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Mon Oct 31 07:38:48 EDT 2016
Slept from eleven to seven.
Partly sunny. High of fifty. Good, should be OK trick-or-treating for the kids.
Goals:
Work:
- Talk to Jamie about building occupancy report
Done.
- Deinstall Ubiquiti stuff from my workstation
Done.
The noisy roof guys are back. At least they're not working _directly_ over my head today.
Forty minute walk at lunch. Mostly cloudy, and a little breezy. Lots of leaves falling. Saw a ton of robins, a few seagulls, a blue jay, and a couple of woodpeckers.
I keep thinking back to a moment from my walk Saturday. A leaf fell spinning in front of me. Something about the lighting and maybe the distance from me made the moment hyperreal, like the leaf was slightly in slow motion and super-high definition.
Home:
- Work on Golang notes
Done.
- Work on D&D mini rules
Done.
- Watch a scary movie or two
Eh.
Watched a couple of Doctor Who episodes.
I've been disappointed with the new show for a while, but season eight picks up a bit.
Mummy on the Orient Express is practically classic Doctor Who.
https://go-book.appspot.com/methods.html
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-fake-british-accent-took-old-hollywood-by-storm
> If you’ve ever seen a movie made before 1950, you’re familiar with the accent used by actors like Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman: a sort of high-pitched, indistinctly-accented way of speaking that also pops up in recordings of politicians like FDR and writers like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr. [...] It is not entirely natural, for one thing: the form of the accent was firmly guided by certain key figures, who created strict rules that were aggressively taught. And it also vanished quickly, within the span of perhaps a decade, which might be related to the fact that it isn’t entirely natural. [...] The book that codified the elite Northeastern accent is one of the most fascinating and demanding books I’ve ever read, painstakingly written by one Edith Skinner. Skinner was an elocutionist who decided, with what must have been balls the size of Mars, to call this accent “Good Speech.” [...] Her influence was felt in filmmaking in a very roundabout way. Film began in New York, only moving en masse to Los Angeles in the mid-1910s. Skinner was born in New Brunswick, Canada, but studied linguistics at Columbia and taught drama for many years at Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh, and Juilliard, in New York City, all highly elite schools. [...] Yep, drama: by this point, movies with sound had begun to hit theaters, and then came the disastrous story of Clara Bow. Bow was one of the silent film era’s biggest stars, a master of exaggerated expressions. When the talkies came along, audiences heard her voice for the first time and it was a nasal, honking Brooklyn accent. Though the idea that speaking roles killed her career in film is not entirely accurate (there were plenty of other factors, ranging from drug problems to insane pressures of film studios), it’s certainly true that her career took a nosedive around the time audiences heard her voice, possibly creating a cautionary tale for newly heard actors. ’s now the 1930s, and Edith Skinner is Hollywood’s go-to advisor for all things speech-related. And Edith Skinner has extremely strong opinions, bred in the elite universities of the Northeast, about exactly how people should speak. So she forced her own “Good Speech” accent on stars, and other voice coaches, and soon her accent became the most popular accent in Hollywood.
Breakfast: carrots, spinach, coffee with half-and-half, a slice of cheese (out of yogurt)
Lunch: a peanut butter cookie
Dinner: steak sandwich, fries
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