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Got up early to go to Mass and now I cannot sleep.  Alas.  Performance reviews today; mine were quite good, actually -- almost glowing, and I cannot complain about the bonus, either.

I watched three films on the NFR list Sunday night.  Two were shorts.  The first, "Lambchops," was a 1929 talkie -- early -- with Burns and Allen doing a vaudeville skit.  It was fairly funny, and being of the age when George Burns was an old guy with a cigar...it was cool to him (and Gracie, even moreso, actually) in the prime of life.  The second -- "The Land Beyond the Sunset" -- was a 1912 silent short concerning a boy from the slums, abused, getting a ticket to a Fresh Air Fund field trip, enjoying it, hearing a story about a boy who disappeared over the ocean....and I won't say the rest.  It would give away the ending, which is..well, haunting, which was something of a rarity for films of that time.  This is one of the cool things about the list -- you see stuff you never knew was out there, and you're glad you did.  Anyways, the third was a feature -- 1920's "The Last of the Mohicans."  Decent; there was some of the amusing stuff about giving the red man firewater, of course, but as an action film...it was impressive.  It also hit the biggies of the plot, an added benefit.

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I always like to remind my coworkers that we tend to forget that, before what we would call "factory farming," this sort of thing happened ALL of the time, and that people tended to not only get sick, but die (Abraham Lincoln's mother, for instance)...we tend to forget that while homogenization also improves standards and quality.  Now, I am not saying that we all should be eating white bread, but, when the stakes are raised -- and people have the means to do so -- I think the benefits far outweigh the costs.