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Re: polaroid

Kris — Thu, 05 May 2005 23:20:53 -0000

What do red and white have to do with 5/5/05?

Pardon my ignorance,
-k

Re: the batmen. mad creepee.

Kris — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:29:14 -0000

Is it "Batmen" or "Batmans"? In theory, they're all the same guy. In reality, it looks like they're plastic.

Re: the batmen. mad creepee.

Kris — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 07:33:09 -0000

This kinda reminds me of the terracotta soldiers in China. Scroll to the bottom of http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedi... to see some photos.

Re: gmail: cross your fingers

Kris — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:07:57 -0000

I use Gmail practically every waking moment, and haven't had any problems recently. I had some problems with the Google Desktop beta, but an uninstall cleared it up. (I have yet to reinstall it. I'll probably wait until it's out of beta.)

I've also been playing with the Google feed reader recently (http://www.google.com/reader). That app has some serious problems. I'll stick with NewsGator for now.

However, given our "geographic diversity", I'm probably connecting to an entirely different set of Gmail servers than you are.

Re: today. and a movie rant, regarding “Chicken Little”

Kris — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:10:17 -0000

Okay, I'll throw in my two cents on the Disney / Pixar thing. I haven't seen "Chicken Little" yet, and will definitely wait for a rental based on what I've heard so far.

Like Ward says, Disney doesn't own Pixar, they just had a deal to distribute Pixar's movies. (A bit of history: George Lucas started Pixar as part of ILM, but didn't see any future in the technology so he sold off that portion of the company. Also Steve Jobs of Apple fame is the current CEO of Pixar.) After "Finding Nemo", Pixar wanted Disney to pay more money for the distribution rights and Disney didn't want to pony up the extra dough. Unless there's a complete turnaround, "Cars" will be the last Pixar film distributed by Disney.

As a response, Disney said, "We can do this just as well as Pixar," and Chicken Little is supposed to be the proof. Clearly Disney is no Pixar. It probably doesn't help that Disney got rid of the majority of its "traditional" animation staff which was responsible for some great films like "Alladin", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Little Mermaid".

At this point in time, Disney is really a mostly a collection of theme parks, TV stations (ABC, ESPN, and some cable stations), and movie distributors (Buena Vista, Touchstone, Miramax, and Dimension). The days of Disney creating quality animated movies seem to be a thing of the past.

As usually, Wikipedia has a ton of info (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Co...). It's telling that there's currently no information about Pixar in the article.