CeruleanRuin

Highly recommended podcast for anyone who loves film scores or music in general. The host is a sound designer & editor for Skywalker Sound, has done extensive sound work for Lucasfilm and Lucasarts games, and is also a prolific voice actor appearing in dozens of animated series and video games. He brings his sonic expertise to bear in analyzing the great scores of cinema and other media, from Jaws to Tron to Super Mario Bros. & Zelda. It's an incredibly well-produced show that sounds great and will always leave you feeling enriched and entertained.

In these two latest episodes, he takes a great deep dive into the music of Star Trek, the original series. It's a detailed look at an underappreciated aspect of the franchise, with archive interviews from people like Nimoy and Roddenberry, many many sound clips, and lots of insightful commentary.

One fun tidbit from this episode: Alexander Courage himself made the sound of the Enterprise whooshing past during the opening credits.

Say a 4-yr-old who likes to mess with things saw my kindle lying on a table, because I like being able to pick it up and read whenever without having to dig it out of a drawer or high shelf out of reach. Before anybody saw she had the kindle, she had lost my spot in my book, changed the font size, and purchased two books from the Amazon store. Annoying, but could have been worse.

I got the books refunded and found my page again. Also turned off one-click purchases, which was infuriatingly on by default on the kindle even though I had already disabled it on my phone and computer previously - I don't use the store from my kindle, so had never had reason to suspect it was an issue.

No harm done though. She could have deleted stuff. So I put a passcode on it too. But it occurred to me after some research that the kindle offers to factory reset itself after five unsuccessful passcode attempts. Which means if the little devil gets up to her shenanigans again, there's a decent chance she'll end up just wiping my kindle. That's even worse than just leaving it unlocked and risking her messing things up.

It kind of sucks that there's no real third option, aside from just keeping the thing out of her reach at all times. Anybody else have this admittedly niche problem, and how did you deal with it?

Can't stand to run myself, but I love a good running scene in a movie, and I can't think of anyone who has more of them than Tom Cruise -- except for Buster Keaton. He's got such an incredible clumsy grace to him, if that makes any sense. Who's your favorite film runner or favorite running scene?