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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-12 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:39:18 -0700
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On 4/13/2024 6:23 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

PC.  At some point I'll probably dedicate some time to a proper trouble 
shoot and reinstall.