*wipes off screen*
The Czechoslovakian judge gives the Big Lizards piece a 1.8.
One of our annual client dinners is a Thanksgiving cookout for the workers and management at a construction debris landfill. This year involved four deep fryers: two filled with oil for the turkeys, two filled with water for the shrimp and oysters.
We had a nor'easter come through that day.
The whole works moved into a small mechanical building. They cleared out everything from one end except the floor-mounted tools and set up the cookers there. Inside. I suppose it was safer than having the rain blow into the hot oil. I still stayed near the door.
Oh, and deep-fried turkey IS delicious.
Several years ago, I stumbled across an English translation of a pre-Great War German report on the Russo-Japanese War. My best memory of it was that the German analysts predicted the tactics of trench warfare, and their outcome, quite accurately. I wish I still had access to that university library.
xeger @ 137:
I don't recall the children's books, but IIRC my World Book Encyclopedia had similar bar graphs.
Pedantic Peasant @ 132
Ha ha! Which was the teacher objecting to: accent, patterns of speech, or human behavior?
Profanity and earthiness. I think he would have keeled over in a dead faint had someone proven to him that Governor Franklin was, indeed, a bastard.
I can easily see Bush not seeing the portrayal as a negative ...
I was thinking more of the corporate network masters.
Lori @ 73: Whoever told me that Nixon had also requested that "conservative" be replaced with "considerate" in that song forever ruined me for remembering which is actually in the title. And yes, the missing verse to "Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve" greatly disappoints me.
But it's good to hear that they're not shying away from including CCCM in the broadcast version.
Pedantic Peasant @ 80: Great enough for me to remember most of the lyrics for years after seeing it once. I'm not sure, now, which had the greater impact: the movie, or the elementary school teacher tasked with taking us to the movie who afterward huffed that the Founding Fathers wouldn't have talked like that.
Serge, "Cool, Cool, Men" was cut from the original theatrical release. With the mood of recent years, I was wondering if it had been restored.
does the paid cargo go in the cabin or the hold?
And the difference is? Either one has a chance of causing enough structural damage to bring down the plane. Most of the explosion demonstration film I've seen over the past week appears to have the origin of the explosion in the hold, not the passenger compartment.
Now it looks like all the plotters were caught, they will soon drop the restrictions
I really expect the airlines to lobby against dropping them. Think of the potential for selling bottled water and eyedrops and books of crosswords on the plane.
Steve, they already try to turn a laptop on under the assumption that if it boots, there's not enough room to cram in explosives. I've had to accompany security while they hunt for a free receptacle because I had run the battery down during a layover.
Am I the only one whose first thought was to wonder whether the terrorists even exist?
She's an English teacher. The loincloth party is a new approach to studying Lord of the Flies.
The Rapturists are so confident they'll be taken up because they have the Secret Magic Formula: just say these words in this order with the right kind of preacher beside you, his hand on your shoulder, and you're in. Forever. That one moment of enlightenment makes up for any backsliding or even denial that may happen later. Backsliding just means you don't get in to Heaven's more desirable neighborhoods.
Which is why I don't qualify to be a JesusPets Partner.
What Paula said. After you've seen any subspecies of troll repeatedly use a tactic, the immediate reaction is to assume anyone saying something similar to be yet another troll.
Rivka, are you sure that we don't also need my personal pet peeve about certain feminists to complete the stereotype set? The "if they don't speak our jargon fluently, they're tools of the patriarchy, and we don't have to take them or their complaints seriously" bunch.
Candle:
Synzvat pnef. Bagb crbcyr. Juvyr Wrna fvzcyl fgbbq gurer naq jngpurq.
Senaxyl, V guvax gurer jnf fgvyy fbzr ubcr gung vs gurl pbhyq gnxr njnl Zntargb'f vasyhrapr, gurl pbhyq unaqyr Wrna. Va gung, ng yrnfg, gur zbivr qvq zveebe gur bevtvany fgbel, gubhtu gur cevag irefvba unq n qvssrerag ivyynva'f vasyhrapr gevttre ure genafsbezngvba.
Candle:
Gurl hfrq nyy gur flevatrf gurl unq ba Zntargb.
In the original Dark Phoenix Saga, Phoenix had -- they thought -- been depowered from cosmic-level to something close to her pre-Phoenix level. An enormous fight erupted when agents of an interstellar empire showed up to deal with her for her actions while Dark Phoenix, in particular the destruction of an inhabited star system. Dark Phoenix took over again, IIRC when she thought Cyclops had been killed, and she flipped back and forth between Phoenix and Dark Phoenix. Wolverine tried to kill her and lost his nerve; she was Dark Phoenix when he tackled her and Jean when they landed. She eventually arranged to commit suicide.
V pna pregnvayl haqrefgnaq yrnivat gur Fuv'ne bhg bs vg; guvatf jrer pbzcyvpngrq rabhtu nyernql. Ohg gur jubyr fntn eribyirq nebhaq Fpbgg naq Wrna orvat jung'f pnyyrq n fhcrepbhcyr va gur fbncf. Jvgubhg gung ybatfgnaqvat eryngvbafuvc, V guvax gur fgbel ybfrf zhpu bs vgf vzcnpg.
BTW, for Firefox users, there's an extension that will convert highlighted text to any of a number of encodings, including ROT-13: Leetkey.
Rob Rusick, Hank turned himself blue and furry while trying to boost his powers. I thought having the human-looking version in X2 was a nice nod to the comics.
Candle:
Zbven jnyxf vagb gur oenva-qrnq zna'f ebbz. Ur gheaf uvf urnq gb ybbx ng ure naq fnlf, "Uryyb, Zbven." Fhecevfrq, fur erfcbaqf, "Puneyrf?"
As for the movie itself, I think I would have enjoyed it more had I not been a fan since long before the day Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, etc., became the New X-Men.
Loved Hank, thought Kitty was spot-on. Couldn't warm to the casting for Warren.
Gur svyz qvq xrrc gur birenyy gentvp-ybir-fgbel srry bs gur bevtvany Cubravk Fntn, ohg vg unq gur jebat znyr yrnq. Gung obgurerq zr, n snvag anvyf-ba-oynpxobneq srryvat, guebhtubhg gur zbivr. V sbhaq gurve fbyhgvba gb raqvat gur svtug jvgu Zntargb oryvrinoyr fvzcyl orpnhfr V qba'g guvax Ybtna oryvrirq Unax jbhyq unir tbar nybat jvgu xvyyvat uvz bhg-bs-unaq.
bryan, the script jumps around the list randomly, presumably an attempt to reduce the redundancy. And since the google servers don't all serve up the same info, the more people, the more likely that someone will hit the one server that has a particular page cached.
Not that it's much of an issue any longer; I had a lot of "resource not found" returns on all three (Yahoo, Google, and MSN) on my last run.
Robotech_Master:
Typically, webhosts have some sort of "archive manager" function as part of their control panel, which will let you download your own total site backups, independent of any backups that the ISP operator may or may not keep.
I refer you back to my earlier comment about those "archive managers" and their inability to handle large sites. By far the most common interface for databases is phpMyAdmin, which I have never seen set up to cope with anything larger than a few hundred KB. My database when I inherited my site a couple of years ago was around 500KB, and it was already too large for phpMyAdmin to create a dump from.
The parts of AW that were likely maintained by FTP appear to be intact. AW's 2GB database would have taken considerable time and more than a little tech savvy to back up via phpMyAdmin. (I'm assuming the former host followed the usual standard of not allowing shell access to the database. Even with shell, they would not have been able to create a dump in an hour.)
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