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I should be asleep, but apparently even halfway into my 30’s I still haven’t figured out how to be a responsible adult. I’ve spent the past few hours on a giant nostalgia binge reading through my PM archive and the threads many of them were associated with. Browsing the forum makes me realize how a...

Quarantine has been incredibly stupidly hard. My workplace shut down a week before CA shutdown, so we had a head start on remote work, but I’ve pulled so many long hours and split hours it feels like I don’t know when work ends and home begins anymore. It wasn’t too bad in April, but then we started...

Howdy, got married got a couple kids, been working a ton sometimes two jobs at once.

i changed that like the week you moved to Chicago, btw.

I just got mine from Amazon and can't wait to get home to watch the deleted scenes!!!! [edit] a) the deleted scenes were pretty great (though the one with Chamrajnagar was maybe unnecessary), I'm not sure why they weren't included :( b) If there's really 20 minutes missing, only half of that showed...

yay! Congrats

Interestingly, availability of substitutes is more of a problem than a blessing, only because my family is so damn accomadating and nice. Since we cannot be without tons of junk food at my family events they have searched out and found and acquired all possible gluten free substitute junk food. Hoor...

So a few months after our wedding, Renee tried going gluten free for a month because it had helped her sister and mom. She saw improvement herself, and naturally the weightloss that comes with cutting gluten. she reexposed after that initial month and promptly had a horrible reaction with all the at...

Well Smaug and bilbo was pretty good, until Jackson decided to get the f****** hobbit out of the way so the main character/protagonist thorin could have a chit chat with Smaug.

Mostly it was meh, about as much meh as the first one.

Saw it last night (yes, finally!) Here's the quick and dirty: I really enjoyed it. Loved Asa as Ender. Loved. Loved the Battle Room. Loved the score. Loved the depiction of the final 'simulation'. Only real frustration was the lack of sense of passage of time. It really was breakneck speed through ...

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I...don't even know what character/book you're talking about here. That characterization of Ender rings true for movie-Ender to me but that is not even remotely close to how I read book-Ender in any of my readings over the years. Not as a 14 year old and not as a 30 year old or anywhere in between....

so our internet was out yesterday, but we saw it friday night. I would give it about a 7.5 to 8. The film was clearly made by people who love the book, as virtually every important scene/beat from the book was in the film, though often in a highly compressed version. This illustrates the biggest pro...

12 Years a Slave for the first time since Schindler's List a masterpiece has been made of such staggering scale that it will wind up in the top ten of 'greatest movies ever made' lists when such lists are made (at least of the populist vein of lists like AFI, who knows what art cinema snobs groupthi...

hmm, I have fewer OSC books than I thought, all of them are listed except Crystal City which OSC sent me after helping to proof it, so it's inscribed with my first and last name. I've started pricing these, anybody on pweb who is interested, PM me, add $4 for shipping. I'd like to see them go to a g...

sure. First Meetings was initially a short run sold exclusively at Endercon in 2002. extra copies were sold at hatrack.com until it went out of stock. The subpress edition came after the first edition sold out. I think the cover art is very similar if not the same, but the boards are different and t...

There are minor spoilers in the following post: Anyone read or in the process of reading this one? I just have a few more chapters to go, and I'm finding it to be generally enjoyable, but one thing in particular jumps out at me as being odd, that is, Danny's teen harem (ie. his teen female friends)...

There was also the Endercon edition of First Meetings, which is technically the first edition. I've got signed copies of all the Shadow books (I think) that I'll be selling, and I'll be selling as well as signed copies of most of the other OSC titles. Wierdly, I never bought the original quartet in ...

So she published another novel back in April under a pseudonym and has been 'unmasked.'

Anyone read it?

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So I saw the new Star Trek It's going to suck when JJAbrams disarms all the people with lightsabers so we don't have any swordfights. It's going to suck when JJAbrams disables all the spaceships so we don't have any space battles. Instead everything will be resolved by a Jedi FistFight (which we alr...

Interesting, comes off as a little cheesy, I'm guessing Graff carries the film? I love seeing all the stuff they packed into the trailer, but I wish they'd taken more of a Hunger Games approach with the marketing of less is more.

I'm either incredibly slow or incredibly dense (probably both), but I never realized "Ewok in Jawa-land" was referring to an Ewok living in the desert. If you hadn't just made the winter equivalent, I probably never would have figured it out. I didn't realize that until you pointed it out...

It's a record-breaking warm year in Chicago. 321 or so days without more than an inch of snow and today will be in the 50s, which is warmer, I think, than my hometown in AZ today. I am well and truly disappointed.

This has thwarted my plan to change your custom title to Ewok in Tauntaun-land

I finished re-reading The Darkness that Comes Before and moved on to a reread of The Warrior Prophet (book 2 of the second apocalypse) I just came across this passage, which I love because it's on it's face a very interesting piece, but on a reread there are all sorts of layers of revelation going o...

unrelated to Star Wars, but I want to know what happens when Anne watches studio ghibli movies.

You'll be hearing the totoro song for a long time, is my guess

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just riffing here, wouldn't part of the wave motion be facilitated by interacting with molecules of gas though? how much of a ripple is caused by force rebounding off gas through the flag and we perceive that bounce back and forth as a ripple?

I have one thing to add:

"Here, cobra, cobra, cobra....."

I saw this today, and I pretty much loved it, I always wondered why you couldn't see the stars in the moon footage:

Prometheus - 6 or 5 I so want to enjoy a film that tries for big ideas. But when your film has the biologist uninterested in examining an alien body, and the geologist who controls the mapping drones getting lost and archeologists that aren't archeologists BREATHING on freshly discovered cave painti...

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movies seen since Les Mis: DJango Unchained - 9 - awesomeness, top five of the year, ridiculously violent. This Happy Breed -8 - Pretty good Lean/Coward Melodrama ala Cavalcade. Zero Dark Thirty - 9 - intense and impressive procedural thriller. Condemns torture while acknowledging it was official Am...

Uhhh....why is Thorin Oakenshield, the dwarf, the main character in the film version of The Hobbit, instead of Bilbo, who is, ya know, THE HOBBIT? I think its because some folks want a rugged and manly sword swinging type to deep voice his way into hurrahing the troops to their exciting and thrilli...

Les Miserables - 10

drool:
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