Dhivael/Anne's Hyperactive Blog » Movies http://blog.annelions.com Not just another WordPress weblog - it's hyperactive! Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:35:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Dollars and sense http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/08/dollars-and-sense.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/08/dollars-and-sense.html#comments Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:15:30 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/08/dollars-and-sense/ Do you know the difference between dollars and cents? Between fractions of dollars and fractions of pennies? Well, apparently, Verizon does not. Thanks to this Consumerist article, I now know where grade-school dropouts go. Makes me extra glad I’ve got a Cricket phone instead of Verizon.

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So I’ve spent several days not caring about PPP. Shock. Horror. Gasp.

But I’m doing better now, so I’ve got a chance to watch the show. Unfortunately, I’m on dialup right now, so this will take awhile.

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Done yet? No?

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Okay, so several hours later I’ve finally finished watching the videos (yes, dial-up is really THAT SLOW). It’s pretty cool, seeing how things happen behind the scenes. I want one of the foam fingers they were handing out to people when they were handing stuff out to people waiting for the Today show in episode 2. Unfortunately, now I don’t remember much of episode 1.

I think I got too distracted by the cool foam fingers and the game of ‘MindBall’ they played at the end of episode 2. I want that game. It looks like it’d be pretty expensive, though.
But, anyway, it does seem like it will be interesting to watch and see how things develop at Pay Per Post. I just hope I can get offa dialup again so I don’t have to spend forever downloading the show!

]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/06/rockstartup-payperpost.html/feed 0 What if they made a PacMan movie? http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/02/what-if-they-made-a-pacman-movie.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/02/what-if-they-made-a-pacman-movie.html#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:35:53 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/12/02/what-if-they-made-a-pacman-movie/ That’s the premise behind this video on YouTube. It’s all live-action, not CGI, which is cool. Well, the ghosts are CGI. But PacMan isn’t.

Unfortunately, it’s not very long. I’d love to see the ‘rest of’ the movie this ‘trailer is based off of. Does Pac-Man finally clear the town of ghosts!?

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As a hint, I’ll tell you that the kitty absolutely refused to cooperate with making this video! I had to resort to using, ah, ‘stock video’ of him. He absolutely does not care whether I get paid for blogging or not! :-D

So here now, for your viewing pleasure, my kitty vs. PPP:

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]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/30/who-wins.html/feed 0 We want Megaglobe http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/we-want-megaglobe.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/we-want-megaglobe.html#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:26:52 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/we-want-megaglobe/ Here’s yet another video o’ mine, this time telling Megaglobe that they should hurry up and finish their international search engine.

I’m not sure how Megaglobe’ll be different than other search engines already, but more ways of getting information is always a good idea. So, of course, we want Megaglobe. And the sooner, the better. Right now, their spiders are indexing the internet to find stuffs. Since the ‘net is bit, that could take awhile. But how long until we get to see it?
In this video, we embark upon the quest for the fabled Megaglobe. Where is it? And how do I get so much free time on my hands to make things like this? ;-)

Alright Megaglobe, we wanna see your search engine already. Where is it?!

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]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/we-want-megaglobe.html/feed 0 How to plan a party http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/how-to-plan-a-party.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/how-to-plan-a-party.html#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:28:59 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/how-to-plan-a-party/ This is yet another weird film from the Internet Archive. ‘What makes a good party?‘ Well, they never really answer that question. I like how not once do they start dancing (where’s the record player?) but they do suddenly start singing ‘Jimmy Crack Corn’. That seems like such an odd song to suddenly start singing. Why not something semi-popular? Or was their budget too low to include anything even remotely newer?

Surely there was some other song they could’ve used to get everyone together. Maybe, I dunno, a waltz to get everyone dancing? That would’ve seemed more realistic. Oh well, silly old ‘training’ films. :-D

]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/27/how-to-plan-a-party.html/feed 0 This one isn’t so weird… http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/this-one-isnt-so-weird.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/this-one-isnt-so-weird.html#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:05:24 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/this-one-isnt-so-weird/ I like getting paid for stuff. Getting paid for surveys, getting paid for blogging and I like to get paid to make videos. This time, I was supposed to make a somewhat ‘crazy’ video. Unfortunately, the thing didn’t turn out as crazy as I had hoped. I wanted to do spinning and blinking and who knows what else, but I couldn’t figure out how. I am sad.

Maybe I’ll make another one later, with spin-y neon-y stuffs. I dunno.

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]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/this-one-isnt-so-weird.html/feed 0 I thought I came up with some strange videos… http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/i-thought-i-came-up-with-some-strange-videos.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/i-thought-i-came-up-with-some-strange-videos.html#comments Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:19:31 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/i-thought-i-came-up-with-some-strange-videos/ But this one, from the Internet Archive, on What To Do In A Zombie Attack is probably weirder than anything I could come up with. It’s done in the style of old 50′s health/advice films. Unfortunately, the advice in this film is pretty worthless, since none of the family survives the attack. ;-) But at least they helped Z.E.M.A! (Watch the movie!)
And we do learn that zombies are a communist plot against us. Who knew?

]]> http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/26/i-thought-i-came-up-with-some-strange-videos.html/feed 0 Speaking of crazy ideas… Rube Goldberg machine http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/14/speaking-of-crazy-ideas.html http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/14/speaking-of-crazy-ideas.html#comments Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:01:34 +0000 annelions http://blog.annelions.com/2006/11/14/speaking-of-crazy-ideas/ It was my turn to do something a bit crazy today. PayPerPost decided that they wanted videos of Rube Goldberg machines. It took me ALL MORNING to set up this thing, but I finally did.

  1. My brother throws dice
  2. Dice hit rows of gum
  3. Gum falls, falls, falls…
  4. Last row of gum falls over and hits small ruler
  5. Ruler pushes can of soup over the edge
  6. Soup falls, pulling spoon
  7. Spoon makes Rice-A-Roni box fall over
  8. Rice-A-Roni knocks over other box of Rice-A-Roni
  9. Second Rice-A-Roni knocks over third box
  10. Third box of Rice-A-Roni knocks over a can
  11. Can falls onto DVD
  12. DVD pushing container of coins (from PayPerPost!) off table
  13. Coins pull up stuffed pig which carries a PayPerPost.com sign
  14. As the pig goes up, the coins land in my backpack/purse where I can spend, spend, spend!

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