The New Hobbit Hole

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Maybe it is too wet in the winter for them to thrive here?

Maybe, but they seem to thrive quite well in Northern Michigan, which is both wet and cold in winter. Of course, different ones thrive here in Texas, which is very dry. I hate the little blood-sucking, disease-carrying pests.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

I knew it!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I expected that he would go splashing off through the bog and frighten the horses, but he didn't

That surprises me a little, black bears are usually more timid than that. I wonder if he was starting to get sleepy for winter?

[HairOfTheDog]

I think we surprised him, and he thought we couldn't see him, or wouldn't see him if he stood there quiet.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

So I guess that this means that Bill Gates is Sauron, and his thick glasses are to conceal the EYE??

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I guess that this means that Bill Gates is Sauron

I'd say Bill is the Mouth of Sauron. Sauron himself has not yet revealed himself, and lurks as a prescence in the background, a vague shadow of evil at the heart of the land called Microsoft... ;)

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Well, if we are going to make 300 posts per day, we will but up to 10,000 posts by the middle of next week, and the ultimate 65K post limit somewhere around the time that The Two Towers opens, assuming that there is no increase in posting as the great day gets near.

[HairOfTheDog]

Bill Gates is not Sauron.... I love his stuff! I make pretty things with it, and it helps me get things done. You guys are just bitter that you didn't think of it.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

'but up ' = 'be up'

[HairOfTheDog]

Easy for you to say....

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You guys are just bitter that you didn't think of it.

No, it is strictly a money thing in my case.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Easy for you to say....

Hey, it only took me two tries!

[HairOfTheDog]

What about the money thing? That he made a lot of it? - Fairly socialist thinking if that is the root of it...

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

That he made a lot of it? - Fairly socialist thinking if that is the root of it...

No socialism here, I want it all for me. My real name is Smaug! Where are those dwarves, they have my gold!!

[Overtaxed]

Now you've done it! (Just be glad the other Microsoft defender/Boromir basher isn't here.)

[HairOfTheDog]

So Microsoft defenders and Boromir-bashers are one in the same? - hmmm... So we see that we can't just take something that doesn't belong to us because it is precious?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

You guys are just bitter that you didn't think of it.

No, not in my case... I actually like Windows. I think it's great that Bill's the richest man on the planet. My beef with MS is their business practices... they have the sort of dirty, predatory practices that make capitalism look bad, IMHO.

[HairOfTheDog]

Eh... why beat it when you can buy it. It is more humane than watching the pitiful competition just starve to death. hehehehe

[Wordsmith]

assuming that there is no increase in posting as the great day gets near.

A mistaken assumption, I'd say! I'm a loyal lurker, but as the buzz builds for TTT I expect I won't be able to contain myself from posting. I'm sure others will feel likewise!

BTW, the first hard cover book of the art of the FOTR movie is out now. Coffee table book, $30, stunning and wonderful. First book, I believe, to show for example the design stages that the Balrog went through. Originally, they were visualizing him as more manlike. Lots of other interesting tidbits and tales from the Weta and costume folks.

Another part I found interesting, PJ said the design of the cave troll was supposed to look like a human baby, only huge and monstrous. Supposed to suggest a kind of innocence harnessed for evil by the much more consciously evil orcs. Interesting angle. He said he was even hoping that viewers would feel a kind of sadness at the cave troll's demise. I didn't really, but now through the prism of this statement of PJ's I can see how I might have. Something else to think about when I watch the DVD!

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I'm not worried... I expect MS to collapse under it's own weight, a bloated, tired dinosaur of a company, irrelevant and ignored, in about 10 years or so. Much like IBM did about 10-15 years ago.

Time to head for home... later all!