tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post3413507011430201133..comments2023-05-23T18:48:01.354+10:00Comments on cinema of nobody: Blueberrynobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-5328315577223720332012-03-20T07:52:55.063+11:002012-03-20T07:52:55.063+11:00Onya Dave. And Gallier, my apologies mate. I got y...Onya Dave. And Gallier, my apologies mate. I got you to do that for me and then went and rewrote the entire piece and rendered M. Cassel's speech superfluous. Instead he's to remain silent, as was always his role at my place, and I did the talking instead. It made more sense.<br /><br />Anyway, nobody is now no longer. I'm shutting everything down. Sorry about that. It's poor of me I know but in the face of a truly relentless obstinacy I see no other alternative. Adieu mes amis.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-63883286586075792682012-03-20T01:14:38.819+11:002012-03-20T01:14:38.819+11:00"Good-bye my friends. Is able the future to r..."Good-bye my friends. Is able the future to realize your wishes. Good luck. I wish you the better one in all that you will undertake." Thus spake my free translator, which I know is more than a little fallible. Not a correction or a slur, but rather to show what some of us have to resort to, who are not multi-lingual.<br /><br />As for this quite intelligent Gallier fellow, in that I made comment, based on a 'feeling', in public---so to speak---I should say this publicly (here in the "past"): A fellow should be allowed to have pet theories, as we ALL do, and not have to have some cranky old man pipe up and malign his whole character because of it. I personally am extremely suspicious of the whole Apollo issue, and many are just as suspicious of the "hoax" theories and proponents. So, in short, I apologize to Gallier. My comment was obviously not mere conjecture, but had added vitriol. Not nice.<br /><br />bye-ciao, and au revoir,<br />Dave Q.Dave Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-3610567135978977032012-03-19T20:19:48.520+11:002012-03-19T20:19:48.520+11:00Thanks mate, I'm off to finish the piece. And ...Thanks mate, I'm off to finish the piece. And yeah, it all comes back to me now. You said before something about German as your first language. What a memory I've got - a mind like a steel trap door.<br /><br />Anyway, it's all done that piece and you'll see it shortly. And what a part you played! Very good.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-69570321499596333752012-03-19T20:11:23.598+11:002012-03-19T20:11:23.598+11:00Yes Gallier is gallic in german. To give some deta...Yes Gallier is gallic in german. To give some details on why I prefered to consult a professional translator. I grew up bilingual with a little more emphasis on dialectal German. I lived in France but so close to the German border, and in a region that is traditionally german speaking, that I seriously had to learn french only when I went to school. This doesn't mean I wasn't already confronted with French as my brothers and same aged neighbours spoke French among them. The neighbourhood was full of every imaginable foreigners and this had the tendency to make French supplant dialectal German that was the lingua franca before. <br />This said, writing has never been a skill I was very good in. As I said, I'm more some kind of geek, and if I hadn't had my borthers to kick my ass from time to time, I could have ended like an failed, overweight version of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Cooper)gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-81273174939166415572012-03-19T20:07:50.884+11:002012-03-19T20:07:50.884+11:00Consider me impressed! It's a beautiful thing....Consider me impressed! It's a beautiful thing. Thanks very much and my thanks to your friend, it's much appreciated.<br /><br />I just realised I got my French translated by the translation section of the European Commission. What a funny world! Onya Gallier.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-80899378494435509332012-03-19T19:57:39.986+11:002012-03-19T19:57:39.986+11:00Thanks mate, it's not romantic or anything. It...Thanks mate, it's not romantic or anything. It's just a general farewell from a male actor to some men and women.<br /><br />I thought your French would be up to that? With a name like Gallier? Oh wait, is there no connection to the word 'Gallic'? I always assumed that there was. Maybe not, not that I think about it.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll sit tight.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-90365804597904600132012-03-19T19:57:30.385+11:002012-03-19T19:57:30.385+11:00So, here now the professional translation:
'A...So, here now the professional translation:<br /><br />'Au revoir mes amis. <br />Puisse l'avenir réaliser vos souhaits. <br />Bonne chance. Je vous souhaite le meilleur dans tout ce que vous entreprendrez. !'<br /><br />and I have to tell that she made a good job, that sounds really french.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-92079218189340605032012-03-19T19:48:49.534+11:002012-03-19T19:48:49.534+11:00Sorry, was a bit off the internet this week-end, I...Sorry, was a bit off the internet this week-end, I didn't even check my mails and rss. So here the corrected translation you asked for:<br /><br />'Adieu mes amis. Bonne chance et tout mon amour à vous. Que l'avenir vous apporte tout ce que vous souhaitez. Tout le meilleur.'<br /><br />It doesn't sound very "french" if you dig. I asked my colleague from the translation department to help me out on that, because she is way better than me to express feelings in an appropriate matter (you wouldn't want a geek to to that, would you?).<br />I will make a second comment with the right answer when she responds.<br />See ya.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-89748324913382725502012-03-19T09:47:15.453+11:002012-03-19T09:47:15.453+11:00And a third time to see if that grabs you. I'm...And a third time to see if that grabs you. I'm thinking I'll have to wait until tomorrow and you get into work. <br /><br />Why can't France be on Australia Eastern Standard Time? Then life would be so much simpler.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-75719425113067448212012-03-19T09:45:20.291+11:002012-03-19T09:45:20.291+11:00Hello Gallier, just trying to get your attention w...Hello Gallier, just trying to get your attention with multiple posts.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-41562040062289983822012-03-19T08:46:16.402+11:002012-03-19T08:46:16.402+11:00Gallier are you there?
Can you do me a very great...Gallier are you there?<br /><br />Can you do me a very great favour? I have in mind a farewell in French for a piece I'm writing. In English I wish to say:<br /><br />'Farewell my friends. Good luck and all my love to you. May the future bring you everything you wish for. All the best.'<br /><br />Google translate gives me:<br />'Adieu mes amis. Bonne chance et tout mon amour à vous. Que l'avenir vous apporter tout ce que vous souhaitez. Tout le meilleur.'<br /><br />Is that correct? Or more to the point, is it idiomatic and natural? I suspect not. Can you help? I'd appreciate it greatly.<br /><br />Hopefully talk to you soon.<br /><br />ciao ciao<br /><br />nnobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-27593142287207598772012-03-16T08:20:25.136+11:002012-03-16T08:20:25.136+11:00Hee Hee,
Very good. Gallier is an old hand and ha...Hee Hee,<br /><br />Very good. Gallier is an old hand and has doubtless seen as much shit as I have. Between the Zionists screaming blood libel and the white supremacists who wished death upon me, for me this weren't nothing more than a big feather tickling.<br /><br />Off to check the action for the latest crop circle thing.<br /><br />ciao ciaonobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-52011875760255772072012-03-16T08:00:47.427+11:002012-03-16T08:00:47.427+11:00Trusting my gut, when it's well-known that it&...Trusting my gut, when it's well-known that it's been seriously altered recently at hospital, is maybe ill-advised then, no?<br /><br />In any case, I just throw stuff out there sometimes for clarification; when certain things don't feel right, I just step way back. Maybe this is why I've survived into my seventh decade; many of my peers haven't nearly made it this far.<br /><br />So, no offense to anyone. Again, I can't see any reason to defend a "feeling" when I'm really pretty anti-New Age.<br /><br />That's my back-peddling, and I'm sticking to it.<br /><br />bye-ciao,<br />DQDave Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-32748311392200384182012-03-11T19:58:26.095+11:002012-03-11T19:58:26.095+11:00Funnily, though I've never been inside the Be...Funnily, though I've never been inside the Berlaymont, it is placed really inside Brussels and isn't as remote as it looks on pictures and films. For the DGT (translation) it's another story. It counts around 4000 persons, one half in Brussels in a remote suburb another half in Luxemburg in the Jean-Monnet building. <br />As for the windows, no problem there because there are ergonomic rules and one of them is that each worker is supposed to have an office with at least 1 and a half window. But there are exceptions and since the extension of the EU in 2004 and 2006 the building is getting a little bit crowded. This said the building will be replaced in the coming years, which is necessary as the old one is more or less falling apart.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-46685546328090748662012-03-11T10:38:56.400+11:002012-03-11T10:38:56.400+11:00Gallier! Get with it! Any article older than ten d...Gallier! Get with it! Any article older than ten days comes to me for approval. This is to stop those idiotic Indian spammers. Anyway, I'll modify the comment comment and make it clear.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-62824180833916260352012-03-11T10:28:01.108+11:002012-03-11T10:28:01.108+11:00PS As for IP's, I've long since since ceas...PS As for IP's, I've long since since ceased seeing either of you in statcounter. Sure I go there every day, but it does tend to be a bit too riddle-like for me to figure much out precisely. Take Dave - when he was reading everything I could spot that but now I've lost the plot.<br /><br />Really I just gun for obvious stuff like 'housesofparliament.london.uk' (or however it's written). I've had a couple from there. I don't know if you guys know but I actually got a hit from 'office of the president of the United States' one time. Big bragging rights for that one!<br /><br />Anyway, once I hit the road and am forced to use libraries to connect to the net, the fact that statcounter has a free cache of only 500 hits means that most of my traffic will have passed into the ether. Which is to say I'll only ever get infrequent glimpses. Never mind.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-34621507803677483612012-03-11T10:02:55.539+11:002012-03-11T10:02:55.539+11:00Thanks matey,
The Berlaymont building! Phwooar! V...Thanks matey,<br /><br />The Berlaymont building! Phwooar! Very sexy. But it's also the kind of place one could imagine oneself as removed from the real world. Don't you reckon?<br /><br />And just one question - do you get a window? All the systems/programming departments I ever saw (and sure this is in post-production) were as dungeonish as it gets. Even 3D was treated better. Not much, but a bit - depends on how senior you were. It was all about clients you see. If you never had clients you were doomed to the dungeon.<br /><br />As for C, did I tell you I used to be vaguely savvy in Unix? Those were the days, silicon graphics and all that. I can barely remember it now but I'm pretty sure I could hop in a shell and have some fun with rm -rf *. Cue the screams of horror from the next room!<br /><br />Anyway, off to bed with the both of yers, and tomorrow will be another Scarlett O'Hara, ha ha.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-29492244172394639522012-03-11T09:46:30.524+11:002012-03-11T09:46:30.524+11:00Oops, seems my comment didn't come through (ma...Oops, seems my comment didn't come through (may be you didn't like the links). I stated there that I'm not in the headquarters which are in Brussels, but in Luxemburg where no one knows that there are several thousands EU officials working (even the official history of the European Union forgot to mention that).<br />So, up for another answer now that I've read your last response.<br />I have aang also in my rss but only the posts, the comments would be too much. I happen to comment there sometimes but not really often.<br />I follow Penny much more, posts and comments, but have to confess of not reading as thoroughly as I'd like. Then I have 7 or 8 nutrition/low-car/paleo blogs and several fun sites (Dilbert, xkcd, failblog and other shit).<br />Funnylee, wrh is not in my rss feed, that site I prefer to read via the browser.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-41641762602050154802012-03-11T09:34:00.440+11:002012-03-11T09:34:00.440+11:00Hi noby, just for clarification, I'm not at th...Hi noby, just for clarification, I'm not at the headquarter of the EU Commission, this would be the Berlaymont building in Brussels and even if I'm an official I never set foot there<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlaymont_building<br />(to be clear the only Commission building in Brussel I ever visited was the EPSO building, the recruitement Direction which is at 1km from the Berlaymont.<br />My office is in Luxembourg and is the Jean Monnet Building <br />http://www.cvce.eu/obj/batiment_jean_monnet_a_luxembourg-fr-81a96674-3779-4b58-9fb3-e133fbfea592.html<br />I'm not a sys admin, I am a C programmer and working for language applications for the directorate of translation.<br />As for the rss, you got me there; I discovered that thunderbird is quite a decent rss reader, so I get my favorite posts (and sometime comments) with the same ease as all the email (spam).<br /><br />So, now good night (it's half past eleven here) and see you. <br /><br />PS: you will notice that the IP from which I post is not the Commission IP as I'm at home now.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-79271885639568900832012-03-11T09:29:10.444+11:002012-03-11T09:29:10.444+11:00hang put = hang out
That's what happens when ...hang put = hang out<br /><br />That's what happens when you sever part of your right pinky. P's, apostrophes, underscores, and question marks become a real pain in the arse.<br /><br />off again.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-36063637497281781012012-03-11T09:25:29.657+11:002012-03-11T09:25:29.657+11:00Ha ha ha ha! Whacko! There's RSS for you!
So ...Ha ha ha ha! Whacko! There's RSS for you!<br /><br />So Gallier, would I be right in thinking that you just now saw all my re-writes in the comments? How embarassing. I screwed up all the hyperlinks good and proper didn't I?<br /><br />Anyway, good point. I am the smallest of small potatoes. If people are hanging here, like properly hanging here (as opposed to hit and run), then it's pretty damn unlikely that they're spooks.<br /><br />Aangirfan is another story of course. I don't know if either of you hang put there but the schoolgirls there score in a day what I get in a fortnight. A single article 'they' did about Bin Laden's brother has had double the hits that my blog has had <i>in its entirety</i>. And what with actually naming names and all that, the likelihood of spooks (I mean proper spook motherfuckers) at Aang's is pretty much a certainty. To be honest I'm half thinking of dropping Aang a line and tell them to be real careful lest something befall them.<br /><br />Anyway, I vote no one stress on this little contretemps. It's my opinion you're both lovely fellows and you'd be best off putting this down to chaos theory, or whatever. It happens all the time. Besides which are we all familiar with Slozo? At one point he called out pretty much everyone in my comments section as disinfo. Silly sausage! Bees get in your bonnet and who cares really. Apart from those who hate mixed metaphors, natch. Ciao Ciao.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-22955204330046679602012-03-11T09:04:02.326+11:002012-03-11T09:04:02.326+11:00Hey Dave,
Do you think so? I like to think I'...Hey Dave,<br /><br />Do you think so? I like to think I'm as paranoid as the next fellow (and red mist / pit-bullish with it) but I don't know. He only drifts from the line over Apollo doesn't he? And I'm sort of inclined to forgive that given that I was where he is until I read McGowan. Even now there's a lot to give me pause over the whole thing. Some of McGowan's arguments are demonstrably crap and any number of the rest of them have not unreasonable answers from the anti-hoax crowd.<br /><br />Otherwise it is a fact that G works in the actual European Commission headquarters. But according to him it's as system admin. He's also the only bloke who RSS's my blog (in a trasparent fashion that is). But a sys-ad would do that.<br /><br />All that aside, I'd have declared him a sweetheart guy. We've had a few chats in old comments sections (much like you and I are doing now) and I find him pretty real. But you know, one keeps an open mind on all things. To be honest I don't know that I'll ever nail my colours to any mast ever again.<br /><br />(I don't know if I mentioned this but I am an utter Patrick O'Brien tragic. Did you see <i>Master and Commander</i>? Well that's O'Brian, specifically the Aubrey/Maturin series. Sure enough, the books are infinitely better than the movie. I've read all 20 of them five times, believe it or not. And anyone familiar with them would see tons of O'Brian-isms sprinkled through my stuff - archaisms and all that stuff).<br /><br />Otherwise I distracted myself from writing this week by plunging into illustrating all the old church pieces. When I started it was all text and the insertion of pix didn't kick in until a year or so later. Anyway I've been in photo editor mode all week. It's a bunch of fun. Half of them are just perfunctory but a few of them I've gone to town on and photoshopped up. Here's a couple that I liked <a href="http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com.au/2008/10/wondering-through-google.html" rel="nofollow">this one</a> and <a href="http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/terrorist-blast-from-past.html" rel="nofollow">this one.</a> Oh, just looked - there's also <a href="http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com.au/2008/08/i-save-israels-bacon.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com.au/2008/07/me-writing-cinema-blog.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://churchofnobody.blogspot.com.au/2008/07/world-youth-thingy.html" rel="nofollow">this.</a> <br /><br />Well that's enough of that. And really I should get back to getting on with the crop circles. Anyway, lovely to have you pop in and see you in the funny pages. Ciao Ciao. nnobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-78069164907236933392012-03-11T08:34:19.813+11:002012-03-11T08:34:19.813+11:00Hi Dave Q. if opinion is synonymous to disinfo the...Hi Dave Q. if opinion is synonymous to disinfo then you're right. May I only tell you that everyone spites off disinfo, at different levels, be it because they've been mislead, be it because they don't have the necessary skill to cut through the fog or for any other reason. Some dispense the disinfo because they are paid for by "occult" agencies, some others because they believe in that stuff. <br />As for me, who cares really, the 5 blogs (ok it's more like 20) I visit or on which I put comments on, have a visibility so low that my impact on world opinion is negligible.gallier2https://www.blogger.com/profile/04285836062429366578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-19935628260192472042012-03-11T06:51:57.486+11:002012-03-11T06:51:57.486+11:00So, Nobby...back at the church, to everyone's ...So, Nobby...back at the church, to everyone's surprise and pleasure. Onya, mate. I always love your postings, whether I identify or not. In this case, I find the crop circle thing very interesting indeed. There's a lot of stuff on the Web about it, including the links supplied by some of those commenting. The whole world's gone mad, though, so the links---when graded on a curve---aren't really that far out at all, are they?<br /><br />As for this gallier chap...I don't like the feeling I get from him. After doing some blog studying, and seeing his posts here and elsewhere, I get the feeling I need to wash off a goodly amount of disinfo, using a wire brush on my mind. Does anyone else concur? It just seems so obvious to me.<br /><br />I don't post questions like this at the church, due to my abhorrence of pissing matches and cross-talking in someone else's house. (or 'church') In short, I love the blog too much to start that shit in the comments.<br /><br />Blog on, brutha; fly yer freak flag high!<br /><br />bye-ciao,<br />Dave Q.Dave Q.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7873069687795845648.post-74955741138269871332012-02-26T08:13:47.566+11:002012-02-26T08:13:47.566+11:00Hey Dave,
Well it doesn't really matter where...Hey Dave,<br /><br />Well it doesn't really matter where you post (here or at the church) since I get told via gmail that there are new comments. Which is to say I can't miss them. The haiku blog is different for some reason (probably because I set it up that way, ahem) and I have no idea if someone comments to an old piece or not.<br /><br />Otherwise, I saw that <i>I'm Not Scared</i> flick when it came out and quite liked it. A flick that's completely different but kind of similar is <i>Gommorah</i>. Have you seen that? It's very good, a helluva flick.<br /><br />I downloaded <i>City of Life and Death</i> and now I just have to steel myself to watch it. Doubtless it'll be an ordeal.nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13067422372087431256noreply@blogger.com