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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-12 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:23:53 -0700
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On 4/13/24 5:34 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

> On 4/13/2024 3:57 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>> On 4/13/2024 8:41 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>>
>>>> What did you watch?
>>>>
>>>> (I am working on IMDb stuff right now, so I will follow-up to myself a
>>>> little later...)
>>>
>>> I watched:
>>>
>>> The Birds (blu-ray) 1963 movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock about a
>>> small town being terrorized by birds that keep attacking for no reason.
>>> I could have sworn this movie was in black and white and was shocked
>>> when it was in color. My best guess is the last time I watched it was
>>> maybe 40 or so years ago on a black and white TV.  Either that or I just
>>> flat out forgot it was in color.  Regardless, the movie holds up well
>>> enough.  I just have one more Hitchcock movie to go, then I think I will
>>> have watched all the ones I want to watch.
>>
>> Which one do you have left to go?
>>
>> Perhaps more importantly, which do you intend to skip?
> 
> I have a Hitchcock blu-ray box set.  A while back I watched: Rope, Rear 
> Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo, and Dial M For Murder (off 
> of TCM).  Time really flies!  I could have sworn I watched these a year 
> or less ago, but it was actually 2 years ago.  Yesterday I watched The 
> Birds and today I'm watching my Psycho 4K box set.
> 
> In the Hitchcock blu-ray box set that I didn't watch: Marnie, Saboteur, 
> Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble with Harry, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, 
> and Family Plot.  I'm not sure if I've seen any of these before.  I'm 
> vaguely aware of the plot of The Trouble with Harry, but that doesn't 
> mean I seen it before.  Same goes for "Frenzy."  Although if they did a 
> remake, *maybe* I saw the remake.  I really don't know for sure.  The 
> set also includes 7 episodes of Hitchcock Presents and 3 episodes of The 
> Hitchcock Hour.  I don't know which episodes are included.

You can skip "The 39 Steps", that's for sure!!

> As an aside, something very weird has been going on with my news reader 
> for a long while.  One of the issues I occasional experience is when I 
> click on a post it shows as if someone else sent it.  That's not 
> something that's easy to catch, but it happens to my posts too.  The 
> only way I knew for sure this posted is because you responded to it.  On 
> my end, I could see it was sent, but couldn't see the actual post. Every 
> time I clicked it Ian's post appeared instead.  It's getting worse and 
> worse, I click on one person's post but someone else's' post appears.  
> I'm going to have uninstall and reinstall Thunderbird or maybe use a 
> different newsreader.  This is getting out of hand.

Are you Mac, or PC?

I would definitely check for updates, and if no update is available, try 
a reinstall.