Johnette Howard ?!? Is there realio trulio a person called that? Presumably no relationship to our current Prime Minister, the Honourable John Winston Howard MP, Though s/he sounds like some sort of cloned merger of him and his wife, Janette. (The actual children are apparently Richard, Melanie, and Tim.)
Re: "fatwah against Filthy Smut". The idea of listing Forbidden Things and then forbidding mention of them reminds me of a wonderful cartoon I saw many years ago. Don't know who drew it (anyone recognising it, please speak).
It showed a rather bleak waiting room with many empty chairs. In one was a lone middle-aged man in a cloth cap, looking nervous & staring rather desperately off into the distance. He was facing away from a huge notice taking up most of the back wall saying, more or less:
"READING THIS NOTICE IS FORBIDDEN."
Aha! Quick check around shows that it seems the TV series mentioned is "Firefly" - which may possibly have been shown (or half-shown & pulled unexpectedly) unannounced at some very obscure timeslot &/or time of year by one of our commercial channels.
I have been considering buying the Firefly DVD after hearing good reports, but my budget is still in recovery from my earlier reaction to the $AU1.00 going above $US0.70. If we see the film Serenity here within the next few months, what are your opinions whether it's better to have watched the series first, or come to the film fresh?
Following earlier practice, it may have been put on at the same time as a well-known sf series on a different channel. The Star Trek versions, for instance are on at week-to-week variable times sometime between 11pm and 12:30am, unless there's some sport or other things, when they get held over.
Note that this almost invariably applies to sf (the remade Battlestar Galactica does seem to be being treated slightly differently), but is not confined to it: The West Wing, The Sopranos and Six Feet Under, for instance, are/were treated in much the same way.
Meanwhile, The Hitch-hikers' Guide to the Galaxy film is being released here on Thursday, 28th April. From the TV ads it looks not too bad, tho' it does seem they've based Marvin the paranoid android's body on Marvin the Martian from cartoons, while I always envisioned him/it as closer to 3PI0. Also ZB seems to be a touch short in the head-count, tho' there may be an explanation.
[Potted history of film at Popcorn Taxi under heading MORE ABOUT THE MAKING OF HITCHHIKERS ... ]
Julie: There are links in "It all comes round again" on the positive or negative side.
As someone who might be seen as living off the kindness of others in some important ways, I'm a touch conflicted here, but am speaking, of course, without any personal experience, acquaintance, or connexion to any of the people involved.
The clapotis lust link reminded me that perhaps I should point people towards some interesting yarns available at a good place: Recycled Silk & Wool Yarn Skein ; Recycled Silk Yarn Skein (the whole recycled yarn bizzo) ; Alpaca Yarn Skeins ; Homespun Yarn - two skeins of wool yarn, one rusty red and one sea green. Each weighs about half a pound (250 grams). Fair trade imported from Nepal
Since there are a few jewellery fans around here; this is looking rather cyberpunk, or something - Biojewellery, from Neil Gaiman's Journal, pointed out by Sheila
... placed on this isthmus of an Early Modern State ... ?
Would the HQ (Virtual) of the Travis Tea Fan Club be the Travis Tea Room, on Travis Street (a bit north of the Texas Historic Landmark of Magnolia House - I can see a chapter or two set there if they move outside Atlanta) in Cameron, county seat of Milam County, Texas?
Ahem. Sorry, did the above before checking back on thread.
Apparently the creator of The Cuddly Menace prefers to link to his own site, aka deep fried chopped liver (?).
And Mary Aileen, reading the Dylan Thomas poem, yes, there could just be a slight trace of s3xual imagery there. [koff]
Taking advantage of the Open Thread to ask a quick question of the Noo Yawkers here.
Have you seen/experienced Christo's latest work, in Central Park, called "The Gates"? I think it's just opened, or about to open. What do you think of it?
A fairly lightweight local newspaper story on your recent ISP transfer troubles. (No, they couldn't resist the panix pun either. Did the name come from something like Public Access Network ... ix? ... er Number Nine??)
Merry chase but no need to Panix
The hijacking of a domain name led to some swift phone calls across the world, writes Sam Varghese.
... back to photo organisation ... (For current use, would still have to be PC-Windoze based, but. And Mac needs at least current 80Gb for programs & data storage.)
In the release of the new Apple stuff today, these are the mentions of specific numbers (dont know what size images) on the apple.com site in relation to image organisation.
"With iPod photo, you can carry up to 25,000 of your favorite photos in your pocket."
"... iPhoto finds a photo or group of photos you’re looking for as quickly as iTunes can find a single song or album ... Even if you have ten thousand — or more — photos to search through."
Two places online wherein much plush lust may be slaked -- or, alternatively, stirred -- including dinoplush desire. Approach with caution. (Isn't a beanie a type of hat?)
Jonathon re West Wing -- Life has been so scrambled (hoped-for catching up over Christmas-New Year break fell well below hopes); see note above on "elbow-deep drifts of legal paperwork" -- that I've lost track of much.
West Wing is probably one, but with the [unsure, uncertain] hope of a) possible repeats; b) possible borrowed tapes; c) renting DVDs in the future (perhaps even borrowed Region 1 DVDs, with many extra features not found on Region 4 ones), in the way of resurrections, I am curling my lip in the general direction of the contemptible fleawits who apparently intend to make us all get pay-tv in despair at what they deign to allow to dribble out on free-to-air. [I am not addicted; I can give it up anytime I want!]
Does any of that make sense?
Cup of tea, I think. Then back to the paperwork
Re Apple minimac (Mac Mini, whatever) -- <whimper> -- a friend who's an Apple convert has been wafting various tempting experiences & objects before me. He trailed this link across my email this morning ... mmmmm ... I still, aesthetically, prefer a cuboid form to this one but, practically, this looks very good indeed. [Beats back surge of technolust by looking at elbow-deep drifts of legal paperwork I need to get on with before a looming deadline.]
The pitch in the linked-to promotional pages is a good one, with it fitting into existing peripherals & systems, and doesn't seem to threaten the higher-end user market too much. It looks like there'd still be a reasonably marked difference that would allow those dedicated Mac-users who wish to, to stay feeling superior.
Having used WinXP in other places, I don't want it. Over the weekend I tried to install a 'cut-down' Adobe image organizer version which simply, and quite rudely, refused to run on such an untermensch of a system. I don't have much use for music, but with my personal photos & historical records image archive, there would be between 15,000 and 20,000 files only part-classified that need better handling. Apple has always slanted more that way; iPhotos tempting.
I wonder what ratio the $AU/$US will be by the time one can obtain them here? (Whenever that is. There are 16 countries with iTunes stores right now. Australia is not one of them.) At the moment a straight conversion makes a price in $AU half as much again as in $US -- a big improvement on nearly double as it was not long back. I think that makes the price between 10 and 14 pre-tax day's pay on an "average" income -- less than a month after-tax.
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