Whew! I won't do that again

I had to take a course in grad school on individual testing, as in there is a little case with the stuff and a child is going to get the Stanford Binet test or the Weschler test.  We had to administer the test to some required number of children.  The deadline for doing that was fast approaching and I hadn't finished.  I gave the test to my oldest daughter and she did very well. Oh no, now my impression of the two girls will be colored by their relative score!!  Whew!  Both got the same score.  Thank Heaven!  I won't do that again!

Irrelevancies

There seems to be a high level of use of irrelevancies these days.  I remembered the probability statement of relevancy/irrelevancy I read one time:

If P(AIB) = P(AI~B), then B is irrelevant to A, where A and B are events.  

But who wants to get into that?  If I want to say that men are some sort of "superior" to that other sex, I have not been thinking of probability but of my audience.  They seem to be the type to be happy to forget what we have been talking about and switch to discussing the equality of the sexes or the superiority of one of them.

I can try to appear intelligent and brave and capable and to use my capacities to advance us all in some new way.

Watching

I have heard that "The Big Sleep" and "Casablanca" are considered great movies.  I consider "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" and "In the Spirit" greater.  I realize that my particular tastes influence my ideas.  I rewatched both movies in recent nights.  Amazon movies can be rented or "bought".  If they are "purchased", they are in a special higher pay category that allows me to choose to view them without further charge.  I hadn't tried viewing for some years and I wondered if the deal and the category still held the way it had.  

I viewed Russians, which I have done more than a dozen times, again and realized it is, indeed, a superb depiction of a group fear based on a misunderstanding and a fundamental desire to "fight".  While finding how to access the movie, I found that I had quite a few that I didn't realize I did.  "Ruthless People" with Bette Midler and Danny Devito was remembered positively and I watched it again.  Excellent plot and excellent acting, full of good surprises.  The name of the screen writer I remembered came up and with it, a scene in which a passel of young women are chasing one frightened man down the street in the hopes of being close and more.  Didn't Dale Launer write the movie with that scene?  Yes!  "Love Potion #9"!  Be very careful in using the potion.  It can be surprisingly unpleasant.

She said you get used to them

Two favorite movies

I usually name "The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!" and "In the Spirit" as my favorite movies.  The first is more available and known than the second.

Both are available to me without additional charge.  I watched The Russians for probably the 14th time the other day and I saw that my judgment is right on.  For passion, perception of danger and high excitement while completely misunderstanding the situation, it is a terrific movie.  By some current standards, it is a loser: no blood, no enemies jumping out of the shadows, nothing supernatural.  It is available on Amazon if you want to see it.

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Happy Mother's Day

You know that you got your start inside that woman!  Thanks, Mom!

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