Charlie Ross

Husband, father, Catholic, retired project mgr, volunteer, beagle lover, handyman, IT guy, moderate-left, curious, loves Brahms, perfectionist, Boston driver.

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@mikemovies Sorry, not a fan. When I saw it, everything seemed pointless. Perhaps that's the idea, but it's not how I want to spend 106 minutes.

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@mikemovies All of Me

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@mikemovies I've always followed your guidance (without even knowing it).

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@bestofStarTrek Enterprise

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@mikemovies Skyfall. Also my favorite of the entire franchise.

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@JamesTate121 Robin Williams, for sure.

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@mikemovies

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

A few hours after the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV last year, I was standing in the courtyard of the Augustinianum, the headquarters of the Augustinian Order to which Robert Francis Prevost belongs, just a few feet from St. Peter's Basilica.

I had just finished helping out ABC News (we were, providentially, using the rooftop of the Augustinianum) and they wanted to interview me about the new pope "on the street." I was quite moved by his election and actually wept after we had finished up the coverage on the set.

It was around 9 PM, and people were already coming to the Augustinianum to snap photos of the "former home" of the new pope. One group of sisters posed by the sign affixed to the outside of the building.

Not surprisingly, in addition to many reporters, I was standing among several excited black-habited Augustinians in the courtyard.

I said to one, dressed in a clerical shirt, "Are you an Augustinian?" "Yes!" he said. "Congratulations!" I said.

An American, he was very friendly and very excited. We joked a bit about having a Jesuit pope and now an Augustinian pope.

Then I said, "Do you know him?"

He said, "Who, Bob?"

I laughed and said, "Yes, I guess: Bob."

"I've known him for 40 years," he said.

I said, "I know him a little from the Synod, and he seems wonderful, but what's he like?"

"Oh well," he said, "you know we elected him twice as Prior General: the first time because we really liked him; the second time because he had done a great job." (Being elected twice as superior general by your brothers in a religious order is some feat.)

"But what's he like?" he said, repeating my question. "Bob is smart, kind, humble, a hard worker, a great listener, quite reserved, close to the poor, and beloved by our men. Everyone loves Bob."

Then he paused.

"But he's no pushover."

I think we saw that today.

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@bestofStarTrek TMP, in theater, initial run... twice.

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@SpyHards Skyfall. Also best Bond film overall IMO.

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@johnkoenigcmdr Four spaceships to know me by

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@ChristopherHale

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@mikemovies I love that sequel.

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@everymovieplug American Rust

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@ThatEricAlper Using a slide rule.

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@NavyStrang And the massive concrete blocks under the SRBs are seismically isolated.

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@NavyStrang I read (sorry, lost the reference) that flight loads are worse than the static loads, so they built replacement parts to flight specs.

Except: hold-down bolts many feet long/embedded in concrete (seismic); stiffeners attached to PB doors as they weren't designed to stay open.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Useless machines, first conceived around 1952 by Marvin Minsky while at Bell Labs, are fully functional machines designed to perform exactly nothing useful.

📽: fritend1

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@ScotRail @TheForthBridges @RNLI Actually being under it works even better. From our vacation last summer. @TheForthBridges

[IGW @interstellargw]

FIRST LOOK: The California Science Center has announced that the “Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center” expansion will open November 13th, 2026

Featuring the full-stack vertical display of @NASA Space Shuttle Endeavor

📸 - California Science Center