Howell
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Liam, I'm not letting you trim my nosehair. Trust between internet friends only goes so far. 
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ddrueding
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You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose...
udaman
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An inconvenient truth part deux...It's good to be a corporate bigwig, even in the midst of the most severe recession (won't recovery by some current estimates until at least 2013) since the great depression:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/feb/11/city-lights-2/
take a alook at the bottom page to see list of some of the rich people of San Diego, mere tip of the iceberg.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/feb/11/city-lights-2/
take a alook at the bottom page to see list of some of the rich people of San Diego, mere tip of the iceberg.
Stereodude
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I've got news for you... The aviation industry employs a lot of people. Corporations buying and using private jets keeps a lot people working. That's apparently bad, but big wasteful and unnecessary public works projects pushed by the gov't to employ people are apparently ok.
Why do the #1 wasters of taxpayer money (Congress) get to sit around and lecture other people about wasting the taxpayers money? Congresspeople have no problem flying themselves around on expensive junkets in private jets at taxpayer expense.
The attack on capitalism and success by the President and his team in congress really needs to stop.
Why do the #1 wasters of taxpayer money (Congress) get to sit around and lecture other people about wasting the taxpayers money? Congresspeople have no problem flying themselves around on expensive junkets in private jets at taxpayer expense.
The attack on capitalism and success by the President and his team in congress really needs to stop.
ddrueding
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This is why I don't like this half-assed nationalization stuff. Either it is a private company and they can do whatever the hell they (and their board/investors) want, or it isn't and they can't. This whole "they can but they shouldn't" BS is just annoying.
ddrueding
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I think this video is pretty darn awesome. I haven't seen this effect before, it appears almost stop-motion/cartoon-ish. The rest of his stuff is great as well.
Stereodude
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It appears to be time lapse combined with this technique.
Maybe if one asks nicely?
ddrueding
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"Well, OK, but just this once..."
Yeah those are fun. I had seen video #6 "Helpless" but not the one you linked to. It looks like a fun project to try.
Liam, I'm not letting you trim my nosehair. Trust between internet friends only goes so far.
It's not me you have to worry about.
As I said to my kids the other day when they commented on me eating oysters. "You think this is gross, but you're happy eating snot?" They just laughed...
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I went to the opera today.
Well, not really. But something close to that.
The movie theater in my town set aside a theater for this afternoon to do a live telecast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. So for $22, instead of the ~$150 it cost the last time I went into Chicago to see a Lyric Opera production, I got to see a $10,000,000 production of Madame Butterfly.
I had been planning to see Watchmen, but I'm certain I made the right choice. The performances were astonishing. It's difficult, in an opera house, to see every detail of the actors' faces, but the sound and cinematography were both first rate, and I got to see professionals working in a way I never have before.
I don't know if anybody else lives near a movie theater that participates in this program, but having been once I can only say I plan on making as many future telecasts as I can.
And I guess I'll catch Watchmen tomorrow.
Well, not really. But something close to that.
The movie theater in my town set aside a theater for this afternoon to do a live telecast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. So for $22, instead of the ~$150 it cost the last time I went into Chicago to see a Lyric Opera production, I got to see a $10,000,000 production of Madame Butterfly.
I had been planning to see Watchmen, but I'm certain I made the right choice. The performances were astonishing. It's difficult, in an opera house, to see every detail of the actors' faces, but the sound and cinematography were both first rate, and I got to see professionals working in a way I never have before.
I don't know if anybody else lives near a movie theater that participates in this program, but having been once I can only say I plan on making as many future telecasts as I can.
And I guess I'll catch Watchmen tomorrow.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Watchmen was an exceedingly faithful translation from the comics to the big screen. The only weak point for me is Silk Spectre's acting. Rorschach is brilliantly psychotic and the Comedian is an utterly charming asshole.
I've seen it twice already.
I got a great big old kick out of the showing where some mid-20-ish mommy had her three little kids in this R-rated movie that shows JFK's brains being splattered all over in the opening credits, get all huffy and leave when it became obvious that Doctor Manhattan's uncircumsized love muscle wasn't going to be covered up or censored.
The scoring is awful. The director obviously didn't give a rat's ass about music. There was some forgettable pop crap, and all the instrumentals were Philip Glass music used in other movies. The muzak version of "Everybody Wants to Rule The World" playing in the scene that introduces Veidt is a nice touch, though.
Anyway, if you've read the book, they recreated individual panels of the comic in excruciating detail, though at times details pass by so quickly that you'll miss them.
I've seen it twice already.
I got a great big old kick out of the showing where some mid-20-ish mommy had her three little kids in this R-rated movie that shows JFK's brains being splattered all over in the opening credits, get all huffy and leave when it became obvious that Doctor Manhattan's uncircumsized love muscle wasn't going to be covered up or censored.
The scoring is awful. The director obviously didn't give a rat's ass about music. There was some forgettable pop crap, and all the instrumentals were Philip Glass music used in other movies. The muzak version of "Everybody Wants to Rule The World" playing in the scene that introduces Veidt is a nice touch, though.
Anyway, if you've read the book, they recreated individual panels of the comic in excruciating detail, though at times details pass by so quickly that you'll miss them.
udaman
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I can't watch any movie more than once a year at best, even my all time favorites. 2001 A Space Odyssey, no more than once a year...better once every 2 or more?
BSG is in final season, no response from Merc?
Uh, while Ming Na is cute, not another installment of a Stargate series:
http://scifiwire.com/2009/02/lou-diamond-phillips-ming-na-join-stargate-universe-cast.php
OMFG, look to the right column ^^^ twitter is infecting society faster than any Winblows virus! Consequences will be devastating....I predict
udaman
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So I had a free dinner (oh the hangover, I'm too old to party like a rock star these days, totally out of shape...only 4.5 bottles for all of us, and I had a headache the next morning :drinka at my usual haunt...1st time in over 1/2yr though, economy is going to put lots of restaurants out of business...some high-end restaurants have folded in Las Vegas after just a few years.
Somewhere I posted a link here to the 'internet' movie she had a part in, seems even with decent funding, it did not happen? Season 2 coming soon, wtf happened to season 1???
http://www.thescarycity.com/comingsoon.jsp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252336/
I barely recognize her in these photos from PR for a play she did locally last month (I didn't know about it):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3033568/mediaindex
Funny, in person, her eyes look much rounder for some reason. She came into the restaurant with her sister really late around 10PM (guess neither of them needed to be up early...unless they have sleep deprivation habits like our dd ). Funny too, she doesn't look much like her sister, or maybe I should say her sister looks more classically Japanese, had pasty white skin, you'd never think they were related...go figure.
Voices are different tone, they both speak English relatively fluently, but their speech patterns seem different too. Then I looked at the one 'cleavage' image, and see--- I guess she must tan easily, while her sister stays out of the sun...maybe tanning bed and plastic surgery explains the differences ??
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1738053376/nm3033568
But really, she doesn't look like that in ^^^ person, do you think she could play a teenager of 5ft tall? She's really 28, soon to be 29...wish I looked better in person than my captured image
Food was great, but I'm getting too fat to fit most of my pants now, need to lose some weight fast!
at my usual haunt...1st time in over 1/2yr though, economy is going to put lots of restaurants out of business...some high-end restaurants have folded in Las Vegas after just a few years.Somewhere I posted a link here to the 'internet' movie she had a part in, seems even with decent funding, it did not happen? Season 2 coming soon, wtf happened to season 1???
http://www.thescarycity.com/comingsoon.jsp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252336/
I barely recognize her in these photos from PR for a play she did locally last month (I didn't know about it):
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3033568/mediaindex
Funny, in person, her eyes look much rounder for some reason. She came into the restaurant with her sister really late around 10PM (guess neither of them needed to be up early...unless they have sleep deprivation habits like our dd
). Funny too, she doesn't look much like her sister, or maybe I should say her sister looks more classically Japanese, had pasty white skin, you'd never think they were related...go figure.Voices are different tone, they both speak English relatively fluently, but their speech patterns seem different too. Then I looked at the one 'cleavage' image, and see--- I guess she must tan easily, while her sister stays out of the sun...maybe tanning bed and plastic surgery explains the differences
?? http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1738053376/nm3033568
But really, she doesn't look like that in ^^^ person, do you think she could play a teenager of 5ft tall? She's really 28, soon to be 29...wish I looked better in person than my captured image
Food was great, but I'm getting too fat to fit most of my pants now, need to lose some weight fast!
paugie
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just to say I will be attempting, on 54 year old knees, to climb a mountain over this weekend
if I don't survive, I'll ask my son to post something here. heh-heh
will be bringing the Pentax, maybe post a ho-hum landscape in the appropriate thread
if I don't survive, I'll ask my son to post something here. heh-heh
will be bringing the Pentax, maybe post a ho-hum landscape in the appropriate thread
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Fatwah on Western Digital
paugie, you live on a tropical southeast Asian island.
I live in a place where, if I leave windows open, I get a 5mm coating of soot on every horizontal surface.
I live in a place where, if I leave windows open, I get a 5mm coating of soot on every horizontal surface.
paugie
Storage is cool
whoa, where does the soot come from?
here, in the summer, which we are entering and will last until august, our problem is dust which settles quite thickly on every surface, not only horizontal.
most Filipinos (except street dwellers) take a shower/bath or two a day due to the normal hot temperature and suspended particulates in most of urban lowlands.
The other season we have is called the wet season. During that time, we have monsoon rains and typhoons.
here, in the summer, which we are entering and will last until august, our problem is dust which settles quite thickly on every surface, not only horizontal.
most Filipinos (except street dwellers) take a shower/bath or two a day due to the normal hot temperature and suspended particulates in most of urban lowlands.
The other season we have is called the wet season. During that time, we have monsoon rains and typhoons.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Industrial effluent. Five of the largest steel mills in the United States are within 10 miles of my apartment. They skirt environmental regulations by releasing the majority of their airborne waste at night.
Anyway, I'm sure that your ho-hum landscape would be a huge step up from what it is I get to look at.
Howell
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Meh. I suspect they're one of the many, many sites that have been hit with that javascript/Acrobat advertising network exploits recently. People have been infected from ads served off CNN and Fark.com recently, too.
ddrueding
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Ended up driving over 300 miles today in my old car. Bleh.
Today in early celebration of St Patty's day there was a fund-raising race event in Hartford CT that I ran a 5K (3.1 miles) with a few of my friends. No records broken, but I was able to complete my first-ever road race in 34:46 as the official time, but was probably a minute less because it took a while to get to the start line. It went by much faster than expected and I felt great afterward and would recommend it to anyone.
ddrueding
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First sailboat race of the season was today, we did incredibly poorly (off the winning pace by 20%+). Perhaps it was that we hadn't taken the boat out or done any maintenance during the off-season.
Sunburned and thoroughly exhausted, but I had a good time.
Sunburned and thoroughly exhausted, but I had a good time.
Howell
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But many of which you passed. Good job!
paugie
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Hike up Mount Pulag
I'm back. And really glad.
Wasn't able to take pix to speak of, it was raining most of the time we were there. And it was really cold (for us) maybe 11 degrees centigrade. If one is used to 28 degrees or higher, that's quite a temp to get accustomed to.
If it wasn't drizzling, one could see the mist coming down. When we went for the peak, it was an hour and a half hike in the rain. Left at 4p.m., got there at 5:15, left at 5:25 and got back to our tents around 7p.m. It was dark the last 45 minutes and were using flash lights and lamps to illuminate our way.
Very memorable, but I don't think I'll be doing it again. At least, not in that kind of weather. But it's all screwed up now, it's raining here in Manila when we should be having sunshine, sunshine and unbearable heat and humidity.
Look up the place I went to in this link. Somebody else's adventure. Sorry, lots of pictures but it's what I went through. They had good weather, we didn't. If we had the weather they did, I'd maybe taken more pictures than them.
http://mountpulagadventures.blogspot.com
BTW, this pic I took shows where rainforests have been cut down to make way for vegetable gardens.
I'm back. And really glad.
Wasn't able to take pix to speak of, it was raining most of the time we were there. And it was really cold (for us) maybe 11 degrees centigrade. If one is used to 28 degrees or higher, that's quite a temp to get accustomed to.
If it wasn't drizzling, one could see the mist coming down. When we went for the peak, it was an hour and a half hike in the rain. Left at 4p.m., got there at 5:15, left at 5:25 and got back to our tents around 7p.m. It was dark the last 45 minutes and were using flash lights and lamps to illuminate our way.
Very memorable, but I don't think I'll be doing it again. At least, not in that kind of weather. But it's all screwed up now, it's raining here in Manila when we should be having sunshine, sunshine and unbearable heat and humidity.
Look up the place I went to in this link. Somebody else's adventure. Sorry, lots of pictures but it's what I went through. They had good weather, we didn't. If we had the weather they did, I'd maybe taken more pictures than them.
http://mountpulagadventures.blogspot.com
BTW, this pic I took shows where rainforests have been cut down to make way for vegetable gardens.
paugie
Storage is cool
Yes, thank you, Handruin.
Your 5K is great. I have not had one since 1988. Been quite sedentary ever since.
My friend who was acting as team leader was waking us up at 5:45 yesterday morning, "Get up, let's have breakfast, clean up and break camp. We've got a 3 hour walk down the mountain and a 10km bumpy ride down to town. If we don't get cracking, we'll miss the bus home and have to stay another day and we can't afford it, blah-blah"
Still in my tent, I said, "Give a guy a break. He's been slumming around having a nice time of his life, then you get him hiking in the mountains for 6 hours in one day. And you expect him to get up just because you say so?"
"Why, you complaining?"
"Nope, bragging!"
Frankly, I was still ok until this morning, even after the overnight bus trip home. But now, I feel like a truck mowed me down. I'm taking 2 paracetamols and going to bed.
Your 5K is great. I have not had one since 1988. Been quite sedentary ever since.
My friend who was acting as team leader was waking us up at 5:45 yesterday morning, "Get up, let's have breakfast, clean up and break camp. We've got a 3 hour walk down the mountain and a 10km bumpy ride down to town. If we don't get cracking, we'll miss the bus home and have to stay another day and we can't afford it, blah-blah"
Still in my tent, I said, "Give a guy a break. He's been slumming around having a nice time of his life, then you get him hiking in the mountains for 6 hours in one day. And you expect him to get up just because you say so?"
"Why, you complaining?"
"Nope, bragging!"
Frankly, I was still ok until this morning, even after the overnight bus trip home. But now, I feel like a truck mowed me down. I'm taking 2 paracetamols and going to bed.
ddrueding
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Yup, that is why I switched from 4-day to 3-day trips. Day 4 always hurt a lot, and it is better to be home when that happens.
udaman
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29760888/
Gold digger...maybe?
incroyable
Speechless?!?! Makes Paris *almost* seem palatable... almost (nearly impossible) Well I suppose given his estimated net worth of $300M+, he can afford to marry another 2 of these women before he even has to start worrying/breaking a sweat...cool under fire! Tis good to be fabulously wealthy!
Obama is on Jay Leno (Tonight show) tonight, good humor.
Gold digger...maybe?
incroyable
Speechless?!?! Makes Paris *almost* seem palatable... almost (nearly impossible)
Well I suppose given his estimated net worth of $300M+, he can afford to marry another 2 of these women before he even has to start worrying/breaking a sweat...cool under fire! Tis good to be fabulously wealthy!Obama is on Jay Leno (Tonight show) tonight, good humor.
udaman
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Darn, I forgot to bid by the deadline
http://www.canonrumors.com/category/photography/canon-500d/
@750K the reserve was not met.
Ah well, might as well get the 2009 model with an additional 100hp and only $600k. Heh, probably can beat Shaq's early version.
LMAO, Q & A at bottom of listing...what kind of mileage does it get.
A: 20mpg with a 34 gal. tank you could get 680mi @70-75mph...sure, as long as you don't mind the body skirt disintegrating along the way, it looks like it's only about 2in off the road surface. No typical public roadways could be driven without pot holes destroying that part of the car.
http://www.canonrumors.com/category/photography/canon-500d/
@750K the reserve was not met.
Ah well, might as well get the 2009 model with an additional 100hp and only $600k. Heh, probably can beat Shaq's early version.
LMAO, Q & A at bottom of listing...what kind of mileage does it get.
A: 20mpg with a 34 gal. tank you could get 680mi @70-75mph...sure, as long as you don't mind the body skirt disintegrating along the way, it looks like it's only about 2in off the road surface. No typical public roadways could be driven without pot holes destroying that part of the car.
ddrueding
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I think that is the wrong link, uda.