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but really I just wanted to know who rec’d it last night.

Now it’s about The Indians, Cardinals, and Tigers! Oh my! hehe Lately the Indians have done barely anything and the Cardinals have had a lot of news though so it’s been mainly about the Cardinals.

I believe it is coming back to the Fox in May

and there being no damn blue screen that I constantly see is pretty nice.

Although the best logic on why to use a PC I’ve ever heard is: When the computers take over the world I want it to be the ones that break down all the time.

I am not good with computers at all but Macs are SO easy. Everything is so together.

I had my logic board replaced for free on the last month of my warranty

i’ve been frustrated to no end by the inefficiency and the inflexibility. my girlfriend at the time (her mac) would constantly have to hover over me for fear of damaging the system with my computing demands.

i have an xbox 360, so my needs for an overblown entertainment system are met. i really don’t see a need for a mac outside of everything the xbox can do.

I think 2004 ran on top of a virtualized power pc on intel macs and was so slow on medium sized documents (15-30 pages) as to be completely unusable for me.

2008 can at least run with moderately sized documents, but I still have trouble with manuscripts >50 pages or so, I haven’t been able to get mathtype working at all, and endnote has been an absolute nightmare for me. There are also some strange eps rendering problems that seem to be a problem with Macs in general, and not Office in particular. Couple all that with the poor compatibility with Mac standards (screwy behavior with Spaces, windows can get lost after using multiple monitors, fragmented menu/toolbars), the lack of Outlook (for now), and the inexplicably poor cross compatibility of files with windows versions, and I think it’s a stretch to even call the software suite “Office” on a Mac.

I’m sure this is largely intentional on Microsoft’s part to degrade the overall Mac experience, and they’ve done a damn good job in my opinion.

I use latex for my own manuscripts and google docs for everything else when I can.

since most of linux is open-source, does this create problems finding support? is support really needed? this point is probably moot because finding support for microsoft products that doesn’t come in the form of broken english from bangalore has gone the way of t-rex. the species of dinosaur and the musician.

i have always wanted to go but never have while i was in town.

and pappy’s in the STL has only been open a couple years. i could totally be wrong though. nothing online links them together including the pappy’s stl site

i haven’t eaten at either one yet, but if they are anything like the Hickory Log down in Dexter, they are off the freaking chain

and have been to the new one but only in the outdoor area after a game. i would like to try it again.

That makes some sense. Now that you mention it I’ve seen some very long CVs that were just that—a sort of self-bibliography, often very long.
I’ve also seen things such as “please provide a resume/CV in your application” so I assume they are sometimes used in an either/or fashion. For a student applying to a program, a CV would often be de facto the same thing as a resume since the person will often not really have a “body of work” yet.

was correct that CV is predominantly seen in the academic sector

That’s clearly a toupee, dude.

If so 8.
I haven’t seen it in forever. I just know I really liked it. Probably mainly because it makes me cry.

not that dreadful movie.

rec

for the sequel, though

in all fairness to star wars, I just just checked wiki and Gone With The Wind has been re-released a total of seven times

Who doesn’t love Rambo II?

I think it’s a cultural thing, partly. There are a lot of university groups (most famously the Cambridge Footlights, of which I think Mitchell & Webb may have been members, also Stephen Fry (who may be best known in the states for the lead role in the film Wilde, but who’s very famous here as a comedian & personality) and Hugh Laurie (of House fame).

I also think standup is a lot more diverse and, in some cases, experimental/varied in the UK. There are some very good US standups but the vast majority of them seem to follow the same set-up/joke or observational ranting MO, whereas I think you can get away with more “weird” or “experimental” acts here and audiences are more tolerant of that sort of thing in general (again, not in all places, but there’s certainly more of a culture of that sort here IMO).

For my money, sketch shows are among the hardest things to do in comedy. In amongst the good ones over here there’s a hell of a lot of crap; I guess that’ll be the case with anything. I think it’s also kinda a young person’s game – most of them (from the Pythons onwards) seem to derive a lot of their humour from poking fun at the absurdity of the status quo, and it’s a lot easier to do that as a 20-something comedian than a 40-something millionaire.

Anyhoo, couple of other recommendations that may or may not be to your taste – it’s very different from the Mitchell And Webb stuff, and is more rooted in awkwardness and (at times) downright unpleasantness, but The League of Gentleman may be worth a look if you’re into very dark, absurdist comedy. It’s set entirely in a fictional Lancashire (a traditionally poor part of northern england) village, and the “sketches” of the show are each either one-off pieces or running narratives about the various inhabitants of the village. Most of the humour comes from the absurdity or unpleasantness of the characters, so there’s that strand of the Python-type humour there (along with plentiful cross-dressing). It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea but the almost unrelenting darkness and weirdness of it appealled to me, anyhow.

In the same vane, there’s a show called Little Britain that was briefly somewhat similar (albeit more light-hearted and “traditional” in a sketch show way) to the League of Gentleman, although, IMO, probably slightly inferior, but it DID have a very good first series (and, i think, the 2nd one is OK too) but it has descended since then into almost unbearably puerile and unfunny material, so I would steer well clear of all later series. Still, I get the feeling series one would be up your street and is probably very similar to Mitchell and Webb’s stuff.

If I were to recommend just one show that I think is really genuinely fantastic from the last decade or so on british TV, although I suspect it’s probably difficult to track down in the US and is probably only tangentially a sketch-based show, it’s a spoof news/current affairs programme called “Brass Eye”, that was written by and starring a guy called Chris Morris, who has been pushing boundaries in a pretty exhilarating way in British comedy for quite a long time now and has been involved in a lot of other great programmes besides.

It only ran for 6 episodes, with a special episode (which was quite brilliant, and produced a tabloid furore in this country which completely missed the point in a hyper-ironic way; it was called “Paedophilia” and satirised the over-reaction and sensationalism of the media with regards to stories about, well, paedophiles). Each episode took the form of a news/current affairs broadcast about a “problem” in the UK (I think they were animals, drugs, sex, crime, decline, and something else I can’t remember, war or the environment or something), with various stories, articles and special reports, as well as things like audience comments, and interviews with real celebrities (the significance of whom would sadly probably be lost on an american audience as most of them would likely be pretty unknown outside the UK, although I think the comedy still translates), who were basically not in on the joke. It’s generally visceral, acerbic humour, but it’s done in an intelligent way and it’s not at all salacious or exploitative (although there’s a liberal amount of absurdity and some stuff that would be considered unpleasant, I think).

I reckon it’d be completely impossible to do in the US because some of the stuff they did probably wouldn’t get on a mainstream network because it’s either too weird, too close to the bone, or would have created too much negative press (for instance, one part of the “drugs” episode involved creating an entirely fictional drug, which had various outlandish and entirely unbelievable effects, and then getting various celebrities, including Phil Collins and several MPs, to make videos underlining the dangers of “Cake”; in fact, one MP even tabled a question in Parliament about the rise of this clearly ridiculous drug):

David Amess MP, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Basildon, was fooled into filming an elaborate video warning against the dangers of a fictional Eastern European drug called Cake, and went as far as to ask a question about it in Parliament 1. The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called “Shatner’s Bassoon” (altering your perception of time), can give you a bloated neck due to “massive water retention” (allegedly known in the then non-existent Czechoslovakia as “Czech Neck”) and was frequently referred to as “a made-up drug” (a drug, they were told, not made from plants but made up from chemicals). Other celebrities such as Sir Bernard Ingham, Noel Edmonds and Rolf Harris were shown holding the bright-yellow cake-sized pill as they talked, with Bernard Manning telling viewers that “One kiddy on Cake cried all the water out of his body. Just imagine how his mother felt. It’s a fucking disgrace” and that “…you can puke yourself to death on this stuff — one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone… What a fucking disgrace”. Manning, along with other participants, told the public that Cake was known on the street as “loonytoad quack”, “Joss Ackland’s spunky backpack”, “ponce on the heath”, “rustledust” or “Hattie Jacques pretentious cheese wog”, and then informed anyone offered it to “chuck it back in their face and tell them to fuck off”.

Anyhow, I’m starting to ramble, so I’ll STFU…

Especially if you’re talking about absurdism—you could catch some great conceptual pieces in the last half hour of those shows in the early ‘90s and late ’80s. The ’70s shows are really dated, but they still hold up in a lot of those ways, and without the commercialization that ruined the show post-Wayne’s World (where it was shown that you could spin a sketch into something really profitable)