What you doing on the weekend?

[reddragdiva]

• cyberneph is visiting this weekend. Good!

• B-Movie on Friday. Who is going? And who is doing Dead And Buried instead?

• Anti-war march on Saturday. What groups of you lot are going, and where are you meeting?

• "Am I the only one here who didn't like Lord of the Rings? Dreadful piece of hackwork."

I must get photos up quicker, so that my ridiculously vain subjects will not lynch me via LJ and IRC. The current system (load into Gimp, crop, tweak colours, put up) has proven entirely too labour-intensive to be workable long-term. And I can take pictures SO MUCH FASTER with the new toy. Perhaps I should take them more carefully at the time. But that's no fun. This is Unix, I should be able to automate this.

(It does help that no-one seems to give a hoot about shiny index pages just so long as their pic looks good. And it is fun seemingly having become icon merchant to the world.)

Update: Why on earth is this post popular enough to score fifty-plus comments?

Comments

[childeric.livejournal.com]

B-Movie on Friday. Who is going?

I am, as is sushidog.

[androktone.livejournal.com]

yup :) you should charge :) (actually, don't..) :P


dan and i are going to the demo - some of us are meeting at Cowshave Towers first, some are meeting at ambankment..

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

B-Movie, yup, should be.

March, yup. Meeting various CamGoths and possibly other friends at the National Gallery at midday.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I remain undecided about B Movie versus Dead and Buried.

I'm meeting Kate and Tony at Waterloo but that's not very handy for you north of the river types. I think Moomin and Lyssa and others are meeting outside the National Gallery and we were going to try to meet up with them along the route.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

War: Many goffs are going. And me. Not sure where from, yet. Need to find some way of being able to protest and at the same time not have to be thrown into a crowd of Socialist Worker types and pikeys with dogs on string.

gimp: you can call gimp functions on the command-line IIRC. So a little shell script should work. Failing that, Photoshop has a macro-recording/scripting thingamebob, which is excellent. Failing that, use IDS, which does dynamic image resizing online. (but you'll need cgi-bin access) Failing that, pay someone to do it for you. :-)

B-Movie. Everyone says it is good. But I don't like clubs. Depends how drunk I feel.

LoTR: Over-rated. Especially the second film. But then, I don't reckon that the book's much cop either.

[ickle-yuki.livejournal.com]

B-Movie: No.

Going to BBB in brum on sunday and staying home generally for a while cos of being broke....

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Yes. Too much exposure to S-W lunies at young age now makes me allergic to the sight of them and causes Prolonged Rants. I do not know if I am going. So far I have no plans.

I [heart] Gollum ... the Two Towers is grebt.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

*Come to b-movie!* I'm going.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

LoTR: Over-rated. Especially the second film. But then, I don't reckon that the book's much cop either.

Interesting that you've assumed that the rant reddragdiva is linking to is about the movie, not the book... won't be long before people forget there ever was a book!

goddamn pop culture of the youth of today... when I were a lass... *mutters*

[reddragdiva]

There are a lot of quite normal people going who would never demonstrate normally. The general populace is REALLY PISSED OFF about this.

Yeah, I can really see starting the whole of Gimp from the shell for one function ;-) Will investigate.

[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

Myself and Ms. Bliss will be attending B-movie.

[reddragdiva]

I want her to steal large chunks of the set list for her own '80s nights.

[redcountess]

I just read steer's rant and loved it. I can't believe that I read the thread and left two comments amid all those academics though (/me tugs forelock)

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[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

Are the B-movie playlists available anywhere?

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Interesting that you've assumed that the rant reddragdiva is linking to is about the movie, not the book...

Damn! too many years of Slashdot reading meant that I felt obliged not to read the article! ;-)

Although given the zeigeist, it wasn't an unfair assumption!

(Having now read the article, I kind of agree, apart from the bits about All About Eve and Jethro Tull, but that's because I'm a closet folkie. ) ;-)

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

It's tempting. But I've heard a rumour that there may be some goths there.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

It's ok - we can sit in the corner and giggle behind our little paws.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

They's on the website. And they made me whoop muchly with joy!

[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

Just found them and I must agree; definitely whoop worthy :-)

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I was once asked to join the SWP. The conversation went like this:

Scruffy oik: "Would you like to join the Socialist Worker Party?"
Me: "I'm a self-confessed bourgeois slacker. Why on earth would I want to join the SWP? Go away, you troublesome little man."

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Oh! Or imagemagick! That should do the trick. And it's smelly GNU/linux hippie software too! ;-)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

B-b-but the Levellers?!

*winces*

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Oh - one more thing.

Is it just me, or would Gollum have been more convincing if he wasn't a cgi-beastie, but had been played by Steve Buscemi instead?

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[zeke-hubris.livejournal.com]

I like the Levellers :-P
I've even seen them live!
(Bugger, there go all my carefully accumulated goth points)

[reddragdiva]

Is not GPL. In fact, the license's freedom is unclear (source-available and freely usable, but not freely alterable). Doesn't help that their site is down.