Wow. Just wow.
Jan. 18th, 2010 10:18 am
(The plaque was supposed to say James Earl Jones, who was a featured speaker at the release. An employee at the plaque company decided to engage in a little creative editing.)
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Jan. 18th, 2010
(The plaque was supposed to say James Earl Jones, who was a featured speaker at the release. An employee at the plaque company decided to engage in a little creative editing.)
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Jan. 18th, 2010 10:32 am[Poll #1513185]
This poll only exists to make the previous post's poll work. Vote there, or here, same difference.
This poll only exists to make the previous post's poll work. Vote there, or here, same difference.
With regards to The Book Of Eli, which was easily the worst movie of 2010:
The Braille Bible Denzel Washington is lugging around, were it the New Testament only, and cheaply bound, would be more than a meter thick. Assuming, of course, that it had no punctuation, no capital letters, no spaces, no verse numbering, no whitespace, no nothing except the literal characters one after another in an unending stream. Add all that stuff in, and you'll easily MORE THAN DOUBLE that. Those pictures in the comments of the previous entry, showing a Braille Bible in 17 volumes as wide as a man with arms outstretched? New Testament only.
And we *know* Denzel's is not just the New Testament, because it's the KJV (and thus contains the New Testament) and Denzel starts his recitation with Genesis (meaning it has to have the Old Testament, too.)
A full Braille Bible, with no space devoted to the bindings or anything, so it's just a stack of unbound double-sided Braille pages, is almost 3 meters tall. Again, assuming you have no spaces, capital letters, punctuation, titles, whitespace, or line breaks. And, again, MORE THAN DOUBLE that for the stuff I've left out.
And for bonus points? the movie's Braille Bible uses pages *less than half* the size of a standard Braille book.
For extra mega bonus points, we see the book from the side repeatedly in the movie. The pages are pressed tightly together and gilt along the edges, just like a standard onionskin Bible. Which is to say, the paper isn't thick enough to hold a dot, and, even it it *had* been Brailled, it would have been compressed into illegibility long before because not enough space was left between the pages.
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The Braille Bible Denzel Washington is lugging around, were it the New Testament only, and cheaply bound, would be more than a meter thick. Assuming, of course, that it had no punctuation, no capital letters, no spaces, no verse numbering, no whitespace, no nothing except the literal characters one after another in an unending stream. Add all that stuff in, and you'll easily MORE THAN DOUBLE that. Those pictures in the comments of the previous entry, showing a Braille Bible in 17 volumes as wide as a man with arms outstretched? New Testament only.
And we *know* Denzel's is not just the New Testament, because it's the KJV (and thus contains the New Testament) and Denzel starts his recitation with Genesis (meaning it has to have the Old Testament, too.)
A full Braille Bible, with no space devoted to the bindings or anything, so it's just a stack of unbound double-sided Braille pages, is almost 3 meters tall. Again, assuming you have no spaces, capital letters, punctuation, titles, whitespace, or line breaks. And, again, MORE THAN DOUBLE that for the stuff I've left out.
And for bonus points? the movie's Braille Bible uses pages *less than half* the size of a standard Braille book.
For extra mega bonus points, we see the book from the side repeatedly in the movie. The pages are pressed tightly together and gilt along the edges, just like a standard onionskin Bible. Which is to say, the paper isn't thick enough to hold a dot, and, even it it *had* been Brailled, it would have been compressed into illegibility long before because not enough space was left between the pages.
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Jan. 18th, 2010 06:57 pmJohn Travolta: "The people of Haiti have not suffered enough!"
(My favourite comment: "Well, the starving people can always kill them and eat them. That way they would be some use.")
(My favourite comment: "Well, the starving people can always kill them and eat them. That way they would be some use.")
Things I see when I come home.
Jan. 18th, 2010 08:58 pmI come home and I can hear the dog crying from the far side of the door. Pathetic, sad little whimpers, whines, yips, all kinds of sounds that an unhappy dog in pain makes.
I rush in. Dog stops crying, looks at me, ears perk up, tail starts wagging. I look at her, crack up, and grab the camera.
( This is what I see: )
Silly puppy.
I rush in. Dog stops crying, looks at me, ears perk up, tail starts wagging. I look at her, crack up, and grab the camera.
( This is what I see: )
Silly puppy.