tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94445042024-03-13T15:06:42.243-04:00aperturequietpresented in words and picturesscotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.comBlogger1060125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-71810524207601965422019-11-11T18:42:00.000-05:002019-11-11T18:42:08.662-05:00Muppets and Star Wars Connection<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jLuuCjAv0-8/XcnxtvP4H_I/AAAAAAAAC_A/AF4cuAbkIm8Gy2cKseSRZzTziT74roXmQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-11-11%2Bat%2B6.26.46%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jLuuCjAv0-8/XcnxtvP4H_I/AAAAAAAAC_A/AF4cuAbkIm8Gy2cKseSRZzTziT74roXmQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-11-11%2Bat%2B6.26.46%2BPM.png" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Muppet New Flash: I have seen something for which I can find no references on the internet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I recently watched The Great Muppet Caper, towards the end of the film when the gang of bad guys is breaking into the Mallory Gallery they have to push a lot of buttons on some high tech looking panels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe these are recycled Star Wars set pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Indeed Caper was partly filmed at Elstree Studios in between production of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of The Jedi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can't believe that in all my views of the Star Wars movies and the Great Muppet Caper that I never made this connection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">#greatmuppetcaper #themuppets #starwars #</span>elstreestudios #elstreefilmstudios</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-12074243216487525582018-02-17T11:35:00.000-05:002018-02-17T11:35:04.666-05:00Do you blame cars for drunk drivers? (Gun control post)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is what I was asked. <b>Here is my response:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nope. Cars are a necessary part of modern life. They are licensed and insured. The government, whose purpose in this country is to protect its people, knows exactly who has which car. You have to pass numerous tests to drive a car. Your privilege to dr</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ive a car can be taken away. Government data about cars is available for public study.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How about opioids and other controlled substances? Regulated by the government because they are a public health issue? Alcohol? Radioactive materials? Regulated because they can be dangerous. Can you buy a belt fed machine gun or hand grenades? Not easily because they are destructive devices that are a threat to the public. But what if I was a responsible hand grenade owner who promised to never to use them? Certainly that right is protected by the willful misinterpretation of the second amendment that is propped up by funding from the gun lobby. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When is enough enough? Do the United Kingdom and Japan have lower rates of homicide and suicide by gun violence because their populations have fewer mental health issues? I think not.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If the gun lobby stopped funding the campaigns of representatives and senators today there is no doubt in my mind there would be a swift change in the direction regarding legislation. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What exactly are you afraid of? I’m all ears. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: -0.12px;"><a class="_58cn" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nowisthetime?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl" style="color: #90949c; cursor: pointer;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer;">nowisthetime</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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Dear Town of Huntington, Waste Management Enforcement,</div>
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Thank you for leaving a Notice of Violation threatening to issue an appearance ticket (rather than knocking on the door and trying to talk to me). I assume this was in response to the request I made that the trash collectors perform the job that my taxes pay for, i.e. picking up the paint cans that I left at the curb after following all of the town's directions for disposal of latex paint.</div>
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Those directions do NOT include <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">the fact that the lids should be removed form the cans. Please update your website to reflect that fact, otherwise there is no possible way anyone can know that until you leave one of your violation notices. I have captured a screen shot of the directions for paint disposal as they currently exist on your website, I can send you the screenshot upon request (please provide an email address).</span></div>
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I can even help you update your website as I am a web designer and I am currently unemployed.</div>
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I will be posting all of this information online publicly and will be watching with rapt attention to see that the waste is picked up on my next collection day. I will also be watching to see that your website is updated so taxpayers have complete and correct information.</div>
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wine for those who are in anguish!<br />
Let them drink and forget their poverty<br />
and remember their misery no more.<br />
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Proverbs 31<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-60402640131673747842015-01-07T16:43:00.000-05:002015-01-07T16:43:04.889-05:00There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UY54MSqlE8k/VK2oMNC6-5I/AAAAAAAABiU/pe-zfL0r1oI/s1600/WaltDisneyTreasureInBooks.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UY54MSqlE8k/VK2oMNC6-5I/AAAAAAAABiU/pe-zfL0r1oI/s1600/WaltDisneyTreasureInBooks.jpg" width="400" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-88053474152093648812014-09-08T14:41:00.000-04:002014-09-08T14:41:57.563-04:00Disney's Boardwalk SoundtrackI sat in The Belle Vue Lounge for a while at Disney's Boardwalk Resort, and this is the playlist that I heard. I think it may have been on shuffle rather than a set list:<br><br>
What's New - Bob Crosby - 22 Original Big Band Hits<br><br>
I Got Rhythm - Glenn Miller - Best Of The Big Bands<br><br>
Stompin' at the Savoy - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold<br><br>
Lester Leaps In - Count Basie - Count Basie Orchestra<br><br>
Lady Be Good - Benny Goodman - Swing Sessions<br><br>
Body And Soul - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold<br><br>
Taxi War Dance - Count Basie - The Essential Count Basie<br><br>
Swingin' On The Teagarden Gate - Jack Teagarden - 1939-1940<br><br>
Who? - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman<br><br>
Tiger Rag (Binaural Stereo) - Art Tatum & Zenph Studios - Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine Zenph Re-Performance<br><br>
Someday Sweetheart - Benny Goodman - The Platinum Collection<br><br>
Weather Bird - Louis Armstrong - Jazz - The Essential Collection, Vol. 2<br><br>
Singin' The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke - Chicago<br><br>
China Boy - Benny Goodman - After You've Gone: The Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet, Vol. 1<br><br>
He's Gone Away (04-04-50) - Artie Shaw - The Last Artie Shaw Orchestra<br><br>
More Than You Know - Benny Goodman - After You've Gone: The Original Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet, Vol. 1<br><br>
The Irish Washerwoman - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Take It Easy<br><br>
Nobody's Sweetheart - Teddy Wilson - Revisits the Goodman Years<br><br>
Skater's Waltz - Bob Crosby And His Orchestra - The Big Band Swing Christmas<br><br>
Brown's Little Jug - Les Brown - Swing Essentials Vol 8 - Les Brown And His Band Of Renoun<br><br>
After You've Gone - Benny Goodman - Benny Goodman Sextet Live at Basin Street East (feat. Charlie Shavers & Mel Powell)<br><br>
Body And Soul - Benny Goodman - Pure Gold<br><br>
Dark Eyes - Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra - (no album?)<br><br>
Sweet Sue, Just You - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman<br><br>
Casa Loma Stomp - Casa Loma Orchestra - Boneyard Shuffle<br><br>
Boneyard Shuffle - Benny Goodman - The Ultimate Benny Goodman<br><br>
Moten Swing - Count Basie - Chairman of the Board<br><br>
I'm Free (What's New) - Bob Crosby and His Orchestra - South Rampart Street Parade<br><br>
I Got Rhythm - Glenn Miller - Best of the Big Bands<br><br>
Tiger Rag - Art Tatum - Piano Starts Here
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1) Join Junior Telescope Club</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-82919726807146423862014-03-07T09:17:00.001-05:002014-03-07T11:46:18.714-05:00flickr hack for a (somewhat) classic view (with bookmarklets)flickr hack (but not really a hack) for classic view of a photo stream, Add <tt>?details=1</tt> to the end of a url. Oddly enough there is an "edit" button above your photostream that will do the same thing. Who knew and why would they hide it there?<br />
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Now, instead of having to manually paste that in, lets make a bookmarklet. This one will add "?details=1" to the end of your url.<br />
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<pre>javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href + '?details=1';</pre>
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Install it by making a new bookmark and making that the address or drag this to your bookmark bar:<br />
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<a href="javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href + '?details=1';">?details=1</a><br />
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And here is one for "detail" (for sets):<br />
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<pre>javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href + 'detail';</pre>
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or drag this to your bookmark bar<br />
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<a href="javascript:window.location.href=window.location.href + 'detail';">detail</a><br />
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You can rename the bookmark to anything you like for your convenience as long as you keep the address the same.<br />
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Still not exactly the way flickr used to be, but its as close as we'll get until Yahoo listens to the angry masses.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-66364362805461944482014-03-05T10:37:00.000-05:002014-03-05T10:43:03.302-05:00My Canon SD1000 has a weekend at Bernie'sMy Canon SD1000 has served me well. I got it after my beloved Kodak DX6440 had an unfortunate meeting with some pavement. The Kodak still works, its just not the same, and the battery compartment door is not to be trusted.<br />
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So it sort-of was after the SD1000 had its own "accident." I was on vacation last June at the pool and went to the concession stand. The camera happened to be in my hand. Needing both hands to carry the tray of food and drink, I put the camera in the cargo pocket of my swimming trunks and quite forgot about it.<br />
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We ate and then were about to leave the pool area when I decided that it was very hot and I might step into the pool for a second to cool off. I went in and out just that fast. As soon as I stepped out, you might as well have queued the dolly zoom. Like a flash of lightning I remembered the camera in my pocket.<br />
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The silly thing is, as this was a beach vacation, I had the underwater housing for the camera with me. Just not at the pool. It was up in the room. High and dry.<br />
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Enter the bucket of rice. I removed the battery and memory card and put them in with the rice and the camera for a few days of our stay. Luckily by this time the SD1000 was a backup camera to my DSLR. More luckily, I later found that all the photos on the memory card were intact.<br />
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After a few days, the SD1000 could be coaxed to life. But like the Kodak before it was not the same and not to be relied upon. Sometimes the lens would get stuck out. The exposures often came out all wrong. A few months later while snapping a photo of a jeep made up in the livery of those from Jurassic Park, the screen stopped working. It would still take photos but I would have to use the viewfinder as if it were 1998 all over again.<br />
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And from there it seemed to spiral downward until the SD1000 just sat there. Only taking photos in macro mode.<br />
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Until I remembered <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK">CHDK</a>. This is a firmware that boots off of a memory card and lets you do all sorts of neat things with Canon cameras. Since some of the hardware seemed to work some of the time it seemed to me perhaps this new firmware could work.<br />
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Huzzah! It took a while (and a few terminal commands) to figure out <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ/Mac">how to make my memory cards bootable</a> but it seems fully functional now. For a backup camera. I still don't entirely trust it. And the caveat is that I have to use one of the two memory cards on which I have installed the firmware. Hence the Weekend at Bernie's analogy. Actually I think it is a Weekend at Bernie's II analogy.<br />
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For all the trouble and the low price of a new point and shoot camera, why bother? That underwater housing. The very thing that could have prevented all this in the first place. It cost a pretty penny and was made only for my camera model. I should hate for that to go to waste.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-67896635927793853472014-03-03T09:48:00.001-05:002014-03-03T09:48:57.091-05:00A quick dojo cheatsheet<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8lr6dekepvo/UxSVQVvJJoI/AAAAAAAABDk/p0ee2L2xA6o/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-03-03+at+9.43.12+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8lr6dekepvo/UxSVQVvJJoI/AAAAAAAABDk/p0ee2L2xA6o/s1600/Screen+Shot+2014-03-03+at+9.43.12+AM.png" /></a><br />
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I made a quick and simple cheatsheet for the <a href="http://dojotoolkit.org/">dojo</a> javascript library. Mind you, this is far from comprehensive, it only contains a few things that I use most frequently. And its for an older version: 1.7, because that's the version being used in a project I am on. This isn't some fancy infographic, just info I need handy. <a href="http://sakraft.com/Dojo1x7cheatsheet.pdf">Click here for my dojo 1.7 cheatsheet</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-72077800666869683582014-02-26T09:30:00.002-05:002014-02-26T09:31:14.188-05:00Eric Carle meets J.R.R. Tolkien<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am an eye and I can covet one ring. Can you do it? I can do it!<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-26603354144085346682014-02-21T12:54:00.000-05:002014-02-21T12:57:04.258-05:00Yahoo Store Tags Not Working - The FixIn my spare time I am building an e-commerce website for a friend. As it is my first e-commerce site (I've built many a static site before) I steered him towards a Yahoo! Merchant Starter account. I am already familiar with their small business webhosting tools and I figured the store and cart tools would be similarly easy to use.<br />
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Not quite. At first I was looking at their store editor tool. This is barbaric to say the least. Luckily I am a web designer so I decided to build the site myself. I had planned to do so from the outset but I wanted to see if the store builder could give me a starting point. Not really. The merchant started account is acutally two accounts in one, one side is if you are using the store editor. You don't have access to things like HTML files, you are forced to use the aforementioned barbaric store editor tool that was probably written in 1996 and never updated. The other side is the web hosting side, which I am familiar with and where you can make your own pages from scratch.<br />
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Going with the later you then have to get information from the catalog manager into your own page. This is done with Yahoo's own Store Tags. The look like an HTML comment or a server side include if you're familiar with those. Something like <!--#iamatag--> or some such magic.<br />
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At first I designed a static page without the store tags just to make sure everything would look correct once the data populated. Then I replaced things like product images and descriptions with the store tags, uploaded to the server and... ...nothing. I made sure the catalog was published. Yup. Searching the help area tells me nothing I don't already know. Time to email customer support.<br />
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Customer support is good but not great. They respond quickly but not accurately. For each question I have it takes 3 or 4 emails back and forth, usually escalating to different people, before I get information that is useful and should have been in something known in most circles as <b>documentation</b>.<br />
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At any rate, it turns out that either my OS or Dreamweaver were setting my <b>file permissions</b> to be too strict! It doesn't matter which because this was easily fixed by telling my FTP application to change the permissions on upload. The owner, at least needs to be able to execute the file, not just read and write. Even if I couldn't do this automatically, I could change files one by one on the server after upload (not ideal). I had to post this because it drove be crazy. For a while I thought it was the file encoding and I tried every encoding combo under the sun. Permissions! Got it? Good.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-85669135580982213552014-02-19T09:26:00.000-05:002014-02-19T09:26:02.427-05:00Real Genius + Frozen = Real Frozen<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TCl7UYEqahQ/UwS-uJ6WAGI/AAAAAAAABBM/hsdJDq49png/s1600/real_frozen.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TCl7UYEqahQ/UwS-uJ6WAGI/AAAAAAAABBM/hsdJDq49png/s1600/real_frozen.jpg" width="400" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-21662932507041698892014-02-16T17:22:00.002-05:002014-02-19T09:32:08.657-05:00Is Frozen Disney's best since the Disney Renaissance?To quote Olaf: Nope. I enjoyed the movie, I thought it was good, but I don't think it lives up to all of the superlatives being heaped upon it. A lot of people are saying it was the best Disney film since the Disney Renaissance (generally considered to be the 10 year period of 1989 to 1999) or the best since the Lion King. I enjoyed a lot of the Disney movies since then. There were also some that were meh. But here are some post Renaissance, pre-Frozen movies that I enjoyed more than Frozen:<br />
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Fantasia 2000<br />
Lilo & Stitch<br />
Home On The Range (one of the most underrated)<br />
The Princess and the Frog<br />
Winnie the Pooh<br />
Tangled<br />
Wreck-It Ralph<br />
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These films, in my opinion had either better artwork, a more well-crafted story, both or other less tangible qualities that I feel make them superior.<br />
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There. I just had to put in my two cents. Now go build a snowman.<br />
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* Bonus content and <b><u>potential spoilers</u></b>:<br />
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Here is how I would have made Frozen better:<br />
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1) The trolls were a bit unnecessary. They could have replaced them with the ice-cutter folk from the opening scene. I want to see more of those guys. Of course I know why they included the trolls. They're part of Scandinavian folklore, they're cutesy and, of course, the Norway Pavilion in Epcot is riddled with them.<br />
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2) We didn't need a bad guy. The story of a rift between two siblings is powerful enough. It would have been even more powerful if we didn't have the bad guy. Hans could have been in the film, he should have just been the wrong guy. And the Duke of Weselton red herring, also unnecessary.<br />
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That's my two cents.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-62333051149824910472014-02-13T09:13:00.003-05:002014-02-13T09:14:15.335-05:00I've had it with not-summah<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oHEoloTRinI/UvzS3DoZB1I/AAAAAAAAA_k/iuo73b-JHcs/s1600/howard_kremer_summer_is_coming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oHEoloTRinI/UvzS3DoZB1I/AAAAAAAAA_k/iuo73b-JHcs/s1600/howard_kremer_summer_is_coming.jpg" width="400" alt="summer is coming" /></a></div>
Howard Kremer - Summah Is Coming<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-51187139918252760292014-01-10T19:16:00.001-05:002014-01-10T19:16:47.757-05:00The funniest piece of mail I have ever received. <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kpWzwzQ60g/UtCM-i4ZlgI/AAAAAAAAA88/ylwtSjh4zTA/s1600/PostOfficeFail.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kpWzwzQ60g/UtCM-i4ZlgI/AAAAAAAAA88/ylwtSjh4zTA/s1600/PostOfficeFail.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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The disc was due at my house on Tuesday. I got this on Friday. I can't stop laughing. The DVD was not included.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-89353864333696589832014-01-07T11:38:00.000-05:002014-01-07T11:38:24.277-05:00Gears Behind The Ears<iframe width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MSSc7sK9ImI?list=PLB0C62F70EE7E91D5" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Wish I had a DVD full of these segments.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-8677328697547404582013-11-19T13:41:00.000-05:002013-11-19T13:41:13.177-05:00Fawlty Towers Floor Plans!These are perfect! I think we’re missing the top floor, which I think had Manuel’s or Polly’s room (I can’t remember). As far as I can find out these are by an artist named Kirk Stacey, who may or may not be <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Chttp://www.kirkspen.co.uk%E2%80%9D">this guy</a>.
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dw5IuRzW7z0/Uouwcc3qL-I/AAAAAAAAA5I/vIkHuXNdJVo/s1600/upe24.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dw5IuRzW7z0/Uouwcc3qL-I/AAAAAAAAA5I/vIkHuXNdJVo/s1600/upe24.jpg" width="400" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9444504.post-78594664163101020122013-10-29T10:56:00.001-04:002013-10-29T10:59:50.316-04:00A year after Sandy: Old Freebie is still missingHurricane Sandy removed the American flag from the flagpole at 201 Old Country Road overnight. I'd long admired this flag near my neighborhood, which can also be seen from the cars going down both Route 110 and the Northern State Parkway. Unfortunately the flag pole's owner has not seen fit to replace the flag. I assumed the flag and the property it is on is part of the 201 Old Country Road property, so I had written letters to the buildings owner (found an address online) and to "whom it may concern" at the building itself. That was back in the spring, and there has been no reply and no new flag.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakraft1/10555692325/" title="October 28, 2012, the last time a flag was flown here. Hurricane Sandy took it down. by sakraft1, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5502/10555692325_cdaa1e4b8d.jpg" width="400" alt="October 28, 2012, the last time a flag was flown here. Hurricane Sandy took it down."></a><br />
October 28, 2012. The flag was gone by the next day.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sakraft1/10555757704/" title="A year after Sandy, still no flag by sakraft1, on Flickr"><img alt="A year after Sandy, still no flag" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7448/10555757704_d218bbcfef_z.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
Today; October 29, 2013.<div class="blogger-post-footer">RSS Feed</div>scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01855349454170347851noreply@blogger.com0