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Alan C. Baird
- Location
- Mesa, Arizona, USA, Earth
- Bio
- Alan lives just a stone's throw from Phoenix... which is fine and dandy, until the stones are thrown back.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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August 08, 2009 10:03PM - “Nicely done, David.
Rated.”
June 20, 2009 12:15AM - “Excellent!”
June 11, 2009 04:25PM - “I jump to escape the
Brown-Air Express.”
June 11, 2009 04:09PM - “Thx!”
June 11, 2009 04:07PM
Alan C. Baird's Links
NOVEMBER 17, 2009 11:41AM
+ 2 = 10 formatters.
I just created 2 more free script formatting templates, enlarging the Screenwright(R) family to 10:
1) screenplay,
2) A4 screenplay,
3) sitcom,
4) A4 sitcom,
5) theater/stage play,
6) A4 theater/stage play,
7) audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film,
8) A4 audio-visual dual-column cor… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 14, 2009 8:15AM
Things are looking up...
"The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare" [Sky & Telescope Magazine]
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Oh, wait... (Repeat after me: it takes 20 katuns to complete a baktun, and 20 baktuns to make a pictun. In the Mayan calendar, 2012 simply marks the beginning of Baktun 14, a less
…
NOVEMBER 12, 2009 7:46AM
Two more script formatters...
have just been added to the
five I created last week:
6) audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script, and
7) A4 audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script.
UPDATE: I was just informed that the Screenwright(R) script formatting family of templates…
6) audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script, and
7) A4 audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script.
UPDATE: I was just informed that the Screenwright(R) script formatting family of templates…
NOVEMBER 8, 2009 8:22AM
The Pine Tree State.
I was born in Maine. But I still can't understand how those Maineacs could vote "yes" on pot and "no" on gay marriage in the same night. I should probably buy some of these teeshirts for my relatives...
![[marriage is so gay.]](http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object2/30/46/n13269305902_8432.jpg)
NOVEMBER 4, 2009 3:24PM
Five new formatters!
Last year, I created the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatting template for OpenOffice.org's word processing program, and it won a cash award from Sun Microsystems. I've always wanted to make more free script formatters available to OOo users, and I finally got around to it:
1) A4 screenpla… Read full post »
NOVEMBER 2, 2009 11:04AM
Palin comparison(2).
Sarah Palin - Going Rogue: An American Life versus Going Rouge - Sarah Palin: An American Nightmare
Give "Rouge" to your favorite brownshirts for Xmas; they're not smart enough to figure out the difference anyway. [previous comparison]
OCTOBER 29, 2009 11:58AM
Facebook in The Wayback Machine.
See what Facebook's home page looked like in the early days (as Thefacebook.com):
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://Thefacebook.com
Click the "about" link for a chuckle. Then, in August 2005, they took over the Facebook.com domain:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://Facebook.com
(The October 2006 upda
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OCTOBER 26, 2009 12:38PM
Face the (Facebook) facts:
4 active users on 2/4/2004,
5.5 million active users on 12/31/2005, I
joined on 9/26/2006,
12 million active users on 12/31/2006,
100 million on 8/26/2008,
200 million on 4/8/2009,
300 million on 9/15/2009.
You'll notice, from the fancypants graph below, that things rea…
OCTOBER 22, 2009 8:54PM
Microsoft Does Retail In Scottsdale.
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, Oct 22. It's a big day for Microsoft: the company opened its first retail store in Scottsdale Fashion Square this morning, to coincide with the launch of Windows 7. Microsoft gave away gift bags to the first thousand store visitors and offered other incentives to spark early
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OCTOBER 22, 2009 9:20AM
Budapest: The Central European Hub Of Innovation.
Gorgeous images of our other home city, along with some cool music and a surprising look at Hungarian inventions and developments that have rocked the world, like: ballpoint pens, binoculars, helicopters, holography, computers, and the Ford Model T.
OCTOBER 21, 2009 11:07AM
Jai Ho.
("May
you be victorious.")Music by A. R. Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar.
The song is written mostly in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi, interspersed with some Spanish words.
[video clip remix 1]
[video clip remix 2]
(After watching Slumdog Millionaire, we couldn't get that closing-credits dance track out/…
OCTOBER 15, 2009 4:46PM
sUBTexT on eBay:
CLICK HERE!
Starting bid: US $33,349.50 (WGA minimum) for this sitcom pilot teleplay.
The listing ends on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 08:08:24 am PDT. Bid now so you won't miss out. Don't let this item slip away!
OCTOBER 15, 2009 3:41PM
More bonuses of being married to a Hungarian:
first there was pole
dancing, then there was
farting, and now there's... plastic.
Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant contestants included a former rhythmic gymnast, a firefighter married to a police officer, a mother of three, and several strippers. Nearly all the contestants showed off augment…
Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant contestants included a former rhythmic gymnast, a firefighter married to a police officer, a mother of three, and several strippers. Nearly all the contestants showed off augment…
OCTOBER 15, 2009 7:45AM
Disambiguation:
OCTOBER 9, 2009 12:14PM
The Second Bill of Rights.
Yesterday, we went to see Michael Moore's new film,
"Capitalism: A Love Story." It's a wonderfully clear explanation of
a very complex subject: the evils of our economic system.
Anikó and I were both surprised and gratified to hear
the long round of applause from the audience at the end of…
OCTOBER 7, 2009 2:11PM
The ballad of sUBTexT.
So I run into an Emmy- and GG-winning sitcom guy on Facebook, and I pitch him a series idea. He's interested. Tells me to write a spec. So I create what I think is a groundbreaking script in six days. (On the seventh day, I rest.) It has a radical political
…
OCTOBER 7, 2009 8:05AM
Thereministrations.
From
Amazon.com: The theremin may be one of the oddest instruments
ever invented: the electronic device's high-pitched sound resembles
no other--and you never even touch it to play it. It's become
familiar from that novel Beach Boys solo on "Good Vibrations" and
the occasional sci-fi score sou… Read full post »
OCTOBER 5, 2009 1:50PM
Budapest street view panoramas:
OCTOBER 3, 2009 10:09AM
Glass Armonica: Music of the Spheres.
If
you ever get a chance to see a glass armonica concert in person,
don't miss it. The reverberations will touch your very soul.
[video]From the GlassArmonica.com website created by William Wilde Zeitler:
We've known about the 'wet-finger-around-the-wine-glass' idea since Renaissance times—on… Read full post »
OCTOBER 3, 2009 10:05AM
Glass Armonica: Music of the Spheres.
If
you ever get a chance to see a glass armonica concert in person,
don't miss it. The reverberations will touch your very soul.
[video]From the GlassArmonica.com website created by William Wilde Zeitler:
We've known about the 'wet-finger-around-the-wine-glass' idea since Renaissance times—on… Read full post »
OCTOBER 1, 2009 4:10PM
Blasphemous as hell.
I intend to win the CFI Blasphemy Contest:
1) God loves you... unless your name is Polanski.
2) Those Inquisition dudes were just following orders, man.
3) The Jesus cartoons made Mohammed laugh his butt off.
OCTOBER 1, 2009 4:05PM
Blasphemous as hell.
I intend to win the CFI Blasphemy Contest:
1) God loves you... unless your name is Polanski.
2) Those Inquisition dudes were just following orders, man.
3) The Jesus cartoons made Mohammed laugh his butt off.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 7:16PM
Wyatt? Doc??
When we moved to Arizona, we knew these idiots were still mired in their Wild West fantasies. But we always assumed that they would progress, not regress...
Yep, pardner, it is now legal for the 138,350 people with concealed-weapons permits in Arizona to bring their firearms into bars and restaurants… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 7:15PM
Wyatt? Doc??
When we moved to Arizona, we knew these idiots were still mired in their Wild West fantasies. But we always assumed that they would progress, not regress...
Yep, pardner, it is now legal for the 138,350 people with concealed-weapons permits in Arizona to bring their firearms into bars and restaurants… Read full post »
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 11:41AM
Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT.
Dirty
Deeds Done Dirt CheapWritten by: Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott
Performed by: AC/DC [video clip]
If you're havin' trouble with the high school head
He's givin' you the blues
You wanna graduate but not in his bed
Here's what you gotta do
Pick up the phone, I'm always home
Call me any time
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Short and Bitter Sweet Goodbye
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Scenes from the Surprisingly Inexpensive Nassau Cruise
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Thankful for Life, JAI, CHAI
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Settled Law on Abortion, and Why Stare Decisis Matters
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