Comments on: Hollywood and an open thread

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:35:47 +0000

This page may help you, suek. Link

By: rockdalian

rockdalian — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:37:27 +0000

suek,
There is a preview link on the side box at the tinyurl home site.
Normally if I am a regular at a site I trust, I do not worry about following links so I do not use the preview capability.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:45:58 +0000

Rock’s right…that first url doesn’t even work.

Here’s the same link with a tinyurl, and it _does_ work!

http://tinyurl.com/9spabd

By: suek

suek — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:37:54 +0000

Rock…

You think it’s the length of the url that’s the problem?

I used to use tinyurl a lot, but then stopped because other commenters (different blog) hesitated to click onto a site without having any idea where the url was going to take them. I also ran into the problem myself when my son had a blog while he was in Afghanistan, and I was posting links to a lot of different articles. The problem was that in going back, I had no idea where those links went, and didn’t really want to visit each one before filing them. I decided that using the actual url was preferable, since it normally gives _some_ clue of the location of the actual site…

By: rockdalian

rockdalian — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:19:15 +0000

suek,
Two words: tiny url
http://tinyurl.com/

Will turn a long url to a shorter, more manageable url. Fits on the tool bar for ease of use.

By: suek

suek — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:17:19 +0000

Oops. Two links in one comment. I’ve been sent to moderation…!

By: suek

suek — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:16:18 +0000

Monument Valley:

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu5gvV1BJhioAwYpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMTNuNTZzBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMgRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkAw–/SIG=12ck4j9eh/EXP=1230088367/**http%3a//www.monumentvalley.com/Pages/english_gallery.html

and here’s a bunch more:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=monument+valley+photos&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2

Great place to visit…and photograph. I don’t think I’d want to live there…! It’s pretty amazing that the indians managed to eke out a living.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:56:13 +0000

Ymarsakar:

Monument Valley is an Indian reservation that has some of the most iconic scenery in the U.S.

Remember those scenes in the John Ford westerns where there are island mesas overlooking a high-desert valley floor, with slender spires shooting up from them? That’s Monument Valley.

Southern Utah, which includes Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef national parks, Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument, Lake Powell National Recreation Area and the Vermillion Cliffs is probably the most beautiful landscape in America. It is achingly beautiful in spots, and the wiser Hollywood cinematographers knew that it not only was glorious eye-candy background for films, it exuded “West” in its whole look.

Ford knew what he was doing when he made that part of the country the backdrop for his films.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:12:19 +0000

Of course Ford cheated a little when he recruited Monument Valley and southern Utah as extras.

What are “Monument Valley” and “southern Utah”?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:05:56 +0000

Back to more pleasant things: I loved Firefly. One of the best westerns evuh!

As far as I know, Charles, Bookworm hasn’t watched Serenity or Firefly.

Her husband got a few DVDs of Firefly from netflix but then returned it because he didn’t like it, not giving Bookworm any time to watch it. This was the last news I had heard on the subject.

So, Charles, be sure to nag Book constantly about the series, whenever you get the chance, if she hasn’t gotten it for herself yet!