Just to be a normal man, just to go out shaking hands

[sovay]

I don't understand Facebook's algorithms. Independent of any pages shared by my friends, it keeps presenting me with this photo of violinist Gil Shaham, upcoming guest of the BSO, and I cannot tell if it thinks that I am the sort of person who listens to classical music (true) or the sort of person who thinks this particular musician is great-looking (also true) and in either case I have no money for the symphony and extant commitments on one of the days he's playing anyway, but I still want to know which data they were farming to produce this result. Seriously, it's been every time I go to check in on the news. I'm not complaining, but I am impressed.



(I did not make it to the Brattle's screening of A Matter of Life and Death (1946), so the question of whether I find David Niven as beautiful in that movie as Andrew Moor does will have to wait for another time.)

Comments

[ashlyme]

I can't speak for Niven's beauty, but Gil Shaham is pretty. Also I covet his jacket. That's all the Mattie-cliche-boxes ticked!

[sovay]

That's all the Mattie-cliche-boxes ticked!

I also covet his jacket. I worry that Facebook could tell.

(I'd never heard of him! He looks like that! Is apparently a brilliant musician! I live under a rock these days.)

[gwynnega]

I covet that jacket too.