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Burt Gummer’s Rec Room

A gathering place for paranoid survivalists and those who worship at the Church of Chang

August 2015: Dryer than a bone, and hotter than the surface of the sun- yup, it’s summertime in Perfection and El Blanco is on the prowl.

Disclaimer: This is the part of the Church that is the most no holds barred. None of it is intended with malice, and although it can on occasion seem a little bit fraught, it is banter rather than venom. So, be warned that this is like taking a naked swim in a piranha tank and not recommended for the faint of heart.

9,430 responses to “Burt Gummer’s Rec Room”

  1. tombando says :

    *Lost World Uhhh, I still don’t think it’s well put together as a plot. And the whole ship there being munched by a T Rex who can’t get into halls etc. is bullshit. It works as a sequel but it’s certainly not as good. It”s watchable.

    *Jaws. Who doesn’t love this? Holy shit I really just can sit and watch that Indianapolis scene any number of times. Schieder, Shaw and Dreyfuss are so good in this. Genius filming at times.

    *Twilight Zonathon, years 1 and 3. There’s an early episode with Jack Warden ‘on an asteroid’ (Death Valley), they line him up with a Fembot-Jean Marsh, ep has John Dehner in it too. It’s not bad. However, I NEVER noticed-one of the Dehner’s Go-fers is none other then Ted Knight(!). Never ever would have picked that up. But, once you know it, YEAH, that’s him bitching about staying there too long or whatever. Wow. Who knew?

  2. Xiphos0311 says :

    Droid have you ever been to Tasmania or know anything about it? I’m watching a show called The Gloaming, basically Tasmania’s version of Top Of The Lake but with supernatural elements and no white trash.

    The reason I’m asking is that it looks really pretty and should i visit it when i get down under?

    • Judge Droid says :

      I haven’t been to Tassie. I plan on going at some stage soon. It is beautiful. If you’re into camping, hiking, fishing and the outdoors in general then you should enjoy yourself. It’s also small (in relation to the rest of Australia) so you could go for a few days or do a lot of it it pretty comfortably and leisurely in under a week.

      I have The Gloaming. Will watch at some stage.

  3. M. Blitz says :

    If anybody has suggestions for little-seen movies or tv shows, I am all ears. The winter blues are going extra-hard this year, and i’m running out of shit to hit play on. Finally watched Russian Doll. Other than a couple absurdly minor quibbles (36, really? And, sketched out by ketamine, really?) I thought it was great. Glad to have saved it, sorry it went so fast.

    • tombando says :

      Try some of those Quinn Martin Productions(TM)–I’ve been watching Mannix the first couple years and it’s a hoot. You have the Little House on the Prairie guys-Doctor, preacher, store-keeper–showing up as baddies or victims a couple times each season. Or Harry Dean Stanton. Or cameos by Superstar Neil Diamond in concert very very early on. Kinda fun. Plus at least Mannix gets run shot or run over or falls from a Copter or whatever–he
      DOES go to the hospital or have a cast on etc. It’s forgotten the next scene but hey they do better than the A Team on that bit.

      And you get those big boat cars.

      • M. Blitz says :

        I will most definitely be seeking out the Harry Dean Stanton and Neil Diamond eps. Fingers crossed youtube will come through on that. Love them both.

      • tombando says :

        Some of the other guest stars-hrmmm Sarah Kellermann, original Hot Lips on Mash(movie) and in Back to School, Red West (Elvis Memphis mafia guy who had a decent run as a thug in TV into 90s), in the Dean Stanton ep he’s playing a record producer and the act he’s recording is a forgotten ‘Sunshine Pop’ group called Peppermint Trolley(!), all duded up ala Sgt Pepper unis etc. I never heard of them, but typical Bubblegum stuff of late 60’s. And the usual familiar TV faces you know.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Peppermint Trolley! I found one track on a comp credited to that band, BUT there is also The Peppermint Trolley Co. Neither to be confused with Peppermint Rainbow. Love the psych/nuggets flavor+object naming convention a la Strawberry Alarm Clock. Puts a smile on my face.

    • Judge Droid says :

      If you haven’t seen it, and can find it, watch Rake. Brilliant show, especially the first 3 seasons.

      • Judge Droid says :

        Also, I recommend What We Do in the Shadows. Very funny. If you enjoyed the movie, you should enjoy the show.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Rake was an australian show? I was vaguely aware of the greg kinnear version but had no idea. The australian version is on netflix. Global empire is, uh, troubling? Hah. But, silver lining, tv shows in english on 3 continents!

        Thanks for the reminder re What We Do in the Shadows. I’ve had that marked in hulu for awhile, but apparently prefer to pay hulu monthly without actually watching anything. Had completely forgotten about it.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Just started season 2 of Rake. That Cleave is so goddamn charming. Rakishly so, even.

      • Judge Droid says :

        Roxburgh is great. Cleaver could have easily been a shit, smarmy, unlikeable character but Roxburgh gives him some depth and pathos. Good acting and writing.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I am going to second the Rake recommendation the show is excellent.

      • Jarv says :

        Thirded. Well worth a watch

      • Jarv says :

        Further, I’d recommend Toast of London. If you like Matt Berry, it’s legitimately hilarious. The Gay Porn one in particular.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Netflix’s algorithm has also been recommending Toast of London. Will give it a look!

    • Xiphos0311 says :

      here’s a suggestion Blitz and bear with me for a moment because it will sound weird at first but its a solid suggestion.

      on 1 January Netflix dropped a show called Spinning Out, about a former up and coming female figure skater that had suffered a major head wound a year earlier in a match(not sure what to call figure skating things) the story is a typical sports story about her come back as a pair skater. The sports story was surprisingly interesting and I didn’t figure it would be, however what hooked me hard was how it subverted expectations in a good way, Spinning Out wasn’t truly a sports story it was the vehicle to tell a story about living with and dealing with mental illness and how it affects friends, family. work and the people that have it. January Jones from Mad Men was spectacular in it and so was the lead actress who i didn’t know. it a very good fair look at mental illness both the good and that bad that comes with it.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Thanks Xi, watched and enjoyed. Curious if there’s gonna be a season 2 since I didnt want the main gal’s friend Jen’s story to go out like that! And as a closeted-competitive type, it sort of kills me that the final results are unknown. So not the point of the show, I know….

        Agree that January Jones was 100% believable in her role.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        you’re welcome Blitz. That show was sneaky good. it subverted expectations everywhere like the pretty blond wife not being a bitch or Betty Draper getting her shit together, I really liked it.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        Unfortunately Blitz I read yesterday that Netflix pulled the plug on Spinning Out so there will not be a second season.

  4. tombando says :

    Well, I hadn’t ever seen Cool Runnings, with John Candy and the Jamaican Bobsledding team from 93. Pretty good. Was funny, a bit on the caricature side at times, but whatevers–hits the Rocky Formula at all the requisite stops along the way. And one of Candy’s last films. He’s okay in it, played the part surly not Jovial John, but always nice to see him. I enjoyed.

  5. Just Pillow Talk says :

    Just started watching Knightfall, 3rd episode in…liking it so far. Templars, holy grail, and all that.

  6. tombando says :

    Saw Two Popes last night, It’s pretty okay, dry, well acted, two guys in Pope Suits(TM) talking, with flashbacks for our Argentinian Friend. I liked the performances of both Hannibal Lector and the Infiniti guy. Well done. Some leaps am guessing by the writers but it rings pretty true, and I learned stuffs about the current Pope that I didn’t know. I think if you give it a shot on Netflix you will like it. Again the car chases(lack of) leave something to be desired sadly.

  7. Jarv says :

    So, anyone apart from me like the Discworld novels? Well, the set pictures from the BBC America adaption of the Watch have been published and OH MY GOD. White hot shit. I have no idea what it is, but it ain’t Discworld.

  8. tombando says :

    Did see 1917 today. Was quite a watch. I liked it. There’s a bit of a video game feel to the guys’ journey after awhile-here’s no man’s land, here’s a dogfight, here’s a blasted out farm, here’s a blasted out town, here’s a white water river part(!), here’s wide open peaceful fields, etc etc.

    But all That besides–it’s well acted, great F/X, it’s scary, it’s moving, it rings true esp the first half hour as they go over no man’s land. I’d def. recommend it.

  9. Xiphos0311 says :

    Blitz the last Bojack Horseman episodes air tomorrow.

    • M. Blitz says :

      I could hardly wait all week and now that it’s here I can’t bring myself to hit play! Prob tonight. Such an absurdly good show.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I’m in the same boat. it seems like a millennia since the first half of the season aired. Now that the final episodes are here i don’t want to watch them because that’s it there will be no more. And I agree Bojack is absurdly good. Devastatingly so at times.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Damn those went by fast

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I thought the show ended in the best way possible.The writing and voice acting was top notch.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Fully agree. Also, diane’s antidepressant ep was hilarious. And I liked Todd’s additions to the Bad Bojack list. I was legit angry with Bojack for not bailing Todd out of jail.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        The Diane episodes was hilarious. the best part was that she didn’t write her autobiography but wrote a YA novel instead and didn’t even realize it.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I’ve been thinking a lot about Bojack this past week or so. They really did a beautiful, soulful and accurate show about mental illness and addiction. It truly was a remarkable run.

      • M. Blitz says :

        I was thinking about rewatching it (again!) if i can manage to drag myself away from all the musicals I’ve been self-medicating with in hopes of staving off the heart attack my job is trying to give me. Def THE series of decade.

        I’m still not over the one about his mom’s dementia. And the one that ends with him as a child sneaking a drink and then curling up with his mom. Amazing that such a hilarious cartoon can be so devastating.

        Did you watch the rotoscoped show he did for Amazon? The name escapes me at the moment. It was good, but I had mixed feelings about it.

      • Judge Droid says :

        The Amazon one is called Undone. I’ve only watched a few eps. It’s alright.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Did you give up on it? Or are you currently watching? The rotoscoping is pretty amazing and the way it’s integrated into what the show is doing is beautiful. A couple other things about it just kind of didn’t sit right with me for what may be entirely personal reasons that wouldn’t hold up to critical scrutiny.

        Continuing from above and to balance out the ferociously sad Bojack eps mentioned, special shout out to Princess Caroline’s Jellicle ringtone and to the abortion ep. I often think of one or the other and cackle softly to myself.

  10. tombando says :

    Recent viewings:

    *Something’s Gotta Give–2003, Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Starsky, Amanda Peete. Another go at ‘As Good as it Gets’ for Jaack, just this time the GF is in his same age group. Very well off NYC entertainment figures-him a Record Company Exec, her a Broadway playwright, hit it off despite Jaack’s penchant for only the under-30 something women. He goes thru a string of them apparently. Anyways–he’s dating Diane’s Daughter(Peete), has a cardiac while they’re staying at Diane’s McMansion in the Hamptons, hi-jinks ensue, they wind up doing falling for each other despite everything. They’ll also always have Paris. It’s pretty good for the Rom Com set, I remember it now as the movie where 56 year old Keaton runs around in her underware a couple times (As does Jaack). It’s a formula movie but hits the stations of the cross just fine. Stay away if you don’t like that kinda thing.

    *Fury–2014. Brad Pitt, Shia, the Punisher and a Sherman Tank in Germany April of 1945. Standard WW2 war movie stuff, couple somewhat contrived sections, but I still liked it, holds up about the same as it did 6 years ago. Worth seeing. Pitt’s pretty okay in this one.

    *Monuments Men-2014. George Clooney, Bill Murray, Matt Damon, etc. You remember this one–they send a special team into Europe late in the war to save all these priceless artworks Nazis stole. I like it fine,, but I think they never figured out just what tone they wanted here-another caper flick ala Ocean’s 11, or something a bit more serious? more of a spoof maybe? And the odd twist at the finale with the Russkis seen as the baddies-sure I get it-but still, this was vs. the Nazis after all. It still works-just–doesn’t add up as well as it should.

    • tombando says :

      Oh a couple more while I’m doing this…

      *Twilight Zone, Second year–it’s the one with the 3 armed Martian and 3 eyed Venusian in the bus top, the half dozen video-taped ones, Art Carney as Santa, the flying saucer invading the old lady(Agnes Moorehead)’s home, Shatner and the penny fortune machine, etc. Good stuff mostly. My fave is the bus station one.

      *Battle of LA-2010. Pretty good. Holds up. Kinda dated with the shambly look to the Aliens tech ala Cowboys and Aliens or Section 9, but it’s fine. Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez etc do their things. It has a bit of a Transformers vibe to it too. I like it.

      *The Fighting 69th–Cagney, Pat O’brien, George Brent, etc. WW1 Oirish US brigade doing the bootcamp/Western Front routine, Cagney as belligerent coward proves his worth at end in combat, dies heroically etc. You’ve seen it all before. Not bad considering. Some of the GI’s-Alan Hale Sr and Frank McHugh are rounder than Curly Howard though….

    • Xiphos0311 says :

      Monuments Men is an insulting badly made movie about the exact wrong group of MEN in the wrong place doing amazing things in the name of art, literature and architecture. Clooney decided to honor these MEN by making a shitty reboot of Oceans 13. Fuck Clooney and this garbage.

  11. tombando says :

    Mannix–Yr 6, AKA the one where the show peaked at 7 in the ratings for the year. First disc and a half in—baddie in opening ep–boys that looks like Anthony Zerbe..but it isn’t…Oh–it’s Rip Torn! Next ep–there’s Zerbe! You then get Baltar (Colicos), Robert Mandan and Michael Constantine etc. doing their things. These guys-Charles Cioffi-lived on these shows. Pretty fun stuff despite itself. Remember, it’s a Quinn Martin Production(TM).

  12. Just Pillow Talk says :

    I finished the 2 seasons of Knightfall. Season 1 was I would call it more realistic, per se, in characters’ actions. Not a grand story, straightforward. Season 2 made the villains more cartoonish, more stark in good vs evil I would say. Is it a great series? No, but binging it, it’s fine. I think the battle scenes are fine and Landry is a good enough lead.

    The King – netflix original. This movie was bizarre for me, very choppy storytelling. Joel Egerton mumbled his way through this giving “guidance”. Did not work for me. I will say the ending of a particular character was very sudden, liked that part. Still, found myself not caring for any character.

  13. tombando says :

    *Zodicac-2007 with Jake Gyllenhall, Iron Man, the Hulk, etc. It Never fails–this film just kinda gets under my skin whenever I watch it and keeps me riveted despite being rather long and not having much (if any) action after first 45 minutes or so. I really like this thing. Right thru the Ace Hardware ‘confrontation’ and the Toronto Airport picture IDing. Pretty neato case they put together even if they were wrong? Excellent all around movie.

    *X Files 2008 flick–with Scully and Moulder, Billy Connally and lotsa snow. This one works-OK, Connally is a disgraced child molesting Priest/Psychic, there’s Russki’s running around grabbing women for Frankenstein purposes, Scully and Moulder come in from the Civvie world and try to solve things. I don’t think it’s Great but it’s a passable time filler. Not nearly as good as the better episodes though.

  14. Xiphos0311 says :

    Hulu has adapted High Fidelity and you know what? It doesn’t completely suck, which surprised me because I figured it was going to blow and I was wrong about that. Sure they moved it to hipster Brooklyn NYC instead of Chicago or London. They gender swapped Rob and the fat black lady they got to replace fat Jack Black(his best role outside of School of RocK)isn’t very good but overall its a solid adaptation.

    Zoe Kravitz makes a for a good Rob.They stuck with the conceit of Rob talking to the camera which works. They dropped the immediate girlfriend leaving(in this case a boy friend) crisis for something that happened a year ago. They also kept all the top 5 stuff from the book which was smart since as I remember that was like more then half the novel.

    All in all I would recommended this adaptation it has entertainment value and the music is great. My only real complaint is that its another dick suck show for NYC. Let’s all agree its time is over and move on to somewhere else. i get it that writers all do the NYC LA shuffle but there are other interesting places in the States to set shows and movies. Or do an English version you know like the books. If you haven’t read the book I remember liking it a lot back in the day. I read in college for some sort of English paper so I don’t know how I would like so many decades later.

    • M. Blitz says :

      RIP NYC!

      What i would give to visit it the way it was when i first went, so many years ago. Ah well…..

      Everything I love is over. But it’s ok. I guess.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I remember NYC in the later 70’s when me and my Mom wandered in. It was totally nuts. The new Disney/rich people play ground is quite boring.

      • M. Blitz says :

        I’m so mad I wasnt a teenager/young adult in the 70s. It’s lame to think like that, but still, if only.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        I was like 8 or 9 when we went to NYC. It was a mind blowing experience.

        The Disneyfied NYC doesn’t really lend itself to gritty film making any more.

      • M. Blitz says :

        What a fantastic experience at that age. Your mom did you a solid with that little adventure. A lost world.

    • Continentalop says :

      I can’t even imagine Daredevil, Power Man, Iron Fist, Punisher, and Moon Knight in modern NYC. Why even keep making movies & shows set there?

  15. Just Pillow Talk says :

    Ford vs Ferrari – I enjoyed this film, Bale and Damon were good together. I think they moved the story along well enough, spending enough time on the building/testing of the cars, the political backdrop of the whole process, and the race itself. It seemed relatively accurate, but I did not read in depth on the whole backstory.

    The Expanse – more than halfway through season 2, I like this show a lot. Maybe it’s because i haven’t watched a semi scifi show in forever, but i am liking the conflicts between factions, the ugliness of space travel, living, etc. I did not expect to get hooked on this.

    • M. Blitz says :

      The Expanse is great! Funny that the worst thing about it is the main dude. But the other characters more than make up for his shortcomings.

      • Just Pillow Talk says :

        While I agree on the lead, he is filling a morale compass role for the other actors to react off of. At least that is how I look at it.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Just you wait lol Holden becomes annoying as fuck as it goes along. But you will have some very badass new characters on the way too.

      • Just Pillow Talk says :

        Thomas Jane was great..a shame.

      • M. Blitz says :

        Really really enjoyed Thomas Jane. Classic type character with a nice idiosyncratic style. Very well done.

        I had actually forgotten when I referred to Holden as “the main dude” that when I first started watching, i prob would have thought of Thomas Jane as the lead.

        Must tread carefully and not spoil anything! I still need to watch the latest season.

    • Xiphos0311 says :

      I agree with Blitz The Expanse is an excellent watch.

      Ford v Ferrari I really like that movie. It was the second movie I saw saw last year, the first being Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Both were excellent period pieces with great writing and acting.

      • Continentalop says :

        F v F was like the kind of quality entertainment you used to get from Hollywood from the 1960s up until the early 2000s. I could totally imagine a late 60s/early 70s version starring Paul Newman or Steve McQueen and Terrance Stamp.

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        Hey Conti how are you doing?

        yeah i agree F v F was like OUATIH are throw backs to the days when Hollywood made good movies.

      • Just Pillow Talk says :

        Haven’t seen once upon a time…

      • Xiphos0311 says :

        Pillow you are well acquainted with my feelings about Cokey so I can say this with zero bias, OUATINH is an Excellent wel made movie and except for the trolling with the feet there is very little to almost no of the normal Cokey movie making shittyness.

      • M. Blitz says :

        A late 60s Terence Stamp omg, if only. May have to put on Modesty Blaise tonight and bask in that psychotic beauty for a bit.

  16. tombando says :

    Well–I Did get Simon and Simon Season 2 (having had just 10 eps from it before) for what it’s worth….

  17. tombando says :

    *Welcome to Marwen-2018. Okay THAT was a strange one. Steve Carrell, Diane Kruger, Leslie Mann etc. This was directed by BOB ZEMECKIS–who’s blonde bombshell wife is cast as a porn actress in here. I donno where to begin with this movie. Carrell is a famous artist in ‘Upstate NY’ who gets almost beat to death by some skinhead types in a bar for wearing high heels. He can’t remember anything afterwards, takes up photography. He lives in a trailer and has a real active fantasy life involving WW2 in Belgium, a quintet of gun toting Barbies(all based on women he knows), and a bunch of cartoony evil Nazi dolls. The CGI and etc from all THAT–well it works fine. It’s like they crossed Small Soldiers with whatever that Snyder flick was with the killer chicks and then tried to staple Charlie onto it. Does that make any sense?! Anyways, he finds love, he has to struggle into court and face the guys who almost killed him, and he has to get off the meds which are holding him back(Spoiler!).

    THe cast tries hard and is likable, but–it’s a Really schizo flick. I can see why it tanked. I kinda liked it–but wow. This was a mess. You might enjoy it but be ready for some real jarring changes in tone etc. along the way.

  18. ThereWolf says :

    Bought a new TV just after New Year. It’s one of those new-fangled 4k things. Can’t decide whether I like it or not. The picture’s gonna take some getting used to; it doesn’t look cinematic, d’yer know what I mean? Films look like television, dunno how else to describe it. There’s a weird ‘motion blur’ effect going on too, never had that on the plasma telly. Messed about in ‘settings’ but I can’t smooth it out. Apparently it’s a common LED thing? Too distracting, man.

    Only got a handful of 4k movies so far; I can see the jump in picture quality but can’t say I’ve been totally blown away. It’s the two older films I got that proper impressed me; ‘Black Hawk Down’ is astonishing. I only had the DVD and the 4k came with a standard blu-ray so I was able to do a step-up comparison. The image improvement over blu-ray is very impressive. A lot of film grain though, can see that bugging some folk.

    Older still, the 4k picture for ‘2001 Space Odyssey’… I gather they used the 70mm print for the transfer and it looks phenomenal, proper ‘wow’ moment. Have yet to watch this in full. Maybe 4k has arrived to deliver me from my current cinema apathy! They’re gonna need to drop the price of discs though…

    • M. Blitz says :

      Ooooh that is extremely annoying. What kind of tv is it? They sometimes hide the appropriate settings to tweak behind weird and/or counterintuitive names and/or modes. Is there a BFI mode? The effect you’re describing is the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard to me. Don’t give up, keep tweaking!

      Have always wanted to see 2001 in 70 mm.

      • ThereWolf says :

        The Blitz!

        Yeh, it’s a Panasonic, 65-inch. Not an up-to-date model, sale item and I gather already superseded by newer sets but I couldn’t stretch the budget to bells and whistles. Reviews didn’t highlight any issues; solid TV by all accounts. There was no in-depth manual with it so no explanation of settings. Youtube has a lot of individual videos for best TV set-ups but there isn’t one for mine so I’ve been mixing and matching settings, but no joy. There’s something called ‘motion optimiser’ on the telly, this was set to ‘medium’ out of the box. Googling doesn’t give me an answer on what this is, tried it on ‘high’ and ‘low’ but can’t see any difference; no idea what this setting does. I’m presuming it’s to do with what I’m on about but the home cinema sites use different phrases around the word ‘motion’, weird that ‘motion optimiser’ never comes up. I’m gonna set it to ‘low’ for now.

        Then my sister and her fella come round and they’re going ‘wow, what a great picture’ and I reply with ‘yeh, except for the motion blur’… Their response? ‘Oh, didn’t notice it.’ Wha-aaaat!

      • M. Blitz says :

        65 inch! Wow that’s practically a movie screen. Hope your eyes adjust quickly to any remaining blur and you get many hours of viewing pleasure from your new set.

    • Xiphos0311 says :

      Look you all hoity toity with the big time TV set wolf.

      • ThereWolf says :

        To be fair it was long overdue, had the plasma for eons. When the new one came even the delivery blokes were taking the piss – ‘oh, SCART sockets, how quaint…’ The cheeky twats.

    • Just Pillow Talk says :

      Wolf, your tv doesn’t have any of these?

      Intelligent Frame Creation, Black Frame Insertion, Clear Motion…maybe those are only on the newer versions.

      From what I read, yeah, keeping it on low is your best option.

      • ThereWolf says :

        Hey, Pillows. Doesn’t look like I’ve got any of those. Been through an online manual as well – doesn’t even mention the ‘motion optimiser’ doohickey!

        I’ve turned the sharpness right down, turned off ‘dynamic contrast’… ‘optimiser’ is now on ‘low’, noise reduction down to ‘low’. Can’t say it’s made a great deal of difference.

      • tombando says :

        I still have the 28 inch 99 buck Toshiba that shuts off after 4 hours despite my having shut off every ‘power saving option’ repeatedly. It works otherwise pretty nice. The GF has a Real big more modern one. It was funny watching the Munsters on that–was the ep with the Standells guesting.

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“You’re 5,000 miles overdue,” he said reproachfully, “CherryBaby needed her tires rotated at 15,000.”

I puzzled over that one, since CherryBaby rotates her tires madly every time we hit the road. The ins and outs of automotive maintenance aren’t really my thing–when your dad regards tinkering with cars the way everyone else regards fine Belgian chocolate, there’s not much need. But the service dude seemed to think this was a terrible faux pas, so I apologized

“I’m sorry,” I said humbly (I’m not very good at humble), “But the last time I was here you guys said I should only come in every 10,000 miles, even when the little dashboard light says MAINTENANCE.”

Service Dude shook his head, “No, we meant you only needed oil changes every 10,000 miles. Poor little CherryBaby needs her tires rotated, her brakes checked and all that stuff every FIVE thousand miles.”

Well. I gave him 10 points for saying “CherryBaby” twice with a straight face…minus 6 points for the “poor little.” Obviously, somewhere along the line I let slip “CherryBaby-the-car,” instead of “Toyota Camry” in our conversation. Either that, or my penchant for naming cars is part of my permanent record at Toyota. Or maybe service dudes read blogs.

But yeah. My cars have names, and it’s been that way as far back as I can remember.

We didn’t have much money when I was a kid–Dad was still in training–and all five of us lived on Mom’s salary as an elementary school teacher. To save money, Dad would pick up old, broken-down cars for a song, fix them up and drive them for awhile, then sell them at a small profit.

And THOSE cars had names. My favorite was an old Buick named John.

I don’t remember much about John except that he was black and probably hailed from the late 40s or early 50s. He had a musty smell like my grandma’s basement and on cold, frost-bitten mornings my little sister was the only one who could make him go.

She and Dad rode in together–he’d drop her off on the way to the hospital. On weekdays he’d carefully strap her into the passenger’s seat, climb in himself, then wait for her to warble, “Let’s go, John!” John would obligingly rumble to life.

Dad insisted that whenever Becky wasn’t in the car, John took forever to start. Sometimes Dad even had to get out the jumper cables. He demonstrated–John’s engine steadfastly refused to turn over until Becky said the magic words.

Ever after, I was convinced that cars were actually humans with very hard skins. And wheels.

It sorta snowballed from there. I now live with Darius the Nikon, iMelda the iMac, Sheila the Windows machine, Ollie and Skooby and Jennie the kilns, Izzy the iPad, Sherry the iPhone, Vlad the bench grinder, etc., etc.

“How do you keep them all straight?” my neighbor Jan asked once, wonderingly, as she tapped on iMelda’s keyboard.

“Same way I remember YOUR name,” I said jokingly, and now Jan stands out on the front porch, warily, when she visits.

I’d like to think we kept John rather longer than most of those cars, but once they were running reliably they lost their appeal for Dad. A month or two of trouble-free driving and he’d be out at used car lots, seeking the next deal.

I don’t think he ever figured out the Becky/John relationship, though. It was probably something prosaic, like the one I read about a woman who insisted her car hated pistachio ice cream. If she bought chocolate ice cream, she told mechanics, it ran without a hitch. But anytime she showed up with pistachio, it broke down.

They thought she was crazy until one finally went to the ice cream store with her, and discovered that she was absolutely correct: If she bought pistachio, the car died. Chocolate? No problem.

Turned out that the lady would leave the engine running when she ran in for ice cream, and it had an idling problem that only showed up when the car had been sitting still for more than five minutes or so.

Chocolate was a popular flavor, so the ice cream store pre-packed it. It only took the lady five minutes to get to back to the car with her purchase. Pistachio, on the other hand, had to be hand-packed, which took about 15 minutes. Voila.

Probably the thing with starting the Buick was similar.

Or maybe John just liked to be asked.

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Obituary of Joseph Edward Rigney

Joseph Edward Rigney, 82, of Andrews Ave., died suddenly on Saturday Jan. 5, 2019 at Saratoga Hospital.  He was born in Cohoes, NY on April 16, 1936 and was the son of the late Sylvester and Bertha Lessard Rigney.  Joseph was educated at Keveny Academy in Cohoes and a master craftsman in his field as a dry wall finisher with an unmeasurable work ethic.  He has resided in Round Lake since 1966 with the love of his life and soulmate, Gillian Edwards Rigney. They were married on September 8, 1957. His love for Round Lake was unquestionable. He found great enjoyment sitting on his screened in front porch taking a nap, reading the paper, chatting with all who passed by, and enjoying his 5 o’clock happy hour.  He enjoyed a game of chance and always loved to help his family with projects.
His gentle spirit, dry sense of humor and ability to see the good in everyone will truly make him missed by everyone who was lucky enough to know him. He enjoyed spending time in York Beach, Maine in the summers and visiting family in Florida in the winters. He spent his years constantly surrounded by his family and friends. He was a communicant of Corpus Christi Church in Ushers.
In addition to his beloved wife Gillian, Joe is the devoted father of Michael (Lila) Rigney of Odessa, FL, Scott (Danielle) Rigney of Round Lake, NY, Christina (Paul) Matthews of Clifton Park, NY, Sean (Elizabeth) Rigney of Round Lake and the late Linda Hart; ( Dennis Hart) of Jensen Beach, FL; brother of the late James Leo Rigney, Edmund Rigney and Charlotte Rouselle; also survived by 16 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral will be held on Friday morning at 11:00 am at Corpus Christi Church in Ushers where the Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated.
Calling hours will be from 4-8 pm Thursday in the Gordon C. Emerick Funeral Home, 1550 Rt. 9 Clifton Park, NY 12065.

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An LGBTQ Man & Woman's Co-Parenting Journey Begins With Mosie!

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Our journey began 7 years ago when we both realized that we were co-workers at the world-famous Abbey Food & Bar in West Hollywood and neighbors living in Downtown Los Angeles. After knowing each other less than three months, we became roommates, carpooling to work together and forging a friendship over shared work experiences, similar interests, life experiences as LGBT people and goals. Three years into our friendship, we found ourselves airing out our personal relationship grievances at work one day and separately arrived at the conclusion that our goal of becoming a parent would ultimately be a solo effort for both us. To our surprise, a co-worker suggested that instead of becoming a single parent, we should consider raising a child together because we were such good friends, and after a 30-minute conversation about out how that arrangement would work for us, our agreement was sealed with a friendly handshake and our co-parenting journey commenced. We discussed our conception options, taking all things into account; our friendship dynamic, our sexuality of being a gay man and a lesbian, our spirituality, finances, health and desired timeframe. After receiving positive results from a fertility specialist confirming we were both fertile enough to conceive without much assistance, we discovered Mosie Baby as a recommendation from a friend. The success stories, testimonials and price point gave us the assurance we were making a smart and educated conception decision, and after one week of attempting to conceive, we learned we were pregnant 4 weeks later. Today we have a happy, healthy, angelic son who gives us the best reason to live and we can't thank Mosie Baby enough for helping us realize our dream to become parents and accomplish our goal to co-parent together. We look forward to using Mosie when we're ready for child #2 and growing our new modern family.

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L&B, You guys are establishing a new blueprint for modern families. Your story and the thought that went into this plan are amazing. Were grateful to have played a small role. Love is love and we have no doubt that this beautiful little guy will enjoy lots of it! Our sincere thanks for sharing this remarkable story. We have no doubt others will find inspiration here! - Marc & Mo

UPDATE - we can let the cat out of the bag at last! You can see L&B on Courteney Coxs new FBWatch show 9 Months With Courtney Cox right now and they are amazing. Watch here.


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David Beckham scrambler recreated

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The Triumph that heartthrob soccer legend David Beckham rides in the BBC1 documentary “David Beckham: Into the Unknown” has been recreated by a British custom house.

And you could win it!

While most people assumed Beckham’s Triumph was a Scrambler, it was actually a Bonneville with all the trimmings so that it looked like a Scrambler.

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David Beckham in South America with Triumph Scrambler

Now Guildford retro clothing specialist Motolegends has teamed with FCL Motorcycles to recreate a replica of the customised Triumph Bonnevilles that Beckham and his pals rode up the Amazon last year.

Later this year, the bike will given away at the UK National Exhibition Centre. To enter the competition, click here.

Motolegends acquired their donor bike, a 2001 model, from a local ex-policeman. Even though it was over 10 years old, it had been meticulously looked after, and so presented an excellent starting point for the project.

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David Beckham’s Triumph “Scrambler” recreated

The build was actually incredibly simple, and although the end result is quite dramatic, the work is well within the scope of any budding ,‘bike-shed’ mechanic.

Part one was the strip-down. Off came the mudguards, the indicators, the rear grab rail, the exhaust, and so on.

What was left was treated to a matt black paint job that included the wheels, fuel tank, engine casing, cylinder head and, handlebars on.

The wheels were re-shod with Metzler Karoo 3s as per the original bike; rubber fork gaiters were added, the seat was re-trimmed, and a new rear mudguard and number plate holder was fabricated.

The pièce de résistance, and the most expensive single part on the bike, was the Arrow exhaust. But it only comes in a metal finish, so it was sent off for a black ceramic coating. A bracket was fabricated, to allow it to hang correctly off the side of the bike.david Beckham Triumph scrambler

Final touches involved moving the rear brake master cylinder to a new location, as the rear brake positioning couldn’t have been at all convenient on the original bikes.

Discrete indicators were then fitted front and back. On the Amazon bikes there were no rear indicators; just front ones.

The end result is a bike that somehow seems more than the sum of its parts.

The bike was built by Phil and Graham at FCL in Cranleigh. Including the original bike, parts, paint labour and so on, the build came in at around £10,000 (almost $20,000).

The only part that proved totally elusive was the small, under-handlebar mirror that the Amazon bikes sported. If anyone knows where it’s from, Motolegends would like to know!

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All students are encouraged to join a College Music Ensemble to deepen and broaden their experience. They are also encouraged to participate in the musical life of the College, such as Liturgies, recitals and The Arts Festival.

Lessons are held before, during and after school, and are organised in consultation with the instrumental teacher, class teacher and student. Students can be withdrawn from class for one instrument only. If your child wishes to learn two instruments they must learn the second instrument outside of class time. Primary students cannot be withdrawn before lunch.

Students need to own or have access to an instrument prior to lessons commencing. Some instruments are available for long term loan from the College when not in use during music classes, however, all students are encouraged to purchase or hire an instrument through a retailer or company specialising in instrument hire, such as Studio 19. Hire charges are very reasonable, with a number of schemes available.

To enrol in the Individual Music Tuition program, please complete the form below. If you have any queries, please contact Dorothy Lincoln.

Information about your current experience with music and details of achievements assists the College in entering individuals in the appropriate level offered for music.

Individual music tuition is organised by Mount Carmel during school hours for the following instruments:

  • Bass Guitar
  • Cello
  • Double Bass
  • Drum Kit
  • Madolin
  • Piano
  • Piano Accordion
  • Trombone
  • Viola
  • Violin
  • Voice (Contemporary)
  • Clarinet*
  • Flute*
  • Guitar*
  • Saxophone*
  • Trumpet*
  • Ukelele*
  • Contemporary Piano**

* Lessons may be available in a shared situation at the discretion of the teacher.

** Only available to students in Years 5-10.

Fees for lessons in 2020 are $38 for a 30-minute individual lesson and $28 for a shared lesson.

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    Please indicate the musical instruments in which your child is interested and provide details of the current involvement and any significant achievements.
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Music Tuition Terms & Conditions

  1. Payment Plan: Payment arrangements are made directly with your teacher. An account will be sent home with your child from the instrumental teacher after the first lesson of each term.  Payments are to be made in advance and are to be paid in full by the next lesson after receiving the invoice. If you wish to make other payment options, please discuss this with your teacher.
  2. Payment Method: The invoice will outline the teacher’s preferred payment method. Payments are not to be made at the College Office.
  3. Late Payment: If you have any problems with payment, please contact your teacher as soon as possible, as your teacher may suspend lessons until payment is made.
  4. Missed lessons: You will not be charged for missed lessons if you notify the teacher well ahead of time: this includes excursions and approved absences.  In the case of illness, you should notify the teacher early on the morning of the absence or the night before. If your teacher is absent you are not required to pay for that lesson. The missed lesson may be re-scheduled or the fee for that lesson will be deducted from your next account.
  5. Contact: The teacher should always be personally notified using their private phone number. Avoid using the College Office, as often they will not be able to pass on information to your teacher.
  6. Cancellation: If your child wishes to discontinue lessons, you must give four weeks notice in writing or pay for four weeks tuition.
  7. Attendance: It is important that your child knows her lesson time and remembers to attend. If your child needs help in the first few weeks to find the Tuition Room, please discuss this with your teacher and they will be happy to assist. Your child will receive a green card from the instrument or singing teacher which they can show their classroom teacher before leaving class.
  8. Instrument: It is extremely important that your child owns or has access to an instrument to play. If you do not own or have access to an instrument, it is possible to buy or hire an instrument through one of the music retailers.
  9. Practice: It is extremely important that your child takes time every day to practise their instrument. Your child will need your support in this. A helpful approach is to ask to hear them play their pieces. Be strong about limiting television and computer/electronic games. Fifteen minutes a day for beginners will enable your child to make good progress, the lessons easier and more enjoyable.
  10. Books: It is essential for your child to bring their music book to every lesson. It may be necessary to make a copy of your child’s pieces to leave at school for those times when the music book is forgotten.


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The RFC 2047 defines an encoding to allow for textual message bodies in character sets other than US-ASCII, among others.

The library defines two functions for de- and encoding according to the RFC 2047.

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(decode (str &key (start 0) (end (length str)))) decodes the given string, or parts thereof if start and end are defined.

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The javascript library jQuery leaves the authentication to the browser's implementation of XMLHttpRequest. In case of firefox this results in credentials encoded in the URL. The patch jquery-1.2.5.httpauth.patch allows to put the credentials into the HTTP header and use RFC 2047 compliant encoding, by setting the AJAX option authheader to true. However, this patch requires webtoolkit's base64 and rfc2047.js.


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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

I called for an ambulance, why did I get a fire truck?

Because we have firefighter/EMTs at every station, when 911 gets a call for a medical emergency they will also dispatch the closest fire station to also respond to help. As we all know, minutes count during a medical response. Because our five fire stations are spread throughout our District, the fire engine is often closer than the ambulance. Our firefighter/EMTs have an excellent working relationship with the ambulance personnel, to ensure that the best possible care is provided on the scene.

My neighbor says you can go to the fire department to get an address sign. Is that true?

For property owners within the Missoula Rural Fire District, it is available to purchase all‐weather reflective address signs and posts at our cost. Currently, the lowest cost of $9.00 is for one single‐sided address number sign without a sign post. The highest cost of $21.00 is for one double‐sided address sign with a sign post included.

Address signs help significantly in emergency situations. In addition to this, delivery drivers, family and friends are better able to find their destination from the road. When seconds count, our reflective address signs work well in day, night, and poor weather to help others find you.

The signs are aluminum with reflective 6‐inch numbers showing your address and can be mounted on a steel post. MRFD firefighters will check each driveway prior to the installation of the sign, to ensure that the sign will be adequate and that the current fire maps show the correct location of your home.

To order address signs and posts, please mail in your payment with the completed MRFD Address Sign Order Form to our Station 1 Headquarters at: 2521 South Ave W; Missoula, MT 59804.

What is a “recreational campfire?”

A recreational campfire is a very small fire, no greater than 3‐feet in diameter, with flames no more than 2‐feet high. The purpose of the campfire would be for a cooking or warming fire. This fire would NOT be used for burning of waste material of any kind.

It is recommended that even a recreational campfire is at least 25‐feet away from any structures or burnable fuels, such as grass or over‐hanging trees. Also, it is important to have some fire protection on hand, such as shovels, access to a working garden hose, and/or a fire extinguisher. Of course, you would want to have a competent adult with the fire at all times. And most important: when you are finished, be sure that your fire is dead‐out: which means pour water on it, stir it up, and repeat! When you are finished, the fire coals or ashes should be cool to the touch.

Note: For a recreational campfire, you do not need to have a burn permit. However, it is still important to check the Missoula County website to see if outdoor burning is open for that given day.

I want to have a bon fire. Can I?

The true answer to this is, “It depends.” In Missoula County, in order to have a ceremonial bonfire, this must be a fire for an organization‐related event. This also requires a special form called a “Bonfire Permit” that must be initially picked up at the Missoula County Health Department. This type of permit requires signatures from the Fire Department (typically the Fire Marshal), the Sheriff’s Office, and the Health Department.

In many cases, when people say a “bon fire,” they may be referring to a burn pile. If that is the case, you can go to to purchase a Missoula County burn permit. Please note that there is a fee of $5.00 for this type of burn permit, that open burning is from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and that you will need to activate your burn permit each day that you want to burn. For more information regarding outdoor burning, please see our page regarding burn permits.

I’d like to visit a fire station. Is that possible?

If you would like to schedule a station tour, please call our Station 1 Headquarters at 406‐549‐6172, during normal business hours. For all station tours, we do request at least two‐weeks’ notice. Please give us your name, phone number, the size of your group, and whether you would prefer a morning or an afternoon tour. If bringing children, we request to have the approximate age range and number of children attending. Once we have your information, one of our MRFD Firefighters will call you back to confirm a date and time for your visit. Of course, we must remind you that if the engine crew gets dispatched by 911, they may have to leave suddenly due to emergency response. But we will make every effort to accommodate your request.

I need a CPR class. Where should I go?

Currently, The Missoula Rural Fire District does not have the resources to provide general CPR classes to the public. Local CPR classes are offered to the public through the Lifelong Learning Center. Please call them at (406) 549-8765, or go to their website at for more information.


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This is a song we made to acknowledge the pain and suffering that are the results of the devastating earthquake that ruptured Haiti on Jan 12th, 2010. Hopefully, this song will inspire people to reflect, cherish life, and offer aid in whatever ways they can to the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.

"Sak Pase"
Verse One (Akrobatik)

Little Helena feels the weight of the world on her shoulders / mentally and in addition to the weight of the boulders / and the rubble / that's crushing her frame / she's in a lot of trouble / Her auntie's nearby whispering "I love you" / but the situation's bleak / zoom out / this tragedy took more than one room out / destruction and mayhem throughout / The Nation of Haiti was rocked by an earthquake / brittle houses collapsed after the first shakes / One of the worst places this could happen / because the country is poor even though the people are full of passion / Hurts to see the first free Black state wait for food Sir / but they've gotta see Anderson Cooper / See when they liberated from France / they set a standard for all Black people to advance / Little Helena didn't make it / but her will to live is what inspired me to write this / for Haiti we ignite this

Verse Two (Mr. Lif)

Devastation of another Nation / Folks in dire situations trying to be patient / Help is coming but the looters through the streets / Wanna flee, but the blood is leaking through your feet / It's looking bleak / Body crushed, but your soul is strong / Holding on, cause your memories are never gone / Life's glory / Add this to your life's story / I was there / I survived / I'm alive / We'll rebuild again / so don't worry / But for now, bodies in the streets / people dying over water and food / fighting to eat / Fighting sleep cause I might slip / into God's arms / reaching for an angel's palm / but I'm not gone / then my body got strong / Let my voice ring / Blacked out then woke up / to people hoisting / me from my death bed / to get fed / these are people from my neighborhood / so this is what I said...

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Discover. Innovate. Act.

As leaders within the MS community, we are privileged to be a part of a determined group of change agents who are working tirelessly to create a world free of MS. Needless to say, we know there is an urgency to this work. That for every day that passes, more Canadians receive the news that they have MS.

Since 1948, we at the MS Society have been proud to be a part of a community of people living with MS, families, friends, volunteers, donors, researchers, clinicians, and many more in funding research, providing support to people affected by MS, and advocating for supports and systems that allow people living with MS to live a full and inclusive life. In 2019, we unveil a strategic plan that not only builds upon the work of the entire MS community since 1948, but with great hope, brings a new chapter to move forward our mission of connecting and empowering the MS community to create positive change that helps realize our vision of a world free of MS.

Through discoveries, innovation, and collective action, we will work together to alleviate the uncertainty that MS causes, help provide accessible options for disease management, and reach out to partners to eliminate physical and social barriers in our communities.

Our new strategic plan not only lays out the roadmap in our journey to create a world free of MS, but we hope it also provides inspiration for all in the MS community to connect and collaborate in order to advance treatment and care, enhance well-being, understand and halt disease progression, and prevent MS from happening.

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Selected photos of my trip to Madrid are now online, along with some old (and more complete) photos of West Kirby Marine Lake. There’s not an awful lot to say about Madrid; our days centred around two things, food and drink, both of which were plentiful, good and cheap (just like pretty much everywhere else in the world outside the UK). But more stories about that later.

A New Year

It doesn’t feel like 2004. It doesn’t even feel like 2003, but I suppose we’ll all just have to cope. It’s going well so far; what could be better than watching seven episodes of Friends (season one, no less) in bed and having someone else cook breakfast for you? I’m writing this sitting on an unusually pleasant train ride back to Liverpool.

I spent my New Year’s Eve in Leeds at a friend’s house party which was good fun, especially due to the entirely unexpected five inches of snow that fell overnight. I haven’t had such a great snowball fight for years; there must have been dozens of people out in the street forming lines of artillery and raiding parties.

A few days ago I was out walking around the marine lake near my home in West Kirby. It’s a little under two miles to walk around the entire lake and for the most part, the path is only a few metres wide and half a metre above the water. This means that on days like this one, where the sky was achingly blue and crisp, and there was not a trace of wind in the air, you can stand on the path and feel like you’re floating in space, with blue skies and water all around you. See photos of a reflection, an arcing path and the sunset.

I miss the water and shore when I’m at Oxford. When the weather was more amenable, I used to run along the river Isis for a few miles every week and I could get my fix water then, but there is little that compares to the looking out over an expanse of water that reaches as far as the eye can see. There’s probably a thousand different evolutionary psychological reasons why we humans love living along the shore and looking at the water, but in this case I don’t want to unweave the rainbow.

I’ve never really gone for New Year’s resolutions; if there’s something I want to do (or stop doing) that I feel is achievable, then making a resolution isn’t going to make any difference. This year though, if I were to make my first resolution, it would be to untangle the complicated and occasionally depressing web that my personal life is gradually becoming.

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Metafilter UK Oxford meetup photos – a highly geeky and highly successful meetup of Metafilter UK members, featuring drinks, noodles, more drinks, a run-in with the police, a gig in a dive bar, yet more drinks and ice cream. I had a lot of fun and met a bunch of very interesting people; hopefully another one will be organised soon.

In lieu of any weblog updates, and since I had a craving for some serious procrastination, I’ve uploaded two new collections of photos to my photo gallery. The first and larger collection is from May Week last year, and the second collection is from the Chinese New Year Ball in Cambridge at the start of this year. It’s not just photos – there’s also lots of extremely irrelevant commentary as well!

I have this theory about photo galleries on the web, and in fact photo albums in general. Basically: who wants to look at a bunch of someone else’s photos? It’s not as if you know anyone in them. Given that most people aren’t experts at taking good photos – and also that most people don’t care about such things – the most interesting thing about photos is the context they’re in and the stories you can tell with them. Hence my habit of writing long and convoluted captions to each photo that I hope people will find interesting, and maybe even funny.

While I was working at UC San Diego earlier this summer, I’d often hear some music (country style, usually) wafting over the trees as I was walking home. For about a month, I never really had any idea where it was coming from – I assumed that it was maybe from the bar or the faculty club, but neither explanation made any sense because they were too far away.

Anyway, someone eventually explained to me that the music was coming from a tree. The Singing Tree, which was in the middle of the mini-forest that I walked past every day, was made out of metal. I expressed the opinion that this was a bit peculiar, and was then told that the Tree had two siblings – the Talking Tree, and the Silent Tree, which were both also metal. Apparently the Talking Tree has startled more than a few freshers in the middle of the night by randomly quoting poetry.

The three Trees look pretty realistic, other than being metal, which is why I managed to walk past them for a month without them registering on my mind. Here’s a photo of the Singing Tree, and the Silent Tree. The Trees’ strangeness hasn’t escaped otherse – here’s a cartoon someone drew about them.


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Sara Schonfeld @SaraSchon · 24 Sep 2019

Jumping on the bandwagon to say: I would love to see more fun, upbeat middle grade focusing on siblings, friendship, crushes, and/or that silly joy of tween schemes. Show me failed matchmaking, plotting that got out of hand, the awkwardness of a friend-breakup. #MSWL

Samantha Wekstein @SWekstein · 24 Sep 2019

#MSWL Middle grade group of friends who have to go on a mission--like ATLA, Stranger Things, The Sandlot, The Goonies, etc.

Meggnog 🎄 ~ Closed to Queries Until 1/6/20 @Megan_Manzano · 24 Sep 2019

Always a sucker for misfit groups in MG or YA. Think ride or die friends, friends who are together because they're all they have, people pushed into situations where they realize, hey, we actually need each other.

If you comp Stranger Things, I may die.

Bibi Lewis @Bibi_Lewis · 24 Sep 2019

In all ages and genres I am seriously hoping to see more books starring mc's with disabilities. #ownvoices especially encouraged. I want to see stories that show the full range of life and experiences--joy, accomplishments, ambition, sadness, friendship, love. #MSWL

Bibi Lewis @Bibi_Lewis · 24 Sep 2019

MG that thrills me. Bring me action, friendship, magic, fast-pace and fierce characters #mswl

Samantha Wekstein @SWekstein · 24 Sep 2019

#MSWL A book about a group of female friends in the vein of THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS--but modern.

Sara Schonfeld @SaraSchon · 12 Sep 2019

My bizarre fascination with these girl scammer stories—and the toxic friendships they rely on—means I’m craving a fiction YA (and age-appropriate) retelling! #MSWL

Meggnog 🎄 ~ Closed to Queries Until 1/6/20 @Megan_Manzano · 11 Sep 2019

I'm really craving friendship stories. The friends that can speak without words. The cheerleader friends. The group who became friends because they were outsiders. The friends who are fixing their relationship.

Give me sweet but also break my heart??

Happy HollZABÉs ⛄🌲❄ @ZREllor · 11 Sep 2019

...if anyone’s got a YA about toxic female friendships... #MSWL

P.S. Literary Agency @PSLiterary · 5 Sep 2019

"A modern-day Sweet Valley Twins series, ideally featuring best friends instead of siblings." @msmariavicente #MSWL

P.S. Literary Agency @PSLiterary · 3 Sep 2019

"A diverse, contemporary YA novel about strong guy friendships. Think Poe and Finn. <3" @ericsmithrocks #MSWL

Dana Murphy @manadurphy · 31 Aug 2019

#mswl: give me your early/mid/late twenties coming of age, give me your 'how do I pay bills' and 'what do I do now', give me your friend families, give me your friendship is it's own type of glorious romance, give me your 'how can we grow up together'.

Jess Dallow @jldallow · 28 Aug 2019

Meredith 🎯 @mere_789

@jldallow What are you looking for right now?

Serial killers. Holding out for a child psychopath. Domestic suspense. Thrillers (in adult and YA) . Rom-Coms. Friendship breakups (YA). Male/female platonic relationships (prefer adult, but would look at YA). Otherwise, follow my #MSWL. #askagent

Savannah Brooks @slbrooks91 · 25 Aug 2019

Just finished HELLO GIRLS, and hot damn, can I get a hard #MSWL for badass friends who give a biiiiig middle finger to the patriarchy and choose each other over everything else? A side of murdering abusive men is always welcome on this menu 🤷🏻♀

Tara Gilbert 🔮✨ @Literary_Tara · 23 Aug 2019

I forgot! I want more stories about BEST FRIENDS! #MSWL


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  1. (Courtesy of The Montreal Gazette) WOW I am happy I don`t live on St Pierre anymore. This city has gone to the dogs. I guess its time to really go out and buy a bulletproof vest and armour up my car.
  2. Punisher 2 Shooting in Montreal Movie The Punisher 2 Posted By: Michael / Source Related News : Comic Flicks , Crime , Thriller Movie News , According to my anonymous scooper who has proven to be very accurate in his past scoops, The Punisher 2 film will be shooting in Montreal very soon. It invites alot of questions however. For instance who will play the Punisher now that Thomas Jane has quite the film. According to DarkHorizons Punisher 2 has a new director and its an interesting choice. Lexi Alexander who directed Green Street Hooligans has reportedly been tapped for the film. I am not excited at all for Punisher 2. With Thomas Jane having quit the project and the first one having sucked horribly. Thomas Jane reportedly sent a letter to AICN letting them know that he has dropped out of Punisher 2. He has lost faith in the project and feels it does not do the fans justice, so he is dropping out of the project. And no doubt burning some bridges in the way he is coming out (if the letter is legit ) Quote: What I won't do is spend months of my life sweating over a movie that I just don't believe in. I’ve always loved the Marvel guys, and wish them well. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to search for a film that one day might stand with all those films that the fans have asked me to watch. The Entire letter is here. talked to Thomas Jane about Punisher 2 and a very cool bombshell got dropped. The writer who worked on the Pirates of the Caribbean films Stuart Beattie is on board to write the new Punisher film. He also worked on a draft of 30 days of Night so to say this is some kick ass news is an understatement. The sequel is going to have a Taxi Driver feel according to Thomas Jane. Quote: "It's more of a Taxi Driver kind of a feel which I think we'll go for in the second movie," he says. "I think that's where the first one succeeded, where we were doing more realistic type stuff. And if we can, [we should] get away from the lighter aspects of the first film. Because I think that's where the movie failed." We will see how it progresses. The big question is where Marvel stands on the sequel, and not so much what Thomas Jane wants
  3. Montreal gladly reclaims its 'Hollywood North' tag BRENDAN KELLY, The Gazette Published: Thursday, May 10, 2007 It's amazing what a little labour peace can do for the film business. Only two months after a long, bitter dispute between two rival film technicians unions was finally resolved, local movie folks are positively euphoric as they gear up for their busiest period of Hollywood shooting in years. Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Evangeline Lilly and John Malkovich are all on their way to shoot in Montreal in the coming weeks, and Hans Fraikin - film commissioner at the Quebec Film and Television Council - said Hollywood filming in the city is definitely going to top last year's tally of $150 million. He thinks the total might actually inch toward the $200-million mark and he said the boom is directly tied to the resolution in late February of the feud between the Alliance quebecoise des techniciens de l'image et du son (AQTIS), the local film union, and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), an American union. They were fighting over who should represent the province's film workers. Cate Blanchett: with Brad Pitt. "We were close to total industrial implosion at the beginning of the year," Fraikin said. "It was Armageddon. Now it's looking healthier than expected. But we worked hard on resolving the conflict and convincing people that Quebec was open for business again. And it's paying off." Local industry players got news this week that Death Race 3000 will be produced here. This is a remake of the 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000 that starred David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone in a story set in the future about a violent road race that takes place between New York and Los Angeles. The remake will star British actor Jason Statham and is being produced by Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner. The other recent addition to the local film-shoot lineup is Get Smart, the big-screen adaptation of the classic 1960s spy-spoof TV series. Carell will star as goofball secret agent Maxwell Smart, Hathaway will play sultry Agent 99, and Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson will play Agent 23, a newly created character. The producers will shoot only a part of the film here, spending around 20 days in town next month. Pitt and Blanchett will be here for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a Paramount production directed by David Fincher and adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who begins to age backwards. That film has already wrapped several months of shooting in New Orleans, and the filmmakers will be here for just eight days at the end of month. They will be filming Old Montreal as Paris and Moscow in winter, which will entail importing huge amounts of artificial snow. Far and away the biggest shoot on the way is The Mummy 3. The crew is already in pre-production for the third instalment in the Mummy series, which begins filming here July 27 and is expected to occupy several sound stages at Mel's Cite du Cinema studio right through to the end of the year. It is estimated that the producers will hire between 800 and 900 local technicians to work on the Universal Pictures project. Brendan Fraser - who was here last summer shooting a new version of Journey to the Center of the Earth - reprises his role as adventurer Rick O'Connell, but Rachel Weisz, who played his wife, will not be on board this time. Action star Jet Li will play the mummy, Michelle Yeoh plays a wizard, and 26-year-old Australian thespian Luke Ford will join the series as O'Connell's son. Filming will continue in China after the Montreal shoot. Kate Beckinsale has been here for a few weeks shooting Whiteout, a thriller about a U.S. marshal hunting a killer in Antarctica, and production has been under way here since late March on the U.S.A. Network series The Dead Zone, which stars Anthony Michael Hall. Alberta-born Lost star Lilly and Malkovich are due here in early June for Afterwards, a Canada-France co-production that co-stars Moliere lead Romain Duris. Brian Baker, business agent at the Quebec branch of the Directors Guild of Canada, said that one reason filming is booming is because the Hollywood producers are ramping up production to stockpile films in case of labour unrest in Hollywood next year. There is widespread speculation that both the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America could go on strike in 2008. "But that's not the whole story (behind the Montreal boom) because they're dying in Toronto," Baker said. Fraikin said the shoots are back in our city because the labour issues have been settled. "No producer is going to go anywhere near an unstable industrial environment," Fraikin said. "They can't take the risk." It also helped that two of the bigger hits of the first half of the year, 300 and Blades of Glory, were both shot at least in part here, reminding Hollywood producers that Montreal is a good location. [email protected]
  4. Montreal police learned from previous school shootings By The Associated Press When a lone gunman entered Dawson college in Montreal and began shooting last September, police counted on new procedures and a bit of luck to neutralize the assailant quickly. Kimveer Gill, 25, opened fire at the downtown Montreal college last September, slaying a young woman and wounding 19 other people before he turned the gun on himself as police cornered him. As luck would have it police officers on the scene for an unrelated matter were rapid first responders able to spot the suspect. But in a city which had seen two college shootings in the 17 previous years, police had also gained experience from the previous incidents to keep the situation from getting out of control. Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said last September that precious lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible. "Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said. Montreal police refused to comment Monday about the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, but as Americans try to make sense of the deadliest campus massacre in U.S. history which left at least 33 dead, including the gunman, questions have begun to emerge about the time allowed to elapse before authorities contained the shooting. In Canada the lessons were painfully learned from the Dec. 6, 1989 college shooting at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, Canada's bloodiest, during which Marc Lepine entered a classroom at the engineering school, separated the men from the women, told the men to leave and opened fire, killing 14 women before killing himself. While shots rang out at Ecole Polytechnique emergency personnel "had a perimeter outside and they waited. No one went inside," Delorme recalled last September. Another shooting in Montreal occurred in 1992, when a Concordia University professor killed four colleagues. By last September Montreal officers had changed their modus operandi and rushed into the building only a few minutes after the gunman. "This time it was very efficient, very proactive," Delorme then said. Aaron Cohen, a SWAT trainer based in California, said time is of the essence during such circumstances, as the quick intervention in Montreal eventually showed, avoiding a similar bloodbath. "While they wait another innocent person is dead. There's just no time to sit around," Cohen told Canada's CBC TV. "It has to be fast. On Monday a gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33. Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus. Copyright The Associated Press 2007. All Rights Reserved Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
  5. Tiré du site de Nikon: Le reste sur Nikon: Ce qui est bien, c'est qu'elle hérite de la qualité d'image des D300/D3, dont leur incroyable gestion des ISO. J'ai aussi vu des exemples de vidéos avec la nouvelle fonction et c'est assez impressionnant. Le boîtier seul est 1119$ apparemment chez Lozeau.
  6. Canon EOS 50D Tuesday, 26 August 2008 04:00 GMT Pre-Photokina2008: No surprises to hear that Canon has launched the much anticipated EOS 50D, an upgraded version of EOS 40D. On the surface it looks almost similar to its predecessor. However, there are quite a few significant improvements; fifteen megapixel CMOS sensor, faster DIGIC 4 processor, 3.0" VGA LCD monitor with Live View mode offering 3 AF modes, ISO sensitivity expandable to 12800 and an HDMI connection for high Quality Image viewing. It also includes a new Quick Control screen which shows the most commonly used settings and Creative Auto mode for automatic focus and exposure.We're expecting to be able to bring you a full in-hands preview later today. Features at a glance: 15.1 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor 6.3fps continuous shooting, max. burst 90 JPEGs with UDMA card DIGIC 4 processor ISO 100-3200, expandable to 12800 9-point wide area AF 3.0” Clear View VGA LCD with Live View mode & Face Detection Live AF Magnesium alloy body, with environmental protection EOS Integrated Cleaning System HDMI connection for high quality viewing and playback on a High Definition TV Full compatibility with Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites Jump to: Press Release Specifications Additional images Press Release: Outstanding speed and resolution for the discerning photographer: the EOS 50D Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 26 August 2008: Canon today strengthens its EOS range with the addition of a powerful new digital SLR: the EOS 50D. With a 15.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor, 6.3 frames per second shooting and Canon’s latest DIGIC 4 image processor, the EOS 50D delivers unparalleled speed and resolution at a price point that is unique in today’s market. Outstanding, clean images A newly designed 15.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor delivers ultra-detailed, low-noise images – ideal for large-scale reproduction or creative cropping. New manufacturing processes, plus redesigned photo diodes and microlenses, extend the light gathering capabilities of the sensor – allowing more pixels to be fitted on the CMOS sensor without compromising image quality. These changes ensure improved high ISO performance and low noise. High-speed, low light shooting is enabled by ISO levels of 3200, expandable to an ultra-sensitive 12800. The EOS Integrated Cleaning System – including the improved Self Cleaning Sensor Unit with a new fluorine coating – increases protection of image quality by helping to reduce, repel and remove unwanted dust from the sensor. Stubborn particles can be removed automatically in post-production with Dust Delete Data and Canon’s included Digital Photo Professional software. Rapid-fire performance Canon’s new DIGIC 4 processor is fast enough to allow up to 6.3fps continuous shooting, in bursts of up to 90 JPEGs with a UDMA card. Used with Canon’s wide area AF system, which locks onto subjects with 9 individual cross type sensors, stunning action sequences can be captured – even in low-light conditions. This makes the EOS 50D particularly suited to sports and wildlife shooting. DIGIC 4 works with the CMOS sensor to deliver 14-bit image processing, for smooth gradation and natural-looking colours – as well as ensuring ultra-fast startup times and near-instant image review after shooting. See everything A new 3.0” Clear View VGA LCD provides extra-large and wide angle-of-view image review, with plenty of clarity for accurate focus checks in playback. By switching to Live View mode – which displays a real-time image on the LCD – photographers can enjoy simplified shooting from awkward angles, or connect to a PC for remote shooting. Live Mode now offers three ways to auto focus: Quick AF, Live AF, and new Face Detection Live AF, which optimizes focus based on faces detected in the frame – for fast, spontaneous portraiture. Control and ease The famously intuitive EOS menu system includes a new Quick Control screen, for instant access to the most commonly-changed settings. A new Creative Auto mode offers automatic focus and exposure – while still allowing creative ‘tweaks’ to settings such as background sharpness. “For advanced amateurs and semi-professionals – or professionals looking for a powerful backup model – the EOS 50D stands alone,” said Mogens Jensen, Head of Canon Consumer Imaging, Europe. “No other camera in this price bracket offers a comparable combination of speed and image quality.” Technologies Explained CMOS Canon’s CMOS technology is one of the company’s key competitive advantages, with noise reduction circuitry at each pixel site delivering virtually noise-free images. In comparison with CCD technology, the lower power consumption characteristics of Canon’s CMOS sensors also contribute to longer battery life. Signal conversion in Canon’s CMOS sensors is handled by individual amplifiers at each pixel site. Unnecessary charge transfer operations are avoided, vastly speeding up the process of getting signal to the image processor. Noise generation is reduced, power consumption is limited and faster frame rate potential is increased. DIGIC Image data captured by the CMOS sensor is processed by Canon’s purpose-built DIGIC image processors before being written to the camera's memory card. DIGIC technology uses advanced image processing algorithms to ensure precise, natural colours, accurate white balance, and advanced noise reduction. Ultra-fast processing speeds result in highly responsive camera operation and near-instant start-up times. DIGIC chips work with a high speed DDR-SDRAM image buffer – reading, processing, compressing and writing image data fast enough to keep the buffer clear during long continuous shooting bursts. And because DIGIC integrates all key processing functions, power consumption is kept to a minimum. EOS Integrated Cleaning System The EOS Integrated Cleaning System combats sensor dust in three important ways: Reduce, Repel and Remove. Reduce - Internal camera mechanisms are designed to minimise dust generation. The redesigned body cap prevents dust generation through wear on the cap itself. Repel - Anti-static technologies, including a special fluorine coating, are applied to the low-pass filter covering the front of the sensor so as not to attract dust. Remove - A Self-Cleaning Sensor Unit uses hi-frequency vibrations to shake dust from the infrared filter for a period of approximately one second after each start up. For instant shooting after power up, this feature is disabled immediately the shutter release is depressed. Canon has also developed an internal Dust Delete Data system, which can map the position of visible dust on the sensor. This can then be deleted automatically after the shoot with the latest Digital Photo Professional software. Picture Style Picture Style pre-sets simplify in-camera control over image qualities. Picture Style pre-sets can be likened to different film types – each one offering a different colour response. Within each selectable pre-set, photographers have control over sharpness, contrast, colour tone and saturation. The camera’s factory default configuration is set to deliver immediately-usable JPEG images without need for additional menu settings. Picture Style presets applied to a RAW image can be revised with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software. The six pre-sets are: Standard – for crisp, vivid images that don’t require post-processing Portrait – optimises colour tone and saturation and weakens sharpening to achieve attractive skin tones Landscape – for punchier greens and blues with stronger sharpening to give a crisp edge to mountain, tree and building outlines Neutral – ideal for post-processing Faithful – adjusts colour to match the subject colour when shot under a colour temperature of 5200K Monochrome – for black and white shooting with a range of filter effects (yellow, orange, red and green) and toning effects (sepia, blue, purple and green). Software Digital Photo Professional Software Digital Photo Professional software provides high speed, high quality processing of lossless RAW images. Processing with Digital Photo Professional allows real-time display and immediate application of image adjustments, giving control over RAW image variables such as white balance, dynamic range, exposure compensation, noise reduction and colour tone – plus the ability to view Auto Focus points on an image. The Lens Aberration correction tool allows precise correction of different types of distortion caused by certain cameras. Images can be recorded in camera with sRGB or Adobe RGB colour space. Digital Photo Professional supports sRGB, Adobe RGB, ColorMatch RGB, Apple RGB and Wide Gamut RGB colour spaces. ICC (International Colour Consortium) profiles can be attached to TIFF or JPEG images when converted from RAW. This allows faithful reproduction of colours in software applications that support ICC profiles, such as Adobe Photoshop. For improved efficiency, a set of image adjustments can be saved as a recipe and applied. EOS Utility The latest version of EOS Utility provides essential support for Live View remote shooting, camera configuration and image transfers. Tightly integrated with Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility can be configured to monitor ‘hot’ folders, automatically renaming and moving incoming images to a structured file system. Users can also tag their images with EXIF data, including copyright information. Picture Style Editor Picture Style Editor allows users to create individual Picture Styles that fit with their personal requirements. Each Picture Style contains detailed information on how specific colours should be represented within an image. Once new Picture Styles have been created, they can be uploaded directly into the camera and applied to JPEG or RAW images. When working with RAW files in DPP, both personal Picture Styles and the 6 predetermined Picture Styles can all be adjusted. Additional images


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Norwegian has revealed its maiden Boeing 737 MAX will pay tribute to aviation entrepreneur and pioneer Sir Freddie Laker.  The carrier has a long history of honouring iconic figures on the tails of its aircraft, noting the personalities displayed on

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Claude A. ("Bennie") Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss. He was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix (Danish West Indies). At the age of twenty, he moved to New York City. There, he studied the banjo and guitar with Hy Smith. He then performed in vaudeville and with various orchestras, until, in 1941, he started composing songs. In 1968, he became a music publisher, starting his own company named for himself. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. He died in New York City on May 2, 1989.


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  • Thanks Jack - Something secret about this vessel> Will discover soon I hope.
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