2. The Film-Yak forum has superceded all your other sources for jokes on the net.
3. You put a link to film-tech on a WWW site that you run, not primarily to let your users know about it, but to provide a link so you can more easily get to it.
4. You post a review of a movie on the movie review forum as soon as you get to a computer after leaving the movie theatre.
5. You have no fear of condemnation by other members if you mention thinking that your booth is haunted.
6. You edit every post 4 or 5 times after first submission to correct every spelling and grammatical error that you're aware of.
7. You get depressed if it is a slow day for film-tech postings.
8. When you're sitting in a theatre, you notice every detail that is wrong with the presentation and auditorium environment and wish you could fix it.
9. When someone asks you how a movie was, you give details based on the quality of the presentation rather than of the movie contents or quality.
10. Any time you're in any room in a building with a large amount of unused space, you calculate the maximum size screen that could be placed there and think of how the room could be turned into a theatre auditorium.
11. If your theatre has more than 16 screens, you are dying to interlock a movie through all of the projectors to top the 16-way interlock.
12. Microsoft Internet Explorer always knows your username and password for film-tech, so you never have to actually type it.
13. You find yourself using the phrase "Film Done Right" to describe theatres with excellent presentation quality.
14. After any movie, you know if sperical or anamorphic lenses were used, and know how many blades were in the shutter mechanism of the camera that filmed it.
15. You wonder what the moderator, Brad Miller, really looks like.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
Score 9 ˝ out of 15.
One more to add - you lie in bed and something comes to your mind, and you get up and post it on Film-Tech.
2. I rarely look at the Joke-Yak thread, but still, YES.
3. No
4. Yes, if I have an opinion about it.
5. Yes
6. 4 or 5 times? Usually more than that.
7. No. Those are the days I don't visit the site
8. Yes. That's not normal?
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Hell no. 16 was enough! For now.
12. Nope. IE is pretty stupid. Sometimes it remembers but most of the time it doesn't. What lame ass company programmed this thing? MicroSoft? I bet they did.
13. Nah. That phrase has been copyrighted by John Pytlak. He charges a $5.00 fee everytime someone else but him says that.
14. Nope.
15. Brad Miller moved to Colorado for the sole purpose of meeting me.
I score 8/15. I kick ass!
Any hands?
I know mine is raised
Josh
I don't like any page as my home page. If I want to launch my browser really quick to check some site out, I don't want it trying to go somewhere else first. I know exactly how far down the menu Film-Tech is on my bookmarks, though.
Shame on you! 
Ya' see, Mac OS X is capable of time travel. There's a little icon on the desktop (now called the "dock") when you click on it a little dialogue pops up with this little slider thingy on it. I though it was to adjust my clock settings and I set it back to the year1904 accidentally. If it hadn't been for my UPS I might have never gotten back!
Now let's see Windoze do that?
Has anyone noticed that it is possible Joe Redifer and Brad Miller are the same person.
Now I know that they will both deny this but the more they deny the more I will believe it's true. That is why Brad will never post his picture. Next time you see Brad look at his pointing finger see if you can steal a finger print. I'll send it to the FBI for checking out. If they deny this we will check IRS records.
Ok, guys, go ahead and start the Denials.
Brad may not be Joe but Joe may be Brad or vice-versa.
Ian Price, a member of this forum, used to work with me (Joe Redifer) for several years. He has also met Brad Miller (not me) in person at the UA Galaxy in Texas. Right as Ian got into the parking lot of the Galaxy after leaving the theater, he called me (Joe Redifer) at the Mann Chinese 16 Theater in Colorado to tell me that he had just met Brad. This was before I met Brad in person.
Who has met us both? Let's see:
Help us out here, people!
Plus if this was my site, I think I would have it as my home page
That's not why Brad won't post his picture. He won't even LET anyone take his picture. I've tried. I was threatened. I do have a picture of him walking around at Mann Southwest Plaza 5 that he doesn't know about (until now) but you can't see his face because he is walking away.
You had a friend pose as Brad when Ian was there. Or maybe, you posed as Brad and you buddy played Joe.
We know from your computer expertise that you can play games with area codes. It is easy to disguise your voice. I saw Cary Grant do that in North by Northwest. How easy is that.
The gig is up. Time to come clean.
Let's hear more denials.
That would be some coup, though... having somebody pose as Brad for Ian's visit. Imagine getting them upstairs and into the booth on a Thursday night at UA's flagship theater. Just for Ian's visit! I like playing with Ian's mind but that is just too much trouble
I bet Evans can prove mathematically that we are two different people!
I once heard of that New York City suburb "Colorado" which I understand is on the other side of the Hudson River. Also, if anyone out here can zoom in on the tip of that finger we may be able to pull the print off electronically.
Scott, They have this all planned out in advance and as the did in "The Manchurian Candidate" they have pre- programmed Ian Price and Dwayne Caldwell who may in reality be automatrons. Notice how they always have the same expression in their posted photo.
Ever notice at Film-tech get togethers, Brad/Joe always have an emergency. We have to take their word for it. Well our neighbor's from Missouri say "Prove it!".
Have a nice day.
I have faith in Evans. He will definitely be able to prove this beyond a mathematical shadow of a doubt, despite the fact he has not met either of us.
To the rest of the members, pay careful attention to Bob's picture. Notice his expression never changes either. Hmmmmmmm.
You know, It's possible Ian Price is really Joe Redifer who in real life is Brad Miller.
Could this all be a cover up because Brad/Joe is married to Rachel Carter? How does Randy Stankey fit into all of this.
I heard a rumor that John Pytlak actually found a picture of Brad taken from space but when he posted the link, it mysteriously disappeared. Hmmmmm
Other people have informed me that Joe Redifer was present at the birth of the solar system. Maybe the "Big Bang" made him the way he is.
I will abide by the results of Evans study.
quote:
I bet Evans can prove mathematically that we are two different people!
For some reason, I knew someone was going to say that.
I probably can't do it right away, since I have a tough homework problem due tonight. Maybe tomorrow I can start analyzing this? 
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
And, "No", he was not wearing a mask
Wish me luck on the homework. I have not made a "B" since I started working on my Ph.D., so I surely don't want to screw up and make one this term.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
Nice to have some humor after the unpleasantness last week.
It's definitely more fun than working through the mathematics of image restoration techniques.------------------
Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
That is a good idea, but those who have actually seen Brad will have the unfair advantage here. So we would have to limit the entries to those who have never met Brad. But then again whose to say that Dwayne Caldwell "The man with the Magic Hands" could not also be Brad? After all both live in the Dallas area according to the place under thier respective names. I Triple Dog Dare you to prove mathematically that Brad is not aslo Joe or Dwayne or both.
I am going to be in Irving Tx in June. I have exteneded an invitation to Brad to have me bring my reel of trailers up for private screening, but have not heard wether he has access to a booth to run them in or not. For that matter have not even heard if I can meet him in person either. The mystery continues.
We have Brad and Joe talking to themselves? Which is kind of hard when you are one and the same person. Maybe they have more than two personalities, remember "All about Eve" I think she had five.
Maybe we should introduce Brad/Joe or JoeBrad to "Eve", I "Even" like that.
Now leave Evans alone until tomorrow. He needs and has earned his rest.
As for what Brad looks like, since I have practically no artistic talents, I dont' think I could draw a picture. I have long hair, but lack that artistic talent that most long-haired guys have.
The neat thing about the idea of aliases is it reminds us that on the net, one can never be too sure of who someone actually is. If someone can talk the talk, they can convince someone that they're almost anyone. Here on film-tech, this is more difficult because some members know other members personally, and many members have enough experience to know when someone is trying to "BS" their way through something. The fact that registration is required cuts down on nearly all of the people that would try to get in and pretend to be something they're not. The moderation on the site keeps junk from getting into the wrong areas too much and the members' reactions to ridiculous postings quickly discourages others.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
It's funny that William Parr has "triple Dog dared" them to post Brad's picture. When Evans suggested that everyone draw a picture of Brad, the first thing that came to my mind was a picture of a cross between a cocker spaniel and a collie. Do you suppose that this is rooted in something factual that has been gleamed out of a posting??
I know that Joe is probably making a lot of mistakes trying to run his projectors because he know his time is short. He knows he will be found out. He is shaking in the very boots on his feet. His hair or what's left of it is turning grey. His face has aged and now contains deep crevises where a smile use to be.
Yes, it's true. Brad and Joe, Ian and Dwayne
are synonymous with each other.
My God! What if they are trying to take over Evans Personality. Remember "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" the one with Kevin McCarthy.
Evans, Please check your closet and your basement before you go to sleep tonight. If you see anything that looks like a seed pod...smash it and run for your life.
Joe is a geeky dweeb. Joe is 27 years old.
Joe is talented with a video camera and a MAC.
Brad is a geeky dweeb. Brad is 31 years old.
Brad is talented with chemicals and invented Film-Guard. Brad is also a sneaky bastard who edited my post so that you wouldn't know what he looks like. It's his meglomaniac complex.
Ian is a geeky dweeb. Ian is 38 years old.
Ian has no talent.
To mathematically analyze people to see if they might be the same, I'd have to write a Perl program to go through and capture a good-sized sample of the text of the posters in question and do various statistics of various aspects of the text they generate. I don't know how difficult or easy this might be yet. It would definitely be an interesting little project, though.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
This thread has really helped put some humor into a day that really needed it. The homework is in the final form to be turned in and I hope everything is right. The homework results might end up in a thread someday is the right topic comes up. At least now I know how to write and find a directional derivative again. In case anyone's curious, it had to do with removal of linear motion blur from an image. The technique was first published in 1972, I believe.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
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The man with the magic hands.
It was Friday, April 6 (late, after midnight). While sitting on my bed, I started writing the list on a notepad and wrote 15 things before I ran out of ideas. Before I went to bed and turned out the lights, I put the notepad next to my computer so that at some time during the next day, I'd login from my home computer and post them. I did so that night before some friends came over. I posted them at 6:45 then got offline soon afterwards and turned the computer off since I was going to show the "Charlie's Angels" DVD to some friends, and turning off the computer gets rid of another source of extraneous noise.
Nobody gave me the idea to post the list. I did it totally on my own. I figured that some items in the list might generate some humorous conversations, but I never dreamed it would go in some of the directions that it has. I find some of these directions extremely humorous.
Brad did not put me up to it. In fact, he had no idea that the list was going to be posted until I did it, because the list did not exist until late Friday night after midnight!
The list was a very quickly conceived thought. Creating the list took about 15 minutes at the most. Typing it in took about 10 minutes the next day. That's it. The rest is history.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
Sean is , one hell of a smart,person. He will not be fooled by the rambelings of Denver Joe or Dallas Brad who are and forever will be the same person. You know, Joe you are not real, you are a "fig"(ment) of Brad's imagination and once you realize this you will go "Poof", you will cease to exist. Are you sure you want to continue? Could be your last chance. If I were you, I would think about it. Do yourself a favor...ask Sean, if you really, exist??? Joe from now on, you shall be called "Fig". So let it be written, so let it be done. ( Ten Commendments, Charlton Heston.)
"You do not talk about Fight Club."
HElp....meeeeeeeee "The Fly" w/Vincent Price
I think I can, after a brief experiment, claim that Brad is definitely not Joe based on some postings that I captured and analyzed.
I did a search on Brad Miller within the past 30 days and captured all postings made on the first 10 threads that showed up on the search and did the same for Joe Redifer.
I ran a Perl script on the two people's collections of postings and here is what I found:
Of Brad Miller's words, 39.7 percent of his words are distinct. That means that if you take his total number of different words used and divide by the total number of words in the post (counting duplicates), you get 0.397. With Joe Redifer, the number is 32.5 percent. This means that Joe tends to use a slightly smaller set of words than Brad when he posts.
However, although Brad uses a larger set of words, Brad uses a smaller set more frequently than Joe. If you take the top ten words in Brad and Joe's set, Brad top 10 frequently used words comprise 24.4 percent of his total words while Joe's comprise 21.5 percent of his posts.
Here are Brad's top 10 frequently used words and their frequencies of occurrence:
7.21% the
2.73% to
2.53% of
2.21% a
2.14% and
1.88% in
1.69% i
1.36% was
1.36% on
1.30% as
As I said before, the above words comprsise 24.4% of Brad's posts. The numbers above may not add up to exactly 24.4 because of slight round off error.
Here is the same list for Joe Redifer:
4.15% the
2.87% to
2.52% i
2.33% a
1.94% is
1.90% and
1.67% of
1.67% that
1.40% it
1.12% they
As I said earlier, the above words comprise 21.5 percent of Joe Redifer's posts.
I think it is clearly obvious from these lists that the writing styles and use of language are significantly different. Their lists of top 10 frequently used words only have 6 words in common! Just look at the differences in how much they use "and"! One out of every 14 words from Brad is "and" while Joe only uses it one out of every 24 words. Brad uses "of" approximately 50 percent more often than Joe, while Joe uses "I" approximately 50 percent more than Brad. In fact, "to" and "a" are the only two words in their top 10s that they both use with nearly the same frequencies!
I think it is safe to say that Brad Miller and Joe Redifer are definitely NOT the same person according to this study.
More studies could be done on their writings, but after finding such differences after investigating this far, there is no need in continuing.
It was fun, though!
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
Also, if Brad and I were the same person, I'd like to believe that Brad is a figment of my imagination and not the other way around!
Anyway, I have a new math problem for you, Evans. Figure this one out:
Why can't I just stick a DVD in the player and press PLAY and the movie starts... you know, like a LaserDisc? Instead I must wade through the menu (I hate the menu, especially animated, noisy ones). The menu should not pop up unless I press MENU. I don't know if there is a Perl script advanced enough to explain this.
Jedi Fore_er (Jedi Fore'er)
Rearrange the letters. I just can't believe this.
Jedi, the reason you can't just press play when you stick a DVD in the player is the author of the disc has way too much control over the behavior of the disc. They determine how the disc reacts to user input at various points of access, which is why you can't skip FBI warnings on most discs and why you must use the menus to access functionality.
Sure, you can use the "You know you're a film-tech junkie if ..." in any way you wish. May the force be with you!
As y'all know, I wrote a public domain anagram generator, so my brain tends to take names and words and fiddle with them. I realized, out of nowhere, that "Joe Redifer" contains j, e, d, and i. My program dictionary does not have the word "Jedi" in it, so that combination did not get tried when I ran the program on Joe's name long ago. I immediately turned on the light above the bed, got a notepad, wrote "Joe Redifer", and extracted Jedi, and "Fore'er" was left. I originally thought the letters left spelled "forever" and I thought, "Oh God, I've been had! This is the best joke ever!", but that damn "v" is missing.
The writing styles of Brad Miller and Joe Redifer are very different, though. There is something incredibly mysterious going on here, though.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
However if Brad is Brad. Then Joe must be female.
The questions are:
Do you think she cut her hair for the picture?
Should we call her "Josephine"?
P.S. Joe should know that I wrote his name in New York on the subway walls.
1. Become part of the system in order to perform the measurements.
2. Observe the system from an external viewpoint.
Measuring a system nearly always affects the system, especially in the case where the measurer is part of the system. If people know their word frequencies might be analyzed, some people will change their word usage as a result. If average speed is being measured on a highway, the presence of a policeman with a radar gun for the purpose of measuring speed, not writing tickets, will cause people to slow down. A meter placed on an electrical circuit provides a very small resistance which changes the circuit characteristics every so slightly.
In this case, Brad posted a message purposely avoiding his most commonly used words.
Measuring from an external viewpoint, which is not possible for many systems, is more likely to not change the system. For example, observing traffic flow from atop a tall building in a city. In this case, external measurement would be like a lurker doing this analysys and never posting the results, or Brad secretly analyzing these attributes and never telling anyone. OF course, if people in the forums are interested in such stats, the "external viewpoint" method doesn't serve a purpose.
It's interesting. It would be fun to capture every single post made in the past on the FIlm Handler's forum and analyze everyone, but I'd have to learn how to submit the queries from a program and parse the returned pages. For that reason, I simply cut and pasted the ones I captured by hand for Brad and Joe. I chose the Film Handler's forum because it is the most active (most poasts) and people are more likely to be writing their own words rather than posting material written by other people, like often occurs in Film-Yak. For example, if I took Bob Maar's Film-Yak posts, the results would be meaningless because of the large number of jokes posted. You have to be careful to avoid sigs as well. If every post has a quote in it, that would skew the counts and quotes from other people's postings would need to be avoided as well. This is easy to avoid by hand, but doing it from a Perl program would be more difficult.
After class last night, I was glad to be done with that homework and wanted to do something fun other than study and so I went ahead and took samples and did the word frequency counts. There are many other attributes that could be checked, such as most frequent word pairs and word triples, as well as sentence construction attributes, and things such as words most frequently used to begin or end a sentence, number of words per sentence on the average, number or words per message, average number of letters per word, and so on. Text analysis is a very interesting kdkk3993k3222
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syntax error at post.pl line 686, near ")
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Execution of post.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Info Site
Joe- If you are referring to Evans, he is in ALABAMA (AL) not Alaska (AK)
-Aaron
Bob - If I am a girl then I am one ugly bitch! I should definitely get the facial hair problem looked into if that were the case! Yech!
Now, please take this with, the tone that it is given. I don't want you to cry and spoil your make-up. Look in the mirror and say to yourself. "I am women, watch me grow, I got a long long way to go," you can sing the whole song if you wish.
P.S. Brad said to stop using his photo.
quote:
Bobby Maar sed: "I am woman, watch me grow" or something like that
I have corresponded with Bevan many times over e-mail, a few times on the phone, and once in real life. We do not hang out after work. We don't go over to eachother's houses and play videogames. In fact, I bet you are nothing but a stooge placed by Bevan to extract his evil revenge for my awesome Christie projector review!
I promise to write your name down on a piece of paper in every state I pass through. When I'm all done that would be:
North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia.
If I remember, I may have already done it in Pennslyvania. I could possibly go to New York and Ohio, too.
I'll let you know when I complete the list.
Evans: You can't analyze a system without the risk of altering the system in some way... Heisenberg MAY have been here!
Maybe we are all just different channel speakers connected to one heck of a stereo system. Lessee, that would be techno-Jungian philosphy?
I can write differently too. An example is in the spell checking thread that went on not long back. I wrote one post with intentionally bad grammar and misspelled words throughout. If I wrote half my posts that way, analyzing my word frequencies would not show my true writing style.Simply throwing in some spurious garbage
and and and and and and and and and
or or or or or or or or or or or or
can make a big difference, too.
Evans
1. Yes
2. Yes, although I guess now it would be Bob Marr's Joke-A-Thon
3. Nope
4. I've done that
5. Yep.
6. Guilty as charged!
7. Sure do
8. I couldn't have said it better myself!
9. I've been guilty of that one too.
10. I've done that.
11. I have 16. But I'm dying to try it at my first theater, a 20-plex :-D
12. Yes
13. Sure do!
14. Uh, no, I'm not quite that good (yet)
15. I assume this was before Brad had a picture??
Wow, only 2 out of 15 no's. Scary, ain't it?
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This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....
Ken, you say "I have 16..." Are you just saying that you have 16 screens, or have you actually done a 16 screen interlock there? The closest I know of to anyone meeting the 16 screen interlock was one reel through 14 screens at the local AMC 24 plex.
1. You check film-tech forums at least once an hour to see if any new posts have been made.
2. The Bob Maar's Joke-a-Thon forum has superceded all your other sources for jokes on the net. [That forum was originally a single thread in Film-Yak.]
3. You put a link to film-tech on a WWW site that you run, not primarily to let your users know about it, but to provide a link so you can more easily get to it.
4. You post a review of a movie on the movie review forum as soon as you get to a computer after leaving the movie theatre.
5. You have no fear of condemnation by other members if you mention thinking that your booth is haunted.
6. You edit every post 4 or 5 times after first submission to correct every spelling and grammatical error that you're aware of.
7. You get depressed if it is a slow day for film-tech postings.
8. When you're sitting in a theatre, you notice every detail that is wrong with the presentation and auditorium environment and wish you could fix it.
9. When someone asks you how a movie was, you give details based on the quality of the presentation rather than of the movie contents or quality.
10. Any time you're in any room in a building with a large amount of unused space, you calculate the maximum size screen that could be placed there and think of how the room could be turned into a theatre auditorium.
11. If your theatre has more than 16 screens, you are dying to interlock a movie through all of the projectors to top the 16-way interlock.
12. Your web browser always knows your username and password for film-tech, so you never have to actually type it. [It originally said "Microsoft Internet Explorer" rather than "your web browser".]
13. You find yourself using the phrase "Film Done Right" to describe theatres with excellent presentation quality.
14. After any movie, you know if sperical or anamorphic lenses were used, and know how many blades were in the shutter mechanism of the camera that filmed it.
15. You wonder what the moderator, Brad Miller, really looks like. [This was before pictures were used on the forums].
1. Yep. I also sit in the chat room sometimes in case people are on the forums and are as lonely as I.
2. Haven't really read the Bob Maar forum yet in fear it will consume
every last ounce of time I have.
3. Don't really have any active sites up right now, but that's a good idea.
4. Haven't posted any reviews yet. I like every movie I see because movies are fun.
5. Everyone's booth is haunted.
6. Yep. Spelling, grammatical, and when I see I said the same thing three times in three different sentences.
7. Very true. But then I just surf over to drive-ins.com and check all the latest pictures, comments, and just browse in general for a few hours...
8. Right on! "If only I worked here..."
9. EXACTLY! Especially when people ask about Episode II. I explain that the focus was soft and they give me a blank stare.
10. 
ALL THE TIME! And when I am over someone's house, I begin calculating their living room into a screening room.
11. No way. Interlcoks scur me.
12. I never use the "remember my password" feature because I am afraid of the government posting under my name.
13. Yes, and "Film Done Wrong" for those that have poor presentation quality. Come to think of it, I saw a kid fall on a skateboard the other day and thought, "Skating Done Wrong"...
14. Sorry, not THAT good at spotting those things yet.
15. Even though he has a picture now, I still wonder...
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1. You check film-tech forums at least once an hour to see if any new posts have been made.
Well of course, doesn't everyone? (1)
2. The Bob Maar's Joke-a-Thon forum has superceded all your other sources for jokes on the net. [That forum was originally a single thread in Film-Yak.]
Bob is incredible, how in hell does he remember all these? Just 50 more pages to go (at this point). (1)
3. You put a link to film-tech on a WWW site that you run, not primarily to let your users know about it, but to provide a link so you can more easily get to it.
Me? Run a site? I am down to ten minutes to get on this one. (0)
4. You post a review of a movie on the movie review forum as soon as you get to a computer after leaving the movie theatre.
Hell, I never get to see a whole movie. (0)
5. You have no fear of condemnation by other members if you mention thinking that your booth is haunted.
Of course I have worked haunted booths (usually friendly). I am sure there are many more out there too. (1)
6. You edit every post 4 or 5 times after first submission to correct every spelling and grammatical error that you're aware of.
Only 4 or 5 times? (Takes me that many to spell my name wright). (1)
7. You get depressed if it is a slow day for film-tech postings.
Yeah, what the hell are the rest of you having fun at that I'm not? (1)
8. When you're sitting in a theatre, you notice every detail that is wrong with the presentation and auditorium environment and wish you could fix it.
Everytime, no matter how good the presentation is, I search all the harder for anything worng. (1)
9. When someone asks you how a movie was, you give details based on the quality of the presentation rather than of the movie contents or quality.
As a projectionist, I was never able to remember the movie I was playing at the time. (0)
10. Any time you're in any room in a building with a large amount of unused space, you calculate the maximum size screen that could be placed there and think of how the room could be turned into a theatre auditorium.
I rather imagine where the projection room(s) would be and on which side of the projector the platters would have to be. (1)
11. If your theatre has more than 16 screens, you are dying to interlock a movie through all of the projectors to top the 16-way interlock.
Bin there, done that. (not with nitrate yet, tho). (1)
12. Your web browser always knows your username and password for film-tech, so you never have to actually type it. ]
It would, if I would let it. (0)
13. You find yourself using the phrase "Film Done Right" to describe theatres with excellent presentation quality.
Of course.(Don't tell John tho, he gets pissed when i pay him the 5 bucks per time in Canadian money). (1)
14. After any movie, you know if sperical or anamorphic lenses were used, and know how many blades were in the shutter mechanism of the camera that filmed it.
Lenses, probably, blades no. (0)
15. You wonder what the moderator, Brad Miller, really looks like. [This was before pictures were used on the forums].
Actually I am wondering what Joe Redifer really looks like today. (.5)
I'm proud of that.
I guess my score is 10.
By the way, that discussion about Brad & Joe is hysterical!
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quote:
1. You check film-tech forums at least once an hour to see if any new posts have been made.
Tru to a certain extent.
quote:
2. The Film-Yak [edit: did you mean the Joke Forum?] forum has superceded all your other sources for jokes on the net.
I have no other sources for jokes on the net. I cheered up my (unofficial) girlfriend when some creep at her school kept giving her 
. I cheered her up with jokes from the joke forum. <<<--------#6 Case in point.
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3. You put a link to film-tech on a WWW site that you run, not primarily to let your users know about it, but to provide a link so you can more easily get to it.
I don't currently run a web site, when it got to the point where all I could do to update it was animate the logos, I knew it was time to stop for a while. [another post-posting(?) edit] MY SITE IS ON THE WAYBACK MACHINE! Just search for "kid tv online" (first you have to search for the wayback machine)
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4. You post a review of a movie on the movie review forum as soon as you get to a computer after leaving the movie theatre.
No, I usually don't post reviews.
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5. You have no fear of condemnation by other members if you mention thinking that your booth is haunted.
Screenplay mode on:
John (sheepishly)
I don't actually work in a booth
John hides in the corner and cries.
Screenplay mode off.
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6. You edit every post 4 or 5 times after first submission to correct every spelling and grammatical error that you're aware of.
Only when there are major errors that distort what I'm trying to say.
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7. You get depressed if it is a slow day for film-tech postings.
Yes.
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8. When you're sitting in a theatre, you notice every detail that is wrong with the presentation and auditorium environment and wish you could fix it.
Yes.
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9. When someone asks you how a movie was, you give details based on the quality of the presentation rather than of the movie contents or quality.
Welllll............... I don't make it the WHOLE review, but it's a nice sized chunk.
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10. Any time you're in any room in a building with a large amount of unused space, you calculate the maximum size screen that could be placed there and think of how the room could be turned into a theatre auditorium.
Yes.
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11. If your theatre has more than 16 screens, you are dying to interlock a movie through all of the projectors to top the 16-way interlock.
::hides::
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12. Microsoft Internet Explorer always knows your username and password for film-tech, so you never have to actually type it.
I use AO-Hell. But I can type in "F, <Enter>" and get this site.
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13. You find yourself using the phrase "Film Done Right" to describe theatres with excellent presentation quality.
Yes.
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14. After any movie, you know if sperical or anamorphic lenses were used, and know how many blades were in the shutter mechanism of the camera that filmed it.
My friends all call me loser
Every single day
Sing this to the hoe-down from
"Who's Line Is It Anyway?"
I know the lenses and the sound
Like the tines on my fork
My friends all wonder how a
guy like me is such a dork.
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15. You wonder what the moderator, Brad Miller, really looks like.
I don't lose any sleep over it. [not anymore]
See my signature \/. I have NO IDEA what it looks like!
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John Lasher
Era 5000 Digital
Boffomusic@aol.com
16. You feel that you've committed a serious sin if you accidentally break a forum rule.
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Well...that certainly WOULD BE a sin, wouldn't it?
Yup. And if you post long enough, you'll do it.
I just posted a request for print information for "Blood Work" and typed "Blood Work (request)", except I typed it in the name field. When I retyped it in the topic field, I forgot the "(request)". And doggone it, there was nothing I could do about it once I realized it after submitting. Oh well, life goes on.
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Evans A Criswell
Huntsville-Decatur Movie Theatre Information Site