It's no surprise child actors come out all screwed up. To me, the main surprise was how Will came out so grounded.
I did time working as a camera assistant once. I was working a student film at UCLA, and one of the main actors was a seven year old girl. Between takes, she approached me and demanded that I get her water. I was shocked back by the girl's rudeness, but I felt even worse when her mother didn't offer a rebuke for her. It was hard not to be offended because the little tyke didn't know better.
For the rest of my tenure in Hollywood, I did my best to stay clear of the little folk. For the especially well behaved ones (ie, new child actors) I enjoyed making them laugh by making funny faces in between takes. That was the exception, though. Not the rule.
I use this Chris Pederick's web extension to assist me with my web development. A few years back I would have happily paid a hundred dollars for this baby. Viva open source.
Yeah... Starwave was bought by ESPN and later converted to ESPN.com. A lot of the.com management are old starwave folk. A few years back, they moved the entire operation from Seattle to Bristol. Under the hood, quite a bit of services still point to a starwave domain. The only reason I know this is because I work for them. Great group of people.
At my work, all the cute ladies are the mac users so the war would be very short lived. The ladies would toss the cocktails. The geeks would stare in amazement, each thinking "wow, she noticed me" as they all went up in flames.
Why do you want to see two teenagers being almost burned to death?
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Tinfoil Hat House
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I guess we slashdotted his poor site... I've attached the copy below... check out the site once he get's it back... the pictures are just hilarious. I pulled the links from the copy to save his server.
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In
case you're wondering, this Web page is about my next-door neighbors.
Since my neighbors have been driving me crazy and no amount of civilized
reasoning and/or negotiations have worked -
I have decided to dedicate a small corner of cyber-space to them.
My
family and friends are constantly asking me to tell them the "latest"
thing my neighbor has done so this page will save me from repeating myself.
Besides, I thought it would be fun. Everything you read here is
entirely true, that's what makes it so funny. Enjoy!
Background:
My neighbors moved into
the house next to ours in October 1997. It's a brand new neighborhood
with new houses. Everyone's house
looks beautiful but that's about to change.
The new neighbors seem like normal people until shortly after they move
in (more later).
First, let me say that my
redneck neighbor is not destitute or under-privileged. The guy owns a business, drives VERY nice new cars, he just
doesn't care about his house. In
order to protect the ignorant, we'll call him John Doe # 8 or JD8 for short.
October 1997 -
They are here!
Well, it should have been
a sign of things to come but my neighbors move into their brand new house.
Inventory: 1 artificial Christmas tree, clothes, stereo system, TV, no
furniture). The Christmas tree is nicely decorated (remember, it's
October). We can tell what the tree looks like because the windows have no
miniblinds so at night, you can see right into the house as you drive up.
They have also decided to wrap some strands of Christmas lights around their
front porch railing. I guess there's no electric outlet nearby because
they never turn these lights on.
October 1997 - 1st
Home beautification project
It's dark outside, I'm
standing in front of my house and my neighbor does the following: He gets in his car, drives
it up to the house on the other side of my house (this house is still being
built). He backs his car up to the construction site and opens the trunk.
He calmly proceeds to load up the trunk with bricks and 2x4s. Pretty
clever, huh?
The following night, at
around 9:00pm he decides it's time to build a mailbox post. It's very
nice. He used the stolen 2x4s from the previous night. It looks like
it's made out of 2x4s except he didn't steal any that were long enough so he
nails a couple of them together to get the correct height - I mean, it has to
look just right! The mailbox post is not very sturdy so he braces it with
an additional 2x4 (at an angle). Click
here to see the mailbox (no bracing 2x4 though).
He uses the bricks as
edging for his flower beds. They look nice. Especially with the
newly planted bamboo trees and the ten gallon fish tank (no fish, just water).
November 1997 -
The fence!
I wake up to my wife
telling me, "Hey, it looks like JD8 is working on a fence".
Well I don't think much of it until she tells me that he's trying to
build a fence around the entire house (front and back) and that the fence is
going to be chain-link. We have some "covenant rules" that
prohibit you from putting up a silver chain-link fence. Also, you cannot
have any fence go past the back of your house. By now, I am freaking out.
I can see the property value falling faster than his mailbox post.
Anyway, I get to work and
at 9:01AM I call our builder. I explain the situation to him and he
agrees to pay JD8 a visit before the concrete around the metal posts dries.
Sure enough, I get home after work and the posts around the front of the house
are laying on the street. Not exactly what I expected but at least they're
out of the ground. Tra
This site is a great true example of what happens when your neighbors go crazy. In this case, it's a family of rednecks. It's a great laugh from the burnt down back yard to the child sized children pools.
Talking about this movie after the fact made me realize that I liked the story of it. Captured the imagination, so to speak. As for the execution of this last movie, I like to think of it as good cheese. I laughed quite a bit. The emperor was hilarious when he bent bat shit, laughing like a loon while fighting yoda, and equally loony tunes when he killed Mace. And of course, the excellent "NOOOOOOO" from vader made me lose my cookies. Good cheese. That's all I can really say about it.
On an aside, I dislike the term "visual filmmaker". All filmmaking is visual whether the action is a talking head or dancing nun. In such light, Lucas is no different from any other director as far as I am concerned.
I mean, come on, he gave a great review to the universally panned Phantom Menace, and an equally good review to the moldy cheese production of Anaconda. I like Ebert but this guy is not a barometer to a film's quality. Leave that to Rotten Tomatoes (which looks to be positive so far).
With ODT format being standardized across the board and with other open source office suites accepting this standard, OpenOffice's use of java only becomes an issue for those who see it as one.
I've been using OpenOffice since 2001, and I'm not a big fan of it (though the recent betas have been making huge improvements). Personally, I'm looking forward to when Koffice is ported to windows. Once that happens, I won't be looking back.
Why does everything these days have to be about the "power of OSS" or some like minded politco statement? I'm willing to counter that the reason this project has been so successful is because they rather focus on their passion as opposed to the politics of their development method.
Reminds me of an article from The Onion's "Our Dumb Century"... Normandy Invasion Force Crippled by Nostalgia - Thousands of GIs Die as They Pause to Reflect on the Momentous Day.
I absolutely agree. Wikipedia is an excellent source of information regarding niche "cultures". I found the slashdot trolling entry to be both amusing and insightful. Check it out for a good read.
Also, with these particles getting caught in the lungs, isnt the whole "lack of oxygen on the moon" probably, a bigger breathing threat?
Walking on the lunar surface with protective gear prevents this problem until you go inside, and remove the said gear. While you are removing the gear, you are currently breathing in the particles. Think of it like wearing a dry suit while scuba diving... you are fine in the water, but you are still going to get wet when you get out of your gear.
Reading books in an experience for me. For me, reading is more than just scanning my eyes over text. I love the feel of a book. Especially the smell of an old one. I love to underline favorite passages and write down any thoughts that come to mind about them. I love bending the pages back so I can read while walking. And when I'm finished, I usually give my book to interested friends. My only requirement is that they write in them as well. You can't get that online.
Why didn't you release 1.8 before abandoning the suite? What have you to say to people who dedicated their energies to a product which will no longer be affliated with Mozilla? If you never intended the 1.8 Suite to be released, why do you have 1.9 alpha development on your roadmap?
I can understand reasons for releasing the suite, but I think your application of those reasons definitely needs to be categorized in the "How to Alienate Your Base Users in 30 minutes or less" department. It's like you filed for a divorce, split up the property, moved everything out, and finally after the dust settled, you informed your wife.
I agree with the above movies with the exception of Frankenstein. The Borlis Karloff Frankenstein is a true travesty. The Kenneth Brannaugh version was at least in the ball park, although the movie itself was truly horrible in the most epic way. I have yet to see the "pain" of this book translated on film. When I do see it, then I'd agree with you.
If you haven't read Frankenstein, I highly suggest you do. It's such an insightful look at the selfishness of people and the pain bestowed on others because of it. Anyone who has ever felt on the "outside" will certainly relate to this book.
On an aside, the reason we see so many "remakes" is because usually the source material is just so damn good. I say usually for the case of King Kong, but the others make for some wonderful reads. You open the book feeling the cliche, and when you finish it, you'll realize how off the mark those cliches really are.
Don't get me wrong, I like both Google and Slashdot but with all these google stories popping up these last couple of days makes me feel like I've been caught between the two of them on a first date. I'm trying to keep a straight face, but it's hard to do when they are playing a mean game of footsie, shaking the table all about.
As far as I know, Linspire is complying with the GPL and other licenses. Their process might deviate from traditional Unix norms but it's their product. The beautiful thing about open source (and freedom in general) is that it allows people to do things that you might not agree with.
Nah... mmorpgs are not harmful. games are not harmful. it's the GTA argument all over again.
people are responsible for their own actions. When people sit down to play these games, they are making a choice. I agree that the designers construct these worlds for the purpose of treadmill running, but at the end of the day, its your choice to play them - each and everytime. (you being used in the general, as opposed to you personally).
I'm guessing, if you interviewed the real hardcore addicts, you'd probably find the game being used in place of other things (ie, can't deal with the wife and kids or, can't deal with classes). As for the true addicts, I bet that if it wasn't the latest MMORPG, it'd just be something else like fantasy football. Just my thoughts.
He wasn't bashing the US rather he was being a little critical of the US media which in my opinion, not only needs a little ribbing, but also a full on figure-four-leglock. And maybe a few kicks to the skull for good measure.
If being critical of the US media makes a person an american agitator , then forward my name to the committee of Un-American Activities.
btw, i find your username particularly ironic in contrast to the tone of post. back to the quaaludes for you, baby.
i know its the "in thing" now to joke about this, but I thought the lighting was terrific. i also liked the use of the flashlight as well. the fumbling panic you get when being attacked. the game gave me the creeps. My theory of why the game has been stigmatized is that it really did buck the whole premise of fps. That being control. Doom fucked with that by having the player constantly off kilter... the lighting be key. And also, it threw in some survival horror elements. It'd be interesting to see how many lighting complaints boiled down to just that.
btw, I did adjust the gamma because I have a cheap ass dark monitor (I have to adjust the gamma on everything) Once that was set, it was just a matter of enjoying the game. and enjoy the game i i did. cursing and shouting the whole way through.
Slashdot Mirror
It's no surprise child actors come out all screwed up. To me, the main surprise was how Will came out so grounded.
I did time working as a camera assistant once. I was working a student film at UCLA, and one of the main actors was a seven year old girl. Between takes, she approached me and demanded that I get her water. I was shocked back by the girl's rudeness, but I felt even worse when her mother didn't offer a rebuke for her. It was hard not to be offended because the little tyke didn't know better.
For the rest of my tenure in Hollywood, I did my best to stay clear of the little folk. For the especially well behaved ones (ie, new child actors) I enjoyed making them laugh by making funny faces in between takes. That was the exception, though. Not the rule.
I use this Chris Pederick's web extension to assist me with my web development. A few years back I would have happily paid a hundred dollars for this baby. Viva open source.
Yeah ... Starwave was bought by ESPN and later converted to ESPN.com. A lot of the .com management are old starwave folk. A few years back, they moved the entire operation from Seattle to Bristol. Under the hood, quite a bit of services still point to a starwave domain. The only reason I know this is because I work for them. Great group of people.
At my work, all the cute ladies are the mac users so the war would be very short lived. The ladies would toss the cocktails. The geeks would stare in amazement, each thinking "wow, she noticed me" as they all went up in flames.
Why do you want to see two teenagers being almost burned to death?
------
In case you're wondering, this Web page is about my next-door neighbors. Since my neighbors have been driving me crazy and no amount of civilized reasoning and/or negotiations have worked - I have decided to dedicate a small corner of cyber-space to them.
My family and friends are constantly asking me to tell them the "latest" thing my neighbor has done so this page will save me from repeating myself. Besides, I thought it would be fun. Everything you read here is entirely true, that's what makes it so funny. Enjoy!
Background:
My neighbors moved into the house next to ours in October 1997. It's a brand new neighborhood with new houses. Everyone's house looks beautiful but that's about to change. The new neighbors seem like normal people until shortly after they move in (more later).
First, let me say that my redneck neighbor is not destitute or under-privileged. The guy owns a business, drives VERY nice new cars, he just doesn't care about his house. In order to protect the ignorant, we'll call him John Doe # 8 or JD8 for short.
October 1997 - They are here!
Well, it should have been a sign of things to come but my neighbors move into their brand new house. Inventory: 1 artificial Christmas tree, clothes, stereo system, TV, no furniture). The Christmas tree is nicely decorated (remember, it's October). We can tell what the tree looks like because the windows have no miniblinds so at night, you can see right into the house as you drive up. They have also decided to wrap some strands of Christmas lights around their front porch railing. I guess there's no electric outlet nearby because they never turn these lights on.
October 1997 - 1st Home beautification project
It's dark outside, I'm standing in front of my house and my neighbor does the following: He gets in his car, drives it up to the house on the other side of my house (this house is still being built). He backs his car up to the construction site and opens the trunk. He calmly proceeds to load up the trunk with bricks and 2x4s. Pretty clever, huh?
The following night, at around 9:00pm he decides it's time to build a mailbox post. It's very nice. He used the stolen 2x4s from the previous night. It looks like it's made out of 2x4s except he didn't steal any that were long enough so he nails a couple of them together to get the correct height - I mean, it has to look just right! The mailbox post is not very sturdy so he braces it with an additional 2x4 (at an angle). Click here to see the mailbox (no bracing 2x4 though).
He uses the bricks as edging for his flower beds. They look nice. Especially with the newly planted bamboo trees and the ten gallon fish tank (no fish, just water).
November 1997 - The fence!
I wake up to my wife telling me, "Hey, it looks like JD8 is working on a fence". Well I don't think much of it until she tells me that he's trying to build a fence around the entire house (front and back) and that the fence is going to be chain-link. We have some "covenant rules" that prohibit you from putting up a silver chain-link fence. Also, you cannot have any fence go past the back of your house. By now, I am freaking out. I can see the property value falling faster than his mailbox post.
Anyway, I get to work and at 9:01AM I call our builder. I explain the situation to him and he agrees to pay JD8 a visit before the concrete around the metal posts dries. Sure enough, I get home after work and the posts around the front of the house are laying on the street. Not exactly what I expected but at least they're out of the ground. Tra
This site is a great true example of what happens when your neighbors go crazy. In this case, it's a family of rednecks. It's a great laugh from the burnt down back yard to the child sized children pools.
Talking about this movie after the fact made me realize that I liked the story of it. Captured the imagination, so to speak. As for the execution of this last movie, I like to think of it as good cheese. I laughed quite a bit. The emperor was hilarious when he bent bat shit, laughing like a loon while fighting yoda, and equally loony tunes when he killed Mace. And of course, the excellent "NOOOOOOO" from vader made me lose my cookies. Good cheese. That's all I can really say about it.
On an aside, I dislike the term "visual filmmaker". All filmmaking is visual whether the action is a talking head or dancing nun. In such light, Lucas is no different from any other director as far as I am concerned.
I mean, come on, he gave a great review to the universally panned Phantom Menace, and an equally good review to the moldy cheese production of Anaconda. I like Ebert but this guy is not a barometer to a film's quality. Leave that to Rotten Tomatoes (which looks to be positive so far).
With ODT format being standardized across the board and with other open source office suites accepting this standard, OpenOffice's use of java only becomes an issue for those who see it as one.
I've been using OpenOffice since 2001, and I'm not a big fan of it (though the recent betas have been making huge improvements). Personally, I'm looking forward to when Koffice is ported to windows. Once that happens, I won't be looking back.
It came as no surprise that we could not infect the car, but the Prius performed in the test even better than expected.
We're all doomed!
Why does everything these days have to be about the "power of OSS" or some like minded politco statement? I'm willing to counter that the reason this project has been so successful is because they rather focus on their passion as opposed to the politics of their development method. Reminds me of an article from The Onion's "Our Dumb Century" ... Normandy Invasion Force Crippled by Nostalgia - Thousands of GIs Die as They Pause to Reflect on the Momentous Day.
Looks like these boys beat you to it ;)
I absolutely agree. Wikipedia is an excellent source of information regarding niche "cultures". I found the slashdot trolling entry to be both amusing and insightful. Check it out for a good read.
Also, with these particles getting caught in the lungs, isnt the whole "lack of oxygen on the moon" probably, a bigger breathing threat?
... you are fine in the water, but you are still going to get wet when you get out of your gear.
Walking on the lunar surface with protective gear prevents this problem until you go inside, and remove the said gear. While you are removing the gear, you are currently breathing in the particles. Think of it like wearing a dry suit while scuba diving
great for form fields ...
http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/
Reading books in an experience for me. For me, reading is more than just scanning my eyes over text. I love the feel of a book. Especially the smell of an old one. I love to underline favorite passages and write down any thoughts that come to mind about them. I love bending the pages back so I can read while walking. And when I'm finished, I usually give my book to interested friends. My only requirement is that they write in them as well. You can't get that online.
Why didn't you release 1.8 before abandoning the suite? What have you to say to people who dedicated their energies to a product which will no longer be affliated with Mozilla? If you never intended the 1.8 Suite to be released, why do you have 1.9 alpha development on your roadmap?
I can understand reasons for releasing the suite, but I think your application of those reasons definitely needs to be categorized in the "How to Alienate Your Base Users in 30 minutes or less" department. It's like you filed for a divorce, split up the property, moved everything out, and finally after the dust settled, you informed your wife.
I agree with the above movies with the exception of Frankenstein. The Borlis Karloff Frankenstein is a true travesty. The Kenneth Brannaugh version was at least in the ball park, although the movie itself was truly horrible in the most epic way. I have yet to see the "pain" of this book translated on film. When I do see it, then I'd agree with you.
If you haven't read Frankenstein, I highly suggest you do. It's such an insightful look at the selfishness of people and the pain bestowed on others because of it. Anyone who has ever felt on the "outside" will certainly relate to this book.
On an aside, the reason we see so many "remakes" is because usually the source material is just so damn good. I say usually for the case of King Kong, but the others make for some wonderful reads. You open the book feeling the cliche, and when you finish it, you'll realize how off the mark those cliches really are.
Don't get me wrong, I like both Google and Slashdot but with all these google stories popping up these last couple of days makes me feel like I've been caught between the two of them on a first date. I'm trying to keep a straight face, but it's hard to do when they are playing a mean game of footsie, shaking the table all about.
As far as I know, Linspire is complying with the GPL and other licenses. Their process might deviate from traditional Unix norms but it's their product. The beautiful thing about open source (and freedom in general) is that it allows people to do things that you might not agree with.
Nah ... mmorpgs are not harmful. games are not harmful. it's the GTA argument all over again.
people are responsible for their own actions. When people sit down to play these games, they are making a choice. I agree that the designers construct these worlds for the purpose of treadmill running, but at the end of the day, its your choice to play them - each and everytime. (you being used in the general, as opposed to you personally).
I'm guessing, if you interviewed the real hardcore addicts, you'd probably find the game being used in place of other things (ie, can't deal with the wife and kids or, can't deal with classes). As for the true addicts, I bet that if it wasn't the latest MMORPG, it'd just be something else like fantasy football. Just my thoughts.
yo whack-o-jack-o,
He wasn't bashing the US rather he was being a little critical of the US media which in my opinion, not only needs a little ribbing, but also a full on figure-four-leglock. And maybe a few kicks to the skull for good measure.
If being critical of the US media makes a person an american agitator , then forward my name to the committee of Un-American Activities.
btw, i find your username particularly ironic in contrast to the tone of post. back to the quaaludes for you, baby.
i know its the "in thing" now to joke about this, but I thought the lighting was terrific. i also liked the use of the flashlight as well. the fumbling panic you get when being attacked. the game gave me the creeps. My theory of why the game has been stigmatized is that it really did buck the whole premise of fps. That being control. Doom fucked with that by having the player constantly off kilter ... the lighting be key. And also, it threw in some survival horror elements. It'd be interesting to see how many lighting complaints boiled down to just that.
btw, I did adjust the gamma because I have a cheap ass dark monitor (I have to adjust the gamma on everything) Once that was set, it was just a matter of enjoying the game. and enjoy the game i i did. cursing and shouting the whole way through.
Project leader Kenobi: it's not a rock. It's a space station
Data Analyst Rimmer: Aliens!
Computer Programmer Neo: Woaaah