I use dvd profiler, but the majority of american stuff is in my parents collection and I am too lazy to go through their stuff and catalog it for them. I have 3 generations of games at 200 discs and probably 3000 american production discs.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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Yes its called collecterz.
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I don't really have any collections of anything besides books. And even that isn't terribly huge (about 4 7 foot bookcases). I think it's reactionary because my mom is a mild hoarder. She's not anything like the television show people, but on the other hand she does keep a lot of stuff.
Thank you!!! I added the app and have been working on this for the last few hours. In that time I've only scratched the surface, but this is sooooooooo much better than when I was going to do it manually in Excel!
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I want video.
Blame Mr. Z for not being faster on the trigger. If I ever start doing it again, we'll try to tape it. It's funnier when it's on the fly.
Someone didnt get any sleep? Oh and no coffee too?
Worked 29 hours down at the mill, AND paid mill owner for permission to come to work.
I made it through the holidays with out telling somebody, "No, the reason for the season is 23.4 degrees."
I signed up to take the GRE. I think I might be experiencing my first ever panic attack.
GasBandit
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How is the world going to end? Super-intelligent robots? A comet hurtling towards Earth? Our own foolish greed, pride and stupidity? Either way, CNN has us covered.
When businessman Ted Turner founded CNN in 1980, he made it clear that the cable network was 100% committed to television news. “We won’t be signing off until the world ends,” he said. “We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.”
Jalopnik has unearthed that very clip, buried in CNN’s intranet video database. It is titled “TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO” and it comes with the ominous warning: “HFR (hold for release) till end of the world confirmed”.
When businessman Ted Turner founded CNN in 1980, he made it clear that the cable network was 100% committed to television news. “We won’t be signing off until the world ends,” he said. “We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.”
Jalopnik has unearthed that very clip, buried in CNN’s intranet video database. It is titled “TURNER DOOMSDAY VIDEO” and it comes with the ominous warning: “HFR (hold for release) till end of the world confirmed”.
Not that my wife would let me, but if I ever have a son, I'd like to name him Django. But, Django Unchained and Jango Fett screws that up. I've been a Django Reinhardt fan since college. I would be annoyed by people asking about the name origin. Oh well. We didn't name our daughter Isabella, b/c of Twilight. My grandmother's middle name is Isabella. Can't do that either.
Is that stupid? Probably. Oh well.
Is that stupid? Probably. Oh well.
The Spaghetti Western Django was named for Reinhardt. Fett and Unchained were named for the character. So in the long run they are all named for you guitarist.
But 2 years ago every bitch at the dog park was named 'Bella.
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Naming my kids has really educated me on collective conscience patterns. I thought we would be cool back in 03 when my son was born by giving him an unusual name. About half his class has weird names (in three states now, for completeness). For my daughter, I thought we'd use a name traditionally viewed as an older lady's name. Her entire group of friends has old lady names. And here I thought I was original. LITESPEED BRIEFS.
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I have to say I mentally level incredibly harsh judgement on parents who name their kids unconventional names. I know, I know, you have your reasons/special attachments, but I can't shake the "no, MY kid is the specialest snowflake!" narrative my mind built around you naming your kid "Anais" or "Madison."
Also, Jazz musician names are first on the list of this kinda stuff.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/10/14/10-ways-to-avoid-hipster-baby-names.html
Also, Jazz musician names are first on the list of this kinda stuff.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/10/14/10-ways-to-avoid-hipster-baby-names.html
GasBandit
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Hell yes. It's one of those "I don't want to name my daughter an overtly feminine name because bosses will skip over her resume" names. Madison. Harper. Jordan. Sutton. Carson. Peyton. Riley. HUNTER. SLOAN. DILLON.
Sometimes seeing what people name their kids, even the Libertarian inside me starts to wonder if those European nations that have entire governmental departments that do nothing but approve or veto baby names aren't on to something.
When I was pregnant with Noah I wanted to give him a not very popular name, but not highly unusual. Noah was in the low 20s on the Social Security annual list of baby names. Every year since that name has gotten more and more popular. It was the USA's overall number 1 name for boys in 2013.
Lily was also in the mid-20s, but hasn't gotten any higher than 15 since she was born. She was almost Lorien which I picked as a shortened version of Lothlorien, but then her brother intervened.
Lily was also in the mid-20s, but hasn't gotten any higher than 15 since she was born. She was almost Lorien which I picked as a shortened version of Lothlorien, but then her brother intervened.
"Take a last name. Make it a first name," is what I call it. In addition to the ones you listed there are Kennedy, Kinley (from McKinley), Mackenzie, Brogan (which is an Irish last name as well as a type of leather work shoe)...all surnames.
Mr. Z has said for close to a decade now he wanted to name a future child "Lothlorien". I veto'd that, particularly because his poor mom would never be able to say it. (She doesn't have a heavy Asian accent, but still has trouble with some words.)
We flipped Li'l Z's originally intended first and middle names because I realized the middle name we had chosen made it sound like he had two last names. And it's not one of those trendy ones, either, it just happens to be an older name that's always been common as a first or last name. But we still call him by his middle name, which was supposed to be his first name, anyway.
GasBandit
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Noah seems to strike me as a good balance of uncommon but not weird, but that's purely subjective. Lorien.... ehhh.... maybe her brother had the right idea
though I have a friend who has a sister named Lori.Heck, even this board aside, I've known an Errol and an Ariel (male). The latter one was in 1st grade summer camp, so naturally he got taunted mercilessly... and this even predated Disney's little mermaid - kids just called him Oreo.
Then there are the wackos who theme name. I had a friend in high school whose parents named all their kids (and they had several) starting with the letter K. Eldest was Kyle. Ok, nothing odd there. Then they had a daughter and named her... Kottie. Uh... what? Then a son (my friend) named Keenan. I forget what his younger brother was named, but it started with K.
Then his older sister got pregnant (not married), got excommunicated (mormons), ended up having two kids by different fathers (still not married)... older kid was named... Kayern? Kairn? Rhymes with Iron but I'm not sure of the spelling other than it starts with K. Younger kid I don't remember either... but also started with K!
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Hmm, I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there, Bob. Maybe once upon a time Madison was a unique name. But now every 3rd girl is named Madison.[DOUBLEPOST=1420575621,1420575209][/DOUBLEPOST]We named our son Koren (pronounced like the cat in DBZ). Though my Jewish friends tell me it's more properly pronounced like the name Corrine. Whatever. Poor kid has been mislabeled "Karen" so many times.
Koren's classmates have such names as "Blaise", "Houston", "Ivan (Latin pronunciation, not Russian, so like Yvonne)", "Storm", etc.
My daughter's name is Eleanor. Her friends are Miriam, Martha, Rose, etc.
Huh. Didn't think I would pass that list. Although we nickname Sebastian as "Bax", so fail on the X-at-the-end criterion if nicknames count.
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Doesn't make it any less of a not-a-girl-name girl name.
Also, related to this discussion -
My name is Heather. There are too many Heathers so I tried to give my kids names that were different without being weird.
Some one please post a link to that scene fron Ted. You know the one, it made Nick tinkle in his pants when we saw it.
