DVD Frenzy

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I’ve been in love with Coen brothers movies ever since I saw Blood Simple way way back when.
I can watch Barton Fink,The Big Lebowski and Miller’s Crossing over and over again. I love them when they are humourous because they employ intelligent humor(not that falling down BS that makes up what passes for humor in mainstream movies these days.Ahem:Good Luck Chuck,Daddy Day Care?) But I adore them when they are dramatic,slow,violent and Southern.Texas plays a part in Blood Simple almost as important as the characters and plot and again In No Country For Old Men we are treated to the bleak greatness of a wide open Texas landscape.
No Country For Old Men began almost exactly the same way as Blood Simple but instead of
M. Emmet Walsh narrating we hear the voice of Tommy Lee Jones.
When I watched this movie I was struck by how long it has been since I was utterly transfixed by the goings on on the screen.
I was prepared to see a good movie, The Coen brothers usually deliver at least that. But this was something else. The lowest points were Llewellen’s mother in law because that character actress is just too memorable from Speed as the selfish lady who tries to get off the bus and ends up as roadkill. i like Woody Harrelson. I don’t know what was off about his performance but it wasn’t doing it for me.Though both had such minor parts that it did little to reduce my enjoyment.
My boyfriend and I are very sad cases as we can’t get to the theater to watch a movie before it comes out on DVD.
Is it just me or are movies getting into the rental store a lot faster?
Anyways you have to see this film. I’m talking to the one or two other folks in this world who haven’t seen it since it won the Oscar,ha.

A Short Discourse on font-family Papyrus

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People in the ARTS. Please! Stop it right now. Stop using Papyrus!

I know you teach Yoga.I know you make beaded jewelry or ceramic crafts. I know you teach dance or movement of some kind. I know you are artistic and sensitive. But you still make me want to slap your face when I see that you have used Papyrus for the font for your entire website. There are perhaps 15 other font-families you can select with Yahoo Site Builder. Excluding Comic Sans, they are all far more appropriate for reading text online. Well, maybe not Monotype Corsiva. Let me address your artistic nature, the one that leads you to select this now completely dead font for your web pages;it’s not making you look any more spiritual or artistic. It’s just making you look pretentious and unimaginative. The fact that you used Yahoo Site Builder I will try not to hold against you.But there is an awfully similar look to all websites built with this lame app, not unlike the tacky scourge that was spread by Frontpage. Yahoo Site Builder gives you the option of designing your site by yourself. So a ton of people went and did just that. And you can tell!

Spotting Yahoo Site Builder Websites:
Usually the unbordered page text floats over a hideous or boring background (sometimes the background image is an image of a body of water because water is, as we all know a symbol of life and spiritual types are prone to this wallpaper).Then there is an image of the perpetrator of this mini-design crime of asthetics and then some links also floating un-anchored somewhere on the page.Sometimes to the left,sometimes to the right but never attractively or sensibly.
Can you please use Georgia? Or even just “sans-serif”? What about Arial? It’s not so bad.There’s Helvetica,too what did it ever do except be readable and serviceable?

You’ve got a point there

I just came across a website devoted entirely to stamping out the ubiquitous practice of requesting free work on “spec” from designers,Web and Graphic.
I admit I have done a lot of free work. I had to learn how web design worked in realtime, didn’t I? All that free work has made me accomplished.Especially when it comes to creating websites overnight.Ok not overnight but faster than it used to take me (2 months at the very start.) Now it takes me a mere 3 to 4 days to complete a project.This could not have been done if I hadn’t accepted free work.The combination of responsiblity to a real life client and not just some sandbox project I was fiddling with plus the interaction with real client led to my being able to take an idea and make it into something, fast.Speed isn’t everything but it sure helps.If you have to spend months between showings working away on one aspect of development your client may die from old age before they ever get a website out of you.

All must start somewhere.

But yes,now spec work isn’t something I would leap up for anymore.

My OCD eats 2 hours of my day

I have obessive compulsive behavioral problems.I don’t wash my hands a lot or count or pick my face(anymore) or tap objects in a ritualistic manner so that the demons watching my every move don’t kill my boyfriend,parents,dog or best friend. My disorder is usually very mild… until I lose something.I think it stems from my childhood because we moved so often and I often lost valued personal possesions during these moves because being so young I didn’t keep track of my stuff or pack that well.
Anyway,therapy session over.Thank the Lord.

Because Yahoo owns mybloglog.com and flickr.com and uses my Yahoo email sign in information to control all 3 accounts, I was locked out of all 3 when I lost my Yahoo password.
Apparently during an enlightened moment I had taken the time to change my username/id from my full name to my nickname and then promptly forgot I’d done so.

And because my Yahoo email for years contained my full name rather than a nickname the old username/id was the one that stuck in my brain.

All my attempts to recover my password were unsuccessful until I remembered the new id,
thanks to the fact that I’d installed Flickr Uploadr, which had me signed in with my correct up to date Yahoo id.
Here’s a funny thing: I was locked out of my online Flickr account but I was still able to upload a new picture to it with Flickr Uploadr (with Web 2.0 you must not use e’s).

Neither my Yahoo email nor those other 2 accounts are all that important to me but the fact that I couldn’t get in really bothered me and wouldn’t let me rest until I could.
All because I was trying to find a picture of the Paris Métro train station sign.Jeez.

Oh,yeah: write your id’s and passwords down somewhere. I know we aren’t supposed to do this but even if you think you can remember it you may blank out like I did and waste 2 hours of your day on top of the 2 hours I was going to waste on Flickr!