For the record, the kind of supper you make (in desperation) involving bagged fries and frozen chicken strips does not taste as good as summertime takeout. Guess that the deep fryer does add flavour to poor nutrition. Moving right along.
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Forget scientific principles. I now believe (a little) that the only thing keeping our neighbourhood safe from tornadoes and flooding is that I regularly purchase muffins for weekday coffee breaks. Not wanting to “rock the boat”, I’ve gone out and stocked up; that only double chocolate or carrot flavours were available did not cause hesitation. Safety first.
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The Moodies said it so well: Another day’s useless energy spent. I’m ready to sleep, but my day isn’t over. Still have to relay some messages to others in the house, and the dog doesn’t understand why I’ve dressed him in his Thundershirt. Dear Dog, I did it because you looked more bored than me.
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Used to be, a movie came on, and you watched it. Done. If the movie happened to be in foreign language, there might be subtitles. Again, done. But in a world with short attention spans and so much more information, they’re starting to “study note” certain of the better efforts.
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I love the support Google offers when I watch a movie. I’m not content to see a handsome house any more; I have to know the where, and when and anything else that others have added to the pool of data we now assume as ours. Watching an oldie (Lethal Weapon 2), and that house that gets pulled downhill… it exists. No, it didn’t go anywhere, because I can “see” it. In satellite pics, and Street View, and in photos taken by others. I can even get the relative value in their local real estate market (and no, I can’t afford it.) But at least the information was available.
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I should really get more. Other than for groceries or work, I mean. Spent the afternoon baking a pair of fowl, and blipping between three different movies on cable. The common factor: all had Jason Statham in a title role, and none differed greatly in content. Hey, dude; your agent has you working in a niche market (Sunday afternoon TV movies). Can’t be good for a long and varied career.
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Starting to hit my stride with this online course workload. Up early, on a weekend. Fed the dog (no choice in that matter) and then settled down to this week’s set of video lectures and multiple choice quiz opportunities. The content is interesting, properly presented and I’d really like to do something practical with my new knowledge. Soon.
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For the record (almost a record, but I may have got there earlier, once before), I was early to the office. One bus caught another, due to the downturn in clientele from the schools being “on break”, and I arrived more than a half hour early. Did anyone notice? Or applaud? Not even.
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Thanks to cable TV and low budget weekends, the occasion rises to watch some truly odd cinema. The kids say I don’t have to give in, but sometimes the moment is “too good to miss”. This afternoon, I watched a recent “straight to cable” movie, Battleship.
posted in media, politics | Comments Off on When the whole movie fits the crazy credit category | 261 words
The online course I’ve been following deals with sound synthesis. As the material is presented, I keep discovering that this isn’t new content for me. Some of it, I’ve been playing around with for years, albeit without the vocabulary to describe it to others. This evening, we’ve had an overview of bandwidth filters. Low pass, high pass, band pass, notch; although this is a course about sound, the analogies to radio are constant (and a valuable review of my electronic fundamentals).
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