Posts by JackElder
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Should this post be under the section "Randonneur Play"?
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the raw sexual magnetism.
I had that problem once. I had myself degaussed, and it cleared right up. I still have a slight bias state though.
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'Such and such digital effects studio spent three years and hundreds of thousand of man hours to simulate the splashing of a bucket of water on the character played by Hugh Jackman.' One can't help feeling that splashing an actual bucket of actual water would have been cheaper, if not perhaps quite as realistic.
Heh. I share an office with several people who spend a lot of time working on water modelling software. I am reliably informed that water is a lot harder than you'd think.
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You do know that with this, it's not so much a matter of "leave the lens flar in" as "carefully and expensively create a lens flare on this shot so it looks like it was actually shot with a real camera, not entirely CGI", right?
I _love_ little digs in CG movies where they've carefully faked camera artefacts on the film. My current favourite is the shot in Madagascar 2 (disclaimer: I have young children) where the camera pans dollies up from under water, and as it breaks the surface you have drops of water running down the lens. On an entirely CG film. Lovely.
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belief, "NIMBY-ism" is not monopolised by card-carrying Greenies. The blue-rinsers got uppity when plans for affordable housing on surplus Hobsonville Air Base land were announced.
Indeed - that's the first time I'd heard of John Key. At the time I remember thinking how unpleasant it was to have an MP basically saying "We don't want any poor people living around here, thanks."
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Or, even, among mounts.
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He's a prince among men.
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Actually, I'm a big fan of cleanskins because all you know about them is the (rough) grape variety. You can be sure you're approaching the wine on its own merits, without being subconsciously affected by the label, price point, etc. Yes, repeatability is low, but so's price. Lucky dip, ho!
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Moore Wilson is the best.
Moore Wilsons is also the cheapest place in Wellington to buy Lego. They have the full range, normally 15-20% cheaper than anywhere else. Word to the wise.
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Semirelated: one of my happiest moments in work was watching my ex-manager being removed from the building by security. At one point, he'd had all four of his direct reports file separate grievance claims against him simultaneously. He was a legendary fuckwit, whose name became a byword for pointless interference and last-minute changes (no, really, we came up with a backronym for it and everything). It was the shining nugget of corn in the turd that was a major round of redundancies that he could be laid off easily without having to go through a tedious, protracted legal process. When he left the building, literally everyone who had worked for him went to the pub to celebrate.