What you do is: Go to a page and click on the plot keywords ‘more’ link, this will take you to a list of plot keywords which the active player then reads out (no one else knows what the film is), so for Bad Lieutenant this would be …
When one of the other players thinks they know the film they shout out and if they get it right control of the laptop passes to them, they click on the key word they guessed, let’s say they got it on ‘vulgarity’ then they choose the top film from the resulting page (miss out TV shows or anything the other players are unlikely to have seen or know anything about) and the whole process is repeated for that film.
No Opening Credits, Greed, Part Of Trilogy, Trilogy, Gore, Blood, Death, Dysfunctional Family …
Scoring is left as an exercise for individual groups but I’d suggest some kind of penalty for incorrect guessing and for choosing a film that no one gets.
Maybe someone would like to invent a game for the CNDB where you have to guess the film from things like:
She takes off her top to show Clive Owen she’s eight months pregnant. Brief shot of both boobs but as he stares in amazement she covers them with one arm.
*this should lead to some interesting traffic from google.
Honestly, [Gareth Gates] was pretty good and he’s got a Bradford accent. I didn’t know that before because anyone who stutters sounds exactly the same.
Unless it’s a Chinese sufferer. Something I challenge anyone not to laugh at.
Doodles I’ve done of presenters whilst bored at various conferences…
MS Vista Developer Preview last year
Inter dept. thing at work the other day
unfortunately i seem to have lost my notes from last years Information Visualization conference which is a shame as it was bountiful both in terms of boring talks and weird looking presenters.
(Biro on printer paper is I think a better medium for me than the higher class Fineliner on Moleskine combo)
I borrowed ‘The God Delusion’ from my Dad over the weekend, probably wouldn’t have bought it myself, whilst I think ‘The Selfish Gene’ is unquestionably brilliant and enjoy Dawkins’ essays I find his recent anti-religion stuff a bit too bellicose, not that I don’t agree with much of it I just prefer the Dan Dennet school of religion bashing (albeit perhaps slightly patronising).
Quick summary so far (about a third of the way through): Easy to read the arguments against God are pretty much all probabilistic (no surprise there) so far. His dismissals of a lot of theological arguments seem a bit off hand but I guess he’s treating them with the level of respect he thinks they deserve. Some reviews I’ve read have accused the book of destroying only straw men but I’ve not heard any better arguments and I’m not really inclined to think any up as I’d say the burden of proof really lies with the believers here to prove to heathens like me that God does exist.
Anyway, it’s weird how I feel kind of like I might be offending people on the tube if they see me reading the book, they might think I hate them or think their stupid or something, I mean I probably do hate them or think their stupid, (esp. if they stop walking when they get to the top of escalators or any other blocking type behaviour) but I don’t want them to know that. The result is, I’ve left the dust jacket at home.
…you’ll be charged extra on top of the GDP of an African nation that you’re already coughing up to use the over-burdened and dirty transport system. BASTARDS! timely article though as we shall see: I’m telling you this because my return trip into work which typically (on non cycling days) costs between £2 and £4 depending on what options I choose wrt. comfort/timeliness etc. cost me 8 pounds today through no fault of my own. It seems the readers at White City were on the blink or something so my touching at that end wasn’t registered (stop sniggering). That’s nearly twice as much as I paid for Double Nickels on The Dime from Amazon Z-Shops yesterday and that’s coming all the way from America (though admittedly it’s taking 9 days to get here and it’s coming in a small brown envelope which wouldn’t really be practical transport for commuting purposes).
Also, why can’t they …
… have weekly and monthly caps on Oyster cards like they have daily caps? i.e. if I spend more than a monthly travel card in a calendar month don’t charge me more.
… email me a monthly or weekly statement? Given that they’re already tracking my every movement and emailing me about it they could do something useful with that info.
Also I hate that I’m penalised by not being able to get a cheap travel card. I don’t use the tube every day so there’s no point me getting a weekly travel card (though a weekly statement might prove me wrong) but daily travel cards are more if you travel before 9:30 which I have to do in order to get to my job which typically starts at 9:30
Corona -
February 12th, 2007
There’s a bit in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard where an abstract expressionist (probably the books central character but I can’t really remember) is criticised in the standard ‘I could do that’ style. ‘Sure you could’ he replies then draws a brilliantly lifelike portrait of his critic and says something along the lines of ‘…but you haven’t earned the right to until you can do this’. That’s what The Minutemen sometimes seem to be saying with stuff like this; ‘we’re allowed to do an album of 40 second punk haikus because if we wanted to can do this’ its an aesthetic choice rather than a limit.
[i wrote this on friday, though i’d posted it but obviously hadn’t. Anyway, my new resolution is to post any old crap as I’ve cut the audience down to pretty much just a few people I know and I’m comfortable with that]
I’m totally in favour of the snow disruption, I’m glad that our transport system fails in such situations, it means people get to stay at home rather than working themselves to death for the man (OMG 400 million ‘lost’), productivity isn’t everything you know. They said on the today program yesterday that we would still have a better quality of life (cash wise) than 30 years ago if we all chose to work three day weeks. 4 day weekends. That would be amazing. I’m up for that but I think my employer wouldn’t be so much. Anyway, hopefully the train to Manchester tonight will be working OK but if it’s not I’ve packed a good 9 or 10 hours worth of DVDs to watch on the way up (The Wire and The Westwing a few Seinfeld episodes and a 1920’s shadow play animation).
Also this kind of disruption seem to hit Daily Mail readers particularly hard which is always entertaining. My favourite example is in the comments thread here in amongst the general moaning about how soft everyone is and how it’s all Tony Blair’s fault there are some real gems. My favourite is Don from Cheadle who remembers a time when
…the unemployed were mobilised to clear and grit the pavements and urban roads when snow fell, but that is probably against their human rights now and all of us will just make the best of it.
did that really happen? it seems unlikely unless we’re talking Victorian times or something and the means by which they were mobilised was the threat of a sound thrashing and the promise of some beer, like in Dracula when they go around buying the lower classed beer in order to track down the count’s London pad.
See also (from the mists of time (2001)) this, and also this (from the slightly less misty time (2002 (I think))) which is a good example of the how it’s hard to judge difficulty levels if you’ve been playing something all afternoon, and also how simply moving stuff to where you think the user can’t see it is almost always a bad idea.
