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From Michael Jennings, “how the corporate downsizing of AOL Time Warner led to a mad New Zealander making three movies of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”
But, for now, some stories can have happy endings. (At least one insane bearded New Zealander is now insanely rich. And I think a world in which insane bearded New Zealanders can become insanely rich by making ludicrously over-ambitious movies is better than one where this is not the case).
(Link from Scott Wickstein, The Eye of the Beholder)
I wouldn’t have thought the EU could be so crude – yet.
Laws were being forced through the Polish Parliament, at the behest of the EU . . . . Perhaps the most insidious new provision in the Polish Constitution is that a law can be enforced in Poland even if it has not been translated into Polish.
One commenter comments, We need to move our remaining troops out of Germany and into Poland and the Czech Republic.
Help! I bought more memory for my computer, but the BIOS seems unhappy with it. Is there a switch somewhere on the motherboard (Asus K7M) that I have to flip?
Later: So I called the shop that built it. (Oddly, the office number on the invoice is bad, but a toll-free number for the workshop, which I jotted two years ago and iirc never used before, is still good.) A voice said no, there’s no switch, if your BIOS is unhappy the card is no good.
Rats.
Later still: I traded it in for another card. My box is happy now.
Well, well. The firm where I temped for one afternoon in October – where I did exactly one task, and then spent four or five hours enjoying hi-speed Web access – wants me back for holiday week. I wonder what I did right.
I understand that all three parts of LotR were shot together. I wonder, though, whether a producer of an effects-heavy series might think it wiser to make the parts in order, so that the last part won’t suffer by comparison with other films that appear in the same year but use somewhat more advanced effects. (I noticed some differences in effects quality between the two Potter chapters.)
