| Movie premiere |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|09:57 am] |
Thanks everyone for showing up and sorry everyone who missed it. We had a great turn out so many people that the organizers of the event took a picture to show corporate how packed it was.
Our film was shown first, which is tough for audience choice as it might have been difficult to remember the first film shown. We will have the film online after the awards are announced next friday August 21st. I don't think we'll win best picture. There were so many good ones out there. But I feel confident we might make top 10 and win a category or two.
I really appreciate the support whether you made it or not. Bonnie, we missed you as our sound engineer! If you missed the movie, what you missed will be our movie in it's raw form. You'll only see it in its polished happy form from now on. And you've missed the other films which will help put our film in context with others with the same limitations we faced. Thanks again!
I still owe you a more generalized post about the filming which I'll get to today. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|08:04 pm] |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124580802820445189.html
Long and short of it. Deregulation is not good for business if you like wheat.
Commodities or futures are contracts and hedges for something at some time in the future.
Ideally this allows people like farmers to budget for the future instead of just being constantly surprised when it is time for them to sell their item.
The law states that one trader can hold at most 6500 contracts unless you get an exemption.
Corrupt Bush appointees gave exemptions allowing one person to hold 53,000 contracts at one time. It allowed a 6 person cartel to hold 106,000 contracts at one time. This is when the entire market for wheat futures generally number 200,000.
For an initial commitment of 15 billion dollars those 6 people made 200 billion in 5 years...
This went on from 2003-2008. |
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| movie trailer |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|10:03 am] |
I'm spending much too much time on facebook and need to give my livejournal peeps some love.
I know sometimes you wake in the morning and say to yourself. Dammit! I don't get enough Korean style wu xia stories set in the Wild West..... with how do you say..... yeah babies and Geoffrey Rush.
Prayers answered.
[Edit: whoops. video taken down.] |
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| Supreme Court nominee advice. |
[May. 3rd, 2009|08:56 pm] |
Reason's Dave Weigel reacts to the news that Souter is retiring:
"This would be a good time for ambitious liberal jurists to pay their motherfucking taxes." |
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| breaking bad |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|02:19 pm] |
Some of you don't watch tv. But those that do, I know it's the middle of the 2nd season but if you aren't watching breaking bad, you should. You really really should.
Severed heads on turtles roaming the desert.
That is all. |
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| This tax incentive works in mysterious ways |
[Apr. 7th, 2009|03:44 pm] |
I love love love when people come up with brilliant ways of perverting legislation...
Thanks to an obscure tax provision, the United States government stands to pay out as much as $8 billion this year to the ten largest paper companies. And get this: even though the money comes from a transportation bill whose manifest intent was to reduce dependence on fossil fuel, paper mills are adding diesel fuel to a process that requires none in order to qualify for the tax credit. In other words, we are paying the industry--handsomely--to use more fossil fuel. "Which is," as a Goldman Sachs report archly noted, the "opposite of what lawmakers likely had in mind when the tax credit was established."
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"You use the toilet every day," said one hedge fund analyst who's been closely following the issue. "Imagine if you could start pouring a little gasoline into the bowl and get fifty cents a gallon every time you flushed."...
Details....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090420/hayes?rel=hp_currently |
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| The Horror... The Horror... |
[Mar. 7th, 2009|10:28 am] |
Because so many of the people of my friendslist are too hoity-toity to watch the hours and hours of television I do.
I give you a pilot... that hasn't been picked up yet.... but it should- if just to drive ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rdansky a little more insane...
Yup. with that unbeatable mystery/monster of the week teen formulae that made shows like Buffy, Smallville, Supernatural so wonderful...
Fall—Freshman Year—Miskatonic University
The campus is finally reopening after 10 years of closure. It seems years ago, a student suddenly possessed with an uncontrollable rage broke out into a violent murder spree that left half the campus up in flames. Officials never found out just what filled the young man with the desire to kill so many.
Herbert West, a dark and mysterious young man, arrives on campus, instantly shining as a brilliant young student and the object of many of his female schoolmates’ desires.
We soon learn that along with his medical school, Herbert also has a secret passion that he relentlessly is pursuing. Late at night when everyone else is gone, Herbert conducts groundbreaking experiments…to learn the secret of life itself…to unlock the code that will allow him to reanimate the dead.
Charismatic, sexy and dangerous, Herbert’s obsessions eventually draw his young colleagues, friends and lovers into his dark world. They will all share in the rewards and consequences of meddling with things that man was not meant to—all the while dealing with their own growing relationships and unfolding subsequent storylines inspired by the fantastic works of H.P Lovecraft.
Woohoo Dexter + Buffy/Smallville + Gossip Girl + H.P. Lovecraft == More insanity than a stack of necronomicons! |
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| Credit Suisse Finance Geniuses |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|02:34 pm] |
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I don't have time to write a long rambly post. Sleep depped from a last minute all-nighter audio project.
Buuuut.
I really admire the deviousness of how the people at Credit Suisse dealt with the balance of employee compensation, bad toxic loans,angry shareholders and tax consequences. It all makes sooooo much sense but kudos kudos kudos to the brilliance of coming up with such a scheme.
Basically (watch this turn into a long, rambly post...)
CS has the same problems that almost all banks presently do:
Credit Suisse wanted to give bonuses this year.
Credit suisse has a mess of toxic loans it kept having to write down.
It's stock has fallen and it has a group of shareholders who will be PISSED if ANYONE got bonuses for a "job well done"
It has no idea how much of the loans will it continue to have to write down nor how profitable it is.
So....
It took all it's questionable/toxic loans.
CS put it in a pile as an investment vehicle. (but who would willing pay this pile of dogshit?)
Instead of cash, it issued shares of toxic loans (which may or may not pay out- who knows)
It then gave shares of these loans to thier executives as bonuses.
Which means...
Toxic loans are off the balance sheets and are listed as an EXPENSES and COMPENSATION.
Shareholders can't bitch about bonuses.
Executives will be compensated based on the quality of their investments.
OMG. I'm soooo stunned by the brilliance. It makes so much sense. But to come up with it and implement it is soooo admirable. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 17th, 2008|12:56 am] |
"A respected research institute wanted Chinese classical texts to adorn its journal, something beautiful and elegant, to illustrate a special report on China....
Chinese characters look dramatic and beautiful, and have a powerful visual impact, but make sure you get the meaning of the characters straight before jumping right in.
There were red faces on the editorial board of one of Germany's top scientific institutions, the Max Planck Institute, after it ran the text of a handbill for a Macau strip club on the front page of its latest journal...."
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chinese-classical-poem-was-brothel-ad-1058031.html |
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| New Nokia commercial |
[Nov. 21st, 2008|05:22 pm] |
To all the adoring Bruce Lee fans in the haus. New Nokia commercial with Bruce playing pingpong.
Enjoy! |
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| february is around the corner. |
[Nov. 6th, 2008|07:55 pm] |
Well. Soon, no more analogue tv transmissions. It's time to apply for your coupons. Here's a handy guide to help you get the low down.
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| So... |
[Nov. 5th, 2008|09:24 am] |
This is what it's like to vote for a presidential candidate that actually wins the election.
My record thus far....
George H. Bush (2nd term) (L)
Bob Dole (L)
Ralph Nader (L)
John Kerry (L)
Barack Obama (W)
Well, one thing this will achieve is affirmative action for African-American actors needed to make fun of our national leader on National sketch shows. |
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