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Glad to see you have recovered enough strength to take another stab at the Drupal monster. I think too much work has been put into this site for it to close. Especially now when everything is going syfy… 🙂
I’d be happy to help out with reporting bugs/inconsistencies etc on the website if that’s needed. You’re probably aware of it, but there’s old copies of the website on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sadgeezer.com/.
Cool. Would have gotten it, but I recently got an australian release from Force Entertainment that had “The making of”-extras.
I’m sure it’s a technical glitch in this forum’s configuration, so you probably shouldn’t worry about SagGeezer turning into a evil forum overlord. Hmmm… this smells like a good plot for a Sci-Fi tv-movie.
Bright points: End of this seasons Doctor Who. 🙂
I’d call the trapdoors to the windtunnel (guarded by laser) in The Andromeda Strain bad science or probably just bad engineering? 🙂
I’d call the trapdoors to the windtunnel (guarded by laser) in The Andromeda Strain bad science or probably just bad engineering? 🙂
[quote=Hollydays]The Andromeda Strain would top it. Scary as hell because it was too close to reality.[/quote]
It’s
pretty good "normal science" but who the hell designs a multi-layered-security facility with trapdoors guarded by a laser? Reminds me of
the trapdoor in I Am Legend also. Writers should stop relying on those
damn trapdoors for easy escape! 😉[quote=Hollydays]The Andromeda Strain would top it. Scary as hell because it was too close to reality.[/quote]
It’s pretty good "normal science" but who the hell designs a multi-layered -security facility with trapdoors guarded by a laser? Reminds me of the trapdoor in I Am Legend also. Writers should stop relying on those damn trapdoors for easy escape! 😉
There’s so little (new) sci-fi available now so I’m kinda forced to love it and I still look forward to each new episode. Just like BSG I’m also rehashing … old sci-fi. Just watched Alien and Aliens. 🙂
Nasty scam using impersonation. These scams are quite popular with the World of Warcraft game also (an account to this game easily is worth 200-400$). They send "official" emails that mimic the real website design with login screen.
Anything asking you for your email and password should let your "alarm go off". Emails are notoriously unreliable.
A tip for emails: create 2-3 emails. 1 for familiy/personal/purcases stuff, 1 for "web-stuff like forums etc" and 1 "handy" email for "random website registrations". All emails should have their separate passwords.
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Absolutely fabulous!
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Looks lovely (and nice to have the old color theme back). The navigator got a nice organic feel to it. You obviously know your Flash stuff pretty well. 🙂
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In WoW, I’m a rogue (SadGeezer) and that is the very first dance on the video.
Yes I know, but I chose the rogue because of the dictionary definition:
- An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
- One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
- A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
- A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
- An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
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Which character are you in WoW?
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Stop tempting me!! I have almost broke free from the habit! 🙂
I was a proud hunter, spending most of his days inside the Dire Maul, trying to best the instance solo (and checking for a special book). He’s pride and joy was his turtle. In Molten Core it would be on the frontline .. fighting .. and usually end up dead within seconds.
During the last months I also made a priest because of lack of healers. My priest ended up a "wrong" priest instead, since doing damage is much more fun. 🙂
I ended up putting 130days into the game which I thought was alot, but compared to other players I see I’m just a rookie. This game is a incredible timesink … and incredible addictive if you get a mania for collecting things.
some links from the cgi..
[url=http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3971]part 1[/url], [url=http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4102]part 2[/url] and [url=http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4173]part 3[/url]
LOL. IMDB says Uwe Boll has already finished filming for BloodRayne II since your post. Gotta admire his movieratings there. 😀
Gonna check out Ergo Proxy. 😀
Luckily I picked up Star Trek Enterprise after abandoning it on season 1. The series kinda grew on me the more I watched it. I really liked season 3 with it’s arching story.
One movie I didn’t complete was Nemesis. I watched the first 15 minutes and it was just horrible, horrible, horrible!! Evidently, some sci-fi are unbearable. 🙂
Also want to add a heartless scifi from Korea named [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378428/]Natural City[/url]. The usual story about a troubled man and his sexbot. Nothing great, but a sci-fi.
Glad you’re enjoying the show. I also feel they’re keeping a good standard on the episodes (season 1 is still my fav).
[quote=”Goryn”]Work above a clip comes to its end. Date of release is appointed. And here is a final trailer.
http://llexx.iplot.ru/cgi-bin/lexx/click.pl?id=261&l=e%5B/quote%5D
Cool editing. Headchop ftw. 😀Went to the cinemas and picked at random [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/]Sunshine[/url]. Visuals and sound was top notch, but I was not too impressed with the story. Especially all the problems that faced the spacecrew felt, to say the least, contrived. At least it’s a sci-fi movie, so I probably shouldn’t be too particular. 🙂
Infidel! You don’t love Spiderman?! I totally agree with you. 🙂 For me Spiderman is nothing else than a big marketing bonanza.
Be careful making this available if it’s copyrighted stuff. The copyright owner is Universal Studios aka MPAA, which is know to be a bit anal about this. 🙂
Anyway, thanks for drawing attention to this series. Never heard of it before now, so gonna check it out.
I use 1680×1050 (16:10 ratio – [url=http://www.the-cluster.org/dustbin/sadgeezer_screen.png]screenshot[/url]). For me the font-size is just a tad small, but I use the CTRL and ‘+’ in Firefox if I need to increase it.
[quote]All Things Considered, April 9, 2007 · The cows grazing by the roads outside Geneva, Switzerland, have witnessed some pretty strange things these past few years: Trucks roll by carrying big, superconducting magnets that look like missiles, and other brightly colored pieces of scientific equipment. The pieces are all taken to warehouse-sized buildings, where they disappear down shafts that reach 300 feet into the earth.
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“Giant metal—thingy coming through!”from [url]http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/01/01/i-for-one-welcome-our-neutrino-overloads/[/url]
Children of Men was interesting. A definite “Sci-Fi” highlight of the year, if you can call it so.
Watched [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475394/]Smokin’ Aces[/url] with a friend of mine at the local cinema late at night. We had the whole cinema for ourselves (and felt kinda bad for keeping the staff at work :)). Not a great movie, but OK if you got some popcorn.
Oh, and I tried watching a cyborg movie named [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107668/]Nemesis[/url], but have only watch some 20min of it yet. Gotta recover some stamina before I finish it.
Had much better luck on the TV front: watch season 1 of [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123816/]Earth: Final Conflict[/url] for the first time. Though it was great, but unsure if I want to watch the next season as all my fav characters dies. 🙁 Also watch some good british crime in [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098898/]Prime Suspect[/url]. Looking forward to the rest of the series. Dark and grim like [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337792/]Wire in the Blood[/url]. Also been fed propaganda (willingly) by Adam Curtis. 🙂
and….
must recommend [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410730/]Taxidermia[/url]!! Watched it with a friend of mine. That movie left a lasting imprint on both our retinas, but still a great piece of cinematography.
Are you trying to promote your pornsite or something?
btw.. the comments on the front page news are also riddled with porn.
Seems like the Serenity-fans “hijacked” the vote. Maybe it’s time for the UK government to start “monitoring” this dangerous cult. 😀 In contrast you got the vote on IMDB giving a 2nd rank for The Shawshank Redemption, a movie no-one might consider the best movie ever, but highly regarded by everyone.
Because that’s what makes them so good. 😉
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Or let me rephrase … just finised watching season 1 of Earth Final Conflict .. Why is a good lead actor cancelled (terminated) ?[quote=”Goryn”][quote=”thefrey”]Sadly, I can’t get it to work on my system. I hear sound but no picture. :([/quote]
Video codec is DivX 5.2.1 and it’s must be installed on you system. It’s a very popular codec, but may be on you system was installed early version or alternative codec, which don’t support this one.[/quote]
The official Divx codec usually come bundled with Ad-ware. An alternative that I use is the [url=http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/FFDShow_MPEG4_Video_Decoder/1054056131/1]FFDShow video decoder[/url]. It enables playback of videos using Divx, Xvid and a lot of other formats in mediaplayers like Windows Media Player etc.[quote=”JimmyD”]…Besides, from what I’ve seen of subtitle services, alot of them are poor (wrong words, phonetic spellings, etc.) …[/quote]
Well, luckily for you I don’t do transcripts either. 😀Headgehog has been adding the BSG transcripts. Maybe he’s just been to busy to get the transcripts ready.
Doesn’t Sci-Fi Channel offer any subtitle service for their programming? Atleast here in Norway they’re mandatory for almost all programming.
[quote=”bonnee”]Even this site seems to have suffered a post Lexx fall out – I remember a time when (other) people would actually post here.[/quote]
I blame World of Warcraft. 😀[quote=”bonnee”]MM talks about the stigma of working in sci fi, comparing it to working in porn – nice work if you can get it, but potential employers are worried about the association.[/quote]
They did mention the problem of sci-fi actors getting typecasted, referring to Star Trek in particular. But then again, Lexx is not even comparable to Star Trek in term of popularity and mainstream recognition. I think the problem is more related to how well you’re connected in the industry. The same goes for any kind of job, except as an actor you’re always on the lookout for new jobs because of the short timespan of their contracts.[quote=”bonnee”]I just wonder how they manage to make ends meet or get through the day without wanting to jumping off a cliff. In the video interview, he talks about acting on stage…to completely empty theatres and/or few performances. The theatre might be where his heart lies, but audiences seem completely disinterested.[/quote]
Come on! He didn’t sound that depressed in the interview. 🙂Just purchased my first MP3 album tonight on Boomkat (5£ – 320kbps and no DRM). My type of music never seems to reach the public, except on some obscure radio programmings. Then again, I’m talking about electronic ambient music. It’s mostly solitude music that can be be pretty awkward listening to with friends, unlike much of the other music refered to in this thread. My preference for this music may also be related to the fact that I always get a high score for introvert on personality tests. 🙂
Anyway, the music I bought was Svarte Greiner’s album [url=http://www.typerecords.com/releases/full.php?id=25]Knive[/url], composed by a fellow norwegian (we’re a tiny country). It got a dark but relaxing soundscape. If anyone here happend to like ambient, I recommend checking it out, and also those of you not familiar with ambient music. Some soundbites from the album: [url=http://www.typerecords.com/share/audio/type016_p/final_clip.mp3]Final Sleep[/url], [url=http://www.typerecords.com/share/audio/type016_p/theboat_clip.mp3]The boat was my friend[/url], [url=http://www.typerecords.com/share/audio/type016_p/easy_clip.mp3]Easy on the bones[/url]
[quote=”bonnee”]Just listened to this great MM interview
http://scifitalk.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=50487&comments=onwhere he talks about having to download the show via p2p in order to watch a decent copy. It’s a great interview – he comes across as remarkably personable, despite complaining about the ‘total disaster’ of his post Lexx career. It also makes an interesting companion piece to the more recent video interview posted on the MM site – he seems demoralised (to me) by this stage.[/quote]
Seems like a couple of other folks involved with Lexx is also struggling with finding employment in the film industry.As for not being able to work with that you’re trained for .. THAT I can relate to. 🙂 Hopefully he’ll be offered some parts soon. I found his performance in Lexx pretty solid. Also, he’s like MADE for BBC stuff, hehe.
If someone would be willing to revive the Lexx universe through a mini-series or something similar, I’m sure hordes of fans would be returning to watch. Lexx is still my all-time favourite.
Ooh.. a new SadCAST up appeared on the right pane.
Faldor, your friend can’t be EATING when filming! 😆
[img]http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h205/hishadow/mike.jpg[/img]
[quote=”Nick-Z.”]In any case, if you’re a true sci-fi fan, browsing through this site is like a trip down memory-lane.[/quote]
Hi,Thanks for the link. Looking at the bottom of the site it reads page 1 of 1119. 😀
It’s hard for find new material that’s worth watching. I generally use IMDB to look for new movies to watch, but it’s hard to locate the good movies. Movies that I like, others might regard as pure thrash. Therefore searching for “high rated” sci fi movies just returns the standard stuff like Alien, Blade Runner etc and if you try to search for some average rated stuff, you instead get a couple of thousand results. It’s very hard to “pick out” some good stuff that way. So I’ve basically ended up with picking my movies from user-comments laying around the net, but it’s getting harder and harder to locate new material. Hench, I’m nagging here. 😛
Currently my todo list includes: [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117238]Omega Doom (1997)[/url], [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/]A Boy and His Dog (1975)[/url], [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/]Gandahar (1988)[/url], [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018528/]The Unknown(1927 non-scifi)[/url], [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/]Paprika (2006)[/url]. Hopefully a couple of good movies among them (when I manage to get hold of one.)
Karate Ruler
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT80eQkLp2E[/url]A 15min short film seem to be taken straight out of the weirdness of Lexx, only way stranger. May give you some chuckles.
[img]http://www.gosprout.org/images%20MAM/photos/kru_2.jpg[/img][img]http://www.gosprout.org/images%20MAM/photos/kru_8.jpg[/img]
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You shouldn’t feel bad at all for “taking up” bandwidth. Forum-posts takes little to none bandwidth. My older post commenting you was just a tease.
And, who is now going to challenge the “Nude Pics of Six!” thread with 10.000 views? 😀
btw .. how is your blog-extension coming along SadGeezer?
Concerning Google. A great way of narrowing down search results is to use the + operator.
Say you have three required keywords word1, word2 and word3, you can eliminate a lot of redundant results by adding a + infront of each word. Example search: [b]+Mulder +joined +work +x-files[/b]
If you get a lot of results you don’t want, just put a – operator in front of unwanted words. Search example: [b]Mulder -“cancer man”[/b]
Also, if you like to search within a website (a fansite for instance), you can use the site: command. Example search: [b]+mulder +scully site:sadgeezer.com[/b]
[quote=”Logan”]I just get a white screen if I just type in http://www.sadgeezer.com But I can easily enough get around that by typing in http://www.sadgeezer/html or using the address as listed on the home page http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/index.php Then bookmark the page if it makes things easier.[/quote]
😀Didn’t notice that! http://www.sadgeezer.com/ don’t redirect you to the index.html file. I’ve always used my bookmark when visiting this site.
I think that should help you aquabloodstone.
Norton (Internet Security?) seems to be blocking Sadgeezer *shrugs* for some reason.
1. Try to go to the Web site that you cannot connect to.
2. On the Internet Explorer toolbar, click the Norton Internet Security icon. The icon might be labeled Web Assistant.
3. Uncheck Block ads on this site and Block popups on this site. The page is automatically refreshed with the new settings.
Here’s another guide with pictures:
[url]http://cte.jhu.edu/elc/support/popup/popupstopnav.htm[/url]One questing though: does other websites work when you have Norton activated?
btw. grats with your broadband connection. Time to put the hammer to the old modem. 😉
“With the initial market intended for DVD, Groening and crew can go a lot more extreme with the humor than they could on the air.” Does that mean Venture Bros humor or will they keep it tamer?
A video of the speech.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4WA58rMu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe4WA58rMu0[/url]He should have ended with the V sign!
😆This man is hillarious. Check his slogan: WU COMING TO YOU! (http://www.house.gov/wu/WuComingToYou.htm)
I always regarded everything in Star Trek as highly militarily and rank based. As for D.C. Neocons calling themselves Vulcans, it makes perfect sense, for themselves. 😀
ed: concerning neocons – I just saw a documentary called The Power of Nightmares some days ago. Stumbled upon it. A BBC documentary from 2004. Recommended. A really bold documentary in my eyes.
