truth be told, i already do this using odd dictionary words that i translate into l33t. for example: defenestrate - > d3f3n3str4t3. what does it mean? i dont know! and it's pretty easy to type, as well.
What's the point? It's all the same - stamped out of the same studio - with the same sound.
this seems like a huge insult to the hardworking artists who DO take the time to really think about their music, who DO have a message to present and DO try to innovate, evolve and differentiate themselves from artists of the past. so you say that all music these days sounds the same. what would you like it to sound like? would you want everything you hear on the radio to sound like U2? that would get boring pretty quick.
sure, you're entitled to your own opinion, you may not like the music of today. fair enough, there are a lot of artists that i dont really care for as well. but to insinuate that ALL artists today are so lazy as to just try and make their music sound the same as everyone else is a HUGE mistake.
at the very least, download some of the songs of the newer breed of musicians. Theivery Corporation, Glassjaw, The Mars Volta, Corduroy, Maxwell, Artful Dodger, Utada Hikaru, Sade... these people KNOW their music. give them a chance. and after listening to them i dare you to say that what they have to share isn't *at the very least* musically interesting.
i prefer to strike up conversations with cute girls in my university. even just a smile and a 'hi'. since my college isn't really all that big, and for the most part everyone has at least one class in every building, i find myself saying hi to the same cute girls every so often. i've done this for around 2 years, and over the course of that time most of them will say 'hi' in return, and on good days most of them will smile back and hold eye contact. this may sound trivial, but for a lonely college student it can mean a lot!
an interesting thing that happened as a direct result of this was that i bumped into one of the aforementioned girls while eating lunch outside of school, and she asked me if we had met before. i told her we had not. she proceeded to tell me that she didn't usually find complete strangers saying 'hi' to her in school - so i took a leap of faith and asked her out for coffee so we wouldn't be strangers anymore. and she accepted!
so for simply being a little more courteous to the people around me, and taking some time out to think about whether the person beside me has been having a good day or not, i got an enjoyable date and a new (attractive) friend in return.
if that isn't a good reason to start conversations with strangers then i don't know what is.
yet we still want to be intimately connected to others somehow. the proliferation of things like friendster, livejournal, instant messaging have proven that.
while i agree that i would like to own a 100 acre plot of land, it would be terribly lonely without someone to help me cultivate it, don't you think?
or is it better to say, rather, that we would prefer to be left alone with people we like and people who are like us?
one of my own reasons for listening to music while in school is that it helps relax me and open my mind to whatever i'm studying at the time. nothing like bach, vivaldi, or some john williams to help you absorb vector calculus.
unless of course the students you're talking about are wearing headphones while in class, which is an entirely different matter. music in your own free time is perfectly healthy diversion.
why would he be pissed? i'm sure he's mature enough to realize that his part wasn't really necessary in the third film, and anyone with common sense knows that these awards are really being given to LOTR for the trilogy as a whole.
12 hours? i get roughly 30 hours of play (at least one hour of non-stop playing everyday for a month) out of my panasonic cd player from the same. this is with 40 seconds of skip protection and bass boosting.
for me, the thing that's most important is that it can play my music uninterrupted, and with decent sound quality. that's why i _still_ use this 3-year old cd player more often than my brand new iRiver mp3/cd player.
Just think that, not that long ago, people used to sit down together and listen to a record and do nothing else. You rarely see anybody do anything like that anymore.
oh, dont worry - there are still people who do that these days. we call them stoners.
they were better because they more closely followed the flow of the manga. the feature-length film compressed everything into a somewhat hard to understand, but beautiful, package. i know a lot of people who fell asleep watching the GitS movie, but loved standalone complex.
the past few interations of EA Sport's Fifa Soccer games have all had ads - but then again ads are almost as much a part of sports as the players are:P at least they're not quite as obtrusive as TV ads, which are forced upon you. ads in computer games rarely divert your attention from enjoying the game itself. which TV ads so expertly do.
This is the second reported incident of Nokia phones exploding, the first one being back in August when a Dutch woman's phone exploded in her hand.
OT: someone set her up the bomb?
seriously though, was she seriously injured? what kind of explosion was it? was it just a *poof* and lots of smoke or was it more of a *kaboom* - like a firework? i wouldn't be too worried about the former, but the latter scares the hell out of me. i've seen people who've had fireworks explode in their hands, and it's not pretty. much less what that sort of thing could do to your face/neck...
that's something i *dont* want to see, because then i won't be able to read the books and become boggled by how the cavern is described, or amused by ford turning into a penguin (i really think they'll mess this one up). trying to bend your mind around it is half the fun!
as for the whale... well, what's written is the whale's short-lived and rather tragic contemplations on what's happening to it. it's not even really described how he falls. you're really left to your own devices and reading it gives it much deeper meaning - turning it into a CGI joke (oh it's a whale! it's falling! it's falling! hahah!) will just ruin it, IMO.
oh yeah! he was the one who made a temple of hate for arthur, the statue stomping on ants and swatting flys out of the air. Agrajag was also stavro mueller(sp?) in the destruction of earth, wasn't he? arthur ducked a shot intended for him, and it hit stavro instead. hilarious.
If they and take what they need from the various HHGTTG source material, adding just a dash here and there to get the pieces to mesh - great. But if they start rewriting vast tracts of Douglas's work... hideous.
this is very true. there are too many strange coincidences and long-shots in HHGTTHG (some of them DNA didn't even see until he wrote them!) to be incorporated into the movie... this is a damn shame.
there's one character, i forget his name, whose sole purpose is to die over and over again at the hands of arthur. but DNA doesn't even introduce him until the last few books. and even then all the instances of his death are just plain... weird. or coincidences. you couldn't have seen that his character was planned that way, he just happened - and it's great!
i honestly hope this movie doesn't turn into another "From Hell" or "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".
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you know what the problem is?
money.
it's not so farfetched. if we worked out our aggressions by playing games instead of actually waging war, wouldn't that be so much better?
Gamers for Peace!
If people are watching less TV, then why are they still getting fatter?
maybe because they're still eating greasy, calorie-filled fast food?
truth be told, i already do this using odd dictionary words that i translate into l33t. for example: defenestrate - > d3f3n3str4t3. what does it mean? i dont know! and it's pretty easy to type, as well.
What's the point? It's all the same - stamped out of the same studio - with the same sound.
this seems like a huge insult to the hardworking artists who DO take the time to really think about their music, who DO have a message to present and DO try to innovate, evolve and differentiate themselves from artists of the past. so you say that all music these days sounds the same. what would you like it to sound like? would you want everything you hear on the radio to sound like U2? that would get boring pretty quick.
sure, you're entitled to your own opinion, you may not like the music of today. fair enough, there are a lot of artists that i dont really care for as well. but to insinuate that ALL artists today are so lazy as to just try and make their music sound the same as everyone else is a HUGE mistake.
at the very least, download some of the songs of the newer breed of musicians. Theivery Corporation, Glassjaw, The Mars Volta, Corduroy, Maxwell, Artful Dodger, Utada Hikaru, Sade... these people KNOW their music. give them a chance. and after listening to them i dare you to say that what they have to share isn't *at the very least* musically interesting.
i prefer to strike up conversations with cute girls in my university. even just a smile and a 'hi'. since my college isn't really all that big, and for the most part everyone has at least one class in every building, i find myself saying hi to the same cute girls every so often. i've done this for around 2 years, and over the course of that time most of them will say 'hi' in return, and on good days most of them will smile back and hold eye contact. this may sound trivial, but for a lonely college student it can mean a lot!
an interesting thing that happened as a direct result of this was that i bumped into one of the aforementioned girls while eating lunch outside of school, and she asked me if we had met before. i told her we had not. she proceeded to tell me that she didn't usually find complete strangers saying 'hi' to her in school - so i took a leap of faith and asked her out for coffee so we wouldn't be strangers anymore. and she accepted!
so for simply being a little more courteous to the people around me, and taking some time out to think about whether the person beside me has been having a good day or not, i got an enjoyable date and a new (attractive) friend in return.
if that isn't a good reason to start conversations with strangers then i don't know what is.
yet we still want to be intimately connected to others somehow. the proliferation of things like friendster, livejournal, instant messaging have proven that.
while i agree that i would like to own a 100 acre plot of land, it would be terribly lonely without someone to help me cultivate it, don't you think?
or is it better to say, rather, that we would prefer to be left alone with people we like and people who are like us?
one of my own reasons for listening to music while in school is that it helps relax me and open my mind to whatever i'm studying at the time. nothing like bach, vivaldi, or some john williams to help you absorb vector calculus.
unless of course the students you're talking about are wearing headphones while in class, which is an entirely different matter. music in your own free time is perfectly healthy diversion.
why would he be pissed? i'm sure he's mature enough to realize that his part wasn't really necessary in the third film, and anyone with common sense knows that these awards are really being given to LOTR for the trilogy as a whole.
12 hours? i get roughly 30 hours of play (at least one hour of non-stop playing everyday for a month) out of my panasonic cd player from the same. this is with 40 seconds of skip protection and bass boosting.
for me, the thing that's most important is that it can play my music uninterrupted, and with decent sound quality. that's why i _still_ use this 3-year old cd player more often than my brand new iRiver mp3/cd player.
Just think that, not that long ago, people used to sit down together and listen to a record and do nothing else. You rarely see anybody do anything like that anymore.
oh, dont worry - there are still people who do that these days. we call them stoners.
the sad thing is, if you applied this to most tv sitcoms you'd get around 5 minutes worth of real viewing material.
they were better because they more closely followed the flow of the manga. the feature-length film compressed everything into a somewhat hard to understand, but beautiful, package. i know a lot of people who fell asleep watching the GitS movie, but loved standalone complex.
because you look like a damn nerd when you go up to a girl and ask for their IP address.
i did that once and got riotous laughter. as for why, i dont know, since we were talking about ferns and mosses at the time.
now this is nice and all, but i hardly think their latest strip is going to endear them to the "games are bad mmmmkay" crowd.
funny strip, though.
why? his role is done so long as the point of the movie is concerned - getting the one ring to mt. doom.
and i'm sure you'll have more than enough "evil forces" with sauron, the witch-king of angmar and the haradrim, etc...
the past few interations of EA Sport's Fifa Soccer games have all had ads - but then again ads are almost as much a part of sports as the players are :P at least they're not quite as obtrusive as TV ads, which are forced upon you. ads in computer games rarely divert your attention from enjoying the game itself. which TV ads so expertly do.
maybe it's not legit if you're not comfortable with the idea of occasional sexual release being a healthy thing?
has Skynet finally gone online?
or a blind person could get someone (say... a friend?) to read it to him. but wait! you can do that with paper books too.
maybe not so useless, then?
This is the second reported incident of Nokia phones exploding, the first one being back in August when a Dutch woman's phone exploded in her hand.
OT: someone set her up the bomb? seriously though, was she seriously injured? what kind of explosion was it? was it just a *poof* and lots of smoke or was it more of a *kaboom* - like a firework? i wouldn't be too worried about the former, but the latter scares the hell out of me. i've seen people who've had fireworks explode in their hands, and it's not pretty. much less what that sort of thing could do to your face/neck...
that's something i *dont* want to see, because then i won't be able to read the books and become boggled by how the cavern is described, or amused by ford turning into a penguin (i really think they'll mess this one up). trying to bend your mind around it is half the fun!
as for the whale... well, what's written is the whale's short-lived and rather tragic contemplations on what's happening to it. it's not even really described how he falls. you're really left to your own devices and reading it gives it much deeper meaning - turning it into a CGI joke (oh it's a whale! it's falling! it's falling! hahah!) will just ruin it, IMO.
oh yeah! he was the one who made a temple of hate for arthur, the statue stomping on ants and swatting flys out of the air. Agrajag was also stavro mueller(sp?) in the destruction of earth, wasn't he? arthur ducked a shot intended for him, and it hit stavro instead. hilarious.
If they and take what they need from the various HHGTTG source material, adding just a dash here and there to get the pieces to mesh - great. But if they start rewriting vast tracts of Douglas's work... hideous.
this is very true. there are too many strange coincidences and long-shots in HHGTTHG (some of them DNA didn't even see until he wrote them!) to be incorporated into the movie... this is a damn shame.
there's one character, i forget his name, whose sole purpose is to die over and over again at the hands of arthur. but DNA doesn't even introduce him until the last few books. and even then all the instances of his death are just plain... weird. or coincidences. you couldn't have seen that his character was planned that way, he just happened - and it's great!
i honestly hope this movie doesn't turn into another "From Hell" or "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".