LadyCrimson

Didn't George release some control after Phantom Menace, after all the critical remarks? Seems like I heard about him having other people do some writing or editing of dialogue or something? I have nothing against Hayden C - for all I know if given a great script and looser direction he'd shine. But he certainly didn't in the SW prequels - nor did anyone, really. And most of them are well-known for being able to act very well when given a chance. George definitely has too many control/regret/grass is greener issues - I imagine it all keeps him obsessively awake at night. And I'd agree that there are some people who are much better at creating the ideas than the implementation. Or the other way around.

I'm up for that one. But I don't need a holiday excuse to do it. *grunting noises*

I like the way you do themes.

US MArshals; Hollywoods attempt to capitalize on the popularity of The Fugitive. Tommy's always fun tho.

I saw part of a 2006 concert of Hootie and the Blowfish on TV, which made me think "hey, look, they're still around." Then I promptly stuck Cracked Rear View in my computer and pressed play. So overhyped and overplayed, but for nostolgia, it still sounds great.

Odd ... general exercise always makes me really hyper for at least a couple hours afterwards, even if I was tired when I started. It makes my hubby sleepy tho.

We almost got a 42" TV. It was one of those things where we kept thinking "I hate to get the 42 and end up wishing we'd bought a bigger one." Just don't test drive a bigger one in the house first, or you'll never want to go back to a small one. I want this Viewsonic CRT monitor. :D It's 60 pound weight would give me (back) trouble tho - hubby would be the one moving it around. heh

Panasonic's rule.

It's because the sun is behind the subject (backlighting). Fill-flash is great, I use it all the time in macros. It's also good sometimes for creating a black background in close-ups during the day. Heh, yeah, my husband never smiles when I take his picture. In fact, half the pictures I have of him don't show his face. Oh, I take my camera. I just don't often post them on the net, since I take pics on the sly and don't ask for release forms. But if their face isn't showing or I can easily fuzz it out some, it's fair game imo. Fishing nets as lightsabers? Gotcha! Outhouse bandit?

I like that sig pic. Only problem is it's dark, and the forum color is dark ...

What? Only 30fps? I'm shocked.

I don't like rear projections much. Not that they're bad, but just not my thing. We paid about $1900 for our 50" plasma - I think because it was 'last years' model maybe, that they still had some stock left.

Yay! Pictures! I was actually thinking about that - with cheaper but better quality digicams and cellphones having cameras in them, many more can take easy pics w/no special equipment - I think it's great. I don't think those are that bad for being off a cellphone. I wish I had a creek like that by my house. All I have is this dirty pool that always needs cleaning. One more from me then I have to go to bed. This one had a bad exposure and wasn't working as a color photo, so I tried sepia. Still blown out but better than full color. heh *shrug*

Out of curiosity, does anyone else besides me and mkreku like to take pictures? I miss the days where photo threads were really active. Anyway, going to use this thread to post this sheet of the silly cat pictures I took today. A lot of them are blurry full-size (hard to focus/aim with one hand) but since I'm horribly biased, I still think they're cute.

You and me both. I had a lovely day pestering people I haven't seen in a long while, and I'm going to do it again tomorrow. I also spent an hour poking my finger at one of my cats and trying to take pictures while holding the camera and it's 5.5 inch lens with only one hand. A feat that's never wise when one has the wrist strength of wet spaghetti. But some were still pretty darn cute.

I have flat feet and they give me trouble sometimes with walking/running, even with arch supports. But that's mostly an excuse. I'm kind of odd, as I find exercising outdoors - for the pure sake of exercising - too distracting. ie, I'll start a vigorous hike up a hill, see some insects, or a cool cluster of massive bamboo, or people doing something weird, and next thing I know I've spent 15 minutes in one spot watching/exploring instead of exercising. So I usually exercise in the garage or something, where I keep my focus and don't waste time.

Since you read it in four hours or so, I assume it's not a very long book? I see they're making a movie already. :D

Sounds like good news, Walsh. Must feel good to achieve goals like that. Lately I do enough exercises to keep the muscles that help support the spine limber, but my cardio capabilities the past year has gone into the toilet.

Some of the bits of the character jumping/flying around were cool. Kinda frenetic for my tastes - by that I mean, it gives my eyes a headache. Still pretty cool tho. And ... "Funded by No One." Haha, that made me laugh!

I'm not sure? There was a guy who said his whole personality changed and he lost most of his friends because of it. And the kid who was knocked out of his shoes while wearing an ipod and mowing the lawn. They did some recreation tests and think the ipod saved his life.

I was going to say that. The Disciple/Atton cutscenes in Kotor2. Dungeon Keeper1's intro movie. ...I know there must be others I enjoyed when I saw them, but my brain usually stores such things in a temporary storage folder and then deletes them after a few days.

That's a horrible anchorman.

Tonight I watched some show about people who've been hit by lightning. It made me glad I don't live in a place that gets much of it. Got some 11x14 and one 16x20 test prints back from the printer today, which was a lesson that I need to sharpen my photos a bit more when it comes to larger printing. I'm still such a dufus when it comes to figuring out all the digital-development end of things. It was easier when you just sent in a roll of film with no digital steps required in the middle. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time post-processing for printing than I do taking pictures. Edit: 16x20, btw, for some reason seemed bigger than I thought it would be. Which is cool.

Decided to split the discussion from the Community Resources sticky to its own thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd and 3rd pics are very nice. Yeah, I said there was more to it than just fstops. The true technique-geeks - of which I am most assuredly not one - can go on and on about formulas and all that. But there are three basic factors: the apeture setting, the focal length of the lens in use, and shooting distance. With that in mind ... if any two of these things are equal, then the third is what you'd want to change to try and achieve a desired DOF. In this day of digital cameras, another factor appears to be coming into play, and that is sensor size, which varies from full-frame SLRS to 1.6 SLRs to consumer cams. You can read all about the tech jargon on that on this page. But I think it essentially boils down that digital DOF is inversely proportional to format size - many smaller digicams, for example, have sensors 1/6 the size of 35mm film, which can result in such a large depth of field that's it can be almost impossible to get blurred backgrounds from them. The following are examples of my own, showing how if focal length is the same and your distance from the subject remains the same, the f-stop does affect DOF. I hope it's obvious these aren't meant to be examples of fine photography. All 4 were shot using 100mm focal length.

Well, most of those are new to me, so I find them entertaining. Poor kitty. The seagull one makes me think I'll skip breakfast.