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I am unreasonably fond of Swing. While it has plenty of foibles, and brings a new horror to UIs with Metal, it's nevertheless quite a nice framework to use – once you're familiar with it.
The problem is that getting familiar is a path strewn with brambles and holes full on punji sticks. One of the bigger holes is the event dispatch thread (EDT) – everything Swing related should take place on the EDT (even initialisation, under the latest Sun guidelines). When you're trying to keep the UI fluid it's all too easy to break the rule – hence, aspects to the rescue!
This topic has been covered by many before, including Alexander Potochkin and Anders Prisak – however, I found their solution needed a little tweaking to be used in our environment. In particular, they had missed two cases we cover – SwingUtilities and SwingWorker.
So, here's the tweaked aspect. safeMethods now includes a few extras.
package org.infernus.swing.aspects; import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint; import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect; import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before; import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Pointcut; import java.awt.*; @Aspect public class EDTCheck { @Pointcut("call (* javax.swing..*+.*(..)) || " + "call (javax.swing..*+.new(..))") public void swingMethods() { } @Pointcut("call (* javax.swing..*+.add*Listener(..)) || " + "call (* javax.swing..*+.remove*Listener(..)) || " + "call (* javax.swing..*+.getListeners(..)) || " + "call (* javax.swing..*+.revalidate()) || " + "call (* javax.swing..*+.invalidate()) || " + "call (* javax.swing..*+.repaint()) || " + "target (javax.swing.SwingWorker+) || " + "call (* javax.swing.SwingUtilities+.invoke*(..)) || " + "call (* javax.swing.SwingUtilities+.isEventDispatchThread()) || " + "call (void javax.swing.JComponent+.setText(java.lang.String))") public void safeMethods() { } @Before("swingMethods() && !safeMethods() && !within(EDTCheck)") public void checkCallingThread(final JoinPoint.StaticPart thisJoinPointStatic) { if (!EventQueue.isDispatchThread()) { System.err.println("Swing EDT violation: " + thisJoinPointStatic.getSignature() + " (" + thisJoinPointStatic.getSourceLocation() + ")"); Thread.dumpStack(); } } }
Once it's built, we just need to weave it – I've already got compile-time weaving configured for Spring @Configurable support, so just add the JAR containing the aspect as a weaveDependency and then the magic happens.
Now, if a Swing call is made off of the EDT, you'll get complaints:
Swing EDT violation: String javax.swing.JTextArea.getText() (YourSwingClass.java:98) java.lang.Exception: Stack trace at java.lang.Thread.dumpStack(Thread.java:1224) at org.infernus.swing.aspects.EDTCheck.checkCallingThread(EDTCheck.java:55) ... and so on

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Jeffrey R. Pocaro, an attorney representing a Green Brook resident who lives in the Mountainview at Green Brook Complex, came to the the Green Brook Township Committee on Monday looking for help.
After pointing out a spelling error in the township's property managment code, Pocaro then asked for an amendment to it to address an issue he said is causing a problem at the complex: pigeons.
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Eco-Travel Part 1: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
We Americans sure do love to travel! But as you likely know, in addition to being fun and rejuvenating, travel has many environmental impacts. There's the fuel involved in getting to and from your destination, whether by car, rail, air or some other mode of transport (hurray to those of you on bikes!). There are the natural resources used in housing, feeding and entertaining you at your destination: detergent and water to wash your towels, heat and water involved in cooking, more fuel (can you say Jet Ski?), and the list goes on and on.
This is the first of a three-part series we're doing on eco-friendly travel. This first edition covers transportation impacts and options. Next time we'll look at the impacts of lodgings and offer some excellent green hotel options. Finally we'll look at eco-tourism-- we'll define it and give you some great resources for eco-friendly travel destinations and tour operators. Hopefully this series will help you understand more about the impacts of our traveling and give you some good information and resources for how you can lessen your load and still enjoy a delightful vacation.
The Transportation Situation
First some stats. We travel almost 1 BILLION people days each year�and that's just for leisure travel. Over those billion days we rack up over 750 billion person miles per year-- by plane, auto, train, bus and other forms of transportation. All of this traveling equates to huge amounts of fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. Our leisure travel by car alone accounts for over 9 billion gallons of fuel and 90 millions tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year. Air travel tacks on another 140+ million tons of CO2. That's a huge amount of CO2 emissions-- taken together it represents more than the entire annual emissions of countries like Venezuela or the Netherlands!
To put this all in a personal context, if you drove round-trip from Los Angeles to Kansas City, you'd put out 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), whereas if you flew you'd be responsible for 2.2 tons. If you took a train, you'd contribute 0.9 tons. For you international vagabonds, if you flew from Los Angeles to Paris, you'd have put out 4.4 tons of CO2 (and yes we know you can't drive). For frame of reference, most people drive ~12,000 miles in the course of a year, which in an average MPG car emits almost 6 tons of CO2. That means by flying round-trip to Paris you've emitted almost the same amount of CO2 as you would by driving for a whole year!
So the green moral of the story is this: if you can, take a train or a bus. If you can't, drive. Don't have a hybrid for the trip?--Rent one! You'll save money and gas and cut your emissions. EV Rental Car exclusively rents hybrids and natural gas vehicles and has many locations in the Western US. One of the major US rental companies, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is making big efforts to go green. In certain cities you can rent hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles-- call 1-800- RENT-A-CAR to find these cars. Enterprise has also recently launched a 50 Million Tree Pledge. They will plant one million trees per year for the next fifty years in US National Forests. Learn more about Enterprise's environmental activities here. Want to drive in super eco-style? You can rent biodiesel cars in some locations. One of our favorites-- Bio-Beetle rents biodiesel VW bugs in Los Angeles and Maui. They are a must if you're going to either of those destinations! Finally, if you absolutely cannot take a form of land-based public transport or drive a car, then take a plane.
And why not replace that international trip with one to see some of America's majestic beauty? Have you been to Zion National Park in Utah? The Oregon Coast? The Florida Keys? Amtrak even has a new GrandLuxe service starting this fall. Want to travel in old-fashioned high style? This one is for you. The GrandLuxe Train, which features dining, lounge and sleeping cars appointed with elegant vintage furnishings, will be occupied exclusively by GrandLuxe Limited passengers. You can travel between Chicago and San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, Washington DC and Miami, and more. All Aboard! Find more about rail travel options here.
Okay, Okay, You Will Still Need to Fly Sometimes...
We know you will still fly some of the time, and we admit that we will too. One way you can cut your flying emissions is to take direct flights whenever possible. Planes burn more fuel in take-off and landing than they do by flying at a constant altitude. And, connections aren't direct by definition � they increase your distance. Thus the more connections you have, the higher your emissions. For example, flying direct from Los Angeles to Boston reduces your CO2 by 20% compared to the same route with a stop in Dallas.
Please also consider offsetting your travel-related carbon emissions. Carbon offsets allow you to spend a nominal amount of money to help fund clean power initiatives and thus counter-balance your emissions. We recommend Native Energy for offsets. Their offsets are purely 'additional' which means that your contribution funds the creation of new renewable energy production facilities (like wind turbines and methane-capture-based energy.) They are also a Native-American owned company that builds projects that create sustainable economic benefits for Native Americans and Alaskan Native Villages, and that help family farmers compete with large agribusiness. So book your flight, get an offset and fly semi-guilt-free! Getting a Native Energy offset is easy--click here to take a good green step today.
We hope you feel a bit more informed about the impacts of your touristic travel, and that you're armed with some new options for lowering your travel impacts. Have a wonderful trip, and don't forget to tune in next to learn about great green hotels!
Jessica Jensen, Co-Founder, Low Impact Living, LLC
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Colombia's crude oil production: The stall sets in
We've followed this dataset quite closely for a few months and a few posts, mainly because of President Juan Manuel Santos and his constant "We'll be at one million barrels per day next month...no wait, make that the month after...no wait...errr (etc)" bluster that's beginning to have more than a tinge of huevo en cara to it. So when the May 2012 numbers came in this month and showed a production schedule that unexpectedly dropped, the lack of headlines out of the sycophantic Colombian press roared its own silence. Here are the raw monthly numbers that show the inertia setting in over the last year:
And here's the derived dataset that really catches mine eye, the trailing monthly percentage growth.
That's a big drop in growth rhythm so if June comes in at under 939,000bpd, we cross into negative territory for the first time. By the way, the first five months of 2012 add up to an average 5.74% growth from the same period of 2011 (cos I knew you'd ask). All data from here.


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A taste of France, in Henrico
If so, then mark your calendar for April 21 and the Fourth Annual Little Sisters of the Poor French Food Festival. Featuring French foods, breads, desserts, and chocolate, the festival will also provide live entertainment and a number of children's activities and games. For shoppers, a Parisian Marketplace and boutique area will offer French cookbooks, preserves and other French merchandise. New this year, the event will boast a Cajun Corner featuring chef Sean Murphy of Lady N'Awlins. And as always, world-renowned chef Paul Elbling will oversee the food at the festival, which is prepared and cooked with the help of a dozen volunteers from the Knights of Columbus. During last year's event, Chef Paul and his wife, Marie, the founders and former owners of La Petite France, marked their 45th wedding anniversary. Among the guests who congratulated and visited with the Elblings were Cheryl Towner and her daughter, Karyn Cumming, then a Holman Middle School French student (pictured above). Admission is free, but suggested donations of $2 are appreciated to help defray event costs. All proceeds from the event will benefit the elderly poor who are cared for by the Little Sisters of the Poor at St. Joseph's Home. For more than 138 years, The Little Sisters of the Poor have provided a home and loving care for Virginia's elderly poor. In recent years, the rising costs associated with providing geriatric residential care and meeting state and federal licensing guidelines has made it increasingly difficult for the Little Sisters to cover their operating costs, let alone keep up with repairs and maintenance on an aging building. In 2009, volunteers joined forces with Paul and Marie Elbling to create the festival and raise funds. The festival will be held April 21 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the grounds of St. Joseph's at 1503 Michael Road. Free parking with convenient access to the festival will be located at the Forest Office Park next door. For information, visit http://www.lspfrenchfoodfestival.com or call 288-6245. |
VBS seeks blood donations
Citizen Staff Reports 12/16/2013
Virginia Blood Services (VBS), the sole supplier of blood for more than 20 hospitals throughout the state of Virginia, is in need of blood donors to help replenish the local blood supply over the holidays.
A decline in blood donations is typical during the winter months as people become busy with holiday activities and travel. Patient needs remain steady, however, making it important for people to visit a VBS donor site or mobile drive to give blood. > Read more.
Varina's Big Toy parade to help usher in holiday season
In Varina, one of the most anticipated events of the season is approaching. The 19th Annual Big Toy Parade will return on Dec 14, offering a "homey," small-town feel that helps elicit holiday spirit among participants and spectators alike.
The parade, which begins at 3 p.m., is sponsored by the Battlefield Ruritans and Henrico County Parks and Recreation and is held in conjunction with the James River Boat Parade. It is led by a grand marshal along Old Osborne Turnpike and ends at the Osborne Boat Landing, where hundreds of community members gather to await nightfall and the arrival of lighted boats, concluding a festive holiday celebration. > Read more.
Strikers, Kickers form partnership
Citizen Staff Reports 12/03/2013
The region's two premier youth soccer organizations – the Richmond Kickers and Richmond Strikers – have partnered to create Richmond United, a cost-free U.S. Soccer Development Academy program designed to serve the most talented players in the region. The arrangement marks the first time in U.S. Soccer Development Academy history that two member clubs have united their respective Academy programs.
Slated to begin play in the fall of 2014, Richmond United will field U13/14, U15/16 and U17/18 U.S. Soccer Development Academy teams. The teams will train and play home games at two of the top soccer specific complexes in the nation, Ukrop Park and Striker Park. > Read more.
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Eastern Henrico's annual "Holiday on Parade" event is back tomorrow. Family-friendly activities will take place at various locations in the east end. The festivities will culminate with the 21st annual James River Parade of Lights. Also, several churches throughout the county are hosting holiday celebrations including West End Assembly of God, St. Andrew's United Methodist Church and The Gayton Kirk Presbyterian Church. For all our top picks this weekend, click here! > Read more.
A taste trip through Latin America
Estilo charms, with a stylish twist, in Henrico's Near West End
If you're looking for something a little different from the standard, ho-hum restaurant experience, look no further than The Village shopping center. Among the recent success stories to put down roots in The Village is Estilo, created by the owners of the gastropub Toast (featured in a Feb. 21 review in the Citizen), only a few steps away.
Estilo – which translates to style – offers a taste of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, among other countries, and a menu that rotates regularly through the rest of Central and South America. > Read more.
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Disney's Frozen shines as an instant classic
Disney has spent the past few years in search of that certain something; that 'Disney Magic.' It's been a slow process. From The Princess and the Frog to Tangled to Wreck-it Ralph, the studio took slow steps, welcoming its princesses and fairy tales and musical numbers back into the fold. Every film was an improvement on the last, but none of them had anywhere near the charm or lasting appeal of the early '90s highs of the "Disney Renaissance."
Frozen, by far, is the House of Mouse's best attempt at a new Little Mermaid. > Read more.
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There I was, scampering up to the post office just under closing time, boxes and books eye-high to mail. I rest the packages on the middle island to rest my weary biceps and there he was–wearing a preppy red, white and blue striped collared shirt, jeans with a belt and loafers. He was slim and tall.
He was standing under the west-facing window of the building, where the evening sun blazed down on him, and he fanned himself with the fistful of envelopes.
One look at this guy and I knew he wasn't from Temecula.
I must have looked odd too, holding all those packages, because he glanced at me and I caught a look at his face–brown eyes with long, almost girlish lashes, neatly cut brown hair that looked…soft., square jaw, wide smile and full lips.
He mumbled something about me having a lot of packages, and that's when I detected the accent. Not wanting to guess in error, I asked, "Where are you from?"
He paused, and looked at me like I asked a question I should have already known. "I'm from France," he said.
"Oh yes! I thought that was the accent I heard but I wasn't sure. You don't hear many French accents in Temecula." Then I thought…wait…Abbott Laboratories, the big pharma in town is French owned, so I put it together–he must have been here for work.
He turned around to check why the line wasn't moving after five agonizing minutes, fanned himself, then turned back to me. He tells me that he's from a city near Paris.
"So, what do you think of our little town?"
"I feel out of place here."
WELL DUH!! I thought, but didn't say. "Yes, mostly families here in Temecula, so single people stick out I guess. But everyone is usually very nice. Maybe New York City is more your speed?"
He nods thoughtfully, rubs his chin.
Finally it's his turn to be greeted by the robotic mail carrier, then it was mine, and I was standing next to the service window next to his. I'm busily trying to figure out how I can put these packages on the cheapest slow boat to China and The Frenchman, in his thick accent, whispers in my ear and passes me a note. "Here's is my number…just in case." Meanwhile, the middle-aged horn-rimmed postal worker raised her eyebrows a bit at the action that frankly, left me speechless. The Frenchman rushed away before I had a chance to tell him I'm an old married lady, because he must not have spotted the .5 carats on my left hand, what with all the boxes I was carrying, so I'll give him a pass. Although I hear the French can be notorious adulterers. I gave his number to the mail lady and went on my way, but I couldn't help but have a self-satisfied smile.
When I got into the car on my way to doing mommy duty, I thought to myself, there's a whole continent of men just like The Frenchman, who pass pretty black women their telephone numbers "just in case." It also goes to show that it's probably a good idea to comb your hair and shower before you leave the house, because you never know when you might catch the attention of a handsome European man living smack in the middle of suburbia.
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Secure Image 2.1 Copy protect the images on your web site using image encryption and domain lock. Safe from mouse copying, saving and spider grab programs (site downloaders). Only the encrypted images are uploaded, so the images are safe from even the webmaster. Secure Image 2.1 is licensed as shareware and filed in security, html tools section.
wodSSH Client component that provides support for communication with remote console-type services. Most commonly, it will be used for Telnet based servers (running on UNIX OS), but wodSSH does even more: it allows you to communicate encrypted (and secured, of course) with SSH1 and SSH2 (secure-shell) servers, as well as any other non-encrypted server (such as SMTP or POP3).
Chilkat ASP Email Component .NET SMTP / POP3 Email Component with S/MIME for signed and encrypted mail, attachments, HTML mail, Auto-Zip and Unzip attachments, XML import and export, SMTP authorization, Outlook integration, distribution lists, internationalized, mail-merge. Chilkat ASP Email Component is a shareware software filed under email component utilities.
AGUTA Text Encrypter The function of AGUTA Text Encrypter software is encrypting and decrypting of text information. The encrypted text is embedded into a bitmap image file of BMP format. The image file size stays the same after encryption, as the encrypted text is written directly into the image color components.
DiskISE Security Suite DiskISE Features 1,280 bit Encrypted Hard Drives, Automatic Secure File Deletion, Internet History Cleaning, Protected Password Manager, Drive Defender and Much More. Download your FREE Trial Today! Business shareware DiskISE Security Suite is listed in security, privacy encryption tools tools.
OnlineCopy Secure your files from loss and damage by keeping copies online! With OnlineCopy you can easily (automatically) store encrypted backups on any ftp server. Just create one or more tasks, choose an interval or a time for the task, and OnlineCopy does the rest. Restoring lost files is as easy as making backups: just click on a package and OnlineCopy automatically downloads and unpacks the files for you. Free demo! 128-bits encryption. OnlineCopy is a demo software filed under system utilities backup, restore utilities.
StrongDisk Pro This utility enables to keep sensitive data on virtual encrypted disk, which works as a common disk, but all its content is encrypted on-the-fly. To mount protected disk a password and an external key is required. Any files, documents, tables and databases can be kept on and opened directly from encrypted disks. The content of encrypted disk is physically stored in a common file that enables to make backup copies easily.
NovaStor Online Backup Turn your Internet connection into a full-time backup device for your critical data. NovaStor's Online Backup allows you to select files on your system and back them up to NovaStor's secure Internet backup servers. The software is simple to use and can be easily automated. It allows backup of multiple computers to a single account. Enjoy virtually unlimited storage at your fingertips. Try our 15-day Free Trial with up to 250 MB of Storage.
Encrypt & Decrypt PDF This office and business application allows you to Encrypt and Decrypt protected Adobe Acrobat PDF files in batch mode. With this software, you may freely secure your PDF files from being printed, changed, copied, extracted, signed, filled, assembled and/or merged, and you also may remove the password of your PDF files, if you already know the owner or user password. All versions of Adobe Acrobat are supported. Encrypt & Decrypt PDF is a shareware software filed under security, privacy encryption tools utilities.
MetaScient Self-Empowering Knowledge System The MetaScient Self-Empowering Knowledge System [using the MetaScient Oracle computer mystic] is an interactive e-book that reveals your most important knowledge, to enhance your self-awareness & decision-making. Implements a new psychological technology based on twenty years research. Use its 4 modes of interaction to "Explore, Decide, Reflect, and Discover" the meaning of your life.
PDF Reverser This office and business application is a powerful and user-friendly tool to reverse and extract images and text/html in a PDF file. 1.Batch/Right-click processing support 2.Display detailed reversing progress 3.Configurable image format 4.Encrpted PDF file support
VaxVoice Extended SDK Vax Voice activeX is the easiest way to add PC-to-PC multiuser voice chat and text chat in your applications and webpages. Three or more persons can have a real time voice conference and can even record the conversation into wave (.wav) file. VaxVoice Extended SDK is a shareware software filed under development components, libraries utilities.
Drafts-Keeper With Drafts-Keeper you can make a lot of password-protected and safely encrypted notebooks. For example, several books - for home, a few others - for office. This shareware is archived under notes management, personal information managers category.
ResoMail This internet tool is an alternative mail system based on cryptography, providing a private and secure mail for confidential and sensitive correspondence. ResoMail is open source, reliable, Spam free, easy to use. Multiple Platforms (Including Linux, Windows and Mac). This internet freeware ResoMail is categorized under communications e-mail clients.
Acid Drop This internet tool is an easy way of drag-dropping text from applications into one easy to manage area. Simply highlight any text string, then drag that string into any OLE-enabled document. You can compress text snippets using the LZH compression format or protect your text strings with Blowfish encryption. Acid Drop also acts as a clipboard monitor, storing copied text snippets and making those clips accessible via a simple log. This internet shareware Acid Drop is categorized under internet utilities.
WinTools.net Extra This software Edition is a suite of tools for increasing operating system performance. WinTools.net cleanly removes unwanted software from disk drives and dead references from the Windows registry. It ensures your privacy and keeps your sensitive information secure, puts you in control of the Windows start up process and gives you the power to customize desktop and system settings to fit your needs.
MoRUN.net Sticker Sticky Notes program. Desktop Sticky Notes for Windows. Attach files/urls to sticky note; associate sticky note with files; modify sticky notes. Using personalized Sticky Note you can keep personal secure information. Strong information encryption.
Beyond Keylogger All-in-one Keylogger implements the state-of-art technology, and guarantees you full control over your computer. Have you ever thought what site your children are surfing when you are not at home? Who the "girlfriend" your wife is chatting with all the time really is? What your employees are doing when you are not at home? Now you can monitor chats,e-mails,keystrokes typed,desktop activities,microphone... It can even send you logs by email.
PDF Editor Objects Edit PDF files just like a vector objects. You can select, scale, move and rotate all objects (text, pictures, lines etc.) with a few mouse clicks. With the tool "Free text edit" you can change existing text just like a text editor. PDF Editor Objects is licensed as demo and filed in graphic apps editors section.
Axara Video To Mobile Phone Converter Video To Mobile Phone Converter is created for converting video for Nokia, Motorola, BenQ, Fly, LG Samsung etc mobile devices. The program reads any video including DVD Video & converts it into formats compatible with mobile: 3GP, 3GPP, 3GP2, M4V. This utilities shareware Axara Video To Mobile Phone Converter is categorized under audio, multimedia video tools.
Any Password This tool is an easy-to-use tool that lets you store all your passwords, user IDs, and related information together in a safe place. The program supports tree-type data structure, password generation, incremental search, import and export of data. This freeware is archived under password tools, pim, security, business, utilities category.
PrivacyAssistant Professional Passwords manager that stores all your sensitive data in a single, hard-encrypted file - easy-to-use, easy-to-move, impossible-to-break. Miscellaneous shareware PrivacyAssistant Professional is listed in security tools, encryption, password managers tools.
Dekart Private Disk Easy-to-use, secure and reliable AES 128-bit disk encryption software. Makes your important files invisible and protected from unauthorised access. Provides 100% protection of your private information. Utilities shareware Dekart Private Disk is listed in disk encryption, encryption, cryptography, security, security software tools.
Kremlin Encrypt (for Mac OS) Kremlin provides a cross-platform security suite for Mac and PC, protecting your sensitive information from intruders. It features RC4 and Blowfish encryption, secure deletion of files and records of all your activities, and more! Utilities shareware Kremlin Encrypt (for Mac OS) is listed in security, privacy encryption tools tools.
ASP.Net Audio The ASP.Net Audio Component allows you to add to play backgound sound, and sound effects in ASP.Net websites. ASP.Net audio allows you to deliver background music, broadcasts, music samples & sound effects. It is supported by a full ASP.Net API. This development tools shareware ASP.Net Audio is categorized under web development asp, php.
CrossFTP This internet utility is an excellent FTP client. CrossFTP Pro is a turbo synchronization tool and FTP/FXP/FTPS/SFTP/WebDav(s) client. CrossFTP has user-friendly two-pane explorer-like interface, and its main features: multi-tab navigation; unicode support; archive browsing; anti-idle; filter; FTP server launcher; and more. CrossFTP Pro further features: multi-protocol; multi-thread engine; synchronization; proxy; remote editing; and more.
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By Steve Krutzler / 09:34, 3 June 2005 / TrekWeb Features
After a year of waiting, audiences can finally tap into their inner-4400. It's a calling that the follow-up to last summer's 6-hour miniseries is banking will make it one of the most successful series populating the not-so-empty summer airwaves beginning Sunday night.
THE 4400 broke ratings records and industry expectations with the compelling story of mismatched everybodies snatched away from their daily tasks and deposited haphazardly on a serene mountain beach last year. With a formula channeling THE X-FILES with a biting post-9/11 sensibility, THE 4400 did for USA Network (along with schedule partner THE DEAD ZONE) what it seems much of broadcast television is hoping to do this coming fall.
"What was very nice this past development season was hearing everybody say 'we're looking for a show like THE 4400!'" muses executive producer Ira Steven Behr from his earthbound offices in the mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles. "It's like f--in' A, baby, we're just a little cable show! The only thing that pisses me off is a lot of these [new] shows are going to have more money to spend and that drives me nuts!"
The former STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE writer inspired a subculture of dedicated Trekkies with his intricately plotted and character-oriented brand of enlightened space opera and he's infusing the same kind of passion into what hopefully will continue to be a wildly successful little cable show. But cable isn't a panacea for cutting edge genre series.
"When you take away the above-the-line on this show, what we have to actually make this show, it's just freaking ridiculous," he says, unconcerned about sugarcoating anything about the grueling process of bringing the show to air. "For a show with five storylines -- this is an ambitious show -- this is not an easy show to do and you're up in Vancouver [shooting it] with the weather."
THE 4400 succeeded last summer during the merger of Universal and NBC, putting the show's seemingly obvious renewal in suspended animation until earlier this year when, what Behr unapologetically derides as enough politicking to fill a book, finally gave way for he and his team to begin conceiving the show's "return". In a sea of creatively and commercially successful cable dramas, 13 is the new 26; but that doesn't mean it's any easier.
"That, you try to tell yourself is a good thing because there's none of those 'well, this one didn't quite work' [kind of episodes]... Here's my true feeling," he prefaces in a no-minced-words kind of way. "If I were in the DEEP SPACE NINE situation, where literally you had no one to answer to and you didn't get any notes from anyone basically (except for Rick Berman), and you had the money, and the ability to cast whoever you wanted to cast... 26? Are you kidding? I'd go for as many episodes as you can, when all cylinders are clicking. But that ain't the way the business works, baby!"
Behr, who last year traded his famous impromptu DS9 Disneyland field trip for a 4400 field trip to the Westwood cemetary (and may this year have to settle for the inspiring aroma of the La Brea tar pits next door to his current offices), talks more like a Hollywood outsider than a producer with high expectations riding on his shoulders. But he's keeping his eye on the ball despite a tumultuous television landscape and numerous pilots scrapping at the heels.
"I'm going to feel the same way about those shows that I felt about BABYLON 5. Chances are I'm not gonna watch 'em -- I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna watch 'em. I wish 'em all luck and basically what I care about is how we do; I try never to care about what the other guy is doing," he explains.
TREK fans are used to this kind of steadfast approach from Behr, who brought season-long arcs to the largely episodic franchise that were often meticulously planned, and sometimes unexpectedly discovered. THE 4400 shares this aesthetic.
"Anyone who says they have a whole show in their head starting out... that's a pretty dead show in my mind," Behr describes. "The show has to breathe and the characters have to live and you have to discover characters that you want to use. I wasn't thinking about DS9 ending; in the most obvious way you know it's coming, especially on a show like that where you know you have seven seasons; but you try to live in the moment to make what you have available as interesting and as appealing, as possible. It was only in DEEP SPACE NINE that by season three I realized, 'wow, this is a seven-year canvas we have to tell a story, we're going to get to do some things.'" He purrs that last line, relishing in the memory.
Refreshing our own memories after nearly a year hiatus (a badge of honor among the new crop of cable dramas), THE 4400 picks up six months from the enigmatic end of the miniseries last summer. Returnees Richard (Mahershalhashbaz Ali) and Lily (Laura Allen ) riding past a line of bending trees posed a myriad of questions to be addressed this season.
"We knew where we wanted to end this season going in -- I knew what I wanted -- and so far we're tacking toward that goal. We only have two more stories to break so I think we're gonna get there, but at the same time there's stuff that's now happening that until we started writing the first episode, Craig Sweeny (who wrote the opening two-hour) and I, we [hadn't discovered]."
But after learning that the 4400 were actually abducted by humans from the future -- not extraterrestials -- one has to believe there's at least a rough outline at work.
"I certainly have my view on what is going on, but I have been taught by experience that all kind of events during the production of a television series impact on what you want to have happen," he says. "I.e. Worf suddenly arrives on DEEP SPACE NINE and all the best landscapes of mice and men go out the air duct. I have an idea where ultimately I want it to go, but I don't know if I'll be around for the whole thing, someone else could come in... With most TV shows [unlike DS9], like this one, are we going to get to do another season after this? The ratings were really good last year, the network loves the show, it would seem we have another year at least, going in... [but] I never think about a show until I have to in terms of the endgame."
THE 4400 has a built-in serialized format structured around the mechanism of 4400 "cases" in most episodes, Behr says. "But all the stuff around 'em -- life interrupted -- goes on like it does in real life, and so the personal lives, the intertwined destinies of our characters certainly are serialized throughout the show and certainly, just as in what I consider the best television, something happens one week and has an impact the following the week or four episodes down the line."
In the opening episode "Wake Up call", 4400 philanthropist Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell) has joined with other returnees to found a "4400 center," a development that Behr explains will set the stage for a spiritual exploration of the 4400 and their situation this year.
"The 4400 are stepping forward and [have] a chance to unite everyone to help prevent this catastrophe from happening in the future, and it certainly deals the 4400 a question of faith and it has a quasi-religious feel to it," he says. "I think that the 4400 as an entity is incredibly interesting. One of the things that we want to do is allow the audience to make their own judgment about the 4400. We really made [them] into a very public movement, reaching out into the community and asking you to join with them in finding the '4400 ability within you' -- because they're all human beings like us. They've been studied and they don't have nannites in their system or any kind of 'tech'," (an oblique reference to the phrase that notoriously doomed many STAR TREK scripts), "that would make them different than you or I and so it's just an evolution, it seems, an accelerated evolution, of the human mind, the human species. The idea that we all have this ability within us if we can find it, is I think going to polarize the world in terms of the show and give the fans a lot to chew on."
The setup is that the 4400 each play a particular role in future events, presumeably engineered to avoid some greater devastation that -- unsurprisingly -- looms ambiguously on the horizon, leaving the characters and the audience in a constant state of uncertainty. NTAC agents Tom (Joel Gretsch) and Diana (Jaqueline McKenzie) are charged with tracking down and cataloging the various incidents that occur involving members of the 4400.
"Tom Baldwin is in a position that I would not want to be in. Based on one conversation [in last year's finale], he feels that he's been given this mission by the future to help move along this task they have put forward of saving mankind; but at the same time that does not always jive with the job that he has."
The precog child Maia (Conchita Campbell) has something of an idea about events to come, but no one knows the full shabang. "I think most of the 4400 are pretty bewildered and some of them are definitely outcasts in society with or without their abilities," Behr adds. "So I don't think anyone has the whole story in their head, nor does Maia, necessarily, though she does come up with some interesting precognitions that prove true. But again we're trying to keep the show, just like DEEP SPACE NINE, very fluid. Shifting alliances, don't get too certain who is on the side of the angels, and who isn't; we try to give everyone a point of view; I think it is a show that can, at least on one level, engender a lot of debate amongst the fans, in terms of what they're rooting for and whose side they're on and what they're hoping for."
Undoubtedly many fans of THE 4400 were hoping they'd be able to debate the intricacies of more new STAR TREK episodes this coming television season. The aging franchise was brought to a halt this spring when cancellation finally took hold after 18 years on television. But don't look for Behr to commisserate about the woes of the largely successful franchise.
"I felt that we had stayed too long at the fair to begin with," he says after a lengthy consideration. "Look, let's not have some STAR TREK for a while, it's been ubiquitous for a lot of years; let the field get replanted and let it grow again. But it's really tough to be bemoaning that there's no STAR TREK at this stage in the game. All I know is as with many people, STAR TREK was very, very good to me and I like to think I was good for it. Am I gonna miss it? I'm not gonna 'miss it.' I miss DEEP SPACE NINE in terms of the people and so forth but in terms of it not being on television, I'm not going to 'miss it.'"
If THE 4400 delivers on the promise of its debut miniseries, it may similarly mollify the sting for many TREK converts. Although the show will be without Peter Coyote as the Home Sec bureau chief (Behr holds out hope for a late season appearance by the actor, who will appear in the new Fox series THE INSIDE), many familiar faces will buttress the show. Jeffrey Combs is no sooner sending off the ENTERPRISE crew than appearing in the first couple episodes of THE 4400 with plans for additional stints; FIREFLY's Summer Glau will guest; DEADWOOD's Garret Dillahunt and THE L WORD's Karina Lombard will also both do guest roles.
Character is key and Behr takes pride in the positive feedback since THE 4400 aired last year. Jordan Collier is but one character who the writer says will become even more complex this season.
"What's really interesting about the show is I'm starting to hear from the actors things that I used to hear from the actors on DS9. Salome Jens, when she was playing the head of the Founders, would come to me and say 'I thought I was a hero. Am I now a villain?!'"
In Behr's estimation that's as good an omen as there can be. Well, other than a thumbs up from the famed residents of the Westwood cemetary.
THE 4400 debuts Sunday at 9 PM on USA Network, following a marathon presentation of the miniseries. Learn more at The4400.com.
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The McDougall School of Petroleum Engineering is comprised of eleven faculty members: four chaired professors, one full professor, five associate professors and one assistant professor. The school is well known for its research consortia. Currently, the school manages nine research consortia supported by various oil and gas companies and organizations. The annual funding for these consortia exceeds $5 million dollars. In our undergraduate education, we emphasize balanced education with equal emphasis on drilling, production and reservoir engineering.
Professor and Floyd M. Stevenson Distinguished Presidential Chair
Dr. Shoham's research focuses on the area of modeling two-phase flow in pipes and its application in the oil and gas production, transportation and separation.
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We stayed just one night at the Methow River Lodge in August as part of an anniversary weekend away from home. We stayed in the main lodge and had zero complaints. The staff was super nice, the rooms very clean and well-appointed, and the view of the babbling Methow River is the icing on the cake. It's also just close... More
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- Official Description (provided by the hotel):
- 1/2 of lodge built in 2011, second half in 2012. Cabins built in 2009. All cabins & lodge rooms on river. Cabins have full kitchens with cooking utensils and barbecues on covered decks. Ice rink & ski trails next to property. Fish or float river, walk to town, bike from from your door.Many places have a two night minimum we do not in the lodge.Specials for Lodge ... more less


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Involuntary Car-Free Weekend: Part 2, In The Rain
The weather here today has been . . . unremittingly foul. So much for the forecast that said we'd have showers in the morning, but a clear afternoon. Not here, it wasn't. Strong, cold wind from the South, continual rain, and the tang of sea spray in the air. Lovely.
Still, that's no excuse for staying at home. So I took Daughter down to her drama class on the tandem this afternoon - riding down into the wind. To keep her protected from the elements, we went for full ski gear - including her warm and waterproof over-trousers.
I didn't need so much insulation (seeing as how I tend to do most of the work on the tandem - or so it seems), but I did need to keep dry. I'd got a new Berghaus Goretex cap last week which is just great, and also a pair of waterproof over-trousers.
Despite the miles I do on various bikes, I've never had full-length over-trousers before, so I was a little skeptical when I got them. In the end, I want for a cheep pair of Altura Night Visions (same make as my jacket), and I have to say that I'm impressed. They're not as breathable as I guess Goretex would be . . . but they were also a third of the price. Basically, they're great for shorter commutes & easy leisure rides, where you're not going to work up too much of a sweat. The benefit for me is that on days like this, I look outside at the rain, shrug, and head out anyway, knowing that I'll stay dry.
(I got my Altura waterproof over-trousers from the Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative's local shop, but they're also available from Evans Cycles and Wiggle.)
Anyway, the ride there was quite tough, with the wind full in the face. The worst bit was when I got to our destination, and pulled on the brakes for the first time in the journey.
Nothing. Not even a squeak, as we over-shot our stop point. Then a gradual slowing down, in time to take the second entrance. This is the problem with bike brakes in the rain - stopping distances get a whole lot longer. Hub and roller brakes are pretty much unaffected, but disk brakes are somewhat less effective when wet, rim brakes on aluminium wheels even less so, and rim brakes on older-type chromed steel wheels are pretty much useless.
Our tandem, Daisy, is about 30 years old, so she has steel-rimmed wheels. The rear, despite two pairs of centre-pull calipers is particularly poor - unlike the front, where the rim has a kind of knurled pattern, its completely smooth. :-/
This may have to change in the very near future!
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- Date: 12/13/2008
- Time: 20:22:39
- Total Time: 00:20:00.00
- Calories: 208
- Distance: 4 miles
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Brief About Ratlam District Ratlam is one of the important Districts of Madhya Pradesh Which is situated in the North West part of the State "The MALWA" Region. The New Town of Ratlam was founded by Captain Borthwick in 1829 with regular and broadened streets and well built houses. Ratlam was once one of the first Commercial Towns in Central India being the centre of an extensive trade in opium, tobacco and salt. It was also famous in Malwa for its bargains called Sattas. Before the opening of the Railway Line to Kahndwa in 1872, there was no better mart than Ratlam. The District of Ratlam was created in June 1948 and was reorganised in January 1949. It covers the area of the former princely State of Ratlam, Jaora, Sailana, Piploda. Ringnod Tehsil of Dewas Senior, Alot Tehsil of Dewas Junior and parts of Mandsaur Tehsil of Gwalior State, a few villages of Dhar State and Chief Commissioners provinces of Pant Piploda. The District is known after the Headquarters town, Ratlam which was also the headquarter of Princely State of Ratlam. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
Ratlam is situated in North-West region of Madhya Pradesh from 23 05' North to 23 52' North Longitude and 74 31' East to 75 41' East Latitude. It is bounded by Mandsaur District in North, Jhabua and Dhar on the South, Ujjain on the East, Chhitorgarh and Banswara District of Rajasthan on the West, Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh and Jhalawar District of Rajasthan on the North. AREA AND ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS
Total Area of Ratlam District is s 4861 Sq.km. which is 1.11% of Total Area of Madhya Pradesh. For the Administrative convenience, Ratlam is divided in Six Tehsils and 6 Blocks Town Population : 27,970 Rural Population : 1,23,648 Total Population : 1,51,618
Total District Area :-4861 Sq.Km. Population as per 1991 census 9,71,888 CLIMATE
The Average temperature of Ratlam is 55 F. The average rainfall of the District is 90 cm. Most of the rain occur in the month of July and August. MODE OF TRANSPORT
Ratlam is well connected both by Rails and Roads. Ratlam junction is Divisional head quarters of Western Railways. It has both Broad Gauge and Meter Gauge Railway Lines. Ratlam is situated on State Highway number 31 and 22. Ratlam is well connected by road to Madhya Pradesh and other states namely Gujarat and Rajasthan. BUSINESS
Ratlam has several chemical factories namely JVL, Hightech, IPCA, Shaba Chemicals, Bordiya Chemicals, Sujjan Chemicals etc. There are a number of manufacturing units of Copper wires and plastic rope etc. Ratlam is also famous for its gold and ornaments for its purity and designs. Ratlami Namkin (sev) is famous through out the country.
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It is part of the Colman dock renovation. The project where they are going to completely tear down the existing passenger terminal and rebuild without ANY service interruptions! haha.
I was curious to see when the ramp was going to be completed. I assumed WSF would build it now, and tear it down in a few years for the construction. That would be par for the course.
The plan strikes me as more aspirational. First they spend the next several years building the new Coleman Dock. When they are finished they start looking at how to build the passenger bridge. And then some years later it's finished.
To me the time frame isn't the crucial thing, it's the fact that the passenger ferries have a permanent home on the waterfront.
Knowing there will be a bridge eventually they should be able to plan for it in the new Colman Dock building. And that's where they'll screw it up. :) They'll leave a big hole and then when it comes time to build the bridge they'll find the hole is in the wrong place.
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A preview of what will be finished later today once I channel Dave Stewart's colouring.
I've liked Hellboy since the first mini and throw money at Mike Mignola when he releases product.
Something about it appeals to a part of my art that likes the black and white with heavy shadows. Something I feel I excel at compared to my other crap.
Some Dead Space fanwork I've left to stew since 2009. I should finish it since I like it so much. I originally planned it as a desktop, but I with my habit of keeping my icons on the right side of the screen, I had to flip the image. Which throws off the look since he asymmetrical.
I should go back to finish it eventually. I wonder if anyone else parks their art for a while… like years.
Something I'm working on for the next theme from @comicartclub.
Having fun using the pencil brush, I decided to build up the character in "pencil" first before going to inks and colour.
His soul sword will be in white, the black is just a placeholder for it for the moment.
Trying to get this done by tomorrow, I don't think I'll be able to get it done by then.
Also, I'm not liking this at all. It's not gelling the way I want it to. I wish I could paint but I have the colour theory of a vole.
Next image being done for @comicartclub. Theme of the week is Sandman from DC comics.
Decided to go with Destiny of the Endless.
Another WIP for @comicartclub. I'm sure some people will get the theme this week.
Testing out for something new I may be actually paid to be working on in the near future.
Design based on the victorian representation of an angel.
Some more stuff I dug up in sketchbooks scattered around my house. I'm still not used to digital and the tablet, pencil and paper are still my go to tools.
Anyway, thses are little character designs for an aborted webcomic featuring superheroes. Nothing really came of it, although I do like the little ninja in the lower left hand corner.
Finally got Photoshop worked out, a bit too late to get working on stuff backed up, but enough to start at least posting some work in progress.
First up is my favorite member of the Green Lantern Corps for @comicartclub. It's embarrassing to be late with this since it was my theme that week.


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I think white rice counts as gluten. But if you can use brown rice (check out quick start guide for a full list) - hope thats helpful!!!
boil-in-a-bag? or the pre-made uncle bens brown rice if you have trouble making your own.
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Harry thinks ROLE MODELS are fun to laugh at!
It wasn't that long ago that I had very little interest in seeing a movie called ROLE MODELS. It seemed from the first trailer to be a saccharine sweet buddy film about grown children that learn to become MEN. And that stuff, like saccharine… gives ya cancer. I'm serious. If you just watch films about juvenile young men putting their childish sides aside… you will develop EYE CANCER. There's a group of lobbyists that work for me in Washington trying to get WARNING STICKERS to place on films of this type that would say: WARNING: WATCHING THIS FILM IS A LEADING CONTRIBUTOR TO EYE CANCER, alas with the current Lobby Reforms in place, it's getting harder to hire Escorts to blow legislation into law. Then I saw the Red-Band Trailer for this film and realized… OMG – that little kid cusses!!! Now I don't know about you, but small children that cuss and bitch slap adults. That's like catnip for the Left Frontal Funny Lobe of the brain. It causes involuntary joygasms that riddle the body and leave one laughing like that piano music lover from REEFER MADNESS. Well, at least that's how it affects me. Now, if this film was just about Bobb'e J. Thompson – who is every bit as awesome as Gary Coleman was in his heyday – I'd have been completely happy, but Director David Wain and writer/actor/Titanic-expert Paul Rudd – well they've come up with a film that is sweet, but exquisitely wrong on several fronts. Our two leads, Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott play two very different fellas that have spent a decade working together. Paul is that cynical life hater that's just lost his long term girlfriend, which added to his already miserable existence as a Front Man for the Energy Drink MINOTAUR pushes him over the edge. Meanwhile you have Seann William Scott, who is the man in the Minotaur costume – and he feels he has the greatest job on the planet. He gets to dress up in a badass Minotaur costume and turn folks on to the best Energy Drink in the world that is good for you because it has JUICE in it. After their initial calamity lands them in a position of facing some time in jail or doing community service in a "Big Brothers Big Sisters"-like organization – they decide to do the latter. That's how they meet Bobb'e J. Thompson's Ronnie Shields, a tiny boy obsessed with giving grown-ups shit and boobies…. And (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) McLovin's Augie Farks (greatest name 2nd to McLovin) who is a Larp-loving fantasists that lives with redneck mundanes that think he's probably doomed to loving boys in tights. Seann gets Bobb'e and Paul gets McLovin – and we get to see these two, very different relationships form. At one level, I love the Seann and Bobb'e relationship, simply because it is the most subversive. Rather than trying to stop the boy's predilection with insults and tits – Seann's character helps him to understand and develop beyond a boy's understanding. To teach him how to stare at boobies, without staring. To understand the subtle ways sex has been woven into the bards of our age, KISS. I also love how this relationship goes wrong as well. Then there's that Paul Rudd one. The LARP-ing aspect is great. It isn't done to make fun of LARPers, but rather as a celebration of their particular oddness. The final battle is epic, but actually everytime we enter the realm of the LARPers – this film oddly rules at a level I wasn't expecting. Paul and Davin Wain really did a great job of showing how one could love this rather odd , yet colorful hobby life. Is there a sweetness to the film, yeah, but the great thing is the Grown Up kids don't have to cease being childish, but to simply embrace their childish ways and the childish ways of children, to reach a better understanding of life in general. This film is hilarious throughout. Another strong comedy for 2008, it's a good thing the films are so funny, cuz the world needs as much laughter and funny as it can muster these days. While this may be a film about Grown Ups and Kids, this is definitely an Adult aimed comedy. It's filthy and fun. Check it out when you get a chance.
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Are you half asleep, Harry? I had a hard time reading this! What does "a Larp-loving fantasists" mean, anyway?
No clue?
People who dress up in costumes and act out what the costume represents. Typically, this is people in Medieval gear who pretend that it's the Middle Ages, or go a step or 2 farther and play live action Dungeons & Dragons. LARP people have also taken on superhero and vampire role play as well, among others. So now, does "LARP loving fantasists" make sense to you?
it's not that funny, tub-boy.
"...who is a Larp-loving fantasists that lives with redneck mundanes that think he's probably doomed to loving boys in tights."<P>fanatic?
He's only one kid, therefore a fantasist. The kid lives in fantasy. Does that help? Having seen the film the sentence makes sense.
looking forward to this movie.
I worked at a coffee/ice cream shop near MIT and every Wednesday night, like clockwork, these hygene avoiding, ugly ass socially retarted freaks would come in and completely drive everybody else out of the place with their grossness. Each one of them would want a taste every flavor we had, (DUDE! You've been coming in here for years, you know what everything tastes like, Just pick a goddamn flavor already!) and about half of them would think that just tasing flavors was enough to let them sit there for 3 hours. The rest of them would pick the things that were the biggest pain in the ass to make and they'd never tip. Ever. Then all 30 of them would go sit down and attempt to out nerd each other ("Forsooth!")while a choice half-dozen of the grossest ones would proceed to make out in a corner. Ew. They all came from the planet BARF. Then they'd leave the biggest fucking mess imaginable. They were all so socially retarted that they would not respond to any a direct statement that we were closing and stay waaaay past closing time. No wonder why they like to prtend that they're living in the past. Because nobody in this day and age can fucking stand them.
hows that lap-band working out harry? Find a way to squeeze swedish meatballs past it yet?<
Saw the film at an early screening in New York with a friend and I've gotta say its FRIGGIN' HILARIOUS!
That shit was funny! I could totally picture that in my head.
wow you seem to hate LARP-ers about as much as i cant stand Pretentious A-holes that work in coffee houses! Awesome!
It's not that the LARPers I encountered for three years straight were stinky, obnoxious and gross and a pain in my ass. It's me. I'm the "Pretentious A-Hole". It has nothing to do with the fact that because they're nerds, they've been shit on all of their life so when they see an opportunity to shit all over someone in the service industry, they make sure they eat a whole box of Ex-Lax before pulling down their pants and spraying it in my face. (metaphorically speacking, of course.) I wasn't even smart enough to be a nerd when I was a kid. I was a weirdo Sub-nerd. You don't see me taking it out on anybody, do you? It has nothing to do with the fact that they were cheap bastards who didn't tip and spent the smallest amount of money possible and stayed as long as possible whilst they drove out actual paying customers in droves. No, why would it be that? You're right. It's not them, it's me. I'm a "Pretentions A-hole". Eat a bag of dicks, you fucking maggot.
While I can sympathize with your post about LARPers, you must realize: you're painting a group with a large brush, and I believe that the stereotypes you've advanced probably accurately reflect 95% of that community, if not more. Realize as well that the stereotype of Pretentious A-Hole coffee-shop workers also accurately reflects 95% of the people in that industry. It's life, son. Don't like to be stereotyped? Hey, maybe that's how some of that 5% of LARPers feel.
Technically It was an Ice cream shop that also sold coffe. I'm not sure what the stereotype is on Ice Cream Shop Workers? We got one arm that's more muscular than the other? Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go drive my Prius while listening to The Black Kids and sipping my soy macchiatto. Seriously, though, I did the Ice Cream thing near MIT, then worked at a comic book store in the same area and after 12 years of dealing with those kinds of people I can unequivocally say there is something seriously wrong with them (not all, of couse but a vast majority of them). It's not just me.
Not Pretentious coffee shop workers anyway. It seems like something that was poupular to make fun of in the media, but I haven't actually seen any examples of it. And Starbucks doesn't count. Management actually makes them correct people who say "large" instead of "Venti" or whatever the fuck it is in Italian. You're not being pretentious if your manager is forcing to do it.
which I would have to be hogtied with barbwire to watch, Paul Rudd can do no wrong. Is it true he basically took over the script and got co-screenwriting credit once he started giving suggestions?
that you immediately assume i was talking about you when i said Pretentious A-Hole but hey if the shoe fits!
for a couple months at the convenience store. He was a very nice guy, but a bit on the weird side, and very into that role playing thing. They did that like once a month, so he would grow a beard for it the whole month, shave the day after it's over, and start growing it again.
I guess now we know why Siskel died and why Ebert had surgery.
as I'm typing this, my neighbor is playing the accordion. Which is kinda creepy.
My friend, I'm not commenting to spur your wrath, or to refute your previous remarks. However, if you are so embittered by your experiences in the service industry; then perhaps you are better suited elsewhere. Also, I remember when I was in under-grad, my friends and I would try to find cheap things to do and inexpensive places to hang out because we were broke ass students. I can feel your pain when it comes to messy people who don't tip (pretty classless)...perhaps someone should have taken one of their foam swords and explained it to them...
Well, I was responding to your irate response to killanx, which specifically addressed "coffee shop workers." I duly noted that you were an ice cream shop salesman, but given the umbrage you took at killanx's characterization, I responded in kind.<P> I stand by my remarks. You feel well-qualified in painting all LARPers with the same brush - which is fine. Not saying I've had much contact with them or anything, and it's not a stretch of the imagination to assume a good deal of truth in what you say. However, I have had extensive interactions with members of the service industry, and I would like to give the finger to almost every single one that I've had to deal with. Yeah, I get that your job sucks ass and that it's boring and tedious and just damn drudgery, but that's no excuse to be rude to me, to roll your eyes when I'm trying to decide what I want to get, and so on. As a side note, there is one concept that so few in the industry are familiar with. Do you know what TIP means? It's actually an acronym for "To Insure Promptitude." If a server's service is lacking, late, or otherwise not to my satisfaction, he or she shouldn't expect to be getting much gratuity for suck-ass service. I don't give out hard earned money to people just for existing. If the aforementioned description doesn't fit you, then you're in the group of servers that I'd tip handsomely for a job well done. But like I said - we're playing a 95/5 game, and too bad if you don't like being lumped with the other 95.
I'm sorry but I kind of have to agree with OBSD on this one. Anyone who has ever had the displeasure of working with the public can tell you that you get the worst stereotypes in the world.The bad thing is while there might be people that like LARP games and things of that nature that are regular people,it's the ass holes that come out in public in force. Same thing with the douche bags that come to the movie theater all dressed like people from the movie that they're watching. You always have the one group that does and tries to put on a live action myster science theater 3000 . I know some countries make there citizens serve in the army, we should make it mandatory to work in public for one year...every citizen. Then maybe dick heads would learn how to tact.
seem very poor to me.
I had never heard of LARPING until like 2 weeks ago, and since then the only references to it I have read have been on this site. 3 Times. Wtf?
Because I don't think I ever saw one.
I have not laughed as hard at a movie in ages.
Saw ROLE MODELS today and was surprised at how hilarious it turned out to be! Understandable now that it's making more money than expected because word of mouth is very solid. If you were on the fence with this on, take a chance. It's great! Paul Rudd, you fucking RULE!
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