Army won’t reinstate valor medal, Special Forces tab for ex-Green Beret pardoned by Trump
10-minute documentary is embedded in the New Yorker article.
Who knew that a cat filter could cause such anguish? Well, Paul J. Bracher did. In the short documentary “Cat-astrophe,” the filmmakers Kristina Budelis and Leandro Badalotti introduce us to Bracher, now an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University, who, in 2012, made a similar appearance as an accidental cat, this time during a Skype job interview. (He didn’t get the job.)
The film tracks the long life of this sad-eyed cat avatar, featuring insights from a software-design manager named John Martin, who helped create it, and the current chief technology officer at Dell, who confirms its provenance. And the story goes a bit further still. Recently, Martin and a colleague named Irving Lu managed to track down the identity of the real-life kitten that provided its image for their original filter. Long before it was Lawyer Cat, and nearly a decade before it wrecked a young chemist’s job search, the kitten was a real-life blue-eyed fluffball named Eldest Mouse, born in Taiwan in 2003.
For all of you craving Tom Bombadil in yr LotR adaptations. I didn’t link to this last week as I wanted to link to Tom appearing. I think I saw Tom in it but honestly I couldn’t be sure. He was a merry fellow anyway.
Egypt To ‘Ever Given’ Owners: Pay Us $1 Billion Or You Aren’t Getting Your Big Boat Back
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn’t mean they’re aliens)
Foxconn and Wisconsin reach new deal to do something different at Donald Trump’s favourite (flop of a) factory
Foxconn’s showcase Wisconsin LCD factory becomes aspirational ‘manufacturing ecosystem’
Details of the agreement reached between Foxconn and Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) were confirmed yesterday by Governor Tony Evers.
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