regarding library information, I had a friend who worked at our local library who was able to look up a specific book and see that a mutual acqaintince had “lost” the book, paying the original price for a book that is now runnin over $1000.00 for a copy. this was quite a few years ago (at least 15 years ago). as far as I can remember our libraries have been on the computer system for a long time, definately prior to 1995. I don’t see why therefore that someone can’t run a query on the library database looking for who checked out what subject of books.
Really? The only cards we had back then in our system was a card with the due date stamped on it. I actually don’t even remember signing out books in the municipal library: just the grammar school library in the 80s and the high school library in the very early 90s (and I seem to remember them switching to just a scanning system and sticking a stamped due date card in the book while I was there.)
It was kind of interesting seeing who else has signed out the book you were reading. And sometimes I’d come across a book I didn’t remember whether I read or not, and could just check the card to see.
OK, I forgot that Seven (Se7en, really?) was set in “The City” and not a real place, but I always felt like it was supposed to be New York or some other east coast city. Not much rain in LA. That said, any decent-sized library system that I know of switched to a computer system by 1990 at the latest. And “The City” in Seven was supposed to be pretty big. John Doe’s whole thing was that he was sickened by society’s attitudes in such a large metropolis.
Because libraries rarely keep this information. There is no information to query and many library databases don’t even store that information for current borrowers in that kind of format.
Yes, really. It’s the official title of the film, based on how it “appears on screen in the opening credits”. Please address complaints to David Fincher.
In North Africa, it was so hot that tank crews could literally fry eggs on their armor (and sometimes did). In Asia and the Pacific, you not only have tropical heat but triple-digit humidity as well. I can totally see flying with the canopy open under those conditions; otherwise the pilot would be baked or steamed to death inside an enclosed cockpit. Yes, it would have created drag, but at the speeds they were flying, it would have been less important than staying alive (and it was noisy under any circumstances; that’s why pilots wore throat mikes and helmets with earphones).
Keep in mind too that in North Africa, the Pacific, and the China-Burma-India theatre, they were flying mostly tactical aircraft on low-level missions. They generally didn’t have to worry about freezing to death at 25,000 feet, like the strategic bombers and their escorts did in Europe.
I know that it’s the title he uses on screen, but I can’t believe that some marketer has actually suckered people into using it in common conversation. As for the “official title” business, that’s just the official title on the IMDB.
Both the MPAA and the production information published by New Line Cinema use “Seven.”
I love it when completely unexpected fights about library data storage break out.
Not true, though it probably won’t matter to you that librarians use the same criteria for determining the title of a film.
You say you went to see a hockey game, and some librarians broke out in a fight?
Except for the 15th Air Force, which flew strategic missions over the continent from bases in Italy, the above applies to the Med as well.
Starlets that can’t fold laundry and deliver lines at the same time! WTF? You really notice this in The Big Bang Theory, they shoot a lot of scenes in the laundry room. (Sheldon’s off the hook for his clothes folding device!) But the actress cannot fold anything! Not towels, not tea towels, not socks! I realize the she’s not doing her own laundry now that she’s a star, but damn, she must have at some time. I mean towels, you can’t fold towels?
As a person who spent a lifetime working behind bars, I have never, ever, not even once, heard of a cop coming in, flashing around photos, asking, “What time did they leave?” I swear to God every crime on Law & Order uses this ham handed plot device. So lame!
Every single person who teaches at a college, no matter how young they are, is a full professor, and is always addressed as “Professor” or “Professor [name].”
In the Jewett City CT library back in the early 1990s there was a book on heraldry that had been printed and purchased back in the late 1920s and the previous person to borrow it was in the mid 1930s … :eek:
And in the early 1970s I ILLd Budge’s humongous book on Egyptian heiroglyphics from the Rochester NY library system, and was the only person that had borrowed it for over 20 years, enough so that they let me back to back borrow it for almost a year. My silly ‘party trick’ in museums was the ability to transliterate and in many cases read heiroglyphic inscriptions on statues of pharaohs. [big secret is inscriptions tend to be very repetitive so once you start being able to recognize specific titles and phrases, it gets fairly easy.]
Yes, but if they just work there and only have a Masters they will be treated with scorn by the others with Doctorates, even if they’ve been to space.
That’s a pretty suspicious story. Where were you on the night of March 8th?
I don’t have time to answer that question, I got regulars to serve.
At the university library where I work the title has been listed as “Seven” and it can be found at 791.43 SEV. Films aren’t important to this particular library, though (the collection is small and they’re ordered by title rather than director) so I’m not convinced this classification means much. While searching I also noticed a couple of journal articles that refer to “Se7en”, so someone obviously takes that title seriously.
That’s a pretty suspicious story. Where were you on the night of March 8th?
Engaging in sloth.
First, thanks for the link to the unaired pilot; I’ve wanted to see it. Second, that’s an example of there being about four moves left in a nearly solved cube, by way of Chronos’ second suggestion.
I can think of a dozen, too, out of hundreds. Under-the-hood repairs are pretty common. However, you did get me thinking, that a lot of professional shops on TV show mechanics working in their backs under cars instead of using lifts. A real shop would have bays with lifts.
I don’t know anything about you, or what you do and don’t know about engines, but at any rate, there are probably at least some people on the thread who didn’t know what vapor lock was.
It must have something to do with actors wanting their faces to be seen, because they never wear the strap, and they push the helmet back like it’s a Brownie beanie.
And TV writers know of only 4 kinds of doctorates, MD, Ph.D, DVM and DDS. They have no idea there are non-medical doctorates besides Ph.Ds, nor that it’s takes a long time to get a Ph.D, because you have to write a dissertation. No matter how smart you are, you can’t make your research project go any faster. The rats need so much time to breed, the toddlers need so much time to acquire 50 words, etc.
I hate it when some genius has a stack of Ph.Ds in non-overlapping subjects. Someone might get multiple doctorates, or more than one Ph.D in related subjects (a pharmaceutical researcher might have one in biochemistry as well as pharmacology, for example), but no one goes around getting Ph.Ds for the fun of it. It takes other peoples’ time, and they aren’t going to give it to you if they think you aren’t going to do anything in the field, and it takes money; you aren’t going to get grants if you don’t have a plan for your post-doctorate work. If you grant says “I’m a genius who needs another degree for a feather in my cap,” your grant will be denied.
However, there are lots of doctorates that are not Ph.Ds (and not medical degrees, either). A lot of people with a very specific goal, like being a high school guidance counselor, get those kind of doctorates-- an Ed.D, in that example. There’s a D.Div, doctor of Divinity, which is what some priests who teach in seminaries have, rather than Ph.Ds in religious studies. I could go on forever, but you get the point. All those degrees are must faster to get than a Ph.D, because they don’t require a dissertation.