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[senoritafish]

I'm sitting here listening to movie soundtrack as I try to figure out what they were doing with the pelagic sampling databases 13 years ago. I think I may have mixed something up when I converted them from dBASE to Access awhile ago.

Anyway, I'm reminded of a conversation awhile ago at lunch with TN. He's something of a purist when it comes to movies, and absolutely hated Lord of the Ringsbecause it left stuff out and didn't follow the books exactly. Don't ask me, I haven't watched any of them yet. But I definitely understand that it's impossible to take a book over 400 pages long and shove the whole thing into a movie even three hours long. I think David Lynch tried to do that with Dune (the original movie) and it suffered because of it, although he was going in the right direction. Frank Herbert liked it, at least.

We got on the topic of soundtracks. He brought up A Knight's Tale, and how he didn't care for the rock soundtrack because it didn't match the time period the movie was set in, and he would have preferred the typical orchestral music used for that type of movie. I pointed out that orchestral music wouldn't have been appropriate either, as it didn't exist at the time the movie was set. Music is put into a movie to elicit a certain emotional response, and would his have been the same if the soundtrack had used period serpents, lutes and recorders? He conceded.

Speaking of emotional responses, between the last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist (Maes Hughes' murder) and hints of what's to come, I wonder if I should even continue watching it? Ha, stupid question. And Ghost in the Shell -SAC - ah, the poor Tachikomas. ;__; I am going to have to stock up on tissues.

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[metalmensch.livejournal.com]

Missing data?

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Not so much missing as not matching; *grumble, grumble* Landing numbers in the sardine sample table don't match the landing table for a couple of years. I think when the sardine fishery was first starting, separate landing tables were kept for each species (which strikes me as odd, since they're referring to the same boat landings). I had thought the landing table was the same, since we only use one for all species now.

Should be a fairly minor thing, but I only realized this because I'm doing a summary for a report and I realize the person who made a table originally did it incorrectly and I was trying to fix it (instead of just adding this year's numbers as is the usual procedure).

[calypso72]

If you ever want to chat about geeky database problems, I'm the Access queen.

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

I hate Lord of the Rings BECAUSE of all the shit in the books!

I liked the soundtrack to A Knight's Tale because the story itself was such a fantasy, so the modern music fit.

Yeah, that last ep of FMA was intense, wasn't it? And I agree about those darling Tachikomas! I want one for the lab so they can do the nurturing and keep those clingy students off us. It was a tragic end.

Well, that's why we like anime/manga - you never know what is going to happen to a character.