This is what all those guys do on a movie set. Thanks to Mental Floss.
15 Film Production Credits Explained
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This is the absolute coolest thing I believe that I’ve ever seen.
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Just updated to the latest version of WordPress. I like the new dashboard.
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Weather permitting, I’m think about making this run next weekend.
Tail of the Dragon and the Cherohala Skyway
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I found a site worth updating the my site for. The animations are exactly what you need.
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I had someone ask me to explain MPLS today. It’s an interesting concept and in some cases, if you buy a new service from a backbone provider, you might not even know you’re getting it.
The best explanation I’ve found was on computerworld.com in an article by Johna Till Johson.
I think this sums it up nicely:
“The fundamental concept behind MPLS is that of labeling packets. In a traditional routed IP network, each router makes an independent forwarding decision for each packet based solely on the packet’s network-layer header. Thus, every time a packet arrives at a router, the router has to “think through” where to send the packet next.
With MPLS, the first time the packet enters a network, it’s assigned to a specific forwarding equivalence class (FEC), indicated by appending a short bit sequence (the label) to the packet. Each router in the network has a table indicating how to handle packets of a specific FEC type, so once the packet has entered the network, routers don’t need to perform header analysis. Instead, subsequent routers use the label as an index into a table that provides them with a new FEC for that packet.
This gives the MPLS network the ability to handle packets with particular characteristics (such as coming from particular ports or carrying traffic of particular application types) in a consistent fashion. Packets carrying real-time traffic, such as voice or video, can easily be mapped to low-latency routes across the network — something that’s challenging with conventional routing. The key architectural point with all this is that the labels provide a way to “attach” additional information to each packet — information above and beyond what the routers previously had.”
The rest of the article gets more technical and talks about the steps to implementation. The above is the fundamental info if someone says, “dude, wtf is MPLS?”
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I lost my damn riding gloves today. Gonna have to buy some more. I really wouldn’t have thought that gloves would make that big of a difference when you’re riding, but they do.
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How would you live if you were a bachelor? I worked with a guy who is currently remodeling a home he bought in Huntsville…I’ll call him “Indiana Jones is Dead” for the sake of this post. He’s been busting his ass to get this house up to snuff and every time I stepped into the place I was impressed. He’s got significant skills.
Now, I’m a movie guy and I like watching movies over and over again. I know a lot of people don’t do that, but I do. So, after a few viewings I’ll start looking at things that you might not notice the first time around. For example, the way people live in the film. I’m just going to list a few places that I’ve thought were interesting/cool in some way.
There are two Wesley Snipes‘ movies with interesting bachelor pads. The first is Murder at 1600. In this movie, Snipes is a cop in Washington DC. He has a second story walk-up in what looks like a brownstone. I like the fact that it’s covered, head to toe, in dark hardwood and he accessorizes with these HUGE Civil War dioramas. The second Snipes movie is U.S. Marshals. Part way through the movie, Snipes takes an efficiency apartment near the United Nations building in New York. It’s a simple two room flat if you consider the second room being the bathroom.
Morgan Freeman has a cool place in Se7en. Another example of a very simple bachelor pad.
Another lawman’s simple living shows up at Clint Eastwood’s apartment in In the Line of Fire.
A good example of loft style living can be found in Chain Reaction. Keanu Reeves has an apartment full of machine shop tools. Ready to get lathed at a moment’s notice.
A similar industrial sort of residence is shown in the most recent version of The Punisher. Thomas Jane has his place decorated with tools and weapons. I guess when your life is centered around revenge, you really know what theme you’re going to go with at home.
Check out the pole elevator and multilevel aquarium in F/X2. Bryan Brown’s apartment (shared with his girlfriend and her son) also has a cool kitchen.
If you dig antiques at home, you can’t do much better than checking out Christopher Lambert’s digs in Highlander. I’m sure the cost is greatly offset by the fact that you’re buying them new as you go along…being immortal has that bonus.
Asian flavor goes to two people/movies. First of the two is Sean Connery’s apartment in Rising Sun. Small, like in Japan. Clean, like in Japan. And occupied by Tia Carrere, like in Hawaii. And, of course, the second is Pat Morita’s place in The Karate Kid. Inside is very traditional and the landscaping in the back is great. BANZAI!
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My ego is very bruised tonight, as is my right knee. Not really my knee, but the outside of my leg at the knee. You know, the area of my leg that would hit the ground if I dumped my bike? Yep.
I tried a curve for the first time that I wasn’t ready for. I should have swung wider, I should have slowed more, I should have just walked it. Instead, I turned too sharp and went down. Oh, and I should have jumped clear. I ended up trapping my foot under the bike.
I was just pulling my foot free as cars came upon me from the oncoming traffic, and two men were kind enough to help me pick up the bike. A woman also got out of her car to pat me on the shoulder to make sure I was OK. I’m OK. I stopped traffic both ways. I was so embarrassed.
I got up, helped pick up my bike, and drove it back up the hill (oh yeah, I was going down a hill) and out of traffic. D was ahead of me on down the hill, navigating the curves like a pro. He noticed I wasn’t behind him and was able to turn around after navigating the worst of the curves and he came back up to where I was. He checked over my bike carefully to make sure I wasn’t leaking anything. We made sure the brakes were still good. I lost the right mirror and the bubble over my right front light, (I may be getting crash bars soon, I’m not too proud) and the handle bars were turned kinda funny. I was able to drive it back home, a little slower because of the weird steering.
I iced my knee while D and a neighbor took a look at the bike. They straightened up the bars. Tomorrow we’re headed to the Honda place to check out the crash bars and to buy a bag for my bike. And no, we won’t go the W road again. We’ll go the main way, which has one semi-tight turn, not as bad as the W road, and which I’ve navigated successfully, both up and down.
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