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« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2005, 08:34:26 AM »

Dang! We love Arrested Development... I hope someone picks it up, although hopefully not Showtime as we no longfer have that as Outr Cable cpo has been taking away those channels we watch to replace them with channels in Spanishor full of Sports, which we do not watch.... I am thuis close to cancelling except we don't have anything better....to go to at the moment....the Dolan family really has us all over a barrel.....

Debra...there is ALWAYS satellite!!!
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« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2005, 08:35:24 AM »

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« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2005, 08:42:31 AM »

I watched "The Polar Express" yesterday.

What an AMAZING film.

I'm really not sure how I felt about it, although I enjoyed it and loved watching it.  It will be watched again...oh, yes.

Those dancing waiters on the train deserve many viewings.

And the elves in the big square establishing a level of excitement as they began chanting Santa's name was quite marvelous.

I thought the songs were wonderful, too.

What I haven't figured out is....why do the characters  move so realistically and naturally?  Did they film people acting out the scenes and then computer-generate the characters from them (like they did with Gollum in LOTR)?
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« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2005, 08:44:52 AM »

I suppose I should start a countdown on my final work week of 2005:  

Four and a wake-up!
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« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2005, 08:48:53 AM »

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« Reply #35 on: December 05, 2005, 08:51:13 AM »

DR ELMORE fired banana bones are a favorite with some people, as are dried banana bones.

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« Reply #36 on: December 05, 2005, 08:55:09 AM »

Debra...there is ALWAYS satellite!!!

The local satellite companies charge even more than the cable guys do, and from what some of neighbors (who have satellite) say.. the system is constantly "going down " when it snows or rains or is excessively windy.....

We heard a snippet of a news item  on the TV last night saying that some local legislator is trying to pass some law that cable must let you choose your channels or that they cannot delete channels from your current package... but it was one of those  'see the whole story tomorrow...." things so I am trying to find out the details....




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« Reply #37 on: December 05, 2005, 08:55:36 AM »

I suppose I should start a countdown on my final work week of 2005:  

Four and a wake-up!

I envy you!!!
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« Reply #38 on: December 05, 2005, 08:58:41 AM »

Only the royal cows.  The King (technically, a bull) and the Queen (an actual female cow rather than a gay cow in drag), two princes (one of whom we wonder about) and four princesses (one is over 30 and rides a motorcycle).  Oh, and the Dowager cow (who's a real bitch).

All the rest live in valleys and glens and dells around the City.


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« Reply #39 on: December 05, 2005, 09:14:50 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.  Slept through the night okay in the toy bed (twin beds, what a joke). Woke up and went to print out my boarding pass for the morning and realized I don't have a printer.  So, I went downstairs to the "business center" - out of order.  I went into the sales/catering office and asked if I could print out a document - you'd have thought I was from outer space.  They finally realized I wasn't someone to say "no" to, and they let me get on someone's computer and print out the boarding pass.  
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« Reply #40 on: December 05, 2005, 09:15:52 AM »

I think tonight is Charlize Theron's last guest appearance on AD.
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« Reply #41 on: December 05, 2005, 09:16:58 AM »

Now, I have to wait until a store opens so I can get a hairbrush and a Diet Coke (this hotel is hopeless - no store, no room service, no mini-bar, no nothing).  

My call time is supposedly at 1:00.  I don't know if that means I go at one and sit around for a while, or if I work and then go back to the hotel, or if I just hang until show time.  I'll find all that out at 12:00.  They said they'd have someone pick me up or that I'll take a cab and I'll get reimbursed.  
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« Reply #42 on: December 05, 2005, 09:19:10 AM »

Last December, we had our second biggest month ever.  This December we're on our way into the terlet.  For example, let me just spew out the following names: Ben, DearReaderLaura, Sandra, and, and, and.  Where in tarnation ARE they?  Don't they know this is a holiday month with MANY birthdays and events to celebrate?
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« Reply #43 on: December 05, 2005, 09:20:02 AM »

DR Ron, THE POLAR EXPRESS was made using a new technology called "capture motion" where sensors are attached all over the face and body of the actors as they act their roles in real time. Then the sensors send the data to computers who digitize it against the standard CGI backgrounds in typical computer animation. This gives the human characters in the film  a real feeling of being real (as opposed to the few humans in something like TOY STORY which seems much less human.
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« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2005, 09:25:11 AM »

DR Ron - The "Hot Chocolate" number was my favorite part of The Polar Express, too.  Very Broadway, I thought.
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« Reply #45 on: December 05, 2005, 09:26:49 AM »

DR Ron, THE POLAR EXPRESS was made using a new technology called "capture motion" where sensors are attached all over the face and body of the actors as they act their roles in real time. Then the sensors send the data to computers who digitize it against the standard CGI backgrounds in typical computer animation. This gives the human characters in the film  a real feeling of being real (as opposed to the few humans in something like TOY STORY which seems much less human.

Ah!  Technology.
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« Reply #46 on: December 05, 2005, 09:27:40 AM »

DR Ron - The "Hot Chocolate" number was my favorite part of The Polar Express, too.  Very Broadway, I thought.

It put me in mind of "The Waiter's Galop" from "Hello, Dolly!"

It was fun!
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« Reply #47 on: December 05, 2005, 09:28:44 AM »

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
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« Reply #48 on: December 05, 2005, 09:30:56 AM »

And that's EVERYwhere I go.
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« Reply #49 on: December 05, 2005, 09:37:35 AM »

We have not seen The Polar Express... I shall have to rent it
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« Reply #50 on: December 05, 2005, 09:41:18 AM »

In the "kids say the darnedest things" department:

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister.  After a while he asked: "Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?"
 
MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don't remember you just look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six."
 
STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom goodnight. "I love you so much, that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window."
 
BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and needed a painkiller.  She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a childproof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: "How does it know it's me?
 
SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups.  "Please don't give me this juice again," she said, "It makes my teeth cough."
 
DAVID (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: "How much do I cost?"
 
MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: "Why is he whispering in her mouth?"
 
CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried. When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, "I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married.  How will my wife fit in?"
 
JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story.  His dad read: "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked:  "What happened to the flea?"
 
TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for awhile and then asked, "Why doesn't your skin fit your face?"
 
The Sermon one Mom will never forget.... On one particular Sunday ..."Dear Lord," the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. "Without you, we are but dust."  He would have continued but at that moment a very obedient daughter (who was listening!) leaned over to and asked her mother, quite audibly in her shrill little girl voice, "Mom, what is butt-dust?"
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« Reply #51 on: December 05, 2005, 09:42:38 AM »

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
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« Reply #52 on: December 05, 2005, 09:46:44 AM »

DR Ron, THE POLAR EXPRESS was made using a new technology called "capture motion" where sensors are attached all over the face and body of the actors as they act their roles in real time. Then the sensors send the data to computers who digitize it against the standard CGI backgrounds in typical computer animation. This gives the human characters in the film  a real feeling of being real (as opposed to the few humans in something like TOY STORY which seems much less human.

And how long before THAT technology is adopted for porn?  If it hasn't already been.  :P
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« Reply #53 on: December 05, 2005, 09:48:01 AM »

Well I do not want to read the posts and not post myself.  So here is my post!

I am feeling better.  But the antibiotics I'm taking make me feel very out of it.  And they don't even say "my cause drowsiness". :(
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« Reply #54 on: December 05, 2005, 09:48:30 AM »

I know several people who are but dust.
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« Reply #55 on: December 05, 2005, 09:49:22 AM »

Mr Bk buy something nice so that it will always be known as the Stephen Sondheim San Francisco Brushing Implement!

One nice thing about having NO hair - I NEVER have to pack a hairbrush or comb!
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« Reply #56 on: December 05, 2005, 09:52:25 AM »

I shall now go and try to find a hairbrush and a Diet Coke, not necessarily in that order.  I shall then come back, shave, shower, and maybe do a bit of work before heading over to rehearsal.
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« Reply #57 on: December 05, 2005, 09:54:10 AM »

Recipe for Clam Dip

3 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 jar Kraft Roka Blue (pictured below)
1 small can minced clams, drained (save juice)
Chopped onion, if desired
Splash of Worchestershire Sauce
Salt & pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients and chill.  Bring to room temp before serving; thin with clam juice if necessary.  Serve with chips (Reduced Fat Ruffles are my favorite)
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« Reply #58 on: December 05, 2005, 10:12:40 AM »

Oh, yes...clam juice.


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« Reply #59 on: December 05, 2005, 10:23:17 AM »

JRand55, did you see that Herbert Strock passed away the other day?
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