The famous and influential cruicible of improvisation in Chicago, Improv Olympic, had to change it's name to "IO" after Charna Halpern received a letter from the U.S. Olympic Committee ordering her to drop "Olympic" from the company name.
Well, like I said, in my particular case - I work out of a friend's house at least once a month. Her apartment is completely dead for my cell phone. But she has wifi. So I would be able to use something like this at her house. And use it at my house during the day when I'm working from home.
My point is, every friend I visit who has broadband internet also has wifi. So if there's internet for my laptop, then there could be VoIP for me. And without having to use my daytime minutes on my cell. Which can rack up to a lot when you're talking about 4-5 hours a day.
I work remotely all the time, and often times from friends' homes in other cities. When working, I'm on conference calls for most of the day. And my cell phone may or may not work well at my friends' house, but their wifi always works well. And I don't want to have to haul all my VoIP phone boxes and crap with me to their house. So I've been looking forward to something like this for quite some time.
For a lot of us, it's the best of both worlds. Especially from a business perspective - I have to be able to bring my computer home with me (when on call), but the company is not going to pay for me to have two computers - one desktop and one small portable.
There's this idea that the only movies worth seeing in a theater are big screen epics. This saddens me.
Granted, movies like Troy and The Day After Tomorrow are ONLY worth seeing in the theater - the only thing these movies have going for them are sweeping, large-scale visuals that don't translate to the smaller screen.
But that's not the only kind of movie that can (nay, *should*) benefit from the large screen treatment.
There are quite a few differences between watching a film in the theater and seeing at "at home on tv". Here are just a few:
1) Focus - when in the theater, there's only one thing to pay attention to: the movie on the screen. When you're watching a movie at home, you can multi-task, the phone can ring, the dog can hump your leg...all things that remove you from entering the world of the film completely. Suspension of disbelief is lower, and it's far less immersive.
2) Contagion - ever notice how some comedies are just a lot funnier in the theater? It's because there are other human beings in there with you, and the laughter is a feedback loop - the more each of you laugh, the more the rest laugh. I watch comedies at home by myself all the time, and rarely laugh out loud (even though they are hysterically funny). But in the theater, my laughing experience is always much higher, and so is my enjoyment.
3) Scale - one thing to remember: on the theater screen, things are larger than life. On your TV, they are *smaller*. A good director has created his work to be shown on the larger screen, not a TV. It's a different experience.
I have seen documentaries in a theater that will blow your mind. Often times the immersive nature of the darkened theater enhances the emotional experience, whereas just watching them on TV relegates them to just that - another thing on TV, like "Friends" or "Everyone Loves Raymond".
I use Grubhub for this kind of thing in Chicago. Yes, you still have to call the restaurant directly, but it gives you a good list of what restaurants are open for delivery RIGHT THEN to your address, and gives you the menu and coupons.
According to the SeamlessWeb site, it's only NYC now anyway, despite what the/. story says.
By the way, the Claremount Lounge is one of those rap video-ish ATL/booty/crunk/Dirty Whatever strip clubs, right?
Not hardly.
At least when I was there (granted a few years ago), the Claremount was all about irony. Where else can you go listen to disco music, drink PBR out of a can, and witness some of the ugliest, fattest, nastiest strippers of all time? I just like watching Blondie (the cracked out fat stripper) beat up on frat boys with her breasts. Good times.
The more I've played with this, the more useful it's been. It's not been terribly useful on my home PC...but at work, it's a godsend.
For example: I did a GDS search for the name of a server I was building last week.
Bam. I got every document I had about that server. The online change requests. The service requests to site engineering. The operational handbook I wrote. The inventory spreadsheet.
Wow. That was pretty cool.
I also found out that while GDS doesn't index networked drives/shares, it *will* include documents on the network that you have opened in its search results. That was pretty good too.
It's also useful on a couple of our intranet sites. Just this morning I had to find a change request for a server - using the search mechanism of our change system is difficult at best - but because I could search it in Google, it came up right away.
Hopefully, it'll work with the PS/2 keyboards and mice that I've got lying around, if not then I suppose that I'll be shelling out for USB ones but that's no great loss.
Nope. Only USB on the Mac Mini. But still, hey, that's a cheap thrill.
Being able to skip the commercials is to me about not having my viewing pleasure interrupted by commercials
Right. You can still do this. When you FF through the commercials now, you still see then. Just a lot faster.
Personally, I don't care one way or another about this. The reason I skip through commercials with my Tivo has nothing to do with me being "offended" that someone might want me to see an ad. No. I just want to be able to watch my show with minimial interruption. Spending 3-5 seconds FF-ing through a commercial as opposed to 3-5 minutes watching one is just fine with me.
Given that, I really don't care WHAT they throw up on the screen while I'm skipping through.
Hmmm. In Cook County we had write-in stuff for all the offices. Although I don't know how the magical scanning machine would know it had a write-in. My guess is that when it saw ink there, it would just zoom it into another pile.
Or maybe there was a punch hole for write-in...I didn't notice.
Same thing, but for the opposite party in Cook County. We're punchcards here. Frankly, I'm amazed that they even bother to have us vote - they might as well give us pre-punched Dem ballots.
I don't know. The original The Producers film was damn funny. I haven't seen the Broadway musical, but from what I understand, a lot of what I consider the best parts of the film (Lorenzo St. Dubois, for instance) have been excised.
Of course, that doesn't surprise me, as jokes about freaky hippies are a lot less culturally relevent these days.
Hmm...I upgraded to 1.0 PR or whatever they're calling it...and one of the *only* extensions to survive for me was Tabbrowser Extensions. I'm running 1.11.2004082801 of the TE.
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The famous and influential cruicible of improvisation in Chicago, Improv Olympic, had to change it's name to "IO" after Charna Halpern received a letter from the U.S. Olympic Committee ordering her to drop "Olympic" from the company name.
My point is, every friend I visit who has broadband internet also has wifi. So if there's internet for my laptop, then there could be VoIP for me. And without having to use my daytime minutes on my cell. Which can rack up to a lot when you're talking about 4-5 hours a day.
I work remotely all the time, and often times from friends' homes in other cities. When working, I'm on conference calls for most of the day. And my cell phone may or may not work well at my friends' house, but their wifi always works well. And I don't want to have to haul all my VoIP phone boxes and crap with me to their house. So I've been looking forward to something like this for quite some time.
For a lot of us, it's the best of both worlds. Especially from a business perspective - I have to be able to bring my computer home with me (when on call), but the company is not going to pay for me to have two computers - one desktop and one small portable.
Granted, movies like Troy and The Day After Tomorrow are ONLY worth seeing in the theater - the only thing these movies have going for them are sweeping, large-scale visuals that don't translate to the smaller screen.
But that's not the only kind of movie that can (nay, *should*) benefit from the large screen treatment.
There are quite a few differences between watching a film in the theater and seeing at "at home on tv". Here are just a few:
1) Focus - when in the theater, there's only one thing to pay attention to: the movie on the screen. When you're watching a movie at home, you can multi-task, the phone can ring, the dog can hump your leg...all things that remove you from entering the world of the film completely. Suspension of disbelief is lower, and it's far less immersive.
2) Contagion - ever notice how some comedies are just a lot funnier in the theater? It's because there are other human beings in there with you, and the laughter is a feedback loop - the more each of you laugh, the more the rest laugh. I watch comedies at home by myself all the time, and rarely laugh out loud (even though they are hysterically funny). But in the theater, my laughing experience is always much higher, and so is my enjoyment.
3) Scale - one thing to remember: on the theater screen, things are larger than life. On your TV, they are *smaller*. A good director has created his work to be shown on the larger screen, not a TV. It's a different experience.
I have seen documentaries in a theater that will blow your mind. Often times the immersive nature of the darkened theater enhances the emotional experience, whereas just watching them on TV relegates them to just that - another thing on TV, like "Friends" or "Everyone Loves Raymond".
I want the online store that will deliver beer and cigarettes to my house, along with my Chinese food. Seriously, that would be teh r0xx0rs.
According to the SeamlessWeb site, it's only NYC now anyway, despite what the /. story says.
No, he's less. I've looked into his eyes. He's pure evil.
Not hardly.
At least when I was there (granted a few years ago), the Claremount was all about irony. Where else can you go listen to disco music, drink PBR out of a can, and witness some of the ugliest, fattest, nastiest strippers of all time? I just like watching Blondie (the cracked out fat stripper) beat up on frat boys with her breasts. Good times.
For example: I did a GDS search for the name of a server I was building last week.
Bam. I got every document I had about that server. The online change requests. The service requests to site engineering. The operational handbook I wrote. The inventory spreadsheet.
Wow. That was pretty cool.
I also found out that while GDS doesn't index networked drives/shares, it *will* include documents on the network that you have opened in its search results. That was pretty good too.
It's also useful on a couple of our intranet sites. Just this morning I had to find a change request for a server - using the search mechanism of our change system is difficult at best - but because I could search it in Google, it came up right away.
It's not any more difficult than the regular one; the link is right below the one that includes iTunes.
You just need the Apple DVI to Video Adapter.
Nope. Only USB on the Mac Mini. But still, hey, that's a cheap thrill.
Hey, if they're too stupid to have created movies to teach them to defend themselves against Bruce Willis, then they're better off being wiped out.
Yes, I read TFA. I know that there is no danger. But those crazy scientists in the movies always think they are safe too.
The controls are up on the top of the page...at least for me. I saw Faster/Slower/Next/Previous/Stop links.
Right. You can still do this. When you FF through the commercials now, you still see then. Just a lot faster.
Personally, I don't care one way or another about this. The reason I skip through commercials with my Tivo has nothing to do with me being "offended" that someone might want me to see an ad. No. I just want to be able to watch my show with minimial interruption. Spending 3-5 seconds FF-ing through a commercial as opposed to 3-5 minutes watching one is just fine with me.
Given that, I really don't care WHAT they throw up on the screen while I'm skipping through.
The IMDB lists him as "Marvin the Paranoid Android", so all may not be lost.
Or maybe there was a punch hole for write-in...I didn't notice.
Same thing, but for the opposite party in Cook County. We're punchcards here. Frankly, I'm amazed that they even bother to have us vote - they might as well give us pre-punched Dem ballots.
Glad we got that squared away.
Of course I realize it. I said "I haven't seen the musical yet". That implies I am aware of its existence.
Of course, that doesn't surprise me, as jokes about freaky hippies are a lot less culturally relevent these days.
Hmm...I upgraded to 1.0 PR or whatever they're calling it...and one of the *only* extensions to survive for me was Tabbrowser Extensions. I'm running 1.11.2004082801 of the TE.
They're talking about including support for the new HDV spec, not HD in general, which yes, FCP has supported for at least a few months now.