JamesSavik

The film was made at the very beginning of color- techni-color was what they called it. It was not very natural. Early on it required strange makeup and a great deal of indoor shooting to get the light just right. Scenes were shot over and over and edited frame by frame because that is what it took with the technology that they had in hand. Quite a big leap in technology to 1080i and HD-TV.

I don't care about the race of the person. Age doesn't bother me much either. Number one on my list is that they NOT be a flaming @sshole. ^

< Bogie... I mean What's there to say? < Spencer Tracey... with all these guys, there has to be a lawyer < James Cagney... the Public Enemy himself. < young Marlon Brando Can you even imagine one of these guys doing a candy-ass show like Beverly Hills 90210? Never frikin' happen.

Tired of todays phoney-baloney plastic pretty boys? Go Retro... < Gary Cooper- when the strong, silent type is required < Young Clint Eastwood < John Wayne and Kirk Douglas from In Harms Way Caution: testosterone at near toxic levels. < I can believe that Burt Lancaster is the Viking After bombing targets in Germany, Korea and Vietnam, Jimmy Stewart is man enough to let a Siamese cat walk on him. ____________________________________________ Got any favorites of your own?

Saturday I saw something that I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would see: Atlas Shrugged on the big screen- in a full theater. It was amazing. They did a very good job with it. Placing it in the near future amid soaring energy prices, a collapsing economy and clueless politicians colluding to make their friends rich and to punish anyone else made it... chilling. Guess what? The Gulf is open for deep water drilling again. Guess who is first in line to do the drilling? An American company pumping our own oil you would think? No. You would be wrong. Petrobas- the Brazilian oil company in which George Soros is heavily invested. You remember George don't you? Euro-trash billionaire who is always f**king with American elections? It appears he finally bought one. Despite all the talk of America drilling its own oil and investing in America, O'bumble the crook has shown his true lieing, liar colors. You think Bush was an oil robber-baron? Obama just made his invasion of Iraq look like the work of a rank amateur. Obama managed to redistribute more wealth with the stroke of a pen than Bush managed with a war. I can't understand how people can be so blind. He's selling the country short, making his donors rich and setting us all up for great fall. He's for the people all right. You just better be clear on which people. You think the Brazilians will do any better than BP when they f**k up? I'm packed and ready anytime John.

Lots of things are going broke. Sign of the times. Look for things like Orchestras, parks and museums to get the budget ax first.

I'm a network administrator for a small law firm. I carry these items all the time: <Mini Maglite for dark spots < Gerber multi-tool 6 way screwdriver, small I have found that this mix of tools does better than a large, heavy toolbox. Plus: keys which explains why I wear Cargo pants I call the fashion created by all this gear functional geekdom.

I think, therefore I am. I have my own mind, independent of anyone and anything else. I have self interests which I protect. Therefore, I must have free will. No one has any say in the complex mix of factors that form their sexuality. In fact, in the science of human development it is thought that sexual orientation is set by the age of three. In this context, Free will is limited in scope to those things that you actually DO have a choice about.

I saw this today and had to wonder about it. I don't think I would go that direction unless there were a condition causing severe disfigurement.

Probably nothing. In situations like this, I assume that I'm missing something and don't know/understand what's actually happening. Unless it's clearly a black and white situation, I give most people the benefit of a doubt- unless they have given me some reason NOT to. If I am motivated to take action, I'm in with both feet. My move is to call the cops on my cell phone. If there is a mistake, let them explain it to the cops.

This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind A simple prop - to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love Chorus: Fireaaahh (2x) This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind A simple prop - to occupy my time This one goes out to the one I love Chorus (2x) This one goes out to the one I love This one goes out to the one I left behind Another prop - has occupied my time This one goes out to the one I love __________________________ Last in my REM renaissance- I'm tuning up for an eighties tale. You've gotta get it right in your head you know. Only it won't be anything Disney would do.

During WWII German U-boats laid mines at key point around ports in Florida and the rest of the Caribbean. Most of them have been swept but that's the tricky thing about mines. There's always a few unaccounted for and now, 60 years after the fact, the anchor chains for those mines have corroded and some are just floating around. There have been incidents in the Pacific. For years, mines used to wash up on the beaches of France and the UK. I'm not saying that a lose mine is what CJ had in mind, but it's not outside the realm of possibility. Depending on the type of mine, it would put have a smaller ship in orbit and really hurt most anything floating.

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I've been going through a REM revival. I've posted a couple of my favorite REM tunes with lyrics in my blog: the End of the World as we Know it and Driver 8. Yes- there was REM before Losing my Religion and Everybody Hurts. And... it was good stuff. If you're too young to remember them, check 'em. I might even get in the mood to post some David Bowie. Well... why the frak not? Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...

Scientists speak out to discredit 'gay caveman' media reports If you don't think that there are gay cavemen, wait till you get a load of me.

The walls are built up, stone by stone, the fields divided one by one. And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long" And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away" I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm. The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged. Bells are ringing through the town again, Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away" Way to shield the hated heat. Way to put myself to sleep. Way to shield the hated heat. Way to put myself, my children to sleep. He piloted this song in a plane like that one. She is selling faith on the Go Tell crusade. Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again. Field to weed is lookin' thin And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long." And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

There are a number of ways that people deal with stress. Most of them are probably unhealthy. For dramatic purposes, the unhealthy behaviors are probably the most interesting. Drinking and drugs are a classic stress response. Again people given to drinking and drugs don't need much provocation. Sex can be a stress response. Many a sex addict will go out a get busy with the first like minded person they can find when they encounter stress. Statistics show that in times of widespread stress like war and economic depressions, birth rates tend to go up. Stress can also act as a trigger for some people that have underlying mental problems. We often hear about the nice, quiet type that snaps and kills eighty people. There's are a lot of stress response behaviors that one might not think of off hand. Over eating, masturbation, bullying, child abuse, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, cutting and so forth. Stress can cause physical illness in some cases- headaches, stomach distress, body aches, weight loss. It doesn't take much imagination to make a character perfectly miserable from stress.

NASA Telescopes Join Forces to Observe Unprecedented Explosion Source Link:NASA NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from its location. Astronomers say they have never seen such a bright, variable, high-energy, long-lasting burst before. Usually, gamma-ray bursts mark the destruction of a massive star, and flaring emission from these events never lasts more than a few hours. Although research is ongoing, astronomers feel that the unusual blast likely arose when a star wandered too close to its galaxy's central black hole. Intense tidal forces tore the star apart, and the infalling gas continues to stream toward the hole. According to this model, the spinning black hole formed an outflowing jet along its rotational axis. A powerful blast of X-rays and gamma rays is seen when this jet is pointed in our direction. On March 28, 2011, Swift's Burst Alert Telescope discovered the source in the constellation Draco when it erupted with the first in a series of powerful blasts. "We know of objects in our own galaxy that can produce repeated bursts, but they are thousands to millions of times less powerful than the bursts we are seeing now. This is truly extraordinary," said Andrew Fruchter at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Swift determined a position for the explosion, which is now cataloged as gamma-ray burst (GRB) 110328A, and informed astronomers worldwide. As dozens of telescopes turned to the spot, astronomers quickly noticed a small, distant galaxy very near the Swift position. A deep image taken by Hubble on Monday, April 4, pinpointed the source of the explosion at the center of this galaxy, which lies 3.8 billion light-years away from Earth. That same day, astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a four-hour-long exposure of the puzzling source. The image, which locates the X-ray object 10 times more precisely than Swift, shows it lies at the center of the galaxy Hubble imaged. "We have been eagerly awaiting the Hubble observation," said Neil Gehrels, the lead scientist for Swift at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The fact that the explosion occurred in the center of a galaxy tells us it is most likely associated with a massive black hole. This solves a key question about the mysterious event." Most galaxies, including our own, contain central black holes with millions of times the Sun's mass; those in the largest galaxies can be a thousand times larger. The disrupted star probably succumbed to a black hole less massive than the Milky Way's, which has a mass four million times that of our Sun. Astronomers previously have detected stars disrupted by supermassive black holes, but none have shown the X-ray brightness and variability seen in GRB 110328A. The source has undergone numerous flares. Since April 3, for example, the source has brightened by more than five times. Scientists think that the X-rays may be coming from matter moving near the speed of light in a particle jet that forms along the rotation axis of the spinning black hole as the star's gas falls into a disk around the black hole. "The best explanation at the moment is that we happen to be looking down the barrel of this jet," said Andrew Levan of the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, who led the Chandra observations. "When we look straight down these jets, a brightness boost lets us view details we might otherwise miss." This brightness increase, which is called relativistic beaming, occurs when matter moving close to the speed of light is viewed nearly head on. Astronomers plan additional Hubble observations to see if the galaxy's core changes brightness. Goddard manages Swift and Hubble. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages Chandra. Hubble was built and is operated in partnership with the European Space Agency. Science operations for all three missions include contributions from many national and international partners. ___________________________________________ One of the theories of what might cause a "hyper-nova" like this is that a supermassive black hole is eating a superdense object like a pulsar. Whatever is causing it is releasing hard radiation on a scale that is frightening.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs. Feed it up a knock, speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height, down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh, this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite. Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic, slam, but neck, right? Right. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine... (It's time I had some time alone)

High quality fakes of Microsoft Office Pro (retail ~$500) are finding their way into retailers hands here in the states. It looks just like the real thing. When you try to install it, the software won't activate when it contacts Microsoft's RealAdvantage server. In 60 days the software will lock up and you can't use it. Microsoft won't help. They want you to tell them where you got it but they won't even offer a discount. They expect you to buy the software again. Which is the point that I told them to do anatomically impossible things with their anus. Policies like that encourage consumers to use cracks and other questionable methods when they basically say- don't care, get lost.

Dingo

The Influence of Sea Power on History 1660-1783 by Mahan is certainly one of the most influential books of modern history. The period of time that it covers- the Napoleonic War, American Revolution showcase the rise of British seapower and its limitations. It has been read and studied by generations of officers at military academies and has influenced military men and politicians serving under numerous flags. The doctrine of one huge battle to own the sea lanes won the first World War I for Britain and lost World War II for Japan. If you are a student of history, you no longer have to find an ancient copy in a library or on e-bray. Dover has a reprinted edition. Dover is good about that- they reprint classics in all sorts of fields so that they can be had by anyone who is interested. This is one of the great history books. It's influence is still being felt across the worlds oceans.

Wasn't me. Storms today. I stayed off roofs and napped on clothes fresh from the dryer. *purrs*

How Easily Things Could Fall Apart is fodder for quite a lot of speculative and dramatic fiction. While we laugh when we bring up a zombie apocalypse, think of it as a metaphor for some new threat/disaster that the human race has never seen before and tests our survival. In the future there will be a anthology category called a rider on a pale horse. I plan on taking anyone who cares to go deep into the subject without a life jacket. If the Great Blackout is any indicator, civilization ends when the power goes out.