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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By christopher, on May 8th, 2009%
Didn’t get a lot of movie time this past month, but, here’s some thoughts on what we did get to see, in reverse chronological order.
Battlestar Galactica
I just wanted to make a few comments on this before I get into the actual movies. Terra and I have watched the pilot mini-series and the first four episodes . . . → Read More: Movies I watched – April 2009
By christopher, on May 6th, 2006%
Star Wars: Episode IV | This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD
when lucas said he never would, i believed him and patted my laserdisc box set, swearing it would be the only way you would ever see the theatrical cuts (uh, vhs doesn’t count!)…
yet, from the announcement on starwars.com:
“In response to overwhelming demand, Lucasfilm Ltd. and . . . → Read More: hell has frozen over?
By insidious_plots, on September 26th, 2004%
The true cost of free iPods – Engadget
Boing Boing: Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star Wars DVD
Star Wars DVD Grosses $115M
Google Search: star wars holiday special
[not only do i remember the fam rushing home so my brother and i could watch this over 25 years ago, i have always rather vividly remembered a couple moments . . . → Read More: links – couple of star wars dvd bits, a few various
By insidious_plots, on September 19th, 2004%
Waxy.org: Links Miniblog
Pioneer CLD-D704 notorious for streaking problems???(!!)
Bartender Magazine
Webtender.com – “In My Bar” – “Tell The Webtender what you have in your bar, and get a list of all the drinks you can make.”
Earth and Moon Viewer: Expert Request
the following links come from my LiveJournal Friends page, which i use as a simple online aggregator of . . . → Read More: links – a few various, a few from site feeds, and a .name
By insidious_plots, on September 17th, 2004%
first, the various…
Ender’s Game
“Intruder Signal” on 40 Meters Remains a Mystery for Now
Creepy crawly blanket
apod: Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan
me with my LaserDisc evangelist hat on
karl sent me these months ago… yes, i am just now getting to them…
MetaSpy
OpenDiary.com
Web FTP Client Version3.5.0
Phone Phreaking Trips [RealAudio]
these links with descriptions are copied from three RefDesk’s Site-of-the-Day . . . → Read More: links – various, from karl, from SOTD, for family
By insidious_plots, on August 30th, 2004%
Watching Laserdiscs in the Digital Age
great, detailed, new(!!) article by Josh Zyber on dealing with the problems trying to get laserdiscs’ analog video to look good on modern digital monitors…
wish we had had this article when we went shopping…
in our case (large-ish, much loved laserdisc collection and seven players; less than a hundred DVD’s and . . . → Read More: problems with LaserDiscs and HDTV
By insidious_plots, on August 10th, 2004%
well, since we no longer have the amazing laserdisc market in dfw to go and hunt down new treasures, i have finally gotten around to putting our LDDb.com wishlist to use…
the lddb (laserdisc database) is truly well on its way to being the definitive source for ld info and we have had our collection listed there . . . → Read More: our laserdisc wishlist
By insidious_plots, on June 25th, 2004%
When DVD Spells B-A-D
Some Great Films Suffer in Transition To New Format
November 12, 2003
By FRED KAPLAN
The New York Times
a great article about things that drive us nuts about the dvd industry/format and why we are not giving up on our laserdisc collection any time soon…
for instance, here he adresses a great example of some of the . . . → Read More: When DVD Spells B-A-D
By insidious_plots, on June 25th, 2004%
today, we finally got our Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Collector’s Edition LaserDisc Box Set!
it is a gorgeous set, great high-res cover, three discs, the film on three sides, and three sides of extras… in fact, the documentary runs 140 minutes and the movie is just 137… this is the laserdisc upon . . . → Read More: our CE3K collection is complete!
By insidious_plots, on June 1st, 2004%
after you get past the first few posts, anyway…
covers some usual ld vs. dvd stuff, with some dvhs stuff thrown in and even a couple chinese formats… also interesting are some good numbers about compression of audio formats on dvd, superbit dvd, dvhs, and ld, which is a very important point of comparison in home . . . → Read More: interesting ld vs. dvd a.v.l thread
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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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