Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.

Spike ,'Touched'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Volans - Jul 15, 2005 7:29:52 am PDT #252 of 10002
move out and draw fire

I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns. They talk a lot about the lighting and film color-correction based on which sun/s are in the sky at what angle. (Commentary track).


shrift - Jul 15, 2005 7:37:03 am PDT #253 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Today's fortune cookie:

Good health is a man's best wealth.

Thank you, Count Rugen.


Gudanov - Jul 15, 2005 7:38:22 am PDT #254 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns.

For some reason I was thinking there was just two suns in that little model of the solar system. I must have misremembered.


Volans - Jul 15, 2005 7:41:04 am PDT #255 of 10002
move out and draw fire

I just went and checked IMDb to make sure my memory wasn't going (post first and ask later, that's my motto), and their blurb says "a planet that has three suns orbiting around it."

So my confidence is shot - if they don't know what orbits what, can they count?


sarameg - Jul 15, 2005 7:48:16 am PDT #256 of 10002

shrift, at least it is moderately innocuous. Several years ago, I got one with the gist of people get the government they deserve.

Why yes, it was right around the time of some local elections.


Volans - Jul 15, 2005 7:53:43 am PDT #257 of 10002
move out and draw fire

So my DH had a cool day today. He and the ambassador met with the MIT guy who is doing underwater archaeological surveying here. It's the same team that photographed the Titanic and the Lusitania. Now they are using submersible cameras that are tether-free, which is a necessity as the Greeks don't have any gyroscopically-stabilzed ships. But anyway, this dude is a (the?) professor of Technology and History, what a great field! He unrolled the film, about 6' of photos, of a 4th C trireme that went down between Asia Minor and the Attic Peninsula, and my DH went all fanboy on him. DH's now one of the first 35 people to see this ship and its cargo in the last 2400 years.


sumi - Jul 15, 2005 7:53:48 am PDT #258 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Sophia! What excellent news! Too bad you can't take vacation for at least part of your notice.


sarameg - Jul 15, 2005 7:55:30 am PDT #259 of 10002

That's really cool, Raquel! I swear, I just read/saw a thing on them.


brenda m - Jul 15, 2005 7:56:01 am PDT #260 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Sophia, that's wonderful! I've been wanting you out of that job for a long time. t /allaboutme


DXMachina - Jul 15, 2005 7:56:14 am PDT #261 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I just watched Pitch Black again, and it's three suns.

There. Are. Three. Lights.