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You were there, too? Sorry I missed you. What other film did you like? I saw it there. And the "swallowed by non-euclidean geometry" was my favorite part, as well. My favorite bit from the story and it's there on screen, wonderfully done. However, the story itself (as in the original HPL...

Airplane - the guy in the taxi waiting for Robert Hays to return.

My orders from amazon.co.uk arrive much faster than my orders from amazon.com (and since I live in th U.S, that suprises me). And my amazon.co.uk orders are cheaper (even with the shipping factored in) than buying them as "imports" at amazon.com and getting free shipping.

Rebecca. What a twist--two of them, in fact. "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...." And believe it or not, an episode of "Happy Days" runined Psycho for me. ;)

The age of the actors is a non-issue. Anyone ever see Grease? A bunch of 30-ish actors playing high school students. Didn't hurt the film one bit. John Revolta was 24, Olivia Neutron-Bomb was 30, and Stockyard Channing was 34. Jeff Conaway 28, Didi Conn 27, Jamei Donnelly 31. The other...

Yeah, a lot can be cut from book 5. Myself, I'm hoping that battle at the end comprises most of the movie! ;) I also liked Luna, but she doesn't do much in book 6 (or, actually, much in book 5 except use her father's paper to get Harry's story out--and with how they ended film 5, maybe...

OK, so after having seen HP#4 last night, today I looked up what scant information there is on film #5 in the IMDB. I'm a little worried (already!)--there is a new writer and he's got very few credits listed. I think having one writer adapt the first four films helped a lot for consistency...

If only book 5 had been "Harry Potter and the Esoteric Order of Dagon"....

Oh, yeah, I loved the dragon (someone producing the next D&D movie, please see this one first) and the merfolk were great. No trace of some Disney "Little Mermaid" here! Best special effects of the series so far. Also saw the King Kong and Superman trailers (among others), so that was fun.

I will dissent. :) Just got back and I enjoyed it, but it's not the best HP movie. And my daughter, the resident HP nut who never finds fault with anything HP ranked it last of the four films. She plans to re-read the book tonight so she can go rip the movie to shreds on muggle.net this...

Most recent purchase: Special Edition PHB (at a con, special "con price" of $30; I wanted the errata version) Waterdeep (at the same con, 40% off) Before that, at a store (doing a slot 0 for a con): and a few dice + set of battlemat markers Before that, at a different con: Sons of Gruumsh...

lol I hated 1 & 2 and loved 3 (werewolf F/X notwithstanding). Given Mike Newell's previous films (i.e., not the drek Columbus always gives), I am excited enough for 4 to be going on opening day. In just 20 hours, the lights will dim.... Woo-hoo!!!

I said so. :p Now, to reduce my FQ (Flippancy Quotient) and give you a real answer. You really don't need to pick Oracle. (But if you want big databases, Oracle's where to specialize. And Oracle on Unix just rocks.) What you really should do, however, is learn Oracle + become a top notch...

Can you put it up for sale at Cafe Press? That would be an awesome shirt to wear to GenCon next year! ;) And, Aaron, good luck! Take some of this advice and run with it. You've got almost nothing to lose except your unhappiness.

I am an Oracle DBA. Quoted for truth. But, this I have to disagree with: Top-end Oracle DBAs can make a lot of money just doing database work. While that will involve some programming in Oracle's own special PL/SQL product, you wouldn't really need other programing languages. But, on the...

Singer Billy Bragg bought himself out of the British Army for 175 pounds sterling; this was in the early 1980s. He described the cost as the most wisely spent £175 of his life.

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Tin Foil (after the horse in the Daffy Duck cartoon Drip-Along Daffy (1951)).

Great news! I'm glad the surgery went well. There is a special place in hell--a little known 10th circle--reserved for those who "manage" health care in this country. I will cast a spell this Saturday to speed up the Detroit health care managers contingent's arrival is said circle. :]

I think Diva is a good one. Opera + gangsters = good film. Who knew?