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5 Jan 2012 9:10 AM #1
How to control width of label in FieldLabel?
In using GXT 3.x how can I control the width of the label when using a FieldLabel? I.e. when using the following code it gives the label way too much room.
VerticalLayoutContainer v= new VerticalLayoutContainer(); TextField a = new TextField(); a.setAllowBlank(true); a.setReadOnly(true); final FieldLabel aLabel = new FieldLabel(a, "A"); v.add(aLabel , new VerticalLayoutContainer.VerticalLayoutData(1, -1));
aLabel.setLabelPad(0); aLabel.setLabelWidth(25); aLabel.setPixelSize(25, -1);
5 Jan 2012 9:33 AM #2
Yes this is a known bug and is already tracked by us.
5 Jan 2012 9:34 AM #3
First found thread with using the forum search
5 Jan 2012 9:43 AM #4
Thanks. Do you happen to have a public bug tracking system (e.g. JIRA) where I can watch this issue and get notified of progress?
5 Jan 2012 9:55 AM #5
We are updating the forum post if the issue got fixed.
14 May 2012 1:37 PM #6
is this fixed? I am still seeing this issue.
14 May 2012 3:35 PM #7
I believe it was fixed but I don't recall which RC version, which version are you using? You might want to try 3.0.0-rc2...that's the latest available in maven.
14 May 2012 4:44 PM #8
Actually I am using that version. I will try 3.0 from maven repository

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i have downloaded some SRTM Dem files here: http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/srtm/version2_1/SRTM30//srtm30 They are from the USGS site.
I would like to export them as 3d.
I have ran through a few tutorials online, eg 1) http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/proc...iew/3dview.htm 2) http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/maplib/3D.pdf
But still don't get it.
Question: 1) so are the SRTM DEM files exportable to be viewed in 3d via Arcscene/ Arcmap? 2) how do you do it?
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I ordered one from the last sale (12/5) and the expected delivery is 12/18...this will give an idea of shipping times. Slow, but could be worse.
Beat me by 3 minutes! +1 for you.
This one is available in the FLASH section
"Roku 2 XS 1080p HD Streaming Video Player w/ Wi-Fi, Angry Birds & Motion Sensor Remote Control!"
for $59.99
just ordered mines, I hope it comes before the Dec 22. They didn't give me the option of rush delivery so expect it to be standard. 7-10 days.
@morriea: Where do I find the FLASH section to purchase the XS?
@mnmdavis: There is a tab labeled "flash" at the top of the 1SaleADay website.
@mnmdavis: Follow the link for this deal. Click far right/top tab marked FLASH. Scroll down. You must register with 1saleaday to view the section.
They are good people, though the shipping takes a bit of time.
Thanks for the info. With the free shipping, the XS is only $15 more than the XD. I decided it was worth it to have an ethernet port.
This s the step down from the one I bought last week righ ?
Can't see the Roku 2 XS details because I can't remember my logon, but I wanted to point out that the Roku 2 XD version on the main site is not new, it's factory REFURBISHED. Just a heads up for those that don't gravitate to reading the specs area.
I have the unpopular opinion that Rokus are absolute (profanity)...deal with it
All the deals on Rokus are refurbs. I've purchased two. One was fine, one had a problem. Roku fixed the problem. The refurb warranty is as good as the new and Roku stands behind refurbs the same as new, so don't let refurb scare you away.
If you want a deal on new, go to playon.tv and get a new roku LT plus playon for life for $70. I did that too. Rokus are lots of fun, but Playon or Plex add a lot of programming.
DO NOT expect delivery in the near future!!! 1saleaday has some decent deals but they are the absolute slowest to ship of any website...ive ordered 10 or so times and never have received in less than 1 month.
@benmason: I hope you didnt order it for a gift--super slow that site
They are slow, but I ordered the XS from them last week and have received a tracking number for my shipment. It is being shipped (albeit at a snails pace), I believe, directly from Roku.
I have ordered a lot of things from 1saleaday, it always takes forever to receive, I have gotten all but one item that they over sold on. It took forever for a refund but eventually I got it after 3 or 4 emails to them. They are a legit company and products have always been as advertised.
@dpurlee: You couldn't be any more correct. I've ordered several items from there and expect slow shipping but our last order was a killer. Ordered something on Oct 26 and we received it about a week ago.
@djbowman: if you bought the XS then yes.
Can this stream downloaded movies or tv shows from a mac laptop? I could use a pc desktop also. Just want to know if it will stream from a folder on those devices. I have a PS3, and that does what some of this does. Wondering if it is worth it.
It can be done with certain video formats such as .mkv and I can't remember what else. I use a program called Plex media server to do it and it works wonderfully. No complaints about my Roku.
@wizwor: Do you like playon? I'm on the fence about getting it.
Thank you - just picked up my second one at this price!
@mettpetak - there is a free trial for playon so you can test it. It did not work for crap on mine. While slightly different Plex is a nice free addon. Will let you stream almost anything your computer that is serving the data can encode as well as sharing your iTunes library with the plex app on roku.
Also free (iOS app costs a little)
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The idea behind Minecraft seems obvious in retrospect, but that's how the great ones always are. The brainchild of one Markus Persson -- better known as Notch -- Minecraft sprang from unassuming indie roots to become a worldwide gaming phenomenon.
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How to make artisan bread: Part 2
After viewing bread-making pics, have just realised that I am definitely NOT the most graceful or elegant baker. Sadly, far from it. If I was Martha Stewart, show ratings would probably go haywire by now. That aside, let's proceed.
Basic yet delish recipe:
5 cups flour (makes quite a large loaf!)
1/2 tsp salt
4 1/2 tsp instant yeast (you can go up to 6 tsp if you like it more yeasty)
max 1.5 cup of other grains, cereals, herbs
First step: Throw dry ingredients into a large bowl and mix. Not rocket science yet.
2) Get a smaller bowl and mix together:
2.5 – 3 cups of luke warm water
1/4 cup honey OR 4 tsp of sugar (mix with water)
3) Make a well in the dry stuff and pour about half of the liquid in. Start mixing until the dough is smooth-ish but still pliable. I used a spoon, and then my hands. If it's too wet/sticky, add a bit more flour. Work fast so that the water doesn't completely cool down right away.
4) Now listen carefully: place the ball of dough on a plate or something, clean out the bowl and then grease it lightly. Put the ball of dough back in.
5) Loosely place a cloth (eg: a clean dishtowel) over the bowl and place it in the oven. Fill a mid-sized bowl with boiling water and place that in the oven too, towards the back. Close the oven door and leave it to rise for about an hour and a half. DO NOT TURN THE OVEN ON!
6) Shortly, you'll notice your kitchen starting to smell absolutely fantastic. You should now have a lovely risen dough. Here's my dough's instant before/after makeover:
7) Get a large surface to shape the dough. If you don't have a really gigantic chopping board, then disinfect your kitchen countertop properly, spread some flour on it and more flour on top of your dough as well. Now turn it out onto the surface/counter. It shouldn't give you much resistance at all, getting out of the bowl.
8 ) While you're going to be working on the dough, turn on the oven to 180C/350F and put your bread baking stone in there so that it warms up. Remove the bowl of water that we'd put in earlier.
mmm doughy…
9) Treat this dough like your baby. That means no fists, no kneading and definitely no punching. You want to keep the air in. Very gently, fold the sides of the dough underneath itself and shape it into a loaf. Cut a slit down the length of it, or cut a few diagonal slits spaced apart. Coat with a milk or egg wash, and decorate with oats or other grains/flakes/seeds/herbs etc.
10) Sprinkle some cornmeal or flour onto the bread stone in the oven. Carefully slide the dough onto a chopping board or some sort of portable surface and then slide it over to the bread stone.
11) Bake for an hour. Use a cooking thermometre to check the temperature. Take the bread out when it's about 90 – 95C and let it rest outside for a grill. Don't start slicing until it's cooled down, or else you'll lose a lot of the moisture. Voila!
Lastly, to keep the bread after it has cooled completely, wrap it up tightly in the cloth, then double wrap in a plastic bag and store in the fridge.
If there's something else you could learn from this post, it's this: don't bake while wearing dark clothes.
p.s. In the unlikely event that you completely botch up the bread, do what I did with horribly dense experimental buckwheat loaf last week: make a bread pudding! Warm bread pudding with pistachios and caramelised brown sugar topping. Love it!


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Well, we all know the twin prime conjecture. There are infinitely many primes $p$, such that $p+2$ is also prime. Well, I actually got asked in a discrete mathematics course, to prove that there are infinitely many primes $p$ such that $p + 2$ is NOT prime.
Let $p\gt 3$ be prime. If $p+2$ is not prime, we are happy. If $p+2$ is prime, then $(p+2)+2$ is not, since one of $x,x+2,x+4$ is divisible by $3$.
Added: Dolda2000 noted that a more interesting question is whether there are infinitely many primes that are not members of a twin pair. For this we can use the fact that there are infinitely many primes of the form $15k\pm 7$. If $p$ is such a prime, then one of $p-2$ or $p+2$ is divisible by $3$, and the other is divisible by $5$, so if $p\gt 7$ then neither $p-2$ nor $p+2$ is prime.
Suppose the contrary. This would mean that from some point on, all odd numbers are prime numbers.
Take two sufficiently large odd numbers. Multiply them together. The result is a composite number which is odd, which contradicts the hypothesis that all sufficiently large odd numbers are primes.
Dirichlet's Theorem guarantees the existence of infinitely many primes of the form $p = 3n+1$, and for each of these, $p+2$ is a multiple of 3.
For any integer $x$, either $x$ or $x+2$ or $x+4$ is divisible by $3$, so if $p$ is a prime $> 3$, either $p$ or $p+2$ is an example.
Euler proved that the sum of the reciprocals of the primes diverges. Brun proved that the sum of the reciprocals of the twin primes converges. The sum of the reciprocals of the non-twin primes must diverge, so there are infinitely many.
One possibility: Adapt Euclid's proof to show that there are infinitely many primes $p\equiv 1\pmod{3}$.
I'm very surprised to see that no one has brought the Prime Number Theorem to bear on this problem yet, so allow me to use that to prove a generalization of the OP's statement:
For every integer $n$, there are infinitely many prime numbers $p$ such that $p+n$ is not prime.
Assume the contrary. That means that for every sufficiently large prime $p$, $p+n$ (and thus $p+2n, p+3n, ...$) is also prime. Therefore, the asymptotic density of the prime numbers in the integers is at least $\frac{1}{n}$, which contradicts the Prime Number Theorem because the PNT implies that the asymptotic density of the primes in the integers is $0$.
Most primes are islands in the composite sea. For every $N$, the fraction of primes at distance more than $N$ from their nearest prime neighbors (both above and below) converges to $1$. This follows from accepted conjectures on the distribution of primes, where the density of a prime/composite pattern goes down by a factor of $c \log x$ for every additional prime, and unconditionally (with a more complicated proof) using Brun's sieve.
The number of primes up to $x$ that are at distance $N$ or more from their nearest prime neighbors, is therefore about $\frac{x}{\log x}$.
Constructions based on Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progression give a lower bound of $\frac{Cx}{\log x}$ where $C \in (0,1)$ is a rational number that depends on the set of small integers $k$ for which $p+k$ is required to not be prime. This is not fundamentally different than listing all primes and removing the ones that don't work, except that it also gives a pre-determined prime $\pi_k$ (independent of $p$) dividing $p+k$, for each $k$ in the set, and that more precise divisibility requirement on the prime pattern reduces the density of solutions by the constant factor $C$.
Given the difficulty of deterministic constructions of primes I don't think there are known solutions that are essentially different from those two.
[Edit: the proof by contradiction using multiplication of odd numbers (panoramix' answer) at first appears to be different, but reduced to its essentials it says to take the largest prime below any odd composite number. This is of the "list all primes and delete counterexamples" type, except that the list consists of all composite $p+2$ instead of all prime $p$.]
Another rephrasing of some of the answers here: suppose, for a contradiction, that there are only finite number of such primes. Let $q$ be the largest one. Then, for prime $p > q$, we have that $p+2$, $(p+2)+2$, $((p+2)+2)+2$ and so on are prime. But $p + 2p$ is a contradiction.
For each prime number $p_1$ where $p_1>3$ and $p_2=p_1+2$ is also prime ("twin primes", assume there are infinitely many of these)... there exists a number $n$ such that $n=p_2+2$ (also an infinite number of these).
$p_1$ and $p_2$ are primes, so neither of them are divisible by $3$. Since every third odd number greater than $3$ is divisible by $3$, $n$ will always be divisible by $3$ and so, not prime.
On the other hand, if there are a finite number of "twin primes", then there are an infinite number of primes $p$ (all remaining primes) such that $p+2$ is not prime.
Let $p$ be an odd prime. Then at least one of $$ p+2, p+4, p+6, p+8$$ must be composite since its final digit must be a $5$. Therefore there is at least one non-twin prime near each odd prime.
Given any odd prime $p$, we can find a prime with this property greater than $p$. Take $n$ to be the first odd composite number greater than the prime following $p$, $n-2$ must then be prime and greater than or equal to the prime following $p$, which must be greater than $p$ with $(n-2)+2$ composite.
At each stage of Eratosthenes sieve, there is a corresponding cycle of gaps. After sieving by 2,3,and 5, we have G(5#) = 6 4 2 4 2 4 6 2. This is the pattern of 8 gaps (and sum 30) through the sieve. E.g. From 1 to 7 is the first gap 6, then 4 to 11, 2 to 13, 4 to 17, 2 to 19, etc. There is a nice recursion on G(p#), described in 1. A gap between primes is either a gap from the cycle or a sum of consecutive gaps in the cycle.
Just to answer the question as originally posed, if there are not an infinite number of twin primes, then we're done, since there are an infinite number of primes. If there are an infinite number of twin primes, let q and q+2 be twin primes. Then q+2 is such a prime p such that p+2 is not prime; q mod 3 = 2, (q+2) mod 3 = 1, and (q+4)mod 3 =0 (not prime).
To answer the broader question of are there infinitely many primes p such that neither p-2 nor p+2 are prime, look at the variety of constellations (sequences of gaps in the cycle) that develop under recursion. For example, the constellation 6,4 in G(5#). This corresponds to the sequences 30k+1, 30k+7, 30k+11. For every k for which 30k+7 is prime, it is a non-twin prime as requested.
Brun's theorem can be used to show that not only are there infinitely many non-twin primes, but they are of relative density 1. That is, just like the n-th prime is about $n\log n,$ the n-th non-twin prime is about $n\log n.$
An alternate approach would be the combinatorial sieve; see section 2.3 in Neil Lyall's notes Sieving and upper bounds for the number of twin primes.
"I actually got asked in a discrete mathematics course, to prove that there are infinitely many primes p such that p+2 is NOT prime". (I insert the question here to prevent confusing if it was modified.)
So at least one of them contains infinitely many prime numbers.
(a) If $P_{1}$ contains finitely many prime numbers then the statement is true, because $P_{-1}$ contains infinitely many prime numbers so if $k$ is large enough then $p+2=(3k-1)+2\in P_{1}$ not a prime number.
(b) If $P_{1}$ contains infinitely many prime numbers then the statement is true, because taking them $3|(3k+1)+2$.
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10 Everyday Ways to Keep Your Child Reading While Having Fun
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"Read This for Me!"
As adults, we take everyday reading skills for granted, absorbing menus and weather reports without thinking twice. Encourage your child to practice her reading during these casual encounters with words. Ask your little one to identify letters or short words on street signs. Have your older child read cooking instructions or newspaper headlines to you. If you have a vacation planned, encourage her to read maps and travel books related to your trip. Kids love opportunities to model adults, and these "grown-up" chances to read can expand their vocabulary beyond their school curriculum.
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Cloudify your Enterprise Data Center: Two emerging models
By alkagupta on Aug 26, 2009
With recent advancements and announcements in the Industry, its clear that there are two emerging models for taking an Enterprise data center into the Clouds.
The first approach "the private cloud", requires an enterprise to purchase "Cloud in a Box" software such as vCloud and vSphere along with virtualization software provided by vendors like VMware. VMware is going a few steps further up in the stack with acquisition of SpringSource which will enable their existing and future customer base to seamlessly develop, deploy and manage applications in VMware based Clouds. The Private Cloud is applicable when the cloud is confined to an enterprise owned data center and provides a great way to scale the existing virtualized customer data centers by adding the flexibility and utilization efficiencies of a Cloud. Vendors like Rackspace and GoGrid are building Managed Private Clouds for their enterprise customers using this approach.
While a private cloud offers the CIO the benefits of a Cloud architecture, unleashing resource management, utilization, and on demand scaling capabilities, it still does not meet the goals of a pure Cloud as it only offers limited elasticity and does not eliminate capex. The enterprise still needs to own and manage all the resources. Werner Vogel has explained this very eloquently in his blog here. Nevertheless, it enables CIOs to better manage existing resources by means of metering, billing usage, and charge back to other business units.
The second emerging approach is that of Hybrid architectures where enterprises can extend their existing IT infrastructure to leverage on-demand resources of an external cloud thus adding scalability on demand. The enterprise continues to utilize their existing data center and augment it by offloading certain types of usage to an external cloud. They can also use this approach for handling the occasional burst loads, and not having to over provision their own infrastructure to meet peak demand. This approach is in line with Amazon's announcement of their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). While it has its limitations, its a solid first step in this direction.
The two approaches are complimentary, and can be combined towards building Hybrid Clouds where resources are moved between multiple Clouds seamlessly. However, I see a need for standardization of protocols and APIs offered by the clouds from different vendors before we can offer this level of flexibility to all users.
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Beginning Your Genealogical Search
In This Article:
Make several copies of the blank Pedigree Chart. Enter all information carefully, legibly, and in pencil. As you continue your research and information gathering, you'll discover new facts that will make it necessary to revise your charts. You don't want to have to rewrite an entire page because a few facts have changed.
Before you start filling in the chart, mind this simple genealogical rule when writing down dates: Always put the day first, write out the month second, and the full year third. For example, 25 June 1847 and 30 January 1978.
This rule avoids confusion. The shorter method can lead to mistakes: Does 6/11/86 mean June 11, 1986, or November 6, 1886?
Begin filling in your chart. At the far left-hand comer, write your name next to Number 1. At "Born"' write your date of birth. Next to "Place," write where you were born, including the town and state or country: Albany, New York; London, England; Helena, Montana; or Lomza, Poland, for instance.
After you've filled in your personal information, do the same for your parents. Write your father's name next to Number 2, and next to Number 3 write your mother's first and maiden name (her last name before she was married). This numbering pattern even numbers (2,4,6,8) for men and odd numbers (3,5,7,9) for women is the way to keep all your genealogical records. (The only exception to the odd/even rule is for Number 1. Put yourself there whether you're male or female.) List every woman under her maiden (unmarried) name.
Under your parents' name, write their dates and place of birth.
Finding Your Families
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The marshmallowy good enjoyables associated with Noisebridge.
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The Bunk About Bonding
Are You At Risk?
Remember, you may be at higher risk for postpartum depression if you or members of your family have experienced depression; if you have a difficult labor and delivery or a C-section; if you are adopted; if you have had an abortion or miscarriage in the past; or if you are a victim of rape or incest.
The important message here is that whether or not you suffer from postpartum depression from "baby blues," the mild sadness and anxiety that comes a few days after birth, to a more serious form your health and well-being cannot be denied. Attend to your needs as best you can and stop worrying about bonding. Dads, partners, grandparents, and friends can satisfy and comfort babies until storms calm for Mom and illness remits.
Nothing in the baby literature tells moms that sometimes, it's all right to put ourselves first or that often a baby's health depends on Mommy attending to her own health. A mom, who was both a homemaker and pilot's wife, once sat across a caf� table from me and whispered that it was okay to let a baby cry, for hours at a time, if it came to that. "When my husband was away, and I had no help for days on end with a toddler and a newborn, I learned that sometimes, I had to put myself first. I could not stay up all night every night, soothing an inconsolable baby. Sometimes I had to put my own health before hers so I would turn off the monitor and go to sleep. It was the scariest, most radical thing I'd ever done. And no one but my husband ever told me it was all right to do that. So now, I tell every new mother I know."
Amid bumbling and delays, babies can and do bond, despite the fact that moms are human and have needs, too. Corny as it sounds, Teresa says postpartum depression was "the best, and the worst, thing that ever happened to me. Of course it has made me more sympathetic in my work. But it also totally changed my outlook on parenthood, so that now I don't sweat the small stuff. I see my girlfriends killing themselves trying to maintain order in their homes, and I think, 'Just sit down in the mess and enjoy your baby.'"
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From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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text: Here is another familiar face from Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door. This last Mario related tut will leave you with a skill that will enable you to draw Gombella. She is a very serious figure and companion to Mario's group or team. She is introduced in the beginning of the game when Mario sees her getting harassed or attached by Lord Crump. Of course with Mario being a hero and all, he stepped in and helped Goombella to temporally defeat Lord Crump. Anyhow, have fun recreating Goombella. I think I might return with one more tut for you guys. Adios mi amigos.


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50"x60" Fleece Throw Blanket for $2.69
coupon code: OFFERS10
In store pickup at Kmart
Cyber Monday Deal! Cannon Fleece Throw $2.99. Sold by Kmart. Offer ends 27-Nov-2012
Cannon 50"x60" Fleece Throw Blankets normally $4.99 (red plaid, gray nordic print, blue plaid, nuetral plaid, chocloate, and blue) or $8.99 (cream deer print, beig floral, and tan). The price drops to $2.99 in cart, and then $2.69 with code OFFERS10 and store pickup.
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Nice deal!
Perfect opportunity to help make a difference at shelters...coats, blankets and throws are always welcome.
I kept trying to buy three and "No, I would like to checkout as a guest" but the page would reload and keep asking for an email address.
Oh well, plenty of cheap gifts to be had elsewhere...
Ordered 4 of these to give to our local animal shelter. I went in and ordered as a guest and it worked fine for me.
@anthgothlz: They only want your email address to let you know your order is ready for pickup. I just ordered 4 and checked out as a guest but did give them my email address so they sent me a confirmation already. Order process was smooth sailing,going to keep a few of these in the car for the winter
I just ordered 15 to use as gifts at our food bank/shelter total cost was $40 and some change
Tried to order 4 but it would't let me. So I got 2 for $5.80. Good deal.
Great deal, bought 10!
Ordered 10 blankets of various styles. Some for a few small gifts, the rest for donation. There is an animal shelter down the street that always needs donations. Great idea havocsback. Cheers everyone and happy holidays.
I was able to order 10 blankets no problems with the check out for adding the coupon code. will donate these blankets! Thanks!!!
@maggietffh: cause giving them to people is not cool anymore? Man America is so lost it treats its animals better than its children.
@tranceauf: Last I checked in America if "maggietffh" bought these with her/his own money she/he can do whatever they wants with them.
Just ordered 8. You can't buy fleece by the yard this cheap, and you can always use them in the car or donate them.
For the record, the ones that originally cost $8.99 also come down to $2.62 after adding them to cart and applying coupon code. It was a little unclear in the description.
Bought 12 as a guest, no problems.
Bought a bunch for my dogs...sweet!
@tranceauf: Its tragic that in your eyes the morality of the entire country hinges on a single comment that someone on deals.woot posted about donating fleece blankets to an animal shelter.
@havocsback: thanks for the idea! I'm in for 15 to donate.
Solid, another 15 to donate. Great post.
Bought 10 as a guest, no issues. Fantastic deal!
Who doesn't need more blankets for winter?
Thanks! Got 3 as guest for pickup :)
Picked up 3,good deal but keep in mind these are not really (adult)blankets they are only 50x60.
Great Deal! Thanks for Posting this!
When we break it down, people vs animals, most people forget to take into account animals being shoved in cages and completely unable to fend for their own survival thanks to overbreeding and uncaring/irresponsible people. While there are many humans who face similar circumstances, humans have the option of picking up their stuff and going somewhere else. While both groups are noble causes for donations, there is no shame in choosing animals over people. The majority of my donations through a year are for animals.
Out of spite for your stupid comment, I just purchased 10 blankets for the ASPCA across the street from me.
Edit: before a flaming comes about, I realize there is a large population of mentally ill individuals living on the street. Those are the folks that should be getting help.
Wow this was a great deal! I bought 5 in various colors, and used the mygofer in-store thing at checkout. They sent me an email in like 2 hours and said they were ready. Picked them up after work and these are great quality, not flimsy or thin! I used to never shop at Kmart, but the mygofer system was actually pretty awesome, and I definitely will consider kmart in the future.


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I've added the group too .
Why don't you pick a club close to your heart DazRTaylor and see how far you can take them...a one club kind of save?
I've added the group too .
Why don't you pick a club close to your heart DazRTaylor and see how far you can take them...a one club kind of save?
The search function seems to be a bit dodgy because I tried searching for you crouchy but it couldn't find you. Accepted your friend request now though
I think I've added pretty much everyone in the group. Are we going to use the chat function?
I've joined the group
Ugh. Steam talk. The reason I don't own FM12 (and by the looks of things, never a future FM either)
Daz, are you getting tired of your career game?
I always have great fun building up a complete nobody side and see where I can take them, but that isn't for everybody. Most seem to enjoy the more typical career paths, where you move on every few years. The great thing about trying to take a small club upwards and onwards, for me, is that it usually takes a long time before you get anywhere, so there are many small targets you can have along the way.
Then again, maybe you play FM a bit like I do. Massive playing for weeks or even months on end, then I get completely fed up and need a few months off. If you're in a period like that there is probably only one thing to do; take a break.
Or I suppose you can start a new game somewhere you have never played before. Learning a new league can be fun. Most of us are probably based in Europe, so trying a game somewhere else might re-kindle the love.
On downloaded files, there is only one file I will ever try and that is the England down to level 8 by uncle ron. I've not tried it for FM12 for the above reason, but it works like a charm for FM10, and given uncle ron has worked on it for 3 versions now I'm sure it is just as stable on FM12. It's a great file, and bringing up a club from that level is fun. Might be worth a shot if you haven't tried it before.
I'll try and design a profile picture for the group, that's my area, my only area in fact! Does it have to be a certain size? Pixel wise.
My profile name is HotChocolate, I'll try and get people added now. Will join the group as well.
I wouldn't mind being an administrator either, if that's okay of course.
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Sounds good. I'm in the group chat all night if anyone's bored
Happy newyear guys.
Sounds like its all going well Steam chat isn't that bad, there are far worse things that have been invented (I am looking and you MSN)
Just joined the Steam group, my name on there is Mr Derp, anyone who wants to inanely ramble at me on chat or have me inanely ramble at you feel free to add me to your friends list!
Going back to the books discussion, I didn't get any football books for Xmas (although what I did get was all excellent, so big my friends and family), but I did get the Steve Jobs biography which is an interesting read thus far. Whatever your loyalties regarding Apple/PC/whatever, he's had a very interesting life and you also get a feel for the development of the industry through the book. It's also certainly not blindly reverential, which could easily have happened with a weaker author, so I'd definitely recommend it.
I did, however, get my next maintenance grant from the lovely chaps at the EPSRC on 30th December so I'll be heading over to Amazon to order Inverting, Calcio, and Wilson's Clough book right now! Probably shouldn't go any further than that yet, I'm an issue behind on The Blizzard at the moment so that lot will definitely keep me going. Plus I'm only halfway through Keith Richards' book as well which I started last Xmas - I'm usually pretty prolific at reading!
As for FM I've not played a lot recently as I've gotten into Skyrim. Also getting a bit bored with Arsenal to be honest so might have to make a move at the end of the season to freshen things up, despite my intention to fulfill my contract.
Skyrim, your degrees worst enemy
Keith Richards. Now there's a book I'd like to read. Apparently the book has P-ed off Jagger something unreal. Shame if they don't play again, but there must be some interesting stuff in there. How those people are still alive is a mystery.
I'm pretty sure he's somehow mummified/pickled himself whilst retaining motor function.
When I installed FM09 using it, I had a bad experience and wouldn't touch it again for a while. But last year, I tried putting FM10 on it when I got my new computer, and found the experience was quite different to the first time I had used it.
There are a few things I quite like about it now, to be honest. Maybe you'll come around eventually?
Yes, I'm an issue behind on The Blizzard too. BTW, great choice in the three books you are going to order!I did, however, get my next maintenance grant from the lovely chaps at the EPSRC on 30th December so I'll be heading over to Amazon to order Inverting, Calcio, and Wilson's Clough book right now! Probably shouldn't go any further than that yet, I'm an issue behind on The Blizzard at the moment so that lot will definitely keep me going.
As for FM I've not played a lot recently as I've gotten into Skyrim. Also getting a bit bored with Arsenal to be honest so might have to make a move at the end of the season to freshen things up, despite my intention to fulfill my contract.
How is Skyrim? I'll probably wait until it comes down in price at some point in the distant future. I'd like to try it though.
Right now, I want to get some more FM time on FM12 under my belt. I have a real desire to play right now and have been thinking of tactics etc.!
Well I've heard good reviews on all of them, from people on here as well as others I've spoken to. I have a feeling I may have gone a bit OTT though:Yes, I'm an issue behind on The Blizzard too. BTW, great choice in the three books you are going to order!
Code:Items Ordered Price 1 of: The Miracle of Castel di Sangro [Paperback] By: Joe McGinniss Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £9.41 - 1 item(s) Gift options: None 1 of: Brian Clough: Nobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography [Hardcover] By: Jonathan Wilson Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £8.00 - 1 item(s) Gift options: None 1 of: Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics: A History of Football Tactics [Paperback] By: Jonathan Wilson Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £5.66 - 1 item(s) Gift options: None 1 of: A Season With Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusions, National Character and Goals [Paperback] By: Tim Parks Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £5.49 - 1 item(s) Gift options: None 1 of: Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Football [Paperback] By: Jonathan Wilson Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £5.73 - 1 item(s) Gift options: None
I'm really enjoying it, I know you're not much of a gamer other than Minecraft and FM but I think you would probably enjoy it as well!I thought that was FM?
How is Skyrim? I'll probably wait until it comes down in price at some point in the distant future. I'd like to try it though.
Right now, I want to get some more FM time on FM12 under my belt. I have a real desire to play right now and have been thinking of tactics etc.!
For PC the menu system is clunky (its based around a console so it's as good as it could be) but it's good. I nabbed it in the sale for £24 which is a bargain! If you want to see if you like the style get Oblivion, slightly better menu system (once you understand it!) and similar gameplay
It used to be quite rubbish but now it's a very well implemented IMO. Probably the best digital download based shop I've used (although I've admittedly not used many), the Xmas sale they just had has massively bulked out my PC game collection, and they're good (as far as I know) for indie developers in terms of offering a relatively cheap distribution platform. Also fewer physical copies of games is better for the environment of course.
The in game map is awful on Skyrim, I prefer the Oblivion map easier to see where you are going and how to get there.
Great choices though. I mean, you are going to love every one of those books. They would all make my top 10 football books of all time, I think, although I haven't read the Clough book yet!
But did you miss off Calcio by accident? I thought you were ordering that one?
I'll wait until it gets cheaper and then give it a go. My mission now is to get into an FM12 save, so that's going to be my main time sink for now. I don't need another one atm!I'm really enjoying it, I know you're not much of a gamer other than Minecraft and FM but I think you would probably enjoy it as well!
Code:Items Ordered Price 1 of: Calcio: A History of Italian Football [Paperback] By: John Foot Condition: New Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. £6.99 - 1 item(s) Gift options: NoneSounds like a good plan, the forum's been missing a good crouchy thread!I'll wait until it gets cheaper and then give it a go. My mission now is to get into an FM12 save, so that's going to be my main time sink for now. I don't need another one atm!
I don't really know all of the counter arguments against Steam, although I know I originally found it invasive, annoying and resented having to install it. These days, however, it seems much better and I actually like having my games categorised on there, plus the ease of downloading patches etc. I've become a fan, especially since picking up a number of very cheap bargains in the Steam sale.
I'm a PC gamer fwiw. I'm not into consoles at all. Much prefer playing on a PC.
SnakeXe, I notice the Steam sale also bulked out your PC games collection. Same here! What bargains did you get in the sale?
Bioshock 1 and 2
Dead Space 1 and 2
Demolition Inc.
Duke Nukem Forever
Fallout 3 (+ all DLC)
Fallout: New Vegas (+ all DLC)
From Dust
Frozen Synapse
Green Corp
Heroes V Pack
id Software Pack (inc. all Doom and Quake games plus Rage and a few others)
Lego Batman
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Portal 2
Red Alert 3
Super Meat Boy
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Tomb Raider Pack (inc. Legend, Underworld, Anniversary and Lara Croft: Guardian of Light)
I think apart from Skyrim and the id Pack they were all under £5.
Skyrim, and the two Fallout games alone will probably last me all year! Don't know what I was thinking (that's a lie actually, I was thinking "Wow I'm getting all these games I've wanted for ages for basically nothing"), but I've vowed to myself I won't buy another game other than FM13 until I've played all of them to completion or as good as.
I smiled when I saw your list SnakeXe because I did pretty much the exact same thing. I have also vowed not to buy another game now until either the next FM or the next Steam Xmas sale!
My list is of a very similar size and went something like this:
And Yet it Moves
Back to the Future
Garry's mod
Portal 2
Sherlock Holmes collection
SimCity 4 Deluxe
Solar 2
Sonic Generations
Super Meat Boy
Train Simulator
Universe Sandbox
As you can see, I'm mostly into strategy, simulation, puzzle and sandbox types of games.
I'm pleased with most of these although I know that I went a bit crazy. I got a few more £2ish games that I can't recall now. Everything I got was extremely cheap though.
I think the Portal bundle was my best deal (although I was surprised by the quality of some of the very cheap indie games I got). I completed the original Portal just the other day, which I wanted to play before starting the new one. I thoroughly enjoyed it and more than I thought I would so I'm really looking forward to playing Portal 2 now.
The most mental game that I bought in the sale was Train Simulator, which I have no idea why or even how I bought it! It's fair to say that I had a fair bit to drink on the night when it was on sale and woke up with it and the Back to the Future game on my Steam account!
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Haha I was slightly tempted by Train Simulator I have to say! I used to love steam locomotives when I was younger, and my Grandad was a big fanatic - one year his birthday present was to drive one, which he absolutely loved.
Bizarrely considering I bought so many I don't think a single one of those was just bought on a whim, I'd either seen a good review, heard good things from friends, or (in the case of Duke Nukem, because noone gave that a good review) just wanted them for a while.
Universe Sandbox looks interesting.
Train simulator was the only thing I bought on a (drunken) whim. The rest, I either played a demo, read a review, or watched a YouTube video.Bizarrely considering I bought so many I don't think a single one of those was just bought on a whim, I'd either seen a good review, heard good things from friends, or (in the case of Duke Nukem, because noone gave that a good review) just wanted them for a while.
AcidBurn - I love Universe Sandbox. That's totally my sort of thing. I've played with it briefly and it's really interesting, although I haven't got fully to grips with what you can do yet. I've mainly just tried out a few experiments in order to wreak havoc on our solar system.
I only got Skyim, FM12 and Prototype
Yeah but you've already got about a million games on Steam, Flamers!
I would have to say Steam is an amazing platform. It's not really a fuss as everyone says it IMO. Not sure about the UK, but I can get games on Steam a lot cheaper than in a store, where 90% of the space reserved for games is reserved for consoles and handhelds.
I only have 105 games Crouchy...
Rancer games can be found cheaper on Direct2Drive or Amazon compared to Steam but the sales steam have are insane.
Direct2Drive - I've bought games on there before but only ones that I can't find on Steam. The last time I went back on the site was when they were moving websites.
Amazon - Ugh, the Canadian store has absolutely nothing so I don't bother buying games there.
Didn't actually buy a lot from the Steam sales, partly because I bought so many other things and the stuff I bought during the sale weren't as cheap as some of the other stuff!
Rancer try GamersGate thats good for Indie games
Amazon is really good here (especially with pre order guarantees!)
I know Crouchy I am disappointed in myself too!
I have joined the group
I didn't want to spend ages doing a profile picture for it not to be what we were looking for. It would be nice and handy if we could get some ideas flying about, we've already had 'An Icon' but for now this was a quick 5 minute mock up. Like the idea of the picture? Be great if I could get some good ideas flying about, give me more to play around with!
It was the first idea that popped into my head 'fireworks as the background' and I managed to find a great picture from last years Champions League final. Then obviously write FMCU, could change 'Football Manager Career Updates' to a slogan? I could also play around with the colors as well, if that's what people want.
That's good for a 5-minute job! Perhaps make it circular or shield shaped like a club badge?
Thanks SnakeXe, that's not a bad idea but remember the Steam profile pictures are Squares so whether it would look as good once up as a PP I'm not too sure, but I'll change it and keep both
Well I just counted all my console games, and let me tell you, 80 games does not look like a lot. Mind you, that includes PS2, PSOne, original Xbox, Gamecube, and PSP, as well as 360 and PS3, so it's pretty much all the games I've ever bought.
Except the 30+ PS2 games in my parents' loft.
And I actually have 102 games on Steam now.
Crouchy, your Inbox is full by the way.
That's looking good HC!
Inbox cleared now, Signor Serpente.
Seems to be quite a few people who know about games in here. Anyone know a good game similar to Masters of Orion?
When it comes to digital distribution, however, I much prefer GOG.com. You won't find Skyrim there, but they have a lot of great games and will apparently start to release newer games now (but not totally new). Love their philosophy ahead of Steam's any day of the year. Then there is of course the added bonus of no DRM and no container app to muck up things.
If you can be bothered to, drop me a PM about it, I'm interested to know what you think.
If you haven't tried them you ought to. I have not really played BG2 yet, only a little in the start, but Baldur's Gate 1 is probably my best ever gaming experience, even if I played it a couple of years ago and the games came out a decade ago.
Of newer RPGs, The Witcher is great too, and right up there with my best gaming experiences. Not tried Witcher 2 as my PC can't handle it, but I've heard the overall experience of Witcher 1 was better.
I also loved Mafia. Fantastic story! When the credits rolled I was sat back in my chair with wet eyes. Great stuff.
(Not tried Mafia 2 as my PC can't handle it, but I've heard it's pretty weak compared with Mafia).
Thought the story of Mass Effect was brilliant too. Such a fantastic story and universe (in more than one way), so was really disappointed when they botched it all up in Mass Effect 2 and turned it into a shooter. Know many still like it, but I hated what they did to it.
In those four games are probably my best ever gaming experiences outside of FM (and at least some top FM, although I put much more time into FM).
Also honourable mention of the 10 year anniversary edition of Settlers 2. Wonderful game to just tick away at and watch those wee fellas do their thing. Bioshock 1 was also really good, if only for the original story and gameplay. Not tried 2, but I've heard it's much the same.
I won Witcher just before Christmas and am still yet to play it but from what i here it's a hell of a game!
I found Mass Effect to be one of the most boring games I have ever played. It started off well enough and the story interested me but it just kept using the same thing over and over again fly to a planet drop down in the stupid buggy thing, drive somewhere and then get out and shoot something. I gave up after about 5 or 6 hours.
Anyone played the Fable games? I have not played them as I get t he impression they are linear and not open world.
I absolutely loved Fable at the time it came out, I had it on the original Xbox. Fable 2 I enjoyed as well although felt it was slightly weaker than the original. Fable 3 sounded ridiculous, so I didn't buy it.
So four of the five books in my first Amazon order have been dispatched. Guess which one hasn't? That's right, Inverting the Pyramid, the one I was planning on reading first.
I adore Fable. All of them. Skyrim is awesome. The end.
I've not read many, in fact any, proper football books as such. Depending on if you count Autobiographies? Neil Warnock, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and I was half way through Mottys before I got into reading Blades Days Out which I stopped reading when I got Ant and Dec's autobiographies which I may stop reading to read Gary Linekers account on the 2010 World Cup (Still Dreaming). I will have to sort out which ones I should read and when, they are all great books and will definitely get round to reading them.
On the games side of things, I have FIFA and FM that my time is spent on although I do like F1, yet to get this seasons, might wait a year then get it on the cheap. I'd also love to get into more role playing or shooter games. I've had a few COD's before but got rid of them, however I am tempted to go back and get one of the newer ones. I'll probably have a browse at some point and buy one or two if I can get a good deal. Although they wont be through Steam, I'm just not a fan of games on the computer unless it's Football Manager, Xbox all the way. Then again, the odd ones like Rollercoaster Tycoon which you can't get on Xbox 360 are brilliant fun on the computer!
Here is an analysis of Mass Effect 2 that is both an interesting and funny read, describing some of the main plot holes and down-right annoyances with the design.Of course, don't read if you haven't played the game as there are spoilers galore!!
There were parts of ME2 I liked too, but overall that game showed more than anything else that Bioware went after the shooter market, and IMO their games since have been worse for it. At least for me who like roleplaying games more than "shoot everything that moves" games.
I read the next DragonAge game could be open world, this would be brilliant. To be honest the freedom you get to explore in the Fallout games and Elderscrolls as well as GTA to an extent make it hard for me to play other games. I love the Uncharted series and have the third one ready to play once I am done with Skyrim. I don't get much chance to play any other games on the PC mainly because when I am on the PC the missus is watching TV while we chat so I don't have any sound on.
I bought a Sims game for xmas for the missus but the CD drive won't read it so I am stuck with a game that doesn't work. I wish we had a legal option to download a game once we had bought the physical copy. Also got an older game that will not work with 64-bit windows which is just as annoying.
The blue alien was pretty nice from what I remember.
What I like with some of the old classic games is that unlike today when there is such an emphasis on great graphics in games, often compromising other aspects of the games, back in the day there was more emphasis on proper game design with good stories and interaction. Although the graphics won't blow you away in Baldur's Gate or Planetscape Torment, the games themselves are incredibly enjoyable.
Not played it yet, but Skyrim is probably an exception to this as there is a lot of emphasis on other aspects too.
It is worth point out the two games you mention were developed by Bioware.
I just wish there was a game like Civilisation but in space.
Bioware also did Jade Empire on the old Xbox.. It was one of the best and most beautiful games I ever played. Definitely in my top 10 games ever,
I've started logging onto the group's chat every time I'm on now. Bloody Steam!
I am not used to having people on my steam turn my PC on in the morning go out to get breakfast come back and have a message it looks like I ignored for an hour lol.
Should be able to see it through my profile.
Joined, I like Raware's picture as well.
To throw in a little FM again, figured I'd post this here too as it would probably get lost in my career thread. Perhaps this is common knowledge, but I just figured it out today
That's a nice idea Pangaea
Great job with the logo HC, I really like it! If it looks half as good on Steam we're on to a winner
Speaking of retro gaming, I was playing this a while ago. It was actually quite nice to go back to "navigate the level, find the keys, kill the boss" in a way.
I've joined the group for FMCU!
For the logo, how about a background of loads of different screenshots from everyone's games dotted with some trophies around the place, then a 3D font saying FMCU.
Gah first time I'm on Steam and FMing since adding a few FMCU'ers and the chat servers are down for maintenance!
Irony huh? Maybe you should come on more
Cheers SnakeXe and crouchaldinho
hursty2, I'll get working on your idea! Not quite sure how to implement it but I'll have a look!
3 of us in the group chat if anyone wants to join!
Just had an idea after talking to B.W.G about quizzes, if I get enough interest I could start a 'weekly' quiz on here?
You get the idea. So yeah, would it be alright to start a new thread for the quiz? Get some interest going?
- 10 Weeks long
- 10 Questions per week
- Football based questions or general knowledge questions?
- League table, a point for every correct answer...
- As many people can join at the start
I like the idea! Perhaps have 5 football questions and then 5 random general knowledge?
Maybe have the winner of each round decide the new questions. Or someone would have to sit out permanently.
5 football and 5 random general knowledge is a good idea and the winner each week gets to decide the new questions.So just mix SnakeXe and Nottingham Forest ideas.
We will try and get as many people interested as possible! Seen as there is no limit!
Excellent! The main thing is timing!
And a bonus question about something in a thread written by last week's winner ...
I like the idea, you can put my name down.
I can see me getting 5/10 every week Good job I know nothing about that sport with the white and black chequered thing
Couldn't people just cheat and google the answers?
They could AB so either we have to do it "live" or we just have to trust people
DERP, double post, my bad
Imagine it would be difficult to do live due to peoples other commitments. I works shifts and usually only around when other people are at work or tucked up in bed. Would have thought we could trust each other not to be using google. Sad state of affairs if someone feels the need to cheat to win a quiz thats just for fun.
Who said this is fun, THIS IS SPARTA! (Sorry )
It would be to hard to do it live almost impossible, whereas if I give everyone a week to get their answers to me then it will be fine.
On the 'cheating' aspect, technically they could do it even 'live' but other wise, it's just a quiz for pure fun, nothing more, you wont win anything (apart from having that great feeling, which you wont get if you cheat your way to victory) so yes, it would be a very sad state of affairs if someone did cheat as AcidBurn and ShyBaldBuddhist said.
For the layout, I will do 5 General knowledge questions and 5 (football or general sport? I personally think general sport would be better, more variety, but I will go with the majority). I will take Makonnen's great idea of a bonus question every week from the winners thread (the first week will be from my thread and if we get nearly the same winner every week I'll go to the runner up). You can look at there thread for the answer, but I will NOT make it easy at all. But, obviously, you can't look for any other answers and you can't ask the person who writes the thread for the answer.
The questions them self will range from easy to hard, I'll make them as general as possible and as fair as possible. Looking to get this thread up and running tonight, will put ShyBaldBuddhist's name down and anyone else that definitely wants to join in.
Looking forward to this!


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I've been recommended Bruce Schneier's 1994 book Applied Cryptography as an introduction to the use and the inner workings of cryptography. Is this book still current and a good introduction?
The handbook of applied cryptography(2001 revision) or simply "The Handbook" is a better book and its free. There are some typo's in Schneier's Applied Cryptography, such as the a typo of md5 which led to a few month delay of one of the md5 collision attacks.
In short many of the fundamental mathematics and discussion of how primitives should be constructed is very good. Schneier's book has a place on my book shelf, although i find that i get more use out of Practical Cryptography.
It's still pretty good as long as you are aware of what it's missing. My short list, keeping in mind my interests are only for a small subset of cryptography. Also keep in mind I don't know the book by heart and went by the index to confirm my memory, stuff may still be there but under another entry
Regarding algorithms, their mode of operations and protocols using them:
Regarding attacks, missing a whole lot of attacks that were discovered/popularized later
Those missing attacks are pretty important as e.g. most naive implementations are very vulnerable to them and it's very hard to harden aware implementations against those.
The consequence is that the book cannot be relied on at all for current best practices for the implementor, but is still very educational on the subject. But unsurprisingly, the field changed a lot in 15 years.
Also the book is very light on still used protocols, very heavy on exotic primitives, so of little practical value for people using crypto primitives as tools packaged in a library to implement practical solutions.
I would not buy one new today.
You'd be better off with the Second Edition, from '96, regardless...
But also note that Schneier's Cryptography Engineering is a much more recent update (2010), albeit that's more to his parallel Practical Cryptography.
No book is current on cryptography... like many disciplines that are in an area of active research, things are changing too fast.
But Schneier's book is particularly out-of-date. MOV (Handbook of Applied Cryptography) is likewise out-of-date these days, but it has the advantage of having been written by practicing cryptographers, is of much higher quality, and is free online.
The number of crypto books in recent years has exploded. The majority are garbage (probably true in most fields). As with many fields, the only truly reliable way to stay up-to-date is to use online sources and mailing lists.


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Friday, December 4, 2009
FIlms of the Decade
1. Mulholland Drive (2001) David Lynch
2. The Barbarian Invasions (2003) Denys Arcand
3. Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog
4. In The Mood For Love (2000) Wong Kar Wai
5. Ghost Dog (2000) Jim Jarmusch
6. Shaun of the Dead (2004) Edgar Wright
7. Bloody Sunday (2002) Paul Greengrass.
8. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Guillermo del Toro
9. The Squid And The Whale (2005) Noah Baumbach
10. 24 Hour Party People (2002) Michael Winterbottom
103 comments:
- seana said...
Good list. I haven't seen 2,3,7 or surprisingly 9, but I'd agree that the rest was very good. I can't think what else I'd put on my own, though I'm sure there would be a few. But I see what you mean, they were fun, but none give the sense of something really big and new, or even small and new coming out of the film tradition. Although actually, I feel like movies have slipped a notch even from here, or at least I haven't been going as much as I used to. Might just be me, though.
- November 26, 2009 at 2:48 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
I dont think it is you. I think they have slipped. If you look at the period 1970-1979 compared with 2000-2009 there's been a massive drop off in quality. Professional film reviewers are probably too inside to notice this and anyway part of their job is to act as boosters for the industry.
Rent Grizzly Man.
- December 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM
- Brian O'Rourke said...
Nice list. A few I haven't seen, which I shall add to the Netflix queue.
Ummm, Cache? Seriously!?!
Speaking of the Times list, that was a good one too, but for different reasons. It was odd to see a film like Casino Royale (which was effing awesome) ranked higher than films like There Will Be Blood and Memento. And then to see Bourne Supremacy/Ultimatum come in at number 2, followed by Cache at number 1, you probably couldn't find two more different films.
Very, very strange. I wonder how they ranked these films.
- December 3, 2009 at 11:03 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I thought the stain on the wall in Cache was liberal guilt.
I agree about the Greengrass Bourne Films but dont you think Casino Royale went on way too long? Like 45 minutes too long? Thats why Gladiator didnt make my list either. Great opening, but all that yaketty yak between the senators...
- December 3, 2009 at 11:45 PM
- Dana King said...
I have a creepy, deja vu feeling about this. Did you post this earlier? I can't find it in back issues, but I've seen this list before. I mean, I'm old, but that picture is memorable.
- December 3, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- Liam Hoyle said...
It is a pretty good list. Shaun of the Dead is one of the best for sure, along with Children of Men and Lost in Translation. Bloody Sunday was absolutely the most maddening movie I've ever seen, but a good one nonetheless.
- December 4, 2009 at 2:03 AM
- John McFetridge said...
These days a lot of things are making me feel old - falling asleep in the third period during Hockey Night in Canada, trying to remember where I left my keys, standing in bookstores wondering if I've read that book and on and on but nothing makes me feel old like the movies.
"Overpraised out of sheer desperation." That may be the defining phrase of the decade.
It seems to me there's a small market for good movies not being served because all movies want to be blockbusters, they all want to be that indie hit that got Oscar nominations.
We'll really see the sad condisiotn of the movie business when you list your top ten TV shows of the decade.
- December 4, 2009 at 2:19 AM
- Matt said...
Yeah, there were a few gems, but I don't think the 00s compares to the 90s when it comes to film. One film I might put on my top 10 list for the decade is Zodiac.
- December 4, 2009 at 4:30 AM
- seana said...
Dana, he did post it before, which is why my comment is earlier than all the rest of yours, not because I'm prescient. Google ate it for awhile and now has apparently disgorged it again.
I'll rent Grizzly Man. I just thought it might be too sad.
Fantastic Mr. Fox, which they made out of the Roald Dahl book, though a kid's movie, is supposed to be very good.
- December 4, 2009 at 4:41 AM
From the Grizzly Man Wikipedia page:
Charlie Russell, who has studied bears for 42 years, lived with them and raised them for a decade in Kamchatka, and corresponded with Timothy Treadwell, wrote of Herzog:
"Herzog is a skillful filmmaker so a large percentage of those who watch the movie Grizzly Man, overlook Timothy's amazing way with animals even though to me this stands out very strongly. The fact that Timothy spent an incredible 35,000 hours, spanning 13 years, living with the bears in Katmai National Park, without any previous mishap, escapes people completely. Even with his city-kid background, I found myself mesmerized by what he could do with animals. Most people now see him only the way Herzog skillfully wanted his audience to see him; as an idiot who continually "crossed nature's line," what ever that means. Perhaps, in his mind, nature's line is something behind which bears and other nasty things reside who will inevitably kill you if you go there without a gun. He takes everything Timothy stood for and turned it 180°, the result which he then weaves into his own unsophisticated agenda."[5]
It's all part of the plot against the bears.
- December 4, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Like in that Simpson episode.
- December 4, 2009 at 5:19 AM
- seana said...
Uh oh. Bear lover versus Herzog lover. This could be a fight to the death.
- December 4, 2009 at 5:26 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Wasn't, "The Plot Against the Bears" an early John Irving novel?
- December 4, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Apparently the Irving novel was titled "Setting free the bears".
"The plot against the bears" was an alternate history baseball novel by Philip Roth set in Chicago.
Or possibly an historical baseball novel by an alternate Philip Roth.
I sometimes get confused with all those alternate realities out there.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Yeah Google ate this and a few other posts. They were unretrievable until someone told me on a help page that I had to invent a new log-in name and invite myself to become an editor. Then I could edit the posts under the new name. Its so silly, but it works. Seana is psychic though.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:33 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Bloody Sunday is a big kick in the teeth isnt it?
I still havent seen United 93 because I know it would upset me too much.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Yeah well I dont blame the reviewers. Their job is to get some excitement going about the film industry, but it then becomes hard to find a really good film.
Roger Ebert gives out an awful lot of four star reviews every year. Almost one a week in fact.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Of course in the alternate universe the Chiacgo Bears are a baseball team and the Chicago Cubs play American Football.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
The 90's was pretty good. In Holywood alone we had Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, The Coens, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Scorsese all doing good work.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
I think I'm more of a Wild Things than a Mr Fox guy. I like the book, but Wes Anderson seems to only make films for Brooklyn hipsters now. I think he might need to spend a decade or so getting some life experience.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
He was killed and eaten by grizzly bears - enough said I would have thought.
Werner's narration BTW - brilliant.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Setting Free Da Bears would be an American football novel about the early years of the NFL.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:43 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
There have been rather a lot of those alternate realties havent there? I remember when Fatherland came out and the Daily Mail etc. praised it as highly original.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:47 AM
He was killed and eaten by grizzly bears - enough said I would have thought.
The Morans were killed by Australians! Your life is in danger!
- December 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Canadians, on the other hand, enjoy suspiciously strolling with flashlights.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:54 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
My life IS in danger. I reckon I have almost no choice of getting out of this century alive.
- December 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- seana said...
Jacques Barzun could probably write a good alternative history if he felt like it
(she said, trying desperately to steer the conversation away from bears)
- December 4, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- Malachy Walsh said...
I haven't seen enough - clearly. But certainly there are a couple of movies that impressed me that are not on your list - "Maria Full of Grace", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Crash," "Memento," and "Being John Malkovich." I also got a real kick out of "Sexy Beast" even with its uneven story structure.
I think Eternal Sunshine and the Malkovich movies suggest a new direction for movies ---
- December 4, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Being John M was a '99 movie so I couldnt include it. I didnt love Eternal Sunshine as much as everyone else. I find Jim Carey intensely annoying in everything he's in. His presence in anything just ruins it for me I'm afraid.
I'll go along with Maria and Sexy Beast though.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Malachy Walsh said...
Oh, for some reason, I thought Malkovich was '00, but I'm definitely challenged by dates and times, as my wife can attest.
The best thing about your list is that I haven't seen quite a few of the films - and discovery is such a great thing.
Thanks, sir.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Dana King said...
Seana and Adrian,
Thanks for clearing that up. I'm just old enough for that to have been scary.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- Malachy Walsh said...
Oh, and one other thing... I actually didn't like the Malkovich film all that much. I found it deeply depressing in a way that wasn't cathartic or liberating for me (by contrast, for instance, 5 Easy Pieces is quite a downer too, but it was also clarifying for me... well, I can't deny its power). Still, the movie's final images stick with me and the director is clearly someone with a fresh vision. Same goes for Gondry.
- December 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
No worries mate.
- December 4, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Funny thing about Malkovich. I had almost the same reaction as you.
I ADMIRED the film but I didnt love it. It was like watching someone do something technically difficult, but not something you are particularly interested in yourself.
I think Gondry's music video work is actually far superior to what he does in films.
- December 4, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- John McFetridge said...
Yeah, like figure skating.
- December 4, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- seana said...
Dana, I think you're pretty luck we didn't go the other route and psyche you out. Because you know we both could have gone the other way about it.
- December 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Or juggling chain saws. Or in fact juggling anything.
- December 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Oh man we should have sussed that out before hand could have been a classic.
- December 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- seana said...
Lost opportunity. But then, Dana probably wasn't the right target.
- December 4, 2009 at 5:04 PM
- Brian O'Rourke said...
Mal and Adrian -
Did not like Being John Malkovich (is there a single likeable character in the movie?), but I absolutely love Eternal Sunshine and Adaptation. That part in Adaptation where Robert McKee is yelling at his audience of wannabe screenwriters, "don't ever use voiceover narration!!!" and then it cuts to Nic Cage walking the streets without the voiceover is brilliant.
re: Casino Royale - I know this is sacrilegious, but it might just be my favorite Bond film...
- December 4, 2009 at 11:11 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Better than Goldfinger? Come on!
Pussy: I'm Pussy Galore.
Bond: Of course you are.
- December 5, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Brian O'Rourke said...
Adrian -
Alright, man, you got me. Not better than Goldfinger. CR makes a strong case for #2 though.
- December 5, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Speaking of Hockey Night in Canada, did you know that Dick Irvin was still alive?
Some American network picked up CBC programming of the Habs' 100th-anniversary game tonight, including a rinkside intervieqw with Guy Lafleur, Patrick Roy and Ken Dryden. Roy was the star. He spoke more openly and critically than any American would.
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- December 5, 2009 at 4:36 PM
- seana said...
Adrian, I believe that you will spring that particular exchange at the the least possible excuse.
I'm not sure if you can really compare the new Casino Royale and any of the old James Bond movies. There is such a difference in tone. Sean Connery is very tongue in cheek and Daniel Craig isn't.
I wasn't crazy about Casino Royale, Brian. It seemed very earnest and grim, like it was trying to be another Bourne Identity, a la Matt Damon.
However, this does dovetail very neatly into my latest book blog post.
- December 5, 2009 at 6:17 PM
- genevieve said...
BJMalkovich 1999???? WHERE has my last decade gone? OW. So when I first saw that film, my son was ten. NOOOOOOO.
- December 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
- Girish Shahane said...
Good list; I'd put Sideways there instead of something like Lost in Translation. No Country for Old Men isn't my favourite Coen brothers film, but I'd have to have a film by them in the top 10, so that would be my choice over something Like Juno, mainly because the music bits in Juno sucked big time.
- December 7, 2009 at 4:52 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Do Canadians watch or play field hockey? You would have thought they would clean up at the olympics.
- December 7, 2009 at 5:18 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
For my Casino Royale started off really well but the longer it went on my interest level flagged.
Bonds I'd go: Connery, Brosnan, Lazenby, Craig, Moore.
- December 7, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Yup 1o years just like that. Next time you blink you'll be dead and me too. Cheery thought aint it?
- December 7, 2009 at 5:22 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I liked both Sideways and No Country but I wouldnt kick anything out for them. However the more I think about Day Lewis's peformance in There Will Be BLood the more I want that to sneak in there somehow.
- December 7, 2009 at 5:24 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
I don't know that field hockey is much played in Canada. In the U.S., at least, few, if any, men seem to play it. It's mostly a high school sport for girls, I think.
I could never understand a) why they make girls wear skirts to play, and b) why the sticks are so short.
Verification word: boaring
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- December 7, 2009 at 5:33 AM
- seana said...
I was going to say, wait a minute, how can there be a verification word (though 'boaring' is a very good one), because I thought Adrian turned his off. But no, here they are again. What's up?
I have to confess that I was watching Casino Royale on television and actually turned it off after awhile. It wasn't really my kind of thing. too humorless. I'd say Connery was far and the way the best--the rest merge together in my mind, except for Craig who plays it so differently.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I wonder if its played in NZ? I'd love to see the NZ field hockey team haka.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Too much anon spam.
Lazenby is underrated.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:11 AM
- seana said...
I still keep connected to the blog of of the poet Reginald Shepherd, even though he died over a year ago. Partly it seems weird to erase it, partly his partner sometimes posts updates there, and partly I misguidedly think I am going to go back and read his older posts, as they are quite interesting.
This morning I had fifteen pieces of spam email because some spammer had gone through and hit all the old entries with some crap which I didn't even bother to open. For some reason, this bugs me more than the spamming of the living. I don't know why. It certainly isn't bothering poor Reginald now.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:29 AM
- Sheiler said...
Adrian, a muscular list. I can't wait to see some of them...I live behind the times where I wait for dvd releases so that I can watch the movies in my house where I can eat ice cream, pet my dog, drink water, and do the occasional work out with 6 pound weights.
I know you have a problem with Almodovar, but could it be that you only saw his early films? I will admit Women on the Verge of a Nervous breakdown was very red, what with the gazpacho, the drag queens, and the ... color red. Very silly. But Talk to Her is like gorgeous and meaningful and a great story. His filmmaking and finding his voice as a filmmaker reminds me of transvestites. They go all out when they first get into trying to pass as the official other gender, and then mellow out as time goes by to get the look/walk/talk just right.
Also, it is my firm but unfounded belief that all of your anonymous commenters are actually Bono.
- December 7, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Its a real shame. I loved not having a v word, but it was either get rid of that or Anonymous comments and I like having the option.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Very astute drag queen analogy. Those early Almodovars really are very off putting for a repressed Presbyterian from Ulster. And they're a bit dull.
I may watch the later ones for Penelope Cruise. I've heard good things about Talk To Her and Volver.
- December 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM
- Brian O'Rourke said...
You're right about CR - I remember reading somewhere they used a lot of the same stunt people and/or choreographers from one of the Bourne movies for CR, because that's the aesthetic they were going for.
Though, the grimness of CR was one of the things I enjoyed about it. Brosnan was a good Bond, but his films were too over-the-top (not his fault at all), and watching Roger Moore's films now, I cringe whenever I see him karate-chopping an adversary.
I haven't read any of Fleming's books, but I heard that Craig's Bond is the closest thing to Fleming's Bond: cold, brutal, and somewhat ironic.
- December 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM
It's amazingly how the repressed Presbyterians from Ulster don't seem to be put off by books and movies featuring hot lesbian sex.
v-word: hurlit
- December 8, 2009 at 1:21 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Marco you make an interesting point. I have enough Protestant roots in Ulster to investigate this further.
And if it means watching Julianne Moore movies, I'll have to take one for the team.
- December 8, 2009 at 1:33 AM
- Sheiler said...
Self-serving OT request:
My partner and I have a short (under 3min) film called Professor Blue. We posted it online for a telus film contest. I think that the entry with the most stars/ratings wins for the month. We are trying to make a splash with the character to entice children to go into science, unlike me who avoided it like the plague.
If any of you have some time to kill and are inclined towards this ginning up of votes, go here --
And then click on the stars to the right of the film to place your vote.
And if you'd rather I not ride on your coat-tails Adrian, well it's perfectly ok to bump out this comment.
- December 8, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Hey Sheiler,
Did you go to the CFC? I'm a graduate myself...
- December 8, 2009 at 4:08 AM
- Sheiler said...
John -
Not sure what that is but I'm guessing it's a Canadian school? I went to Naropa for the writing. I came *this* close to having Adrian as one of my writing teachers (he came a year later).
I have no film experience other than the Professor Blue...experience.
People tell me I look good in blue wigs.
- December 8, 2009 at 4:35 AM
- John McFetridge said...
The site the film is on is hosted by the Canadian Film Centre, started as a way to showcase short films by their graduates. I'm glad they've opened it up to everyone.
And yes, you look fine in blue. I also like the glasses.
- December 8, 2009 at 5:40 AM
- Sheiler said...
Er yes, CFC. Right, that CFC. Check.
You're a filmmaker? Are you situated in Canada? Or as my family says, Canadia?
- December 8, 2009 at 5:51 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Dont mind in the least.
Coat-tails though, you must have mistaken me for someone else.
Very nice film. Watched it, rated it. Thought it was Newburyport for a bit there but its not. I too dig the glasses.
- December 8, 2009 at 6:31 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
My serious education began with The Hunger. Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. As a New York cabbie from the 1930's would say: "two classy broads right there."
- December 8, 2009 at 6:33 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
Yeah you could be on to something.
Incidentially a film which nearly made my list was Y Tu Mama Tambien with Gael Garcia Bernal, who has been confusing straight boys with his good looks ever since.
- December 8, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
The Roger Moore films, yikes. Apart from Live and Let Die I think they're all just cheesy period pieces. Almost unwatchable.
- December 8, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
"Or as my family says, Canadia?"
I had a housemate who used to say, "Canadia." He thought this quite clever.
V-word: vitro
- December 8, 2009 at 6:48 AM
- Sheiler said...
You're close. Parts were filmed in Gloucester, part in Hull, part in the Laurentians where the partner and I live.
Peter, my American from the US family thinks Canadia is continually hilarious. I myself have once referred to the Laurentian mountains as the Larry mountains, but thank goodness I caught myself while around the siblings. I mentioned it to a grad student who was riding with me to Montreal. She was from India and didn't get much by way of play on words. You think my secret is still safe?
Also, I just re-watched REDS which stars a certain Woody Allen standby..Diane Keaton. I love this film, though I'd forgotten about it, and found Keaton's acting great.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- adrian.mckinty said...
I like Gloucester a lot. In fact I think Cape Anne in general is a great place. Except maybe Marblehead where I'm pretty sure undercover cops follow around black people.
- December 8, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Sheiler said...
It's funny but I know nothing about Marblehead, though it's on the way to Gloucester, which is where I lived for a time.
Brookline, a town on the border of Boston, had a well-deserved rep of a cops following black people kind of place in 1980s-90s. Not sure that that's still true. Now you're not allowed to park on the streets. As a professional couch surfer in the Boston area, this makes my life tough.
- December 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
It is said that Brookline's no-overnight-parking rules are designed to keep the promiscuous riff-raff from Brighton out.
- December 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Sheiler: Ste.-Adele! St.-Jerome! Val David! Val Morin! Ste.-Agathe! Doesn't exactly have the ring of an old railroad song, but it does bring back memories of my youth.
I saw Reds on its original release, and I thought it was shite -- a routine love story with political window dressing thrown in for gravitas - and yeah, I know it was supposed to be based on John Reed's book, Four Hours That Shook My Wallet. The celebrity commenters were a grating idea, but Henry Miller said some good stuff. Warren Beatty is the intellectual father of Bono and George Clooney.
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- December 8, 2009 at 5:05 PM
- seana said...
As to that last, Peter, I agree.
- December 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- adrian.mckinty said...
I think you should expand that into a blog post. I find that I cant disagree with one caveat: I havent seen Reds. However I do remember seeing John Reed's grave in the Kremlin wall. Also I dont think there's a single Warren Beatty that I'd want to see twice. (and that includes Bonnie and Clyde).
- December 8, 2009 at 6:53 PM
- Sheiler said...
Oh I loved Reds.
But then again I must be riff raff from Brighton.
- December 8, 2009 at 7:54 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Warren Beatty's IMDB page is interesting. What has he been doing for the last 10 years?
- December 8, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Drive around Marblehead for five minutes if you wanna really fell like riff raff. I'm sure they'd give the Queen a hard time for having sold her yacht.
- December 8, 2009 at 8:35 PM
You do look good in a blue wig, but the video continued to start and stop. I gave you five stars on trust.
- December 8, 2009 at 10:46 PM
- Peter Rozovsky said...
Seana, there was some noise years ago about Warren Beatty running for president. I have read that since then, he has preferred to keep his political activity behind the scenes, for which i give him credit.
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- December 9, 2009 at 5:54 AM
- Uriah Robinson said...
Cache, number one! My wife and I watched this film with a group of pensioners during a wet afternoon, we would have walked out but everyone else in the row had fallen asleep, or died of boredom.
Some of them did not even notice the suicide! The most pathetic film I have ever seen and the theme was put over with all the subtlety of a charging rhinoceros.
The Lives of Others, Romanzo Criminale, The Constant Gardener and Body of Lies all infinitely better than Cache
- December 9, 2009 at 7:27 AM
- Sheiler said...
I really appreciate the vote. Thanks for your trust in me as a blue-wigged pretend scientist.
If you're really interested, you might be able to see something on our website professorblue.com, but be warned. It's really haphazardly put together ... to emulate what some leotard thinks might appeal to children. We are in the process of making it look better and still taste great.
- December 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM
- Sheiler said...
I drove through a starter snowstorm today in Vermont, and so my car, now in Boston (with surprising sun on the day's docket), looks like a sugar coated mini-wheat.
Plus the muffler's sound has been known to motivate certain kinds of people to put small, rectangular tobacco objects up their T-shirt sleeves.
Therein lumping me in with the Queen.
- December 9, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Cache was piss poor. You'd have to be Helen Keller not to see that ending coming and she would have got it because she was no dummy.
- December 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
75 degrees and pleasant here.
- December 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM
- seana said...
Sheiler, I really wish I could see the movie, but I can't view it at the moment. How long is the voting period? That might actually motivate me to do something about the sad state of my computer's capabilities.
- December 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Sheiler said...
Thanks - it's not clear the end date other than Jan 15th being the new deadline for the next contest. Don't sweat it because if you're computer won't let you see the video then you might need to upgrade your processing speed which means, maybe?, new computer. But that's just a rumor.
- December 10, 2009 at 7:58 AM
- December 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM
- seana said...
Excellent, Marco. I liked Champion's sidebar on Books to Jump Up and Down Over too.
- December 11, 2009 at 4:54 AM
- seana said...
Oh, just came across one local film critics best films of 2009 here.
(It's just under the picture of the train. The rest is mostly local stuff, but Robin Williams haters might enjoy the diatribe against his latest comedy performance right below.)
The odd thing is that I haven't seen any of the movies listed, which just goes to show how sadly out of touch with movie-going I am these days.
- December 11, 2009 at 5:05 AM
- John McFetridge said...
I haven't read the list Saena attatched, bu I will say that when I saw the ads for Old Dogs I thought it was from a movie-within-a-movie that we were expected to be making fun of, and the movie itself was going to be a story of some movie stars down on their luck and that trailer was an example of how far they'd sunk.
- December 11, 2009 at 5:23 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Good listage as the Captain of the Titanic once said.
And speaking of the Titanic why in the movie are there no Belfast accents when the designer etc were all from Norn Irn?
- December 11, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Yes I did enjoy that Robin Williams hatefest. Thank you for that. I dont really know why but he has always rubbed me the wrong way that chap.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I havent heard of that but it sounds ghastly.
As ghastly as Patch Adams, What Dreams May Come, Millenium Man? Who knows - there's a lot of competition for most nauseating RW film.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Have a look at this Adrian:
And there's even an Australian connection at the end.
(there are worse commercials for this movie that actually involve John Travolta and food, but no one should see that)
- December 11, 2009 at 9:29 AM
- seana said...
I don't think I would want to be a comedian with a long career, somehow. Especially an initially slightly manic one. Hard to sustain that energy and buoyancy through the decades.
- December 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
That looks bloody orrible. Now I know what they'll show me at Guantanamo Bay.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Its not a profession I would enjoy. Terror and shame are not my favourite incentives.
- December 11, 2009 at 9:10 PM
- Sheiler said...
I dream of being a stand up comedian / comedienne, but just don't have the nerve.
- December 12, 2009 at 2:08 AM
- seana said...
Sheiler, I think you probably better figure out how to find the nerve, then.
It doesn't have to start big, you know. You could offer to MC a local event for charity, join an improv class--you know, stuff like that. Your guest appearance on the David Letterman show doesn't come till much later, so relax.
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