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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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If you're the moderator, you can just inform her that only members are allowed to post on the message board, so her posts are not being allowed.
ROTFL!!! That is hilarious! Gotta show it to SirKit!
Playing devil's advocate...maybe she just doesn't understand the whole procedure she's supposed to run through to let people know about activities...and that she's not allowed to promote activities involving the other group.
Gosh knows it's complicated enough!
*want*
*want*
Along with one or more of these: 
Oops...
Snooze ya lose...
Wheee. Home from my first day. That was interesting.
They are not going to be challenging me enough I think. Oh well.
Looks like I'll be spending some time on an aeroplane. Guess what I'll be doing.... nano prep
I guess. It's not quite what I thought it would be but it should look nice on my resume. And "it's too easy" isn't as bad as "there's no way I can do this" I guess.
They block web mail. I didn't try FR. The company policies are a little.... regulated, but the people seem flexible and friendly.
I only got the corporate email working a few hours ago. And then I was busy getting the remote admin people to give me administrative access to my machine. One of those stiff 'policies' that apparently doesn't mean much in practice. Though how they expect a software person to function without admin access...
Challenged, maybe not. There was a certain set of skills I was hoping this would give me a chance to develop and instead it'll use a different set of skills. Oh well, three months and I either find something else or get a pay raise, that's for sure :-)
Never mind 6.... the test station is hosed so I am heading home now.
How's Miss Kitty doing after her excellent adventure? LSA
One scene showed the filming of the wharg attack where Gamling and Wharg-Snack stop and their horses start to spook. Except the horses wouldn't spook. Their trainer was on his hands and knees just underneath the camera, doing strange things like waving plastic garbage bags and generally acting weird. Through several takes, the horses would stop on cue, look down at him, and get this "what's wrong with you?" look on their faces. He eventually got a workable "spook" from them, but complained that they were so well trained that they were bombproof.
Then there was the tour of Weta Digital's computer room, with the 512 parallel xenon processors giving them one teraflop of processing capacity. The head geek said they were getting another two teraflops in a week. They already had more computer capacity than the New Zealand government, and were in the top ten known supercomputing facilities in the world.
Then there was the scene with Eowyn fighting orcs inside the Glittering Caves. This was a full production scene, and not just a quickie visualization. They probably decided it was too far from canon to use, or maybe they just wanted to give Miranda Ott a nice souvenir.
Also interesting was the scene at the showdown-at-the-Black-Gates, where Aragorn whacks the head off Sauron's mouthpiece. They had a special sword, with only about six inches of blade on it, made up for the scene.
However, the prop manager forgot to bring it along, so they took Viggo's "regular" sword, ran behind a truck, and cut off most of the blade with a cutoff saw. Since the blade was aluminum, it just took a few seconds.
It turns out even the "hero swords" were mostly aluminum, although there were some "live steel" ones made, too. Nothing was sharpened, and the points were blunted, but you could still give someone a good whack with an aluminum blade. I guess it's easier to swash your buckle with a two-pound aluminum sword than a ten-pound steel one. Oh, and everything was ground from bar stock, and not forged.
And there was the scene in the steel foundry, where they dropped brass and aluminum rings into a crucible of molten steel, so they could get various examples of The Ring melting.
After getting to know the Extended Edition well, this added material just renewed an old interest. I'm now going to go back to the theatrical version, and give it some attention.
Well, she's in a better mood now than she was this morning. She seems grateful for the non vetrinary approved cat food.
Excellent update! Thanks :~)
Well, I know it sounds complicated, but it really isn't. If you want to organize an event for preschoolers, you contact the preschool coordinator. Then you contact the scheduler. That's the way it's always been, and the teenager's mom was a member before the split year before last...was a member of "the other group" last year and should know how it goes!
But like I say...the mom hasn't ever contacted me...it's the teenager.
Our leader is trying to get in touch with her mom to find out what's going on...
I bet she'll sleep alot better tonight,too!!
I bet she'll still want breakfast at 5:00.
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