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Silver Screen / 2012
« on: November 22, 2009, 12:48:02 AM »
I wasn't impressed to be honest.  Lotta explosions...  so many I thought it was a Micheal Bay film.   CGI world's end was there...  and... well thats what it was I guess.  After they make so many movies about the world ending it gets boring.

Also...  anyone else think this was the prequel to Waterworld?



Also Also...   Go see Men that Stare at Goats

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The Fridge / Rabbit is good.
« on: May 20, 2009, 12:34:19 AM »
Yo, stopping back in.   No, not really much in the way of damage.

Though it did rain evergreen trees in this guy's field.
Though it did rain evergreen trees in this guy's field.

I forgot the most important pic last time.  The beast itself.
I forgot the most important pic last time.  The beast itself.


Oh, right.   Here.


My album on storms.   Last 2 pages are of this particular one.
My album on storms.   Last 2 pages are of this particular one.



~Tobe

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The Fridge / Rabbit is good.
« on: May 14, 2009, 05:02:18 PM »
I attempted to move into meteorology but a combo of the math getting really hairy really fast and me trying to plow through 14hr of core to catch up from having a useless career guide my first to years saw the end of that.  So I'm I'm just content to be a spotter that knows what NOT to do around extreme weather.  XD

Oh, and unfortunately the Rabbit moniker was earned because my first spotting vehicle was a bright white '84 Nissan truck that apparently had a decidedly monty python look.  Specifically a lapine one.  I just play it into what I do.  Furry's, Storm Spotting, heck even paintball.

Twister is funny if you watch it has a comedy, though.


~Tobe

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The Fridge / Rabbit is good.
« on: May 14, 2009, 01:31:44 AM »
Had a spur of the moment chase.  My little cousin was with me coming back from airing up paintball tanks and took the video, sorry it sucks, he sucks and it was on a cellphone anyway.   Pics on subsequent links.


Crappy video, have too look close to see it.


-  Corky standing in the middle of the damage path the Tornado left for scale.
-  Corky standing in the middle of the damage path the Tornado left for scale.

- Clearer shot, you can see in the background where the treeline has a HOLE in it from the funnel ripping through the area.

- The storm gave us a present as it left.

- HUGE scud clouds being pulled into the storm system.  Plus Sparky.
- HUGE scud clouds being pulled into the storm system.  Plus Sparky.



~Tobe

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Computer and Electronics / Acer monitor broken
« on: May 07, 2009, 02:15:33 PM »
Dust is evil.  I though you said it was going into the loop of death AFTER it was cleaned out.

Ya lucked out.  ;)


~Tobe

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Computer and Electronics / Acer monitor broken
« on: May 07, 2009, 01:40:22 PM »
Boot loop of death.

Try Safe Mode to see if it's a driver causing it.

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Computer and Electronics / Microsoft to offer Windows 7 "Release Candidate"
« on: May 07, 2009, 12:52:22 PM »
Why reformat to try 7rc?  Just use virtual consoles.   I need to ditch the other 7 beta and grab this thing.  I'll tell my thoughts when I get time to put it through "The Paces".


~Tobe

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Computer and Electronics / Yahoo! GeoCities closing down later this year...
« on: May 07, 2009, 12:49:20 PM »
Ding dong the witch is dead...

Maybe that site I made 15 years ago will go away now.


~Tobe

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The Fridge / I love this place
« on: March 14, 2009, 10:28:03 PM »
They haven't gotten rid of me, yet.  Though lord knows they've tried.

~Tobe

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The Fridge / Update: A Video Update!
« on: March 14, 2009, 10:23:44 PM »
I swear.  Are you SURE you don't work a quickstop in jersey?

Also, you're babysitting a mop?  I knew they could send telegrams but they're breeding now?  Scary.


~Tobe

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The Fridge / What different purchases have you made recently?
« on: March 14, 2009, 09:53:30 PM »
*Shrug*  Why not.

Our other event coordinator was selling off a lot of his paintball equipment. So I picked it up for a C-note.

As far as I can tell it's a pretty well kept up 1988-89 Sheridan P68

Any ballers out there?  It's one of those old brass pump guns.  Works like a song.







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The Fridge / Updaye: My Return to Myspace
« on: February 24, 2009, 11:00:48 PM »
. . .




~Tobe

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Silver Screen / walking with dinosaurs live show
« on: January 31, 2009, 11:25:13 PM »
We took my aunt for her birthday.  I was rather impressed with the mix of puppetry and animatronics they used.   Some of the choreography was just flat out great.  Puppeteer raptors dodging the animatronic dinosaur's teeth and tails.   The announcer running around like a loon away from it all.  

Color me impressed.  Worth the 60 bucks.


~Tobe

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Silver Screen / Inuyasha
« on: January 30, 2009, 01:25:16 AM »
The Crow was a series of movies.  Only the first is really worth a watch, it was incidentally the movie Brandon Lee was killed on during filming.  Very dark and revolving around revenge as a key to salvation.   I'll see if I can dig that thing up.  If I do find it, bear in mind it's over a decade old.  

~Tobe

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Silver Screen / Ben 10 Alien Force
« on: January 28, 2009, 02:55:40 AM »
That crossover would be easy, but you'd have to find a large catapult to throw those dinokids over the ocean... full of sharks.  




I'll be honest.  My little cousins LOVE this show.  I mean like, LOVE it.   I have TRIED.  I mean I honestly and against all rationality TIRED to like this show.  But I can't.  It suffers from trying too hard.  I'll try to analogize.   (Huh huh, I said a naughty sounding word that wasn't really naughty.)

Ahem.  

Say you have a show that stars Aliens.  Thats cool, lotta people like alien themed cartoons.  

Now say you have a show that stars witches.  Again awesome, long as they don't pander to trying to make it a girls only show it will flourish.

Oh and then there's a show about a kid genius that out thinks adults and using his special powers to over power the adult bad guys.  Great show, kids eat it up, etc.


Now what?  Well some overly ambitious tw-er person is going to get it into their head that you can't have too much of a good thing and make a show about a kid genius that has alien superpowers and as a witch as a partner who is also an alien.   That, my friends, is called "Jumping the Shark".   But instead of running out of ideas and making ludicrous plots Ben 10 was already flying over the shark from conception.  



It's like saying, "Hey!  Root beer is awesome!  So are jellybeans!  Lets make Root Beer flavored jelly beans!"   Have you had those?  Those are some NASTY tasting things.  EW.  Hey potato chips are awesome too!  Lets make Root Beer Jellybean flavored Potato Chips!


That my friends?  Is Ben 10.


Ben 10 is like Rootbeer Jellybean flavored Potato Chips.



~Toby

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Silver Screen / Inuyasha
« on: January 28, 2009, 02:37:39 AM »
I can't help replying.  In my "younger" days I made a point of writing strange crossovers just to see if I could successfully merge the two shows without losing the dynamics that made each show... well, each show.

This instance you're going for trying to merge "80's feel good kids show" with the anime people call "DBZ for girls".   Essentially this wouldn't be a hard one.  Your only obstacle would be violence level.  

First you have a show with this Disney-esque non-violent resolution to all problems.  The majority of problems in The Land Before Time were solved buy knocking out the bad guy rather than killing him or just irritating him and he runs away.  This is, of course, done because the show was tailored to kids and the stars were themselves presented as dinosaur children.  The standard innocent hero archetype.

On the other paw you have an anime, one of the longer running ones that was just recently ended if I remember reading correctly.  Being a japanese show most of it's characters have their own flashy powers and a well defined adventuring party.  Inuyasha was targeted for a slighty older bracket and deals with a more young adult themes than children's.   Killing, relationships, etc are things Inuyasha deals with than Land Before time does not.

Basically you need to decide where you are going to set your target level audience.  Either you will have to insert young adult theme's into Land Before Time or remove those themes from Inuyasha.  Not REALLY a hard thing to do from my standpoint but I did crossovers for about 3 or 4 years so I got pretty good and theme manipulation and the like.





I'm still rather proud of that old crossover I pulled off of Talespin and The Crow.  Even now looking at it I don't feel THAT embarassed about writing it.  I mixed the theme's fairly well, inserting disney's goofy humor into something as dark as The Crow movie's universe was/is.


~Tobe



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The Party Room / Doctor, Doctor, gimmie the news!
« on: January 18, 2009, 04:58:24 AM »
/thread

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Computer and Electronics / Testing Windows 7 Beta
« on: January 13, 2009, 09:51:34 PM »
As someone that HATES Vista.   I'm...  impressed.   I'm running in on a VM at work and only have a gig of RAM devoted to it.   It's not running that poorly.   Most of the points already got hit on here I see that I was impressed with.

It's not a step-up from XP.   But in time it could be.   It's a VAST improvement to Vista.   The fact I could RUN it decently with 1gig of ram attests to that.

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The Party Room / Doctor, Doctor, gimmie the news!
« on: January 13, 2009, 12:46:26 AM »
:x  Crossed the line with that one.

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The Party Room / ITT: You laugh you lose.
« on: January 13, 2009, 12:35:48 AM »
Not from the US I take it.  Ah well.  There's always the tried and true...


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