Posts by andrew llewellyn
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and I seem to be the only person on earth who found The Dark Knight ludicrously over-rated and at least 45 minutes too long.
One of my favourite lines from a movie review comes from James Berardinelli's take on Goldeneye.
Also, there's more action in Goldeneye than in previous 007 entries -- enough to keep a ninety-minute film moving at a frantic pace. Unfortunately, this movie isn't ninety-minutes long -- it's one-hundred thirty
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Unless the burglars work for the embassy.
Now you;'re talking my brand of paranoia. Did I mention they used to be dirty commies?
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I am reminded of Michael Moore's "The Awful Truth" who put a web cam across the road of the apartment of Linda Tripp and posted the live feed on the internet.
I live directly across a road from an East Eauropean embassy, I'm told that they have CCTV surveillance of our part of the street.
Far from bothering us (OK, it's not a public feed as far as I know), we figured any burglary will be quite quick to resolve.
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That said, if you're somewhat famous or notorious, having anyone with a crush on or a vendetta against you being able to scope out your road might be a real pain. I foresee Whaleoil, at least, having some fun with EFA authorisers' home addresses come the next election. It saves the trouble of a camera driveby, right?
He'd have been able to do that last few elections if he subscribed to a decent public GPS system - used to have one in a job I had, most brilliant stalking too IMO, enter a name & it told you how many houses a person owned (pays to have an obscure LAQC name), where they are on a map, or alternatively, enter an address & get the owner's info. Match it all up with the satellite photos...
This has been available the last decade or so.
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I just can't shake the feeling that I'll soon need to think about what I put on to bring in my washing.
I've always said that I'll close the door on tolerance when I switch on & see myself being filmed taking a dump on some reality TV show.
So it could be worse.
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It's the revelation (albeit somewhat glacial) that it's quite tricky to tag a hedge.
Not to give enoyers of a good "wheeze" ideas or anything, but if the hedge is compact enough, may I suggest a knapsack of roundup set to a fine jet spray.
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But didn't mind it being on national news at primetime?!!
That's what flashed into my mind on seeing her. I guess she was arguing the principle :)
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is there really no one else who finds it slightly odd that their backyard is now public?
And it's most people's front yards, the bit they make nice for street appeal, so that passers by ooh & aah at their good taste.
SO no. Not really.
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In some shots you can look straight down....it's quite a strange car they were using to take the shots.
You can see tha car's shadow in some shots (go to carterton, nz for instance & do a 360.)
is there really no one else who finds it slightly odd that their backyard is now public?
Well there was that lady on the news last night, named & filmed out the front of her place, who thought her house appearing on the web was a gross invasion of her privacy.
Maybe she'd have been happier if she'd been credited in some way?
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Or you could organise a parade, if you were feeling kinder.
Or a KKK rally & (faux) lynching!
OK, I'm probly getting carried away with this.