It's been months since I focused on film and series programs.  We must have watched at least 25 flicks on the Seabourn Odyssey.  We've been home now for more than a month, and I have still avoided movie theaters.   Here are a few noteworthy productions worthy of your interest. On Netflix is  Missing ,  a gripping, high tech effort with wild twists that made me envious.  Why?  The teenage girl seeks to find her "missing" mother and boyfriend on a trip to Cartegena, Columbia.  This youngster is a whiz on the computer, something I just cannot do.  A 2023 film,  Rotten Tomatoes  gave it 87/90 scores. I loved  Good Night Oppy,  an inspirational documentary about Opportunity, a rover that was sent to Mars for a 3 month mission, but survived for 15 years.  Released late last year, the film shows how a robot and humans can bond from distances that varied from 36 million to 250 miles away.  Did he find life on Mars?  Not really, but Oppy had perseverance.  As one critic said

The numbers keep changing, but the Senate today approved the $740 billion economic package .  I've never seen Chuck Schumer looking so ebullient.  Next, the House, where the vote will occur on Friday, as they are in recess.  Next, President Joe Biden.  The odds are about as close to 100% as you can get.  You can read the whole thing.  Only 755 pages now. This weekend I watched two new films, in the comfort of my home, for free.  I was attracted to  Uncharted  because  Rotten Tomatoes  reviewers gave it a miserable 40% rating, but audiences scored it a 90%.  The audience is almost always right. The premise is enticing:  search for Magellan's gold, which has been missing for 500 years.   Americans all learned about him as the first to circumnavigate the world, a Spanish expedition mostly funded by 18-year old King Charles 1 of Spain ( who was broke, so the Fugger Family from Germany came up with the resources )  led by a Portuguese explorer, Magellan.   Can you believe that the f

Here is something I did not expect, from  NBC News : A majority of people in the U.S have had Covid-19 at least once — likely more than 70% of the country , White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said on Thursday, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Many have been infected multiple times.   Let me do some math.  So far, the U.S. has had a little more than  92 million COVID-19 cases.   Our population is 335 million, so I calculated 28%, which is far lower than the 70% cited by Dr. Jha. But the  World Health Organization  reported in April that up to 65% of Africans have been infected by SARS-CoV-2.  If this is true, the continent had 97 times more cases than reported!!! Further, the global average should be 16 times higher! There is no mention of how asymptomaticity factored into the above. So if you multiply the actual covid cases by 16, that would mean that the average person in the USA actually was infected more than  four times each .   Tha