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Jacob's Ladder
Bill & Ted's E.E.
Python's Holy Grail
JL and several other reality/horror of war movies helped talk me out of military sevice.
Bil & Ted was a time travel movie that worked for me. I wonder if it still stands up?
The Grail. I can recite it.
Twist my arm.
Huh, I never realized, poster looks fine to me. Wiki poster substituted.
Jake muthafuckin' Busey, in a Busification story like no other. It's possible that the Asylum's budgets are growing, their "lead actress" (Tinarie van Wyk Loots) converses with her husband (C. Thomas Howell) topless for several minutes (and then becomes nothing but a voice on the phone until the final shot). Their acting and chemistry could and should have carried the film, IMO. The VFX were no worse than you'd expect, the set extensions in particular were fairly spot-on. In truth, I only watched about 35 minutes of it and then skimmed forward to the final few moments in the vain hope of more boobage.
War of the Worlds, from The Asylum:
roflcopter
Donated 1/3rd. Two more like that guys or gals, and one of you needs to round up.
History Nerd!
<j/k thanks for the insights!>
Tom, new drives fail on me all the time, I don't trust them until I've burned them in. I've probably warrantied a dozen drives in my life, some just click-dead when you plug them in, but some seem okay for a while until they get hot. I decided it was best to expect them to fail and have redundancy, sometimes multiple redundancy.
BDA,
Simplest is a Win7 mirror. Install two identical drives, then use Disk Manager to set them up.
Next step up is a mobo mirror (RAID 1), if your board supports it. These perform better, but I worry about the data if the mobo dies.
Next up again is a dedicated add-in card that provides RAID capability. I have one that communicates to a pair of little SanDigital 'toasters' with 4 drive bays each. I run those as RAID 10: two drives are paired up to (almost) double read/write speed, then that data is cloned to the other 2 paired-up the same way. I have lost drives from this array several times, and power supplies in the toaster boxes themselves, data survived.
Finally, I like the Western Digital 2-drive NAS boxes set up as mirrored. Slower, but you can put them in another room for disaster security on critical data; irreplaceable family photos and such. Newegg just had a 4T on sale for $280, and I see it's just arrived at my house...that'll bring me up to 36T spread over 8 IP addresses, not counting boot-drives. All of that is mirrored or RAID5, so I have something like half that in actual capacity.
All my hard drives are mirrored, some within Win7 and some hardware based. I have a few RAID-5s as well. I have some insane number of Terabytes, all told. But I've fried drives, power supplies, motherboards and videocards but have never lost data...Not counting that first time.
Thoughts...provoked...how is there not already a Toy Story thread...?
If you are willing to record one or more vocal takes, add your name to this list:
1. Teague
2. Rob
3. BDA
4. Tomahawk
5. Faldor
6. Zarban
7. Drew
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If you are willing to contribute music to one or more pieces, add your name to this list:
1. Teague
2. Spork
3. Drew (Whistling, animal calls and Tuvan throat singing)
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If you are willing to write a scene for one more more projects, add your name to this list:
1. Teague
2. Rob
3. BDA
4. Tomahawk
5. Zarban
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If you are willing to create visual assets for one or more projects, add your name to this list:
1. Teague
2. BDA
3. Drew <- has been looking for an excuse to go into competition with DetFilms
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Inspired by Zarban's audition I present a four minute excerpt from Lovecraft's "The Hound."
Willing. I have one Librivox credit. It's probably been done to death in your circles, but how about some E.A. Poe?
I also do a mean bitchy female british royalty voice, normally reserved for the Red Queen or Queen of Hearts.
<additional extended, gushing, encouraging comments>
Shoot. Well, I guess knowing Teague will have to be good enough. Welcome!
Meghan, I think I heard you interviewed on Dan Savage's podcast a few years ago.
Could that be true?
I keep a grammar nazi locked up in my parietal lobe...don't know if that'd help you.
Steve is even better than I imagined.
And then they send you home with no instruction manual or supervision. Sounds exactly like my experience.
Dude. That rocks. I anticipated/dreaded the ending all along, but your resolution of it is exquisite. Quite a few minor typos and a few spellcheck errors, I think. Arguably too sexually graphic, but I realize that's kind of your thing and it offends me not at all. It does however make recommending it to other people a bit skeevy.
Seek for the Sword that was broken:
In Imladris it dwells;
There shall be counsels taken
Stronger than Morgul-spells.
There shall be shown a token
That Doom is near at hand,
For Isildur's Bane shall waken,
And the Halfling forth shall stand.
[drive-by prophecy slam!!]
I, for one, would like to inaugurate a weeklong celebration of your ass in those jeans. I maded you a meme for that, but it's better without a visual cue. 90% of success is showing up, so make sure Teague shows up.
I only know what I read in the wiki piece, but they mentioned some version of that. I imagine goat teats transformed into web-slingers, but apparently the field is hot enough everyone is keeping their research under wraps...and we're still only talking maybe one order of magnitude stronger than steel. Carbon fibers are a perennial favorite among beanstalk proponents as well, but I know arguably less about that material.
I wonder if they can ever produce the spider silk cables like they were trying to do earlier if that would help?
Wiki tells me:
"Methods have been developed to silk a spider forcibly."
Bit of a good news bad news thing there. ;-)
I have to admit, it sounds like they're trying to do a space elevator with balloons. Hell, if you can build the 140,000 foot tether this thing needs, I don't see where an actual space elevator wouldn't be a better option.
A continuous strand of any material currently known or expected for use in a space elevator is literally unobtainium. I did the math on it once, and I should either find or re-do the spreadsheet, but the crux is that you need at least 20,000 MILES of whatever you use, and it has to carry it's own weight plus a load. Assuming you use the highest strength steel for the cable, it has to be something like a mile thick near the geosync station just to carry it's own weight.
Which is to say, I think a train of balloons (an idea I've been quietly discussing with a few of my most non-judgemental friends) is the solution to the problem of getting to nearspace. If you build 1000 airships and tether them for guidance, every cable between them is well within it's working load limit...Assuming fair winds. For going higher from there, I've seen plans for lower orbit tethers that are dynamic: they whirl around and the ends swoop down into the stratosphere to grab payload and sling it into higher orbit.
On the other hand JPA is not tethering their Dark Sky Station, it will float free as far as I can discern.
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