Sunday, June 07, 2015

Lighthouse


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  1. We need some Dean light in the house!

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  2. Hope everyone is okay out there.

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  3. From rock bottom of the last thread:

    Cat, in 1974, Tatum O'Neal was (and remains!) the youngest person ever to win an Oscar! Hers was for Best Supporting Actress, though as she has the most lines and scenes of any woman in the film, I don't see why it wasn't for Best Actress. Paper Moon was up against such greats as The Sting, The Exorcist and The Way We Were that year, and Tatum won at age 10.5. Her character in the movie is age 11, and *she turned 9 during filming*!!!

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  4. Oh YEAH--Paper Moon is a dandy movie! Very memorable.

    Nothing particularly notable in the Central Valley ag report; some large plantings of grain are being harvested late to protect large numbers of soldier blackbirds that had nested there; alfalfa continuing to grow and be cut, corn and cotton coming up. Ever more nut orchards being planted. Some onions, only a tiny planting of leaf lettuce seen. One large field being prepared either for an almond orchard or for watermelons, I can't tell which. It is really amazing how well and rapidly the vines and trees grow when they start (and of course continue) with drip irrigation. Drip is even being used with onions and tomatoes--the drip lines are pulled up after harvest, but evidently are recycled. Since far less of the surface is watered, there are far fewer weeds to spray or hoe. There is a pilot solar desalination plant out on the west side of the county that is being used to remove salts from irrigation drain water--far more robust and less expensive than reverse osmosis, and largely built from off-the-shelf components. It shows a lot of promise.

    Over the weekend I read Clifford D. Simak's "The Visitors." A dandy story--and super aliens! Said aliens are completely non-anthropomorphic, and the book has a nice take on human-alien interactions. Not your classic space opera, not a terror story.

    --Alan

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