Just a post to give Roses in Springtime commentary an obvious place to go.

As a side note:

When are we going to a get a Symphony commentary track?

Thanks
Luc "Public Service" French

>When are we going to a get a Symphony commentary track?

How do you mean, exactly?

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>>When are we going to a get a Symphony commentary track?
>
>How do you mean, exactly?
>
>Redneck

Answer 1:
Like a DVD or Laserdisc commentary track.

Answer 2:
A cheap way to make a no content post into a minor content post (placement being more important then content for a "This Goes Here" post, which, given this board's reaction to previous Symphony installments, might be a good idea).

Thanks
Luc "If you look over there in the background, you can see a Psi Corps poster. We almost digitally edited it out as an anacronism, until our historian pointed out that, while not yet in common use, it had been first posted a year before." French

>A cheap way to make a no content post into a minor content post
>(placement being more important then content for a "This Goes Here"
>post, which, given this board's reaction to previous Symphony
>installments, might be a good idea).

See, now, this is exactly what I don't want to happen - people getting locked into the mindset that there can only be a single thread for the discussion of any given episode, instead of giving their own questions and comments and whatever subthreads. If that doesn't get done, then the single threads get longer and longer and longer until they're completely unmanageable.

So, basically, This DOESN'T Go Here, or at least not Only Here.

Oh, and as to your first question, I doubt you'll ever see that. I think they're annoying enough on DVDs, let alone spliced into a piece of prose, however THAT would work...

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>>A cheap way to make a no content post into a minor content post
>>(placement being more important then content for a "This Goes Here"
>>post, which, given this board's reaction to previous Symphony
>>installments, might be a good idea).
>
>See, now, this is exactly what I don't want to happen - people
>getting locked into the mindset that there can only be a single thread
>for the discussion of any given episode, instead of giving their own
>questions and comments and whatever subthreads. If that doesn't get
>done, then the single threads get longer and longer and longer until
>they're completely unmanageable.
>
>So, basically, This DOESN'T Go Here, or at least not Only Here.

Eh. I just know I prefer to have some clue that there's a new story, and that I dislike undescriptive Subjects. (Which this has rapidly evolved into.)

>Oh, and as to your first question, I doubt you'll ever see that. I
>think they're annoying enough on DVDs, let alone spliced into a piece
>of prose, however THAT would work...

MiSTing format, for example.

Thanks
Luc "Wondering how he eats and breathes and other science facts" French

>MiSTing format, for example.

I believe they're called Pop-Ups in the format you are thinking of. MiST implies poking fun at. Pop-Up (Popup, Pop Up, the Impossible Man of Popup) types are more informative.

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>Oh, and as to your first question, I doubt you'll ever see that. I
>think they're annoying enough on DVDs, let alone spliced into a piece
>of prose, however THAT would work...

How are they annoying? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them.

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>How are they annoying? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them.

And you know that how, exactly?

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>>How are they annoying? Nobody's forcing you to listen to them.
>
>And you know that how, exactly?

It's a comment on the level of "if you don't like X, change the channel/don't read it/etc." I personally like commentary tracks (and thus greatly appreciate Fight Club's plethora) but I don't force my sister to sit down and watch it, fr. ex.

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I believe the room with the DVD player at Gryph's house is shared with other appliances. Hence, it would be difficult to avoid someone else playing a comment track on a DVD whilst, say, using the computer.

I could be wrong.

Ard
usually puts her machine away from the DVD player to avoid incessant DVDwankage.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA

>I believe the room with the DVD player at Gryph's house is shared with
>other appliances. Hence, it would be difficult to avoid someone else
>playing a comment track on a DVD whilst, say, using the computer.

Well, that's still not the same thing as being forced to pay attention to it. I have my main computer sitting in the study, and I have a laptop that I use in the living room if I want to have a computer nearby while I'm watching a movie. Neither of my machines has a DVD-ROM drive, though at times I'd like my laptop to have one. (Not that I'm going to blow the $350 to get one, either; at that point, I'd just get a laptop that already had one.) I also sit in the living room while my sister and her boyfriend use my TV and DVD player, ignoring whatever they're watching, because the loveseat is a lot more comfortable than my computer chair.

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Is Kate's Beauxbatons Academy sweatshirt a throwaway reference, or does it mean something more?

> Devlin, throughout all of this, made only a quiet, pitiful
> noise, as of a tiny creature which knows it is doomed.

I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for Devlin here ~_^.

> Amanda nodded. "I must concur with the rodent."

I find this line inordinately amusing.

> gave us our second wind. It did me, anyway. I -love- that round
> robin solo, and the way the rhythm section is integrated into the
> whole song - when it goes right it really makes me feel like we're
> clicking, and it -definitely- went right tonight. After we nailed

I am so tempted to make my standard complaint about guitarist wanking.

> Goodness, she realized, he's getting tall enough to kiss my
> forehead. Won't be long before he's towering over me. I guess I
>inherited Dad's 'short gene'...

<div style="tangent">
I was around that age when I started towering over my short, older sisters.
</div>

> Utena cocked an eyebrow, read the letter again, then picked up
> her bookbag and stuffed the letter into it. Whatever. She was
> running late for Klingonese as it was, and Professor Kraalgh got so
> grumpy when people wandered in late.

Somehow I don't think it takes much to get Professor Kraalgh "grumpy".

> afternoon, immediately following lunch. This sparked a digression
> into wondering just how the scheduling for these meetings had been
> determined, since they seemed to follow neither the alphabet nor
> student ID numbers. Finally that thread was abandoned as unresolvable
> without more data, and Kate was tasked with letting the others know

My guess? Plot mechanics.

> "K-Katsuj-j-jinkenr-ryuu," said Kaitlyn, and left it at that.
> "I d-don't f-feel like exp-plaining it to the d-d-dean."

Does the Psi Corps know that Force-users can sense psi? Do they even know the Force exists?

> "I think I'll keep my appointment," said Azalynn, a slow smile
> spreading across her face. "I can think of all -sorts- of interesting
> things to think... "
> A faint smile played at R. Dorothy Wayneright's lips. "She's
> welcome to scan me all she wants," she said.

Hehehe.

> "I am a Gamilon soldier," Amanda replied grimly. "We do not
> divulge information to the enemy."

I could be off, but this screams foreshadowing to me.

> Juri suppressed a most un-Juri-like impulse to reply, "With a
> magnet," or possibly, "I follow the trail of dismembered bodies and
> the terrified shrieks of the doomed," instead replying simply, "I
> enjoy her company."

Oh, my. I'm beginning to really like Juri.

> Ravenhair arrived tuxedoed as well - and so did Nall, his little vest
> and bow tie eliciting a most unseemly storm of giggling from the box.

I want to see a picture of this ^_^.

> Juri looked up at the sky again, then back at Kate, and
> sighed, a tired smile crossing her face.
> "I'm not much for taking chances," she said, "but there's a
> first time for everything."

Yay! ^_^

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>Is Kate's Beauxbatons Academy sweatshirt a throwaway reference, or
>does it mean something more?

My guess is it's a throwaway; on the other hand, it may return to haunt me at some point. Sometimes throwaway references do that.

>> "K-Katsuj-j-jinkenr-ryuu," said Kaitlyn, and left it at that.
>> "I d-don't f-feel like exp-plaining it to the d-d-dean."
>
>Does the Psi Corps know that Force-users can sense psi? Do they even
>know the Force exists?

The Force is an old wives' tale. No educated lifeform believes in its existence. Next you'll be asking if they've got a pilot program to determine just how it is that Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty or nice.

(Sarcasm theirs, not mine.)

>> Ravenhair arrived tuxedoed as well - and so did Nall, his little vest
>> and bow tie eliciting a most unseemly storm of giggling from the box.
>
>I want to see a picture of this ^_^.

If you know what Nall looks like, you can approximate it by checking out the scene in the Big O episode "Missing Cat" in which Perot is similarly attired. :)

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>>Is Kate's Beauxbatons Academy sweatshirt a throwaway reference, or
>>does it mean something more?
>
>My guess is it's a throwaway; on the other hand, it may return to
>haunt me at some point. Sometimes throwaway references do that.

If there's a freshman at WPI in the fall with black plastic glasses, taped in the middle, and a lightning-bolt scar, I'll... well, okay, I have no idea what I'd do.

>The Force is an old wives' tale. No educated lifeform believes in its
>existence. Next you'll be asking if they've got a pilot program to
>determine just how it is that Santa Claus knows if you've been naughty
>or nice.

I figured as much. It'll be interesting to see how this works out into the next story.

>If you know what Nall looks like, you can approximate it by checking
>out the scene in the Big O episode "Missing Cat" in which Perot
>is similarly attired. :)

I'll keep an eye out for it when I get to that episode. I picked up the first disc of the series at NekoCon, and damn, does it kick ass. I want an R. Dorothy Waynewright.

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>I'll keep an eye out for it when I get to that episode. I picked up
>the first disc of the series at NekoCon, and damn, does it
>kick ass. I want an R. Dorothy Waynewright.

They come in six-packs, right next to the Zaphod Beeblebrox section...

--rR

>>I'll keep an eye out for it when I get to that episode. I picked up
>>the first disc of the series at NekoCon, and damn, does it
>>kick ass. I want an R. Dorothy Waynewright.
>
>They come in six-packs, right next to the Zaphod Beeblebrox section...
>
> --rR

Just watch out for the red ones.

Patrick Chester
"...could you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

>>I'll keep an eye out for it when I get to that episode. I picked up
>>the first disc of the series at NekoCon, and damn, does it
>>kick ass. I want an R. Dorothy Waynewright.
>
>They come in six-packs, right next to the Zaphod Beeblebrox section...
>
> --rR

That's wrong on so many levels and in so many dimensions I can't even begin to chronical them here...

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>If there's a freshman at WPI in the fall with black plastic glasses,
>taped in the middle, and a lightning-bolt scar, I'll... well, okay, I
>have no idea what I'd do.

Stop reading Eyrie? Run screaming at the thought of what would happen if Hagrid meets Wapiko? Run screaming at the thought of Quidditch matches played with Veritechs (actually, that sounds kinda fun...)? Laugh out loud? Wonder who he is 'cause Harry's are big, round and rimless?

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>Run screaming at the thought of Quidditch
>matches played with Veritechs (actually, that sounds kinda fun...)?

*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?

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"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

>*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?

Imagine soccer, played on flying broomsticks.

By two mixed teams of cricketeers, baseball outfielders, and hockey players.

With four flying balls, two of which want to kill you, and one of which keeps running away and hiding.

And it's played in an ancient Aztec ball-court, and the air above it.

With a scoring system that makes tennis look logical.

That should help you begin to imagine Quidditch.

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>>*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?
>
>Imagine soccer, played on flying broomsticks.
>
>By two mixed teams of cricketeers, baseball outfielders, and hockey
>players.
>
>With four flying balls, two of which want to kill you, and one of
>which keeps running away and hiding.
>
>And it's played in an ancient Aztec ball-court, and the air above it.
>
>With a scoring system that makes tennis look logical.
>
>That should help you begin to imagine Quidditch.
>
What's so illogical about the scoring?

1 goal = 50 points.

capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.

Team with the most points wins. Makes as much sense as any other game out there.

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>>>*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?
>>
>>Imagine soccer, played on flying broomsticks.
>>
>>By two mixed teams of cricketeers, baseball outfielders, and hockey
>>players.
>>
>>With four flying balls, two of which want to kill you, and one of
>>which keeps running away and hiding.
>>
>>And it's played in an ancient Aztec ball-court, and the air above it.
>>
>>With a scoring system that makes tennis look logical.
>>
>>That should help you begin to imagine Quidditch.
>>

Cool. So, where is it from?

>capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.

Snitch? Is that the ball that's running away?

----------------
"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

>>>That should help you begin to imagine Quidditch.
>>>
>
>Cool. So, where is it from?

Harry Potter. The ref from wence the t-shirt came, and from wence the Freshman with the scar came.

>>capturing the snitch = 3 goals and ends the game.
>
>Snitch? Is that the ball that's running away?

Yeah. It's kinda complex. Go read the books. They're surprisingly good. I liken them in...spirit I guess...to UF<1>.

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<1> Ok, before everyone goes off the deep end and hangs me by my short and curlys, by spirit I mean: "Have a good time, with a fairly standard formlua that you kinda twist 15 degrees queer of left."

>>Run screaming at the thought of Quidditch
>>matches played with Veritechs (actually, that sounds kinda fun...)?
>
>*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?

Off-topic.

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>>>Run screaming at the thought of Quidditch
>>>matches played with Veritechs (actually, that sounds kinda fun...)?
>>
>>*scratches his head* What's Quidditch?
>
>Off-topic.

Bastard.

*shatter*

>Bastard.
>
>*shatter*

My, but this style of post is getting old.

--truss.

>>Bastard.
>>
>>*shatter*
>
>My, but this style of post is getting old.

Yea, but exploding heads are allways so messy.

----------------
"And what _are_ we dealing with? Little green men!?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbite-armor!"

>>>Bastard.
>>>
>>>*shatter*
>>
>>My, but this style of post is getting old.
>
>Yea, but exploding heads are allways so messy.

True. And aside from that people has stopped drinking while posting, reducing the numbers of <SNARF> and <CHOKE> type of posts.

Pangaro, "You are VERY unoriginal...""Thanks, I guess..."
Member of the Narn Bat Squad

>>>My, but this style of post is getting old.
>>
>>Yea, but exploding heads are allways so messy.
>
>True. And aside from that people has stopped drinking while posting,
>reducing the numbers of <SNARF> and <CHOKE> type of posts.

You misunderstand me. By "this style of post" I am referring to all the examples you just cited.

--truss,
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