BEST. EXPLANATION. EVER!!


Yet somehow Rick's inability to find an uzi in Atlanta strains credulity for you!

The Hungry Games (can't seem to call it anything else now thankyouverymuch 'Rosa) was kind of meh, but The Maze Runner (which we watched afterward) turned out to be surprisingly interesting and entertaining. Don't know if it did well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel, but I find myself hoping it did.

Took me forever to remember the name "Sea Monkey," and I even got them for XMas one year (but they died, and never grew). I did get a swelling alligator from Sea World in Miami for my son, and that thing nearly took over his bedroom it swelled so huge; it billowed out of the jar; I had to decapitate it while my son was in school so he wouldn't see. I think it was going to grow into a full size one till I killed it; and it all grew from a pellet the size of a BB.


But for SubRosa - it isn't that there aren't any guns, it is that there aren't any guns around when you need one - like there is never a cop around when you need one, but when you don't want one there is always one in your rear-view mirror.





This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 25 2015, 04:59 PM

I watched the Hunger Games a while back, barely managed to make it past the first hour just because of the camera work; any remotely dramatic scene and the camera began to unnecessarily jerk and wobble about like someone had jabbed the cameraman with a cattle prod. Combined with the deathly dull directorial work and I was just turned off. A shame, really, because I liked the book.

In terms of things I'm currently watching, I've just finished marathoning the IT Crowd, which is sort of like the British Big Bang Theory, though made before the BBT and wasn't so much of an aspergers minstrel show. Also funnier. As well as that, I've got Archer, Adventure Time, Steven Universe and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure as my Friday cartoon fix, all of which are an absolute blast to watch.

I am guessing you do not mean Mozilla Sea Monkey?

I watched Taking Chance last night, and thought it was excellent. A very moving story about taking a dead marine home. In the end I realized it was not about Kevin Bacon, the marine who takes Chance home. But rather it was about Chance, and all of the lives he passed through on the way.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 25 2015, 11:44 PM

I think I have seen that ad in comic books. But I never actually saw the real thing.

It's 3.45am, so I'm passing the time until breakfast by marathoning Bob's Burgers. I love this show.

Neither did I, mine died while still in embryonic state. Everyone knows someone whose sea monkeys lived, but mine never grew period - could have been from using tap water, though. I think they are really Krill or something.

So truthfully, I was pretty shocked when that alligator started growing and moving around the jar. (till it started growing out the top of the jar). I had already put it in a much bigger jar; when it started coming out of that huge jar that was downright frightening - straight out of one of those horror movies where the green blob comes to life and takes over. Creeped me out!

Still slowly working through Doctor Who. I just watched Turn Left, from the Catherine Tate series. Near the beginning where a Unit solder says that the Doctor is dead, I practically jumped out of my seat. I knew the voice. It was Clive Standen! Yes, Rollo, everyone's favorite giant berserker from Vikings. I love going to back to watch things and recognizing people who were not famous then, but are now.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 26 2015, 06:38 PM

It is uncanny how you are able to detect voices and recognize them - and can even pinpoint the actor! It is an amazing talent, or you have an extremely atuned ear, Awesome!

Voices can sometimes stir a recognition in me, but only if the voice is unique (IE: Kathleen Turner; James Earl Jones; Betty Davis; Alan Rickman; etc). Now voices like these I am able to instantly recognize - but who couldn't, lol.

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy again.

Then I went online and ordered the soundtrack

A lot of people say the sense of smell triggers memories for them. They can smell something, and instantly remember something associated with it from years ago. That has never worked for me. But sounds do register in my brain. Songs especially make me remember things I was doing years before, either when I first heard the song, or from some time when I was listening to it a lot. Belinda Carlisle's Live Your Life Be Free album always makes me think of playing Doom, because for a while it was listening it to it every time I played.

More than anything else, hearing an actor's voice helps me tell who it is. When I was watching The Road Warrior again recently I recognized the actress playing the woman-warrior of the good guys as soon as I heard her talk. It was Virginia Hey from Farscape. She plays an alien in Farscape, and wears a lot of makeup and has a shaved head. So she looked nothing like she did in The Road Warrior. But I would recognize that voice anywhere.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 26 2015, 09:41 PM

I'm the exact same way with faces and names - almost never forget a face; but can't remember names to save my life. Scents - there are a few that twinge a menory; Example: The smell of turkey & dressing cooking always brings up memories of my paternal Grandparent's house. Growing up that is where we were every single Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner; really good memories.

Songs are most def memory triggers for me. I can remember where I was and what was happening when I first heard certain songs; and can remember what song was playing at any major events in my life (if a song was playing at the time). Example: Every time I hear "Whiter Shade of Pale" it brings memories of a certain day in my life and what I was doing that day as it played on the radio. It wasn't the first time I'd heard the song by any means, but it happened to be playing at that moment and it is forever tied in my memory to that moment in my life; like a screen capture of a time and place.

The difference for me is in the voices. It has to be a very unique voice or accent for me to know instantly who it is. I have heard voices before and known they were familiar, but not been able to place them and it drives me nuts till I figure it out, lol. That is the closest I get to that, lol.

Just started watching Girls und Panzer. What could be better than an anime about Japanese school girls? Or one about WWII era tanks? An anime about Japanese school girls in WWII era tanks! So far it is silly and fun, and incredibly accurate artwork of the tanks themselves.

Aw, now they have to make the version with real schoolgirls and real tanks for me to watch it, lol.

I just watch a youtube video of Danish archer Lars Anderson demonstrating some totes rad archery biz.

I know that you both have Archer characters, Acadian and Subrosa, and the archer biz on that video is totes rad.

Mustard - Wowzer! That was so fun!

Here's one that focuses on flexibility more than speed and accuracy, but still neat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOCVhCmDNY

Very cool video. I have seen some of that before, and read about a lot of the techniques when I did some research on Arabic and Mongol Archery for Teresa. Things like putting the arrow on the right side of the bow instead of the left, holding extra arrows in the same hand you hold the bow with (or pull the string with). A Mamluk archer was said to be able to shoot 3 arrows in 1.5 seconds. An English bowman was expected to shoot 20 arrows a minutes.

One thing the video does not cover is zone-shooting, which was a standard archery technique, and one that separated the archers who were simply hunters from those who were military professionals. Basically it is using high-angle fire - like a mortar - to drop your arrows into a specific area. An Islamic text I read said you should be able to put your arrows in a circle no larger than a man could spread his arms, at any range that was called out to you, in any direction. So the archers could be put at the rear of the army, and could continually fire at the enemy, over the heads of their comrades. All they needed was to be told range and direction. That is also why the kettle style helmet became popular, its wide brim protected not only your head, but also your neck from plunging arrow fire.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 28 2015, 02:44 AM

Should I watch the walking dead?

I'd say yes. Pretty good stuff.

As for myself I'm re-re-watching Vikings (the tv series). Absolutely love it.