Oral history from a Morehouse Professor

[VIDEO] One of my former professors at Morehouse College Tobe Johnson is interviewed for the King Collection. He claimed he'll keep teaching until he's carried out in a casket. Still had a sharp mind when I took his classes. Of course don't do your work for his courses and he'll still fail you!

In this hour and a half video he talks about his life and career. Video is courtesy of Morehouse College and was recorded last September.

A Nintendo Game Boy hack

[VIDEO] I have to say although I have little talent with electronics, this is truly admirable. I've never owned a Game Boy - at least the first generation - in my life. But if only playing and soldering electronics was one of my talents it would cool to pull off what this young man pulls off.

Have any games on any system ever with me at all times. Don't need an expensive system just use what I have for little or no money.

Garry Shandling

[VIDEO] Now I have the theme of his 1980s sitcom in my head. I now know that it used to air on Showtime originally but when I first saw it FOX aired It's Garry Shandling's Show. Of course he moved onto Larry Sanders but I never had the opportunity to get to know that show in its entirety.

Shandling passed away Thursday and this is the only reason I bring up those classics. RIP

"Spotlight"

I have a knack lately for watching controversial films. Today I saw Spotlight about a team of investigative journalists looking into the many allegations of sexual misconduct with minors by priests. The movie had me groaning as far as the various allegations of the misconduct, but I only took it as something that happened between a minor and a priests.

I know of no one who had truly been abused as many young Catholic parishioners had. It somewhat doesn't help that I'm personally not Catholic. How would I have responded if my child had been abused sexually by a clergyman I thought I could trust.

We see how it was handled by many involved especially the victims. Many didn't want to acknowledge what happened and hadn't for many years afterwards. They weren't ready and if it involved their parents they probably didn't believe it either. Thankfully the work of an investigative journalist team exposed more than the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston was able to cover up.

Sometimes courageous people on a mission and willing to stand on their own can truly expose something very big. Unfortunately such people become a target in a variety of ways, but these individuals know something is going on and hopefully influence others to take a look.

The Big Short

[VIDEO] The clip above shows Dr. Burry being confronted by one of his investors for going against the mortgage market. An example of what you would see in The Big Short.

I saw this film recently at River East and it's a serious movie about the mortgage crisis. A number of individuals in this movie portrayed by actors Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling had the foresight to bet against the subprime mortgage market.

There are some hilarious aspects of the movie to explain the mumbo jumbo explained during the course of the movie. Many of us likely won't understand the Wall Street language as far as this mortgages it needs to be put in layman's terms.

Either way we do get the message about how these mortgages have made many of these players wealthy and how far down it went until some of the players on Wall Street began to suffer for their mistakes. Bad terms for these loans and not only the people who took up these loans suffer, also those who either invested in this market or who sold these loans.

As we saw in the movie and in real life about 2008-09 two investment houses eventually closed up shop because of this collapse. Lehman Bros. and Bear Stearns essentially no longer exist.

Now I only wish I had the ability of Dr. Michael Burry who owned his own fund and although not trained or educated in finance knew enough to dig and found a reason to bet against the subprime mortgages. People thought he was nuts but in time figured out he was right and got their rewards to.

Star Trek Beyond trailer

[VIDEO] Right now because it's coming out soon moviegoers are excited about the new Star Wars by JJ Abrams. Next summer is Star Trek Beyond and just in time for the 50th Anniversary of the classic Star Trek series. Not enough given away of Beyond in the trailer but then that's a good thing.

I've often heard that today's previews are giving too much away of the movie their seeking to sell. Either way can't wait to see more in the future.

The fact that the film makers and producers of the current crop of Trek films are making the franchise seem cool by injecting elements of today's pop culture into it is a nice touch. Have little idea how other Trekkies may view this, however.

Newsalert: Universal Pulls Steve Jobs After Box Office Bomb

I saw this film at the show and liked it very much, I'm not really a huge Apple user other than an iPhone or an iPad. However, I must say I've been keen on getting a Macbook at least. It's not necessarily because of these Steve Jobs movies that have come out in recent years.

Either way apparently the public don't like this film as much as I do. Via Newsalert!