Business, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

Ricky Gervais

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I don’t watch awards ceremonies, but apparently he handed woke Hollywood its ass last night.

[Update a few minutes later]

More from Steve Kruiser, with video.

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Boo, hoo. Lorraine Ali is all butthurt.

[Update a while later]

More from Kyle Smith. And Emily Jashinski.

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Hollywood proved Gervais’s point.

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Related, I think: What happened to Howard Stern? If you want to skip the long history, jump to the end, which relates his recent interview with Hillary.

[Tuesday-morning update]

To hell with these gilded charlatans.

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[Update a while later]

The “liberal” reviews are in for Gervais’s performance, and their tears are delicious.

Media Criticism, Popular Culture, Weird

Cats

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I’ve never seen the musical, and I’m not inclined to, but nowhere near as much as I’m not inclined to see the movie, which is getting terrible reviews.

[Friday-afternoon update]

“I watched Cats, and I have some questions.”

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[Saturday-morning update]

Follow the whole thread.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Here’s the unroll for that thread. RTWT.

[Update Sunday afternoon]

Universal notifies theaters that the movie will be “updated” for special effects. For a film already in release.

[Update a few minutes later]

This is one of the longest-running Broadway musicals. Can anyone tell me if there is a single memorable song in it other than “Memor<del>y</del>ies”? It seems to me that it’s like Les Miserable; apparently tunes aren’t important in musicals any more.

[Wednesday-afternoon update]

OK, here’s another Twitter review.

And here’s a review of the software update.

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[Saturday afternoon update]

A review of Cats, by cats.

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Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

The Suleimani Strike

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Thoughts and links from Instapundit.

We’ve been letting Iran get away with far too much for four decades. And the George W. Bush administration was feckless in that regard as well. I had thought one of the primary purposes of removing Saddam was to pressure Iran, but if that was part of the plan they botched it almost completely.

[Monday-morning update]

A Twitter thread from John Hayward on the pusillanimity of the media, the Obama administration, and the UN.

Administrative, Law, Technology and Society

Email Problem?

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I’ve got a file containing all my sent email for the past decade in date order. I want to find it for the years 2011 and 2012. My bash (or perl?) scripting skills are pretty rusty, but here is the pseudocode for what I need to do:

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Open original text file read only

Open new file for writing

Set Printflag to “false”

For each line of file

   If match regular expression “Date: .* 2011” set Printflag to “true.”

   If match regular expression “Date: .* 2013” set Printflag to “false.”

   If Printflag, copy line to new file

Close both files.

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Note that the regular expression may have to be a little more specific (like maybe include a match for [Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec] between “Date:” and the year). The format for a full line would be

“Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:41:31 -0400”

The idea is to scan the file until 2011 begins, start echoing lines to the new file, and stop doing it when 2013 begins. Maybe exit at that point so it doesn’t waste time or cycles going through the rest of it.

[Update a while later]

Never mind, I got the answer from Twitter.

[Saturday-morning update]

For those curious, here’s the solution to the problem:

$ perl -ne “print if /Date:.*2011/../Date:.*2013/” $oldfile >> $newfile

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