Patrick Wynne

Member since: Mar 1st, 2006

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Error message cake: Or why human proofreaders are still needed (Download Squad)

Feb 1st 2009 5:39PM That error isn't due to the computer not understanding Italian.

That's what it looks like when you paste text from a Word document into the WYSIWYG edit field of something like FCKEditor or TinyMCE. Those are proprietary tags that Word litters throughout the document.

Still, that bakery should have had some kind of proofreading before they actually made the cake.

Why We'll See 'Watchmen' on March 6th (Cinematical)

Dec 30th 2008 2:43PM "1) Since they have international distribution rights to the movie, they are using that as leverage on Fox and looking to negotiate."

Actually, Paramount has the international distribution rights.

The Middleman: The Manicoid Teleportation Conundrum (AOL TV)

Jul 8th 2008 3:55PM "Can anyone explain the Dub-Dub/Dubbie nickname. I apparently missed where this came from."

Try sounding out Wendy Watson's initials.

TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Ten: iPod nano (TUAW.com)

Aug 24th 2007 8:52PM This is my comment.

Stargate SG-1: Unending (series finale) (AOL TV)

Jun 23rd 2007 3:20AM "Predictable" pretty much describes how I've felt about the entire SG-1 series and why I quit watching it years ago.

The premise should have been the springboard for some really fantastic episodes and a truly epic storyline. Instead, week after week it was predictable, run-of-the-mill, mediocre sci-fi tales that other shows had already done to death and usually much better.

The chemistry between the actors was never quite capitalized on to the fullest extent, with very little growth or realization of potential. Not even the addition of Ben Browder and Claudia Black could reverse the trend of lackluster interactions that have plagued the show for a long time.

SG-1 always felt to me like a squandered opportunity and after a while, I just got tired of the same old weak storytelling week in and week out. This show should have been put out of its misery long ago. The apparent weakness of its series finale is just the culmination of the problems that have been inherent in the show since the very beginning.

The top 10 most overrated shows (AOL TV)

Apr 30th 2007 8:43PM Firefly *was* terribly overrated. The writing was too cutesy and self-conscious, the dialogue too standard one-note Whedon, the setting an underdeveloped hodgepodge of cliches and inconsistencies, the effects cheap, the characters paper-thin.

But the fanboy religion of Firefly can't be bothered to even consider that its baby just might not be the greatest thing to hit the screen since the first vacuum tubes cranked up. I look forward to the passing of time and the removal of the rose-colored glasses the "Browncoats" persist in viewing their darling through. Maybe one day there can be some actual discussion of the merits and flaws of Firefly without the knee-jerk fanaticism.

A shocking plot twist on tonight's Degrassi (AOL TV)

Jan 29th 2007 2:51AM "And that's not counting the murder of the overweight girl by her abusive boyfriend. She wasn't really a cast regular, but it was still pretty shocking."

Terri lived and ended up going to another school.

My Name Is Earl: Buried Treasure (AOL TV)

Jan 12th 2007 2:35AM "we get a very brief introduction to the woman who says that once she takes the pencil out of her hair, she is a totally different person."

She said she *wished* she was that person, which made it even funnier.

Buffy comic update: pre-orders and spoilers (AOL TV)

Jan 11th 2007 6:06PM "So the fact that Joss himself is doing this means absolutely NOTHING to you? And not like, overseeing/doing like the other comics, but actually DOING it."

Only the first four or so issues of the planned 30 or so. The rest will indeed be just overseen by him, with other writers taking up the pen.

I was semi-interested in this series until I found out two of those other writers are Jeph Loeb and Brad Meltzer. Blech, no thanks.

Mark Beall's Geek Beat: Where Is Wedge Antilles When You Really Need Him? (Cinematical)

Nov 28th 2006 4:50PM I sometimes think I'm the only person in the world who didn't like Zahn's Star Wars work. Oh, they were alright, but hardly the great stuff everyone makes them out to be. To me, they just didn't feel very Star Warsy.

Completely agree on the Stackpole X-Wing books, though. (I've never read Allston's Wraith Squadron novels.) And with keeping KJA as far away as possible. I don't have much of an opinion on the other two authors you didn't care for; Kube-McDowell wasn't the worst I've read in the SW universe and I can't even remember what McIntyre wrote.