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Rogue
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Posted on 04-18-12 12:00 AM, in BORED!! Link
Bumped because I'm bored and this thread shouldn't be buried.

There's nothing to watch on Tuesday nights. I'm supposed to be writing a recap of Sunday shows (Game of Thrones, Eastbound & Down, Mad Men, etc) and it should have been posted already.

I really should be writing a cover letter and editing my resume to send in to this one place I've had in mind for a couple weeks now, but I keep putting it off like the lazy fuck I am.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-19-12 02:09 PM, in Fuck you Link
GAHHHH!! Fuck whoever hacked my account and spammed the crap out of everyone who's ever sent me an e-mail.

I'm sure it was a bot or something, so fuck whoever coded the damn thing and fired off the spam from my account.

I'd actually just changed my password a few days ago, and I've only logged on at home (on the laptop and Brandon's computer) and at the library. So yeah, never logging in at the library again.


(Last edited by Rogue on 04-19-12 02:40 PM)
Rogue
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Posted on 04-19-12 09:34 PM, in Waterfall Sunset Link
Ugh... friend annoying acquaintance is posting, "Once again, nobody really appreciates me. Not a single living soul!!" and "Sick of it all...I don't want to live on this planet anymore!" all day, on Facebook.

Not interested in catering to her compliment fishing, over-inflated ego.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-22-12 01:36 PM, in Fuck you Link
Just... I don't know any more.

Fuck that things keep getting worse for my mom. She keeps going on about feeling unloved and screwed over by her church, and then her best friend (who will be visiting from Australia next month) said she wouldn't be staying with us and that she would rather stay with her family. So she's heartbroken.

On top of that, she has skin cancer.

And whenever I'm around both my parents, they're always really quiet and disappointed with me. I'll mention working on my friend's site and getting fresher clips, but it's not enough. I really need to buckle down and just get a job. Any job at this point, I guess. It doesn't help that Brandon's also unemployed and living with us.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-24-12 12:03 AM, in Sister is pregnant Link
Xeo man, you're definitely not alone, and all I can say is to be supportive.

This won't be your burden to bear, but just be there for her, especially if your niece/nephew's father won't be the one to be the positive male role model this child is going to need in life.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-24-12 12:13 PM, in Ru Paul's Drag Race Link
Rumor has it they wanted to do live voting at the reunion, but I haven't a freaking clue on that end. At the end of the episode, Ru said to let her know who we think should win through Twitter.

Anyway, it was good to see Raja. Tyra was just blah.

Rogue
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Posted on 04-24-12 12:34 PM, in What Are You Reading? Link
I'm about halfway through The Hunger Games and they still haven't entered "The Arena" yet. Still it's a good read.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-25-12 01:12 PM, in Rogue (Rather Pathetically) Playing Around with Photoshop Link
I know it's not great, but for some reason I'm special ed proud of this. I mean, photography/photo-editing are not my fortes, though they're things I dabble in as journalistic necessities.

I've only recently started doing manipulations.

This one was part of a piece I wrote on the woman archers we've got this year (http://www.geekarmada.com/2012/04/25/is-2012-the-year-of-the-woman-archer/):


Tips for the future?
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Posted on 04-25-12 05:54 PM, in Rogue (Rather Pathetically) Playing Around with Photoshop Link
Originally posted by Sorcha Rohan
It's really good but you can see the fog on Merida's dress near the bottom.

You're completely right about the fog. I'd thought about it, after posting of putting fog in front of Katniss so it wouldn't look so out of place.

The issue with lowering Merida was that the source image was such that the top of her bow was cropped out of the picture:


Maybe cropping the bottom?

Just for the added comparison, here was the source image for Katniss:
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Posted on 04-25-12 11:00 PM, in Waterfall Sunset Link
That moment when you're going through things and find a CD you'd been looking for for months, you open the case and it's your boyfriend's brother's Call of Duty disc.

GRRRRR..
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Posted on 04-26-12 12:35 AM, in Sister is pregnant Link
Originally posted by X
I guess adoption is in the mind of my sister now...

When my boyfriend's 17-year-old sister was pregnant she thought about going the adoption route for a time, but changed her mind. The counselor she spoke to about it even said that 4 out of 5 girls don't go through with it and decide to keep the baby.

Still, I'm glad to hear your sister's becoming more responsible for the new life she's constructing inside her.
Rogue
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Posted on 04-27-12 02:10 AM, in Rogue (Rather Pathetically) Playing Around with Photoshop Link
Added some fog in front of Katniss and fixed Merida's hair a little.



EDIT: Here's another edit, but with fog all over the rest of the background:



(Last edited by Rogue on 04-27-12 02:27 AM)
Rogue
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Posted on 04-27-12 03:18 AM, in Ru Paul's Drag Race Link
A couple friends got to go to the taping last night for the reunion episode. Apparently they did the crowning portion three times so even the audience doesn't know who won.

They announced Chad Michaels first, and then when they did it again apparently Phi Phi and Sharon didn't look very happy and it looked like they weren't aware that they'd have to pretend they won or lost. Would be kind of a shame if they win and they don't look happy on screen.

Entertainment Weekly was there too and wrote a play-by-play minus crucial details


(Last edited by Rogue on 04-27-12 04:33 PM)
Rogue
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Posted on 04-27-12 04:03 AM, in What Are You Reading? Link
Finished The Hunger Games in a couple days. Would have finished it sooner, but I was either busy or falling asleep.

I'm on the wait list for a copy of Catching Fire, but some Twilight Moms posted the first two chapters on their website, so I've got that, I guess.

I'm most of the way through the third volume of American Vampire, but I should really start into Michael Crichton's Pirate Latitudes since I took it out of library, I'd meant to read it for quite some time now, and it's due next week.
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Posted on 04-27-12 05:57 PM, in 92-Year-Old DVD Bootlegger is Freaking Robin Hood Link
After this WWII veteran's wife died, he took up bootlegging movies, mailing them (at his own expense) to troops overseas, where the movies are distributed by army chaplains.

The world needs more Hyman Strachmans.

SOURCE


At 92, a Bandit to Hollywood but a Hero to Soldiers

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — One of the world’s most prolific bootleggers of Hollywood DVDs loves his morning farina. He has spent eight years churning out hundreds of thousands of copies of “The Hangover,” “Gran Torino” and other first-run movies from his small Long Island apartment to ship overseas.

“Big Hy” — his handle among many loyal customers — would almost certainly be cast as Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details. He is actually Hyman Strachman, a 92-year-old, 5-foot-5 World War II veteran trying to stay busy after the death of his wife. And he has sent every one of his copied DVDs, almost 4,000 boxes of them to date, free to American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

With the United States military presence in those regions dwindling, Big Hy Strachman will live on in many soldiers’ hearts as one of the war’s more shadowy heroes.

“It’s not the right thing to do, but I did it,” Mr. Strachman said, acknowledging that his actions violated copyright law.

“If I were younger,” he added, “maybe I’d be spending time in the hoosegow.”

Capt. Bryan Curran, who recently returned from Afghanistan, estimated that from 2008 to 2010, Mr. Strachman sent more than 2,000 DVDs to his outfits there.

“You’re shocked because your initial image is of some back-alley Eastern European bootlegger — not an old Jewish guy on Long Island,” Captain Curran said. “He would time them with the movie’s release — whenever a new movie was just in theaters, we knew Big Hy would be sending us some. I saw ‘The Transformers’ before it hit the States.”

Jenna Gordon, a specialist in the Army Reserve, said she had handed out even more of Mr. Strachman’s DVDs last year as a medic with the 883rd Medical Company east of Kandahar City, where soldiers would gather for movie nights around personal computers, with mortar blasting in the background. Some knew only that the discs came from some dude named Big Hy; others knew not even that.

“It was pretty big stuff — it’s reconnecting you to everything you miss,” she said. “We’d tell people to take a bunch and pass them on.”

White-haired, slightly hunched and speaking in his Depression-era Brooklyn brogue (think Casey Stengel after six years of Hebrew school), Mr. Strachman explained in a recent interview that his 60-hour-a-week venture was winding down. “It’s all over anyways — they’re all coming home in the near future,” he said of the troops.

As he spoke, he was busy preparing some packages, filled with 84 discs of “The Artist,” “Moneyball” and other popular films, many of them barely out of theaters, to a platoon in Afghanistan.

As for his brazen violation of domestic copyright laws, Mr. Strachman nodded guiltily but pointed to his walls, which are strewed with seven huge American flags, dozens of appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their beloved DVDs.

“Every time I got back an emotional e-mail or letter, I sent them another box,” he said, adding that he had never accepted any money for the movies or been told by any authorities to stop.

“I thought maybe because I’m an old-timer,” he said.

In February, Mr. Strachman duplicated and shipped 1,100 movies. (“A slow month,” he said.) He has not kept an official count but estimates that he topped 80,000 discs a year during his heyday in 2007 and 2008, making his total more than 300,000 since he began in 2004. Postage of about $11 a box, and the blank discs themselves, would suggest a personal outlay of over $30,000.

Born in Brooklyn in 1920 to immigrants from Poland, Mr. Strachman left high school during the Depression to work for his family’s window and shade store in Manhattan. He became a stockbroker on Wall Street — “When there were no computers, you had to use your noodle” — before retiring in the early 1990s.

After Mr. Strachman’s wife of more than half a century, Harriet, died in 2003, he discovered a Web site that collected soldiers’ requests for care packages. He noted a consistent plea for movie DVDs and wound up passing his sleepless nights replicating not only the films, but also a feeling of military comradeship that he had not experienced since his own service in the Pacific during World War II.

“I wouldn’t say it kept him alive, but it definitely brought back his joie de vivre,” said Mr. Strachman’s son, Arthur, a tax accountant in New York.

Mr. Strachman has never ripped a movie from a store-bought DVD and does not even know how; rather, he bought bootlegged discs for $5 in Penn Station before finding a dealer closer to home, at his local barbershop. Those discs were either recordings made illegally in theaters or studio cuts that had been leaked.

Originally, Mr. Strachman would use his desktop computer to copy the movies one tedious disc at a time. (“It was moyda,” he groaned.) So he got his hands on a $400 professional duplicator that made seven copies at once, grew his fingernails long to better separate the blank discs, and began copying hundreds a day.

Last month, in black grandpa shoes and blue suspenders that hoisted his trousers up to his sternum, Mr. Strachman and his spindly hands steered a master copy of “The Artist” into the machine, fed the seven other bays with blanks, and pressed “Record.” Six minutes later, in went “The King’s Speech.” Then “Moneyball.”

He eventually stuffed the maximum of 84 discs (12 titles, 7 each) into a United States Postal Service fixed-rate box, secured it with several yards of packing tape and scrawled out a packing slip for the Massapequa Park post office. The contraband, which he said could take up to three months to arrive, was addressed to an Army chaplain.

“Chaplains don’t sell them, and they fan out,” Mr. Strachman said. “The distribution is great.”

The movie studios are less enthusiastic. Although the most costly piracy now takes place online through file-sharing Web sites, the illegal duplication of copyright DVDs — usually by organized crime in Eastern Europe and China, not by retirees in their 90s in the American suburbs — still siphons billions of dollars out of the industry every year. And while Mr. Strachman’s movies were given to soldiers as a form of charity, studios do send military bases reel-to-reel films, which are much harder to copy, and projectors for the troops overseas.

Howard Gantman, a spokesman for the Motion Picture Association of America, said he did not believe its member studios were aware of Mr. Strachman’s operation. His sole comment dripped with the difficulty of going after a 92-year-old widower supporting the troops.

“We are grateful that the entertainment we produce can bring some enjoyment to them while they are away from home,” Mr. Gantman said.

Careful to minimize his malfeasance, Mr. Strachman said he had kept no copies for himself and had destroyed every master disc soon after the new releases came in.

Before long, the sole evidence of his operation will be on his walls and on a little bookshelf, next to his cholesterol-control pills and a few envelopes of farina, where seven three-ring binders overflow with letters and pictures, most addressed to “Big Hy,” from appreciative soldiers.

“Our downtime is spent watching movies as we clean our weapons,” one handwritten note said.

Another accompanied a flag from a combat mission over Afghanistan: “I can think of no one more deserving than you, and no one who understands what this flag stands for and means to our veterans.”

The fun will stop soon, Mr. Strachman said. “I’m not sure who’s going to be left over there anymore,” he said, happier for the soldiers’ return than for his need to find another hobby.

And with that the duplicator beeped, spitting out seven more copies of “The Artist.”

Mr. Strachman scooped them out of their trays, put a rubber band around them and inserted the stack into a box, perhaps his very last.





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Rogue
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Posted on 04-28-12 04:02 AM, in Rogue (Rather Pathetically) Playing Around with Photoshop Link
No, I know exactly what you're talking about.

I had actually blurred Merida a little. She's not as sharp as in the source image. I thought about blurring her more so it would look more like a real photo and Katniss would be the only one "in focus," but since I was doing this for an article on both of them I didn't blur Merida as much and just kept them both relatively sharp.

I really need to practice at this stuff more.
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Posted on 04-28-12 12:48 PM, in Rogue (Rather Pathetically) Playing Around with Photoshop Link
Using CS 5. Not a genuine copy.
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Posted on 04-29-12 12:04 PM, in Waterfall Sunset Link
Minty freshness...
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Posted on 04-29-12 10:41 PM, in 92-Year-Old DVD Bootlegger is Freaking Robin Hood Link
I love that the MPAA pretty much has to grin and bear it.

Awesome is made of Hyman Strachman.
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Posted on 04-30-12 09:09 PM, in Game of Thrones Link
Yep, I'm definitely straight.



GREATEST. CAMERA TILT. EVER!!


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