I miss the good old days of the WWW when ads and spam was unheard of.
RPO is one of my fave movies btw.
About one a year, i rewatch James Camarons Abyss. I love that movie. I love the era of under sea lab movies. but that one is just so good.
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I found The Abyss on Amazon Prime but itās 480p and 4:3 aspect ratio. That movie deserves a 4K remaster w/ some light touch-up on the effects.
Are you watching the theatrical release or directorās cut?
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I was watching the prime version. I would love a remaster of that and Sphere.
Cameron refuses to touch The Abyss unless he can do the entire edit actually underwater in the Marianas trench.
(Hopefully understood as sarcasm. Also a Metalocalypse reference.)
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I canāt think of any company that goes farther out of their way to NOT take my money than Apple.
I feel like most of the Armyās IT problems could be solved by someone actually having experience with a useful ticket tracking system. Like none of our IT people have even seen what it should look like, so they donāt know how terrible they are.
Iām guessing thereās probably a half-dozen systems that all hate each other.
They need my ticketing and troubleshooting class. āIf itās not in the ticket, it didnāt happen.ā
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I have this exact quote in my helpdeskās training materials for documentation. It doesnāt seem to help much, but Iāll get it into their skulls one way or another. Maybe. Before I die. Maybe.
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This was weird. I was watching either Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace and during one of the chase scenes, I thought, āThatās a lot of senseless destruction.ā I know thatās the purpose. Make it exciting. For the first time in my life, my reaction was did Bond really need to destroy that much?
I think you can burn out on that kind of thing, and some modern movies really do have that effect.
It is more obvious to me that movies are increasingly devised as āset piecesā which then have connective tissue added. This isnāt bad per se, but just more noticeable as I age.
I hadnāt watched any of the Bond films in months, if not years, and similar scenes in other movies like the Marvel or DC movies havenāt bothered me before. Iām still trying to figure it out.
Probably Quantum of Solace. The destruction was in the desert, right?
Of course he have to. Itās part of his job.
I donāt think itās online, but thereās a great afterward and essay in one of Charles Strossā novels about Bond as a concept. Includes an awesome āeditorialā written by Blofeld suggesting that Bond is actually a borderline terrorist working against capitalism based on his movie hijinks.
I think itās in The Jennifer Morgue which, for the now annual repetition of the joke, is where @Force10 will be buried. Not available online without buying the book, unfortunately.
I enjoy Bond films for what they are, but donāt expect anything deeper. I was kind of sad the last one had some commentary that ātaking Bond back to his rootsā meant losing Judie Dench and such.
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While I appreciate the company delivering my order a day ahead of time, Iām not quite so happy with the fact that they did a ādrop and dashā where they tucked the package in an inconspicuous spot without even bothering to knock on the door. If I hadnāt checked my email today, it might have sat there until after the āarriving before 9pmā time tomorrow.
Iām not going to complain any further than on here because I know all delivery company drivers are under pressure from a massive amount of packages being shipped. It just means I have to factor this in on anything I order.
For perspective, some of the people that do deliveries over in China like on an Uber basis have it worse. They kind of live in fear of negative reviews because they could get fired, and thereās people that use that to take advantage of them, be jerks, etc.
I think thatās why there are so many anti hero movies. Are you going to complain when Deadpool blows up a building to get the bad guy. Yeah, 100 died, but it was silly and funny.
As we walked around the gym track this morning Mrs. Dubious asked me what I wanted for my second birthday, which is coming at the end of the month.
I thoughtfully paused and then asked for either a Moderna or Pfizer vaccine.
She said sheād see what she could do.
Then I remarked that winning lottery tickets are always in fashion.
Donāt think sheāll get me one of those, either.
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Either you have multiple personalities, or you only age one year per century?
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