Comments on: Random Stuff

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:02:27 +0000

There is a Pirates DVD with much-improved sound, but right now you can only hear it on the 5.1 dolby surround track. I’m not sure what the delay is getting that mixed down to the stereo track, but when that happens I’ll be saying “ship it!” (I have not heard the 5.1 surround version, but word on the street is that it’s a real improvement.)

Meanwhile, pL is considering recutting the whole damn thing to make it a more appropriate length for short film festivals, and to minimize a couple of weak performances. More power to him; I think the film could end up being better for it (and certainly better for promoting a feature), but I’ll do my best to pry a version out of his fingers before he tears it apart again. His first step is to pry a version out of his editor’s fingers. At this point, I think the editor has probably sunk several times more effort into the film than I ever did. I want the film to go somewhere to reward his efforts if for no other reason.

However, there’s a saying in software: “At some point you have to shoot the engineer and ship the product.” I think the same saying might apply in the movie biz, but replacing engineer with editor.

[A brief Web search did not yield an attribution for the above saying, although it seems to predate the software industry.]

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:27:19 +0000

Carol Anne’s been cheering for da Bears.

There’s a Pirates DVD out?

By: F-G-F

F-G-F — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:24:41 +0000

Jerry is kind.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:43:44 +0000

Brief thought experiment here in the secret labs comes up with exactly one prime that ends in 5.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:38:32 +0000

Nope. Despite the target number being right there in the side bar, I was aiming for 61,005. And I hit it, too. I wonder what prime numbers end in 5?

My nightstand is on another Los Alamos kick. I just finished Los Alamos, a so-so historical fiction. (I haven’t decided yet if my objects to the book are based on the narrative or the nature of historical fiction.) I’m currently reading The Brother, the biography of David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg’s brother and a second Soviet spy (along with Klaus Fuchs) at WWII Los Alamos. If I can stand a third in the same vein, I’ve got two copies of 109 East Palace. (Interestingly enough, when I visited the Palace of the Governors last summer, the historical marker was on 107 East Palace.)

Go Colts.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:57:40 +0000

MOH 61K1 is from San Diego. Is Keith posing as a Health Care Company?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:56:37 +0000

I would be delighted to read that you are moving to western Canada. Not only would it be much easier to buy a beer for you, but the odds of my seeing a Pirates DVD would go way up.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:52:59 +0000

This blog community is a good one for sports and writing and reading. I kept hearing about what a great movie Friday Night Lights was. Since I’m not a huge sports fan I normally would’ve passed it by. But I went to school in West Texas, and there is simply no way to live in WT for awhile and not hear about the book. (it must be talked about in hushed tones, because to west Texans, it is the lousiest, most back-stabbin, most unfair, rotten excuse for varminty book writin thar evar wuzz.)
Somehow I never got around to readin the book while there, and then recently they came out with the movie.
I rented it, it was excellent. So then I had to go to the library and get the book. It was even better. And despite being about sports, and written by a sports nut, it is nearly literature it is so well written. So there’s another one to stack on the nightstand for ya Keith.