Search my posts all the way back to April 2003
The search is a little quirky, so being creative helps.
For example, a search for slumber party night will find ANY ONE of the words, while "slumber party night" (in quotes) will only find the exact phrase and I don't always use the complete phrase and sometimes I abbreviate it to SPN.
Therefore, a search for slumber spn with no quotes should find every post that mentions our little ritual.
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the day my relationship with Terra changed
It’s fun and even useful to have a personal site that archives all my social media updates – Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and such – and then is searchable so I can go back and see things in the past.
Yesterday, I came across something interesting.
See, Terra and I were friends for a long time before we became . . . → Read More: the day my relationship with Terra changed
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Oaty Veggie Meatloaf – a recipe to perfect
So, I start with 2 or 3 pounds of whatever ground meat…
Then I add lots of oats and finely diced (we’re talking relish) onions and peppers until it looks right – But it’s ALOT – maybe a fourth of the total mixture and I always wish I’d added more. I don’t ever measure so I’m . . . → Read More: Oaty Veggie Meatloaf – a recipe to perfect
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2009 Movies
#=my first time, &=her first time
*=spn, @=psp
t=with terra, m=with mom, w=with wesley
*t…Raising Arizona
t&…A Scanner Darkly
mt…The Family Stone
t*…Better Off Dead
&*t…Mixed Nuts
t&#…Millions
t&#*…Christmas Vacation
: : : : : : : : : : : : : DECEMBER : : : : : : : : : : : :
t&…Planes, Trains and Automobiles
twm…Pieces of April
#t…The Family Stone
#tw…Bring It On
twm…Up
t&…The Godfather, . . . → Read More: 2009 Movies
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2010 Movies
*=SPN %=PSP $=cinema +=bedroom
B=Blu-ray N=NetflixIW V_=Vudu(x/h/s)
t/T = with terra / her first time
m/M = mom, w/W = wesley
C = my first time
*T…It’s A Wonderful Life
tB…Fargo
tB…Boogie Nights
…Primer (my new dvd)
*t…Christmas Vacation
VxWt…Edward Scissorhands (first Vudu)
t…The Royal Tenenbaums
t…The Family Stone
Nt*…Funny Farm
NCT*…Black Christmas (1974)
Bt…Crash
W…Scrooged
TB…Eyes Wide Shut
t*…Mixed Nuts
: : . . . → Read More: 2010 Movies
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A quick rant on why I am so against a Blade Runner franchise
This is a comment I posted on Facebook that I’ll lazily paste here, rather than write an expansion.
I began by posting this to Twitter: “Building a franchise around Blade Runner is like building an amusement park around The Smithsonian.”
And then, here is what I followed up with on Facebook…
It’s what I’ve seen happen to Alien.
The franchise . . . → Read More: A quick rant on why I am so against a Blade Runner franchise
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star wars dvd notes
By insidious_plots, on September 23rd, 2004
nothing in-depth, just going to c/p the notes i took of what we saw as we watched the three movies…
this is just about the dvd/transfer quality, not about any changes to the movies (there are countless sites for that)… nor comparisons to the laserdiscs or “did they fix [insert notorious problem] yet?” stuff (short version is sometimes they did, sometimes they didn’t, again, there are many sites out there that cover that issue)…
if you want a full review, google it, there are plenty out there…
anyway, here is what i saw…
star wars
colors are very oversaturated- at times it is so bad, it reminds me of the old tnt colorized movies
things change colors in the frame sometimes- see c3po in the first desert scenes and the rocks in the background when the tusken raider jumps onto the bantha
and is that really bad edge enhancement where the dunes meet the sky as the camera pans early in the first desert scenes?
audio does REALLY funny/awful things- mainly dialogue, starts with leia before tarkin
empire strikes back
looks very good, hella better than star wars- but, the colors are also a little oversaturated on this one
return of the jedi
looks largely untouched, replete with matte lines, bad colors in some matted shots- in fact, MOST of the matte shots look really bad
again, a bit oversaturated colors
the image is not as sharp and clear as the other two- even grainy at times
probably the worst looking of the three
the empire strikes back is the clear winner here… it looked and sounded pretty much excellent…
the first movie had the really bad color issues and the sound was downright horrible in spots and return of the jedi had so many unfixed terrible-looking matte jobs that it was quite distracting…
btw, that sound issue on the first film is widely reported and seems totally inexcusable, i would have to pop in a laserdisc and see if it sounded that bad before… but, i sure don’t remember it sounding like that, yet i DO remember where a couple audio problems have always been, such as “into the garbage shoot fly boy!”, which still sounds just as bad as it always has… so, i feel pretty safe trusting my memory on this one, star wars has never sounded so bad…
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Christopher
aka Zane, aka insidious_plots, aka jesusfreakgeek, aka ABQChristopher
Life-long movie lover and LaserDisc collector, computer user since age ten, Bible thumper and Jesus freak, coffee snob and hobbyist barista, learning to cook, seasoned fledgling magician, wannabe photographer, reformed drug addict, disc golfer, Psion 5mx user, PS3/PSP enthusiast (but only a casual gamer), amateur nurse, city guy temporarily stuck in a very small town and rarely stops complaining about it…
ya’ know… the usual stuff...
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If you want to know what's going on in my life, reading my Twitter timeline will keep you updated on the day-to-day stuff (and, yeah, I'm on Facebook).
If you want to see what's going on in my life, I regularly post pics and videos from my phone to my Flickr photostream and my YouTube channel, respectively.
(I have reluctantly given up on Zannel for fear of them folding like so many other social media services recently, but I still have countless pics and vids there. And I think my Dashwire and TwitPic days are over.)
I love photography and I also use Flickr to show off my photographs and snapshots, though I don't update it often enough, but here's my personal faves I've taken and here's my faves I WISH I took.
Wakoopa knows all about what desktop software i use, Del.icio.us is where I keep all my favorite bookmarks, and I am always adding interesting news/blog items I've read to my Google Reader shared items.
Mom, Terra, Wesley, and I share a Netflix profile so you can see what kind of stuff we watch. And yes, I own about 350 LaserDiscs and they are all listed on my LDDb collection page.
I don't listen to much music but I go through phases when I look to Last.fm and/or Pandora to try to satisfy my needs.
Btw, people complain because I never use my MySpace and I usually don't even remember I have an account on StumbleUpon and I haven't gone to my LiveJournal in years.
I also own insidiousplots.com,
jesusfreakgeek.com, abqdiscgolf.com, nmdiscgolf.com, and baristopher.com.
Aaaand, for years, everything else kind of ends up in the old stuff directory. live upates from my cell phone
random favorite photos i’ve taken
and from my coffee bar...
Films I Can’t Live Without (as of January, ’11)
interesting things I’ve read on my phone/PSP recently
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