I’ll get back to my regularly scheduled commercial enterprises pronto. But today is an exciting, scary, American day – please, to all my U.S. viewers and customers, go vote! It matters.
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I know, this isn’t my usual. But I so adore Helen Mirren, I just had to applaud and add one more voice to the “You are fabulous” list of fangirls! Read all about it here (and thank you to the Entertainment section of www.independent.co.uk::  Dame Mirren has already won an Academy Award for playing Queen Elizabeth – but this is her first Tony. I haven’t seen her performance – yet – but if I get a chance to get to NY I will definitely be in line! P.S. And did I hear you ask, why do I love Helen Mirren? No, you probably already know. But I’ll say it anyway. Not only is she a great actor – and gorgeous – but she seems to have fun. And like herself. Talk about a great role model! I’ve always loved watching her. “The Birds” and “Marnie” come to mind first, and while I think I would’ve run screaming (how appropriate) from Alfred Hitchcock as a person, he did make good films. And Tippi Hedren has always been a classy actor. But I didn’t know till recently what a terrific role model she is, as well! I recently read a very informative article from the BBC about Miss Hedren:  “How Tippi Hedren helped Vietnamese refugees get jobs and establish an industry in the US” Please go read that article – it is inspiring! In short form – in the mid 60s, she realized that displaced Vietnamese women, homeless because of the war, needed not just charity – but jobs. She established a school that taught the women sewing, typing, and most importantly – nail care and fashion. It worked so well that by now, 51% of the nail technicians in the U.S. are Vietnamese. Ms. Hedren wasn’t just sympathetic to their plight. She DID something to help. Truly a hero! P.S. And her other, very personal cause? is the Shambala Preserve, a sanctuary she established to care for abandoned and orphaned exotic big cats. Like I said – a class act! It’s January 28, and of course I’m rememering the Challenger. This pretty much says it all:  Why did I put that pic first? Because before they were astronauts – even more important than that they were astronauts – first they were just people. Courageous, outrageous, fun-loving, silly, ordinary people. Well. Maybe not ordinary. And here’s the official one:  Yes, they are heroes. Not because they died. That was just – stuff happens. Bad stuff happens. They were heroes because they wanted to go, and worked for it, and knew it was risky, and WANTED to go. So this is for Greg Jarvis, Christa Mcauliffe, Ron McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnick, Dick Scobee, and Michael Smith. Thanks, guys. You’re not forgotten. R.I.P. and God bless. Saw this in the news today: Sotheby’s is going to be offering a 24.78 karat, uber rare pink diamond for sale next month:  Just for giggles, let’s compare it to these:  Pink 12mm x 10mm vintage glass diamond jewels I have available in my Etsy shop. Of course the two are worlds apart, and the cut of the diamond is incomparable. However – the diamond is expected to fetch up to $38 million dollars at auction. Yes. That was “thirty eight MILLION”. The vintage glass jewels sell for $3.19 a pair. So my point is, both are pretty. Yes, absolutely, the diamond is rare and incalculable and like that, but — who buys stuff like that? This isn’t even sour grapes on my part. Why would a person want something like that? Just to show it off? Well, yeah, but — I mean, who cares? It’s simply a cultural / ethnic / socioeconomic gap so wide it’s funny. I mean – what planet do THEY live on? Woo hoo! I don’t know details yet but it doesn’t matter – we’ve rescued Captain Phillips! Back to our regular programming shortly 🙂 I just saw a revised mention of the article I talked about earlier. Now it says that the university (in Amsterdam I think? I’m hurrying so not sure right now) – anyway, the people who developed the “intelligent programs” have a robot working with their programs. They named the robot Adam. And they have already made a second robot. Named Eve. Insert Twilight Zone music here. Wow. Just saw an article from Reuters that says some scientists are developing “robots (computers anyway) that can think”. Of course that’s an oversimplification designed to get headlines, but it does say that programs have been developed that can reason and create hypotheses, determine and then check results. It’s on a baby scale so far but still… wow.
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