On Sep 25, 7:19*pm, "nom=de=plume" wrote:
"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:27:04 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:

I just rented Watchmen... I really like Rorschach.... his line in
prison...
"I'm not in here with you. You're in here with me."

Jackie Earl Haley - a very good and long time foil Ross Ruediger is
best buds with JEH. *I met him several times - very interesting guy.
He's actually kind of like Rorschach in a lot of ways - you might say
it was "type casting". *:)

I really liked "Watchmen". *I honestly don't know what Alan Moore was
****ed off about - it stayed reasonably true to the graphic novel. "V
for Vendetta" on the other hand was an abortion compared to the novel
- he did have a point there even though from a visual standpoint it
was incredible.

I need to read the book. I usually do that before the movie, but I got
sucked into watching it with a guy friend. I thought going in.. nearly 3
hours?! But, I didn't want it to end.

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Nom=de=Plume

I dont watch any sci fi (ok, i have no attention span for tv or movies
at all) and do not read much of it either mostly cuz the writing is
soooooo bad. I picked up a book by a guy with the last name of
"Ringo" to read while doing mindless stuff and had to throw it away
half way thru it was so bad. First Ringworld book was "ok", second
was boring and stupid.
The real thing, reading science blogs is to me far more interesting
although I admit it bores others. Us geeks never change I s'pose.
Years ago when I watched Star Trek I hated it. Every episode ended
with some BS like "I've got it, we can cross phase the neutrino
generator with the proton de-polarizer and reverse the field" or some
other stupid techno-mantra. When they put Whoopui Goldberg on Star
Trek, my skin crawled, touchy feelly drivel, ugh.
Yeah, real science is slow but pay attention to several fields at once
and it gets better.
I truly think amateurs should do science and not leave it to the
corrupt scientific priesthood. When you have 50 authors on a paper
and somebody wins a Nobel for managerial excellence, real science is
dead.