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Wonder ToolsHelp your parents stay safe onlineWhen’s the last time you fielded a tech support call from a parent? You want your parents — or anyone you support — to benefit from email, photo sharing, and video calls. You also have to protect them from scams, malware, and unnecessary complexity. Or maybe you are that parent and want to stay safe online. Either way, today’s post aims to support you. I periodically help my parents make sense of confusing WebEx conferencing instructions or Microsoft Word settings. So when Wonder Tools reader and tech expert Paul Schreiber offered to write...2025-01-2307 min
Versecraft"Musseling" by Jan SchreiberText of poem here (Note: this is an older version, and some lines have changed). Topics discussed in this episode include: -My Ryan Wilson episode-My Mark Jarman episode-Ryan's corrections and very gracious explanation-The Contemporary Poetry Review-Jan's wonderfully kooky website -THINK Journal's Critical Path Symposium-The aquastentialist poem-"The Slow Pacific Swell" by Yvor Winters-"Le Cimitiere Marin" by Paul Valery-Ukiyo-Ask not for whom the b...2024-02-2829 min
Adapt or PerishHamlet (Ep. 125)With Episode 125 of Adapt or Perish, it's time for us to revisit the Bard and take a look at William Shakespeare's greatest theater kid antagonist, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark! In this episode, we discuss: William Shakespeare's original play, most likely written between 1599 and 1601 The 1948 theatrical movie directed and adapted by Laurence Olivier, and starring Olivier, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons, and Peter Cushing The 1964 stage production directed by John Gielgud, and starring Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie, John Cullum, and the voice of Gielgud Hamlet at Elsinore, the 1964 TV movie directed by...2023-04-042h 59
Face2Face with David PeckMiranda Bailey . "The Pathological Optimist"Miranda Bailey and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new film The Pathological Optimist, truth versus fiction, culpability and the media, hero worship, the Anti-Vax movement, family life and why she’s sometimes not so hopeful. Biography Miranda's first cinematic directorial debut was GREENLIT, a comedic documentary looking at the inherent hypocrisies surrounding Hollywood when trying to "green" a film set which debuted at SXSW in 2010. IFC International and Virgil Films picked it up for distribution. Since then, she directed the award winning narrative short ANOTHER HAPPY ANNIVERSARY which after a suc...2018-01-1035 min