RunPee Weekly Newsletter 9th edition (May 13th, 2020)

Who gets to film the first full action movie in space? Who do you think? Tom Cruise gets to top his Mission Impossible HALO jump exploits on the actual INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, getting a lift from the friendly Elon Musk via SpaceX. Now every other action hero is face palming that they missed out..but someone had to be first! …We’re a little excited here.

New Zealand Movie Theaters to Re-open Today
The government of New Zealand wants to promote a sense of ‘normalcy’,  letting New Zealanders attend movies during the time of the CoVid-19 epidemic in a safe, controlled way. What can we learn from this for the rest of the world? Read more.

Indiana Jones 5 Film Delayed (again) Until July 2022
With Disney’s Marvel Phase 4 film roster shoved back due to CoVid-19′s Hollywood shutdown, all other popular franchises, like the aging but still hale tales of Dr. Jones, are pushed back further. Now July 2022 will see Indy swinging his whip and quipping his way across the world again. Ford will be 80 by the time Indy 5 hits the screens…Read more.

Watch Broadway Shows at Home – ‘Best Of” Playlists Streaming Free During Quarantine
Longing for a bit of culture? Get ready for a week of classic stage extravagance, absolutely gratis! This is of a curated list of the best plays Broadway has to offer, streaming right to your living room.  Read more.

Making movies a little better: The Martian
The Martian is a fantastic movie. I just finished watching it for the umteenth time. It’s a masterful work in every aspect. But if I may be so bold, it could have been a little better.  Read more.

Remembering James Bond — Seeing Goldfinger live in the theater
A personal recollection by Rob Williams of seeing Goldfinger in theaters as a child.  Read more.

Weekly progress diary on RunPee:NX
We are rebuilding the RunPee app from scratch using Google Flutter. Here’s a brief report on our weekly progress:

Believe it or not, RunPee:NX is actually functional right now. At least the bare bones features work. I was able to copy a lot of the code I wrote from the Admin rebuild to lay the foundation. It loads the movie list from the remote server and you can navigate to the Peetimes screen to see all of the Peetime data, plus read the synopsis for each Peetime.

No Timer yet — sorry. 🙂

Currently, I’m working on the local database storage, so that the movie list and Peetimes can be stored and used offline. Once that’s complete I’ll start work on the Timer.