[FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip What I'm fascinated by lately are the tech wars, in which Microsoft seems to have been relegated to the position of a minor player (Internet Explorer now has less than 6% of the browser market) Ten times that, around 66 percent, actually. (Typo, probably.)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: Edg will love this. Facebook is trying to fix me up. Today on in the pane that lists your Suggested Friends in its main News Feed window, my #1 Suggested Friend was Traci Lords, former porn star turned mainstream actress (sort of). http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705563104ref=pymk Heads up, Traci stars in tonights Syfy movie Princess of Mars based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs tale. May be a hoot. May be a snore: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531911/ Thanks for the heads-up. I've never seen any of Traci Lords' old pornos, only her mainstream stuff. That didn't inspire me to want to see her...uh... other talents. But I'll give this flick a shot because I always love to see what Hollywood does with Edgar Rice Burroughs. I watched a little of it since Syfy HD on Comcast is the east coast feed so it was on a 6 PM PDT. Looked like pretty dreadful Asylum schlock. They're a small studio that makes z-movies and some can be a little fun as they often don't take themselves that seriously. I'm wondering it they bought a couple of Red Scarlet cameras from their Syfy work. That camera was supposed to be about a $3K pocket camera for consumers but wound up being Red's prosumer camera and under $10K. I say that because the footage looked like it might be from a Red camera. I also noted that one of your local productions Rec 2 was available on Vudu as well as Comcast OnDemand. But the price is a bit steep and I suspect it will drop to $8 once it hits the 10 or so theaters in the US it will be playing in. Vudu doesn't do trailers but plays the first few minutes of the film for you and it looks very intriguing and the PQ was great. So instead I opted for The Messengers starring Fairfield's Ben Foster who is an excellent actor. I had to pick up my socks after watching this film as it was one of the best films I've seen over the last year and gave it 5 stars on Netflix. It's available for anyone with Netflix on their computer or TV (as well as Bluray or DVD). I watched it in HD on my TV and the picture quality was great. Costars Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Steve Buscemi. BTW, just got a new desktop computer to replace the one I've been using for video editing and some development for years. The new one is an Acer Asprice MX3300 with 6 GB of RAM, 1 TB hard drive, AMD 64-bit 4 core processor, ATI HD3200 graphics chipset, Windows 7. The thing screams. I'm very happy with my Acer laptop. Even though I bought it because of the low power consumption chipset, and thus the ability to sit at cafes for up to eight hours without a recharge, it too just *screams* performance-wise. Them Chinese know how to build a computer. Yup, I'm getting spoiled now with the new machine as this Linux box now seems sluggish but that will get fixed soon as I'll build a new one with multi cores, more hard drive, etc. I won't buy one off the shelf because of the Microsoft tax for those. It was okay for my uses of the new machine. In fact the prices of Bluray burners (~$200) and discs (~$1 apiece) I may put one in the new machine's bay. What I'm fascinated by lately are the tech wars, in which Microsoft seems to have been relegated to the position of a minor player (Internet Explorer now has less than 6% of the browser market), and the major players are Google and Apple. Both of the latter, while arguably engaged in an ego-battle that resembles a soap opera more than it does business, are positioning themselves to displace Windoze from its position as the OS du jour on the planet. I'll be interested to see what happens when Android becomes available as a laptop and desktop OS. And the other day I saved a link to an article about how to install Mac OSX on a store-bought PC. Just for fun, I might actually buy a $200 PC and give it a try. I suspect you haven't set it up yet. If it doesn't work you'll have a great machine for Linux. I would recommend the Linux Mint distro since you can get multi media stuff that isn't readily available on Ubuntu. But as you know you can download a number of distros and try them out. I often put them on USB sticks where they are persistent with instructions from www.pendrivelinux.com and boot off them. Apple is in full war mode and must be spending a bundle to try to keep their advantage in the gadgets market. I still maintain they would have about half the desktop market if Jobs when he took over running the company again in the late 1990s stopped allowing third party companies to make machines that ran the Mac OS. I once had a headhunter suggest that I submit my resume to Pixar due to my software background and interest in video but I had no interest of working with Steve Jobs. And Pixar would not be a bad commute from where I live.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: TurquoiseB wrote: Edg will love this. Facebook is trying to fix me up. Today on in the pane that lists your Suggested Friends in its main News Feed window, my #1 Suggested Friend was Traci Lords, former porn star turned mainstream actress (sort of). http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705563104ref=pymk Heads up, Traci stars in tonights Syfy movie Princess of Mars based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs tale. May be a hoot. May be a snore: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531911/ Thanks for the heads-up. I've never seen any of Traci Lords' old pornos, only her mainstream stuff. That didn't inspire me to want to see her...uh... other talents. But I'll give this flick a shot because I always love to see what Hollywood does with Edgar Rice Burroughs. BTW, just got a new desktop computer to replace the one I've been using for video editing and some development for years. The new one is an Acer Asprice MX3300 with 6 GB of RAM, 1 TB hard drive, AMD 64-bit 4 core processor, ATI HD3200 graphics chipset, Windows 7. The thing screams. I'm very happy with my Acer laptop. Even though I bought it because of the low power consumption chipset, and thus the ability to sit at cafes for up to eight hours without a recharge, it too just *screams* performance-wise. Them Chinese know how to build a computer. What I'm fascinated by lately are the tech wars, in which Microsoft seems to have been relegated to the position of a minor player (Internet Explorer now has less than 6% of the browser market), and the major players are Google and Apple. Both of the latter, while arguably engaged in an ego-battle that resembles a soap opera more than it does business, are positioning themselves to displace Windoze from its position as the OS du jour on the planet. I'll be interested to see what happens when Android becomes available as a laptop and desktop OS. And the other day I saved a link to an article about how to install Mac OSX on a store-bought PC. Just for fun, I might actually buy a $200 PC and give it a try.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Edg will love this. Facebook is trying to fix me up. Today in the pane that lists your Suggested Friends in its main News Feed window, my #1 Suggested Friend was Traci Lords, former porn star turned mainstream actress (sort of). http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705563104ref=pymk http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705563104ref=pymk My second suggested Friend was this babe: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100...000156387146ref=pymk H. I obviously messed up the second link. It should have been: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10156387146ref=pymk http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10156387146ref=pymk Attractive woman, actually. Japanese, which I have a profound weakness for. Traci Lords seems to be married, and she's not exactly my type, but a Japanese pole dancer? Whatever weird AI runs the Suggested Friends thang on Facebook, at least it's doing better than it did with the plethora of Indian women it was trying to fix me up with a few days ago. Since I seem to be pissing my last posts of the week away on cybertrivia (which you have to admit is better than what some people piss them away on), here are a few other things that have caught my eye recently. First, a separated at birth set of photos comparing Pope Benedict to the Dark Sith Lord Emperor: [http://www.keek.fr/uploads/Image/benito.jpg] Second, and continuing the poke the prudes theme, a little advice on homophobia from Gandalf: [http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3cnkvAgdA1qzktcho1_500.jpg] And finally, a little compassionate advice on how to handle anger. Not quite as Buddhist as portrayed, but effective. Especially if the angry person is a tad...uh...overweight and used to slinging their weight around. :-) [http://honjii.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/buddhist-advice-on-anger2.jpg\ ] :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace
I take it the suggestion was not made because you and Traci have mutual friends. Once in a while, I get a suggestion where there are no mutual friends, but most suggestions are ones with mutual friends. It look like the second tier of suggestions is those who share an interest. Like if I am in a bunch of Amma groups/pages, then Facebook sends suggestions of other Amma people. In case you have not already come across the link below. :) http://videos.apnicommunity.com/Video,Item,1211661717.html Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Thu, 6/3/10, TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: TurquoiseB no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Weird and charming stuff from cyberspace To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 3:22 AM --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Edg will love this. Facebook is trying to fix me up. Today in the pane that lists your Suggested Friends in its main News Feed window, my #1 Suggested Friend was Traci Lords, former porn star turned mainstream actress (sort of). http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705563104ref=pymk My second suggested Friend was this babe: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100...000156387146ref=pymk H. I obviously messed up the second link. It should have been: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10156387146ref=pymk Attractive woman, actually. Japanese, which I have a profound weakness for. Traci Lords seems to be married, and she's not exactly my type, but a Japanese pole dancer? Whatever weird AI runs the Suggested Friends thang on Facebook, at least it's doing better than it did with the plethora of Indian women it was trying to fix me up with a few days ago. Since I seem to be pissing my last posts of the week away on cybertrivia (which you have to admit is better than what some people piss them away on), here are a few other things that have caught my eye recently. First, a separated at birth set of photos comparing Pope Benedict to the Dark Sith Lord Emperor: Second, and continuing the poke the prudes theme, a little advice on homophobia from Gandalf: And finally, a little compassionate advice on how to handle anger. Not quite as Buddhist as portrayed, but effective. Especially if the angry person is a tad...uh...overweight and used to slinging their weight around. :-) :-)
