I love Flamboyant Design Engineer Michael!! But this doesn't seem nearly flamboyant enough...not from him. Perhaps it was Psuedo-Flamboyand Design Graduate Student Steve!
Not to mention the fact that the rating PG-13 didn't even exist until the early/mid 1980s. Prior to that, a movie was G/PG/R, so there was a lot more gray-area as to what was acceptable/not acceptable. I think the most interesting list would be to see how movies have fared since the introduction of the PG-13 rating, like a top 20 domestic and international.
Heck, something in my memory is trying to tell me that either Gremlins or Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie to ever be granted that rating...but I could very well be wrong.
Whereas the often unseen NC-17 is supposed to mean that no one, regardless of the presence of their parents, under the age of 17 is able to see this movie. *shrug*
And this is why I'm glad that my parents bestowed upon me, by virtue of bad genes, the gift of being moderately deaf...I never have to worry about the difference between 128kbps and 192kbps. That said, I can certainly tell the difference once we start approaching the 320kbps threshhold.
Oddly enough, my malady hasn't hampered my music enthusiast leanings, evidenced by my predilection towards purchasing all kinds of audio junk (players, headphones, speakers, head units, etc). I did, however, long ago stop using the headphones that came with my iPod and my iPod shuffle...I opt, instead, for an older pair of Sony monitors that I got for use with an old MD/Mike set up I had for interviewing bands and such.
If you feel an absolute need to mangle a Ben Gibbard line, you'd be better served eschewing Postal Service in this instance, and go for All-Time Quarterback, instead...
Original song, 'Plans Get Complex', new version, 'Plan No COMDEX' (new last verse lyrics, too lazy to re-write whole song):
And now I am 26 and your star is fading, Plan no more COMDEX, cuz the top stars finally stopped showing up.
The dialogue was fairly similar, yes. As was the basic premise of the episode I saw. The problem isn't the material, however. The problem lies more in the timing and delivery of the lines. The guy playing David comes off more like a friggin' evangelist than he does some kind of half-wit middle-management jackass...'Coupling' suffered from the same issue.
If NBC is dead set on doing something 'different' while still borrowing from another country, perhaps they could lift a new show from Brazil, 'America'. The concept is that a bunch of Brazilians want to move to America and become citizens, by any means necessary. Now, in Brasilia, the show is a soap, but it could easily adapted to either a half-hour sitcom format or even a dark-humoured hour-long drama. Make it a show that would give Americans a way to start recognizing how we are really viewed by the rest of the world, both optimistically and negatively...but networks don't take risks, so all is for naught.
Maybe, rather than holding an innocuous piece of a software accountable - and, by extension, the company that proliferated it - we should be wagging our fingers at the much maligned educational system.
Make a clear case out of a rather sturdy material that would then house my alarm clock and be able to be locked. There would be holes so I could access the necessary buttons (changing alarm times, etc), and vents for the speaker to allow sound to escape well enough. There would be no external access to the snooze button, and my roommate would hide the key every night so that I would have to literally get up and locate the key.
Then I realized that there would be ample access to the wall-socket where the thing would be plugged in at, so it was all a thought in vain...plus, I'd really hate to have to hold my roommate hostage for a key every morning.
NBC's forthcoming 'remake' of THE OFFICE has been given its own profile on MySpace. On said profile, they have character bios and a 10-15 minute segment of one of the episodes. I assume they did this in the hopes of generating buzz about the show, but all it did for me was cement the fact that NBC is grabbing at straws and probably shouldn't be wasting their time trying to Americanize a formerly funny series. Need more proof? Check out their version of COUPLING. And I'm pretty sure that they were responsible for the pilot episode of the US version of RED DWARF.
I'd give a link, but I can't hit MySpace from work.
I read a bit about him in the Paul Erdos biography, 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers"...tragic loss to the world of math when, but his contributions were significant, to say the least.
you're kidding, right? the point of the site is not the posts on the front page (which are generally pretty good reads), but rather the comics that they have been putting out for more than a few years now....
At least this just pertains to the map. However, if they ever start making me 'roll' on a screen allowing everyone else to see what I actually got...my characters are going to be faaaaar less effective than they are now with all of my magical 17-20 rolls!;)
"...but the division in Hollywood and notebook manufacturers between the two HD videodiscs will ensure the bona fide format war we were all secretly pining for."
I know I'm not looking forward to the possibility of having to either invest in two seperate technologies to be entertained...I got boned on that last time around when I decided that I was going to go the MD route and pass on MP3. I ended up buying an iPod only after I got really sick of having to find new places to order my discs and accessories from...I still use my MD player for recording meetings and concerts and such, but not much else.
So, no, not all of us are looking forward to playing an expensive game of pick and choose. Personally, I'll be a laaaaaate-adopter for this next round, as my budget precludes me from dipping into both.
Bless you sir. Any mention of Wesley Willis (outside of the usual punk boards) always brings a smile to my face, one on par with mentions of Joe Strummer or Joey Ramone. Now I wish I'd thrown some of his massive library onto my shuffle this morning.
That when I allow iTunes to select my playlist to be dropped into my shuffle for the workday ahead, it tends to favor songs that I've either legitimately purchased, have rated well (or at all), or have played most often from within iTunes (the ratings thing being a feature, IIRC).
Now, when I put my own playlist into the shuffle (for those days when nothing less than Bane will get me through it all), when in shuffle mode, it skews towards the rated songs and then the shorter named songs. I've basically just gotten to the point of removing my ratings from all songs and then selecting my playlist song by song (250 doesn't take that long, anyway), and trying to stay away from full albums.
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It's in reference to the closing of the episde, "The Last One", where they cut to a scene of MC Pee Pants, in his current worm form (as the joke is that every time he dies, he comes back as something lesser than what he had been before) and he says "Heeeey, what's up Satan?!" Satan's response is to issue forth a gale of fire breath that blows MC Pee Pants off of the screen. Sans Pee Pants, Satan proceeds to laugh at whatever one of the Geometers was saying to him prior to the rude interruption...
Hell, as long as the Linksys unit has the same footprint as your others, you can stack until you're blue in the face. I've got my base wireless router, my amplifier (because my signal was weak when I'd be out in the courtyard of my complex) and my VoiP unit all stacked neatly on top of one another. Linksys is fun that way.
What I immediately thought of were some USB2.0 hubs and Firewire hubs I was looking at last night, they have top and front loading slots and stack onto one another without compromising access...Belkin and some other company, IIRC. Ugly as sin, but seemed pretty functionaly (For a lopsided stack of black donuts, that is).
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Why is it that MC Pee Pants gets absolutely no respect from Satan, whereas the WisdomCube/Dubmassahedron does? To me, MC Pee Pants, while not as intelligent as the aforementioned geometric characters, is vastly more entertaining than that lot.
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Any relation to Bendak Starkiller, the most feared death-duelist in all the land?
Seriously though, I got a good chuckle out of Bendak's last name when I played through KotOR the first time.
I love Flamboyant Design Engineer Michael!! But this doesn't seem nearly flamboyant enough...not from him. Perhaps it was Psuedo-Flamboyand Design Graduate Student Steve!
Not to mention the fact that the rating PG-13 didn't even exist until the early/mid 1980s. Prior to that, a movie was G/PG/R, so there was a lot more gray-area as to what was acceptable/not acceptable. I think the most interesting list would be to see how movies have fared since the introduction of the PG-13 rating, like a top 20 domestic and international.
Heck, something in my memory is trying to tell me that either Gremlins or Raiders of the Lost Ark was the first movie to ever be granted that rating...but I could very well be wrong.
Whereas the often unseen NC-17 is supposed to mean that no one, regardless of the presence of their parents, under the age of 17 is able to see this movie. *shrug*
And this is why I'm glad that my parents bestowed upon me, by virtue of bad genes, the gift of being moderately deaf...I never have to worry about the difference between 128kbps and 192kbps. That said, I can certainly tell the difference once we start approaching the 320kbps threshhold.
Oddly enough, my malady hasn't hampered my music enthusiast leanings, evidenced by my predilection towards purchasing all kinds of audio junk (players, headphones, speakers, head units, etc). I did, however, long ago stop using the headphones that came with my iPod and my iPod shuffle...I opt, instead, for an older pair of Sony monitors that I got for use with an old MD/Mike set up I had for interviewing bands and such.
"One restaurant manager who was so upset with his laptop that he threw it into deep fryer. That destroyed the laptop ... and deep fryer, too."
Mmmmmmmmm...deep fried PowerBook. *drool*
If you feel an absolute need to mangle a Ben Gibbard line, you'd be better served eschewing Postal Service in this instance, and go for All-Time Quarterback, instead...
Original song, 'Plans Get Complex', new version, 'Plan No COMDEX' (new last verse lyrics, too lazy to re-write whole song):
And now I am 26 and your star is fading,
Plan no more COMDEX, cuz the top stars
finally stopped showing up.
You could at least TRY next time...
That was horrible. If I hadn't burnt out on that song a year and a half ago, I'd hunt you down and kill you, you son of a bitch.
Really? I would've thought that this one would be the comment to target:
"I play the SIMS, but my brother plays it more than I do since there's a distinct lack of magic missiles in that game."
*shrug*
The dialogue was fairly similar, yes. As was the basic premise of the episode I saw. The problem isn't the material, however. The problem lies more in the timing and delivery of the lines. The guy playing David comes off more like a friggin' evangelist than he does some kind of half-wit middle-management jackass...'Coupling' suffered from the same issue.
If NBC is dead set on doing something 'different' while still borrowing from another country, perhaps they could lift a new show from Brazil, 'America'. The concept is that a bunch of Brazilians want to move to America and become citizens, by any means necessary. Now, in Brasilia, the show is a soap, but it could easily adapted to either a half-hour sitcom format or even a dark-humoured hour-long drama. Make it a show that would give Americans a way to start recognizing how we are really viewed by the rest of the world, both optimistically and negatively...but networks don't take risks, so all is for naught.
Maybe, rather than holding an innocuous piece of a software accountable - and, by extension, the company that proliferated it - we should be wagging our fingers at the much maligned educational system.
That's just one suggestion, however.
Make a clear case out of a rather sturdy material that would then house my alarm clock and be able to be locked. There would be holes so I could access the necessary buttons (changing alarm times, etc), and vents for the speaker to allow sound to escape well enough. There would be no external access to the snooze button, and my roommate would hide the key every night so that I would have to literally get up and locate the key.
Then I realized that there would be ample access to the wall-socket where the thing would be plugged in at, so it was all a thought in vain...plus, I'd really hate to have to hold my roommate hostage for a key every morning.
NBC's forthcoming 'remake' of THE OFFICE has been given its own profile on MySpace. On said profile, they have character bios and a 10-15 minute segment of one of the episodes. I assume they did this in the hopes of generating buzz about the show, but all it did for me was cement the fact that NBC is grabbing at straws and probably shouldn't be wasting their time trying to Americanize a formerly funny series. Need more proof? Check out their version of COUPLING. And I'm pretty sure that they were responsible for the pilot episode of the US version of RED DWARF.
I'd give a link, but I can't hit MySpace from work.
I read a bit about him in the Paul Erdos biography, 'The Man Who Loved Only Numbers"...tragic loss to the world of math when, but his contributions were significant, to say the least.
you're kidding, right? the point of the site is not the posts on the front page (which are generally pretty good reads), but rather the comics that they have been putting out for more than a few years now....
but you were joking, right?
At least this just pertains to the map. However, if they ever start making me 'roll' on a screen allowing everyone else to see what I actually got...my characters are going to be faaaaar less effective than they are now with all of my magical 17-20 rolls! ;)
"There is an article on washignton post on bittorrent..."
I thought we were supposed to capitalize proper nouns and stuff? Especially when you do it later on in the post...
"...but the division in Hollywood and notebook manufacturers between the two HD videodiscs will ensure the bona fide format war we were all secretly pining for."
I know I'm not looking forward to the possibility of having to either invest in two seperate technologies to be entertained...I got boned on that last time around when I decided that I was going to go the MD route and pass on MP3. I ended up buying an iPod only after I got really sick of having to find new places to order my discs and accessories from...I still use my MD player for recording meetings and concerts and such, but not much else.
So, no, not all of us are looking forward to playing an expensive game of pick and choose. Personally, I'll be a laaaaaate-adopter for this next round, as my budget precludes me from dipping into both.
Bless you sir. Any mention of Wesley Willis (outside of the usual punk boards) always brings a smile to my face, one on par with mentions of Joe Strummer or Joey Ramone. Now I wish I'd thrown some of his massive library onto my shuffle this morning.
Baskin Robins still exists? Go figure...
nothing short of fantabulously amazing! ;)
That when I allow iTunes to select my playlist to be dropped into my shuffle for the workday ahead, it tends to favor songs that I've either legitimately purchased, have rated well (or at all), or have played most often from within iTunes (the ratings thing being a feature, IIRC).
Now, when I put my own playlist into the shuffle (for those days when nothing less than Bane will get me through it all), when in shuffle mode, it skews towards the rated songs and then the shorter named songs. I've basically just gotten to the point of removing my ratings from all songs and then selecting my playlist song by song (250 doesn't take that long, anyway), and trying to stay away from full albums.
It's in reference to the closing of the episde, "The Last One", where they cut to a scene of MC Pee Pants, in his current worm form (as the joke is that every time he dies, he comes back as something lesser than what he had been before) and he says "Heeeey, what's up Satan?!" Satan's response is to issue forth a gale of fire breath that blows MC Pee Pants off of the screen. Sans Pee Pants, Satan proceeds to laugh at whatever one of the Geometers was saying to him prior to the rude interruption...
Funny stuff, really.
Hell, as long as the Linksys unit has the same footprint as your others, you can stack until you're blue in the face. I've got my base wireless router, my amplifier (because my signal was weak when I'd be out in the courtyard of my complex) and my VoiP unit all stacked neatly on top of one another. Linksys is fun that way.
What I immediately thought of were some USB2.0 hubs and Firewire hubs I was looking at last night, they have top and front loading slots and stack onto one another without compromising access...Belkin and some other company, IIRC. Ugly as sin, but seemed pretty functionaly (For a lopsided stack of black donuts, that is).
Why is it that MC Pee Pants gets absolutely no respect from Satan, whereas the WisdomCube/Dubmassahedron does? To me, MC Pee Pants, while not as intelligent as the aforementioned geometric characters, is vastly more entertaining than that lot.