And a big raspberry to everyone over the years who have predicted Apple's demise.
This wasunexpected:
Professor Lynn has spent three decades analysing thousands of test results to scrutinise the role of evolution in IQ. He has published his findings in a new book. Britons excel in another area of Professor Lynn’s research. He found that university students had, at 109, the second-highest undergraduate IQs in the world, beaten only by their US counterparts on 110.
Attended the Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival last weekend. All good movies, of course. In addition to the entertainment, I had the following takeaways:
You think this is bad, you should see me dance. Forty-five minutes in GarageBand.
firedoglake: Three Years Of Hell
We went out for breakfast today, and on the way out there was a protester (yes, just one) standing by the UGA Arch. He had a bunch of buttons he was passing out with messages on them like "Impeach W" and "Bush isn't my President." We chatted with him briefly, and each picked up an "Impeach W" button. The guy was probably in his late 40s, and while he was out there (which is more than I can say for me), he didn't seem particularly passionate about what he was doing. I should probably have shared some of my own protest imagery to help spice things up a bit.
From Cartoon Brew, we get this:
One of my biggest grievances against contemporary animation is that characters won't shut up. Too often in American animation, dialogue is used as a substitute for storytelling, acting, and communication between characters.
For what it's worth, my next short ("We, Robot"...one of these days I'll set up a site for it) will have zero dialogue, at least in English. There will be some grunting and other vocalizations, but it certainly won't be "talky."
...has yet to arrive. Glargh. I hate waiting for delivery guys.
Nikki's keeping an eye on the force of nature known as Stuart, who I have just woken up and is getting ready to jump off the bed.
You know, even if this doesn't work, we would all get pie. I can live with that.
Next time someone accuses the Democrats of not having a spine, let's remind the accuser that with no access to the levers of government, it would be more accurate to say that they don't have any teeth. However, when Republicans in Congress cave to every demand of the President and shirk their duty to provide a proper check on the executive's power, they are showing that they lack the backbone to do their jobs.
Put Democrats in power, and then let's see who has what, eh?
From leonardo
One of the biggest hurdles in making your own film on the side is to work a full day, spend quality time with the family, deal with the usual living stuff (ie. food shopping, eating said food, bill paying, unforeseen calamities) and still be able to make your film. Suddenly watching Lost and Desperate Housewives is not so interesting. Here's the thing I realized, that what ever you can do on your project each day is valuable. May it be five minutes or five hours. 5 drawings or 5 feet of film. You are 5 minutes, 5 drawings closer to your goal.
With me it's not so much Lost as Veronica Mars (which I haven't watched now in something like a month, I think). I've been working on my own little project now for something like a year, year and a half with only a little bit of test footage to show. Hm...if Dick Cheney can sell his soul for the (Vice) Presidency, maybe I should look into just leasing mine for a little bit of extra time. Nah...
Of course, there should probably be a third sign that says "While we still can," but then that might be muddying up the message, don't you think?
Both Opie and Stuart know they're not supposed to get on the counters. Unfortunately, they also know that there are sometimes interesting things up there to play with and anything that's not nailed down is fair game as far as they're concerned. As a result, we very often find things on the floor, and/or scattered around the house. The list of unauthorized playthings is long, and includes spoons, butter, butter dishes, spaghetti, water bottles, fish food, cereal, bread and tampons. We pretty much never catch them in the act, although Opie has become sloppy of late and been chased up the stairs after getting busted.
Anyway, this morning on my way out the door I discovered another item to add to the list of items that are apparently way better than fake mice...
I've resisted looking at this, since I'm already feeling like "trailer mash-ups, yawners," but this Toy Story 2 Requiem trailer is awesome.
Yes, I said "awesome."