Re: [scifinoir2] Oscar Pre Show

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
Thanks for the send, Justin! I'll listen to it later and comment. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Justin Mohareb justinmoha...@gmail.comwrote: Ladies n' Gentlemen; I present to ya the latest episode of Squideye and The Bitter Guy, a pre-Oscar show.

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
Of those occupations offered, I'd be either that or a telegraph operator, rave. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060 Eye would have made an excellent Lector. ~rave!

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
When I start out writing, it's pencil and paper, as I have since I started writing at age 10. I do have voice-rec software (Naturally Speaking, which I recommend highly), which I use to transfer the work to computer. I wouldn't trust anything with the M$ brand on it if the lives of everyone I hold

Re: [scifinoir2] Alice in Wonderland does $41 million on Friday

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
No rave given to Alice from me, rave. I've been seeing the trailers for close to a year, and I still can't generate a single compelling reason to see Alice. In all honesty, I must say the same about Brooklyn's Finest as well, though I'm more likely to catch it than Alice. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
I learned my lesson on that a couple of times over. I am going to pick up naturally speaking today. I also need a better way to do backups. I have a lot of music files that I want to backup and they take up about 20gigs or more. I have a double sided dual layer disk recorder but that only can

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Tracy Curtis
I saw some slightly advanced typesetting once on a newspaper tour. It made me appreciate the inky fingers from reading the paper. At least one of my friends gets milk delivery now. That place is doing great business. If I could do any one of those, I'd want to be a lector, though I doubt they

Re: [scifinoir2] Alice in Wonderland does $41 million on Friday

2010-03-07 Thread Mike Street
Wow that is a huge number On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: No rave given to Alice from me, rave. I've been seeing the trailers for close to a year, and I still can't generate a single compelling reason to see Alice. In all honesty, I must say the

Re: [scifinoir2] Alice in Wonderland does $41 million on Friday

2010-03-07 Thread Adrianne Brennan
Saw it in 3D IMAX and LOVED it. Nice to see a good, strong heroine as a main char for once. It doesn't happen often enough. ~ Where love and magic meet ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
They could rehire the lectors in libraries to tell stories to kids. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Of those occupations offered, I'd be either that or a telegraph operator, rave. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote:

[scifinoir2] Re: Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Kelwyn
This is a lovely idea. And, if we were in a kinder, gentler country, this is what would be done with stimulus money. My children are both highly successful (one in college, one about to go) and I didn't use flash cards or have them commit times tables to memory. I read to them in the womb; I

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
I don't think there's room. Most storytelling is done by librarians themselves, or by people who already do storytelling. Here in Atlanta, there's a big storytelling legacy from the griot tradition, former slave traditions, etc. There are lots of festivals and locations in the area where old

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
Why not just buy a networked hard drive and use it for storage? I'm having to completely upgrade my home IT infrastructure, for fun and to help me bone up on the latest IT tech I need to stay employed. In the past I've used my personal server to store files, using two drives for a RAID setup

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
Sorry, this one cost about $260.00. - Original Message - From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 1:10:13 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques Why not just buy

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread efhaynes
Be careful. Some network storage drives have digital rights management protocols that limit access to certain types of data. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:10:13 To:

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
Mr Worf, as for backing up, I either use my built-in CD/DVD burner or, of late, USB drives. Lower limit for storage in both cases, but I don't have to worry about things being lost (as my backups NEVER leave my person. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Baxter
Milk delivery?? Had that up until fifteen years ago, here in Atlanta, a mom-and-pop dairy farm about five miles from where I used to live. That stopped when they sold their land to the county school board and moved south to Valdosta. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Tracy Curtis

[scifinoir2] Re: Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Kelwyn
Uh..I'm sure you used some English words but I have no clue what you're talking about. ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Why not just buy a networked hard drive and use it for storage? I'm having to completely upgrade my home IT infrastructure,

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread George Arterberry
I still see elevator operators at the Senate building in DC. Saw one last year at all places Pimlico Race track in Baltimore. Haven't seen milk delivered for over thirty-five years. From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent:

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Tracy Curtis
The friend with milk delivery lives in Denver. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:34 PM, George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com wrote: I still see elevator operators at the Senate building in DC. Saw one last year at all places Pimlico Race track in Baltimore. Haven't seen milk delivered for

[scifinoir2] Avatar highest grossing movie ever?

2010-03-07 Thread Kelwyn
Movie Ticket sales: Avatar - 62 million tickets sold ($666 million) Titantic - 128 million tickets sold ($977 million in 2010 dollars) Gone With the Wind - 202 million tickets sold (1.5 billion, adjusted) source: Parade magazine

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
They still deliver it here. Its more of a boutique thing now. You can get milk products and meat delivered. There are also the online grocery deliveries too. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote: I saw some slightly advanced typesetting once on a newspaper

Re: [scifinoir2] Avatar highest grossing movie ever?

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
That I believe. I knew that the Avatar numbers were just more hype. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Movie Ticket sales: Avatar - 62 million tickets sold ($666 million) Titantic - 128 million tickets sold ($977 million in 2010 dollars) Gone With the Wind -

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
There is a group of traveling story tellers here in California. Two young black kids that won an award for their story telling. (I can't find their link yet.) There are still libraries that do this around the country. Here is one from Mass. http://www.librarystorytelling.com/id3.html NYC:

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
Just do a search on milk delivery. There's a lot of places that still have farms that do it. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Milk delivery?? Had that up until fifteen years ago, here in Atlanta, a mom-and-pop dairy farm about five

[scifinoir2] Has Logan Lerman been cast as Spiderman?

2010-03-07 Thread brent wodehouse
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/433136/has_logan_lerman_been_cast_as_spiderman.html Has Logan Lerman been cast as Spiderman? Simon Brew Could the new Spider-Man have been found, and is Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman the brand new webslinger? Published on Mar 4, 2010 Rumours are flying

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
@Kelwyn: The RAID drive allows a person to save to a separate hard drive simultaneously when they save. So if the main drive there is always a backup copy ready. I would love to do a RAID system but I am using 4 large hard drives. (video files, and wav files take up a lot of space over time.) I

[scifinoir2] roboplow - pretty cool

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPg1ZMiC9pA

[scifinoir2] Speed and movie continuity

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
I am watching this movie again for the 4th or 5th time and now I am seeing all kinds of inconsistencies with the action in the film vs the dialog. Such as they have to make a hard right turn to get on the freeway. Everybody move to the right side of the bus! Some of the people get up, but in the

[scifinoir2] Re: Speed and movie continuity

2010-03-07 Thread Kelwyn
Funny, I just saw this again, yesterday, and it still didn't bother me! The whole premise of the movie is so ridiculous (and ludicrously inspired) that you just have to roll with it - and never let your mental speedometer go below 50 miles an hour or your brain will explode! (My favorite

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Speed and movie continuity

2010-03-07 Thread George Arterberry
hey I just wasted an hour looking at 2012 on DvD and its as bad as Speed only on a global scale. From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 9:27:23 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Speed and movie continuity   Funny,

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Speed and movie continuity

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
Yea, the gap was the single most biggest problem in the film that required the most suspension of reality. If you ever catch it replayed on the Fox movie channel Tom Rothman (CEO of Fox film) does a great intro and outro to movies. I love hearing his insight on things. He has a true love of films

[scifinoir2] Re: Has Logan Lerman been cast as Spiderman?

2010-03-07 Thread Kelwyn
Who? (His latest film, Percy Jackson the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, was released in theaters on February 12, 2010). Oh. ~(no)rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@... wrote:

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Speed and movie continuity

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
Yea, but at least the black guy saved the world. The white guy only saved his family. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:14 PM, George Arterberry brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com wrote: hey I just wasted an hour looking at 2012 on DvD and its as bad as Speed only on a global scale.

Re: [scifinoir2] Alternative writing techniques

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
Really? I'm just back into looking into them. I considered getting one two years ago, but never did. I'll punch up the Consumer Reports review of them before jumping into the purchase. - Original Message - From: efhay...@yahoo.com To: SciFiNoir2 mailing list

Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
I love the storytelling tradition. Thanks for the links. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:42:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Obsolete Professions There is a

Re: [scifinoir2] Has Logan Lerman been cast as Spiderman?

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
I could care less about the Spider-Man movies, but I'm a fan of Lerman. Not for Percy Jackson though. I was impressed with his turn on the late, great, underappreciated TV show Jack and Bobby. All the leads on that series was great. Still hate it was canceled... - Original Message -

[scifinoir2] Alice Surpasses Avatar Weekend Record

2010-03-07 Thread Keith Johnson
No one I know wants to see Alice, Depp and Burton notwithstanding. Despite this, the theatre near me--which moved Avatar to a 2D theatre so Alice could grab its sole 3D theater--sold out of Alice showings all day long. Curiously, I was planning to see Avatar again, but decided not to when it

[scifinoir2] Anamorph

2010-03-07 Thread Mr. Worf
Although the name of the movie has a scifi sound to it, it is actually a police drama starring Williem Defoe as an aging detective that is just waiting for retirement when he pulled into investigating a copy cat killer that us mimicking a serial killer in New York City. The killer leaves his