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 I went to see Cloverfield tonight. With high expectations, I am sorry to say I cannot recommend this move to those that may be susceptible to motion sickness as myself.
First I generally love JJ Abrams work. I cant wait until December for the new Star Trek. However, Cloverfield left a bad taste in my mouth. And that is not a metaphor.I went to my local multiplex, the AMC PAlace 16 in a suburb or New Orleans, to see Cloverfield. I had very high hopes. Quite frankly, I am fed up with todays current crop of "action" flix. Are the directos today spending so much money on special and digital effects that they can't afford a frickin' Steadicam?!
What in the hell is up with the shakycam!? It seams every movie these days spend an inordinate amount of screen time using this zoom in, zoom out hand-held "shakycam" technique. I am sick of it. Literally. Cloverfield is the 2nd movie that I had to leave because of motion sickness. Prior to that was The Kingdom. I did not last until a little after the Brooklyn Bridge destruction.
Now, I have to admit, the sequences up until then were quite impressive.
I saw the previews. I sort of new that there was going to be a significant amount of shakycam, but the entire movie!? There was even a sign at the ticket booth warning movie goers of the technique causing a sensation that not unlike a roller-coaster. I should have paid attention. But I figured, how bad could it be. They certainly wouldn't shoot the whole flic in shakycam. Hopefully cutting between character pov to locked off cams for the money/hero shots. But no.
So here I sit with a cold towel on my neck, sucking on ice cubes, trying to keep the images of some dillweed running down the Brooklyn Bridge with a home DV camera (even the cheapest, crappiest digital-8 handicam has built-in steadyshot image stabilization).
I think from now on I will do a little more research and avoid these type of movies.
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As most of you know I am a computer/video geek. I couldn't resist (with some minor changes, of course).
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Dear Tech Support:
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 3.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.
In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself{readmore}into all other programs and now monitors all other system activity. Applications such as Poker Night 10.3 , Football 5.0 , Hunting and Fishing 7.5 , and Racing 3.6.
I can’t seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my favorite applications. I’m thinking about going back to Girlfriend 3.0 , but the uninstall doesn’t work on Wife 1.0 . Please help!
Thanks,
Troubled User…..
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Dear Troubled User:
This is a very common problem that men complain about.
Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 3.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING !!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 3.0 or even 2.0. And is even a bigger problem to move to Girlfriend 4.0. It is impossible to uninstall, or purge the program files from the system once installed.
You cannot go back to Girlfriend 3.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed to not allow this. Look in your Wife 1.0 manual under Warnings-Alimony/Child Support. I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application “Yes Dear 356.5”
to alleviate software augmentation.
The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE! because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.
Wife 1.0 is a great program, but it tends to be very high maintenance. Wife 1.0 comes with several support programs, such as Clean and Sweep 3.0 , Cook It 1.5 ! and Do Bills 4.2 .
However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program Nag Nag 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Diamonds 5.0 !
WARNING!!! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3 . This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system!
Best of luck,
Tech Support
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This post is a little late regarding the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. But I have decided to publish a fraction of thephotos that I have either taken myself, friends of mine had taken, or were emailed to me. So, below are some links to my Picasa Albums (Google Photo Manager) here on That DAM Blog.
As I speak to people around the country and around the world thru my job, I have learned that many either are forgetting what really took place here or they never really new in the first place.
A vast majority of these photos were taken by the fire department in Paris, Maine. I have several thousand photos. Some the firemen asked my not to show publicly. Some that contain "floaters", that is the bodies that were floating in the midst of the neighborhoods.
No comments. No editorial. I will just let the photos speak for themselves.
Here are a few additional photos that were either emailed or given to me.
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 It was just a matter of time that someone, somewhere would file a lawsuit against Apple over some function, lack of function in, not in, on, not on, etc. on the iPhone.
The lawsuit chronicled over at Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com). So I am not going to go into details. Suffice to say, paleeeze.
A buddy of mine asked me why all the law suits against Apple and Apple products. Well, I could only liken the scenario to that of the Libs (Democrats) and Conservatives (Bush administration). The Haters will continually try to find ways to discredit Apple (Bush) even if they have to really stretch or at worse conjure up bogus accusations and evidence. They know that Apple has a product that is better than ALL of the other products that are out there and they just cant stand it. I dont know why. It must some sort of vitamin deficiency like rickets or something.
I like the iPhone. But I will wait until 2.0 comes out. I mean come on guys this thing is a 1.0 device. NEver before done by ANY company. Give it a chance.
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 Well, it has been another year at the WWDC. Again another year that I had to watch from the confines of my home office via a QuickTime stream.
But all is not lost. Steve's "Reality Distortion Field" was in full effect during the SteveNote (thats Keynote for you non-Apple geeks). Nothing really earth shattering. Most of which we heard back in January at MacWorld. I was hoping to see some new hardware. But after about half way thru I realized that Steve rarely introduces new iron during the WWDC except when it directly affects the developers. As was the case when Apple went to the G5 and then again with the Intel switch.
The two biggest items for me were the new finder and iChat. Both of which will be release with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in October.
If you haven't done so already, please view the Keynote and let us know what you think.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/keynote/
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