Mike

Member since: Jun 27th, 2005

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So... how's Austin? (Mike Propst)

May 5th 2009 5:36PM I enjoy replying to your stuff.

So... how's Austin? (Mike Propst)

Oct 3rd 2008 5:25PM howdy, me! I like Austin too.

Doherty Busted in Rehab! (Spinner)

Aug 25th 2006 7:49PM I guess those guys from the KLF did too good of a job "creating" Pete Doherty. ;)

Review: King Kong (Cinematical)

Dec 13th 2005 2:21AM Sir Trev, that's mighty harsh. Since the early days when he was making movies that would barely get coverage on a blog like this, let alone the millions of dollars used to make Lord of the Rings, he's been talking about remaking King Kong. Why? Not to try and best it, but to pay tribute to it because of his own wide-eyed childlike wonder. I'm sure he'd agree with you that he can't top it if he could get past your ignorant cracks. Not to sound like a fanboy (I am in fact a fan), not every moviemaker is out for cash and glory. Some people like movies. Plus, it sure as hell looks better than any other major movie this whole year.

Ask Download Squad: What's the best alternative to Microsoft Office? (Download Squad)

Jul 22nd 2005 11:48AM I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you, safrecko, on the statement that "if price is a non-issue, Office 2003 is King." I have both OpenOffice.org (because it's my preference) and Office 2003 on my computer. I wish it didn't have to be that way, since collectively they take up about a terraflop of disk space and make Adobe CS look conservative on RAM. I have used Word 2003 for one feature only, the comments, because a client was using them. I find that I'd rather be without a feature than have it implemented so poorly (I find Acrobat to be much better at that). Word has also been terrible at maintaining styles, working with images and diagrams, and generally just about everything I've had to do on the project. I have also used Access quite a bit to model new databases quickly and easily, but I find that with the 2.0 release of oOo, the Base app is great -- not to mention when I'm through modelling the database I don't just have a model, I have a working MySQL db instead of an unusable Access POS I have to convert. Microsoft is trying to create a "platform" with Office and the main problems with that are: -without all the components, it's not really a platform successfully anyway, and there's nothing on this earth that'll make me go back to Outlook. -some of us, even for fairly advanced office app uses, do not require a "platform," we want a word processor, a spreadsheet, and whatever else. A final point: Personally, if I were an Office 2000 user and didn't want to spend the money or disk space to upgrade, I would find those ads calling me a dinosaur infuriatingly insulting and would take my business to someone who I thought would treat me better in 2 years.

Quentin Tarantino vs. David Lynch - Random Quote Alert (Cinematical)

Jul 19th 2005 5:49PM L'Emmerdeur -- I think the comparison with ears started simply because of the referenced quote. I agree, though, the similarity of the two scenes ends in their focus on the ear. And while I don't think less of someone who wants only "deep stuff" or only fluff (that's why there are different movies: because there are different tastes), you are right that a balanced diet is a key to nutrition. There is plenty of room for both at my table, and very little room for comparing entertaining (if highly derivative) apples to stimulating (if sometimes murky) oranges. and by the way, TheMovieGoer.com: I don't know what bothers me most -- the fact that you would accuse one of the most original filmmakers in the world of pilfering the use of time-travel in movies from Tarantino, who just used a very old storytelling trick in a movie full of (fun but) old tricks -- or the fact that your name is a URL.... confusing.

KnoppMyth: simple MythTV Linux distro? (PVR Wire)

Jul 13th 2005 10:07PM The site has great forums too. In one of the more useful ones, users post their configurations that "just worked," and those that worked with only a little tweaking. Great resource since the subject of getting MythTV to work can involve a lot of guessing.

Watch the living dead online (Cinematical)

Jun 27th 2005 4:46PM That explains why I have a super-cheap 50-movie classic horror DVD set that includes almost nothing from as recent as the 60s, with the notable exception of Night of the Living Dead.