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Sets

You know, I have only ever visited one live movie set while work was going on, and it makes a huge difference in visualizing what my film people are talking about when I’m doing quote work with them. I can only assume this holds true for journalists without development experience when interviewing computer people.

I think, though, there’s more to be learned regarding what goes on in shooting. I need to arrange for more time on set. For that matter, I need to arrange for fly-on-the-wall time in a dev group working on stuff substantially different than the sorts of projects I’ve burned the midnight candle over. Hm.

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1919

Yesterday morning on my way to work, I glanced through the cold morning rain to see a cardboard box in the alley near a bus stop. A tattered piece of cardboard caught my eye, turn-of-the-century display type peeking out from the pile of debris.

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I investigated and found a stash of theatrical posters from St. Louis, dated between 1919 and 1928.

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On the backs of the posters, years of penciled figures, possibly bookkeeping.

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There were about twelve posters. All were lightly soaked from the rain and fragile as hell. I stuffed them frantically into a paper bag which had evidently been intended to hold them but which was unfortunately a bit too small to hold the now-slightly swollen posters.

Most survived, and I even caught my bus.