From an exchange of emails in fall 2001 between Judd Apatow, the creator of the sitcoms Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and a successful writer of Hollywood screenplays, and Mark Brazill, the creator of That '70s Show. Topher Grace is one of the stars of That '70s Show. Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2002.
This is sort of offtopic, but: My younger sister has never seen any of the movies, but she's aware of a lot of the mythology and stuff. And she was trying to quote the scene where Luke first discovers Leia's recorded message on R2D2, and my sister looked at me very seriously and said, "Help me Yoda, I'm in trouble." That's a true story. Dumb story, but true.
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FOUR WAYS IN WHICH MY LIFE IS JUST LIKE PAC-MAN'S by John Crownover
1. Ever-present wail of sirens 2. Relentlessly pursued by ghosts 3. Four special pills daily keep ghosts at bay 4. Occasionally eat some fruit
You can actually approximate the action of a rotary phone on a touch-tone phone by tapping the "hang-up" button. This is all a rotary phone does anyway. Just tap the number you want to call, leaving spaces to denote a new digit.
For example, to dial "3," tap the button three times really quickly. then pause and enter the next digit. You can dial entire phone numbers this way.
Not useful, but a cool trick for parties. And by "parties," I mean, "groups of nerds who are interested in hacking rotary phones."
lieut data writes: "If you can't observe it, there is no way you can prove it. End-of-story."
To me, this treads danegrously close to the same arguments used in Holocaust Denial. Just because something occured in the past doesn't mean there's no evidence in the present to corroborate or disprove said event.
Michael Shermer gives some excellent incite into these topics, and why "If you can't observe it, you can't disprove it" is a fallicy.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/shermer.htm l
Produced by Steven Lisberger: writter/director of the original movie.
It's a sequel (development title is Tron 2.0)
Lisberger is writing the current (third) draft of the screenplay.
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I wish the New York Jets had a 'nuller' for stopping some technical touchdowns of their own.
Probably the best e-mail exchange ever:
http://www.harpers.org/DontHaveACowMan.html
From an exchange of emails in fall 2001 between Judd Apatow, the creator of the sitcoms Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and a successful writer of Hollywood screenplays, and Mark Brazill, the creator of That '70s Show. Topher Grace is one of the stars of That '70s Show. Originally from Harper's Magazine, March 2002.
As long as next they invent a queen alien so that you can wear the robot suit and say "get away from her, you bitch!"
This is sort of offtopic, but:
My younger sister has never seen any of the movies, but she's aware of a lot of the mythology and stuff. And she was trying to quote the scene where Luke first discovers Leia's recorded message on R2D2, and my sister looked at me very seriously and said, "Help me Yoda, I'm in trouble." That's a true story. Dumb story, but true.
FOUR WAYS IN WHICH MY LIFE IS JUST LIKE PAC-MAN'S
by John Crownover
1. Ever-present wail of sirens
2. Relentlessly pursued by ghosts
3. Four special pills daily keep ghosts at bay
4. Occasionally eat some fruit
(from www.mcsweeneys.net)
Clones are people two.
10 print "clones are people" $d
20 let $d = pun
30 gosub hilarity
"Last night's episode on The Disney Channel, showed how our hero Kim resisted peer pressure to download music without paying for it."
I didn't see it. Anyone have a torrent of it?
The song he hyperlinked was "bjorgen bjorgen fjorgen djorgen," which everyone knows is the best song on the album and the rest is just filler.
Now I can see THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU the way it was meant to be seen.
You can actually approximate the action of a rotary phone on a touch-tone phone by tapping the "hang-up" button. This is all a rotary phone does anyway. Just tap the number you want to call, leaving spaces to denote a new digit.
For example, to dial "3," tap the button three times really quickly. then pause and enter the next digit. You can dial entire phone numbers this way.
Not useful, but a cool trick for parties. And by "parties," I mean, "groups of nerds who are interested in hacking rotary phones."
lieut data writes: "If you can't observe it, there is no way you can prove it. End-of-story."
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To me, this treads danegrously close to the same arguments used in Holocaust Denial. Just because something occured in the past doesn't mean there's no evidence in the present to corroborate or disprove said event.
Michael Shermer gives some excellent incite into these topics, and why "If you can't observe it, you can't disprove it" is a fallicy.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/shermer.ht
Produced by Steven Lisberger: writter/director of the original movie. It's a sequel (development title is Tron 2.0) Lisberger is writing the current (third) draft of the screenplay.