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I posted a quiz several months ago now, didn't I? It's about time I posted some answers!
- To infinity, and beyond!
Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story
Guessed by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talismancer and pleaseremove - The latest thing from Q branch: it's called a radio.
James Bond, Skyfall
Guessed bypleaseremove - You didn't slay the dragon?
It's on my todo list!
Fiona and Shrek, Shrek - My own personal flurry!
Olaf, Frozen - Hammer tech?
Yeah.
Tony Stark and Col. James Rhodes, Iron Man 2
Guessed bypleaseremove - Unfortunately there's this dirty great sea monster in the way.
I think they just add those on the maps for decoration.
Is that a fact?
The Pirate Captain and Charles Darwin, Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Not my daughter you bitch!
Molly Weasley, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 - Fly, you fools!
Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Guessed bytalismancer - You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Charlie Croker, The Italian Job
Guessed bytalismancer and pleaseremove - The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in.
Kevin Flynn, Tron Legacy
Guessed bypleaseremove - better drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown.
Commander Walker, Swallows and Amazons
Guessed bytalismancer - It's a- it's a- it's a- it's a- it's a- it's a-
No no no no no no. 'Cause if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cause all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?
Priest Vito Cornelius and DJ Ruby Rhod, The Fifth Element
Guessed bypleaseremove - Standard-issue helmet and body armour. Yours, when you graduate.
Standard-issue sidearm, with 20 interchangeable rounds and voice-activated round system. Yours, if you graduate.
Lawmaster with rapid-firing cannons and a range of 500 kilometres. Yours... if you can ever get it to work.
Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd - What's the situation?
Two blokes and a fuck-load of cutlery!
Nicholas Angel and DS Andy Wainwright, Hot Fuzz
Guessed bypleaseremove - Call my name. Bastian, please! Save us!
The Childlike Empress, The Neverending Story
And most importantly, the scoreboard!
pleaseremove: 7 points
talismancer: 4 points
Congratulations to pleaseremove, you win!
Guess the Movie Meme, round 4!
Jan. 25th, 2015 11:27 pmLet's see if I can poke some life into LJ...
Edit: corrected quote #9
I'm bored. That means it's time for a meme! And today's meme is... (spins the wheel of memeage) ...Guess the Movie!
As always with these things, we must first go over the rules:
- Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
- Find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- Those who Google for the answers will be snarked at.
Commentators, start your browsers!
To infinity, and beyond!
Guessed bytalismancer and pleaseremoveThe latest thing from Q branch: it's called a radio.
Guessed bypleaseremove- You didn't slay the dragon?
It's on my todo list! - My own personal flurry!
Hammer tech?
Yeah.
Guessed bypleaseremove- Unfortunately there's this dirty great sea monster in the way.
I think they just add those on the maps for decoration.
Is that a fact? - Not my daughter you bitch!
Fly, you fools!
Guessed bytalismancerYou're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Guessed bytalismancer and pleaseremoveThe Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then one day... I got in.
Guessed bypleaseremovebetter drowned than duffers if not duffers wont drown.
Guessed bytalismancerIt's a- it's a- it's a- it's a- it's a- it's a-
No no no no no no. 'Cause if it was a bomb, the alarms would go off 'cause all these hotels have bomb detectors, right?
Guessed bypleaseremove- Standard-issue helmet and body armour. Yours, when you graduate.
Standard-issue sidearm, with 20 interchangeable rounds and voice-activated round system. Yours, if you graduate.
Lawmaster with rapid-firing cannons and a range of 500 kilometres. Yours... if you can ever get it to work. What's the situation?
Two blokes and a fuck-load of cutlery!
Guessed bypleaseremove- Call my name. Bastian, please! Save us!
Lines closed, and answers posted!
I'm far too tired to type anything long and coherent (I actually dozed off for a few moments during the film!), so I'll just post a few random snippets:
( Not really spoilers )
( Not really spoilers )
For being the "polite and quiet one"
Jul. 12th, 2011 08:49 pmThis is what you get for being the "polite and quiet one":
As to why Order of the Phoenix, well the cinema is doing a special rerun of all the Harry Potter films in preparation for Deathly Hallows part 2. Order of the Phoenix (or more accurately the final challenge in Goblet of Fire) is when the films stopped getting progressively more appalling and began to be awesome.
I'm very tempted to go to the midnight showing of Deathly Hallows part 2 on Thursday/Friday, just because I can :)
As to why Order of the Phoenix, well the cinema is doing a special rerun of all the Harry Potter films in preparation for Deathly Hallows part 2. Order of the Phoenix (or more accurately the final challenge in Goblet of Fire) is when the films stopped getting progressively more appalling and began to be awesome.
I'm very tempted to go to the midnight showing of Deathly Hallows part 2 on Thursday/Friday, just because I can :)
Guess the Movie Meme, round 3 answers
Feb. 26th, 2011 11:44 amTime for the massively overdue answers to the Guess the Movie Meme! As per usual, commenting has been disabled and existing comments unscreened so you can all point and laugh at each other's failures. It looks like everyone found this set much harder than the previous couple of memes.
- You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
Eames, Inception
Guessed byjonners99 - You're messing with my Zen thing, man!
Kevin Flynn, Tron Legacy
- Unhand the tail. No one, repeat, no one, touches the tail. Period, exclamation mark!
Reepicheep, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Damnit. This was such a good character.
Count Olaf, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Great calligraphy.
Great swordsmanship.
You didn't see my swordsmanship.
Without it, I couldn't have written this calligraphy.
Nameless and Broken Sword, Hero
Guessed byariskari and olego - Warning. Warning. Firearms detected. Number of weapons found... many!
An automated weapons scanner, Ultraviolet
- Arm yourselves! We must board them!
Blakeney, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
- So uncivilized.
Obi-wan Kenobi, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
- DIIIIIIIIIVVEEEEE!
Prince Vultan, Flash Gordon
- Mine!
The seagulls, Finding Nemo
Guessed bycrschmidt, ariskari and delta_mike - How about a nice game of chess?
Joshua, WarGames
Guessed bycrschmidt, delta_mike and olego - So what are you doing down there?
Waiting for backup.
It's here.
Judge Dredd and Judge Hershey, Judge Dredd
- Right, you go first.
No, you go first.
[together] I'll go first!
Terry Sheridan and Lara Croft, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
- Never let me cut your hair again.
Hermione, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Guessed byariskari - What the hell is he doing?
His job.
Roebuck and M, Tomorrow Never Dies
Guessed bydelta_mike
And the scoreboard!
3: ariskari
3: delta_mike
2: crschmidt
2: olego
Congratulations to ariskari and delta_mike, you get to share in the grand prize of The Internet!
Guess the Movie Meme, round 3
Feb. 7th, 2011 08:17 pmIt's been a while since I've posted anything. More specifically, it's been a while since I've posted a meme...
Welcome to the Guess the Movie Meme, with your host, boggyb!
- Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
- Find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- Those who google for the answers will be snarked at.
You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.(guessed byjonners99)- You're messing with my Zen thing, man!
- Unhand the tail. No one, repeat, no one, touches the tail. Period, exclamation mark!
- Damnit. This was such a good character.
Great calligraphy.(guessed by
Great swordsmanship.
You didn't see my swordsmanship.
Without it, I couldn't have written this calligraphy.ariskari, olego)- Warning. Warning. Firearms detected. Number of weapons found... many!
- Arm yourselves! We must board them!
- So uncivilized.
- DIIIIIIIIIVVEEEEE!
Mine!(guessed bycrschmidt, ariskari, delta_mike)How about a nice game of chess?(guessed bycrschmidt, delta_mike, olego)- So what are you doing down there?
Waiting for backup.
It's here. - Right, you go first.
No, you go first.
[together] I'll go first! Never let me cut your hair again.(guessed byariskari)What the hell is he doing?(guessed by
His job.delta_mike)
Comments screened to give everyone a chance.
(no subject)
Dec. 5th, 2009 08:28 pmGuess what? It's the weekend! That means it's time for the answers to the movie meme!
- C minor, put it in C minor.
The Fairy Godmother, Shrek 2
Guessed byariskari, omgimsuchadork, elemnar and skeelojoe
- How'd you solve the icing problem?
Icing problem?
Tony Stark and Obadiah Stane, Iron Man
Guessed byariskari
- Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No.
Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Guessed byariskari, elemnar and link022
- You're mad.
Thank goodness for that, 'cause if I wasn't this would probably never work.
Cutler Beckett and Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Guessed byariskari and skeelojoe
- I name you Prince Terrien, giant troll hunter extraordinaire. P.T. for short.
Leslie Burke, Bridge to Terabithia
Guessed by nobody!
- Sir, what was that business with the watch? Back in the ready room, with the watch?
It's sort of a test.
Lymangood and Murphy, Blue Thunder
Guessed by nobody!
- Execute Order 66.
Palpatine, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
Guessed byariskari, skeelojoe and link022
- Nice trick. I've seen it before.
Elektra, Elektra
Guessed by nobody!
- Impossible. Impossible. Nothing is impossible. Come on, Mouse. Dig! Dig, Mouse. Come on.
Mouse, Ladyhawke
Guessed by nobody!
- Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.
The Penguins, Madagascar
Guessed byariskari, elemnar and skeelojoe
- PWO, is that target too small for missile lock?
Yes, sir.
Ok, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way.
The Captain of the HMS Bedford and his PWO, Tomorrow Never Dies
Guessed by nobody!
- Choose your last words carefully, Telmarine!
You are a mouse!
I was hoping for something a little more original.
Reepicheep and Prince Caspian, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Capsian
Guessed byariskari, elemnar and skeelojoe
- I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
Samwise Gamgee, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Guessed byariskari, elemnar, skeelojoe and link022
- Why so serious?
The Joker, The Dark Knight
Guessed byariskari, elemnar, skeelojoe and link022
- I woke up this morning and I just hated everything.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Guessed byariskari and skeelojoe
And the scoreboard!
10: ariskari
8: skeelojoe
5.5: elemnar (half mark for getting the series but not the specific film for #3)
4: link077
1: omgimsuchadork
Guess the Movie Meme, round 2
Nov. 29th, 2009 09:59 pmHmm, flicking through old posts has made me all nostalgic... for a meme!
Guess the Movie Meme, originally found via kotukawi.
- Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
- Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.
- C minor, put it in C minor.
- How'd you solve the icing problem?
Icing problem? - Did I know that I just met the most dangerous dark wizard of all time? No.
- You're mad.
Thank goodness for that, 'cause if I wasn't this would probably never work. - I name you Prince Terrien, giant troll hunter extraordinaire. P.T. for short.
- Sir, what was that business with the watch? Back in the ready room, with the watch?
It's sort of a test. - Execute Order 66.
- Nice trick. I've seen it before.
- Impossible. Impossible. Nothing is impossible. Come on, Mouse. Dig! Dig, Mouse. Come on.
- Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.
- PWO, is that target too small for missile lock?
Yes, sir.
Ok, we'll have to do this the old fashioned way. - Choose your last words carefully, Telmarine!
You are a mouse!
I was hoping for something a little more original. - I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
- Why so serious?
- I woke up this morning and I just hated everything.
I'll screen comments for a few days, to give everyone a chance to guess
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Aug. 2nd, 2009 09:54 pmI finally got round to watching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and it is definetely worth watching. They've done a very good job of condensing the book into the film this time (unlike the horrible mangling that was Goblet of Fire), and the characters all fit the way they behave in the books.
( Spoilery musings )
The soundtrack was excellent as well, although annoying the cinema did the usual thing of turning the volume up too high. I hate it when the sound starts distorting because some fool thinks louder is always better.
Anyway, time to watch the Top Gear from earlier. I love having a TV card in my computer.
( Spoilery musings )
The soundtrack was excellent as well, although annoying the cinema did the usual thing of turning the volume up too high. I hate it when the sound starts distorting because some fool thinks louder is always better.
Anyway, time to watch the Top Gear from earlier. I love having a TV card in my computer.
Guess the Movie Meme, round 1: the answers
May. 6th, 2009 07:34 pmBy popular request, here are the long-awaited answers for the Guess the Movie Meme! (original comments are now been unscreened)
- You offend reason, sir. I should like to offend it with you!
John, Peter Pan (2003 version)
Guessed bythe_hunter
- Oh! Where did you find *this* strength?
I'm not about to tell you!
Sephiroth to Cloud, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Guessed by nobody!
- I am invincible!
Boris, Goldeneye
Guessed bypleaseremove, the_s_guy, ariskari, the_hunter, shebit
- Dodge this
Trinity, The Matrix
Guessed byjecook, pleaseremove, link007, the_s_guy, ariskari, cooba, shebit
- Little hand says it's time to rock and roll
Nicholas Angel, Hot Fuzz
Guessed bypleaseremove
- If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
Maximus, Gladiator
Guessed bypleaseremove, the_hunter, mirrordreams, shebit, greenB
- Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination
Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical version)
Guessed byjecook, the_s_guy, the_hunter, shebit
- Do you not know that in the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?
Captain Jack Aubrey, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Guessed byariskari, shebit
- Savvy?
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Guessed byjecook, pleaseremove, the_s_guy, ariskari, mirrordreams, shebit, greenB
- I swallowed a bug
River, Serenity
Guessed byjecook, pleaseremove, the_s_guy, ariskari, shebit
- You shall not pass!
Big Furry WizardGandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Guessed byjecook, pleaseremove, link007, the_hunter, mirrordreams, cooba, shebit, greenB
- Gold-3 to Gold-2 and 1. I'm getting out of here right now, and you guys are invited.
Flynn, Tron
Guessed bythe_hunter
- If anyone asks, there were fifty of 'em... And, uh... They were rattlesnakes.
Diego, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Guessed by nobody!
- It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chickens go in, pies come out.
What kind of pies?
Apple.
Mrs Tweedie to Farmer Tweedie, Chicken Run
Guessed byjecook, pleaseremove, link007, the_s_guy, ariskari, the_hunter, mirrordreams, shebit
- Red light! Green light!
Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible
Guessed bypleaseremove
And the scoreboard!
9: pleaseremove
9: shebit
7: the_hunter
6: jecook
6: the_s_guy
6: ariskari
4: mirrordreams
3: link077
3: greenB
2: cooba
Guess the Movie Meme, round 1
Apr. 25th, 2009 06:53 pmI'm bored. That means it's time for a meme!
Guess the Movie Meme, found via kotukawi.
- Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
- Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
- Post them here for everyone to guess.
- Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
- NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search or other search functions.
- You offend reason, sir. I should like to offend it with you!
- Oh! Where did you find *this* strength?
I'm not about to tell you! - I am invincible!
- Dodge this
- Little hand says it's time to rock and roll
- If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!
- Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure imagination
- Do you not know that in the service one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?
- Savvy?
- I swallowed a bug
- You shall not pass!
- Gold-3 to Gold-2 and 1. I'm getting out of here right now, and you guys are invited.
- If anyone asks, there were fifty of 'em... And, uh... They were rattlesnakes.
- It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chickens go in, pies come out.
What kind of pies?
Apple. - Red light! Green light!
I'll screen comments for a few days, to give everyone a chance to guess
Or, in other words, how to make an encrypted VNC connection when both ends are behind a firewall. Abusing PuTTY's fun. Abusing stunnel is also fun. The combination makes for some mind-boggling network connections that are somewhat reminescent of Uplink (and if I had my Linux box on, I could have added another bounce in there somewhere). And all because there's no native free SSH server for Win32 (the OpenSSH one requiring Cygwin and a Linux-style configuration and account setup).
Anyway, on to other stuff. There's not been an update for a while, mainly because there's not been anything much to write about. University assignments are ticking over nicely, apart from HCI where we're all doomed anyway, and the computers here seem to have learnt to behave. Either that or they're just biding their time, waiting to annoy me.
Speaking of computers, a recent addition to Igor (aka. Achilles, The Desktop, That Stupid Pile Of... Of... Argh!) courtesy ofricold has been a TV capture card, with which I have rediscovered TV. With this I can now get my weekly Top Gear and Scrapheap Challenge fixes, all from the comfort of my chair. With enough effort I could probably rig up automated recording of those as well, and turn my computer into a TiVo-type widget.
Hmm, maybe I should rig up a quiet system just for recording and watching TV. Shouldn't take much to run - all that's needed is a TV card, bit of RAM, reasonable CPU, and plenty of disk. Hardware Mpeg-2 encoder would be nice as well, as that way I don't have to put in anything particularly fast for a processor. I could in theory take Odysseus (aka. The Aptiva, The Linux Box), swap the processor out for one which doesn't have a fan, swap the power supply out for a modern quiet one (not that it needs anything much for power - the supply's rated at around 150W. You get bigger *laptop* supplies), pull the case fan and stick a quiet hard disk in there. The only downside is that this box is a good ten years old now, and so only has an original Pentium clocked at 166MHz in it (not even MMX!) with a mere 48MB of RAM. It does have a CPU upgrade (K6-II clocked at 300MHz), but the BIOS has a tendency to disagree with the upgrade and claim that, for example, the processor is not installed. Or is clocked at 0MHz. And I don't think there's that much in the way of realtime full-PAL video codecs that run with that little processing power. Perhaps some kind of Beowulf cluster, made out of a bunch of old Pentium-era laptops, would do the trick. Though at that point I'm probably better off picking up some off-the-shelf components and building a Mini-ITX system instead.
( Moving on to the film spoiler section )
Also in the film rumour section: latest news is that a Legend of Zelda film is being considered by the Big N (after the Metroid film, which appearently might actually happen). Various posts on the various Zelda fansites have mentioned this, andthe source appears to be an interview given by a high-up in Nintendo. It's been somewhat amusing to see the different reactions to this. A quick sweep of the forums shows a lot of people going "Noooo! Link will speak and that will kill it", along with others going "If they do this then it must be anime or CG as live action would suck". I'm actually a bit suprised at those comments, considering that a lot of people disliked Wind Waker for it's cel-shading. Personally, I'm siding with those who aren't denouncing it before the script's even been started. A Zelda film could work quite well, it could be live-action (which personally I'd prefer to CG or anime), Link could speak without destroying it, and it doesn't have to be a retelling of Ocarina of Time. Nintendo probably have the ability to make it a success, as long it doesn't get mangled by Hollywood. Still, I'm going to keep an open mind about it until I actually see more concrete information about it, and (more importantly) until such time as the film comes out (assuming of course that it happens).
Ah well. 'Twill be amusing if Twilight Princess gets bad ratings for *not* being cel-shaded, or *not* being "kiddie".
Anyway, on to other stuff. There's not been an update for a while, mainly because there's not been anything much to write about. University assignments are ticking over nicely, apart from HCI where we're all doomed anyway, and the computers here seem to have learnt to behave. Either that or they're just biding their time, waiting to annoy me.
Speaking of computers, a recent addition to Igor (aka. Achilles, The Desktop, That Stupid Pile Of... Of... Argh!) courtesy of
ricold has been a TV capture card, with which I have rediscovered TV. With this I can now get my weekly Top Gear and Scrapheap Challenge fixes, all from the comfort of my chair. With enough effort I could probably rig up automated recording of those as well, and turn my computer into a TiVo-type widget.Hmm, maybe I should rig up a quiet system just for recording and watching TV. Shouldn't take much to run - all that's needed is a TV card, bit of RAM, reasonable CPU, and plenty of disk. Hardware Mpeg-2 encoder would be nice as well, as that way I don't have to put in anything particularly fast for a processor. I could in theory take Odysseus (aka. The Aptiva, The Linux Box), swap the processor out for one which doesn't have a fan, swap the power supply out for a modern quiet one (not that it needs anything much for power - the supply's rated at around 150W. You get bigger *laptop* supplies), pull the case fan and stick a quiet hard disk in there. The only downside is that this box is a good ten years old now, and so only has an original Pentium clocked at 166MHz in it (not even MMX!) with a mere 48MB of RAM. It does have a CPU upgrade (K6-II clocked at 300MHz), but the BIOS has a tendency to disagree with the upgrade and claim that, for example, the processor is not installed. Or is clocked at 0MHz. And I don't think there's that much in the way of realtime full-PAL video codecs that run with that little processing power. Perhaps some kind of Beowulf cluster, made out of a bunch of old Pentium-era laptops, would do the trick. Though at that point I'm probably better off picking up some off-the-shelf components and building a Mini-ITX system instead.
( Moving on to the film spoiler section )
Also in the film rumour section: latest news is that a Legend of Zelda film is being considered by the Big N (after the Metroid film, which appearently might actually happen). Various posts on the various Zelda fansites have mentioned this, andthe source appears to be an interview given by a high-up in Nintendo. It's been somewhat amusing to see the different reactions to this. A quick sweep of the forums shows a lot of people going "Noooo! Link will speak and that will kill it", along with others going "If they do this then it must be anime or CG as live action would suck". I'm actually a bit suprised at those comments, considering that a lot of people disliked Wind Waker for it's cel-shading. Personally, I'm siding with those who aren't denouncing it before the script's even been started. A Zelda film could work quite well, it could be live-action (which personally I'd prefer to CG or anime), Link could speak without destroying it, and it doesn't have to be a retelling of Ocarina of Time. Nintendo probably have the ability to make it a success, as long it doesn't get mangled by Hollywood. Still, I'm going to keep an open mind about it until I actually see more concrete information about it, and (more importantly) until such time as the film comes out (assuming of course that it happens).
Ah well. 'Twill be amusing if Twilight Princess gets bad ratings for *not* being cel-shaded, or *not* being "kiddie".
