...I would invite every one of my handsome, adorable, clever neighbors to my apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
If I could, I would expand my list of invitees, like a sparkling balloon, to include parents, children and all manner of pets. How I would love to be introduced to them all.
If I could, I would alter the design of my dinner table into something Dr. Seuss or Lewis Carroll might design - curving into space, higher and higher - until it had lengthened sufficiently so that every one of you could find a place.
If I could, I would alter the space continuum so that my kitchen would be BIG ENOUGH to accommodate the positively epic, Edwardian dinner I would plan for you.
If I could, I would alter the time continuum so that my far-flung precious ones would be able to find their way to the Aubrey domicile with ease and economy. And yet still be able to travel first-class.
If I could, I would place a glass of flower-like, art nouveau proportions at each place setting. It would be full of champagne, and glittering at the bottom would be either a diamond bracelet, or a brace of diamond cufflinks. They are for you.
If I could, I would arrange the champagne toasts thusly: they would not be to your hostess, to your family, or to your loved ones. You would not toast this innocent North American holiday. You would, instead, toast yourselves.
Because words fail me.
Happy Thanksgiving, all.
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Here's some Arizona Turkey action for everyone, created especially for you by the Arizona Game & Fish Department.
I'll be baking pies in the morning and then it's off to the Annual Geographical Orphan Thanksgiving Celebration & Drunkfest.
Love and hugs to you all!
Can you believe I'm posting this early in the day? It's b/c I may be hanging with friends later on.
Here are some photos of what went on last night at Chez LT.
The "Simon's Cat" book was delivered and Tuxboy was not about to give up his sprawls on my lap for me to read it.
I came across an appropriate page for both TK and lauowolf's NikitaKitten (embiggen to see comics):
Tortie had been on the couch before TK hopped up. Since we didn't stop him, and he's just too icky to deal with, she gave us all this:
And there's your average Tuesday night at our house.
remember: if you is not overeating, you iz doing it rong.
we'll be heading out to the hinterlands ( hinterlands = dial-up connection) here in a bit, so see ya when we get back to the land of plenty and DSL.
this is what I'm hoping for:
I'm hoping it for y'all too.
Well VOX managed to kill my post so lets try this again.
The Digital Equipment Corporation VT240 terminal was the monochrome graphics capable version of the VT2xx series terminals. The VT241 was the color version. Both were the same base unit, just one shipped with a monochrome monitor and the other shipped with a color monitor. They support ReGIS and Tektronics graphics. ReGIS being the DEC graphics format which was also supported on the earlier VT125 and GIGI terminals. I spent the morning trying to find a file to display. But couldn't. But maybe I will create one later.
The VT240 consisted of a base unit, a keyboard such as the LK201 and a monitor such as the VR201. It actually used a stripped down PDP-11 processor (T-11). Thus you could use a terminal with a PDP-11 processor to connect to a PDP-11 with well a PDP-11 processor. The VT220 used an Intel processor as its main cpu.
On the rear of the base unit you have the RS232 communications port, an 20 mA current loop port, a composite video output on a BNC connector, a video output port on a DB15 connector with monochrome and color along with power, a printer port and the keyboard port.
Once were warriors is a New Zealand movie, notable among other things for the number of Maori people involved in its production - the director, Lee Tamahori, the entire cast. the movie was very successful in New Zealand and got recognition around the world.
based on the 1980 novel of the same name, Once... narrates the struggles of a family living in Auckland. not quite living in poverty but getting there, the father, Jake Haka, has lost his job and spends most days and nights drinking at the pub. his wife, Beth, is the usual victim of Jake's rages. each of the children is getting lost in their own way. it takes a series of incidents, up to a tragic one, for Beth to finally decide to leave Jake and take the children back with her to the Maori village she's from.
the movie is remarkable for its representation of the violence in the Haka household, the alienation of the Maori from the majority white society, the efforts of some to use traditional Maori history and customs to instill pride and responsibility on the young men.
trailer
Jake, Jake the Muss
Olympia is Leni Reifenstahl documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. it was released in two parts: Olympia Fest der Volker (Olympia Part One Festival of Nations) and Olympia Fest der Schonheist (Olympia Part Two Festival of Beauty)
Olympia was controversial from its release - and with reason. funded by the Nazi party Propaganda arm, and even with no overt Nazi content per se, the images of greater-than-life godlike athletes have been interpreted as supporting the 'superior race'. Frau Reifenstahl herself always denied any overt or covert Nazi alliances.
a very good documentary on Frau Reifenstahl's life and work is The wonderful horrible life of Leni Riefenstahl; in addition to exploring the Nazi question, The wonderful... also delves on the reasons why Riefenstahl is one of the great directors of the 20th century and the innovations she brought to film: the sudden cut, extreme close-ups, cameras on rails to pan over distances, an editing craftwomanship never seen before and rarely after her time.
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the prologue to part one of Olympia, which takes place in Greece. the music is by Vangelis and added later
again from part one, the running of the Olympic torch to the stadium
btw: while the lighting of the Olympic flame at the stadium began for the modern games at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, the whole shebang of lighting the torch in Greece and running it to the stadium through different countries and all that was invented for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. this one. ....the more you know
towards the end of part two. the fantastic diving sequence. breathtaking
