I have a whole bunch of 5 inch floppy discs originally created in a program for the Commodore 64 called "Tasword". They have a lot of my early fiction on them. Does anyone know how I can get the data off them? I don't care if I have to clean it up a lot.
Ahhh, forget it, I've just had a quick look through my filing cabinet and I can't find the folder the discs are in. I did, however, find a folder marked "Paul Booth" which contains a series of cartoons from approximately 3.8.90 (according to the title on one of them) which contain stuff like nine drawings of a chair, nine drawings of a toilet tank, nine drawings of a power-point and of course the classic "James needs a blue snake" and "Bart Simpson being hit by a bus" from the trip at Servodio's...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Fascinating New Thing
So I got out of the shower at about 7.50 this morning. As I was getting dressed, I could hear Sky News coming from the lounge room (I was a few minutes behind 'live to air') and they're talking in those tones where you know there's breaking news and somebody has died. They're talking about some role from some movie, and it sounded like they were talking about "Brokeback Mountain". So... someone from Brokeback Mountain is dead. Please please please, tell me it's not Jake.
I wasn't that big a fan of Heath Ledger. I did like his 'couldn't give a shit' attitude. I will be very interested in seeing "The Dark Knight". But I haven't seen a lot of the films they've been talking about all day; I kinda saw "Brokeback Mountain", in that I was in and out of the room as Boycat's Mum watched it.
But I really liked "10 Things I Hate About You". I'm a sucker for a remade Shakespeare film. The title of this post is a reference to the Semisonic song ("f.n.t.") that plays during the paintball scene in that movie.
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I've been thinking about time. When did Neil Armstrong land on the Moon? The Americans say one thing, we say another. When an Australian dies overseas, when do they die? New York time or Perth time?
At least September 11 happened on September 11, unless you were in New Zealand.
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I wasn't that big a fan of Heath Ledger. I did like his 'couldn't give a shit' attitude. I will be very interested in seeing "The Dark Knight". But I haven't seen a lot of the films they've been talking about all day; I kinda saw "Brokeback Mountain", in that I was in and out of the room as Boycat's Mum watched it.
But I really liked "10 Things I Hate About You". I'm a sucker for a remade Shakespeare film. The title of this post is a reference to the Semisonic song ("f.n.t.") that plays during the paintball scene in that movie.
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I've been thinking about time. When did Neil Armstrong land on the Moon? The Americans say one thing, we say another. When an Australian dies overseas, when do they die? New York time or Perth time?
At least September 11 happened on September 11, unless you were in New Zealand.
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Holiday snaps
Coolamon, NSW.
The Coolamon Post Office.
The Royal Tavern, Coolamon.
The Coolamon Fire Brigade
The "Up To Date Store", Coolamon.
Empty storefront, Cowabbie St, Coolamon.
Note: This was the first hot day of our trip. It just got hotter and hotter, culminating in 41 degrees on New Years' Eve in Melbourne.
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The Coolamon Post Office.
The Royal Tavern, Coolamon.
The Coolamon Fire Brigade
The "Up To Date Store", Coolamon.
Empty storefront, Cowabbie St, Coolamon.Note: This was the first hot day of our trip. It just got hotter and hotter, culminating in 41 degrees on New Years' Eve in Melbourne.
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How rude are you to telemarketers?
It's a bit of a weird situation. We have a silent phone number (for which we've never been charged the $3 a month, by the way) but we still get a couple of telemarketers who have our phone number - thanks, I think, to my mum who gave my number to "trendwest" who have since changed their name to something else.
They're just about the only people who call us on our landline. Well, I think it's them - someone has been calling us several times a day for the past fortnight at least - we pick up the phone and there is a very long silence and then - if we wait long enough - someone for whom English is not their first language asks for one of us. I won't say my surname* but it has a couple of Es in it, which they stretch out.
Anyway, I'm reasonably polite to these guys, since they're making $1 an hour in Bangalore... I just found myself saying "Anyway, I'm not interested, thanks for calling, bye."
How polite are you?
*I'm still pretending that I'm untraceable, although my blogger nickname and my flikr logon and all of the hints spread throughout this thing mean anyone could find me... since this blog has a post that links back to my old blog which is technically illegal under Australia's sedition laws.
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They're just about the only people who call us on our landline. Well, I think it's them - someone has been calling us several times a day for the past fortnight at least - we pick up the phone and there is a very long silence and then - if we wait long enough - someone for whom English is not their first language asks for one of us. I won't say my surname* but it has a couple of Es in it, which they stretch out.
Anyway, I'm reasonably polite to these guys, since they're making $1 an hour in Bangalore... I just found myself saying "Anyway, I'm not interested, thanks for calling, bye."
How polite are you?
*I'm still pretending that I'm untraceable, although my blogger nickname and my flikr logon and all of the hints spread throughout this thing mean anyone could find me... since this blog has a post that links back to my old blog which is technically illegal under Australia's sedition laws.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Help me write a song
It's simple, just take these words and make them rhyme...
What would Bjorn Nitmo do?
Sixth of May what a sad sad day
"Let it all come out," she said
Grant, I hope it was only a rumour
And this line would end with a word like 'dead'
At least I'm writing again
She said "Why do bad things happen to really good people?"
But I think there are no good people
This is a revolutionary suicide
Keep your emotions down. Children, this will not hurt.
George, you lived your life like a football match. It was a game of two halves.
Aegrescit medendo -"The disease worsens with the treatment" or "The remedy makes the disease worse" or "The remedy is worse than the disease" or "He becomes ill by being cured"
It rubs the lotion on its skin/
Or it gets the hose again
Howl at the paratactic syntax
I'm so cool Armani wears my clothes
A line from her letter, May 24
...that's all I do, non sequiturs that rhyme and then I do some Em, Am, G, D progression over it. Have a go, you can't be any worse than me.
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What would Bjorn Nitmo do?
Sixth of May what a sad sad day
"Let it all come out," she said
Grant, I hope it was only a rumour
And this line would end with a word like 'dead'
At least I'm writing again
She said "Why do bad things happen to really good people?"
But I think there are no good people
This is a revolutionary suicide
Keep your emotions down. Children, this will not hurt.
George, you lived your life like a football match. It was a game of two halves.
Aegrescit medendo -"The disease worsens with the treatment" or "The remedy makes the disease worse" or "The remedy is worse than the disease" or "He becomes ill by being cured"
It rubs the lotion on its skin/
Or it gets the hose again
Howl at the paratactic syntax
I'm so cool Armani wears my clothes
A line from her letter, May 24
...that's all I do, non sequiturs that rhyme and then I do some Em, Am, G, D progression over it. Have a go, you can't be any worse than me.
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Mandy Moore
Why, oh why do I really dig Mandy Moore doing a cover of "Senses Working Overtime"? [No YouTube link because the one I used a month ago is now gone. Although someone else has used it as the music for their own video.]
Is it because I like this song so much that I'm really chuffed when a chickypopster likes it too, so much that she decides to cover it and makes it the lead track off an album. Kind of like if Britney or Christina decided to cover "Cattle and Cane" or "It's a motherfucker"?
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Is it because I like this song so much that I'm really chuffed when a chickypopster likes it too, so much that she decides to cover it and makes it the lead track off an album. Kind of like if Britney or Christina decided to cover "Cattle and Cane" or "It's a motherfucker"?
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
Speaking of Cyclones
A guy from my team got a temporary placement with the NT Invasion Taskforce. He would have arrived in Darwin on about the 3rd of January. Good to see you pulled out the nice weather for him.
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Merry Christmas to all of my reader
Merry Christmas.
As usual, I've been a slack bastard and haven't sent any cards. I received some, thanks muchly.
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As usual, I've been a slack bastard and haven't sent any cards. I received some, thanks muchly.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Hey!
(been trying to meet you...)
I'm fourth on google for the phrase "Mitch Easter solo album". That probably explains why Beth from Atlanta read my post and left a comment. (I always wonder when someone outside my usual readership of two leaves a comment. For example, who is the anonymous who told me about the change in venue of the Rubber Bug gig?)
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I'm fourth on google for the phrase "Mitch Easter solo album". That probably explains why Beth from Atlanta read my post and left a comment. (I always wonder when someone outside my usual readership of two leaves a comment. For example, who is the anonymous who told me about the change in venue of the Rubber Bug gig?)
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Friday, December 14, 2007
God save the village green!
Let's just say that someone is getting the Kinks' "Village Green Preservation Society" for Christmas... And Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, it if arrives before Christmas.
If you've seen the movie "Hot Fuzz" (and I recommend it if you haven't) you will hear songs from these two albums.
It reminded me of the village green at Twickenham. There was a second-hand/antiques shop nearby.
I don't know where this post is going, but here are some YouTube links...
The Kinks, "Village Green Preservation Society"
The Kinks, "Lola"
The Small Faces, "Lazy Sundays"
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If you've seen the movie "Hot Fuzz" (and I recommend it if you haven't) you will hear songs from these two albums.
It reminded me of the village green at Twickenham. There was a second-hand/antiques shop nearby.
I don't know where this post is going, but here are some YouTube links...
The Kinks, "Village Green Preservation Society"
The Kinks, "Lola"
The Small Faces, "Lazy Sundays"
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There were just two ads in a row with Mr. T in them...
Snickers, "Get some nuts" followed by "World or Warcraft". Hmm, I don't know what to think.
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Canonicity 2
Thanks for the link, interesting discussion, but what do you think?
My personal opinion is that deleted scenes sitting on a DVD listed as "Deleted scenes" are not canon, but if at a later stage they are integrated into the actual episode, they become canon.
I'm not sure about the canonicity of scenes that appear in one version but then are deleted in a "director's cut".
And what about stuff like "Blade Runner", where there will be (is?) a third version. What really happened in that movie (no spoilers please).
Did Greedo really shoot first?
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My personal opinion is that deleted scenes sitting on a DVD listed as "Deleted scenes" are not canon, but if at a later stage they are integrated into the actual episode, they become canon.
I'm not sure about the canonicity of scenes that appear in one version but then are deleted in a "director's cut".
And what about stuff like "Blade Runner", where there will be (is?) a third version. What really happened in that movie (no spoilers please).
Did Greedo really shoot first?
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
Canonicity
Boycat's Mum went on a bit of a shopping spree the other day. $600 on herself, $99 on me. But that $99 was Battlestar Galactica Series 1,2 and 3 (plus the mini-series). Each of the seasons has a disc of deleted scenes. Which raises the question, are deleted scenes considered canon?
My opinion is maybe, but probably not.
A scene deleted because the episode is running overtime could well be canon; but they don't really tell us why scenes are deleted, so we won't know if the show-runner wanted to put it in and didn't have the time, or if they dropped it because it wasn't working or because it wasn't quite the direction they wanted to go in. If it wasn't quite what they wanted, it isn't canon. Discuss.
As an aside, Boycat's Mum is a big fan of BG. When it first came on to the Sci-fi Channel [I'd watched it on Channel 10, but I'd lost it somewhere at the start of season 2 because of their dodgy scheduling], I started taping (discing? recording? byting? storing? fat piping to the hard drive? cutting actors out of residuals?) it, and she was sitting on the lounge when I first started watching 33 and it grabbed her attention. She's the one making me rush through the end of season 2 and season 3 now...
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My opinion is maybe, but probably not.
A scene deleted because the episode is running overtime could well be canon; but they don't really tell us why scenes are deleted, so we won't know if the show-runner wanted to put it in and didn't have the time, or if they dropped it because it wasn't working or because it wasn't quite the direction they wanted to go in. If it wasn't quite what they wanted, it isn't canon. Discuss.
As an aside, Boycat's Mum is a big fan of BG. When it first came on to the Sci-fi Channel [I'd watched it on Channel 10, but I'd lost it somewhere at the start of season 2 because of their dodgy scheduling], I started taping (discing? recording? byting? storing? fat piping to the hard drive? cutting actors out of residuals?) it, and she was sitting on the lounge when I first started watching 33 and it grabbed her attention. She's the one making me rush through the end of season 2 and season 3 now...
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
I'm happier now
I come not to praise Howard but to bury him. Never (ever) forget the Tampa, Children Overboard, Workchoices...
Some thoughts...
Kev-o-sev has a great speech writer.
The Australian economy is not Australian society.
Farewell Andrew Bartlett, I hope you keep blogging.
The Senate is a bit of a worry.
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Some thoughts...
Kev-o-sev has a great speech writer.
The Australian economy is not Australian society.
Farewell Andrew Bartlett, I hope you keep blogging.
The Senate is a bit of a worry.
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What's wrong with me?
Why can't I care only about myself? Why can't I be happy if John Howard wins? What do I care if Australia turns into a United States survival-of-the-richest society? After all, we bought our house in 1993 for $145,000 and I'm a gazetted ASO5 in the public service and Boycat's Mum has just won a permanent AO4 - we're pretty much set for life. I don't have to care about people other than my immediate family, so why do I?
Why do I give a crap about people that I don't know who don't have enough money, or education or a good enough job to earn the kind of money that I do? After all, when I run into these people at work they don't like me, so why can't I just say 'Fuck you people, I've got mine'?
[Yes, I've started drinking early. Why doesn't anyone have Don's Party on TV tonight? Did I mention I'm a pessimist? I usually say being a pessimist means you can't be disappointed, but you can be presently surprised. Why do I feel like I'm going to be very disappointed tomorrow?]
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Why do I give a crap about people that I don't know who don't have enough money, or education or a good enough job to earn the kind of money that I do? After all, when I run into these people at work they don't like me, so why can't I just say 'Fuck you people, I've got mine'?
[Yes, I've started drinking early. Why doesn't anyone have Don's Party on TV tonight? Did I mention I'm a pessimist? I usually say being a pessimist means you can't be disappointed, but you can be presently surprised. Why do I feel like I'm going to be very disappointed tomorrow?]
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Top Gun
Jeez guys, I know about Sleep with Me, my point was I've never really subjected myself to Top Gun before (not a fan of Tom Cruise, 80s rock or militaries blowing shit up). The issue is not how smart Tarantino was for seeing the subtext, it's about how could people not be talking about the homoerotic subtext (supertext?) from the day the movie was released, it's so bleedin' obvious.
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Qld Roar, Qld Roar... uh, whatever
So the Roar won tonight. I'm now a member with my tickets to 5 of the next 6 home games. Watch them not win a home game for the rest of the season. Pessimist, me?
Matt Scolaro was almost right. When he left the Reunion last weekend with the Roar down 2-0 or 2-1 he said they would win 3-2. Well, they were 3-2 until the third minute of extra time... (it finished 3-3) so you can imagine that I was very nervous during extra-time this week. But we got the win thanks to a goal from Reinaldo.
Reinaldo scored, finally, because he didn't have time to think. Simon Lynch finally scored last week [his second goal, the first was a penalty] because, again, he didn't have time to think. Don't let these strikers think!
The A-League's slogan this year is "90 Minutes, 90 Emotions". Are they kidding? For a Queensland Roar supporter, there's just one emotion for the whole game. Fear. How will we fuck it up this week?
The Rosalie 1986 21year reunion was last week. I got to see quite a few people I hadn't seen for a while. Of course, I embarrassed myself by not recognising a lot of people. Of course, I never hung out with them at school, why should I remember them now? Luckily my Ambassador, Boycat's Mum was there - she introduced herself to people and got their names. (And all the Phoneman family goss.) Jeez, Javier Sanchez looks like he should be playing in Serie A. Paul looked well-rested, strangely. Avio is balding. Whimpy is just himself, but 20 years older. I'm babbling.
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