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mark merrens wrote: even quite liked World War Z once I watched it a few more times.
Have you read the book? Based on this[^], it sounds better than the film.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Interesting: I'll have to check that out. Thanks.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I can't say I'm overly surprised. Having read the book years ago, I'd wondered how they'd be able to turn it into a movie. It's would structure fit a few dozen semi-stand alone shorts or maybe TV episodes; but was way too disjoint and episodic to make a normal movie out of.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
You might be on to something there. Maybe deep down we all want the slate
wiped clean. No bills, car taxes, no endless consumer frenzy. Just get back to
the basics of survival.
I've definitely got some yearnings in that direction...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: what is it about this show that has caught the viewer's imagination?
For some of us, it's the resemblance to our everyday lives, and the realization that we're not alone.
Software Zen: delete this;
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0) They've been at the prison too long
1) The cast needs to be refreshed - all the regulars need to eventually die off.
2) They need to start exploring HOW the zombie apocalypse started.
3) What about the rest of the world? Is it just the US, or is the rest of the world afflicted as well?
4) Plot twist - people that are immune to the virus, even after being bitten. This could be used to usher in a shadowy group of scientists that have been tasked by the remains of the government to find out how to immunize the "important people" against the disease. Rick, et al, discover these scientists (and the immune civilians) and chaos/righteous indignation ensues.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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All good stuff. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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too much like real life to me, especially when Im out on the bike - so many iZombies !!!!
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Bores the pants off me. The plot summary of most episodes is "not much happens".
The major attraction is that it's sunny. Too many idjit directors haven't got the idea. yet, that sunshine makes people feel better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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mark merrens wrote: what is it about this show that has caught the viewer's imagination?
Honest Trailer[^]  (Warning: Spoilers!)
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The beta customisation of styles:
Some can seriously hurt the eyes...
I hope the damage is not irreversible 
* I hadn't linked so as not to hurt anyone's supreme styling feelings ...
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Herbisaurus wrote: A Foolproof Guide to Matching Colors in Your Outfits[^]
Dear God in Heaven!
Not only do people spend time writing this stuff, but others spend time reading it!
How can this happen? What's wrong with the world?
Zombies?
This is worse than zombies!
And comments like "I never know what colours go together and this has really hepled!...
If people need a hepl to be able to see colours, then the Interwebs shoud be where they find it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mrs. Wife is back home which curtails my recent flurry buying new toys such as mouse/keyboard and laser printer. I just spotted a new toy on the horizon which I want. It's the newish HP Prime Graphing calculator. As an aficionado of HP calculators (I have several) their new one would slot right in. I can't pass this by Princess just yet and neither do I want to be price-gouged by the silly prices you pay for them in the UK compared to the bankrupt/closed for business US.
I could go "grey" and buy one from those sometimes questionable trade-price shops in Tottenham Court Road but I doubt their prices will be proportionate. Crimble is just around the corner so I'll think of someway of getting one into my stocking. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I used to own a couple of RPN hp calculators in the previous millennium (mostly for the "cool" factor)
I don't see the point of HP continuing manufacturing them; phones and tables are a lot more efficient at doing that kind of job.
HP should create "apps" for those devices.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I cut my HP "teeth" on a 41CX way back when you had a mag stripe card reader and a very rudimentary thermal printer. Programming it meant you had to concern yourself with every register. We turned out crazy stuff on them such as the yields from ore processing. Since then I started a collection of HP calculators. A former boss of mine bought a 41CX on fleabay. A research lab was clearing out some old cupboards and they discovered a stash of them, still boxed and shrink-wrapped. He bought one and when he opened it he said he could still detect that brand new HP calculator scent. I knew exactly what he meant.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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My first calculator was a HP 67, with the card reader/writer, and it kept me alive in engineering school. There is no justification for continuing to manufacture any form of calculator without RPN, as it is orders of magnitude faster and more efficient than algebraic calculators. I still use nothing else, as it is the only logical method of calculation in the Universe.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I had forgotten about the card reader model. Love and still use my HP-11C.
First calculator (for college) cost $60 on half price sale. Battery would last about 15 minutes before needing a recharge. It had one memory and did square roots! Guy at college came to class with a $300 one that did tan/cos/sin.
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I think I paid $380 for the 67, and I had to drive to Los Angeles to buy it. A friend and I spent a sleepless weekend writing a program for that thing that would solve for the roots of any expression up to 20th order, real or complex. It saved us both the next week in the Control Systems class final exam!
Will Rogers never met me.
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The HP-11C was not my first as it was bought for me by the company I worked for (programmable but no hard I/O). That is where someone had a one with a reader, do not remember the number, and would program fatigue analysis.
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I feel the same way about RPN. It just seems so natural and, almost so obviously better. I like the retro look of the HP67's display. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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The thought process required to use RPN matches exactly the process used by a real brain in soling a problem. Those who use algebraic entry must have really peculiar minds, and slow ones to boot.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Maximilien wrote: I don't see the point of HP continuing manufacturing them; phones and tables are a lot more efficient at doing that kind of job.
HP should create "apps" for those devices.
They have. They've written a Saturn emulator for IOS, and produced (IIRC) HP-12C and -15C calculators for iPhone. These calcs use the Saturn code from the actual HP calculators.
My personal favorite is a HP-42S emulator developed by a third party.
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Top 10 lost words[^]
Now I have some new...er...old...words for those Snollygosters in Congress. I hope those Ultracrepidarians become wamblecropt and get feagued.
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