Behind The Curve

Amazing documentary about flat earthers.  At the end they kind of accidentally prove the earth is round.

The Straight Story

David Lynch tells the story about a man going to visit his brother by traveling on a lawnmower.

Donald Knuth interview

https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientist-donald-knuth-cant-stop-telling-stories-20200416/

A person's success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum. If you ca do something really well but there are other things at which you're failing, the latter will hold you back. But if almost everything you do is up there, then you've got a good life. And so I try to learn how to get through things that others find unpleasant.

Lilith and the Draconcopes - Maiden-headed tempters from the Talmud to Boccaccio

Interesting enough article about why the snake so often has a woman's head with long blond curls. How Lilith was Adam's first wife, not from his rib, but as equals, thus banished, then became the snake.

hapox legomenon, a word that only occurs once in the Bible

No County For Old Men

Again, good.  Forgot that technically we don't know if the hitman survives.

The Old Guard

Enjoyable action/fiction with Charlize Theron (?) as very-old god with a small band of other immortals who cannot die and thus fight to right wrongs. Obviously, in hollywood wishes, a first of many. Enjoyable film.