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for those needing my mobile number to find there way to the heretics meeting tonight, this will not be possible as i have left my phone at home - well done me! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
So I watched the Buffy film for the first time, and I don't see what
you're all complaining about - or rather I do, but I don't care.
Sure, the first 40 minutes are a bit painful, and the vampires are a bit
daft, but I can see where we're going. There's even some good banter in
there and some truly excellent backflips by the end - it just takes that
long for Buffy to turn into Buffy (rather than some Cordelia like
creature)
The one thing that gets me is that does anyone remember the trailer for
this film? I seem to remember this bit where Donald Sutherland throws a
knife at Kirsy Swanson and she catches it between two palms in front
of her head. Now I didn't see this in the movie. Does anyone else
remember this?
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web = 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
RE: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
Did you ever see the trailer to 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' (with Steve Martin
and Michael Caine)? It had a wonderful bit where SM casually pushes an old
gran into a river... anyway, that wasn't in the movie, much to my
dissapointment.
My point being that sometimes they make up exciting bits purely for the
trailers. Hmmm, doesn't this count as false advertising?
-Original Message-
From: Mark Fowler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:07 AM
To: London Perl Mongers
Subject: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
So I watched the Buffy film for the first time, and I don't see what
you're all complaining about - or rather I do, but I don't care.
Sure, the first 40 minutes are a bit painful, and the
vampires are a bit
daft, but I can see where we're going. There's even some
good banter in
there and some truly excellent backflips by the end - it just
takes that
long for Buffy to turn into Buffy (rather than some Cordelia like
creature)
The one thing that gets me is that does anyone remember the
trailer for
this film? I seem to remember this bit where Donald
Sutherland throws a
knife at Kirsy Swanson and she catches it between two palms in front
of her head. Now I didn't see this in the movie. Does anyone else
remember this?
Later.
Mark.
--
print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_6);'
'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name = 'Mark Fowler',Title = 'Technology
Developer' ,
Firm = 'Profero Ltd',Web =
'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone = '+44 (0) 20 7700
9960' )
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:20:58AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: sounds like someone needs to buy the DVD and see if it comes with a cinema trailer But, where would one buy DVDs? Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk If I'm feigning coherence and calmness Laugh with me -
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:20:58AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: sounds like someone needs to buy the DVD and see if it comes with a cinema trailer But, where would one buy DVDs? virgin megastores, hmv, wh smith, even woolies has them now the highstreet is a wonderful place ;-) oh and i suppose you could buy them online .. -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:56:30AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But, where would one buy DVDs? virgin megastores, hmv, wh smith, even woolies has them now the highstreet is a wonderful place ;-) oh and i suppose you could buy them online .. I hear that Virgin, HMV and WH Smith all have online shops :-) -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced ** I read encrypted mail first, so encrypt if your message is important ** PGP signature
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
Quoting Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The one thing that gets me is that does anyone remember the trailer for this film? I seem to remember this bit where Donald Sutherland throws a knife at Kirsy Swanson and she catches it between two palms in front of her head. Now I didn't see this in the movie. Does anyone else remember this? This is normal for trailers of movies. I've worked in a cinema when I was a student and was forcefed trailers, so couldn't help but noticing it. Most US comedies have about 10 jokes, all of them in the trailer, and about 8 in the actual movie. ;-) There is a semi-valid reason for it, trailers are edited by different people (apparently highly valued), and usually before the actual movie is edited. Personally I try to avoid trailers and movie reviews, too many spoilers. Cheers, -- Merijn Broeren | 'I want to understand everything. I want to know every- Software Geek | thing and put it all together to see what it means.' | 'Excellent project, it will look very good on your resume.'
Re: de-dupe a filesystem
-Original Message- From: Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone got anything to hand that will spot massive duplications in a filesystem? I've got a whole bunch of servers mirrored to a backup server and it's be nice to identify where entire file trees have been replicated... You could run diff on the checksum files that tripwire makes. You do tripwire your servers don't you? ;) This came up on a list recently, I've never used it but it seems to fit your problem. It looks like a trial version is available http://www.veracity.com/apps_compremote.shtml HTH Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand. --- Anon
Re: TT2 Question
* at 08/02 13:00 -0500 Andy Williams said: I'm installing TT2. The problem. the installation says that I need XML::DOM ver 1.27 installed I've hunted high and low but all I can find is version 1.25! Anyone know where I can get it? libxml-enno is what you want. struan
Re: OT: Buffy (or not OT, depending on your point of view)
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:19:39AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point being that sometimes they make up exciting bits purely for the trailers. Hmmm, doesn't this count as false advertising? Sometimes they do. Hell, there's a great trailer for Monty Python and the Holy Grail which features all kinds of things that were never intended for inclusion in the actual film. On the other hand, often trailers contain scenes that are excised before the movie actually comes out. I just noticed one in the trailer for High Fidelity, and said "hm... that's not in the film", but then saw it in one of the deleted scenes on the dvd. My least favorite example of this was in the trailer for the Al Pacino film Sea of Love - there was a scene in the trailer that raised issues that were what made me really want to see the film... but that stuff didn't actually make it into the film... :-/ dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ When I was a little man/Play-Doh came in a little can/ I was Star Wars' biggest fan/Now I'm stuck without a plan/ G. I. Joe was an Action Man/Shaggy drove the Mystery Van/ Devo was my favorite band/So take me back to my happy land - The Aquabats
Dada Dodo Does Four Char Word Ouli Perl
This'll probably mena nothing to you unless a) you were at the last London.pm technical meeting b) hang around on #london.pm c) are also on ( void ) but, because of sudden but temporary free time yesterday afternoon (Nokia WTLS gateway was down and we couldn't test RC5 connections with our WAP stack in case you care) I knocked up a quick script using Mr Clamp's Algorithm::Markov module, a bit of smoke and mirrors and Burton Egbert Stevenson's 'The Home Book Of Verse, Volume 1' and came up with something that generates poems consisting entirely of four character words. http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/four/
Fwd: SPUG: YAPC::Europe is 8/2-4 in Amsterdam
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SPUGsters,
They've finally announced the details of YAPC Europe, at
http://www.yapc.org/Europe, and there are flights from Seattle
to Amsterdam for as little as $408 today, according to my Yahoo
fare-watching service!
The "Call for Participation" is attached. See you there!
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