Taking Care Of Bugs + Business

Turning (Software) Lemons Into (Video) Lemonade

My “Sunday Fun Day” wasn’t quite as fun as I had planned. Some “technical difficulties” led me to work harder—and longer—than I hoped. Oh. Well.

The good news is I finished two new safe-for-work videos. The first is now available as an “early premiere” on Substack. The bad news is I’m reconsidering using Filmora as my video editor of choice. First world problems.

I’ve got much to do, so I’m keeping today’s intro short—and hopefully sweet.

Wishing you and yours a good day.

Thanks for reading!
Clint

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A FEW GOOD APPS (UPDATED)

The “culprit” of yesterday’s “technical difficulties” was the “new” Filmora 14.

Long story short: Filmora is a decent editor when it works. But the company—Wondershare—and team behind it aren’t the best at software development or support. So I’m rescinding my previous recommendation.

But I still recommend three out of the four apps I mentioned yesterday:

• Affinity Photo (graphics + photo)

• Filmora 14 (video)

• Photomator (photo)

• Pixelmator Pro (graphics + photo)

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ON THIS DAY = NOVEMBER 25

BIRTHDAYS

• 1835 = Andrew Carnegie = Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist

• 1942 = Rosa von Praunheim = German filmmaker and activist 🌈

• 1914 = Joe DiMaggio = American baseball player and coach

• 1920 = Ricardo Montalbán = Mexican-American actor, singer, and director

• 1926 = Jeffrey Hunter = American actor and producer

• 1940 = Percy Sledge = American singer

• 1944 = Ben Stein = American actor and tv personality

• 1947 = John Larroquette = American actor

• 1953 = Mark Frost = American author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1960 = Amy Grant = American singer-songwriter

• 1960 = John F. Kennedy Jr. = American lawyer, journalist, and publisher

• 1962 = Hironobu Sakaguchi = Japanese videogame designer

• 1963 = Kevin Chamberlin = American actor and director 🌈

• 1971 = Christina Applegate = American actress

• 1974 = Kenneth Mitchell = Canadian actor

• 1979 = Joel Kinnaman = Swedish actor

• 1984 = Gaspard Ulliel = French actor

EVENTS

• 1947 = As part of the Joseph McCarthy/Roy Cohn-led Red Scare, the "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

• 1952 = Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End. It’s—by far—the longest-running play in history with over 29K performances…and counting.

• 1963 = The state funeral of John F. Kennedy occurs. After lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and JFK is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

• 1984 = Thirty-six top British musicians record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

• 1999 = A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast. (Many in the US lost their minds during the dramatic legal fights and sensationalist media circus surrounding his custody battle. Ultimately, Elián was returned to Cuba and in 2023 was elected to the National Assembly of People's Power, representing Cárdenas, Cuba.)

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PHOTO + QUOTE OF THE DAY

“There is always some kid who may
be seeing me for the first time.
I owe him my best.”
Joe DiMaggio

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