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Feb. 23rd, 2009
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Feb. 23rd, 2009 07:20 pmI dunno from the rest of the movie, but so far, the camping trip in Star Trek V is cute beyond cute. I am charmed.
Who do I have to kill to find out what the Klingons were saying?
I have read too many ST:TOS books to appreciate the Romulan character. That's not how it goes.
I have forever disliked the scene in Star Trek VI where Uhura is mangling the Klingon language in order to gain access to Rura Penthe. She's a communications officer, for heaven's sake, and they've dealt with Klingons for approximately forever, what the hell! Seems I was justified:
Alas, back to the movie.
Who do I have to kill to find out what the Klingons were saying?
I have read too many ST:TOS books to appreciate the Romulan character. That's not how it goes.
I have forever disliked the scene in Star Trek VI where Uhura is mangling the Klingon language in order to gain access to Rura Penthe. She's a communications officer, for heaven's sake, and they've dealt with Klingons for approximately forever, what the hell! Seems I was justified:
Nichelle Nichols complained that with the Klingons as the Federation's primary enemy, a good communications officer would be able to speak at least basic Klingon. Director Nicholas Meyer preferred to keep the scene as it was, for "the laugh."--source
Alas, back to the movie.
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Feb. 23rd, 2009 08:25 pm*wince* What a total waste of time that was. I'm gonna go rewatch ST:IV just to cleanse my palate.
I kind of want the Probe's sounds as my ringtone. It would be a dog whistle for Star Trek folk whenever anybody called me, and downright unsett'ling for all involved.
Anyways, anyways. A computer hardware/shopping question. I need something that's good for carrying around - being used whilst carrying around, I mean - all day. I want it to be able to run Excel, or some spreadsheet-like filterable variant.
Background: Work does online training, with text, narration, and photos. Photos means our marketing guy goes on-site to take photos of the client site. He gets a list of photos he needs to take from the development team. These are in order of how they'll appear in the training... which has naught to do with the physical layout of the client site. *"so you see" gesture*
What I want to do is have something - and naturally, I think of Excel for this - that has:
* the number of the photo in the storyboard
* the text for that photo why not
* what grouping(s) it's in - is it a document? a building or other large construct? a particular type of equipment?
* the number of the photo taken, which will double as an "already done?" column, naturellemente
* a notes column, just in case
This way, I can filter on "all metal bars" and see that we've gotten a green one and a blue one, but not a gold one, la la. It will not be perfect, since we don't, you know, have access to their floor plans and inventory counts, for heaven's sake. But we can reduce the amount of traipsing about, and cut down on embarrassing oversights.
So I want something I can carry around and use for the better part of a business day, that can run Excel and maybe take a camera... data... card... thing. (I don't speak certain languages.) Work's buying (it's a work machine), so I'd like to keep it inexpensive anyways (the better to make my case), but no worries.
Input?
I kind of want the Probe's sounds as my ringtone. It would be a dog whistle for Star Trek folk whenever anybody called me, and downright unsett'ling for all involved.
Anyways, anyways. A computer hardware/shopping question. I need something that's good for carrying around - being used whilst carrying around, I mean - all day. I want it to be able to run Excel, or some spreadsheet-like filterable variant.
Background: Work does online training, with text, narration, and photos. Photos means our marketing guy goes on-site to take photos of the client site. He gets a list of photos he needs to take from the development team. These are in order of how they'll appear in the training... which has naught to do with the physical layout of the client site. *"so you see" gesture*
What I want to do is have something - and naturally, I think of Excel for this - that has:
* the number of the photo in the storyboard
* the text for that photo why not
* what grouping(s) it's in - is it a document? a building or other large construct? a particular type of equipment?
* the number of the photo taken, which will double as an "already done?" column, naturellemente
* a notes column, just in case
This way, I can filter on "all metal bars" and see that we've gotten a green one and a blue one, but not a gold one, la la. It will not be perfect, since we don't, you know, have access to their floor plans and inventory counts, for heaven's sake. But we can reduce the amount of traipsing about, and cut down on embarrassing oversights.
So I want something I can carry around and use for the better part of a business day, that can run Excel and maybe take a camera... data... card... thing. (I don't speak certain languages.) Work's buying (it's a work machine), so I'd like to keep it inexpensive anyways (the better to make my case), but no worries.
Input?