stanbeeler.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern British Columbia. (English, Comparative Literature, Film & TV Studies)
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Most of Canada has wildfire warnings every summer. Why can't we simply ban fireworks? (Self interested suggestion from a man who lives in a house full of sensitive dogs in the middle of the boreal forest.)
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We have blackout curtains on our upstairs windows that we use in the summer as our AC can't push enough cool air up from the basement. I wonder if I can add this kind of bubble wrap to to the curtains to improve their efficiency. (Temp is still in the low 20s here though so far.) Thanks for the hint
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Shrek has actual magic mirrors, reflective puddles, and a chandelier, if I remember correctly.
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Excellent! I used to do an entire class on the symbolic use of mirrors when I taught introductory film studies classes. It is a good way to link up Renaissance painting and modern cinematography & students start to understand that the images in film have their own language.
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I had an Iranian girlfriend about 40 years ago and I learned enough Farsi to navigate social gatherings (please, thank you, where is the bathroom and Yes I can help you with your homework) I started asking my students if anyone spoke it after embarrassing myself while tripping during a lecture.
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This is a nice analysis. Haven't seen Countdown yet, but it seems worth taking a look. If there are numerous mirror scenes are they using the technique of varying the reflective surface(s) to indicate the state of the character's mind? (e.g. Black Swan, Moulin Rouge or even Shrek)
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This is definitely true. Also, we tend to learn swearing early in language acquisition and (at least for me) it tends to remain in memory long after I no longer use the language for actual communication.
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I find that when in public I swear in the less common language. e.g. In Canada I use German or Farsi. This is because I feel that it is less likely to cause offence. This is non-directed swearing; swearing at accidents or bad luck. Swearing at bad people is usually in their own language.
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Perhaps a cat; they don't seem to have any social requirements and they get just as much food and petting.
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Was she checking out the options for an upgrade in her next incarnation? <smile>
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My dad taught me how to shoe a horse when I was in my early teens. I sure some people still do it but never did a damned thing for my academic CV. <Shrug>
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The empire is a traditional anti-usa device here. My family were German troops who fought for king George.
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It is a problem here in Canada too although we still have our own u in colour. We are in the cultural shadow of the US. I even occasionally hear students saying Zee rather than Zed. <sigh>
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Music copyright laws are strange. I could not quote song lyrics in a book about music in film & TV although the publisher had no problem with citing dialogue in the same book. Apparently the laws come from a time before distribution by recording when sheet music was the medium. Can AI use lyrics?
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Mice and air conditioner problems seem to be universal although not always a single cause -> result. You have my deepest sympathy although I must confess that it is good to hear of problems that are not the result of US politics.
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We also had a problem last year. Exterminator advised closing gaps in garage walls, changes to pet food storage, and many traps. It seems to have worked.
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I think you can use bringen in German the way you suggest US English uses it. In Canada I have only heard it if two people are at work and one says "Can you bring me to work tomorrow?" If not at work whne asking you would say take.
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I found this in a hippy shop in the late 1960s and did not know it was actually an art print until years later. I loved the way that the angles of the mountain landscape are blended with those of the church. Lyonel Feininger Church at Niedergrunstedt, 1919.
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I meant that the older students were afraid of the post-revolution people who had been given money by the new regime to study abroad as they were suspected of pasdaran affiliation. I just became aware because I learned a bit of Farsi.
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I had an Iranian girlfriend in the 1970s and I learned enough Farsi to navigate social gatherings. Everybody was afraid of the Iranian students with government scholarships as they were spies for the new regime and reported people for drinking alcohol etc.
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I hadn't thought of legionnaires disease. Good point! We have been in this house for about 20 years and this is the first problem though so it may just be years of accumulation.
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No, but sometimes cleaning frying pans may leave grease in the drains. We have been in this house for about 20 years and this is the first sink drain problem so I suspect that over time it has simply accumulated. The extra hot water may raise my heating bills, but the kid will be happy.
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I actually met him once in London (UK). I was on sabbatical in Glasgow & I drove down to London with a car load of grad students. We went to the Canada Day celebrations at the Canadian embassy. He was doing a stage production in London at the time. He was friendly & happy to chat with us.
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Nope, but I ordered the replacement from Amazon for about $40. That spare one was just a dead battery I forgot to recycle. For a mac-pro from around 2012 it is a 10 minute job. 10 screws for the back and two inside. New macs have glue. Use the number (e.g. A1278) on the back to order the battery.
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The vengeance for colonial expansion is slow, but thorough. <embarrassed grin>
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I don't know if there is a similar problem with bluesky commands, but on Twitter I used to mute accounts with a typo (ctrl instead of shift, I believe) and not notice until much later.
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Constant argument with my wife: I say I will eat it and she tries to get into the garbage when I am not looking. And, let us not discuss the case of the darkening banana.
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Genau! ,,there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation" (Pierre Trudeau)