We Welcome All Tech Enthusiasts
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL!
Today’s meeting covered the following topics:
- Pingplotter – try using Pingplotter to monitor your network stability.
- When Google locks you out of your account, begging the internet for help is your first (and last) resort.
- COVID Updates from around our areas.
- Paul’s Experience with 1Password.
- Last day to Choose your Lastpass ‘free’ platform support. (we found out there are three chances – look in your account.)
- Kodi the Media player framework for add-on development. (Kodi.tv)
- When Google locks you out of your account, begging the internet for help is your first (and last) resort.
- COVID Updates from our local areas.
Recommendations, TV:
- Snowpiercer (CJ Entertainment) – The series, a reboot of the film’s continuity, follows the passengers of the Snowpiercer, a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe carrying the remnants of humanity seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland…from Wikipedia.
- Miss Scarlet and The Duke (A+E Networks UK, Element 8 Entertainment, Shinawil Productions) – is a British-Irish period crime television drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as a pair of Victorian investigators…from Wikipedia.
- Miss fisher Murder Mysteries (Every Cloud Productions) – The series revolves around the personal and professional life of Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis), a glamorous private detective in 1920s Melbourne…from Wikipedia.
- Lincoln: Divided We Stand (CNN) – A transcendent journey into the life and times of Abraham Lincoln through a mix of expert interviews, cinematic re-creations, rare artifacts, and never-before broadcast photos and letters…from Google search.
Recommendations, Movies:
- Quicksand (Samuel H. Stiefel Productions) – is a 1950 American film noir that stars Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre and portrays a garage mechanic’s descent into crime…from Wikipedia.
- On the Water Front (Horizon Pictures) – was a critical and commercial success. It received twelve Academy Award nominations and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan. In 1997, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth-greatest American movie of all time; in AFI’s 2007 list, it was ranked 19th…from Wikipedia.
- 12 Angry men – explores many techniques of consensus-building and the difficulties encountered in the process among this group of men whose range of personalities adds to the intensity and conflict. It also explores the power one person has to elicit change…from Wikipedia.
- High Noon (Stanley Kramer Productions) – The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of duty is tested when he must decide to either face a gang of killers alone, or leave town with his new wife…from Wikipedia.
- L.A. Confidential – The film tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in 1953, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the 1950s scandal magazine Confidential, portrayed in the film as Hush-Hush…from Wikipedia.
- Stalag 17 – is a 1953 comedy-drama war film which tells the story of a group of American airmen held in a German World War II prisoner of war camp, who come to suspect that one of their number is an informant…from Wikipedia.
- Searchers (C.V. Whitney Pictures) – set during the Texas–Indian wars, and starring John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his abducted niece (Natalie Wood), accompanied by his adoptive nephew (Jeffrey Hunter)…from Wikipedia.
- The Great Escape (The Mirisch Company) – The film is based on Paul Brickhill‘s 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, a firsthand account of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany…from Wikipedia.
- Snowpiercer (Moho Film,Opus Pictures, Union Investment Partners, Stillking Films)– It takes place aboard the Snowpiercer train as it travels a globe-spanning track, carrying the last remnants of humanity after a failed attempt at climate engineering to stop global warming has created a new Snowball Earth…from Wikipedia.
- In Time (New Regency, Strike Entertainment) – Instead of using banknotes, a new economic system uses time as currency, and each person has a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live…from Wikipedia.
- Defending Your Life (The Geffen Film Company) – is a 1991 American romantic comedy–fantasy film about a man who dies and arrives in the afterlife only to find that he must stand trial and justify his lifelong fears in order to advance to the next phase of existence or be sent back to Earth to do it again…from Wikipedia.
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Our YouTube Meeting: https://youtu.be/5g1I3ttM-fQ
The Impromptu Intro: The “Before class” intro is provided by Viviana, and myself, and is only available on the podcast.
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Reoccurring Themes
We have returned to Tuesday meetings at a new start time of 10:00am. We will continue our virtual format with online meetings in Google Meet for the foreseeable future.
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This podcast is related to a blog post found at: https://www.sccclub.org/podcast/march-16-2021-25-ping-a-ling-quarantine-54