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I am alive. I am busy. Thanks for stopping buy.

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This is dead on. Welcome to the VFX client vendor relationship.

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If you've been reading this blog for a looooong time, you might remember me saying how much I loved Shane Acker's animated short "9" and you'll know how excited this must make me.9 - Official Trailer

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JJ Abrams has not forgotten the face of his father.Unfortunately, the way the work in the new Star Trek movie looks, I don't think there's any way this will go anywhere besides ILM. Too bad, I'd love to work on this movie.

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OMG. O ... M ... G. Why do things like this only happen when I'm not living in the US? Satch, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar and some guy from th Chilli Peppers are going on tour to support their album.ChickenfootOn TourOMG, how the hell did I not know about this?

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So, Mel Gibson is a little crazy, we all know it. Fine, who isn't? Obviously his wife of 30 years knows it, because she wants a divorce, and since the state of Southern California is oh so forward thinking and progressive, and since there's no pre-nup, she gets half of everything. Everything being a billion dollars. Biggest ... Divorce ... Evah. Good for her, she doesn't want to be married

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Am super busy.Trying to buy this house.more pix

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Best ... 'Page Not Found' error ... evah

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Some asshole from AIG-FP decided to resign, on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. He made the mistake of trying to play the sympathy card. Big mistake. He gets absolutely fucking told by Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone. It's a must read.

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I'm not sure what the hell they were thinking with this title (the original Manga is called 'Apocalypse Meow' and based on the Vietnam War) but this looks interesting.Cat Sh*t One

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6 / 10

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Hungarian Rhapsody #2 just came up on iTunes. WTF? I'm pretty sure that Lizst either sold his soul, or he had like, six or seven arms. I can play a little, and that song is ridiculous. It's so obscenely complicated that it's almost distracting. I'm trying to listen to the music and all I keep thinking is "how the fuck do you even play that with only two hands?"

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I just ate a cheese scone ... with butter and jelly. That's about as close as it gets to pouring out a 40oz for my great aunt Al. If it was bread, she put jelly on it. Garlic toast? Pass the jelly. Good times.

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So, it's sometime odd to work in this business, especially when you're working on something like the Lord of the Rings movies, or Avatar. With that kind of film the studio is always walking the line between keeping everything hush-hush to build anticipation and hype for the film and 'leaking' enough tidbits and on-set pictues and general info to keep the fan-boys happy. There's a 3D cinema blog

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Flight to Auckland : $XXXOne Night Accomodations : $XXX4th row tickets : $XXXCrossing Counting Crows off The List Of Bands I Love And Never Got Around To Seeing Live? Fucking Priceless.May 21st in Auckland. Counting Crows and some British Band, The What? The Where? ....... The Who! that's it, The Who. I suppose we'll stay and watch them as well, unless there's something

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Last week I bought a couple of kids size wetsuits for RC and RJ. Nothing fancy, got 'em used on trademe.co.nz, a fancier NZ version of craigslist. I wouldn't compare it to ebay, anyway. They've got spring suits, but the spring ones just don't cut it here. Since the suits came, all they want to do is hit the beach with the boogie boards. We went out Saturday for a while to break in the new suits.

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WowAwesome steampunk case mod

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I've been pretty remiss in doing movie reviews for the last copule months so I'm going back through some of the one's I've missed.I was pretty hesitant seeing this after the fiasco of a movie that was the last Cohen brothers offering but hey everyone deserves a second chance right? Especially a second chance with a cast like this. Well they almost lost me with this one, I wanted to not like it.

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I hadn't heard anything about this movie until it won a bunch of Golden Globe awards. I honestly didn't know even what it was about when we went to see it. As it turns out, it's a sometimes funny, sometimes gritty, always engaging story about a kid from the slums of Mumbai. Directory Danny boyle (Trainspotting) took a good story, and made it a great movie by simply telling it in an interesting

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Ahh, the good old days. Crew Picnic at Pelenor Fields. Link goes to 3k original.Can you find me?

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Holy crap. I'm never going back in the ocean ever again.10 foot long squid with thousands of needle sharp teeth, that will fucking eat you. Not like, on accident, like, look Juan fell in the water and one squid distracted him while he was flanked by three more squid that don't care what he is as long as he's made of meat. Oops now he's dead. Just remember boys and girls, mother nature hates you

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Less inspired rugby on Saturday. The US reverted to form and got destroyed by Argentina and South Africa, though their final result was still better than last year. We might have gone a bit hard on Friday so it was a little more laid back on the second day. England pulled off a shocker and stunned the Kiwis for the title at the end of fulltime. It seemed to put a bit of a damper on the crowd,

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The International Sevens Rugby League is in Wellington this weekend. Two days of seven a side rugby with seven minute halves. It's awesome. Some of us cut out of work early (at five, leaving work at five is early, *sigh*) last night. There was some fantastic rugby, The US went 2-0 in group play, which is unprecedented for the historically weak US side. Kenya came from behind to stun South Africa

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I've been playing around with some digital music tools, mostly a software sequencer called, of all things, Fruity Loops. I'm totally hooked. This sounds pretty crappy because all I did was plop down the camcorder with my amp on one side and the computer with horrible sounding little game speakers on the other. I'm on the lookout for a used mixer so that I can balance everything out and feed it

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I give Israel 10 years, tops, of existance. Expanding settlements in the West Bank preclude a two state solution and while some may argue that there's already a system of apartheit in place, given current demographic trends, apartheit will be a numerical reality in about 10 years. Virulent nationalisim and extreme religious orthodoxy continute to drive West Bank settlement building at rates

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It's hard being right all the time.LONDON (AP) -- Bill Gates and other donors are giving more than $630 million to the international effort to eradicate polio, after the disease spiked and spread to seven countries that were previously polio-free......

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The gang went pseudo-camping at Otaki this weekend with some families from work. We were trying to go Friday night to Monday morning but some crazy rain Saturday night had us home by Sunday morning. We were at a campground about 100m from the beach. RC is getting pretty good at catching the waves on the boogie board, it will be learner surfboard time pretty soon. It was dog friendly, which is

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People are stupid.It's called "Herd Immunity" and people who don't vaccinate their kids deserve a good old fashioned Polio outbreak except, oops, it's not just the people who aren't immunized that will get sick, it's everyone. You have a social responsibility to vaccinate your kids. Welcome to the 21st century, these aren't your ancestor's Dark Ages.

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So my friends Eric and Beth have family in San Diego. They usually go home every year around Christmas time. Get back to the states, see the family, eat some real mexican food, that kind of thing. Well, we're pretty busy right now, and Beth isn't working, so she took the kids and flew back to SoCal a couple weeks early to stay with family. Once we wrapped up some stuff at work, Eric flew back by

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Merry Xmas, Happy new year. Blah, Blah. Hopefully everyone is well and having a good year end. Weta is closed for two weeks at the end of every year, so my poor widdle typing abused hands and my muddled brain are getting a rest. There are heaps of new pix up on flikrSTFU & GBTW's photostreamand Mrs. STFU put her xmas letter up in blog format.Mrs. STFU's blogBoth of those are set to be

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Ok, I surrender. I give up trying to run a web server from the office. I signed up at flikr.com and I've started uploading the stuff from my gallery. It's hereMy flikr photostreambut I've got the permissions set pretty strictly so I'll have to add you as a friend or family before you'll be able to see anything. Let me know your login.

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wingsuit base jumping from doubleA on Vimeo.

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So we're eating. W is spooning whatever it was we were having, some sticky, food type substance onto #4's plate. Sticky is the important concept here. It's not just dinner, it's sticky dinner. No, I don't remember what it was, doesn't matter, it was sticky, that's the important bit. Ok? We're all on the same page? Can we continue please? So Mrs. is shaking the spoon up and down a bit, since,

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It's official, I signed new contract on Friday that will carry me through almost to the end of the show. I'm officially a 'CG Supervisor'. We're still waiting to hear back from immigration on the status of the application for residency, and having a contract extension should help. Residency will make it easier to get a home loan, and so on down the line. Hopefully the new deal will be the

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If there's one thing I know, it's "people suck". Aside from that, another thing I know is movies.Why Jason Statham is the planet’s purest action starSee E? It's not just me. You've got to work on your movie picking skills.

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So there ended up being five of us. The guy with the Indian couldn't get a warrant of fitness in time, since the bike had just arrived in the country (sounds just like last time, no?) but we picked up another rider. There was me on my 600rr, Duncan on a 1000rr, Grant on a late 80's Ducati 750-F1 and Reese on a late 90's Wide Glide Harley. And Shawn, who isn't 'allowed' to ride after he crashed

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I'm responsible for some stuff that has to be done by the end of the year. Pretty busy, not much blogging.

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As a denizen of SoCal, it's shocking to be able to run down to the Wherehouse (NZ version of Target) and by fireworks I spent $40 and had enough fireworks in my car to get 5 to 10 in Southern California. Fucking A. Guy Fawkes Day was Wednesday, but I had a basketball game at 9:00, so we lit some of the sparklers and spinners before I had to go play. I've got the rest saved up for New Year's Eve.

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Paul Gilbert is one of my favorite guitar players. This is a good example of why.Adblock

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I don't care what the polls say, ask John Kerry about polls. I'll believe that McCain won't win when I see it. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD AMERICA, DO THE RIGHT THING. I DON'T WANT TO BE BACK HERE LATER TONIGHT SAYING "I TOLD YOU SO".

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My very good friend Dave is the Effects Supervisor on The Unit. Chewie thinks it's boring.Shhhh! Don't tell mom I'm on the couch!

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At home, well, I was home for thirty seconds and then I came to work. Am in one piece. No worries. More later.

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Well, hitting the road with the bike tomorrow AM and of course its pissing down at the moment, got my fingers crossed for it to clear up tomorrow.

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I got a new NZ driver's license last week. It's a really horrible picture, but, I transferred my California Motorcycle endorsement to my NZ license. Yay! Which means I'm 100% legal for next weekend. What's that you say? What's happening next weekend? Well, I'll tell you. It's the second semi-whenever motorcycle weekend getaway for men warily eyeing that thing sneaking up on them in the

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As much as I hate to say it, I think DiCaprio has turned into one of the better actors in Hollywood today. He stars with Russel Crowe in this political action flick based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’ 2007 novel about a CIA operative who's working official cover in the middle east. Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors and he delivers again here, deftly managing a complex

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I'm a sucker for Action/Sci-Fi, and I wouldn't say that I'm a Vin Diesel fan, but he can be all right in the right movie. This is not that movie. I honestly don't know how this movie even got to the point where they put images on film. The story is dumb. I could go on and on about all the things that are wrong with this movie, but I'm going to sum it up in two words. Don't fucking bother.Three

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The weather has been really great the last few days, especially nice since the kids are all on break for a couple of weeks. We went with Sean and Lynette and their kids and dogs with our dogs down to Seatoun beach. the kids can't stop climbing up stuff or climbing down stuff and the doggies love to play in the ocean There's lots cool stuff to see When we got back, we had some knackered

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Tom Rothman (Head of Fox) talks AvatarIESB: So, potentially, this is a franchise?TR: If it does well, yes, absolutely, in terms of an arena a whole new world. But for us, it isn't any of that, it isn't even the technology, it isn't even the look and the world all of which is the coolest shit I've ever seen, it isn't even any of that, it's that it's a great story. It's just a great story ...

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I've been seeing the trailers for this for a while and it seemed like a pretty decent action flick, but Liam Neeson, as an ass-kicking ex-spy? I wasn't quite sure I was going to buy that one. It turns out that he's pretty good, and a pretty good fit for the role. A role that included some serious ass-kicking. Neeson was pretty good as the ex-agent, ex-husband, ex-father.This is what a spy movie

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It must get boring for the guys at Pixar, everything they do is awesome. Not only that, but they really are getting better and better and better at making movies. Wall-E is not only the best movie that Pixar has ever made, it's the best movie that I've seen this year, and it's quite possibly one of the best movies I have seen, ever. There's not a single negative thing I have to say about this

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So the House and Congress let the White House bully them into rushing the most important financial decision, if not since 1929, then ever, passing some god forsaken disaster of a bail out for Wall Street. Private Hudson, what do you have to say about that?

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The Tribe was the second best team in baseball after the first week of July (It's true, look it up) but after their disaterous start to the season it was only good enough to fininsh third in the AL Central at a dead even 81-81. Last year's ALCS collapse still stings a bit, but they're a good young team and should be back in the mix next season. I consider myself a true fan. I will perservere.In

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Mrs. STFU and I saw, this, hmmmmm, maybe three weeks ago? I really liked the first one. This one, meh. It felt like Del Toro was trying to hard to take everything to the next level. Part of the reason I liked the first one was that, even though it was out there, you could kind of buy it. It was almost believeable. The sequel was just off the hook, over the top, like, out there man. Too

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It's been a little crazy around here. I had a birthday. I'm 3 movies behind on my reviews. Basketball has started again so my Wednesday nights are full. Work is good. Work is full on. Getting a promotion is a double edged blade sometimes. Haven't talked to anyone at home in a while. It's getting warm though. Spearfishing weather soon. Had the second

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Best ... help wanted ad ... everP is Kiwi-speak for crystal meth, btw.

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The latest republican meme seems to be that the subprime mortgage crisis is the fault of .. wait for it .. Bill Clinton. Ummmmmmm. No? A little? Ok, a little. Who can you trust, besides The Daily Show? I trust Editor & Publisher, The Nation and these guysWhere Credit Is Due: A Timeline of the Mortgage CrisisRequired reading for this topicGramm-Leach-BlileyGlass-StengallRemember folks, when

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I keep hearing about how Jon Stewart is now "the most trusted man in America" and how The Daily Show is the place get The Real News ... This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. Don't get me wrong, I love The Daily Show. But it's funny because I already know what's going on. I have a clue. Liberals watching TDS without a clue are no better than the idiots who parrot the

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I'm calling it. I know, "what about the debates?". Fuck that, the debates don't matter. They don't matter. It's over people. It's over, and McCain is going to win. He is. I know you don't want to hear it, you don't want to believe it, but I think you know that it's true. The Americal electorate is stupid and the American electorate is racist and every bible banging yenta soccer mom from

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"Weta is running four clusters that are each equipped with 156 of HP's new 2-in-1 blade servers, and use liquid cooling to manage the heat loads. The Weta render farms currently hold spots 219 through 222 on the current Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers."State Of The Art Data Center For Weta Digital

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Really great piece from Elaine ScarryPresidential CrimesMoving on is not an optionvery long, lots of footnotes. Guaranteed to piss you off.

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Looking to break into CG? Maybe just digital photography?Check your color IQI got a 3 on an uncalibrated Samsung SyncMaster 204b at work. Should've gotten a 0, but it was at work and I was trying to not waste too much time.

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'Peanuts' animator Bill Melendez diesResponsible for 'Charlie Brown Christmas,' 'Great Pumpkin'

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This was aired before Palin was announced as the VP candidate. Brilliant.

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Courtesy of fark.comI laughed.

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What ... the ... fuck? Are Obama and The Crazy Little Man having a fucking contest to see who can pick the worst running mate. Good luck with the next four years America.Historical Analysis of the '08 Election.

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Just saw this in my drafts for this blog. Got as far as putting the picture and links in and then promptly forgot about it. It's been a while since I've seen it at this point. Sure it made a bazillion dollars at the box, sure it's good, but was it that good? I don't think that it was. It was certainly too long. I think Robert Downey Jr said it best when he said."didn't get it. ... [I] still

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Here's everything you need to know about this movie in three easy steps1. Physics ... who needs it?2. Long on action, short on story.3. Angelina Jolie is ridiculously hot.Like Tropic Thunder, I'm torn between a three and a four for this movie. I was entertained, certainly, but it could've been so much better. I going to take that as I sign that I should be rating on a scale of ten, instead of

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Checkout at the hotel in LA was at noon, and our flight was at 8:30 so some of had some time to kill Saturday. There was a theater across the street from the hotel, so Nick, Keith, Simon and I walked over to check out a matinee showing of Tropic Thunder to help wile away the afternoon.I've seen a lot of movies. I've been in a lot of movie theaters. I've seen movies at Mann's Chinese and the

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All the new Qantas flights from Auckland to LAX have on demand movies. In no particular order, I can remember watching ... Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Neil Patrick Harris reprising his role as himself? Classic. Some flat spots, but overall pretty god damn funny. George Bush as lovable pot head. Awesome.Three StarsJason Statham, the most underrated action hero in Hollywood

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So classes started on tuesday, 8:30 to 6:00 or so every day, which is hard enough when you're not jetlagged. On top of that, the subject matter is sometimes, shall we say, dry? So going to a party Tuesday night and being up until two or three in the morning was not condusive to being a fully functioning human at 8:00 in the morning. It was my one and only party this year as I am getting far too

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Pixar took us out to dinner on Monday, or maybe Weta did, all I know is that I didn't pay. And since we were meeting with the software development guys, and the head of software development at Pixar has a brother who just happens to be a world famous chef, who just happens to have an Italian restaraunt in Los Angeles with a two month wait for a table, well, we got treated pretty well, I guess.

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I don't travel well across multiple time zones. Very jet lagged. Got up late, 10:45 local time, 5:45 biological time.   Went to Chano's for lunch. OMG best burrito in LA.  Dan L and I walked down to the LA Museum of Contemporary Art. Stopped and checked out the Architecture of the Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry up close.  Both very cool.  Work took us out to eat at a fancy, of course, Mexican

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Left Wellington at 11:15. Five hour layover in Auckland. Seat next to very large, not fat, just a very large person. Squeezed into seat. Kid kicking back of seat. Insane mom. At various points in the flight she told her daughter that "we don't use toothpaste, it's poison" and "no it's not butter, it's margarine, you can't eat that, it's made of plastic" and something about her "third eye" and

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When it comes to the police, in my opinion there's only one thing you need to remember, despite the "protect and serve" claim on every cruiser in the country, the police are not your friends.  They are not there to help you.  Now, I have another rule for dealing with the police.  Keep your fucking yap shut.  If a cop wants to ask you a question, refuse.  We're talking "a nice young policeman came

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According to the BBC, there's quite a healthy flat-earth subculture on teh intarwebs Do they really think the earth is flat?John Davis, a flat earth theorist based in Tennessee, has this to say"Many use the term 'flat-earther' as a term of abuse, and with connotations that imply blind faith, ignorance or even anti-intellectualism."I'm going to go with, C) People who think the earth is flat

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We are finally, after seven months, a family again. We picked up the dogs on Saturday. I think it's going to take Zipper about seven more months to calm down. I'm pretty confident they are very happy to be 'home'.

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Another Fourth of July, another Will Smith movie. Can someone tell me exactly how the Fresh Price got to be the biggest, baddest, most bakable movie star in the universe? Let's see ... Independance Day, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, I Robot, Hitch, Pursuit of Happyness and I am Legend. That's what, a couple billion dollars box office? Some of those are actually really good movies and Smith is

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I'm a little behind on the movie reviews. AM has been talking about seeing this movie for, oh, I don't know, like, a year. It finally came out, and off we went. it's Dreamworks' first real animated offering that wasn't a Shrek movie since, hmmmm, Over the Hedge? It's been a while, anyway. The only preconceived notion that I had going in to this movie was that I was pretty sure that I was

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I am sitting at my desk, at work, right now, looking at www.thisoneparticularharbor.com so I know that it's working.

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Nerf chain gun, fully auto, belt fed. Want.

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Sorry about not posting. I've been slammed for the last two or three weeks at work. Starting to calm down a bit. Getting ready to go to LA in August.

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Just a quick news flash. I was given a field promotion to CG Supervisor on my show. It doesn't really mean anything more than recognition for the job I'm already doing, but it's official, so it's nice to be appreciated.

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I'm not usually one to pass on e-mails, but this is pretty funny.Rules for Men.Men are NOT mind readers.Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.Sunday sports It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.Crying is blackmail.Ask for what you want. Let us be

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NAACP head: Obama win won't solve racial injusticeThe head of the NAACP, Julian Bond, makes a valid point.Julian Bond, a veteran civil rights leader, said Obama's candidacy doesn't ''herald a post-civil rights America, any more than his victory in November will mean that race as an issue has been vanquished in America.''He follows that up with this bit.But he drew loud applause when he said the

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Did you think I was never going to finish? Hell, I didn't know if I would ever finish.  When we last saw our intrepid group of two wheeled maniacs, they had just barely beaten the rain to Hanmer Springs for lunch .......We're in Hanmer Springs for lunch ... and it's raining, and it's raining, and it's raining.  We eventually figured out that it wasn't going to stop raining, so we better get

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Let me start off by saying that I like our Land Cruiser. When everyone was going to school right near home it was great. When they switched schools, it became not so great. It became, Holy Christ We're Filling Up The Tank Every Nine Or Ten Days At $150 A Pop not so great. The thing is, I'm at work most of the time and at least ninety percent of the time the car is in use, it's only for five

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Andy Orstoy gets one exactly right

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Got to see the dogs yesterday for a little while. I don't think that I've ever seen them quite that excited before. When we had to go, Chewie ran right to the door like he's saying, "OK guyz! Let's go!" They didn't quite get why they weren't leaving as well. The place seems nice enough, but it's not very big, and they don't have anywhere to run about. It sucks, but only one more month.

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Hitler as producer, classic.

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I just switched offices again at work, hopefully the last time for a while. At my new desk was a shiny new HP computer. Dual 2.66 GHz quad-core Xeon, 8 GB RAM and a Nvidia Quadra FX 4600. Oh yeah. That is a seriously bad ass desktop computer.

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Doggies are in Los Angeles and are set to fly out tomorrow night and arrive in Wellington Friday Morning. They'll be in Quarantine for thirty days. Those of us that don't have jobs are going to rent a bach ("batch" (stupid name for a vacation house)) ,in Levin where the dogs are, for two weeks so that they can see them every day. They only have to be isolated from other dogs. Fingers and paws

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NOTE: I don't know if anyone's noticed but the images of the posters for the movies in the reviews are links to the page for that movie on imdb.com. Now, starting with this one, the post title is a link to the page for the movie on rottentomatoes.comI mentioned in my review for The Hulk that we managed to see two movies that weekend. On Sunday, the girls were both invited to a birtday party

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OK! I updraded some software on the PC. New version of PHP, new version of Apache, got rid of some old stuff, and, the web server seems to be working OK. So if you go to www.thisoneparticularharbor.comyou should get the gallery.

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If everything stays on target the doggies will fly out of the Atl tomorrow. We're all quite worried about them and just want the whole thing to be done with. Many props to STFU&GWTW-in-law for putting them up and putting up with them for six months.

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Tired : coming to work Sunday night.Wired : no one else is here, so I'm making the render queue my bitch. My job is on about 600 cpus. Muhahahahahah.

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You can't see it, but it's there. Right down at the bottom of the page below the posts. It's a little tiny bit of html. A couple of lines really. They just archive a little bit of data every time someone reads this blog. Yes, big brother is watching, never fear, it's all anonymous. It does, however, let me know where my traffic is coming from. And that's the thing, I have no explanation for

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that make us laugh.I don't know why, but I can't look at this picture without, well, maybe not quite laughing, out loud, but it always makes me chukle.

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