Wow, 28 Weeks Later... I did not see that one coming. It was already in my queue, but now I'm actually looking forward to it!
Sorry if I contributed to boosting your Ratatouille expectations! Curiously, had I written my review upon coming home, it would have looked a lot like yours. But the more I talked with other people the more scenes I really enjoyed kept coming to the fore, and the more I remembered, and the more I loved how the plot arc does not end with Gusteau's getting the stars back, and it's not the quirky human kitchen staff that overcomes their prejudices to rise to the occasion, and that perfect Anton Ego flashback sequence, and... Well, I could go on and on. Whether that makes my later review the refined product of further reflection or whether it was tainted by a fan-driven feedback loop I'll never know. Well, maybe I'll know when it hits DVD.
Anyway, glad you liked it, even if it was pretty low on that spectrum.
Thank you so much, Merlin. I have to confess, posts like yours and all the others above give me pretty strong second thoughts. Still mulling it over. Regardless, I'm going to do my best to make sure nothing bad comes of this. :-) This community is very dear to me, and the LAST thing I want is to hurt it.
As for the code extrication, no, nothing would have to be rewritten. The big issue is that my other sites (see "Other Projects" in the sidebar) all run off the same codebase. Those are the ones that might have to be moved. Then, when that's done, the Listology code could be refactored (without interruption of service) to remove all the kludges that make it possible to run all those sites off the same code.
Sure is, it's you and a just a scant handful of others who've been here since almost the very beginning. Very cool.
Hey, so here we are, eight years later, and browsers have come an awfully long way. Can't you make Listology look pretty much however you want with various Firefox tweakage? :-)
CaptMal, hinterland, Imposter, Wezzo, bertie, thank you very much for the kind thoughts! I'll certainly do my best to leave Listology in capable hands. After all, I want to keep using the site myself! Not to mention feeling like I owe it to such a great group of users.
LBangs, AJDaGreat, RosieCotton, Slothrop33, thank you very much!
I'll do my best to find a replacement that'll not only keep Listology going, but start moving it forward again. If that fails, hopefully I can at least find someone to pay the bills and maintain the status quo. Failing that... umm... I dunno. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. :-)
No matter what, if I do take the site down (and I certainly hope it doesn't come to that!) I'll give folks plenty of warning and make sure you can grab a copy of your lists before it happens.
Just a ping to the forums to get everyone's attention. I'm looking for somebody to take over Listology. Please read the parent for details, and e-mail me if you're interested. Thanks!
Thanks for the offer! Sharing moderation duties would be a nice stopgap measure (although really the workload there isn't that heavy), but ultimately I want to completely hand off all responsibility for the site (financial, technical, moderator, etc.). This could even be to a group of people, although logistically I assume there'd have to be a lead responsible for paying the bills and collecting the ad money.
Thanks for the condolences and all the great links (loved the Paris Blues clip, when the heck is Netflix going to carry that?). His restaurant is only a couple hours from here. I feel a road trip coming on.
Most of my favorites change weekly, if I can pick them at all. Food, movies, books, musics: all favorites subject to whim and caprice. But Paul Newman has been my favorite actor for many years now, and I can't imagine anyone ever knocking him off. The classiest act. I hope he has a fulfilling retirement. I can't imagine he won't.
Hey, cool, they are! And there are quite a few on your list I'm still looking forward to, so that's a bonus (with Pan's Labyrinth probably topping that list).
Cool. Hey, how 'bout the short, Lifted? Man, the girls and I thought that was a hoot.
Wow, 28 Weeks Later... I did not see that one coming. It was already in my queue, but now I'm actually looking forward to it!
Sorry if I contributed to boosting your Ratatouille expectations! Curiously, had I written my review upon coming home, it would have looked a lot like yours. But the more I talked with other people the more scenes I really enjoyed kept coming to the fore, and the more I remembered, and the more I loved how the plot arc does not end with Gusteau's getting the stars back, and it's not the quirky human kitchen staff that overcomes their prejudices to rise to the occasion, and that perfect Anton Ego flashback sequence, and... Well, I could go on and on. Whether that makes my later review the refined product of further reflection or whether it was tainted by a fan-driven feedback loop I'll never know. Well, maybe I'll know when it hits DVD.
Anyway, glad you liked it, even if it was pretty low on that spectrum.
:-) Perfect. I have no doubt you'll like Ratatouille, the only question is how much. Same for Ghost Rider, just substitute "like" for "hate".
Thank you so much, Merlin. I have to confess, posts like yours and all the others above give me pretty strong second thoughts. Still mulling it over. Regardless, I'm going to do my best to make sure nothing bad comes of this. :-) This community is very dear to me, and the LAST thing I want is to hurt it.
As for the code extrication, no, nothing would have to be rewritten. The big issue is that my other sites (see "Other Projects" in the sidebar) all run off the same codebase. Those are the ones that might have to be moved. Then, when that's done, the Listology code could be refactored (without interruption of service) to remove all the kludges that make it possible to run all those sites off the same code.
Sure is, it's you and a just a scant handful of others who've been here since almost the very beginning. Very cool.
Hey, so here we are, eight years later, and browsers have come an awfully long way. Can't you make Listology look pretty much however you want with various Firefox tweakage? :-)
Lassic, lukeprog, kbuxton, WB: thank you! Awfully nice to come back from vacation to posts like these. :-)
CaptMal, hinterland, Imposter, Wezzo, bertie, thank you very much for the kind thoughts! I'll certainly do my best to leave Listology in capable hands. After all, I want to keep using the site myself! Not to mention feeling like I owe it to such a great group of users.
LBangs, AJDaGreat, RosieCotton, Slothrop33, thank you very much!
I'll do my best to find a replacement that'll not only keep Listology going, but start moving it forward again. If that fails, hopefully I can at least find someone to pay the bills and maintain the status quo. Failing that... umm... I dunno. I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. :-)
No matter what, if I do take the site down (and I certainly hope it doesn't come to that!) I'll give folks plenty of warning and make sure you can grab a copy of your lists before it happens.
Just a ping to the forums to get everyone's attention. I'm looking for somebody to take over Listology. Please read the parent for details, and e-mail me if you're interested. Thanks!
Thanks for the offer! Sharing moderation duties would be a nice stopgap measure (although really the workload there isn't that heavy), but ultimately I want to completely hand off all responsibility for the site (financial, technical, moderator, etc.). This could even be to a group of people, although logistically I assume there'd have to be a lead responsible for paying the bills and collecting the ad money.
Thanks for the condolences and all the great links (loved the Paris Blues clip, when the heck is Netflix going to carry that?). His restaurant is only a couple hours from here. I feel a road trip coming on.
Most of my favorites change weekly, if I can pick them at all. Food, movies, books, musics: all favorites subject to whim and caprice. But Paul Newman has been my favorite actor for many years now, and I can't imagine anyone ever knocking him off. The classiest act. I hope he has a fulfilling retirement. I can't imagine he won't.
Thank you again, very much.
I agree that #1 was a disappointing choice, even if I did love that movie.
Man, love that guy. I hadn't seen that, thanks for the link!
Hey, cool, they are! And there are quite a few on your list I'm still looking forward to, so that's a bonus (with Pan's Labyrinth probably topping that list).
:-) Nice, thanks!