Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on May 29, 2005 at 2:48 pm

The two major cable channels that show “classics”, American Movie Classics (AMC) and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) are showing military-themed movies this weekend. Apart from that general topic, the film selections couldn’t be more different.
I don’t have a list of all the films the two channels have already shown this weekend, but the guide on the digital cable can tell me what’s coming up for the rest of today and tomorrow.
Looking at the list of movies below, I get a distinct impression about the attitudes of the two stations as to what constitutes an appropriate film for a Memorial Day marathon.

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Posted By Russ Emerson on May 28, 2005 at 5:19 am

It’s 5 a.m., and I just got home.
I can think of better ways I could have spent my Friday night than moving a data center — 12 racks of servers, routers, switches, battery backups [those suckers are heavy] and cables — from one site to another site five miles down the road.
On the other hand, given the state of my social life, no, I can’t think of a better way to have spent my night.
I’m going to have to do something about that.

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