Rami has lived on three continents, can get by in three languages, and got a great deal on a three-for-one university degree. In his free time, he can generally be found fiddling with open-source software and websites, in which he is joined by his stuffed toy penguin Aristophanes.
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2010-07-26 20:10 - How Many Bites Until It Starts to Suck? -
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I haven't yet seen it, but Toy Story 3 has supposedly bucked the trend.
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2010-07-26 10:25 - How Many Bites Until It Starts to Suck? -
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It also established the tradition that the third film in any Marvel-inspired series would be dreadful.
Isn't there a tendency for the third film in a series to be a bit pants, Marvel-inspired or not? - 2010-07-19 07:19 - A for Effort (and Explosions) - link Hah. Someone should develop a board game about the Internet -- with similar penalties, like loss of sanity points for visiting certain sites.
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2010-07-18 23:45 - A for Effort (and Explosions) -
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seen anyone whining that they shouldn't have made her a woman except for seriously hardcore misogynists
One of them being, of course, Dirk Benedict... - 2010-07-18 18:36 - A for Effort (and Explosions) - link @Will: I think that's a perfectly plausible justification for it, yes... but then they changed so many little things from the show, they could have changed one or two more!
- 2010-07-16 20:23 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Ten – Dead Baby Allergy - link Just a note on your inviting-authors-to-tea thing: I believe Arundhati Roy lives in New Delhi, so she wouldn't be much cheaper to fly in than Murakami.
- 2010-07-12 05:43 - Garth Ennis Is A Hack - link @webcomcon: Fixed it for you. I'm afraid FerretBrain doesn't really do warnings -- but we do suggest using the Preview button!
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2010-07-08 22:30 - A for Effort (and Explosions) -
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But does it feature scenes where groups of people stand around firing automatic weapons at each other at close range and with minimal cover and nobody ever, ever actually being hit by a bullet?
Yep :-) lots and lots and lots of bul... - 2010-07-08 09:44 - A for Effort (and Explosions) - link Nitpick: Mr T's infamous "I pity the fool" catchphrase is from Rocky III, not The A-Team. Having watched tons of the former but not the latter, I was enormously confused the first time I came across that particular catchphrase :...
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2010-07-05 23:59 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Nine – Post Hypnotic Suggestion -
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Actually, I do think I kind of miss the later part of the podcast where you talked about how shit the thing you'd read was and made fun of it.
A drawback of only good books being left in the competition, perhaps? Maybe there sh... - 2010-07-04 21:22 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode Nine – Post Hypnotic Suggestion - link I'd forgotten how odd I sound when I'm recorded ;-) A thought that's struck me now that I'm listening to the discussion in the context of the previous podcasts -- the feelings-are-what-lasts sentiment in South of the Border reminds me of...
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2010-07-02 20:26 - The Platonic Form of Bullshit -
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over [unspecified meal]* before the most recent TeXt Factor recording
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2010-07-01 22:18 - The Platonic Form of Bullshit -
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When I read the article, all I could think is: so what is Plato supposed to be saying in the code?
Well, clearly it's something deep and mysterious. It makes me wonder if such codes -- whose meaning may not be immediately obvio... - 2010-06-30 05:26 - Ferretbrain Presents the TeXt Factor Episode 7 – Like Excalibur - link Finally got around to listening to all of this. One question -- while I've not read The Maltese Falcon I have seen the film. In the film, Cairo's character is played very camp -- I was wondering how much of that was directorial interpreta...
- 2010-06-29 20:28 - Ferretbrain Presents the teXt Factor Episode 1 - Monotheism - link Yeah, I assumed it was intentional too :-)
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2010-06-24 11:19 - Separate But Equal -
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I also notice this thread is turning into "men discuss people's expectations of gender balance and wonder how women feel about it"
Time to add it to the Minority Warrior theme, perhaps ;-)?
