Atlanta two

Sunday, November 30th, 2014 03:02 am
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Friday evening, I got to see and listen to George Takei in person, at a "Sci-Fi Spectacular" concert at the Atlanta Symphony. There were people dressed up in Stormtrooper (not my photo; it was linked from reddit), Jedi, and Darth Vader costumes in the lobby (and on stage), but I suspect they were hired for the event, as I didn't see them in the audience. The concert also had a lot of good music, including performances of Duel of the Fates and When You Wish Upon a Star. Hearing the music live however, didn't sound any better or different to me, than listening to the same music on CDs or MP3s. And hearing it live like that has the drawback of you having to sit quietly while listening to it, whereas when listening to it at home, you can move around and dance, or do whatever you want.
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[Image info:
Title: War-on-Kincade-02
Artists: Roland Deschane, Thomas Kincade, Star Wars
URL: http://rolanddeschane.deviantart.com/art/War-on-Kinkade-02-409191955
Desc: Mountainous terrain with Kincade cottage and Star Destroyer]


Visit the artist's gallery for more Star Wars + Kincade images.

too long

Monday, February 27th, 2012 07:58 pm
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I encountered a problem backing up an MP3 file to an external hard-drive, because the file-path is longer than 254 characters:

John_Williams-Star_Wars_Episode_VI-Return_Of_The_Jedi_(Special_Edition_Disc2)\
07_The_Battle_Of_Endor_II_(Leia_Is_Wounded_-_The_Duel_Begins,Overtaking_The_Bunker,The_Dark_Side_Beckons,The_Emperor's_Death)-John_Williams.mp3

(not listed are the high-level folders which take up another 40 chars, plus another 18 chars on the external hard-drive.)

I suppose I could rename the file to "07_The_Battle_Of_Endor_II-John_Williams.mp3".

But... The Duel Begins! The Dark Side Beckons! The Emperor's Death! No, no, no; I can't strip those out. There must be another way...

This should work:
07_TheBattleOfEndorII(LeiaEtc-TheDuelBegins,Etc,TheDarkSideBeckons,TheEmperorsDeath)-JohnWilliams.mp3

I wonder if my MP3 player is going to complain when I try to copy filenames like that onto it.
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The Biggest Star Wars Plot Hole, Explained By Science

In regards to the dehumanization aspect of storm-trooper gear, I remember that when I first saw Star Wars as a child, it never occurred to me that storm-troopers were supposed to be humans in armor, even in spite of seeing Luke and Han putting on the gear. To me, stormtroopers were some kind of robot/monster. Even when I was introduced to the idea of there being real *people* inside those things, it did not compute... I could understand that to make the movies, there had to be people wearing costumes pretending to be stormtroopers, but I couldn't believe that in the actual story, they were supposed to be human, too. Even when I got a bit older, the subject was still murky for me, because I had heard that stormtroopers were clones, and it seemed that if clones were stormtroopers, they couldn't be regular people.

These are interesting articles linked from the one above, regarding human reluctance to kill:

Hope on the Battlefield

Hidden Wounds

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Saturday, March 21st, 2009 02:02 pm
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Star Wars (1977) Deleted Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiuxG_PQCoU

The following are continuations of the above. The first part was the funniest though, in my opinion.
part 2
part 3
part 4

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Saturday, March 10th, 2007 09:07 pm
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I've decided that the label "submissive" really doesn't fit me well. Rather, I'm a bottom with some submissive tendencies who enjoys psychological D/s play. Not as easy to say, but... better descriptive.

I don't want D/s to be the basis or crux of a relationship. I want friendship, partnership, companionship, and affection to be the basis. But I like D/s as play, as something fun, something which affects me strongly and makes me feel good. I believe I even need it, to enjoy a relationship. When I say "play", I don't mean it can't be serious, and significant, and even painful at times. But I don't see myself as being constantly submissive. As part of the play, I might even want to act rebellious sometimes. But sometimes, I might not want to play at all.

I don't want someone who will treat me like a sub all the time, but I do want someone who might treat me like a sub at any time.

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I want to be loved for who I am.

When I close my eyes at night, I want to feel sheltered by someone's concern and affection for me.

When I wake, I want to feel that the care & concern & affection is real and tangible, not just something I pretended/invented in order to fall comfortably asleep.

I want to love someone for who they are, not just for the affection they show me.

I want someone who can inspire that wonderfully euphoric feeling in me that has something to do with D/s.

I want someone with whom I can feel comforted by their physical touch and presence at least as often as I resort to comforting myself by thinking about it when I am alone.

In other words, I want to spend more time with my partner, than I spend yearning to be with them. But I guess there would need to be some times of yearning, in order for me to recognize how much they mean to me.

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I was trying to think of the word to describe a particular relationship, like between my master/soulmate and me in one of my fantasies. The kind of relationship where the one has power over the other... in the fantasy, it was absolute power - life & death; power to read my thoughts and emotions; etc. In real life, I guess it could be a lesser power... But where, like in the fantasy, the other person can look at me (straight through me) in a way that makes my insides drop... makes me lose balance, feeling that power of theirs over me. A wonderful feeling of belonging, of fear, of excitement, of acknowledging their power over me.

I can't think of the word for describing that particular kind of relationship.
Disciple, no. Minion, no. Dominant/submissive, not necessarily. Master/slave, no.
Master/something... maybe. Master/pupil, not necessarily.

When I was young, I used to envision master/apprentice relationships as that kind of relationship. I had read books about apprentices where the master even had the power to have the apprentice put to death, if they were displeased enough with them. And then there was Star Wars, where Darth Vader was the Emperor's apprentice... oh, that was so cool.
But nowadays, the term apprentice just means to me someone who is being taught things. It doesn't so much imply the master having power over the student.

And for the relationship I'm trying to think of the word for, the "master" wouldn't necessarily even have to be teaching the other person anything. It wouldn't even need to be a consensual power-exchange relationship, just one where the one person has some kind of significant power over the other. Such as a captor and captive. It seems like there should be some word for that. Maybe it will come to me.

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Monday, December 11th, 2006 02:12 am
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Having trouble falling asleep. Still feeling overly weepy and ... odd. Not like when I have a real crying fit, which is usually a lot more focused and intense. Emotional. And yet, calm in a way. Hormones, and the chocolate surely did not help things. And too much input the last couple of days.

But anyway, had already turned the DSL modem off in FF's room, so was connecting with the regular modem. But then I got a popup that a wireless network is available! Apparently someone nearby has a network named "Bear Cave" ... "Unsecured wireless network. This network is configured for open access. ... If you want to connect to this network, click Connect". Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. Wonder which house it's coming from.


While in the checkout aisle today, my eye caught the cover of the Newsweek magazine... it looks so much like a promotional poster for a Star Wars movie. The new Sith menace... Darth Sadr.

Hey, someone else noticed the same thing.


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Ahh. It is too hard to write about the important things. I'm afraid. Afraid I'll write what I want to write, and it won't help me at all. And then what? But that is just because it is too late, and I'm too tired. Yes, maybe now I can sleep.
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well.
on the downside, just found out mybravenet.com hosting has been terminated, and so my old site is gone. guess i'll put it on the same server as my new site then.

hope i can get google to re-index my cursewords page. hey, it must have a pretty good ranking. search on "curse words", and it's on the first page of results. heh. doesn't look like my duel of the fates page is even indexed anymore though. maybe because i didn't update it in such a long time, or because the song is old now and people don't search for it much anymore.

on the upside, i've been friended. and thru a link of theirs, i rediscovered an alexander key fanpage which i had lost track of a while back, since my link to it had become obsolete. cool.

oh, and someone gave me the gift of a yahoo-group. made me moderator. hee! i'm a moderator! i've got the Power! but it's not really a real group. more of a ploy. but i suppose it could become a real group. perhaps.

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