Oh. I have to be up to date. My wife works in China and I'm in the Philippines and we only see each other once in a while (actually, Chris Burke saw more of her than me this year). Movies and TV shows helps in adding topics to talk about. Initially she tortured me by forcing me to watch "$ex In The City" (arrggghghhh ... my brains are melting!!!) but since then we've been a little wise in selecting shows to watch (I got back at her by making her to watch Battlestar Galactica ... bwahahahahaha). The resulting movie and tv show reviews helps in keeping our skype/webcam appointments interesting. A bit weird though since we don't watch movies together anymore. Like the excellent movie "District 9", she had to go to Hong Kong to watch in a movie house ... and I had to keep my opinions and spoilers to myself since I've watched it 3 days ahead of her.
I've read all of Charlaine Harris books in that series. I'm quite satisfied with the TV version. Although I get really squeamish with the blood drinking scenes and good thing that HBO's schedule is a bit late into the night ... kids asleep. :) The Guild is similar to Dr. Horrible that's it delivered on the web and lead actress is Felicia Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guild -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 1:19 PM To: Chat forum Subject: Re: [Jchat] Heroes (WAS: RE: [Jprogramming] Package manager failure information) Yeah - I'm aware of Dr. Horrible thanks to my daughter (James Patrick Harris is hosting the Emmies). In general I'm happy to be behind the curve - we just got cable last week - because I like to filter what I spend my time on. Also, I like to watch these series in larger chunks - 2 or 3 shows at a time. I read the first four or five books (Charlaine Harris) of the True Blood series but haven't seen the show. "The Guild" I haven't heard of. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Alex Rufon <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Devon, > > You are way behind ... Heroes Season 4 will be starting on September 21st. > ;) I am so excited ... > > In between ... I've been following the HBO Series True Blood. A bit > disgusting though since I faint at the sight+smell of blood and needles (the > only thing stopping me from getting a tattoo). > > Oh, I would recommend the following FREE shows too: > 1. Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog > 2. The Guild > > :) > > r/Alex > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 12:00 PM > To: Programming forum > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Package manager failure information > > Alex - > > thanks for the offer but I've been able to get packages at home and bring > them in to work (btw - just finished watching season 1 of "Heroes" on > Netflix). > > Everyone else - thanks for the good suggestions - I'll try them out as I am > able and let you know. > > Regards, > > Devon > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Alex Rufon <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi Devon, > > > > After reading this, I tried running the package manager on my WindowsXP > > laptop and found out that my xml/sax was out of date. I also asked my > wife > > who's in mainland china and she also got connected properly. > > > > Maybe if you manually download the package catalog first ... > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j602/jal.zip > > > > Worse case is that I can give you an updated copy of J and put it on my > FTP > > site so you can download it. > > > > r/Alex > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Devon McCormick > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 2:43 AM > > To: J-programming forum > > Subject: [Jprogramming] Package manager failure information > > > > Hi Everybody - > > > > In the past, I've been able to use J's Package Manager while at work > thanks > > to Dan's tip about defining and HTTP_PROXY environment variable. > However, > > in recent months it has always failed with a "Connection Error" upon > trying > > to get the catalog from the internet with error message "Unexpected > error", > > which is not very helpful. > > > > Has anyone run into this? Is there any way to get more information about > > why it's failing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Devon > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > ^me^ at acm. > > org is my > > preferred e-mail > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
