Disqus - Friends of cedorsett

Re: Life as a Story

Bill Bittner — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:36:10 -0000

What an excellent post. Thank you for taking the time to write it and share it.

Re: Life as a Story

Bill Bittner — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:16:01 -0000

Found a poem today that is relevant to this. Babylon, by Robert Graves

http://www.daypoems.net/poe...

Re: MySocial 24x7 - Companion for FriendFeed

Bill Bittner — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:14:52 -0000

When choose to see all of my posts (Me>Everything), the window is blank. But if I select a specific service (Me>Friendfeed), stuff shows up.

Re: Here we go again!

Bill Bittner — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:34:30 -0000

Wow. Cool batch of guests. I'd love to meet George Takei.

Re: Theater or Renter WALL·E

Bill Bittner — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:36:21 -0000

Saw this last night. Maybe be my favorite Pixar movie yet. Smiled and/or laughed through the whole movie.

Re: P:SI #189 "No Stairway… Denied!"

Bill Bittner — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:15:07 -0000

Really appreciated your mention of the fact that you publish your stuff (or at least some of it) under CC with the hope that people create works in the world you built. That is one of the hopes I have with my stuff. (In fact, sometimes I think I'd rather have somebody just take my ideas and just run with them. But that's just me being lazy.)

Re: Here we go again!

Bill Bittner — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:56:27 -0000

What's the panel subject?

Re: Exploring The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor

Bill Bittner — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:00 -0000

I've always liked Brandon. He rarely takes himself too seriously. And there are some moments in "Bedazzled" where he is just hilarious.

Re: Kevin Smith Digs Star Trek?

Bill Bittner — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:31:34 -0000

Seems pretty obvious to me.

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:28:26 -0000

That is pretty freaking sweet. At first glance, it's overall look is steampunk. But upon a closer look, it's all more occult-ish. Is that such a genre? Occult-punk?

By the way, I posted an idea on the deviantART page about another character idea. It's pretty obvious, but here it is anyway...

A clockpunk automaton brought to life by Rasputin, who he simply named "Pitor"

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:42 -0000

If so, I guess Hellboy would probably be in that genre, right?

Re: Occult Heroes: X-men

Bill Bittner — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:03 -0000

You're right, the look is Victorian, but not necessarily steampunk. But, I guess if there was only one aspect of the characters that could be steampunk, it was that McCoy got that way because of a laboratory experiment. But I guess that could also be Victorian Gothic as well.

Re: Palin’s Religious Views Scare Me

Bill Bittner — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:53:51 -0000

I'm glad my clippings were of some interest to you. And your tweets have been a breath of sane air. I've been troubled about this whole campaign. And I lost some sleep over it last night. I mean to blog my thoughts on it all, but am waiting till after McCain's speech.

Re: McCain’s Mrs. Doubtfire Strategy

Bill Bittner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:32:21 -0000

You're right. No comment needed. But awesome.

Re: CNN.com Finally Catches Up on Palin Church Video

Bill Bittner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:20:43 -0000

Watching the Rachel Maddow show right now (9:20 PM EST) and their finally airing and discussing this video.

Re: The Best Web App for Ideas

Bill Bittner — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:26:09 -0000

In the past I would have said Google Notebook. But that was eclipsed by Evernote.

But, now, I'm giving Drop.io a try. And so far I love what I see.

As for your wishes:

- Organization through tags/categories and search - NO
- Ability to have a comment chain on a single idea - YES
- Ability to have an idea â€œapprovedâ€ for future projects - NO
- Ability to â€œClipâ€ pieces of text and/or images from the Web - NO
- Email Interactivity (daily updates or able to email in ideas) - YES
- Desktop app would be amazing too - NO
- iPhone app and/or mobile version - YES
- Ability to move an â€œapprovedâ€ idea to a categorized list - NO

But I love that you can...

- send voicemail messages
- send stuff via MMS
- fax stuff
- subscribe to an RSS feed
- get update messages via Twitter
- subscribe as a podcast
- download all the contents as a single zip
- embed pieces of content into other sites

(And no, I'm in no way connected to Drop.io. I'm just a rabid early adopter and I love what I see.)

Re: If the press will just do their job, all will be OK (Scripting News)

Bill Bittner — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:01:14 -0000

I left a comment on your article on the Huffington Post. I wanted to leave a link to my referring to your article on my blog. But the comment fiter wouldn't let me. So here it is.

http://whatbillthinks.blogs...

Re: Saving Star Trek

Bill Bittner — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:01:18 -0000

I don't think adding action to Star Trek would be bad. There was plenty of action in all the series and movies. And action is relative. Today's audiences are more desensitized. To them, the original Star Wars movies must look positively dull when compared to today's action movies. You add the action from the original Star Wars movies to Star Trek, and today's audiences will barely notice it.

Also, I don't agree with the concept that Star Wars equals action and Star Trek equals rational thinking. To me, Star Wars equals the mythic struggle between good and evil, and Star Trek is about CHARACTERS.

I can't say whether I like Star Wars more than Star Trek or not. But I can say that I like the characters in Star Trek better than those in Star Wars. Star Wars characters are stock. They're symbols. The Star Trek characters are real. And "human". (Especially the non-humans).

I love all the characters in all the series and movies. But especially, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Data, Worf, Quark, Odo, and the Doctor in Voyager. (Heck, the Quark-centered episodes were my favorite in the DS9 series.) And one of the reasons I enjoy Star Trek novels, is that I love and know the characters. I can't say the same for Star Wars novels.

So, even though I'm looking forward to this new Star Trek movie, and expect plenty of action, it's the characters that are going to make it for me. And from what I know of the cast, I know it won't disappoint. (Especially Spock!)

And that image of the cast (minus Spock) is awesome. You can tell the makers of this movie are putting substance over style. They all look real. Not perfect-looking movie stars. Character and story will be king.

I can not wait.

Re: Is it Ok to Celebrate Christmas, Even If You’re Not a Christian? - ExChristian.Net - Articles

Bill Bittner — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:01:47 -0000

Even when I was Christian, Christmas was ALWAYS about the TOYS!

Re: Severus Snape “I Will Survive”

Bill Bittner — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:35:10 -0000

SPOILERS AHEAD

Snape has always been my favorite character in the Harry Potter universe. Especially in Alan Rickman's form. I've always been a sucker for baddies-turned-good, or baddies-possibly-turning-good characters.

And when I read that Harry's son was named "Albus Severus Potter," I got so choked up.

My only disappointment is how he died in Book 7. His death could have been a lot more dramatic, or ironic. He could have done something like Rowling did with Neville. Maybe kill one of Voldemort's key lieutenants before he died.

Re: New Star Trek Clip: Bones is afraid to fly!

Bill Bittner — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:38:07 -0000

My gosh. There were some lines that were delivered with an inflection almost identical to DeForest Kelly's inflection. Like Deforest got all hot and bothered about Genesis. Paraphrasing: "But here comes Genesis. Now we can do it in one day."

I'm pretty excited about the movie. That's because, like I've said it before, it's about the characters. As long as they get the characters right, I don't care that much about the plot. so what if it has too much action and is too much like Star Wars. Hell, put the write actors, saying the right things, and reacting the right way, you could put them in Fast and Furious and it would work.

Re: Futuristic Robin Hood or Distopian Green Arrow

Bill Bittner — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:12:31 -0000

A distopian Green Arrow could be a good movie. But it wouldn't be a superhero movie. It would be a sci-fi movie. Or at the best, a comic-book movie. The premise sounds like it would feel like "I Am Legend" with more people. Or, Mad Max or Escape From New York.

In my opionion, I would rather see superheroes in a normal, contemporary setting, so all the superheroes inhabit their respective universes. That way, if anyone ever wants to bring the characters together in one movie continuity, they could. (Like they're obviously going to do with The Avengers).

Now, I don't have a problem with putting independent, b-list, graphic novel, or fringe comic characters in their own universes. Like they did with Judge Dredd, or could do with Dr. Strange or Y: The Last Man.

Re: The Golden Triangle

Bill Bittner — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:47 -0000

Excellent article. Will be read, re-read, saved, and forwarded.

Re: Glee: Words of Hate A Moment of IDIC

Bill Bittner — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:26:47 -0000

I thought this was a great show. Gaga. Kiss. Menzel. Puck singing Beth! Except every time those two bullies would start, I was hoping either a teacher would nail them or Finn would pop up and hit them with a baseball bat. (But I'm supposed to be against violence :) )

I also wonder if Finn is still banned from Burt's house. I hope not. After seeing Finn pat Kurt's shoulder's at the end of the episode, I'm hoping Finn would eventually cease to be the object of Kurt's affection and become a great big-brother type to him. (Though, they may be the same age, or pretty damned close.) I was also glad to see Kurt standing up to the Bullies.

Another thing, getting to see singers like Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth sing on TV for free seems to be more than I can ever ask out of life. Incidently, Idina is going to be appearing in Pittsburgh at the end of June and I have to go.

Re: DEVO - No place Like Home Lyrics

Bill Bittner — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:38:28 -0000

Cool you posted this. I really like this song, as well as the whole album. Been listening to it over and over for days. As well as their other albums. I don't know, I've been pretty pessimistic about our species for a while now. And I thinks listening to Devo helps becuase they've been feeling that way since the early 70s.

BTW, right now, I'm watching a 2004 concert that was posted on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Sadly, The No Place Like Home lyrics remind me of the last song on Roger Water's Amused to Death:

We watched the tragedy unfold
We did as we were told
We bought and sold
It was the greatest show on earth
But then it was over
We ohhed and aahed
We drove our racing cars
We ate our last few jars of caviar
And somewhere out there in the stars
A keen-eyed look-out
Spied a flickering light
Our last hurrah
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death

Also, check out this great interview of the two Casale brothers.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...