Idle Rambling On A Saturday Night -- Nothing About The Bakken -- September 12, 2020

This really is a great country. So many opportunities. The human experience. I've posted more about the Sturgis Rally than I had ever expected. I was thinking about it again tonight and then randomly, Alexa popped up with this song:

Ride, Lana Del Rey

I don't recall when I first heard it. I could check the journals, but not worth effort right now. 

I do remember this. I was on a cross-country trip from home in either south Texas (San Antonio) or north Texas (Grapevine/DFW) and on my way to Williston. In fact, I think I was on the return trip, coming back from Williston to Texas. I knew I would need some music to get me through Nebraska. I stopped at a Target on the east (?) side of Rapid City, SD, to buy two or three Lana Del Ray CDs. 

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Tonight's TCM Movie

Experiment Perilous, starring George Brent and Hedy Lamarr.

Released the same year as George Cukor's Gaslight (1944). Uncannily similar.

But I reminded of Hedy Lamarr and her background. From wiki:

At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, intended to use frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers.

She also helped improve aviation designs for Howard Hughes while they dated during the war.

Although the US Navy did not adopt Lamarr and Antheil's invention until 1957, various spread-spectrum techniques are incorporated into Bluetooth technology and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of Wi-Fi.

Recognition of the value of their work resulted in the pair being posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

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Danger Signal

The film noir Danger Signal follows. 

A deranged cop travels the country seeking out felons and their femme fatales and urges them to use their turn signals even when fleeing from the police. I cannot make this up. At least that's what the presenter says about this movie. We'll see.