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Re: Force Majeure Is Gender-Biased Junk

Liza Brown — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:13:00 -0000

ha ha, yeah, good point (the wife being the most unlikable character). What did it mean when she faked a disaster during the whiteout too?

Re: Force Majeure Is Gender-Biased Junk

Liza Brown — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 13:07:40 -0000

Who says you are supposed to side with anyone? That's a pretty insecure reaction to a story about the travails of modern family life. It is simply presented, I don't sense a bias. After all it's written by a man and examines his reaction to the pressures put on men in our society and in relationships. You make a lot of good points about the occurrences in the film (a man paying the bills with work, should have the right to be distracted by his work—but don't forget, some men make this an excuse to not really connect with their family, even when they don't need to be working); and perhaps the film isn't worth some people's time, but it makes for the beginning of an interesting discussion about gender, family, disaster response, etc. The presentation is that couples surviving a natural catastrophe often divorce (the same is true when they lose a child). Our tendency (as humans—male or female) is to want to find blame. I do actually agree that if there are two children, though, and the right response is to run, then each parent should grab a child...(but this is tangential to the entire analysis of the film). I would say it's worth seeing and discussing, but not worth the Foreign film Academy Award.

Re: Force Majeure Movie Review & Film Summary (2014) | Roger Ebert

Liza Brown — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:37:08 -0000

yeah, I didn't understand those two things either...they all seem to have a bad habit of leaving the kids behind. in that white out it was potentially dangerous...and when the mom leaves the bus she left her two kids. If I thought something was so scary I wouldn't have left the kids behind (or would I? ; )

Re: My Apple Tablet Expectations

Liza Brown — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:13:28 -0000

did you send them your input yet? I like the subsidized idea.

Re: My Apple Tablet Expectations

Liza Brown — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:09:02 -0000

didn't even know about this device although it makes lots of sense. I like this info here which you probably already read

http://gizmodo.com/5452501/...

Re: iPhone App: Snatch

Liza Brown — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:27:01 -0000

this might not be the best place to add this comment, but have you heard of the IPhone app BDB (bad decision blocker)?

http://www.baddecisionblock...

pretty funny and it's a real app on ITunes

Re: To Really Quit Facebook, Know The Difference Between “Deactivate” And “Delete”

Liza Brown — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:48:19 -0000

hmm. that's funny, you were so clear (in your original facebook quitting blog) that my info could get retained, that when I quit facebook, I requested full deletion with an email. My experience wasn't the same as our friend's. I in fact got questioned on my decision (was this based on that my account had so much data and his had less?). I wrote an email that made it very clear blah, blah blah AND .... "I also resent that you make it so difficult to completely delete your account and all my private info. Remove every bit of info you have on me please"

to this I got a response explaining how deactivating is such a nicer option, didn't I really just want to deactivate? Could I have been any more clear that NO that is not what I wanted.

Here's a portion of my testy response:

"I haven't regretted leaving mySpace! (I bet that hurt the customer service guy)
Delete it completely. That is what my email said."

Re: As Worthless As You Want It To Be

Liza Brown — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:02:30 -0000

I like the Radiohead model better than the ITunes model. I don't yet understand how much artists get back from Itunes (if it's enough well then ok)...but Radiohead did pretty damn well selling their album at customer's own choice of prices. I know they're radiohead, but people are pretty loyal to their musicians when given the chance.

i like what you wrote. It's like shopping locally instead of going to Costco.

Itunes has definitely benefited from the recent shutdown of P2P movie streaming/download sites--it was getting so horrible trying to watch a film (in six parts) that I finally just paid for the overnight rental from ITunes.

Re: Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Prep

Liza Brown — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:27:23 -0000

ps I'm most excited about Earth and the surprises that await there (dinosaurs?) (people just beginning to make cylons?) (they arrive sometime BC and Baltar becomes Jesus?)

Re: Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Prep

Liza Brown — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:24:10 -0000

wow. now that's a long post. I haven't even read it yet, but I was impressed by the "1396 words await you" so I had to start there.,,,someone's excited about Friday night ; )

I invited myself to Greg's house to watch, but it turns out he's preparing for his sister's wedding the next day, so he isn't watching it. He obviously needs help straightening out his priorities. Well ,he did say we could watch two next Friday instead...so don't tell us anything!

Re: I Deleted My FaceBook Account

Liza Brown — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:50:34 -0000

yep, you certainly can. it's very fun..except for a few glitches. I've gotten ridiculously good, but still have a low ranking because I have a really bad habit of running out of time on the timed games! usually when I'm almost doubling my opponents score...very silly in fact. I'm trying to overcome this tendency ; ) and up my ranking...which means I should be playing right now (or working on my web contract--hmmm?)

Re: I Deleted My FaceBook Account

Liza Brown — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:24:45 -0000

I didn't like trying to clean it all out very well so I wrote them an email requesting a full delete. hope I'm not endangering my privacy with all the info I didn't delete myself....

so I feel lighter now too except for that last bit of worry. I dumped mySpace awhile back, too. I'm less likely to sign up to anything else.

Re: I Deleted My FaceBook Account

Liza Brown — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:09:04 -0000

oh and ps...Scrabulous is not fun at all on facebook...it's much slower and a worse interface than just going and playing on the site. ridiculously so in fact. I'll be happy to quit facebook and all those annoying apps. soon everyone will realize it's as dumb as mySpace

Re: I Deleted My FaceBook Account

Liza Brown — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:06:57 -0000

I only joined facebook recently - I was prompted by Scrabulous (http://scrabulous.com) which is horribly addictive and said it would be a "whole lot more fun " if I joined Facebook which I had been considering cause Missy was having so much fun on there. god I hate it though...spent all this time setting up a profile etc (ETC) and wasted a ridiculous amount of time to get almost nothing interesting in return. The one app I really like is the Flcker which no one probably looks at anyway.

I may join you! although the pulling out sounds time consuming

Re: Added Disqus To Webomatica

Liza Brown — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:01:56 -0000

i like it when I get to be the first to use my screen name so I don't have to come up with some bad alternate

Re: Added Disqus To Webomatica

Liza Brown — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:52:38 -0000

wow, you are always in the avant garde Jason...not sure what this Disqis is about..but I'm guessing if you're using it, it's worth checking out