Monday, May 29, 2006
cold stone creamery
today I tried peanut butter cup ice cream from cold stone creamery. chocolate ice cream + peanut butter + peanut butter cups+ fudge, all hand mixed. probably the best ice-cream I have ever had. Freshly hand-mixed ice-cream makes all others pale in insignificance. would be great in thailand.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Highlights of interview between Maggie Cheung and Kent Jones
On what she learned by starring in so many action films: "I think it helps also with your physical appearance, even if it is not an action film. Even with walking, you are a bit more aware of your body. For me actually when I get into a part, I very often use the physical side first. I work on the body language before anything else. It is a strange way, but once I have that it takes me there. Once I walk or move in her way then it takes me into the character."
On what made her first interested in acting: "It went up to As Tears Go By, Wong Kar Wai’s first film, and that is where I thought “acting is kind of fun.” Wong Kar Wai was asking something from me that I didn’t think I could do and I didn’t think anyone would ask that of me...I remember there was an emotional scene where I was saying good-bye to Andy Lau at a bus stop. We had to retake that scene the next day because I was not very good. I thought I had been good because I had been crying and crying, but Wong Kar Wai said, “It is not about that. It is not about how many tears drop out of your eyes or how emotional you are.” I said, “No? But you ask me to cry and I am crying, why am I doing it wrong?” He said, “But when you cry you should try to hold back. Nobody cries just like that. The minute you feel the sting in your eyes your first reaction should be ‘I don’t want to cry,’ and to hold it back.” These are layers of acting and at that point I was beginning to be in touch with it. Because acting is acting, but when you are playing a part that is human, we have many dimensions and layers that are not that straightforward...When I was playing in Jackie Chan films, he said, “Be in pain because I just kick you down the stairs.” So I would be literally in pain. It’s not just that. You are sad, you are in pain, and you’re frustrated. There are many things when someone kicks you down the stairs. You are not just in pain."
On Tony Leung: "Funnily enough everyone thinks we have worked together so many times but I worked with him when I was 19 years old for a TV drama. We were both working for television at the time, but since then I had not worked with him again. We have been in the same films together but not the same scene. So actually In the Mood for Love was our first movie...I think because we were kids when we met and we were acting on a very different level and then we separately and went our ways. We both developed our own skills and learned our own things a long the way and to get together again after all these years was wonderful because he was just how I imagined him to be. In a way we haven’t changed since all those years, but we have just gotten better at what we are doing, at least I hope. At least a little bit better."
On advanced acting: "To completely let go and not to be nervous anymore when you hear, “Roll the camera!” It is very natural to have this feeling when you hear that because you know that thing, what ever that may be, will last forever. I never imagined we would be watching these clips. Now we know film will last forever. It’s going digital and it is going to last. But 10 or 15 years ago the idea that film is going to last forever was new and then at some point you realize that it is going to last forever now with video tapes and everything. People are going to watch these films after 50 years. I think I have always had this nervous thing about when they roll the camera, but now I am quite relaxed. I am completely the same before you roll and after you roll. Before I was like, “Okay, let’s do it.” There was a lot more going on in getting ready. But now I just know, “Okay, just go into it and just get into it.” Now I don’t even think about when am I going take a sip of water, when am I going to look that way, I just know if I react properly and if I focus, it will come. I don’t need to plan it."
On using this technique in Clean: "When I read the script that was the first feeling I had. It was the only way to do it. We have all seen a thousand times people playing a junkie and it is so hard not to go into that way to play a junkie, of all that physical stuff. I think that is all we think of when we think of a junkie. But in real life Olivier and I have a couple of friends who have been through this experience and they are nothing like that. WhenI read the script I knew I couldn’t not do it the normal way. So I said, “Okay, I am going to try this new way that I have always wanted to do and haven’t had the chance.” So I just put the script away and did not look at it again until I was on the set. That was one year’s time in between. That is quite unusual because you know this project is coming up and you are going play your part soon and maybe it is time to learn your lines, but I tried not to learn anything about her. I wanted to react to Nick and Béatrice and to other actors. I wanted to see what they were going to give me and I was going to react as Emily and that’s it and not think about what Emily should be."
On filming in sequence: "We did the film in sequence so it started out in Canada and I was “the bitch,” that hysterical woman. And then she calmed down and tried to get clean. So it helped a lot that we were doing it in sequence and to feel the whole thing building up and what she has been going through and where it has taking her. It really helps the character."
On what made her first interested in acting: "It went up to As Tears Go By, Wong Kar Wai’s first film, and that is where I thought “acting is kind of fun.” Wong Kar Wai was asking something from me that I didn’t think I could do and I didn’t think anyone would ask that of me...I remember there was an emotional scene where I was saying good-bye to Andy Lau at a bus stop. We had to retake that scene the next day because I was not very good. I thought I had been good because I had been crying and crying, but Wong Kar Wai said, “It is not about that. It is not about how many tears drop out of your eyes or how emotional you are.” I said, “No? But you ask me to cry and I am crying, why am I doing it wrong?” He said, “But when you cry you should try to hold back. Nobody cries just like that. The minute you feel the sting in your eyes your first reaction should be ‘I don’t want to cry,’ and to hold it back.” These are layers of acting and at that point I was beginning to be in touch with it. Because acting is acting, but when you are playing a part that is human, we have many dimensions and layers that are not that straightforward...When I was playing in Jackie Chan films, he said, “Be in pain because I just kick you down the stairs.” So I would be literally in pain. It’s not just that. You are sad, you are in pain, and you’re frustrated. There are many things when someone kicks you down the stairs. You are not just in pain."
On Tony Leung: "Funnily enough everyone thinks we have worked together so many times but I worked with him when I was 19 years old for a TV drama. We were both working for television at the time, but since then I had not worked with him again. We have been in the same films together but not the same scene. So actually In the Mood for Love was our first movie...I think because we were kids when we met and we were acting on a very different level and then we separately and went our ways. We both developed our own skills and learned our own things a long the way and to get together again after all these years was wonderful because he was just how I imagined him to be. In a way we haven’t changed since all those years, but we have just gotten better at what we are doing, at least I hope. At least a little bit better."
On advanced acting: "To completely let go and not to be nervous anymore when you hear, “Roll the camera!” It is very natural to have this feeling when you hear that because you know that thing, what ever that may be, will last forever. I never imagined we would be watching these clips. Now we know film will last forever. It’s going digital and it is going to last. But 10 or 15 years ago the idea that film is going to last forever was new and then at some point you realize that it is going to last forever now with video tapes and everything. People are going to watch these films after 50 years. I think I have always had this nervous thing about when they roll the camera, but now I am quite relaxed. I am completely the same before you roll and after you roll. Before I was like, “Okay, let’s do it.” There was a lot more going on in getting ready. But now I just know, “Okay, just go into it and just get into it.” Now I don’t even think about when am I going take a sip of water, when am I going to look that way, I just know if I react properly and if I focus, it will come. I don’t need to plan it."
On using this technique in Clean: "When I read the script that was the first feeling I had. It was the only way to do it. We have all seen a thousand times people playing a junkie and it is so hard not to go into that way to play a junkie, of all that physical stuff. I think that is all we think of when we think of a junkie. But in real life Olivier and I have a couple of friends who have been through this experience and they are nothing like that. WhenI read the script I knew I couldn’t not do it the normal way. So I said, “Okay, I am going to try this new way that I have always wanted to do and haven’t had the chance.” So I just put the script away and did not look at it again until I was on the set. That was one year’s time in between. That is quite unusual because you know this project is coming up and you are going play your part soon and maybe it is time to learn your lines, but I tried not to learn anything about her. I wanted to react to Nick and Béatrice and to other actors. I wanted to see what they were going to give me and I was going to react as Emily and that’s it and not think about what Emily should be."
On filming in sequence: "We did the film in sequence so it started out in Canada and I was “the bitch,” that hysterical woman. And then she calmed down and tried to get clean. So it helped a lot that we were doing it in sequence and to feel the whole thing building up and what she has been going through and where it has taking her. It really helps the character."
Maggie Cheung and Olivier Assayas's "Clean"
Preliminary thoughts on Maggie Cheung and Olivier Assayas's "Clean"
- I am going to be horribly biased, because Maggie Cheung, even in middle age, is completely a babe in my mind. She is middle-aged, and still beautiful. When she smiles in that last scene, with that silly looking orange hat hiding everything except for her face... that smile was like the sun
- This is so sad!
- The portrayal of recovery, both physically and emotionally, from drug abuse shown in "Clean" is by far superior to that depicted in "Ray" or "Walk the Line". Of course, they are different types of movies, but here the sentimentality is much more subtle and dignified.
- Nick Nolte did some fine acting. An old man, faced with the death of those he loves most, trying to maintain some dignity in life for those who remain
- Maggie's acting is so much more natural in French. Or maybe because it is in French with which she interacts with her old "friends".
- Is healthcare in Canada that bad, that people have to go to London for tests and surgery?
- Everyone in this movie dresses so cool. Is this what celebrities really dress like in their time off?
- Nolte *is* smarter than he looks, and not just because he knows that the kid has been stealing his coins. He's go the strength of stones in him
- So many charming touches in this movie. Also loved the "spectator cam", where the camera tracks the characters as if the viewer were just another pedestrian or observer or concert-goer.
- Maggie Cheung reminds me of Shiina Ringo, maybe 20 years older (at least in how she dresses)
- The movie mixes pace very well: the slow and still family scenes + the frantic scenes of music business wheeling and deeling
- I feel for this movie (and Maggie's character Emily) because this is a movie about people making hard transitions and trying to change their fundamental character. Familiar line from Irene Paolini to Emily: "People don't change". Emily's response: "I'm trying to". I've said what Irene said before, but at this point in my life, I truly want to believe in Emily's response. Albrecht, afterwards says: "People change. If they need to, they change". How so much I want to believe that!
- Oh, Maggie and the Director used to be married? That adds another layer to what is already a multi-layered movie.
- Stephanie Zacharek called it Maggie Cheung's finest performance to date. Not sure about that, because I'm still biased to Tian Mi Mi (Comrades, almost a love story). But this is a different type of movie.
- I am going to be horribly biased, because Maggie Cheung, even in middle age, is completely a babe in my mind. She is middle-aged, and still beautiful. When she smiles in that last scene, with that silly looking orange hat hiding everything except for her face... that smile was like the sun
- This is so sad!
- The portrayal of recovery, both physically and emotionally, from drug abuse shown in "Clean" is by far superior to that depicted in "Ray" or "Walk the Line". Of course, they are different types of movies, but here the sentimentality is much more subtle and dignified.
- Nick Nolte did some fine acting. An old man, faced with the death of those he loves most, trying to maintain some dignity in life for those who remain
- Maggie's acting is so much more natural in French. Or maybe because it is in French with which she interacts with her old "friends".
- Is healthcare in Canada that bad, that people have to go to London for tests and surgery?
- Everyone in this movie dresses so cool. Is this what celebrities really dress like in their time off?
- Nolte *is* smarter than he looks, and not just because he knows that the kid has been stealing his coins. He's go the strength of stones in him
- So many charming touches in this movie. Also loved the "spectator cam", where the camera tracks the characters as if the viewer were just another pedestrian or observer or concert-goer.
- Maggie Cheung reminds me of Shiina Ringo, maybe 20 years older (at least in how she dresses)
- The movie mixes pace very well: the slow and still family scenes + the frantic scenes of music business wheeling and deeling
- I feel for this movie (and Maggie's character Emily) because this is a movie about people making hard transitions and trying to change their fundamental character. Familiar line from Irene Paolini to Emily: "People don't change". Emily's response: "I'm trying to". I've said what Irene said before, but at this point in my life, I truly want to believe in Emily's response. Albrecht, afterwards says: "People change. If they need to, they change". How so much I want to believe that!
- Oh, Maggie and the Director used to be married? That adds another layer to what is already a multi-layered movie.
- Stephanie Zacharek called it Maggie Cheung's finest performance to date. Not sure about that, because I'm still biased to Tian Mi Mi (Comrades, almost a love story). But this is a different type of movie.
Beautiful beach
Site for the romantic beach scenes in "The Lost City": Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic.
More thoughts on "The Lost City"
- Glorious architecture and design for the family mansion.
- The live singing in the movie - was that modern singers or ancient well-preserved recordings? I want the OST!
- The really tragic character was the old male cabaret dancer who threw his shoe at the communists for closing the cabaret. Fico's loss was primarily ego, secondarily economic. But that dancer's soul was being crushed.
- Aurora's dresses were unbelievably gorgeous. She was pretty hot her self
- Funny how the Fidel haters see this as a movie depicting how horrible Casto and Che were, while the pro-Cuba people see this as a movie as a more mixed bag. Which probably means that Garcia did a pretty good job in balancing things.
- I don't see why people hate the Jester character (Bill Murray). "Ran" had one, and did it right, and showed that epics need a bit of absurdity to keep things in balance.
- The live singing in the movie - was that modern singers or ancient well-preserved recordings? I want the OST!
- The really tragic character was the old male cabaret dancer who threw his shoe at the communists for closing the cabaret. Fico's loss was primarily ego, secondarily economic. But that dancer's soul was being crushed.
- Aurora's dresses were unbelievably gorgeous. She was pretty hot her self
- Funny how the Fidel haters see this as a movie depicting how horrible Casto and Che were, while the pro-Cuba people see this as a movie as a more mixed bag. Which probably means that Garcia did a pretty good job in balancing things.
- I don't see why people hate the Jester character (Bill Murray). "Ran" had one, and did it right, and showed that epics need a bit of absurdity to keep things in balance.
The Lost City
Some notes on The Lost City by Andy Garcia
- Wonderful music
- That was a fantastic looking cove
- The political intrigue was a bit hard to understand at first
- Couldn't make out some of the dialog
- Garcia is either a hypocrite or understands very well the hypocrisy of the Fidel haters. This is most clear from the "cage" scenes. He is apolitical under Batista, and works with the Colonel to free his little brother from probably summary execution. He tries to do the same for the Colonel (by using his little brother) and is repulsed when that Colonel is killed. But what really pushes him over the edge is when his cabaret is closed down. Which, in the end, shows that he doesn't give a damn about politics or freedom or liberty or any of that bullcrap he preaches about in the end. It is all about economics and ego. Fico isn't a tragic hero in this movie. He's just a sad man from a sad sad family. Interpretation of Fico would be a like a personal, ethical, and political Rawshark test. I'm not sure whether this makes the movie a very well acted/directed one or a poorly acted/directed one.
- "Before Night Falls" was much better (or maybe because I appreciated the poetry better than the music?)
- Wonderful music
- That was a fantastic looking cove
- The political intrigue was a bit hard to understand at first
- Couldn't make out some of the dialog
- Garcia is either a hypocrite or understands very well the hypocrisy of the Fidel haters. This is most clear from the "cage" scenes. He is apolitical under Batista, and works with the Colonel to free his little brother from probably summary execution. He tries to do the same for the Colonel (by using his little brother) and is repulsed when that Colonel is killed. But what really pushes him over the edge is when his cabaret is closed down. Which, in the end, shows that he doesn't give a damn about politics or freedom or liberty or any of that bullcrap he preaches about in the end. It is all about economics and ego. Fico isn't a tragic hero in this movie. He's just a sad man from a sad sad family. Interpretation of Fico would be a like a personal, ethical, and political Rawshark test. I'm not sure whether this makes the movie a very well acted/directed one or a poorly acted/directed one.
- "Before Night Falls" was much better (or maybe because I appreciated the poetry better than the music?)
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Essential palm sw
Essential - cr
Blue Files
pTunes
TextPlus
VeriChat
Bejeweled2
Essential - fr
Bluejacker
Converter
Filez
iSilo
KeyCaps
Plucker
TCPMP
Adobe Reader
TeksPhotos
u*Blog
Caltrain
Volume Rocker
Handzipper
Blocks
BART
InnerBackup
MetrO
Essential - lc
Documents to go 7
Blue Files
pTunes
TextPlus
VeriChat
Bejeweled2
Essential - fr
Bluejacker
Converter
Filez
iSilo
KeyCaps
Plucker
TCPMP
Adobe Reader
TeksPhotos
u*Blog
Caltrain
Volume Rocker
Handzipper
Blocks
BART
InnerBackup
MetrO
Essential - lc
Documents to go 7
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Tips on desktop config for minimizing power consumption
From Slashdot
How did you do it? Which components did you choose, and what tools are available to test things like power consumption and heat output?
Just a little meta-comment first... If you log in to post, you can have Slashdot tell you when someone replies. But since you asked, I'll presume you plan to check back in the near future. :)
For measurement, I use a simple kill-a-watt meter. WONDERFUL little toy, and pretty cheap. Unless you have access to dozens of samples, though, you'll need to do your research up-front and the measurement just confirms your success. The below suggestions you should take as BROAD generalizations, you really need to look up each component of your system and pick ones that work together and give you what you need, all while minimizing power.
For your first critical decision (even if you put CPU as the #1 constraint), graphics. Do you just want desktop productivity with only the most basic 3d acceleration? Go for on-board Unichrome or (a bit older) Radeon Xpress (which tend to include the whole chipset, not just video). If you want some "real" 3d power for gaming, but don't rank that as the sole reason you own a PC, try to get one of the newer mobile GPUs. Personally, I went with a GeForce 6600, which draws low enough power to work in a passively-cooled config, but has enough horsepower to play previous-gen games at full res and highest quality (and most current games at the default quality). You might also consider driver support for it first - Many GPUs now offer a wide range of performance, dynamically selectable, so you can run in low performance (and thus low power) mode most of the time, then kick it up to play a game.
For the motherboard, if you don't need a ton of peripherals, uATX boards tend to consider power draw as a design constraint whereas most MBs seem to assume you'll just get a bigger power supply if necessary. And now we see that chipset makes a big difference as well - I'll apparently need to research this topic far more for my next build. ;-)
Which brings me to power supply... Most people don't think anything of it, and get the cheapest, biggest one they can find. I currently run all SeaSonic S-12s (well, one older SeaSonic, the model of which I forget but the same basic design as the S-12s). Nice quiet 12cm fan, and 85% efficient. They cost a little more, but keep your total power budget in mind - When I say I don't have a single system drawing over 100W at-the-wall, I mean it. I have one 380W in my file-server (spinning up four drives will most likely represent the biggest load your system sees), and the rest have 220W (the lowest SeaSonic makes), with not even a hint of instability. And don't neglect what a difference a few percent more efficient makes - On a high-end rig that draws 400W internally, going from 70 to 85% efficient will save a whopping 60W at-the-wall.
Currently, the biggest difference you can make comes from the CPU. Go with a P4, and you might as well abandon power consumption as a design constraint. On the opposite end of that spectrum, if you don't need a lot of horsepower, the Via Epia boards (of which you can now get a dual-CPU model, the DP-310) absolutely rock and have everything on-board - I run a passively cooled single-CPU Dual-NIC Epia as my internet gateway, with a CF drive, and the whole thing draws 26W (IIRC); yet, when necessary, I can use it as a low-end desktop machine fully capable of doing just about any common task short of gaming or video editing. For my "real" machines, I currently have Athlon64s (one RS400 chipset and one NForce4, the latter of which I now regret after reading the FP link). Though spec'd at a TDP of 65W, in practice they draw 30-35W under load, and 7-11W idle. A Pentium-M would give more bang-per-watt, but they cost a hell of a lot more. And as I mentioned, the next-gen Core Duos look very promising.
For memory, running one gig stick instead of two 512MB sticks (otherwise identical) draws only a bit more than half the power (and on the Athlon 64, two sticks frequently causes no end of headaches anyway). And of course, lower voltage means lower overall power consumption.
For HDDs, they all come out to the 15W ballpark. Ignore spin-up draw (except for picking a power supply, as I mentioned), and don't even bother telling them to ever spin down (under both Windows and Linux, in my experience, they never get to spin down for more than half a minute at a time anyway, which the spin-up surge all but makes up for). Basically pick what you like for HDD, it won't make much difference.
For displays, consider it a no-brainer to go with LCD. But a LOT of variation exists therein - You don't have much choice beyond trusting the manufacturer's specs, though. One area you can improve, however - If it has an external power brick, you can bet they used the cheapest crap they could find. Buy a $30 high-efficiency replacement with similar specs and you can drop the total by 25% easily.
Ummm... Nothing else comes to mind. Basically, you just have to do your homework, and decide what you actually need from your system - We'd all like a pair of SLI'd GF7800s in theory, but unless you do nothing but game, you might as well throw literally $20/month in the garbage for what the electricity to feed them costs.
How did you do it? Which components did you choose, and what tools are available to test things like power consumption and heat output?
Just a little meta-comment first... If you log in to post, you can have Slashdot tell you when someone replies. But since you asked, I'll presume you plan to check back in the near future. :)
For measurement, I use a simple kill-a-watt meter. WONDERFUL little toy, and pretty cheap. Unless you have access to dozens of samples, though, you'll need to do your research up-front and the measurement just confirms your success. The below suggestions you should take as BROAD generalizations, you really need to look up each component of your system and pick ones that work together and give you what you need, all while minimizing power.
For your first critical decision (even if you put CPU as the #1 constraint), graphics. Do you just want desktop productivity with only the most basic 3d acceleration? Go for on-board Unichrome or (a bit older) Radeon Xpress (which tend to include the whole chipset, not just video). If you want some "real" 3d power for gaming, but don't rank that as the sole reason you own a PC, try to get one of the newer mobile GPUs. Personally, I went with a GeForce 6600, which draws low enough power to work in a passively-cooled config, but has enough horsepower to play previous-gen games at full res and highest quality (and most current games at the default quality). You might also consider driver support for it first - Many GPUs now offer a wide range of performance, dynamically selectable, so you can run in low performance (and thus low power) mode most of the time, then kick it up to play a game.
For the motherboard, if you don't need a ton of peripherals, uATX boards tend to consider power draw as a design constraint whereas most MBs seem to assume you'll just get a bigger power supply if necessary. And now we see that chipset makes a big difference as well - I'll apparently need to research this topic far more for my next build. ;-)
Which brings me to power supply... Most people don't think anything of it, and get the cheapest, biggest one they can find. I currently run all SeaSonic S-12s (well, one older SeaSonic, the model of which I forget but the same basic design as the S-12s). Nice quiet 12cm fan, and 85% efficient. They cost a little more, but keep your total power budget in mind - When I say I don't have a single system drawing over 100W at-the-wall, I mean it. I have one 380W in my file-server (spinning up four drives will most likely represent the biggest load your system sees), and the rest have 220W (the lowest SeaSonic makes), with not even a hint of instability. And don't neglect what a difference a few percent more efficient makes - On a high-end rig that draws 400W internally, going from 70 to 85% efficient will save a whopping 60W at-the-wall.
Currently, the biggest difference you can make comes from the CPU. Go with a P4, and you might as well abandon power consumption as a design constraint. On the opposite end of that spectrum, if you don't need a lot of horsepower, the Via Epia boards (of which you can now get a dual-CPU model, the DP-310) absolutely rock and have everything on-board - I run a passively cooled single-CPU Dual-NIC Epia as my internet gateway, with a CF drive, and the whole thing draws 26W (IIRC); yet, when necessary, I can use it as a low-end desktop machine fully capable of doing just about any common task short of gaming or video editing. For my "real" machines, I currently have Athlon64s (one RS400 chipset and one NForce4, the latter of which I now regret after reading the FP link). Though spec'd at a TDP of 65W, in practice they draw 30-35W under load, and 7-11W idle. A Pentium-M would give more bang-per-watt, but they cost a hell of a lot more. And as I mentioned, the next-gen Core Duos look very promising.
For memory, running one gig stick instead of two 512MB sticks (otherwise identical) draws only a bit more than half the power (and on the Athlon 64, two sticks frequently causes no end of headaches anyway). And of course, lower voltage means lower overall power consumption.
For HDDs, they all come out to the 15W ballpark. Ignore spin-up draw (except for picking a power supply, as I mentioned), and don't even bother telling them to ever spin down (under both Windows and Linux, in my experience, they never get to spin down for more than half a minute at a time anyway, which the spin-up surge all but makes up for). Basically pick what you like for HDD, it won't make much difference.
For displays, consider it a no-brainer to go with LCD. But a LOT of variation exists therein - You don't have much choice beyond trusting the manufacturer's specs, though. One area you can improve, however - If it has an external power brick, you can bet they used the cheapest crap they could find. Buy a $30 high-efficiency replacement with similar specs and you can drop the total by 25% easily.
Ummm... Nothing else comes to mind. Basically, you just have to do your homework, and decide what you actually need from your system - We'd all like a pair of SLI'd GF7800s in theory, but unless you do nothing but game, you might as well throw literally $20/month in the garbage for what the electricity to feed them costs.
Best AJPW matches of the 70's and 80's
Have to get some of these AJPW matches!
From http://www.otherarena.com/cgi/post.cgi?20984&1&4&eighties
n 1990 All Japan ran a TV special where fans voted their top 10 favorite All Japan Matches from 70's and 80's. Here is the list along with the voting tallies:
1) (769) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Abby & Sheik 12/15/77
2) (543) Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu 6/5/89 <-- Got this
3) (394) Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 2/24/84
4) (343) Bruiser Brody vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 8/31/83 <-- I have one of their matches together, where Brody wins a pre-Triple Crown title
5) (309) Giant Baba vs. Stan Hansen 2/4/82
6) (288) Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu 1/28/86
7) (264) Stan Hansen/Bruiser Brody vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu 12/12/83
8) (251) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy 8/31/83 - Terry's rtirement match
9) (227) Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 6/21/85
10) (195) Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mil Mascaras 8/25/77 <-- High priority match; can Jumbo vs. MM beat Angle vs. Mysterio?
13) (153)Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Riki Choshu 11/4/85 - 1 Hour Draw in Osaka
14) (149) Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu vs. The Road Warriors 3/9/85
15) (133) Ric Flair vs. Rick Martel 10/21/85 - Double Title match
16) (128) Jack Brisco vs. Giant Baba 12/2/74
17) (122) Giant Baba vs. Fritz Von Erich 7/25/75
18) (115) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka 12/13/81
19) (107) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen 12/13/82
20) (93) Antonio Inoki vs. Hulk Hogan 6/2/83 - Finals of the '83 IWGP Tournament
I'm going to guess #20 is a rib of some sorts? <-- I saw the 2nd match between these two which ended in the riot. But the first match had Inoki knocked unconcious. Never seen it yet.
From http://www.otherarena.com/cgi/post.cgi?20984&1&4&eighties
n 1990 All Japan ran a TV special where fans voted their top 10 favorite All Japan Matches from 70's and 80's. Here is the list along with the voting tallies:
1) (769) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Abby & Sheik 12/15/77
2) (543) Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Genichiro Tenryu 6/5/89 <-- Got this
3) (394) Nick Bockwinkel vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 2/24/84
4) (343) Bruiser Brody vs. Jumbo Tsuruta 8/31/83 <-- I have one of their matches together, where Brody wins a pre-Triple Crown title
5) (309) Giant Baba vs. Stan Hansen 2/4/82
6) (288) Riki Choshu/Yoshiaki Yatsu vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu 1/28/86
7) (264) Stan Hansen/Bruiser Brody vs. Jumbo Tsuruta/Genichiro Tenryu 12/12/83
8) (251) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Stan Hansen & Terry Gordy 8/31/83 - Terry's rtirement match
9) (227) Genichiro Tenryu vs. Riki Choshu 6/21/85
10) (195) Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Mil Mascaras 8/25/77 <-- High priority match; can Jumbo vs. MM beat Angle vs. Mysterio?
13) (153)Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Riki Choshu 11/4/85 - 1 Hour Draw in Osaka
14) (149) Jumbo Tsuruta & Genichiro Tenryu vs. The Road Warriors 3/9/85
15) (133) Ric Flair vs. Rick Martel 10/21/85 - Double Title match
16) (128) Jack Brisco vs. Giant Baba 12/2/74
17) (122) Giant Baba vs. Fritz Von Erich 7/25/75
18) (115) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Bruiser Brody & Jimmy Snuka 12/13/81
19) (107) Terry & Dory Funk vs. Bruiser Brody & Stan Hansen 12/13/82
20) (93) Antonio Inoki vs. Hulk Hogan 6/2/83 - Finals of the '83 IWGP Tournament
I'm going to guess #20 is a rib of some sorts? <-- I saw the 2nd match between these two which ended in the riot. But the first match had Inoki knocked unconcious. Never seen it yet.
Monday, May 22, 2006
textplus for palm
textplus for palm is a very useful predictive word completion engine for palm. Doesn't save that much time, especially for long complex words, but still a time saver.objectives
I need a way to organize and store my thoughts. stuff I don't mind being public willb go into netcortex.blogger.comu*blog works fine
free sw from some jp programmerdoesn't support 5 way controller makes it way hard to make edits
can't get img/file attchmt or category settings to work
host: www.blogger.ccom
XML-RPC path: /api/RPC2
otherwise, the sw is perfect. gotta luv simple sw.
do: say tjanks to tje programmer and suggest 5way support
The Finland Declaration
Can't figure out if the "Finland Declaration" is last ditch desperation by the crazies. Scary - how many people in the center do they think they can win over? How many do they think will be alienated at the ridiculousness of the accusation. Note that the only difference between the Finland conspiracy theory and the previous rounds of attacks is that now they bringing in this supposed group of former student leaders turned republicans. This will turn off any former 14 Oct people from the PAD. But any accusations of republicanism will bring out the Red Gaur crazies too.Scimmed through The Plot, Eisner's manga treatment of the Zion Protocols. Seems there might be some simularity between Napoleon III and Thaksin. Both leaders that incited both great loyalty but also seethint hatred. Napoleon was a true dictator though, while I'll still give Thaksin the benefit of the doubt. The crazies aren't exactly friends of democracy and protectors of the constitution either.
"Whenever one group of people is taught to hate another, a lie is created to inflame the hatred and justify a plot."
Political development can not occur with incitement of hatred. Sondhi is playing with fire, and the Democrats should be very waey because they might get burned in this too.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Essential Firefox plugins and extensions
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Magpie
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Save Image in Folder
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Tabmix Plus
Flashgot (with Free Download Manager)
Download Manager Tweak
Magpie
Adblock Plus
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Save Image in Folder
Save Link in Folder
Tabmix Plus
Flashgot (with Free Download Manager)
Download Manager Tweak
u*blog sux but works
free sw from some jp programmerdoesn't support 5 way controller makes it way hard to make edits
comnfig is hard coz gotta figure out XML-RPC path by yourself
host: www.blogger.ccom
XML-RPC path: /api/RPC2
otherwise, the sw is perfect. gotta luv simple sw.
do: say tjanks to tje programmer and suggest 5way support
objectives
I need a way to orfanize and store my thoughts. stuff I don't mind being public willb go into netcortex.blogger.comtest
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