Bruce LaPointe, and Bill Walthall.


Yearbook portraits - guess who was who!

Development of the Moneyball screenplay.

 

2008Dec01 Zaillian https://web.archive.org/web/20090710212336/http://pursuethepassion.com/ebook/MoneyballScript.pdf

2009Jun22 Zaillian / Soderbergh https://web.archive.org/web/20120917022320/http://pursuethepassion.jobing.com/ebook/Moneyball_-_6.22.09_(Shooting_Draft).pdf

2010Oct15 Zaillian / Sorkin https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/03_03/Mktrsch/Market%20Research/Scripts/Released/MONEYBALL%20FINAL.pdf

2011 Zaillian / Sorkin / Chervin https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/scripts/moneyball-2011.pdf

Mank (2020).

 

A black-and-white biographical drama about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his development of the script for Citizen Kane (1941). It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay by his late father, Jack Fincher. Also starring Tom Burke as Orson Welles and Amanda Seyfried as Marion Davies ("Rosebud"), the paramour of William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance).

Excerpts from the Mank screenplay:

M.G.M. studio head LOUIS B. MAYER (Arliss Howard): This is a business where the buyer gets nothing for his money but a memory. What he bought still belongs to the man who sold it. That's the real magic of the movies and don't let anybody tell ya different.

LATER:
ANNOUNCER: And the winner of the best original screenplay is... Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles for Citizen Kane! This is the first nomination and first win for Mr. Mankiewicz and Mr. Welles. Neither were able to attend tonight. Accepting for both is president of RKO Radio Pictures, Mr. George Schaefer.

STILL LATER:
REPORTER #3: Mister Welles, Kane was nominated in nine categories, including best actor. Aren't you disappointed that it only won one Oscar?
ORSON WELLES (Tom Burke): Well, that, my good man, is Hollywood.
REPORTER #4: Do you have anything you'd like to say to your co-author, Mr. Mankiewicz?
WELLES: I do have a brief message. You may tell him from me, "Mank, you can kiss my half."

AND EVEN LATER:
MANK (Gary Oldman, to a separate group of reporters): You ask me what my acceptance speech might have been? Well here goes... I am very happy to accept this award in the manner in which this screenplay was written, which is to say,.. in the absence of Orson Welles.

2022 Oscar-Nominated Screenplays.

The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is scheduled to take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, on Sunday, March 27.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Belfast by Kenneth Branagh
https://focusfeaturesguilds2021.com/belfast/Belfast.pdf


Don't Look Up
Screenplay by Adam McKay
Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
https://www.scriptslug.com/assets/scripts/dont-look-up-2021.pdf - early draft, with bidding ending
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dont-Look-Up-Read-The-Screenplay.pdf - final draft, with Jonah's brilliant improv - clip


Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson
*SCREENPLAY NOT YET RELEASED


King Richard by Zach Baylin
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/King-Richard-Read-The-Screenplay-2.pdf


The Worst Person in the World
Screenplay by Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
*SCREENPLAY NOT YET RELEASED


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
CODA
Screenplay by Siân Heder
Based on the film "La Famille Bélier"
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CODA-Read-The-Screenplay-1.pdf


Drive My Car
Screenplay by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe
Based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
*SCREENPLAY NOT YET RELEASED


Dune
Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
Based on the novel by Frank Herbert
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dune-Read-The-Screenplay.pdf


The Lost Daughter
Screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal
Based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Lost-Daughter-Read-The-Screenplay.pdf


The Power of the Dog
Screenplay by Jane Campion
Based on the novel by Thomas Savage
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/The-Power-Of-The-Dog-Read-The-Screenplay.pdf