Personal Notes Only -- Not For Readers -- Three Articles That Caught My Eye In Today's On-Line WSJ -- October 14, 2024

Locator: 48568ARCHIVES.

Again, these are simply stories that interest me. Nothing for those coming here for the Bakken.

AI: not as smart as. your cat.

Pomeroy, Iowa: local interest. My mother grew up in this area. Family blog. For the archives; for the great-grandchildren.

The farm where Ruth spent her early years. Her brother Don was apparently born in a hospital (?) in Palmer, Iowa. The farm was apparently about one mile south and one mile west of Palmer, Iowa.

 

Japanese restaurant: fascinating.

Now, he’s returned with a new restaurant and a new attitude about how to run a business.  RVR (pronounced “river”), a Japanese izakaya, which is similar to a pub, opened this month down the street from Gjelina. From December 13, 2019:

Wow, wow, wow --  in our backyard -- in Southlake, TX: Ozeki Ramen & Sushi Izakaya is now open in downtown Southlake. Wow, wow, wow. Izakaya? A Japanese pub.Yelp.

NFL:

I was never impressed with Trevor Lawrence; I'm probably in the minority. Today, Jacksonville Jaguars (1-4) playing Chicago Bears (3-2) in London are losing badly, 21 - 3. The former, as of the mid-third quarter, as a negative one yard on offense so far today. Having said that, the JAX have seemed to come alive late in the third quarter. 

Started the season 0 - 4. Down 28 - 10 early in 4th period, Lawrence intercepted.

SpaceX: this is absolutely amazing. Link to YouTube. Again, Elon Musk. 

YouTube: not the streaming network, but the original YouTube -- gets better and better and better.

Full movies. 

TV classics -- right now, recently added, Highway Patrol with Academy-Award winner Broderick Crawford. Series ran for four seasons, 156 episodes; typical at the time, 39 episodes / calendar year. First American series broadcast in West Germany on that country's commercial TV channel.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wrote five episodes, sometimes using the pseudonym "Robert Wesley." Future producer Quinn Martin was sound supervisor in the show's early years; style elements of Highway Patrol are evident in his later productions (The Untouchables, The Fugitive, Barnaby Jones, The Invaders, The FBI and The Streets of San Francisco). When asked why the popular show ended, Crawford said, "We ran out of crimes".