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Comment on Doctor Who (2005 to present) / Torchwood / Sarah Jane Adventures Series Viewing Order by Gus Webb

Gus Webb — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:44:21 +0000

Glad it helps! I’m looking forward to adding in the next Christmas special in a month or so

Comment on Doctor Who (2005 to present) / Torchwood / Sarah Jane Adventures Series Viewing Order by perkyshadowgirl

perkyshadowgirl — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:54:22 +0000

Thanks so much for this! =D I’m a completionist (love that term!) and I really appreciate that this list is not only current, but includes the Sarah Jane Adventures as well! =D

Comment on Online Videos by New Page « GBlog

New Page « GBlog — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:30:09 +0000

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Comment on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by gus.webb

gus.webb — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:43:22 +0000

Yes, I know the movie is named after the Order, and the Order was barely in the movie.

I hope someone adapts these books to screen properly someday.

Comment on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by ws

ws — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:37:22 +0000

The movie is named after the secret society of the same name, not the mythical bird of the same name.

I’ve been saying for years: “You can’t compress a 500+ page book into a two hour movie”, and this is more proof for the pile.

It’s not the cliff’s notes version, just the Readers’ Digest Condensed Edition. In many ways, that’s far worse.

We went to see it in IMAX. The only reason I’m not saying it was a complete waste to do so is that we were late getting to a packed theatre and ended up sitting near the front. It’s there that a 20m high screen has its advantages. But the 3D scenes were blurry and ghosted.

I spent at least half the movie wondering if Harry was going to go third-rate emo on someone…

Comment on Online Videos by New Page » G-reviewS

New Page » G-reviewS — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:30:26 +0000

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Comment on From Justin to Kelly by Dave

Dave — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:48:37 +0000

I don’t think that even watching this movie in an ampitheatre full of people would make it enjoyable. Maybe if I got some really good E, smoked up several bowls of potent chronic, took 7 or 8 hits of opium, shot up with some heroin, ate a salad of bad shrooms, dropped PCP laced acid, and took two or three puffs on an asthma inhaler I would enjoy it. Still, I doubt I could ever enjoy a movie like that. Given the choice between this and telepoll, I would flip a coin, pop some Quaaludes and pray that when I finally snapped back to reality my hellish nightmare would be over.

Comment on New Mac Ads by ws

ws — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:56:05 +0000

Note I referred to x86-based linux. Not pre-packaged distros compiled for powerpc, but the x86 architecture.

Comment on New Mac Ads by Dave

Dave — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:32:43 +0000

Linux is not better! It’s more stable, more customizable, more useful, but not better. Okay, so yeah, it’s better. It’s much better.

Anyhow, they’ve had linux working on Macs for years, WS. One of the better suited distros for that is Yellow Dog, which is entirely designed for running on Mac hardware. As for finding the terminal, it’s really easy! All you have to do is go to your docker; click the finder icon; go to the top bar (which now says “Finder”) and click “go”; go to applications and scroll down to realize you went to the wrong folder; repeat process until you clicked “applications” and click “utilities” this time; double-click on “terminal” in the utilities. It’s just that easy!

Personally, if I were to own a Mac, I would either put Yellow Dog, Debian, or Gentoo on it and have MacOSX as a dual-boot partition. I would change MacOSX to get rid of all its “easy functionality crap” and make a key binding to open the terminal. Darwin would also have ports of xorg installed so that I could run my x11 apps. Then, would come the KDE and Gnome libraries. Eventually, you would get a proper functioning xnix box with OSX as the desktop environment. Yellow Dog/Debian/Gentoo would just be the shortcut.

Comment on New Mac Ads by ws

ws — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:58:43 +0000

Am I the only person who can’t get anything done on a mac? All the fancy widgets they’ve got on the desktop serve to prevent people from actually doing work. Accidentally move your mouse to a corner of the screen and *woosh* another selector opens, covering over what you were trying to do. And opening a terminal window is harder than finding a fitness freak in a McDonalds…

At least now with the new breed of mac, I can put x86 linux in an expensive box.