Return of the King Leads Oscar Nominations

PurdueGraphicsMan writes "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, the final chapter in Peter Jackson's directoral masterpeice is leading the 76 Annual Academy Awards with 11 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Next in line with 10 nominations including Best Picture and Best director is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Here is a full list of the nominees in all categories."

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Now George, give your wife a little credit

[Adam Rightmann]

Though, with all the snow we've been having lately, she should have started shoveling half an hour earlier than she did, which would have given her plenty of time to warm up the car.

Also, I find I can save a lot of money if I have the wife bring drinks and snacks into the theater under her skirt or dress.

You certainly would have been within your rights to ask the ushers to eject the rude patron with the cell phone, as well as the baby daddy and mommy.

Survival strategies for street games?

[fastenrath]

I was wondering if anybody could recommend suitable survival strategies for street games? I'm not talking about games for children but about the very expensive type of game where whole cities start acting around a single person (the player) and newspaper articles, TV news and hollywood movies are made with bits and pieces taken from that person's diary or even his brain ..

(Yes, telepathy is possible, just very expensive - read last year's news if you don't believe it.)

While it can be very entertaining to have the whole world revolve around you (including politicians and hollywood stars) the ultimate goal of this kind of game is to kill the player.

My interest is not purly academical: I'm trapped in a street game right now and you might see why I very much want to break out of this one.

If you're wondering what a street game is like: It's like being trapped in The Matrix and The Game, with a bit of The Truman Show and Being John Malkovich thrown in.

The game is wasting a lot of money around me to annoy me and surprise me, but it's more like a cat playing with a mouse it intends to kill sooner or later.

If you want to help me break ouf of this game you can make 25.000 Euro, which is my offer for anybody who explains to me what this matrix is, I'm trapped in.

I'm not sure I can be reached by internet or by phone and even if you reach somebody it might be somebody pretending to be me (so don't waste your time on that). The only way I recommend (without really knowing what's going on, of course) is to get close enough to me that the game has to pay your for your cooperation. Since my offer is 25.000 Euro you should be able to get this money from the game if they need you to cooperate.

Please make them pay this amount as I really would like to see them run out of money!

You can find me in the following places. (please have a look at my homepage and/or my journal for updates to this travel plan):

Addis Ababa: just getting thrown out by the police.
Addis Ababa: just getting thrown out by the police...
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, 28-29 January 2004.
New York, Central Park, 01-03 February 2004.
Chicao, ?, 04-06 February 2004.
Los Angeles, 07-12 February 2004.
Sydney, 13-15 February 2004.
Tokyo, 16-18 Feburary 2004.
Bombay, 19-21 Feburary 2004.