Monthly Archives: June 2010

Everyone on TV reads the same newspaper

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Yeah, it’s a stolen post! I stole it from HERE. It was fast ‘n easy for a Saturday!

I’ve never noticed same the newspaper, but I see many times on TV that everybody seems to have the same Apple laptop!

Cory Doctorow at 2:06 AM Saturday, Jun 5, 2010

Everybody on TV and in movies reads the same newspaper, it seems. And they’ve been reading that standard newspaper prop for decades. At a guess: paranoid studio lawyers don’t want to use real newspapers because they think that they might get a copyright complaint from the paper (despite this incidental use being clearly fair use), so they insist that set-dressers all use the same prop that’s fully rights-cleared.

The long walk

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Yesterday I had to take my scooter (The Iron Horse) in for some repairs. I took the repair places courtesy bus back into town, where I had a cuppa coffee with my wife at her work. Then I walked to the grocery store, where I wanted an egg sandwich, but they didn’t have any, so I got a power bar. Then I walked to the Wharf Restaurant where I hit the beach. I walked on the beach all the way past West Bay Public Beach, till I couldn’t walk any more. Then I got on the road and came home.
This morning my ribs are sore on my back under my shoulders, I’da thunk my legs would be sore, but just my upper outer back.
I hope someday I do that walk again!

Police Helicopter

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The Police here have a new helicopter. It seems all they do is hover as still as possible over my house. This pic is from last week, they were there again today. Very annoying.