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Post by shywriter on Aug 29, 2009 16:25:42 GMT -5
Okay, I've spend WAAAAYY too much time here today -- www.jigsawplanet.com/It's embarrassingly simple to upload your farorite jpg files and turn them into jigsaw puzzles ... (as I have repeatedly demonstrated today by e-mailing them to certain tolerant friends!) I found the site by finding this public NCIS jigsaw puzzle: www.jigsawplanet.com/?m=p&id=4f98d4ee51772a36
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Post by dzero on Sept 7, 2009 9:34:52 GMT -5
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Post by Mr.Clark on Sept 7, 2009 11:02:32 GMT -5
I really think this is an awesome deal for both parties. Marvel no longer has to worry about securing independent funding. Disney is going to be making a ton on these. Plus Pixar can now make animated films using Marvel characters which sounds freaking awesome to me.
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Post by shywriter on Sept 7, 2009 12:22:59 GMT -5
I really think this is an awesome deal for both parties. Marvel no longer has to worry about securing independent funding. Disney is going to be making a ton on these. Plus Pixar can now make animated films using Marvel characters which sounds freaking awesome to me. I know I'm the last one with a right to weigh in on movies, but I'd be about this -- I know Disney doesn't only do bunny-and-bluebird movies anymore, but I can't imagine that we'd have too many gritty, edgy, dark and adult marvel character movies by Disney...
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Post by Mr.Clark on Sept 7, 2009 14:07:03 GMT -5
I really think this is an awesome deal for both parties. Marvel no longer has to worry about securing independent funding. Disney is going to be making a ton on these. Plus Pixar can now make animated films using Marvel characters which sounds freaking awesome to me. I know I'm the last one with a right to weigh in on movies, but I'd be about this -- I know Disney doesn't only do bunny-and-bluebird movies anymore, but I can't imagine that we'd have too many gritty, edgy, dark and adult marvel character movies by Disney... I think if Disney gives Marvel the kind of autonomy they gave Pixar then you'll still see that. I think this is less about creative control and more about distribution and funding. Two areas where Marvel was out on its own before. If Iron Man or the Incredible Hulk had tanked Marvel would have been in big trouble as they had ben loaned something like 500mil to make those two movies. Now they have all the backing they'll ever need even if one of there films tanks.
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Post by shywriter on Nov 14, 2009 0:06:40 GMT -5
I love this guy! Double treat: you can watch his vid on his website (my peeps are drawing straws to see who gets stuck daring their credit card to get us all shirts ;D) www.jonesbigasstruckrentalandstorage.com/Not only is my hero still renting big ass trucks & storing stuff ... but he's branched out! www.jonesgoodassbbqandfootmassage.com/I still love this guy! (Spikeloud, ya gotta check him out for us -- he's in your neck o' the woods...)
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Post by dzero on Dec 8, 2009 1:53:33 GMT -5
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Post by Mr.Clark on Dec 8, 2009 10:10:05 GMT -5
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Post by dzero on Dec 8, 2009 14:13:32 GMT -5
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Post by AngelZ on Dec 8, 2009 22:19:33 GMT -5
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Post by mari on Jan 12, 2010 15:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by spikeloud on May 27, 2010 19:25:53 GMT -5
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Post by shywriter on Jul 17, 2010 14:27:45 GMT -5
What a riot! Just heard about this on NPR yesterday -- the website "I Write Like," iwl.me/ -- and just now Dr. Shy read about it somewhere unrelated dared me to try it out. So I bit ... Just as happened to one of the commentators, I put in 3 fairly different bits of stuff I've written -- dialogue from a fic, a paragrah's rant from a forum -- and they kept coming up as David Foster Wallace. I started thinking it was one big ad for David Foster Wallace (whomever he is), so came here and cribbed from the first 2 posts that had a few sentences of text... And it decided dzero writes like Stephen King, and Mr. Clark writes like Arthur Conan Doyle (must be that year in England! ) (the author of the site admitted in the interview he needed to add more authors, for a closer match. Wonder what's to come?)
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Post by mari on Jul 17, 2010 15:46:26 GMT -5
What a riot! Just heard about this on NPR yesterday -- the website "I Write Like," iwl.me/ -- and just now Dr. Shy read about it somewhere unrelated dared me to try it out. So I bit ... Coooool! And ha, first thing with which I tried was that horribly long email I just sent you. Result: Dan Brown. (That makes it worse) Then put in a part of my Christmas story. Result again Dan Brown. (Maybe I should stop inflicting my writing in any form on other people) Another part of that fic turned out to be J. R. R. Tolkien. And the last trial was a bit from my Master thesis (which foremost is just bad English)... and it said David Foster Wallace. David Foster Wallace (whomever he is) Same reaction here, but when I looked him up it clicked: He was the guy whose breakthrough book, 'Infinite Jest' first was considered to complex for translation and then it took his German translator six years. PS: Just out of curiosity put in part of a German email and without protest it came up with Edgar Allan Poe. So just analyzing sentence length?
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Post by dzero on Jul 17, 2010 17:38:52 GMT -5
And it decided dzero writes like Stephen King I'm probably the only person in the world never to have read a single word written by King. Oh well I assume this means that website will now pay me what King gets per book. I'm waiting
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