This movie made me re-evaluate my opinions of Disney. I thought Lilo & Stitch was a beautifully animated, imaginative story that didn't feel like it was bashing little kids with morals and pretty princesses, unlike pretty much everything else Disney did on their own.
And they not only haven't done anything else like that, but they ruined it with the follow up "movie" and the tv show that it lead into, based on everything I've seen.
I've never liked Disney, but you know, there are plenty of alternatives. Heck, there were alternatives when I was a kid - I saw The Last Unicorn, Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH... we need more cartoons and kid's movies that are a) accessible to adults as well and b) have meaning, not just a moral.
The mentioning of missing out on a lot of stupid and self-destructive things just makes me think of a response I have to those who make fun of gamers (which I am) - so I'm the weirdo for going and hanging out with 6 to 40 of my friends, pretending to be someone else, while it's perfectly normal for someone to go out and get smashed and possibly end up in a stranger's bed? Um, I'll stick with weird.
So says another married geek (only five years for me), although I'm not sure I'm allowed as data on this - I'm a female geek.
From what I understand, a lot of obesity is caused in the US by people who do not have a lot of money subsisting on starchy, high calorie food that promotes weight gain without having a lot of nutritional content, like potatoes and white rice, two very cheap foods.
I am ashamed to say I do not have a source to link to for you, however, since I read it quite some time ago.
I was in New York earlier this year, and among other activities, we saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrals and La Cage aux Folles. Both were VERY good, and I'm pleased to see they won awards (Scoundrals won best male actor in a musical and La Cage got best revival musical and best choreography).
I know a lot of you might be freaked out by a lot of crossdressers, but really, I recommend both of them.
(I don't, however, recommend Phantom, which is the other musical we saw. Rent the new movie... it's much better, IMHO.)
Does it count every motherboard sold? Does it just count out of the box computers? The article doesn't really tell us what they were counting. I know a lot of us put together our own computers - it's cheaper and you get exactly what you want.
Assembling a laptop, however, is a horribly complicated job by comparison. I've never tried it, I admit, but it sounds like it's even pretty difficult to upgrade a laptop.
Perhaps this survey just demonstrates that a higher number of people are building their own computers.
I'm 28. No, I haven't kissed a girl, at least romantically. I am one.
I went to Trek conventions at least ten years ago when I was high school. I'm terribly sorry that you think I should have spent my recreational time doing something more productive, like getting drunk or screwing some guy in the back seat of a car.... oh, is this a quote from Shatner on SNL? Huh, that was a while ago.
Yes, I admit it, I used to go to Trek conventions in high school. (Now I go to gaming conventions instead.)
Anyway, this was not too long after TNG was over, and Marina Sirtis complained about having to kiss Worf, because of the hard plastic forehead and how much that hurt to hit her head on. Very funny... also referred to him as "Big, stupid Worf".
I think that at that point, after helping kill Mace, Anakin believes there is no way he can return to the Jedi order. All he has left, he thinks, is Padme. He believes that the only way he can help her is with the powers Palpatine can teach him. So he is wililng to do whatever Palpatine tells him to do.
So first he emotionally loses Padme, when she rejects him when she learns what he has done, what he wants at that point, and then when he thinks she led Obi-wan to him. Then he has it confirmed that there's no going back to the Jedi.
Finally, he "learns" that he was responsible for killing the only good thing in his life. The decent is complete.
I've never seen it, but I seem to recall it being referred to somewhere as "A movie based on the back cover of a Robert Heinlein novel".
With Niven... I don't think I can picture a Ringworld movie, and I'm not completely sure why. Maybe a Mote movie... Legacy of Heorot would make an awesome suspense/horror/SF movie, I rather optimistically think.
However, I've heard one of the other reasons for horrible road conditions are the quantity of semis that drive I-75 both for the car manufacturers and as one of the major routes to Canada.
I Am Not a Civil Engineer, so I can't verify that, but that's what I heard growing up in southeast Michigan.
There's a reason that it reminds you of Doctor Who...
Douglas, who was a script editor for Doctor Who, took a never-filmed script of his, and hacked the professor out of it for the first Dirk Gently book.
That said, I do really like the Dirk Gently books, and I think they may actually translate better to movie form. I, on the other hand, don't picture Tom Baker as Dirk - Dirk is described as being a bit overweight, so tall and gangly doesn't spring to mind.
True enough, it's the fact that the majority of the movies, though, are made about heroes that have been around for a rather long time. I can't really use the 'created the cliche' defense for a Hellboy or a Sin City... but those aren't really the ones being accused, in general.
I came to the realization about cliches, by the way, when I had to read Heinlein's The Puppetmasters for a class in college.
I think Joel Schumacher made up for the things done to Batman at the end (the things that were his fault, at least, and no, I don't know which things were) with his handling of Phantom of the Opera. Gorgeous movie.
Given how geeky everyone around here is, I suspect that there are more people than just me who read assorted fan fiction. Slash has a very specific meaning there. Associating that meaning with pope is more than a little disconcerting, and I'm not even Catholic.
Maybe SlashdotPope, instead? Or something else, please.:)
After the article on Hit Song Science, I have to wonder if they want to teach the kids to do that earlier, to tweak their work into what the consumer wants rather than something that's necessarily good.
I guess we'll never know.... (does some reading) Hmm, looks like he only started attending conventions towards the end, so he didn't have a lot of opportunity. And I guess what I had heard was due to him being _initially_ apphrehensive about it. Assuming that the things I read just didn't all copy from the same source.;)
Yeah, how horrible to be typecast as one of the most beloved sci-fi icons! I mean, we see how much the previous doctors cried over that... (with the possible exception of Patrick Troughton - I get the impression that he went far enough into character that fan gatherings and the character/real life dichotomy produced were terribly difficult for him.)
And one of the advantages of your scenario is that since it's set in the undefined "future" of the trek universe, there's no knowledge of what will eventually happen to them - as someone else said, it's tough to see peril when you _know_ they survive. Or, of course, the alternative is that the events of the show would not be set in the "real" past.
Now, if they _did_ somehow make it happen as it was pitched by Shatner, I hope they know what they are doing and have McCoy meet one of the Dax hosts, as shown in the novel Lives of Dax. Ironically, it's the first Star Trek novel I've read in something like ten years, and there's something applicable to this discussion!
Back in the day, though, for RPG's we didn't even use maps, but had the DM describe where we were and what we were to see. Kept it simple, so long as you remembered.
Actually, combat in 3.0 or 3.5 D&D works MUCH better if you're playing with a map or minatures. Ranges can be very important, positioning is very important, and you have to be careful how close you get to the bad guys lest you get attacked. We've tried doing it without a mat when the GM forgot, and it turns into a total mess.
Interestingly, I work at Raytheon, so I can in fact attest that we have quite a few competent female programmers in my area. (Myself being one, I hope.) In fact, one the people in charge of my project is a woman, and I know of several in positions of leadership.
But we are far, far, outnumbered by the men. And worse yet, almost all of the company high mucketymucks are men. I suspect the numbers are primarily a matter of time; we're finally really truly leaving behind the Ada programming, and that tended to bring us an older employee base, I think. I also have to wonder if being a defense contractor has anything to do with less women.
On the other hand, the few men here who've I felt didn't react well to women competing with them were not the ex-military on the program, really, which I find refreshing.
I graduated from high school in '95 (waves as it fades further into the past), and I had heard about a creative writing journal my high school had in the PAST which ended up canceled when the administration found on a poem in it had to do with masturbation. Could it have been that bad if they had to be told that was the subject?
We also only sort of had a newsletter - it was a xeroxed piece of crap put together by the journalism class after the year book had been sent to the printers. It had a stupid Q&A person and horoscopes in it.
Heck, I remember that I was supposed to hand in my graduation speech to be approved.... oops, did I forget to do that?
I would like to recommend once more the novel Aritoi by Walter Jon Williams. Due to two things, life is very different in this future world - nanotechnology, and the leashing of multiple personalities, called Daimones.
At any rate, things are incredibly safe, and medicine is veryvery advanced, along with genetic manipulation. There is generally only one death, something called Breakdown (or Dorian Grey's Syndrome, IIRC), and people frequently live to see their second thousand.
At any rate, the above produces some problems in this society, so that's why I thought it was relevant.
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I would say one more clue is the fact that he obviously is VERY good with guns (even if he's only aiming for kneecaps).
This movie made me re-evaluate my opinions of Disney. I thought Lilo & Stitch was a beautifully animated, imaginative story that didn't feel like it was bashing little kids with morals and pretty princesses, unlike pretty much everything else Disney did on their own.
And they not only haven't done anything else like that, but they ruined it with the follow up "movie" and the tv show that it lead into, based on everything I've seen.
I've never liked Disney, but you know, there are plenty of alternatives. Heck, there were alternatives when I was a kid - I saw The Last Unicorn, Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH... we need more cartoons and kid's movies that are a) accessible to adults as well and b) have meaning, not just a moral.
The mentioning of missing out on a lot of stupid and self-destructive things just makes me think of a response I have to those who make fun of gamers (which I am) - so I'm the weirdo for going and hanging out with 6 to 40 of my friends, pretending to be someone else, while it's perfectly normal for someone to go out and get smashed and possibly end up in a stranger's bed? Um, I'll stick with weird.
So says another married geek (only five years for me), although I'm not sure I'm allowed as data on this - I'm a female geek.
From what I understand, a lot of obesity is caused in the US by people who do not have a lot of money subsisting on starchy, high calorie food that promotes weight gain without having a lot of nutritional content, like potatoes and white rice, two very cheap foods.
I am ashamed to say I do not have a source to link to for you, however, since I read it quite some time ago.
I was in New York earlier this year, and among other activities, we saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrals and La Cage aux Folles. Both were VERY good, and I'm pleased to see they won awards (Scoundrals won best male actor in a musical and La Cage got best revival musical and best choreography).
I know a lot of you might be freaked out by a lot of crossdressers, but really, I recommend both of them.
(I don't, however, recommend Phantom, which is the other musical we saw. Rent the new movie... it's much better, IMHO.)
Does it count every motherboard sold? Does it just count out of the box computers? The article doesn't really tell us what they were counting. I know a lot of us put together our own computers - it's cheaper and you get exactly what you want.
Assembling a laptop, however, is a horribly complicated job by comparison. I've never tried it, I admit, but it sounds like it's even pretty difficult to upgrade a laptop.
Perhaps this survey just demonstrates that a higher number of people are building their own computers.
I'm 28. No, I haven't kissed a girl, at least romantically. I am one.
... oh, is this a quote from Shatner on SNL? Huh, that was a while ago.
I went to Trek conventions at least ten years ago when I was high school. I'm terribly sorry that you think I should have spent my recreational time doing something more productive, like getting drunk or screwing some guy in the back seat of a car.
Yes, I admit it, I used to go to Trek conventions in high school. (Now I go to gaming conventions instead.)
Anyway, this was not too long after TNG was over, and Marina Sirtis complained about having to kiss Worf, because of the hard plastic forehead and how much that hurt to hit her head on. Very funny... also referred to him as "Big, stupid Worf".
I think that at that point, after helping kill Mace, Anakin believes there is no way he can return to the Jedi order. All he has left, he thinks, is Padme. He believes that the only way he can help her is with the powers Palpatine can teach him. So he is wililng to do whatever Palpatine tells him to do.
So first he emotionally loses Padme, when she rejects him when she learns what he has done, what he wants at that point, and then when he thinks she led Obi-wan to him. Then he has it confirmed that there's no going back to the Jedi.
Finally, he "learns" that he was responsible for killing the only good thing in his life. The decent is complete.
I've never seen it, but I seem to recall it being referred to somewhere as "A movie based on the back cover of a Robert Heinlein novel".
With Niven... I don't think I can picture a Ringworld movie, and I'm not completely sure why. Maybe a Mote movie... Legacy of Heorot would make an awesome suspense/horror/SF movie, I rather optimistically think.
However, I've heard one of the other reasons for horrible road conditions are the quantity of semis that drive I-75 both for the car manufacturers and as one of the major routes to Canada.
I Am Not a Civil Engineer, so I can't verify that, but that's what I heard growing up in southeast Michigan.
There's a reason that it reminds you of Doctor Who...
Douglas, who was a script editor for Doctor Who, took a never-filmed script of his, and hacked the professor out of it for the first Dirk Gently book.
That said, I do really like the Dirk Gently books, and I think they may actually translate better to movie form. I, on the other hand, don't picture Tom Baker as Dirk - Dirk is described as being a bit overweight, so tall and gangly doesn't spring to mind.
True enough, it's the fact that the majority of the movies, though, are made about heroes that have been around for a rather long time. I can't really use the 'created the cliche' defense for a Hellboy or a Sin City... but those aren't really the ones being accused, in general.
I came to the realization about cliches, by the way, when I had to read Heinlein's The Puppetmasters for a class in college.
(Oh, and thank you for the compliment!)
I can't comment about some of what you've said, but in regard to cliche characters...
Partly, it's because some of these characters formed the cliche. Batman certainly formed the cliche of the dark, brooding anti-hero.
I think Joel Schumacher made up for the things done to Batman at the end (the things that were his fault, at least, and no, I don't know which things were) with his handling of Phantom of the Opera. Gorgeous movie.
Given how geeky everyone around here is, I suspect that there are more people than just me who read assorted fan fiction. Slash has a very specific meaning there. Associating that meaning with pope is more than a little disconcerting, and I'm not even Catholic.
:)
Maybe SlashdotPope, instead? Or something else, please.
After the article on Hit Song Science, I have to wonder if they want to teach the kids to do that earlier, to tweak their work into what the consumer wants rather than something that's necessarily good.
I don't know about his title, but he did appear in retirement in the Seventh Doctor episode Battlefield.
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I guess we'll never know. ... (does some reading) Hmm, looks like he only started attending conventions towards the end, so he didn't have a lot of opportunity. And I guess what I had heard was due to him being _initially_ apphrehensive about it. Assuming that the things I read just didn't all copy from the same source. ;)
Yeah, how horrible to be typecast as one of the most beloved sci-fi icons! I mean, we see how much the previous doctors cried over that... (with the possible exception of Patrick Troughton - I get the impression that he went far enough into character that fan gatherings and the character/real life dichotomy produced were terribly difficult for him.)
And one of the advantages of your scenario is that since it's set in the undefined "future" of the trek universe, there's no knowledge of what will eventually happen to them - as someone else said, it's tough to see peril when you _know_ they survive. Or, of course, the alternative is that the events of the show would not be set in the "real" past.
Now, if they _did_ somehow make it happen as it was pitched by Shatner, I hope they know what they are doing and have McCoy meet one of the Dax hosts, as shown in the novel Lives of Dax. Ironically, it's the first Star Trek novel I've read in something like ten years, and there's something applicable to this discussion!
Back in the day, though, for RPG's we didn't even use maps, but had the DM describe where we were and what we were to see. Kept it simple, so long as you remembered.
Actually, combat in 3.0 or 3.5 D&D works MUCH better if you're playing with a map or minatures. Ranges can be very important, positioning is very important, and you have to be careful how close you get to the bad guys lest you get attacked. We've tried doing it without a mat when the GM forgot, and it turns into a total mess.
Interestingly, I work at Raytheon, so I can in fact attest that we have quite a few competent female programmers in my area. (Myself being one, I hope.) In fact, one the people in charge of my project is a woman, and I know of several in positions of leadership.
But we are far, far, outnumbered by the men. And worse yet, almost all of the company high mucketymucks are men. I suspect the numbers are primarily a matter of time; we're finally really truly leaving behind the Ada programming, and that tended to bring us an older employee base, I think. I also have to wonder if being a defense contractor has anything to do with less women.
On the other hand, the few men here who've I felt didn't react well to women competing with them were not the ex-military on the program, really, which I find refreshing.
I graduated from high school in '95 (waves as it fades further into the past), and I had heard about a creative writing journal my high school had in the PAST which ended up canceled when the administration found on a poem in it had to do with masturbation. Could it have been that bad if they had to be told that was the subject?
We also only sort of had a newsletter - it was a xeroxed piece of crap put together by the journalism class after the year book had been sent to the printers. It had a stupid Q&A person and horoscopes in it.
Heck, I remember that I was supposed to hand in my graduation speech to be approved.... oops, did I forget to do that?
I would like to recommend once more the novel Aritoi by Walter Jon Williams. Due to two things, life is very different in this future world - nanotechnology, and the leashing of multiple personalities, called Daimones.
At any rate, things are incredibly safe, and medicine is veryvery advanced, along with genetic manipulation. There is generally only one death, something called Breakdown (or Dorian Grey's Syndrome, IIRC), and people frequently live to see their second thousand.
At any rate, the above produces some problems in this society, so that's why I thought it was relevant.