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Making the meeting during lunch time will keep you popular for sure. 
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Munch Munch, We(chomp chomp)ll, Yuuu(chomp chomp)ou, aree(chomp chomp) cooorr(chomp chomp)ect. Absolute(Sllluuurrrp)ly. Munch Munch.
We are used to this obfuscated protocol now.
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Huh. I've been working from home for the last two weeks, and had my first online meeting just today. The rest of the time it's been emails and IM's.
It was actually kind of nice to talk to the other folks and see how they were doing. The funny thing is, I think we're more productive when we're all working remotely.
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Exactly. One common thing I've observed is, when people are matured and the project type is suitable for remote ops, Remote working is for sure more productive.
But some times we work with huge machines, and we need the laboratory set up. It gets almost impossible to do remote work.
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Nand32 wrote: some times we work with huge machines
Unfortunately true for most of the folks where I work. We build commercial inkjet printing systems. It's kind of tough to fit a 60-foot long printing press in your home office.
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Some of Bugs Bunny is either no longer shown or bowdlerized because it's politically incorrect. Sic transit...
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It's getting worse with films, TV series etc. The recent War of the Worlds on BBC was an appalling travesty of PC/Wokje nonsense, and paid only mild lip service to Wells' original. Especially galling for me as I live 5 minutes from the spot where the Martians landed.
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today's shows are all about cgi/visual effects (and perhaps some second+ rate one-day-wonder singer)
couple of decades back it was all about sound (dolby/thx blah blah rah rah blow you out of your seat)
was a couple of decades before that when all they had to rely on was the story
...about then was also a mostly fresh generation of actors so if the story didn't sell the movie flopped.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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And you could actually hear what the actors were saying. I blame Marlon Brando, who introduced the art of mumbling.
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It highlights the difference between people do it because they're artistic and those who are political or capitalistic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That reminds me... I'm going to listen to this one[^] for the coming 1:45 hours 
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Thanks for the link, it's years since I first heard it on the radio. 
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what I don't get is the animation back then is still so much better - more fluid, smoother -apart from background less looping, more 'natural' movement - than today's computer assisted anime crap.
another thing I like in the old cartoons is they used real well trained musicians (orchestral instruments) for the background music. they really were super skilled and so well timed. (they recorded against a showing often all in 1 shot start-to-end after just a couple of practice rounds.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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This, from 1937, is just beyond amazing[^].
Now - that damn anime, enema, whatever they call it - no real animation at all - just flashing lights and Japanese fantasy girls (i.e., young school-girl innuendo). And, of course, don't forget the other flavor now available - 30 minute commercials to sell their toy-turned-cartoon.
As a little kid I watched the (then old) cartoons, in B&W, of the endless cats and mice fighting. And who can forget (or resist?) Betty Boop? !
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Now - that damn anime, enema, whatever they call it - no real animation at all - just flashing lights and Japanese fantasy girls
Not all of them. You probably won't like it, and probably won't consider it to be anime, but the eighth episode of this series has one of the most powerful film experiences I've ever witnessed. There were a couple events before that episode that had already made me think the series was one of the greatest shows I've ever seen: Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World - Crunchyroll
I don't know if the site is safe without adblock or some other measures, so if it isn't, sorry.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: And, of course, don't forget the other flavor now available - 30 minute commercials to sell their toy-turned-cartoon.
Um, now [^] available? That's over 35 years ago.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was not saying it's all new - the drop in quality has been progressing for years.
Look at what capabilities were, for movie length and short cartoons, 80 years ago and more!
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Nice! Thanks!
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I have learned to accept that the world isn't "worse" today, it is just different.
To younger people today, the Bugs Bunny cartoons is just packed with "special effect", silly and completely illogical story lines, and makes you say that this is "funny"? I don't get it...
I had that experience when DVD manufacturers got spare capacity to publish classic movies, like the old shows with my dad's favorite comedian. in my childhood I remember him laughing like crazy over Leif Juster (he was a strictly Norwegian comedian; I'd be surprised if the name rings any bell in you). So I bought this 3-disc set and sat down for a laugh. Throughout the shows, I was nodding: Sure, that is dad's humor. Yeah, he would have liked this. But… It isn't my humor. Every now and then, I smile, and that's it.
My dad never understood what's so funny about the comedians I enjoy. Or what is so great about the epic movies that I enjoy - you've got the same problem there: My dad grew up when boys had heroes, and epics were about heroes. My favorite epics are about other issues.
Now another generation has taken over, and they relate to my humor and the epics I enjoy the same way I viewed those of my dad. I don't understand the value of what is made today, just like dad never saw any value in what my generation produced. Yet, he wasn't the grumpy old man complaining that everything was just so much better when he was young. He just told about how it was, without condemning the present.
So I go in his footsteps. It is different today, and I do not enjoy a lot of what is made today. Fair enough. It makes it much easier to accept that I am not going to be around forever. As more and more makes no sense to me, I am quite happy that I don't have to live with it forever, but can quietly slip out the back door one day.
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A very thoughtful post.
But now heroes are back in fashion. Superhero movies. Watched by grown men.  
I guess your thoughtfulness hasn't quite rubbed off on me yet. 
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Greg Utas wrote: But now heroes are back in fashion. Superhero movies. Watched by grown men.
You know, there is one absolutely wonderful thing about middle age. I don't give a flying Fellini ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) what anyone else thinks of how I dress, who my friends are (and aren't), and how I spend my time.
I dress to be comfortable. When I'm out running and it's warm enough, the shirt comes off and I let my freak flab fly.
Some of my friends are men, some are women. Some are straight, and some not. Some live by faith, others by reason. Some I see in person almost every day, others I've not met IRL and may not ever.
I read science fiction and some fantasy. I listen to smooth jazz. I really like the Marvel and DC movies.
The sad thing is, I imagine you're thinking this is me being defensive. If you are, you're wrong.
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I don't think you're being defensive, because our attitudes are similar. But sometimes I get opinionated about things that are just personal taste.
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Well said! I always laugh when I hear someone say that kids these days are... lazy, ignorant, have no taste in music/ clothes, etc.
I always like to add - “ ...said every person over 50 throughout the history of mankind. “
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Sokrates said: The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers
I guess he was over fifty then. 
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