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Posted on 09/01/2006 12:43:11 PM PDT by DollyCali
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The electrical problems are fixed (finally), so I'm good with that.
I have no idea why you're not getting the pings, so let me double check that.
Hey Dolly! Just walked in the door. (Everyone's probably in bed right now.) That was my second time I saw Pirates. Great flick!
Well, I really liked the Pirates movie we saw tonight. Hubby is a real movie hater by nature, but just about ever time we go to the movies, he ends up really liking the movie a lot. The big reason for this I think is because we carefully pick and choose our movies. Neither of us would ever pay money to go see a Sean Penn movie, no matter how critically acclaimed, for example.
Well, one can certainly hope... :)
Just curious but are you misspelling Easter Lily or do you mean Ester Lily? Ester is interesting. The spirit of Ester.
You are well prepared indeed. How about this. Where I am we have a subway which I depend on everyday. Do you know there are some people who would not dream of getting on the train without a gas mask and a flashlight. I've never seen any other rider with these but most people both men and women carry some sort of bag. I've thought of those things. Perhaps you want a gas mask in every room, I am serious. I don't understand what a gas mask does. I mean it may cover your eyes and face but you are still breathing the air, right? Did you see Prime Time the other night about the train wreck in North or South Dakota that released a poison and killed around 9 people as though it were Raid sprayed on bugs. A girl who was a mile away still suffers from terrible lung damage and trees in her yard never recovered. They claim that freight trains carry serious toxic stuff. There are tracks near me. They showed home video from another wreck up north. The person came upon many dead deer in the area.
The movie I really remember him as (he was a bad guy) was the movie 8 MM . If you didn't see it, it is regarding a PI (nic cage) who is investigating a snuff pornography tape that a shocked widow finds in her husbands safe upon his death.
It is a very intense movie. Prior to seeing that I did not know what snuff pornography was. It is the actual killing of someone on tape & the tape used then for "entertainment".
This is NOT a movie for the faint of heart or squeamish in any way. It is the first movie that I saw Joaquin Phoenix in also. Kathryn Keener (whom I like) plays Nic Cage's wife.
Here is the IMDb link for the flick:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134273/
after you see this movie, you will think about it & various ramifications for a long time
forgot to mention, the actor/your look alike, played the famly(widow) attorney
I like Sean Penn's as a professional although he, and a lot of other starts, have political leanings & actions in personal life that I find annoying. But I decided that movies are such a strong interest of mine that I would go after the art - not pick through the lives of the people involved.
Now to be hypocritical, I wont go to anything by Michael Moore. His goal in his work is to sabotage our country.
If we are ever attacked as a nation with chemical weapons, I think we are in trouble no matter how prepared we are with "home safety" kits..
I remember the incident w/train you mentioned. I never followed up to hear of the injuries afterward
I would be similar to your husband in my dislike of movies, but with careful selection and the right company, I would enjoy going occasionally. I think those factors are the driving force for a movie-hating guy to like a movie.
Bill
Actually, the name is "Ester," but it's related to Easter in this case. I bought this snake right around Easter this year, and was having a horrible time finding a name for her. I'm not very good at coming up with names. I had named my first female snake "Katrina" because the hurricane had a big impact in this area last year and my first pet python would have an impact on me. ("Elvis" stayed "Elvis" because the store owner told me that the previous owner named him that.) A friend's mom suggested "Ester" because it was close to Easter when I bought her. I looked up the name, and "Ester" seems to come from a Scandinavian word for star and a Middle-Eastern word that is associated with queen. Obviously, there is the connection to Queen Ester in the Old Testament.
The "Lily" part of the name comes from day lilies. She passed a little bowel movement a day or two after I brought her home, so I took her to the vet's office for a general check-up, to be sexed, and to have a culture run on the sample. When I returned home, I had my first day lily bloom of the season, so I stuck "Lily" onto her name.
I admit that the combination is a little confusing because it's so close to Easter Lily. I've even thought about trying to grow an Easter Lily in the yard and occasionally take pictures of them together.
Bill
The trip to NM was short but tiring and the funeral for Arthur is here (AZ) today.
We moved to our new apartment over the past week and turned the keys in at the old place yesterday. There is still lots of unpacking to do.
It is kind of odd that I was so bombarded with stressful events and now can barely remember half of them.
You are right that someone on a respirator is still breathing the air, but a good respirator will remove certain contaminants. The secret is to have the right respirator for the contaminant that you are facing. I'm not remembering all of the filters available right now. I know that there is an ammonia/amine filter. This filter will catch any ammonia or amine compounds that are in the air. As one draws air through the filter, the ammonia is caught, and clean air reaches one's mouth and nose for breathing. Other filters only catch objects but cannot catch vapors. However, one of these filters should be good against anthrax spores. The spores would be caught in the filter, and the person wearing the mask would be breathing pure air.
The problem with so many of these situations is that you might still need to go through a decontamination before removing the mask. It doesn't do any good to wear a mask that will filter anthrax spores for a while if you end up taking off the mask while the spores are still on your skin, hair, clothing, and the mask. You could be perfectly safe until you get out of the subway and take off the mask. However, the spores would be in your hair and on your clothing. Taking off the mask might disturb the spores in your hair enough to get them airborne again. Then you'd breathe them into your lungs and be facing the same problem.
To be safe, you'd have to be able to get to a shower before you took off your mask. The shower would have to be located where everything that you touched or passed on the way to the shower could be rinsed down to keep those spores from getting back to you. If you came out of the subway, turned on a fire water hydrant, drenched yourself for five or ten mintues until every part of your body was thoroughly rinsed, and then removed all of your clothes before removing the mask, you'd likely be safe. If you had spare clothes sealed in an airtight bag that you had rinsed completely as well, you could open the bag after complete decontamination, change into the spare clothes, and go about your business.
In other cases, you are right that a gas mask would have no effect even in the subway. For instance, if the terrorist attack produced a fire that burned intensely enough to use all of the oxygen in an enclosed area, a gas mask would be worthless. As the oxygen content of the air went from the usual more or less twenty percent to ten or fifteen percent, people wouldn't have enough oxygen in the air they were breathing to sustain body functions. In that case, they'd asphyxiate regardless of anything they did to filter the air.
I understand someone wanting even a good filter mask in that situation. The filter mask won't help if the oxygen content gets too low. I don't think any of the filters will catch carbon monoxide, but I don't remember all of the filters. However, the filter would catch the smoke particles that otherwise would irritate someone's lungs. Trying to get out of a smoky subway would be easier if one's lungs weren't irritated by the smoke.
Bill
I think those are good reasons, but I'd go a little deeper into them.
I make enough money that I can afford going to the movies if I wish. In reality, my Dad made enough money that my family could have gone to the movies when I was growing up. However, I think our family tends to have a slight repulsion to the whole idea of paying for passive entertainment. I'm sure that part of that feeling came from my parents growing up in the Depression when money was very tight and being financially responsible meant not paying for anything that didn't have some permanence. They, particularly my Mom, tended to pass that mindset along to me.
The thought of supporting an industry that I don't like won't keep me from going to a movie that I want to see, but it will keep me from mindlessly choosing to go to a movie as a standard form of entertainment. We can pick and choose movies and actors that we want to support, but when a studio makes millions of dollars on a good movie with good themes and reasonably patriotic actors, that studio will then take those millions and pay anti-American actors and directors to make movies with bad themes. If someone really enjoys the movies, I don't think that this issue is a reason not to go. However, for those of us who are already ambivalent to movies, this issue makes overcoming the inertia that much harder.
There are control freaks among both men and women, but I think men are less likely to enjoy being passive and out of control. I've enjoyed seeing some movies in a theater, but I also really like the control of running a movie on a DVD in my own home. I like that I don't have to deal with other people. I like being able to take a quick break if necessary. I try to avoid these things because I don't want to break up the flow of the movie, but I like having the option.
Bill
Or each spring you could buy an Easter Lily and take their picture. You'd have a yearly record. You could try to grow your own but you can always buy a back up.
I believe God gives us this GRACE Kate.. Man, you guys have been thru the mill.. big time and that makes ME KNOW that God has big plans for you.. and Satan is Alive & Well on Planet Earth, thus the crappo.
If God didn't have big plans for you, Satan & all the junk would NOT be part of your life. I TRULY believe that.
Dolly left early this evening and asked me to do the ping !!!
Hi snugs...thanks for the ping.
Looks like everyone is gone again...hope it picks up some :)
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