Eccentric Flower talk:201012/Bits From Sick

Patrick:

Beyond that, the little clip from that show makes it look RIDICULOUSLY bad. All that money and effort on something that appears to be a cheap carnival ride? How sad.

-- 18:05, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Joy:

Yeah, that was so not an 8-10 foot fall. You can tell by extrapolating from the height of the dangling actress.

I cannot believe you are going to be in Philadelphia too. Dammit, I miss out on all the fun living in the midwest with these little rugrats I have to take care of!

-- 18:11, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Columbina:

Bring the rugrats to Boston! (No, no, I realize that way lies madness.)

-- 19:13, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Jan:

As chance would have it, I already had one online discussion of the Spider-Man thing open in another tab when I read your entry.

I second Patrick's commentary about the cheesiness of the clip. I mean, OK, it's an 8-second clip, but still, that did not look good. I think at this point there's so much money sunk into it that they'll have a hard time canceling it outright unless someone actually dies. Which doesn't seem that unlikely at this point.

-- 19:16, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Shmuel:

I'm selfishly hoping they do pull themselves together and keep going, because based solely on the io9 review, I totally want to see this musical.

-- 19:39, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Joy:

We probably will at some point, Col. I really want Larkin to meet V. Although I also like the idea of leaving the kids with my parents and heading up to Boston with E.

-- 19:42, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Harmony:

We saw Tron this weekend as well, and I surprisingly, I really enjoyed it, for most of the reasons you mention. I was expecting a effects-heavy cheese show, and I got that, but I also really enjoyed the soundtrack and the explosions and zooming and discs and whatnot. It dragged in a few places, and Jeff Bridges pissed off some screenwriter to get some of that dialogue (a few times I resisted the urge to exclaim "It's The Dude!"). It was quite satisfying. I was not a huge fan of the original, though, so I didn't have high expectations.

-- 21:02, 21 December 2010 (GMT)

Mel:

Rob has the crud, too, so it's not limited to Up North. I bought a whole ton of Puffs at Sam's Club last week because I nearly always get a cold around the holidays, but so far it's not me using them. Knock on wood.

-- 04:07, 22 December 2010 (GMT)

ProfRobert:

"Bits from sick" has a totally different meaning in British English, I've learned.

The Child has given me his cold again. He picked it up at daycare as usual. He's supposed to go one full day and two halves each week. In practice, he does that one week, spends the next week being sick, goes back for a week, spends the next week being sick. The place is London in the 14th Century. It's supposed to be good for his immunune system in the long run (i.e., better this now than in kindergarten), but it's wearing (and not to mention the fact that it halves the value of the daycare, or doubles the cost, depending on how you want to look at it).

-- 10:05, 22 December 2010 (GMT)

DanLyke:

Holy crap. If that guy in the Spiderman clip actually fell far enough to hit things below I will be disappointed if there aren't criminal charges filed. There are completely off-the-shelf parts to do that stunt safely that, if you're willing to over-pay for it (ie: $200) you could buy at any REI.

And if you're willing to wait a few days you could order the bits from PMI and get them in colors that in that Spiderman falldon't show up as ludicrously in the lights.

Of course maybe what happened is that they went to REI rather than their local climbing shop and asked the salespeople for advice...

-- 16:53, 22 December 2010 (GMT)

Columbina:

They are now saying that it was not an equipment failure, that someone forgot to hook up the restraining cable properly at the far end. That sure looks like a cable break to me, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, especially since I'm not sure "human error" is a more forgivable sin here.

-- 20:38, 22 December 2010 (GMT)

DanLyke:

Wow. Yeah, I'm a big fan of procedures that make people responsible to check their own tie-ins. And if you can't do that, change the staging.

Shudder. Oh well, yet another thing that my lack of attending won't make any difference on because I wouldn't have attended in the first place.

-- 22:19, 22 December 2010 (GMT)