On the flip side, BMI IS an excellent predicter of marathon times. (and I've never been anything other than a ploddingly slow runner) If you want speed in the marathon, pull some faces at the traffic cops as you pass them, It works every time.
I assume that the top 100 film list you are referring to is the AFI list (American Film Institute).
Ignore them. Their work is ignorant garbage. When they published their first list it (or at least the first one I read) there were TWO non-American films on it (IIRC so +/- 2) The AFI is an MPAA sales group and have absolutely no idea of what has cultural and entertainment value. Hope that explains your 2001 omission.
On another topic, RIP Mr. Clarke, I hope when I get to heaven I'll get to read the new works that you, Asimov, and Wells (with perhaps a little sex and dialogue from Heinlein) will hopefully have written.
In my defense I was only quoting the book, my knowledge of Lenin's rise to power is a little too sketchy to debate this, I'll take your word for Lenin's response, subject to my further study of course.
It just struck me (as a teenager when I first read it) as a powerful passage in the book, and it came to mind when I read my parent post on throwing literature.
Thanks for you response, I guess I should read up my on my Russian history again.
We should post great book throwing incidents here.
"On 8 May the five who had been condemned to death were hanged. One of them managed to shout from the scaffold 'Long live the People's Will!' Among the executed was Alexander Ulyanov. His family lived in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), where his father, until his death the previous year, had held the post of superintendent of the elementary schools in the province. Alexander's younger brother, Vladimir, learned the news of the execution from a newspaper. It is reported that the seventeen-year-old boy whom the world was eventually to know under the assumed name of Lenin, flung the sheet aside and exclaimed: 'I swear I will revenge myself on them!' - Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Alright not strictly a book but a 'writing' throwing incident. Pity it all went wrong though.
I have a prob with a naaty 32 year-old at work. She (rumour has it) just got out of a looooong relationship, he had fun and ditched her to get married, and she is single, 32, and lives at home (with a sh*tbox car). She would dig out looking from trouble for me once she realized I didn't know how to tell someone how to 'piss off' in non-offensive office speak.
I finally figured out how to deflirt her, she's not the brightest crayon in the box and when comes into my cubicle acting flirty I tell her a joke. If she understands it she has to laugh and it just breaks her behaviour, and if she doesn't, which is often, she clams up and gets defensive because her pride won't let her let me know that I know she's dumb.
At least, as far as the present phycological arms race goes, I've got the upper hand. But it was hell for not a short while, how in hell does one deal with 'difficult' people?
Seriously, I worked my ass off to pass calculus and thermo exams, and some guy does this? I suppose you either give him the highest award or take the public relations blow when it comes out that you allowed that 'study' in your university.
Think I'm a troll? If this happened in America people would be screaming about the failing quality of American educational standards.
The famous English author Rudyard Kipling wrote about a [paraphrase] "great collapse of the mind at the age of 25", I'ms sorry I don't remember which book. I used to listen to the radio and repeat it, can't do that anymore. Mathematicians note the same thing, much of their best work is done under the age of 25, after that it's elbow grease that succeeds, or so I've read.
But at 21 you're probably just really out of practice, and I was never smart enough to be a mathematician.
Its not the woofer blasting in your ears as I understood it to be. It's that it is cooking them alive like a microwave.
/The real test our species will face is not if we treat each other honourable but how we protect the undefended, the animals. And we're failinjg it horribly.
I'm Christian and believe that evolution happened. There are a few of us about, more than you'd think. But I do agree, the vocal minority, the nutcases in the far south have got it coming. They will go when the democrats get in (I hope).
I just mentioned the "explicit content" thing as one more widget which I don't use.
iTunes is an excellent program and I recommend to people to buy the iPod.mp3 player simply because the software which comes with it is as important as the hardware, and the software is top-notch.
If computer programs were entirely customizable - kind of like the Firefox extensions, then I would be in heaven. As it is iTunes is excellent, but it'd be nice to see it boot faster by being able to uninstall all the unused options.
You're right, ipodder boots ridiculously slowly but iTunes does not recognize my old podcasts as being podcasts so I'm not going to switch anytime soon.
it's a crappy CD ripper, doesn't tag the files properly, or put them in an acceptable directory (I use CDex, it's amazing). Also it indexes quicktime videos but nothing else. It podcasts. I use ipodder (this covers at least 5 complaints), checks for new updates automatically unless you uncheck it, has a store which is really annoying when you display it (you have to see it if you use their podcasting plugin, hence ipodder), it has an option to restrict the explicit content, has that whole "keep iTunes folder organized" thing which will really mess things up if you accidently check it, Option to make itself the default player for its accepted media. Doesn't boot up fast enough (though it is pretty good), Crossfade playback, eats CPU Has to tell you everytime the iPod syncs up that it can't copy the contacts since Outlook is not running.
That's off the top of my head. I use iTunes (winamp, zoom player, and VLC) but there's some things I wish it did and didn't. I liked the original comment but also your comment too, it demanded some kind of measureable evidence be brought into the argument, a necessity which is never thought of in most arguments.
There must be other decent media players out there with less invasive and more efficient interfaces but I doubt it, if iTunes is not the best it certainly is one of the best out there.
Finally, another voice of reason:-) The guy I know over here who watched the series simultaineously with me simply stopped watching it, it just doesn't cut it even though it should.
That Bad Wolf ending was horrible and pathetic. Bringing in a super-powered human to solve all the problems is a pathetic and amateurish stunt which never works. The whole thing was just such a let-down from Weakest link onwards...
Best WWII Zombies, but I also though The Long Game and Dalek were worth watching; the rest: rubbish.
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That Brick Testament is one of the best (and funniest) things I've seen this year, at least. Great Link:D
Ignore them. Their work is ignorant garbage. When they published their first list it (or at least the first one I read) there were TWO non-American films on it (IIRC so +/- 2) The AFI is an MPAA sales group and have absolutely no idea of what has cultural and entertainment value. Hope that explains your 2001 omission.
On another topic, RIP Mr. Clarke, I hope when I get to heaven I'll get to read the new works that you, Asimov, and Wells (with perhaps a little sex and dialogue from Heinlein) will hopefully have written.
/Great monolith in the sky.
Best site on the internets. Thanks for the link
It just struck me (as a teenager when I first read it) as a powerful passage in the book, and it came to mind when I read my parent post on throwing literature.
Thanks for you response, I guess I should read up my on my Russian history again.
Alright not strictly a book but a 'writing' throwing incident. Pity it all went wrong though.
Dude, you shouldn't use words like "frakked".
Imagine an office where I can't expose people to the happy sound of elephants trumpeting every time I boot my PC?
I finally figured out how to deflirt her, she's not the brightest crayon in the box and when comes into my cubicle acting flirty I tell her a joke. If she understands it she has to laugh and it just breaks her behaviour, and if she doesn't, which is often, she clams up and gets defensive because her pride won't let her let me know that I know she's dumb.
At least, as far as the present phycological arms race goes, I've got the upper hand. But it was hell for not a short while, how in hell does one deal with 'difficult' people?
/Am trying for a new job but for other reasons.
But I light your answer as well, I hadn't heard that one:-)
Seriously, I worked my ass off to pass calculus and thermo exams, and some guy does this? I suppose you either give him the highest award or take the public relations blow when it comes out that you allowed that 'study' in your university.
Think I'm a troll? If this happened in America people would be screaming about the failing quality of American educational standards.
I've wanted to hear that kind of sound for years:-DDD
You can mix, burn, and create your own cds in record shops with whatever music you want on them...in Asia and India.
And I hope you use Google as well.
But at 21 you're probably just really out of practice, and I was never smart enough to be a mathematician.
/The real test our species will face is not if we treat each other honourable but how we protect the undefended, the animals. And we're failinjg it horribly.
I'm Christian and believe that evolution happened. There are a few of us about, more than you'd think. But I do agree, the vocal minority, the nutcases in the far south have got it coming. They will go when the democrats get in (I hope).
iTunes is an excellent program and I recommend to people to buy the iPod .mp3 player simply because the software which comes with it is as important as the hardware, and the software is top-notch.
If computer programs were entirely customizable - kind of like the Firefox extensions, then I would be in heaven. As it is iTunes is excellent, but it'd be nice to see it boot faster by being able to uninstall all the unused options.
You're right, ipodder boots ridiculously slowly but iTunes does not recognize my old podcasts as being podcasts so I'm not going to switch anytime soon.
That's off the top of my head. I use iTunes (winamp, zoom player, and VLC) but there's some things I wish it did and didn't. I liked the original comment but also your comment too, it demanded some kind of measureable evidence be brought into the argument, a necessity which is never thought of in most arguments.
There must be other decent media players out there with less invasive and more efficient interfaces but I doubt it, if iTunes is not the best it certainly is one of the best out there.
That Bad Wolf ending was horrible and pathetic. Bringing in a super-powered human to solve all the problems is a pathetic and amateurish stunt which never works. The whole thing was just such a let-down from Weakest link onwards...
Best WWII Zombies, but I also though The Long Game and Dalek were worth watching; the rest: rubbish.
Witty, sexy, and full of knowledge about great drinks as well!
But enough about me, thanks for the podcast tip.
I always chat up the salesperson so I know it's costing them something and I'm not being totally fleeced.
At one company I worked at
when the 3 month period came,
you changed your password thrice
and kept it just the same.
Nice quote, I'll have to send the integral around to pick you up.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/
No CBC link right now.