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Entries from August 2006

Teatime

August 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Computers, Time

From the OpenBSD at(1) man page: 
[at(1)] accepts times of the form HHMM or HH:MM to run a job at a specific time of day. (If that time is already past, the next day is assumed.)  You may also specify midnight, noon, or teatime (4pm) and you can have a time-of-day suffixed with “AM” or “PM” for [...]

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Black Narcissus

August 28th, 2006 · Comments Off · Subtitle Goofs

Black Narcissus was a decent movie.  My local library has several DVD titles from the Criterion Collection, so I’ll cycle through them.
 ”They [the drums] beat all night while he’s ill.”  Very effective, later on…..
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The Bourne Supremacy

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off · Subtitle Goofs

The Bourne Supremacy and its predecessor The Bourne Identity are required viewing. Watch them if you haven’t.
Here (”I’m gonna ask you some some simple questions.”) is a form of parablepsis called dittography — the unintentional repetition of characters. See a Biblical example (II Samuel 6:3-4). Or another at Leviticus 20:10.
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