I love it when I can also be a public service announcement! YAY!

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I worked at t a school that had those types of sensors. During a test classes would be so still the lights would go off sometimes. The same would happen if a teacher stayed in their room during planning or after school. We adapted a crazy kind of arm wave to get the lights to turn back on. It worked but I'm sure it looked stupid to anyone who didn't know what we were doing.

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vw bug, I would go with the purple. All the choices were cute; however, I like this one the best.

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There's a Dilbert about hiring an intern to wander around waving his arms to keep the lights on.

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Nice outfits, vw!

So I've just watched the recent(ish) TV versions of Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility, and liked both quite a lot. And was delighted to realise that Mr Rochester (whom I was quite CERTAIN was being played by Damian Lewis for the first hour of viewing, albeit with hairdye or wig) was in fact played by some bloke called Toby Stephens, who turns out to be Dame Maggie Smith's son! Which is particularly amusing, since I'd been giggling at how very Snape-ish Mr Rochester is. (Or rather, how very Mr Rochesterish Professor Snape is, really. I hadn't been struck by that before - I'd been vaguely thinking of him as Byronic, but I knew that wasn't really right. But Mr Rochester - bossy, curmudgeonly, selfish, no social skills, somewhat unkind, busy swishing around in long coats and laying down the law...yeah.) Anyway, yes - I was initially a tad dubious of this version, because Jane's childhood is so condensed, and smacked of MTV a little, but then they settled down and let the storytelling take a little more time once she'd grown up. Not a bad decision, probably. And both Jane and Rochester were very engaging, I thought, and the relationship between them was nicely rendered.

And then we have Austen! Which one would normally expect to provide less passion and more levity and wryness, but actually there wasn't as much of a change of tone as one might have expected. On the whole, I think I prefer the Ang Lee Sense and Sensibility, which retains more of the comedy, but the Andrew Davies version DOES have quite a lot to recommend it. Particularly its Edward, who is infinitely more engaging than the Hugh Grant version, imho. Not so convinced by the Colonel Brandon, though. I think Alan Rickman is a very hard act to follow.

...oh, sorry. I hadn't meant to go on about these things. I'd just meant to marvel at the fact that I seem to have stumbled across Dame Maggie Smith's MySpace page. I don't do MySpace, so I find myself peering at the page and saying: "But...it's not REALLY her page. Is it? It's just some fan person who's put it together. Right?"

But I hope it really is her own page. Because I just have such a fangirl crush on Dame Maggie, and I'm tickled to death at the thought of her surfing the net and checking in on her friends list.

(edited because I realised I forgot stuff. Um.)

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Dame Maggie Smith has a MySpace page?

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I got $5 on the robot.

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sumi, could you get some kind of desk toy that moves?

I was thinking a mobile (is that the right word? been ages since I made one... coat hangers with objects the twirl from the drop ceiling). Hang the bloody thing under the a/c vent, so it blows and keeps it gently twirling. Hopefully it's active enough to keep the sensor at bay. Maybe do pictures that you could change as your mood fits. So, Harry Potter this week, Dark Knight next, and Spike the week after. A perfect activity to waste time instead of working, AND it has the added benefit of keeping the lights on. Just an idea.

Last night I was talking to my replacement at old job, who is a very near and dear friend of mine. He made the comment to new boss:

"At the end of the day I'm exhausted. I don't know how O_A did it. And he did it on CRUTCHES!!!"

something to that effect. Um, YA! Hence the "working or recovering from working" mode I was always in. hee hee hee, just wait till the first round of shows start hitting. Oops, that was evil laugh happening.

Speaking of work, I should be. But I'm kinda waiting for yutz's to get over to the production facilities and fix my damn voice mail so it's not the voice of my predecesor whispering from the grave to leave a message, and no way for me to access it! It's only been 3 weeks people! Oh, that and I'm trying to be patient since I have tickets to the Yankee/Rangers game tonight! Squeee!

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I wonder if anyone elses head goes pervy when they see the name of this page: [link]

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Oh my....

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