From an artilcle about screenplays on kuro5hin.com:
“The Three Little Pigs is the basis of most serial-killer films. One notable exception is Psycho, which is actually based extremely closely on Little Red Riding Hood. The “wolf” even goes to the trouble of dressing up as a woman.”
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Genres and Such
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Subway Bench
Notice how the space for sitting is quantized. The ridges don’t really prevent homeless from sleeping there, but they make the whole experience unpleasant for them. Overall it’s a very well designed bench.
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Big Swinging Ones
I couple of days ago I spotted this place on NYPD blue. A perp was unloading a stolen guitar in this pawn shop.
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I don’t need to go to Europe to see castles. We have enough of them in Manhattan.
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Martha Stewart Eat Your Heart Out
I am a looser. I spent half a day today cleaning out “science experiments” from my fridge, washing the shelves and organizing its contents. In other words – “portrait of the hacker at home” (click the link, don’t be lazy) or Cowboy Bebop Session 11 (my favorite episode).
My fridge is pretty cool. It even looks like a mainframe or a supercomputer.
I am going to add blinkenlights some day.Anyway, here is a tip for you. Supermarkets keep vegetables fresh longer by using this special lining material (pvc-coated filter). It allows better circulation of air or something. Supposedly it can prolong the life of fruit and vegetables by 50%. I bought mine from Amana for $8, but it can be had cheaper. The veggies do live longer it seems.
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Some quick nerdy news
Ethernet card for my TIVO is on it’s way. I wish it was available when my TIVO’s modem got killed by a surge from a lightning storm (I had to ship it to a guy who fixed it for $50). I’ll probably install TivoWeb because Yahoo! seems to be pretty slow in rolling out online TIVO programming that was promised.
Powershot G3 is available for preorder. I can’t believe they used the same moronic silver color for it. Again. Didn’t they get enough angry letters from photographers (so many that the actually made a black color version of G2).
By the way, it’s interesting to watch the progress of design of G1, G2 and G3. One thing that I noticed is that the grip handle gets progressively bigger and more comfortable.
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Palm Engineers are Weenies
I was looking for some handwriting recognition software for PC when I came across this:
http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/pocketpc/reviews/myscript.asp
Mehehe.
Anyway, I am going to write about my love that turned to hate for products made by companies employing Jeff, Donna and Ed some other time. -
On my way home
Outside of the building where I work
Descending to a subway platform
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Guess which birds live in this ugly nest at Brooklyn College stadium?
Fricking Monk parrots.
organaut‘s parents have one as a pet. The little green bastard talks a little, but has a very nasty attitude.
