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I found something by Googling about roots and negative meaning but more than it I want to know if there is a positive or neutral usage too. Is it something like geek or nerd and the other slangy stereotypes or a serious history is hidden behind ?
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The short: yes, there is "history" behind the term similar to the information from the OED via @FumbleFingers. However, many white farmers were and are proud of their hard work ethic and are not ashamed of a farmer's tan.
The degree of pejoration, however, is much more complex, and I'm just baffled at the strong responses that the use of redneck is always negative. The long: a different perspective.
In the last 20+ years of country and country pop music, lyricists have ?reclaimed redneck much like the Black community has re-purposed nigger. The 2004 country hit "Redneck Woman" by Gretchen Wilson exemplifies the "I'm X and proud of it" sentiment, @JonHanna's excellent response.
The chorus:
*In subsequent refrains, she names Tanya Tucker and ol' Bocephus
Lyrics to Redneck Woman by Gretchen Wilson
Her bio includes a National Coalition for Literacy Leadership Award in 2009, the same year she launched her own record label, "Redneck Records."
Similar examples of redneck ?pride can be heard in the following examples, which is by no means a comprehensive list:
n.b.: The main point expressed in most of these songs is not self-denigrating humor à la Jeff Foxworthy or Chris Rock. Country music more often expresses praise and positive identification with its heritage.
Personally, I'm a Virginia native, and while it's more likely you'd call me a nerd than a redneck, I would not be offended by either. In my experience, Southerners are perfectly likely to identify themselves with the term.
One of my favorite country songs is Sammy Kershaw's Queen of my Double Wide Trailer, with this refrain:
Definitely an example of a red neck being a desirable quality.
I know of a context in which "wife-swapping sodomite" had positive connotations: someone had referred to her political opponents as "a bunch of wife-swappers and sodomites", and some of said opponents made a humorous attack on her out of referring to themselves as "wife-swapping sodomites".
Any negative term can be re-purposed.
While some might argue Lenny Bruce came close, generally they cannot be re-purposed by people outside of the group they describe. The re-purposing often requires humour and while that can be light-hearted, often it's with a certain grim irony that doesn't lose sight of the negative sense. While a few can make complete reversals, they have generally already lost some of the negativity already (gay could probably not have become the neutral term it was if many people realised that it was applied to homosexuals because it once had meanings of "prostitute" and "promiscuous").
You can normally find a bunch of positive uses for just about any term by googling for "X and proud of it" or "I'm an X and proud of it", but to understand such positive senses you have to acquaint yourself more with the demographic and culture it covers than you do with uses of the term generally.
Generally pejorative - I would probably not use it unless you were sure of your audience.
But Jeff Foxworthy and the Blue Collar Comedy have reclaimed it in a humourous context - rather like black comics use of nigger.
Arguably this is General Reference, but the OED entry for slang redneck (orig. N. Amer.) is...
Obviously the white farm labourer would get a red sunburnt neck that wouldn't be noticeable on black workers (also negatively stereotyped at the time). And opinionated reactionaries, etc. can get quite worked up about innovation and change, becoming red in the face and neck when venting their spleen.
I've used and heard redneck many thousands of times, but never once positively. Always negative.
Sometimes people can playfully refer to themselves as "rednecks", but almost always the term is considered a derogatory one and synonymous with "white trash," "bigotry," or overly "provincial" folks. In the U.S. rednecks are thought to come from small farming communities, especially in the south, or blue collar towns. They, however, equally reside in the large cities. Recently, cable TV has begun to glorify the redneck.


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Of course, it's strictly forbidden ever to admit that your little darlings can be little monsters. You can joke about it self-deprecatingly, but you can't actually let on seriously that there are times you just want to escape from them. How could you? Your job is to love them and, if you love them, it follows that you love everything about them. You're supposed to smile indulgently when you're expected to read the same tedious story every night for three months, gaze adoringly as they shriek gratingly while racing around wildly, and laugh with them as they repeat the same unfunny joke for the twenty-fifth time -- incorrectly.
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In fact, they're very good at it. They start pretty much as soon as they're born. That newborn cry is meant to bore into your brain until you do something about it. And boy, does it work. From then on, they get on your nerves routinely. Sometimes it's not even their fault. Actually, the most guilt-ridden thing of all is when you know it's not their fault. But when they've kept you up for three nights in a row teething, it's hard to be sympathetic. You know you should, but actually you just want them to shut up and let you sleep. It's only a tooth, after all.
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I need to install Mysql-server-5.6 in my ubuntu development server 12.04. Now it is running percona-server5.5. How can i upgrade this to mysql-5.6 ?
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I need to install Mysql-server-5.6 in my ubuntu development server 12.04. Now it is running percona-server5.5. How can i upgrade this to mysql-5.6 ?
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I have prepared experimental PPA with MySQL 5.6 packages based on MySQL 5.5 Debian packages. No guarantee that it will work right away, but I would be grateful if you can try it and report back success (or failure).
The PPA can be found at: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/mysql-experimental
There's also a MySQL 5.5 PPA with latest upstream release found at: https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/mysql
I have just written a blog post about upgrading mysql on ubuntu 12.04. You can find my post at http://www.peterchen.net/2013/02/20/en-how-to-install-mysql-5-6-on-ubuntu-12-04-precise/. Hope this will help you.
this tutorial shows you in details how to.. But note that this is done to upgrade to 5.5 i think it's the same for 5.6
I think you should stay with Percona. Both Percona and MariaDB are much better supported, especially on Ubuntu, than the Oracle MySQL distributions. Going the Oracle route will lead to many incompatibilities with how software is being managed, configured, started/stopped, etc. on Ubuntu (or other debian derived distros).
5.6 is very new (as of Feb 2013 the package minor is alpha-60) so the apt-get method is not yet fully supported (for server-5.6) by Percona, as far as I can tell. You can however download the 5.6 *.deb packages for Ubuntu 12.04 from percona.com/downloads/ and then use 'sudo dpkg -i' locally to install them.
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What should I name my new rescue kitty?
Lots of you responded kindly about when I posted about losing a cat and one of our dogs within a few days of each other (http://preview.tinyurl.com/7le9mne) so I thought it only right to come back and announce a new addition to our furbaby family, Last week a co-worker found a kitten (about 6 weeks old!) in the engine of her car. She had heard the meows for at least two days, but could never find anything under the hood until the little critter finally scooted out. We are amazed that it survived her long drives back and forth to work, not to mention the heat of south Louisiana parking lots!
The vet assistants who checked it out and administered shots are equally divided as to whether it's a boy or girl (tough to tell with tiny kittens that don't yet have all of their, um, parts), so we want a name that will suit either. Currently on the table are:
1.) Camry (the kind of car where it was found)
2.) Oreo (black and white)
3.) Cricket (for the constant purr, I guess)
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Not Camry. Just doesn't fit an animal.
Oreo is a solid neutral name and kinda cute.
I've known two Oreos (a hamster and a cat, both with the appropriate markings for the name).
I don't especially like Camry or Cricket.
Can you post a photo?
Booger (short for WoolyBooger). It's the name I lovingly gave our cat. He gets compliments for it all the time
Of the names you posted, Camry works for me. Then again, I have a friend who was aggrieved when his parents sold the car he was born in on the way to the hospital.
My sister had an "Oreo" I called him "Zero" 'nuff said.
Cricket - meh
But that's just me. Kudos for adopting a rescue (all of our dogs are/have been rescues).
Also, FWIW, naming a cat is kinda irrelevant, as they don't come when called. Besides, most pets wind up being called other things anyway, depending on what they've done this time...
I had a friend who named his cat Eighty-Six. That was how much he had to spend at the vet the first day he had the cat. This was 20 years ago, and we were both in school. Rent was $300, so $86 was a good chunk of change back then. And now I feel old.
@barnabee: Lol..Barnabee would actually be a pretty cute name for a kitty cat. Much better than "A Bitter Woman."
I'd go with Paul.
@belyndag So happy for you! Neat rescue story, too.
Vanilla-Inky Referencing the white (Vanilla) and black (Inky). Also w/a nod to @inkycatz. When you determine the gender you could call it 'Nilla if it's a female, Inky if it's a male. OTOH those names are interchangeable. ;-)
Lucky - so many sadly do not find a forever home.
What is the make of the engine in that car? (Because she/it was so desperately trying to imitate it....)
I dubbed one of my past rescue cats Evinrude (aka Rudy) because he was found on a boat and purred like an engine almost nonstop.
Oreo is much too common/obvious, IMO. I do like Camry, though.
Get the actual veterinarian (not just the techs) to visually 'sex' the kitten. It can be done very young, but takes much skill and experience to do so accurately. If it was old enough to have gotten vaccines, it s old enough to be accurately sexed by someone who knows how to do so.
Oreo's a little too cutesy for me. It would also make me want to eat nothing but Oreos.
Camry doesn't really roll off the tongue--Cameron, maybe? Or expand the possibilities: What street was it found on? Who is your favorite singer?
Or if it's a girl, you could name it Car-ly.
Or maybe Phoenix. . .it didn't rise up from the ashes, but it came out from an intense engine heat.
I prefer human names for pets, myself--the less pet-sounding, the better. If I knew it was a boy, I'd call it Stewart.
You can also wait till you know the sex. As you probably know, cats don't usually come when you call them anyway. :)
Congrats on your new rescue!
@reginafilangee: I agree. My guy was about 12 weeks, and I'm guessing yours is probably smaller, but it can definitely be done. In fact, if you posted a picture of its, um, parts on here or on a cat message board, you'd probably get an answer pretty quickly.
@captainsuperdawg: That is my cat's name for the exact same reason!
A+ for Camry. Unique. Fitting.
Congratulations and many kitteh snuggles.
@75grandville: I have two cats who come when called. Well, one of them comes when I call either his name or his brother's, but that's because he just really wants attention. But they both definitely know and respond to their names.
Both my kitties are black and white. The smaller one is Doc, the larger one Iggy. They came with the names Franky and Igor (pronounciations from Young Frankenstein). Growing up we had a female black and white named Moose (it worked for her). My sister's family had one named JR who was the coolest cat ever, would play fetch, stole food off your plate if you weren't careful (he loved shrimp and steak). They currently have a black and white named Apollo.
A suggestion: don't name the cat just yet. Let it declare itself.
We had adopeted a grehound and named it something dumb for the first week we had it. The following weekend we were sitting outside on the front step with the dog and Forrest Gump was on TV. It fit so perfectly, he became Forrest Gump (Forrest, or more commonly Gumpie).
After that we waited a bit. Starbuck, Sebastian, Allie Rose, and Montana were all named by waiting at least a few days to find one that fit. Don't be in a rush. The one exception was the second grehound to go with Forrest. She was named Jenny (which also happily turned out well. Forrest was a Forrest and Jenny was a Jenny).
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Grats on the new kitty! I say you take all these ideas, and see what kitty responds to. That's how I named my current cat. :)
Of course realize that "GETOFFTHERE" is also a legit name and likely to be used more than anything you name the kitty :D
I'm in for +1 on Camry. Congrats on the new cat!
@wilfbrim: One of the rescue pups who adopted me happened to be a Chihuahua. Please don't judge me----i am SO 'not' a chihuahua person, but he wormed his way into my heart and now I've become the type of dog owner I used to make fun of. Anyway.....
We went through a whole naming ordeal with him, too----nothing seemed to fit.
So his actual "real" name is Nacho Cuervo Bandito Burrito Guacamole-----but I call him Waldo for short. That's because he "blends" into the ground when outside because he has a Cloak of Invisibility he can turn on and off at will, and I was constantly asking the other dogs, "where's Nacho?" even though he was standing not two feet away and he'd look up at me to say, "I'm right HERE.". Happened so often that it just started coming out of my mouth as "where's Waldo?" instead. So that's what stuck.
If it were my cat, I'd name it for an engine part. Maybe Piston.
@codex: Piston = Dangerous name. Might be a self-fulfilling prophecy. :-/
@baqui63: I've never tried using DropBox for photos before (and it's blocked at work so this is a workaround for me). Please let me know if this works. It's not a great photo, but it's the one my co-worker sent that told me I HAD to have this kitty!
So many great suggestions! Thanks, Wooters!
@capguncowboy: WoolyBooger is an old family joke for us, used in reference to many things. I hadn't thought of this as a name, although DH calls all of the furbabies "BoogerButt" on occasion. (Endearing, right?) Definitely adding this to the list!
I love all of the comments about cats not coming when called. I always tell people that the difference between dogs and cats is that dogs think of you as family, cats think of you as [u]staff[/u]!
DH usually names our critters, and has done a good job with one notable exception: She was 10 when we got the kids their first puppies and she named her border collie "Cuddles." Urgh! Poor pup. Imagine being a born-to-work herding dog with the undignified name of "Cuddles." DH is pushing to name the kitty "April" since she firmly believes it's a girl and that it must have been born in April. I'm not too keen on that one.
@inkycatz: One of my favorite cartoons I saved in my collection has a dog introducing himself to another dog by saying, "Hello, my name's 'No! No! Bad dog! What's yours?' "
@reginafilangee: There's nothing wrong with a chihuahua (unless you carry it around all day in a little pink puppy tote and let it yip all the time!) My grandmother always had one and hers were plain old dogs who just happened to be smaller in stature than their minds could comprehend. Chihuahuas are large dogs trapped in small bodies. Good "parenting" pays off with them. No judging from me!
I tend to like the suggestions that we wait to see what kind of personality develops. Right now he/she/it is bonding pretty strongly with me (hooray!) and, surprisingly, with DH (who always claimed he wasn't an "animal guy" but can be heard to actually say "Coochie coochie coo!" to the little critter). The kitty's biggest personality quirk so far is a desire to nap close to your FACE rather than in a lap. Interesting!
Link to pic worked fine for me. Not all that original of a name, but with that face, Freckles could work.
I have a black and white rescue we named "Cookie" instead of Oreo. Then we found out she was a HE. So, now he's Cookie Monster, and believe me, the name fits! He went from a tiny ball of fluff to a very large tuxedo cat. He also eats everything in sight, so the name is very apropos.
Other names for black and whites:
Double stuff
Why not call him/her Woot? :O)
I like Camry, but shortening it to Cam for a boy or Cammie for a girl.
Unique names also help at the vet. :)
@belyndag: My Border Collie's full name is No! No! Bad Dog Maggie! Yep, seriously. Maggie is the kind of dog that is ALWAYS into something. She just never stops. She's the third rescue Border Collie I've owned. We thought she would mellow out as she got older. Ha! She's eight years old now and still into everything.
So, barnabee isn't looking too good, huh? It would be a great name! Full name Barnabee--nick name Barney if a male and Bee if a female. Sounds good to me!
I used to have a big, overweight (yeah, fat) cat named Barney. Barney was not the brightest kitty cat; he couldn't find his way out of a corner--literally. He would get stuck facing toward a corner. We'd hear this pathetic little meow and we would have to go and pick him up and turn him around. He was a wonderful cat.
I still think barnabee would be a great name...
@barnabee: LOL! Barnabee is, indeed, a wonderful name. DD isn't buying it, but I'm adding it to the short list for DH and DS to review. They are still sold on Camry (Cammie, whatever), and DD is still pushing April, and I'm leaning heavily toward the "wait a bit more and see what sticks" theory.
Congrats on the new addition - hope you are healing and he/she is helping you find comfort.
Add me to the +1 for Camry. I'm still trying to figure out the name for my most recent adoption...he definitely fits the initial name of Spidermonkey, however that is one heck of a mouthful. We have shortened it to spidey, monkey, etc. My hubby calls him PITA (pain in the ...). Most of our pets usually have about 10 names each. But his official name is Spidermonkey, according to the vet. I agree with @inkycatz - it helps a lot at the vet if the name is memorable.
@belyndag: Oh, what a sweetheart! I'm not a cat person, but I'm in love with that adorable little thing! Congratulations on your new munchkin! Personally, I think "Camry" is a great name. @inkycatz has a great point about unique names helping at the vets' office (and at the groomers', for dogs). I'm not comfortable posting my dogs' names here, but they fit the same category as "Camry": words that people understand upon hearing the name once, but not common names for animals.
"Camry" is a word that can be pronounced very differently in different parts of the country. I'd say "CAM-rhee" with a soft-ish vowel sound in the second syllable. 'Round these here parts where I live now, I think the second syllable would be a much sharper sound that might be less adorable. So that might be one reason why there's varied reaction in this thread to the name...
Aww, I just saw your little kitty. From the angle of the picture, she kind of looks like Gizmo from the movie Gremlins. In case you never saw the movie, Gizmo was a sweetie, too--well, most of the time.
@belyndag @barnabee: When I took my older dog to puppy training, we were told to say the dog's name and the recall command once, and then do whatever it took to get the puppy's attention without repeating either their name or the command. The trainer's example was "Spot! Come! Puppy puppy puppppppppy!" Guess what the older dog responds to as a recall command...
Yup, "Puppy puppy puppppppppppy!" :)
@barnabee: Gizmo was one of the names my kids suggested. Funny thing is that the Shih Tzu, Lexie, looks like either Gizmo or an Ewok. All of our critters are black and white, too. It didn't start out that way intentionally, but now we find that we see a black and white creature and think of how well it will fit into our herd.
personally id name it woot! or jumbocat or something hahaha
but out of the list i would pick oreo, i had a cat that passed away a few years ago, so it has some meaning to me
@neuropsychosocial: And do you yell it loud enough for your neighbors to hear? Do they think you are crazy or do then KNOW it?
@belyndag: I collected black and white critters for a while, now I'm branching out to blondes (cat and Labrador). I have discovered that the blonde hair blends in better with my carpet.
It worked. Cute little guy, very similar to both of mine (though even my smaller one is probably eight or ten times his(?) size).
I'm thinking Oreo doesn't fit. I still don't especially like Camry either.
You said he(?) was making a lot of noise while in the engine compartment... Perhaps Squeak or Squeaky?
Though I'm also in agreement with those above who have suggested waiting a while so you can better pick his(?) name.
And both of my cats will come when called (not always, they are cats after all) but they are about as responsive as my daughters.
I'd vote for Camry as well, but as previously mentioned it will probably only be for records.
@barnabee: I have a Border Collie rescue, too. :)
Since you're on your third one, you really need to read this book:
Nop's Trials, by Donald McCaig
It has been out of print for several yrs, but I've ordered used copies from Amazon that have been in really good shape (I give them to people who have BC's.) I first read it early in high school, but it's something I've enjoyed re-reading as an adult. Awesome story that helps one understand how the mind of this particular breed works.
ETA: http://www.amazon.com/Nops-Trials-Donald-McCaig/dp/1558211853
i know you asked for some sex-less names. if i had some good ones, i'd share 'em.
i agree - wait until the feline lets you know.
don't wait too long - lest you end up with some 15 yo cats named boy one and girl one ; )
female - blanche or zoey
male - stanley
if more ideas come, i'll post again
That is the most adorable kitty!
I'm awful at naming stuff, so I have no suggestions.
It is really a cute kitty!
@barnabee: Well, the black and white critters worked well when we had gray carpet. The hairballs were made of mixed hairs that blended nicely. Now that we've pulled that carpet up and have mostly bamboo floors, I hate to get rid of my critters just to go with my color scheme. Perhaps Lady Clairol makes something that will do the trick! Nah, guess I just need to use my Woot-purchased Roomba a bit more often.
@baqui63: "And both of my cats will come when called (not always, they are cats after all) but they are about as responsive as my daughters."
As Adrian Monk would say, "This made me LOL out loud."
@reginafilangee: The dog I recently lost was a border collie. We still have her sister. Thanks for the book link. I have read just about everything Jon Katz has written about his border collies, but I had never read Donald McCaig. I've added these to my wish list.
@dontwantaname: You think you're awful at naming stuff? Seriously? With a name like "dontwantaname"? It doesn't get much better than that!
I just realized how strange it looks that I'm posting so many responses in a row. LOL! Took my BIL out to dinner for his birthday and finally got a chance to read all of the great responses. Thanks, folks.
I just wanted to add a note about spaying and neutering your cats, and about the need for more cat adoptions. I got a call today from a coworker in one of our regional offices. She was trying to save some 2 week old kittens whose mother had disappeared (she assumed it was hit by a car). Although my friend was willing to bottle feed the tiny things, she had been unable to find the kitten formula at any of the stores in her area because, as she was told by several vets and pet supply store owners, there are just so very many unwanted kittens in that area that they just can't keep up with the demand. This is so sad. I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but I wanted to pass that along. Please support spaying and neutering programs, and adopt those kitties!
@belyndag: I think you'll really like it, too, then. Let me know! I'll caution you that there are a few intensely emotional parts of the book, but wouldn't recommend it if that weren't crucial to the progression of the story, and makes the ending all the more worthwhile. The book is written from Nop's (the dog's) perspective, and he was a real dog----it's sorta like his "memoirs," as recounted through the imagination of his person/employer.


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Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and a Democratic candidate for mayor, wants meters shut off during the hours when drivers are not required to pay for parking.
May 2, 2013, Thursday
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A platinum-iridium cylinder in France is the official standard for weight, but in 134 years it has gained a little weight, a fraction of that of a grain of sand.
February 12, 2013, Tuesday
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June 13, 2012, Wednesday
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May 31, 2012, Thursday
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February 10, 2012, Friday
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To DVR or not to DVR?
So I'm getting one of those phone/internet/cable packages for my apartment, as I've been dragging my feet on that issue since I moved in.
My question is, should I get the DVR to go with it? The cost for the first year will be just shy of $80/mo. To have the DVR rental, it would cost $11 more a month, totaling at around $91/mo. I have an HDTV, but the cost for HD channels and such has no additional charge.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments?
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Absolutely without question, yes, get the DVR. It's worth the money to be able to skip commercials alone. And can you even put a price on the ability to pause your TV so you can answer the phone or go to the bathroom?
I've always used a computer as a DVR. Windows 7 Media Center is pretty awesome for that task. However, I haven't had cable since Comcast started encrypting channels, necessitating the use of a DTA or cablecard. Probably isn't really prudent anymore if only looking for straight-up DVR service. However, if you're technically inclined enough to benefit from the flexibility a computer provides, then it's worth consideration.
Over the past several years I've always had my DVR and used it very often up until recently. After my move I decided to go without the DVR option with my Cable/Internet bundle and I can honestly say that I haven't really missed it. If TV shows are missed I can typically find them online usually free of charge after a certain amount of time, sometimes even instantly. If I miss sporting events I will usually just go online and check the box score and then watch any highlights or read articles on the event. While yes it was convenient at the time to be able to save all of these in one location saving upwards of $100+ a year was worth it in my opinion.
If you watch 2 hours of TV per day, in one week you'll have 7 hours of extra time from skipping commercials. Fifteen minutes of every hour of TV is ads. A DVR is like AdBlock+ for your TV. That's how much better it makes the experience.
@rprebel: That's 3.5 hours.
2hours/day = 14 hours of TV/week. 15 min of each hour is commercials so 1/4 of the time is commercials, so 14 hours * .25 = 3.5 hours.
@first2summit: lol I just realized that, so I hit F5 to see if anybody called me on it. You win!
@first2summit: Oops, I forgot your prize. 2nd attempt. I can't seem to get anything right today.
I think you can get a deal, from your cable company, for that DVR, if you push hard enough. I have had deals, several times, that gave me 2 HD DVRs free for a year.
While I would like to have a DVR, I don't see me using it enough to justify the price. As was mentioned before, it will be available soon/instantly over the interwebz. @rprebel: I still can't get the danged picture-imbedding thing right on DW. Any easy instructions?
Except that an hour of TV is rarely more than 42.5 minutes, so your numbers need a bit of adjustment (figure on 29-30% crap)..
For $11 more a month (and it is probably more than that after taxes), I'd say build your own DVR. I've been using home built DVRs for over a decade (maybe over 15 years).
I can strip the commercials out of what I record or just mark it and then skip over the commercials with a signle button press.
If I want to put the video I've recorded on my phone or tablet or give it to my daughter, I can. My firends who have FIOS and other DVRs have all sorts of PITA restrictions on what they can do.
@jnissel: That's a good point. If they want your business bad enough they'll negotiate. my DirecTv contract just expired and I told them I was consdiering switching to UVerse. I got them to take $30 off my bill for the first 12 months then $10 off for the next 12 months after that, and they threw in six months of Starz and Showtime as well.
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I say NO DVR. I personally refuse to let TV be that important in my daily life. If I can't watch it then I will either watch it when it comes on again (if it does) or I just miss it. Although, I know people who DVR just so that they can FF thru the commercials.
Funny, but your reasoning (TV just isn't that important to me) is one of my reasons for using a DVR, probably second to stripping out commercials, which is my main reason by far.
So much of the time, I'll "bank" episodes of a show and watch it as a marathon near or after the end of the season, either during bad weather or when I'm home sick or cannot sleep or traveling but not doing the driving.
@driley1974: I agree with baqui63. your reasoning is one of the reasons I got my DVR and it was the sole reason I was able to convince my wife we needed it. She got tired of having to plan schedules around shows we wanted to watch so now we DVR everything and watch it all on the weekends. It's worked out great!!
@baqui63: I would also like to add, I do not need to be in front of my TV when the show is aired. I can wait, I can watch it live (once you get DVR you may never do that again).
I almost never watch shows live anymore, as it makes more sense to wait for enough of the show to be recorded that commercials can be skipped without having to wait, for example, about 17.5 minutes for an hour long show. (My DVR setup processes shows once they are recorded and marks where commercials are located so they can (usually) be skipped with a single buttonpress... before the shows are processed, I can skip forward in 30-second jumps.)
Find out how much your cable company charges for a CableCard - with one of those, you can get your own DVR and save on monthly fees. Yes, it might cost more up-front, but you'll own it.
@baqui63: And the plus of banking for a marathon is for new shows. Wait until you know it won't be cancelled mid-season, then enjoy your show knowing it's actually worth it.
MY problem with DVR is I can't figure how to get shows off my Direct TV DVR box.
We just switched to DirectTV back in June and it automatically came with the HD DVR.
To be honest, it really depends what your needs are. If theres a show you really want to watch but you won't be home (ie: sports games, movies, tv shows etc) then that's one point for the DVR. Another good point for the DVR is that you can pause and rewind on the show you're watching (could only rewind to the point where you switched to the channel unless it was already pre-recording). Pretty cool if you want to watch an instant replay of something funny/interesting that just happened on TV (you could google/youtube examples). With DirectTV you could also schedule the DVR to record a show from your smartphone. Also with directTV you could also view and record shows from other TVs in the house (as long as you have the proper receivers).
That's pretty much it with the DVR. The only complaint I have is that with 300 hours of DVR time, it could barely record like 10 episodes of the Olympics.
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So it really depends if you really need these features. If you think you can live without it, just save your money!
What sucked for us is that my parents changed their minds with the number of receivers we ordered and they changed their minds again once the cable guy was in our home, but we'd have to pay extra (that what was once free before the guy came) for the receiver my parents took out from the initial order. Just saying though. So one of our TVs ended up as standard definition (which looks so crappy now from watching HD) without the DVR functions.


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The rig, located in shallow water off Grand Isle, Louisiana, has been leaking natural gas. It ignited about 10:50 Tuesday evening, according to the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. The crew had evacuated Tuesday morning and no one was aboard when it caught fire.
By ALISON SIDER and TOM FOWLER
The drilling rig that caught fire off the coast of Louisiana
Tuesday night has started to collapse in on itself as natural
gas continues to spew out of the shallow-water well it was
drilling, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Two firefighting vessels that were in the area had to move
away from the burning rig, the federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a
statement, adding that a third firefighting ship is heading to
the site.
Walter Oil & Gas, which leased the well, is preparing to
move another drilling rig nearby in case a relief well is
needed to stop the flow of gas, regulators said.
The rig, owned by Houston-based Hercules Offshore, was
evacuated Tuesday morning after the well it was drilling blew
out. All 44 crewmembers evacuated safely from the rig, which
was located in 154 feet of water about 55 miles off Grand Isle,
Louisiana. The gas ignited about 10:50 p.m. local time on
Tuesday, regulators said.
Analysts said the rig was equipped with blowout preventers,
the safety equipment that is meant to shut off out-of-control
oil and gas wells. A spokesman for Walter Oil & Gas
initially said the blowout preventer appeared to have failed,
but the company later said it was still investigating the
incident and wouldn't know the cause of the blowout, or why the
well continues to flow, for some time.
The failure of a blowout preventer far below the sea was
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killed 11 workers and led to the biggest offshore oil spill in
US history.
Tuesday's incident came after workers lost control of
another well earlier this month in the shallow waters of the
Gulf of Mexico, where workers were in the process of plugging
an aging well owned by Talos Energy. That well leaked a small
amount of gas and liquid before it was plugged.
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The $400 million expansion efforts will provide the company with the necessary manufacturing capabilities to readily supply global demand while positioning its CPVC business for future growth.
Lubrizol is planning a four-year, $400 million (MM) global
expansion of its chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin
and compounding manufacturing sites. The company says that the
expansion efforts will provide it
the necessary manufacturing capabilities to readily supply
global demand while positioning its CPVC business for future
With continued strong global demand for the companys CPVC
compounds, Lubrizols expansion efforts will be divided
into two phases. Phase 1 is scheduled to be operational by
the end of 2014, with a total capacity of 85,000 metric tons of
CPVC resin and 100,000 metric tons of CPVC compound. Total
investment for Phase 1 is estimated at approximately $200
Phase 1 includes the previously announced construction of a new CPVC resin and
compounding facility in the US. Initial resin capacity will be
55,000 metric tons, and compound capacity will be 65,000 metric
tons, with a total investment of $125 MM.
This phase will also see Lubrizol build a new CPVC compounding
plant and warehouse in India. The $40 MM total investment
for this project includes an initial capacity
of 35,000 metric tons. The sites that are under final
consideration are located in Gujarat and Maharashtra.
The final plank of Phase 1 is a previously announced joint
investment in a CPVC resin manufacturing facility in Thailand.
Initial capacity will be 30,000 metric tons, with a total
investment of $50 MM, subject to receipt of all necessary
government approvals.
Phase 2 is targeted to be operational by the end of 2016.
It will add 85,000 metric tons of CPVC resin and 100,000 metric
tons of CPVC compound, with total additional investment of
approximately $200 MM. Phase 2 will also include the
consideration of sites in the US and India that would allow for an
additional 55,000 metric tons of resin capacity and 65,000
metric tons of compound capacity.
Another part of Phase 2 would be the expansion of the
Phase 1 India compounding plant, adding
35,000 metric tons of capacity. Total additional investment for
this action would be $15 MM. Phase 2 will also see
the expansion of the Phase 1 joint
investment plant in Thailand, adding 30,000 metric tons of
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These are inspired by the Sleepless Goat Cafe in Kingston, a very cool vegan-friendly place we used to frequent when we went to Queen's (ah, sweet, sweet nostalgia). They are incredibly tasty with a crispy tortilla outside and a sweet cinnamony inside.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Sweet Potato Quesedillas
These are inspired by the Sleepless Goat Cafe in Kingston, a very cool vegan-friendly place we used to frequent when we went to Queen's (ah, sweet, sweet nostalgia). They are incredibly tasty with a crispy tortilla outside and a sweet cinnamony inside.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 8:59 PM
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- wingraclaire said...
Thanks for the awesomely delicious recipe! I added some toasted, chopped walnuts also. We liked the filling so much that we decided to try it in some puff pastry for American Thanksgiving, and we'll let you know how it comes out.
As long as we were making quesedillas, we also made more traditional ones, with refried black beans, avocado, olives and Better Than Cream Cheese, and dipped it in salsa.
- October 20, 2007 at 8:33 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Thanks for the post and the suggestion of the walnuts--sounds great. I'll wager that pecans would be awesome too (I still have some from Georgia in my frezer). Seeing the pics on your blog reminded me of my time in Ohio where Friday night highschool football reigned supreme (well, right behind OSU football, of course).
- October 22, 2007 at 10:40 PM
- Lebkuchen said...
Wow, these were awesome! And I added some toasted pecans per your suggestion - YUM! These were so incredible and SO EASY!! I served them with a black bean and mango salad. Thanks!
- October 14, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Roadbike said...
Ha! This is crazy! In an effort to try and figure out a good jumping off point for my own blog that I'm working on formatting right now I decided to go back through some of my favorite vegan blogs and see how they kicked things off (not having a camera of my own's going to make this a bit of a challenge, I can already tell) and, in the hunt for your first post, came across the mention of the Goat!
I'm stoked to say that, starting in September, I'm getting scheduled there as a cook and am hoping to have some great vegan lunch specials highlighted on my blog after I get running with 'em. Any suggestions for a new blogger who's more used to the hands-on feeling of zine making?
- August 5, 2009 at 5:20 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Ah, the Goat. How I miss it.
As for the blog, you really do need a camera. Most of a blog's success, I think, comes from great pics and a simple, bright layout. You can have great recipes, but if your pics are muddy and dark then people won't stick around for long. Check out Fat Free Vegan, Chow Vegan, and Have Cake Will Travel for good examples.
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Are there any open-source alternatives to VST/AU/RTAS that work across multiple OSs and can be used in host-programs such as Ableton's Live that are either in development or fully functional?
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Unfortunately, no. Programs like Ableton Live only host certain kinds of plugins. In the case of Live, these are VST and AU. So even if someone had come up with another format for plugins, your host program wouldn't be able to load them.
Audio Units is an API which is compatible with Open Source Software licenses. There can, in theory, be open source plugins released in AU format. In practice, there are not a lot of high quality ones available (that I know of), but here are some that I found:
Of course, AU is not cross platform, so maybe those won't work for you. VST and RTAS, on the other hand, seem to be incompatible with OSS licenses. :(
There are at least 2 open-source standards for audio plugins in the Linux world, LADSPA and its erstwhile successor LV2. They were designed for Linux, but at least LADSPA has been ported to Windows and Mac OS, and there are cross-platform hosts such as Audacity that support LADSPA plugins on all 3 platforms.
If you aren't stuck on a particular DAW platform (I don't think any of the commercial ones support LADSPA plugins), you might look into it. There are a lot of good free plugins for dynamics and EQ; the reverb options are limited but there are several good ones; and if you prefer "bang" over "bling" in your plugins you will find a very high bang/bling ratio in the open source world.
There are a many open source VST plugins. Many of these can be compiled cross-platform. Here's a few of them:
Don't know if that is what you want, but it may be pertinent: Juce http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juce.php which allows parallel development of plugins for AU, VST, RTAS... (if you already have VST, RTAS [...] SDKs).


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List<int> instead. Is there a difference and would there be a use case where one structure would be preferred over the other?
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So I ran into a
You would use a
The immediate example that comes to mind is storing an id column and an int column in a database. For example, if you have a
But really, any time you have two related lists of integers, this could be an appropriate data structure.
Think of the
For example, say you wanted to store an association between a person's age and their height. You could use a
Not a very useful example, but the point is you wouldn't be able to do this as elegantly with a
Semantically, a
Which one you will choose should depend on the range of the key values. If your keys in the
If your key values are 100
How can anyone consider them equivalent?
Dictionary is sparse and permits random insertions but makes in-order traversal a problem, List is not sparse and an out of order insertion is expensive, it inherently provides in-order traversal.
There would be very few situations where one wasn't dramatically superior to the other.
The Dictionary uses hashing to search for the data. A Dictionary first calculated a hash value for the key and this hash value leads to the target data bucket. After that, each element in the bucket needs to be checked for equality. But actually the list will be faster than the dictionary on the first item search because nothing to search in the first step. But in the second step, the list has to look through the first item, and then the second item. So each step the lookup takes more and more time. The larger the list, the longer it takes.
More about .... Dictionary Vs List with example.
Aside: Other programming languages refer to this type of data structure as a Map, rather than a Dictionary.
If your data can meaningfully be defined as key/value pairs, then a Dictionary will provide much faster access if you need to find a value using its key.
For example, suppose you have a list of Customers. Each Customer includes details such as a name and address, and a unique customer number. Suppose you also have a list of Orders being processed. Each Order will contain details of what is being made, and will need to include the customer number of the person who ordered it.
When an order is ready to ship, you need to find the address to ship it to. If the customers are stored as a plain List, then you need to search the entire list to find the customer with the right customer number. Instead, you could store the customers in a Dictionary, with the customer number as the key. The Dictionary will now let you pull out the correct customer in one step without any searching.
If the code in question is storing two sets of correlated values, the Dictionary class provides an indexed way of looking up values by a key. If there is only one set of values, but that set needs to be accessed randomly (perhaps to check for the existence of a key in a set), and the values are unique, a HashSet might be the best set class to use.
These are great answers that seem to cover the bases.
Another consideration I will offer is that Dictionaries (in C#) are more complex from a coding perspective. Having both lists and dictionaries in the same codebase makes your code harder to maintain in that both methods have subtle differences in how to do basic operations such as searching and marshalling object data. My perspective is that unless you need a dictionary for some justifiable reason, use a list.
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Cut the-cuts excuse Throughout his campaign for re-election, President Obama has subtly implied on numerous occasions that tax cuts championed by his predecessor, George W. Bush, were partly to blame for the economic downturn that has plagued Americans since late 2007. "Now Gov. (Mitt) Romney believes that with even bigger tax cuts for the wealthy ... all of us will prosper. In other words, he'd double down on the same trickle-down policies that led to the crisis in the first place," the president says in a new TV advertisement. However, Glenn Kessler, fact-check guru at The Washington Post, says this just is not the case. "It is time for the Obama campaign to retire this talking point, no matter how much it seems to resonate with voters. The financial crisis of 2008 stemmed from a variety of complex factors ... the Bush tax cuts belong at the bottom of the list — if at all," Mr. Kessler wrote Oct. 1. That's pretty devastating coming from a famously liberal newspaper.
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Swimming the Thames?
Planning to return to the Big Apple, once grading is finished, I consulted the current New Yorker for musical events during the Christmas season. I found this intriguing notice:
Harold Rosenberg's Canticum Novum Singers team up with Parthenia, New York's invaluable consort of viols, to offer "A Renaissance Advent," a program of works by such composers as Josquin, Palestrina, and Handel, in the High Anglican ambience of St. Ignatius Loyola Church.
When pressed to comment, Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, S.J., only muttered that he's checking it out with his Superiors on the Borgo Santo Spirito.
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See? Can't trust those Jebbies.
One thing about swimmers. They tend to go with as well as against the current.
Good heavens. And it's modeled on the Gesu, no less! Oh dear.
The Episcopalians are coming!! Here's another heads-up from today's WSJ:Trinity Church Wall Street (Episcopalian) musicians will soon perform in the Church of St. Jean Baptiste (still Catholic as of this writing - but for how long?)."Note: Trinity is sponsoring a lavish Twelfth Night Festival of early music at various venues, including Ms. Greenleaf and her Green Mountain Project's third annual Monteverdi Vespers of 1640, a work similar in scale and drama to "Messiah," on Jan. 3 and 4 at St. John Baptiste Church. See Trinity's website for details."http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020351840457709634195624325... that the diabolically clever Episcopalian have already anglicized the church's name, substituting "John" for "Jean." They will stop at nothing.
Reports streaming in that the Dominicans at Saint Vincent Ferrer are piling sandbags against the expected assault and are in desperate contact with Archbishop DiNoia, O.P., at CDW, as to whether precious chalices can be camouflaged as ordinary cups.The crucial issue, however, is whether Saint Thomas More, manning the northern line at 92nd Street, will hold firm or will the offer of Wales prove too strong even for the intrepid martyr to resist.
The New Yorker and Commonweal Catholics should be pleased as punch at the implications of that notice: Real Catholics don't have anything to do with bells and smells - they threw out all that trash fifty years ago. St. Ignatius Loyola is just channeling this Anglican-only stuff for its quaint artistic value.
New York does have an Episcopal church named for St. Ignatius of Antioch - maybe this was just an innocent mistake, or a person who conflated the two churches?
We were planning to to to Saint Ignatius for Christmas Eve Mass - thanks for the warning. I will wear garlic around my neck and clutch Grandma's old crucifix!
In Marshfield, Vermont (where one of my daughters lives) is to be found the Christ Covenant Anglican Catholic Church. According to said daughter, it is a strict and narrow sect, where women and children know their places and keep to them. Where the name came from, I haven't the foggiest. Their website, which gives little information, carries the normal coat of arms of the Episcopal Church and those of the Missionary Diocese of New England, A.D. 1978. The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont does not list Marshfield as one of its churches. Someone more familiar with the ins and outs of Anglican ecclesiastical politicking may know more than I. My knowledge stops pretty much with Anthony Trollope, and Mrs. Bishop Proudie.But then I don't know where the Green Mountain Project got its name, either; certainly not from Vermont. Presumably it comes from Monteverdi (a speciality), but it seems to be a New York group plagiarizing what locals around here consider to be their property. In any case, I wish I could hear them; they've been performing at St. Mary the Virgin in NY, as well as St. Ignatius.
As KR suggested, it is St. Ignatius of Antioch, the Episcopal church on West End Avenue at 87th St. http://canticumnovumsingers.org/The architecture is High Anglican - complete with rood screen. See the picture at the link.
Nicholas Clifford, looks as if it is part of the Anglican Catholic Church, which describes itself this way:The 20th century has seen the rise of utilitarian education, mass consumerism and an insatiable quest for novelty. Much of world Anglicanism has responded suicidally by abandoning its Catholic heritage and actually adopting, rather than seeking to transform, the secular spirit of the age (Zeitgeist). By contrast, the ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH stands fully restored in the constant tradition of the undivided Church: the only sure basis for Christian unity.http://www.anglicancatholic.org/main/brochure/The church in Marshfield Vt. Is listed on the website of the Anglican Catholic diocese:http://www.mdne.org/index.htmHere's the international web page of the Anglican Catholic Church.http://www.anglicancatholic.org/
I'd say that calling something "high Anglican" would be a compliment to its good taste. Certainly, the language would be soaring but clear, the music would be divine, and there would be no bongo drums, geetars, or happy clappy hand-holding.Highever, let me clear up some misinformation here: The Anglican Cathholic Church is NOT in communion with the See of Canterbury (the Anglican Church worldwide). It is a schismatic sect in the Anglican tradition. You can find out who's "in" and who's "out" here.http://anglicansonline.org/communion/index.htmlPlease note, however, that no baptized Christian is turned away from the Eucharist, so not being in "communion" with the See of Canturbury does not mean that any Anglican church would refuse table service of an Anglican Catholic.Not being in communion means that the Anglican Catholics may not participate in the Lambeth Conference and they are not part of nor do they contribute in any way to any official Anglican diocese.The Anglican Catholics tried to start up a church hereabouts, trying to pull in those against ordination of women and gays. Most of those disaffected Episcopalians went over to the Catholics (cuz nobody THERE argues about these things ...) More misinfo like this and I'll have to sic Mrs. Proudie on alla yez.
Rec: Most of those disaffected Episcopalians went over to the ROMAN Catholics ...Too many people calling themselves Catholics ...
Id say that calling something high Anglican would be a compliment to its good taste. Certainly, the language would be soaring but clear, the music would be divine, and there would be no bongo drums, geetars, or happy clappy hand-holding.
Sounds lovely, Jean. Mostly elderly folk, or is there a young contingent?
"Mostly elderly folk, or is there a young contingent?"Who would know? High Anglicans are all usually Country Club Republicans and look like Tucker Carlson. You can't really tell their ages. I always enjoyed going under cover in heels, understated jewelry, and a black suit for a spikey Anglican Mass. Part of the allure of Catholicism is being able to dust off your pants and rush off to Saturday night mass after you get your casserole in the oven.
I have attended Sunday liturgy at St. Ignatius of Antioch several times. It seemed like a wonderful parish, unless you really longed for bongo drums. On the first occasion, I couldn't help but waste my time thinking about what then-Cardinal Ratzinger would make of the liturgy. It was in English, of course, but there was more sung Latin from the choir than I had heard in ages. The liturgy was celebrated facing the altar, not the congregation. The priest, deacon, and subdeacon, all in "I formation," were vested in chasubles of a style I had not seen in decades. One point would have proved interesting for the Cardinal, however: the celebrant was a woman. Besides its high Anglican character, St. Ignatius of Antioch, at least as of that date, had a very active social ministry including assistance to those with AIDS. In fact, the second time I attended it was because St. Ignatius had funded a well in one of the South African communities whose water had been cut off by the apartheid government. A black South African Anglican priest had brought water from that well back to Manhattan (would be difficult today because of post-9/11 security) to be blessed and used in St. Ignatius's baptismal font. A very moving ceremony, and I wrote about it in The Times. A third time I went for the funeral of the wonderfully contrarian columnist Murray Kempton. The church was packed and I mostly remember the time I spent outside on the sidewalk. On one of the earlier visits, I recall learning that the contemporary composer Charles Wuorinen was a congregant. Was I introduced to him at the coffee hour, or was I simply told this? Churches like this are a serious temptation to Catholics whose souls are wearied by mediocre leadership and ecclesiastical feuds -- until we look at the leadership (Rowan Williams and N.T. Wright and some others excepted) and feuds of the Episcopal church and the Anglican Communion.
I dunno, I've swum both Thames and Tiber. Seems to me that both groups have a whole lot of leadership problems and squabbles at the lower levels about who should leave to make the faith purer or more pleasing to God.At heart, it's not about the leaders (Cardinal Law or Bishop Tutu? Please! No contest!) or who's got the better liturgical show (spikey Anglicans win hands-down every time). It's about healing the broken Body of Christ. I don't feel comfy in the Catholic Church, and I'm not sure Catholics feel comfy with me (so I spare them my presence at the Table), but that's where the teachings of Jesus Christ and the traditions of the early church have lived and thrived the longest, and if my standing there uncomfortably, struggling with those teachings, living them even in my very imperfect way, helps maintain that, then I that's where I belong.


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#2. Re-Animated
We don't think anyone can disagree with this statement: children are incredibly stupid. Animators know this. So, sure, when they're making a cartoon they could draw the main character crapping his pants every single time it happens, but that costs money. It's not like kids are going to notice. No, just grab the frames from the last time you did it and BAM, you're done. They do it on The Simpsons and Saturday morning cartoons.
But you probably already assumed those things were cranked out in some Korean sweatshop anyway and are probably always cutting corners. But huge budget productions get in on the act, too. Compare the CGI explosion from the beginning of this Star Trek VI trailer...
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Yeah, they totally just pasted in the same explosion in two different movies (both from Paramount--there won't be a lawsuit).
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You know those Disney hand-drawn feature films from back in the day? The ones considered the greatest animated works ever made? Well not only did their artists reuse a few frames here and there to save time, they reused entire scenes, just painting over the characters.
If you haven't seen this before, it'll blow your mind:
Yep, Disney's been recycling anything they've felt like since Snow White. And that's just the tip of the world's laziest iceberg; there are thousands of hours of YouTube videos showcasing just what a bunch of cheapskates the Disney dream factory really is.
Now that we think about it, Mickey and Minnie do have a slight resemblance.
#1. Propped Up
So you've spent a fortune on props, but now the final shot's in the can and you're left with a bunch of fake crap that doesn't do anything. Sure, you could offload all the penis-shaped stuff to porno studios for when they make the inevitable sex parody of whatever it is you just made, but that what to do with the rest? You stick it in a warehouse and wait for somebody else to use it.
You know the PKE Meter from Ghostbusters? It turns up in They Live, Suburban Commando and, even worse, Knight Rider. Far more disturbing, the "Gynecological Tools for Mutant Women" from Dead Ringers became dental tools in Little Shop of Horrors.
Costume designers also have a long, embarrassing history of doing as little work as possible when it comes to actually designing costumes. For example, you'd think most designers would leap at the chance to put their own spin on Princess Elizabeth's gown, but you would be in for a disheartening surprise: most productions have been using the same one for 30 years.
"Yeah, just Febreeze it and throw it back in the box."
And we don't even have time to get into all of the dumpsters Joss Whedon dove in while he was assembling the costumes for Firefly, from Starship Troopers, to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dead Like Me, to name a few.
But the king of all prop recyclers is the Star Trek franchise. In this episode of The Next Generation the wand La Forge is holding is an engineering scanner:
In another episode, it's a hair dryer:
Star Trek was so good at recycling that yesterday's "force field generator"...
... is cut in half, turned over and it's suddenly today's support columns in an alien base:
Of course, it's not just their own props they recycle. Look at the lamp in the background there; it turned up in multiple episodes of The Next Generation...
...but probably still has some prop cocaine on it from when Scarface used it:
Also, some sharp-eyed fans noticed that the pistol the Ferengis use in Next Generation...
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Stanley Kubrick was so paranoid about other films raiding his prop warehouse from 2001 that he had absolutely everything from that film destroyed.
That they had to create all of their props from scratch makes the production of 2069: A Sex Odyssey all the more impressive.
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