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Movies that I've watched recently for free on youtube
Posted Mar 16, 2021
and then there were none
best man down
captain ron
for all time
greenland
guys and dolls
life with father
little night music
the little princess
love punch
merry andrew
pirates of penzance [1983]
return to me
secret life of walter mitty
somebody loves me
someone like you
student prince
this can't be love
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Latest reply: Mar 16, 2021
covid vaccinaitons off in Massachusetts
Posted Mar 1, 2021
For the week ended February 25, 215,000 people were vaccinated. That's about 30,000 per day. But the Boston Globe says the state receives only 130,000 doses per week. That's a lot less! It's less than 20,000 people per day. And, a million people were added to the eligibility list.
So, more people chasing fewer doses!
And, you need two doses for full immunity. (or what passes for it.)
1,500,000 vaccinations have occurred as of Feb. 25. That's enough for 750,000 people.
Population of Massachusetts: 6,893,574
550,000 confirmed cases
About 6,400,000 people who have not had Covid-19 (probably understated)
Subtract the 750,000 who have been vaccinated (Most vaccinations in March will probably be the second doses, scheduled 28 days after the first one)
Let's say 5,650,000 left to vaccinate. And the state gets enough doses to fully vaccinate 65,000 people
It will take about 87 weeks to vaccinate all those who have not had the disease.
Though probably fewer weeks than that.
Because:
--over that span of time, more people will catch the disease, and no longer need the vaccine
--an indeterminate number of people will be opposed to to vaccinaiton, or will give up on getting it because the state's website can tell you you have a 1-minute waiitng time, and then amoment later tell you you have to 13,000 minutes (that happened to me this morning. The end result is always the same: no doses are available, no matter howl ong you wait.)
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Latest reply: Mar 1, 2021
Ideas for guide entries
Posted Feb 28, 2021
Now that I've started writing guide entries, I find that I like the process.
I've started a second round, leading off with an entry about the Burns and Allen TV show.
Where do I go from here?
One direction would be to tackle contemporary themes. The pandemic has made it advantageous to be able to create virtual choruses. I briefly tried to sing in a virtual church choir, but I didn't have the right equipment, and other things happened in my life (no water for ten days, e.g., a huge distraction). But there are singers who were already making recordings as virtual singing groups. Peter Hollens and Julien Neel are examples of singers whose vocal range is wide enough that they can sing all the parts of a standard Barbershop group. I could write an entry featuring Neel, whose output I have heard pretty much in its entirety. The downside? Very few people on the Internet have done reviews of his work. It would be a challenge to do an entry
and keep my personal opinion at a minimum.
Another contemporary issue is that of ugly, racist songs from the 1930a being discovered in the recorded output of Kate Smith. There are definitely two sides to this, and some eloquent spokespeople on both sides. Smith died in 1986, and undoubtedly forgot about the controversial songs soon after she recorded them. They do not seem to have entered into the repertoire that Smith regularly turned to in later years. Were she still alive, she would have the opportunity to make an apology if she so desired. But she's not alive. A sports team that used her as a sort of good-luck mascot has severed ties with her recordings of "God bless America" and removed a statue of her. I personally think they should stop living in the past and look for new directions.
I could check the Edited Guide to see if either Kate Smith or Julie Andrews are represented reasonably well. At the moment, guide entries for ither of them would be long shots, but who knows?
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Say ggoodnight, George and Gracie
Posted Feb 27, 2021
Some time last November or December I began watching episodes of the Burns and Allen show on youtube. I've probably seen almost 200 of the episodes.
Here's the A number for the entry I've just written: A88015764
I've submitted it to peer review.
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Latest reply: Feb 27, 2021
Vaccinaiton search: this application crashed
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Today my age group became eligible for Covid-19 vaccination. So I went to the state websites set up for booking appointments.
Tis is what I invariably found:
"This application crashed."
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Latest reply: Feb 18, 2021
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