Same - during its airtime I was moving about once every six months, working odd hours and odd jobs, and sometimes I didn't have a TV.
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Same - during its airtime I was moving about once every six months, working odd hours and odd jobs, and sometimes I didn't have a TV.
Why do we want to give all that up, just in the interest of saving some of the (very real) frustration? I can't see how it's worth the tradeoff. Even if you don't enjoy writing, and are only doing it to get tenure/keep your job/etc., you're handing over autonomy to a plagiarism machine.
A lot of research and writing consists of serendipitous discovery. You're looking for one thing, find another, go down what looks like a blind path, and grab something really juicy. Even if the paper at hand isn't the right place for it, you save it for the next one. Or share it. Or just enjoy it.
Short answer: it doesn't matter. Research follows the same 80/20 rule as most human exploratory activities (and prob much activity in general) 20% of the activity will generate 80% of the fruitful results. But you won't know which 20% of that big block of research it will be ahead of time.
Yeah the more I've read up about him the greater the ick factor. Especially The Professional. It sucks because his films as films somehow combine pulp and smarts in a way that's pretty hard to do.
Well, we stiill have Jeunet, Caro, del Toro, and Anisia Uzeyman.
Luc Besson is a fun "smart/dumb" filmmaker.
"So Luc, is La Femme Nikita about how dehumanizing the surveillance complex is, or how hot Anne Parillaud is?"
"Yes."
"Is 5th Element a heartfelt anti-war film, or an excuse to have Milla and Bruce kick all the ass"
"Yes"
It's amazing that one of the hardest songs that decade has a lead mandolin backed by a string section.
For someone to be redeemed they have to put in the effort. Chauvin had a history of brutality that went back ~12 years before he murdered Floyd. He could have, at any point, changed his path. He didn't. He could have pled guilty and accepted what he did was wrong. He didn't. I wouldn't shed a tear
I'm trying to figure out a way to make a slide that can deliver the to go box to the curb for trash collection.
Just remember to spring forward into the apocalypse.
It's where the bank holds you hostage for 30 years so you don't end up sleeping in a tent that the police will destroy... Or so I'm told, I'm just saving up for a nice standing desk that folds up into a coffin when I can't work anymore
They replaced the abyss calltree with an AI so now I can't even get to the abyss properly without saying "representative" about seven or eight times
Benjamin Button is based on Wilford Brimley's life, except Brimley just stayed old after he was born
He was also a terrific Klingon commander
Don't look up the ages of the cast of Season 1 Cheers
All those years doing shrooms and driving a taxi while he was putting money away for his lab really aged the man
Right next to the left side cat is the book "No shit, there I was" and it looks like a perfect dialog caption
Technology rarely "advances" in a predictable way. The history of tech is littered with crummy tech that crashed and burned (sometimes literally), other stuff that under delivered, some things that were genuinely great but got sideswiped by other tech, and good things that didn't promise a steady $
So not Baz Luhrman enough?
Biscuit catching up with his reading
I feel like this complaint about short attention spans has been going on at least since People magazine ("articles need to be light, use short words and read in the average trip to the bathroom"), but long form journalism soldiers on. Folks want complexity but the industry runs on clicks & ads
The cat looks so derpy, clearly based on the artist's orange tabby
Wait that looks like communism
You can be a one-household Arizona
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I made sure my 40s made up for my 30s. I made better mistakes.
Writing, taking care of others and collective organizing are some of the healthiest activities you can do for yourself & society. AIbros want you to outsource writing. Taking care of other ppl isn't paid a living wage in most cases. And the last thing those in power want is for you to organize
Would also throw in Nomads - his first movie, which put him on the map and one of the reasons Arnie recommended him for Predator.
Also, people shit on Medicine Man but I'm a forever Bracco fan. It wasn't McTiernan's best effort but it was entertaining enough.
"I know you want a living wage but here's a pizza party! Also, every Friday you can wear business casual."
