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A Bunch Of Stupf
May. 10th, 2011 12:17 pmLessee...
* Mum had a good Mother's Day weekend. Lynn, Livingston and Egan were over on Saturday and we did Spaghetti Feast. I got Mum a pair of garden gloves and two bags of Russell Stover chocolates. Livingston returned our VHS player after repairs; we haven't had the opportunity to try it out yet. We sent Ollie's old toaster oven back with them for Geneva, as we heard she needs a better one than the one she has.
* A game store in Knoxville had a sale so I bought three Wings of War planes (an SE5A, a Wildcat and a ZeroSen). There are a lot of downloadable resources on the WWI game but not on the WW2 game, so I'll probably need to get the WW2 deluxe sets in the future.
I'm already planning out larger architectures for mainstream scale models. A double-size set would work for 1/72nd scale WWI and 1/100th scale WW2 planes; a triple-size is right for 1/48th WWI and 1/72nd WW2 models; a quad-size set would be needed to play using 1/32nd~1/28th WWI or 1/48th WW2 planes. A quad-size card would be roughly the size of a board of the kind used to stiffen packs of comic books.
I'm also adapting my ex-clicky Crimson Skies planes to the Wings of War system, but I'll need more info about the WW2 game before I can complete the porting.
* Mum's garden is beginning to recover.
* We got a box of goodies from the Winterization program, in addition to the work that will eventually be done upgrading Rather Manor's infrastructure. Basically, we got a supply of flourescent squiggle lights (which we've been already using for about ten years), thermometers, aerator faucet and shower heads, a duct cleaning brush, and a smoke detector (the source for yesterday's DRAMA TAG).
* Model meeting is tonight. Oh boy.
* Mum had a good Mother's Day weekend. Lynn, Livingston and Egan were over on Saturday and we did Spaghetti Feast. I got Mum a pair of garden gloves and two bags of Russell Stover chocolates. Livingston returned our VHS player after repairs; we haven't had the opportunity to try it out yet. We sent Ollie's old toaster oven back with them for Geneva, as we heard she needs a better one than the one she has.
* A game store in Knoxville had a sale so I bought three Wings of War planes (an SE5A, a Wildcat and a ZeroSen). There are a lot of downloadable resources on the WWI game but not on the WW2 game, so I'll probably need to get the WW2 deluxe sets in the future.
I'm already planning out larger architectures for mainstream scale models. A double-size set would work for 1/72nd scale WWI and 1/100th scale WW2 planes; a triple-size is right for 1/48th WWI and 1/72nd WW2 models; a quad-size set would be needed to play using 1/32nd~1/28th WWI or 1/48th WW2 planes. A quad-size card would be roughly the size of a board of the kind used to stiffen packs of comic books.
I'm also adapting my ex-clicky Crimson Skies planes to the Wings of War system, but I'll need more info about the WW2 game before I can complete the porting.
* Mum's garden is beginning to recover.
* We got a box of goodies from the Winterization program, in addition to the work that will eventually be done upgrading Rather Manor's infrastructure. Basically, we got a supply of flourescent squiggle lights (which we've been already using for about ten years), thermometers, aerator faucet and shower heads, a duct cleaning brush, and a smoke detector (the source for yesterday's DRAMA TAG).
* Model meeting is tonight. Oh boy.
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It's 0550 Zulu. Do You Know...
May. 25th, 2006 12:53 am...Where Your Towel Is?
You have to. Today is International Towel Day.
Mine is set atop the steering wheel of my car, FTR.
FP
You have to. Today is International Towel Day.
Mine is set atop the steering wheel of my car, FTR.
FP
Yeah, I Know I'm Late Today
May. 8th, 2005 01:06 pmHey.
I'm late today because I went to Asheville to visit my brother and sister and to take in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy at the theater with bro' beside me. The verdict: Mostly Harmless. Was the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" number written for the stage play? *shrug* I expect that even if this movie doesn't recoup at the box office, it'll still make loads at the DVD/home video market--which means that a Restaurant at the End of the Universe movie is a certainty.
So...how are they going to plot that one out? Since Zaphod and the Vogons had sort of reconciled at the end of this movie, who waylays the Heart of Gold at the start of RATEOTU? That religious leader who Zaphod ran against in the election? Somebody else? Do Arthur and Trillian get separated when they escape from the Disaster Area stuntship?
And Casting: who plays Roosta and Zarniwoop? Who plays Zarniwoop's receptionist? Who plays Hotblack and his bodyguard? How about Max Quordlepleen? The Dish of the Day? The Captain and crew of the Ark B? Zaphod's great-grandson/ancestor? Or my personal favorites from this book/segment of the radio show...Gargravarr and the Frogstar Class D robot?
The movie had a pile of promo trailers that prove that Hollywood is officially out of ideas. Remakes/new versions of Bad News Bears (two in that case, if you count Kicking & Screaming), Herbie the Love Bug, The Dukes of Hazzard, and so forth--what gives? (Three of the trailers had Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" song in their soundtracks!) There are billions of people on this planet and everybody has at least one story in them--and yet our culture looks like it's stuck in a freakin' feedback loop?! So the studios now have the effects toys and the budgets to kind of do justice to some of the good ol' films...but they aren't going after the GOOD ol' films.
Just because you may feel nostalgic for something yourself doesn't make it a universal proposition for the audience. I loved Dukes of Hazzard as a youth while it was first-run on CBS, but got over it and wince when I see it in reruns. And by the way, the TV series was a remake of a 1974 movie titled Moonrunners, which in and of itself was an updating of Thunder Road. Chew on that!
I want something original--or failing that, a great story.
* * *
Mom is having a really nice Mother's Day so far. Right now she's on her way to Lowe's to spend a $25 Gift Card from my sister. Dad has a sirloin roast in the slow cooker (my contribution, from Christmas) for our dinner.
* * *
So in closing, I was running around Asheville and when I wasn't running, I was subjected to loud music (at two places) and very good cream soda (Jones) and fairly good pizza (Asheville Pizza and Brewery) and by the time I got back to the house I was too tired to blog. I'll get better at this, I guess.
I'm late today because I went to Asheville to visit my brother and sister and to take in Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy at the theater with bro' beside me. The verdict: Mostly Harmless. Was the "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" number written for the stage play? *shrug* I expect that even if this movie doesn't recoup at the box office, it'll still make loads at the DVD/home video market--which means that a Restaurant at the End of the Universe movie is a certainty.
So...how are they going to plot that one out? Since Zaphod and the Vogons had sort of reconciled at the end of this movie, who waylays the Heart of Gold at the start of RATEOTU? That religious leader who Zaphod ran against in the election? Somebody else? Do Arthur and Trillian get separated when they escape from the Disaster Area stuntship?
And Casting: who plays Roosta and Zarniwoop? Who plays Zarniwoop's receptionist? Who plays Hotblack and his bodyguard? How about Max Quordlepleen? The Dish of the Day? The Captain and crew of the Ark B? Zaphod's great-grandson/ancestor? Or my personal favorites from this book/segment of the radio show...Gargravarr and the Frogstar Class D robot?
The movie had a pile of promo trailers that prove that Hollywood is officially out of ideas. Remakes/new versions of Bad News Bears (two in that case, if you count Kicking & Screaming), Herbie the Love Bug, The Dukes of Hazzard, and so forth--what gives? (Three of the trailers had Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" song in their soundtracks!) There are billions of people on this planet and everybody has at least one story in them--and yet our culture looks like it's stuck in a freakin' feedback loop?! So the studios now have the effects toys and the budgets to kind of do justice to some of the good ol' films...but they aren't going after the GOOD ol' films.
Just because you may feel nostalgic for something yourself doesn't make it a universal proposition for the audience. I loved Dukes of Hazzard as a youth while it was first-run on CBS, but got over it and wince when I see it in reruns. And by the way, the TV series was a remake of a 1974 movie titled Moonrunners, which in and of itself was an updating of Thunder Road. Chew on that!
I want something original--or failing that, a great story.
* * *
Mom is having a really nice Mother's Day so far. Right now she's on her way to Lowe's to spend a $25 Gift Card from my sister. Dad has a sirloin roast in the slow cooker (my contribution, from Christmas) for our dinner.
* * *
So in closing, I was running around Asheville and when I wasn't running, I was subjected to loud music (at two places) and very good cream soda (Jones) and fairly good pizza (Asheville Pizza and Brewery) and by the time I got back to the house I was too tired to blog. I'll get better at this, I guess.
