Ashley Fletcher

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Software developer. Likes Americana music, fiction and lazy Saturday afternoons. Wanted a beard like TizzyEnt but my mom never met his dad.
I am binge watching The Americans and was surprised to see Julia Garner pop up in season three. I thought Ozark was her breakout role but she's fantastic here two years earlier.
For 39 years, every time I saw Carl Weathers in something I got happy again. His death as Apollo Creed was so sad it escaped the part of my brain where I grieve fiction.
Hayden Christensen does a great job in Shattered Glass portraying Stephen Glass, a journalist who went to the dark side by making up sources and quotes in his New Republic stories. Glass was left in such disgrace he had to pursue a career in law.
Erin Andrews looks like a sideline reporter on Tecmo Bowl.

I miss Snackwells Devil's Food Cookie Cakes and the weird chemical aftertaste you got from eating far too many at one sitting.

In hindsight we were too quick to accept the idea they were a diet food.

Declining rates of vaccination in the U.S. are a slow-moving tragedy, particularly for children.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/anti-vaccine-nonsense-will-likely-kill-thousands-this-season-fda-officials-say/

US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA

Top regulatory officials call for clinicians to speak up and drown out misinformation.

Ars Technica

"Every time you write code or introduce third-party services, you are introducing the possibility of failure into your system." -- Ted Dziuba

http://web.archive.org/web/20101202135616/http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html

Taco Bell Programming

TV reporter Bobbie Wygant has been working at Fort Worth station KXAS for 70 years. She's 97 and has an archive on YouTube of 4,600 celebrity interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@bobbiewygantarchive

The Bobbie Wygant Archive

This channel is NBC5 reporter, Bobbie Wygant's 60 plus year archive of vintage interviews with movie, music, and stage entertainers. These interviews are available for licensing. Please contact us at the email below.

YouTube
The first two episodes of The Diplomat on Netflix center in the same smart/funny/driven Venn diagram as The West Wing. I like a show that gets the biggest laughs from sly character interactions.
Goodbye to David Soul, one half of the best implied romance in buddy cop show history.