Thursday miscellanea #435

Apple just announced a forthcoming iPhone that will cost $999. Poll results at Cult of Mac indicate almost no one is interested in the still-nice, well-featured phones positioned beneath it—which could indicate that even $999 isn’t high enough.
Frank Vincent, a fine portrayer of gangsters indeed, has died at 80. RIP.
Just about a month and change to go until the 2017 Village of Providence Car Show. This is a marvelous event, benefiting Still Serving Veterans, and there will be all kinds of cool cars there. BoWilliams.com is a sponsor, and I’ll also have a door prize or two there this year. I’ll see you at the show.
Definitely It, Blade Runner 2049, and Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi. Maybe American Assassin. That’s what I know about my rest of the year at the movies right now.
Playing Words With Friends? I’m ElrodClyde. Let’s play!
Are hot water bottles a Yankee thing? I don’t think I’ve ever even seen one. You just use it like a heating pad, yeah?
Upward 2018 would be well underway by now. I’m more bothered than I’d like to be that it isn’t. I’m hoping that getting into my new service channel will help.