I wonder how many here will share my sentiment... During my college days, The Comedy Channel would stay on in the background for hours during study time... To this day I miss Short Attention Span Theater, Saturday morning breakfasts with Mystery Science Theater 3000 and working late into the evening with Nick Bakay and Allan Havey on Night After Night. I especially miss the last one.
This concept is the same type of probability that governs the "Monty Hall" problem of which door to choose on Let's Make a Deal: Monty Hall Problem
If you are shown a "wrong" door and are given the chance to switch before the final reveal, it is in your interest to do so as the probability of winning is higher. Seems counter-intuitive, but the math proves it.
The intro to the fantastic surf doc "Billabong Odyssey" (unfortunately it came out before HD was everywhere) has Mike Parsons riding what is considered by many to be the biggest wave ever caught on film. If you're into big wave riding and can find it, the whole documentary is amazing. Mike Parsons on a 100ft wave The first time I saw the footage I was blown away. The aerial shot keeps pulling back and keeps pulling back and keeps pulling back... but the bottom of the wave just never seems to come. And he manages to ride it all the way out of the spray. The Cortes Bank. Insanity.
I know that in design classes we were often taught to have our light source painting from left to right (casting shadows to the lower right) because this (we were told) felt more "natural"... but I've always wondered if this is only true for "western" eyes... cultures that read from left to right, parse books from left to right, etc. I'd be interested to see how it fares among readers of middle eastern languages (often read right to left) or Asians (languages read top to bottom) to see if what feels "natural" to them differs.
Oh Ms ;) Cellania... You always take me so literally... It was a reference to the movie from which the pic was taken. A modern classic... (much like "Fast Times..." was for our generation) :) Mallrats - The Food Court Debate
The cookie stand is not a part of the food court... it's an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking... cookie stand's downstairs... food court it upstairs... it's not like we're talking quantum physics here.
I'm sure I'll catch flak for it... but I think perhaps JJ should have spent less time dropping in Easter eggs and more time crafting an original story instead of just rehashing the plot of Ep. IV beat-for-beat.
All that time, such an expansive universe of possibilities and we get the same story (essentially) as we had in '77?
I think it might be Cher in the see-through top (who seems to appear again a few pics lower)... and the late Dorothy Stratten with Hef (in a moment that was immortalized in "Star 80") in a shot between those two. Tiegs, Fawcett(-Majors), Blair and Tilton... so many 70's heartthrobs.
During my college days, The Comedy Channel would stay on in the background for hours during study time...
To this day I miss Short Attention Span Theater, Saturday morning breakfasts with Mystery Science Theater 3000 and working late into the evening with Nick Bakay and Allan Havey on Night After Night. I especially miss the last one.
(Lived in TX the majority of my life, so I'm speaking from the experience of my surroundings)
Monty Hall Problem
If you are shown a "wrong" door and are given the chance to switch before the final reveal, it is in your interest to do so as the probability of winning is higher. Seems counter-intuitive, but the math proves it.
Mike Parsons on a 100ft wave
The first time I saw the footage I was blown away. The aerial shot keeps pulling back and keeps pulling back and keeps pulling back... but the bottom of the wave just never seems to come. And he manages to ride it all the way out of the spray. The Cortes Bank. Insanity.
I'd be interested to see how it fares among readers of middle eastern languages (often read right to left) or Asians (languages read top to bottom) to see if what feels "natural" to them differs.
You always take me so literally...
It was a reference to the movie from which the pic was taken. A modern classic... (much like "Fast Times..." was for our generation) :)
Mallrats - The Food Court Debate
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All that time, such an expansive universe of possibilities and we get the same story (essentially) as we had in '77?
Tiegs, Fawcett(-Majors), Blair and Tilton... so many 70's heartthrobs.