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Hypnotic TRON Binary Countdown Clock... I think...
Hey folks, Harry here with something kinda fun and pretty odd. If you visit this link which resides over at FlynnLives.com you'll find a hypnotic display - which I believe is a countdown clock that has image substitution for a Binary Clock. Now, I'm a geek, but I really don't know my Binary as I should... so I can't say how long it is counting down. Now... We all suspect that there will be a big TRON spot on ALICE IN WONDERLAND, so it could be counting down to that... but I'm thinking it is counting down to the actual release. But I figured I'd post this for y'all to look at and figure out. So what do you think?
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Punk Daft
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Stoked as hell for tron!
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cool concept, that countdown clock
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Still stoked though. Saw the trailer again on my Xbox live and was happy. It looks like the tech and action are there, I just hope the story matches up. The concept still feels really 80's to me.
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FUCK DAFT PUNK. I LIKE THEIR MUSIC BUT IT'S NOTHING BUT REMIXES. THEY CAN PLAY INSTRAMENTS. IT'S AN INSULT TO WENDY AND THE SCORE FROM THE FIRST FILM. AT FIRST I WAS LIEK YEAH OK BUT NOW I'M THINKING IT WAS BAD IDEA TO SAY I'LL GIVE THEM A TRTY. GET WENDY INVOLVED SOMEHOW OR DIE SUCKING YOUR OWN COCK DISNEY!!!!!
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DAMN TYPO
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Daft punk is the best thing to ever come out of france. I would like to see you make anything half as badass as daft punk. Music isn't all bout instruments, every artist today records on some kind of digital or electronic means. The beatles recorded the entire sgt. Pepper album on a 4 track. Shut your capitalized mouth if you think you know music.
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11am EST. The binary on the clock works like so:
DD HH MM SS
88 88 88 88
44 44 44 44
22 22 22 22
11 11 11 11
Add up all the values that are "on" (yellow) and you'll get the numbers on the clock. -
It wouldn't have been a flop. Just saying... But that is rather cool looking.
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Isn't 2^28 seconds like 8 1/2 years. I am probably reading that wrong
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Are a match made in heaven. Think about it, the pure electonica beauty of D.P. with the retro gaming awesomeness of Tron. Then add in some Imax action and the Dude and BAM!!!!!! ElectroGeek jizz all over your CPU.
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....at my house. at my house.
all the furniture...... is in the garage. -
I thought that the deleted cum shot scene in the first tron, where there was this neon jizz flying all over the place like a motorcycle stuck in the mud, was a bit over the top.
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It's a binary representation of a decimal clock. It currently (Feb 15th 3:18 CST) reads:
08186600
Which, interpreted as second count, is almost 95 days, which is how many days until...you get the picture. -
8 Days, 18 hrs, and 51 minutes. So, if my math is correct, 11am (EST) on Feb. 23rd.
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Should be Feb. 24th. Forgot to move ahead to tomorrow.
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Could someone go a little more in depth about the clock, or show me some sort of link?
I want to believe, I just can't wrap my head around it.
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I kept thinking it was keeping real time, then I realized it was counting down.
That's pretty nifty, right there... -
Next Wednesday morning? If that is if fact DD HH MM SS.
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is a droid that understands the binary language of arcane film websites.
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Huh. I guess we'll see.
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How does it work? I can't see it. The last four columns at least are grouped together because they are counting down in regular binary(or up depending on which symbol represents 0/1) so they dont represent MM DD MM SS. 256*256 is not enough to represents all the seconds in a day so it can't be MM DD SS SS. I have to be over thinking it lol
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its a simple countdown clock.
Days: Hours: Minutes: Seconds
Now, if you keep watch of the symbols in the seconds area, a symbol change in the Tens column of the seconds part means that its a 9 in the units part. (you know like a digital clock counting down). Once you know this, its easy to match symbols to numbers.
it reads out 8 days, 18 hours and some minutes right now, which comes out to 11am EST on Feb 24. -
Right now it shows 08 18 15 44 and the last one counts down each second. So that's very probably 8 days, 18 hours, 15 minutes and 44 seconds remaining until the trailer or whatever...
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Assume it is DD HH MM SS. Each set of two colums is capable of displaying "59." The bottom row is 1, the next up is 2, then 4, then 8. You add up each column to get that column's value. You could have 1+4 in the left column and 8+1 in the right. You can countdown seconds to a minute and minutes to an hour. I think it works.
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Heh, ya know gang, it is kinda fun to bitch about the DVD column, even if I'm indifferent to the issue.
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The missed columns are pointless now, as some are nearly three months old. I just want it to be back. Herc's cut and paste DVD on TV column is a shitty substitute, as he doesn't seem to actually "write" any of it. Please, Harry, either get back to work on the DVD column or have the guts to admit you can't do it anymore and pass it to someone who can. Your Papa, perhaps?
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Oh. I see it finally, lol. That's pretty cool.
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Techland has some big Batman 3 rumors. http://tinyurl.com/yhm56zx
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Each set of colmuns can actually display "15 15" But Dr. Sauch explains it best for the purpose of reading to find out the countdown.
For the geeks who really want to know how it works, and the principals behind it, here you go: Binary basically operates on the princiapl that a switch is either on or off, a 0 or a 1. In the case of this clock a red explosion or a yellow/orange diamond. Each marker is 2 to a certain power. Starting from the bottom, it's 2 to the 0 power, then 2 to the 1 power, then 2 to the 2 power, and lastly 2 to the 3 power. Now to get the real number that the column represents, you have to take whichever markers are "on" and add them together to get their true value.
If all the the values were on, you would be adding 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 15. Since this represents a clock, you will never see all the markers on you will only see a combination of them.
Basically this is the key for decoding it:
0-0-0-0=0, x-0-0-0=1, 0-x-0-0=2, x-x-0-0=3, 0-0-x-0=4, x-0-x-0=5, 0-x-x-0=6, x-x-x-0=7, 0-0-0-x=8, x-0-0-x=9
X's = diamonds, 0's=Yellow Diamonds. Left most spot is the bottom of a column, right most spot is the top of the column.
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X's = Yellow Diamons, 0's = Red Explosions
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it's not a true binary countdown, the far right group only counts down 90 seconds (01011001) which means the 2nd group from the right is unknown at the moment, will the 128 position 'x' in 'x0000000' flip or not when the third group reduces?
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....a lot of BITs!!!
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Azreal37 is right
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http://tinyurl.com/yj4njv4
You're welcome... -
8 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes
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Wendy Carlos actually composed music on paper and keys. Don't tell me shit about Daft Punk. I bought to Da Funk single that day it dropped on DVD. I used to work for blockbuster music back then, and that was like 15 fucking years ago! I like them. Don't get me wrong and I'm sure the music will sound interesting, but I fucking hate the fact that Wendy is gone and I also hate the fact that the music for the film will be comprised of remixed other shit instead of something completely new. Her music in Tron, Clockwork, and The Shining are all epic. She's a fucking goddess of the keys and it's a fucking shame she isn't involved in some small way for new music for this world.
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I'm having a hardtime saying what I mean to say.
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The only film that I truly liked last year was D9, and I'm getting the same vibe about Tron. This mutha will kick Avatar's shiny blue butt...
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Those are all BS The Barbra Gorden one makes no sense at all in the current films.
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Also I saw these very same rumors the other day. There was also one about Dick Grayson. Both Bale and Nolan are not fond of Robin they have said so many times. I would take these with a grain of salt.
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Daft Tron Song
http://tinyurl.com/lpuurx
(loops over and over again)
VERSES....
Oh wait thats right Disney had all of Wendys Tron scores removed from youtube, but if by some strange chance you actually remember that music. I dare you to compare and tell me that the Flynn Arcade Lightcycle reveal is on par with what Wendy created for Tron. Bullshit!!!!!
And what are you trying to teach me by telling me that the beatles recorded SP on 4 track. Um yeah it was high end tech back then and it ment that they could adjust the volume of everyones separately recorded performance to fit better against one another. Whats you fucking point!! This is my complaint. Ice Ice Baby will always sound like Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Daft songs will always get relinked to the originals they were ripped from, and the magic will be lost once the curtain is pulled back. This repeating song we already got from them sounds horrid. Same damn beat over and over again. All Philip Glass like but with non of the soul. Todays Rap repeating beat scheme is killing good eletronica. Wendy let the music move around she didnt beat you over the head with the same fucking 8 chord scheme over and over again for the entire song. Anby notes that repeated in her themes for tron moved up or down in scale as the song played out. -
It's not dd:hh:mm:ss. It's what I said before, a second count. It's really not that complicated.
If you doubt my explanation, county how many seconds it takes for the far right column to cycle. 10 seconds. Now count how many seconds it takes for the second column to cycle. 100 seconds.
The top glyph is 8, followed by 4, 2, then 1. With those glyphs, you can represent the numbers 0-9. -
Binary's for nerds! NEEEEEEEERDS!!!
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If I had to guess, it was Wendy that probably pulled out any Youtube clips. She is pretty staunch in fighting piracy of her work. I think her return to major features is long overdue. I also think that everyone with a serious interest in this sequel should petition Disney to commission at least one track from her for this film. A theme, a prelude, an overture, anything. P.S., Fuck the DVD column, it's dead. I'm sick to death of hearing about it.
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doesnt have to be a geek.
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Feb 15, 2010 5:19:44 PM CST
Do you know the binary language of moisture vaporators?
by stereotypical evil archer
No, I don't.
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Feb 15, 2010 5:22:32 PM CST
He doesn't like you. I don't like you either!
by stereotypical evil archer
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To much work for too little payoff..Also I hate getting info out there because no matter what the site says you will get e-bombed and solicitation telephone calls ...guaranteed...so fuck that shit..
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Magic day, according to the clock.
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Unless your job requires it, why the fuck should anyone be able to translate binary code? You are sounding crazy. "I don't really know the biographies of Paul Revere's grandparents as well as I should." "I don't really know the specifics of Luxembourg's topography as I should."
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saved me the hassle...I'll see this no doubt but I really don't go in for the viral marketing stuff so thanks..
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What? lol
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...and kind of silly. Personal opinion of course. Really excited for the movie and I'll be there to see it opening weekend (be weird to be in the theater for a Tron movie as an adult). I think I've just grown tired of internet "marketing" for movies.
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Like those stupid ass watches that are popular.
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Binary is for nerds. Nerds are more drawn to academic activities rather than social ones. Geeks are drawn to escoteric amusement rather than traditional social pursuits. And while, typically, all nerds are geeks, not all geeks are nerds. Therefore, ability to decipher a binary code(an application of academic knowledge) is more likely to be within the abilities of a nerd, not a geek. Unless that geek is oddly obsesed with binary code, and ignores all other genral academic knowledge. Then you have a "binary-geek". A film geek, however, shouldn't feel ashamed for not being able to instinctively decipher that particular code. In my opinion, anyway.
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I liked Wendy Carlos's soundtrack for TRON. I bought the LP when it came out. I wonder if the blu-ray TRON release will have an option for music-only? I wonder if the blu-ray will contain the OST separately? I wonder if it'll contain the full final credits music Wendy composed in addition to the music changing to Journey's "Only Solutions"? I like Suzanne Ciani's music, too. "Seven Waves" album by her is nice. She did the music for the old Xenon pinball machine. http://ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=2821
Dream music for the movie: Wendy Carlos, Suzanne Ciani, Kraftwerk, and Daft Punk can play, too. -
Cool, it's made out of images of the bit from the first movie.
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how about we stop arguing about the teatles and the fucking dvd column and try and figure out what the fuck it's counting down to...
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*beatles
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The "second" group changes 60 times before the "minute" group changes. It's not a total second timer, its DDHHMMSS
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See: Virgin Suicides OST. Brilliant - and spooky in parts.
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Right you are. So it's the 24th after all.
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It's going to be so epic.
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Not EVERYTHING Tron-related is cool. Or fun.
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...there is zero reason not to have Wendy Carlos involves especially since, if you read her webpage, she's open to (and hopeful about) the idea of returning for the sequel. I would love it if Harry would put his rolodex to work and contact Steven Lisberger about this.
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You Fucking tard! wannabe I'm First! Zomg! I'm gonna tell my tween friends on Myspace! Fuck you for bitching about someones opinion about Daft Punk. I like them just fine too,but people can judge for themselves. Eat a dick
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hah, i knew you'd see it our way!that's the main reason i complain about the dvd column too..b/c it's fun!
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Those that get binary and those that don't. That is all.
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"Unless your job requires it, why the fuck should anyone be able to translate binary code?"
Because binary is a simple mathematical concept, and EVERYTHING is math. It helps every damn thing you do, even though when you suck at it you don't REALIZE that. -
true fact
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Check out her LP "Beauty in the Beast" for one of the weirdest, craziest LP's ever made. It was recorded entirely on non-Western scales in 1986 and sounds like nothing else you've ever heard.
All-electronic music is just as legit as anything else. It's like the crossroads between rock music (which is about repetition and mantra and trance) and modern clasical, which can stop on a dime and go wherever it wants. But I guess most of you who are reared on nothing but classic rock don't want to hear any of that.
ANYWAY, all I came here to post was that this clock thing is just unashamed viral marketing and the more we post about it the more we're getting infected! -
Orcus just signed up. but where is there anyway to find stuff, or do we have to delve into code? Ans SEPP!
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I hailed.Did you hail?!You'd better hail!
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The secret is clicking on the word "link" in Harry's post. Easily missed though. Here's the link: http://www.flynnlives.com/zerohour/
Hmm...kinda looks like some freaky 3D version of Chinese Checkers to me. -
At least the building they used in the film. It's still there. Across from the hotel used in "Under the Rainbow.
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those 2 leaked songs have been proven fake. and im sorry all you wendy carlos fans, but having daft punk score this movie was genius.
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was a bad thing... I think scores by groups and electronic musicians are often way more subtle and less "You must think zis or you vil be shot!!!" than regular scores. Take Brian Eno's Lovely Bones score as an example. And Karen O's contribution to Fantastic Mr Fox was pretty cool.
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right? I was just testing your attention skills...
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Yeah this is basically Harry writing a long ass Twitter on AICN. Save it for your biography Harry.
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Those stars/shapes if you recall from the 1st movie are the "YES" and "NO" reactions of BIT who was with the original CLU. (Gold means Yes, Red means NO) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGujzulsas
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wendy carlos sued the singer/songwriter, and big wendy carlos fan, momus, back in 1998 for $22 million for his song "walter carlos". the song was meant as a tribute, but as it referred to wendy pre sex change, and wendy needing publicity for her new album that was about to come out, she took the opportunity and financially destroyed a fellow musician with legal fees. so, fuck wendy carlos. isao tomita is better anyway.
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I looked at it for a couple minutes, and now my brain hurts
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She's actually made claims that she only pretended to be a man because the idea of female electronic musicians wasn't acceptable (hmm, except for Delia Derbyshire, Wendy?). All those pictures of her as a he were apparently just doctored publicity shots. Heh.
Momus is awesome. A total sexual pervert, but awesome nonetheless, and handy with a melody... So that suit was a bit of a joke. -
True fact.
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Think I do the lie to you? http://ti ny.cc/c9tFX
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It's late, I'm bored, but not enough to read all talkbacks to see if anyone decoded it, just enough to decode it myself.
It's counting down from 08-04-34-xx, where "xx" is counting down to fast to bother writing what I see at this time. Interpret the numbers as you will. -
In fact she only scored a handful of films and that was in the 80's! Seems she is more interested in being a solar eclipse photographer these days. So enough with the Wendy Carlos should have been brought back nonsense.
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must have gotten the idea from the keyboard in WALL-E
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... then fine. Otherwise, if the Disney execs wanted to avoid that old freakish man-woman and go with something more commercial and well known, then it's bullshit. Regardless, I've said this many times and I'll repeat. This Tron film has robbed me of a 2009 Daft Punk album (as it was supposed to be) and a possible Wendy Carlos soundtrack.
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A Clockwork Orange was released in 1971.
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Just each column is its own binary number, independent of the others (meaning it's 8 sets of 4, not 4 sets of 8 numbers)
It is a clock in DD:HH:MM:SS format.
From top to bottom each columns numbers are 8-4-2-1. If its a burst, its a 0, if its a diamond its a 1. You take the number from each column and you get a DD:HH:MM:SS format.
It's easy if you watch the last two columns. Unlike what Fey said earlier, the second column does not take 100 seconds to cycle, it takes 60. The last two columns go from 00 (all red bursts) to 5-9. Thats:
0-1-0-1 (5) | 1-0-0-1 (9) and cycles completely back to 0-0 in 60 seconds (not 100 like fey said)
I posted this on comingsoon where I first saw the article (with pictures of a package that someone got with the code in it and a giant red burst model) -
It makes me feel stupid. I have no idea what i'm looking at. It's pretty though.
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was how does one find the clock from the Flynnlives (as the main site). Sorry, Orcus shoould have been clearer
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used to be a man. Fact.
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During the last San Diego Comic Con, there was a "Flynn's" arcade created just to build up excitement for the sequel. It had playable arcade games and a light cycle replica from the upcoming movie. I didn't go while it was still open (I live in San Diego but didn't want to bother with downtown parking etc.) but there are images of it available online.
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...she says as much on the FAQ section of her website.
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to pay 30k for a song mentioning Wendy's earlier name which he excised from the album on her request before it even got properly pressed. Just ridiculous. His solution was brilliant, though: he put a notice on the internet saying that he'd write a song-portrait on anyone who'd pay him a grand. He got tons of requests and his next album was a double-album featuring 30 songs about 30 people who paid 1k each. Bill paid...although he shouldn't have had to pay it in the first place.
Damn overreactionary trannies!(And I say that as someone with an ankle- half aunt/half uncle- who had the op). -
Countdowner.CountDown(2010, 2, 24, 8, 0, 0, 0);
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This is a hilarious animated short about David Lynch meeting George Lucas. Check it out..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLAyo1wE4Vo
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Each group counts to 60. Seconds, minutes, hours, and 60hours. So instead of 24-hour days think of 60-hour days. 7 * 60hours = 420 hours / 24hours = 17.5 day = Friday March 5 = Alice in Wonderland!!!
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... is absolutely correct.
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Obviously, the columns (going from left to right) are days, hours, minutes and seconds. I think the patterns represent the same numerical values in each column, so the pattern for a 7 in the "seconds" column will also mean a 7 in the "days" column. It is, of course, easy to determine that the "all red" state is the "00"-seconds mark because the "minutes" column decrements one tick after that. So... from there you can determine which digits the red/yellow patterns represent by counting down from 60 as soon as the "seconds" column goes "all red." That method is telling me that whatever's going to happen will occur at 10am CST, Thursday, Feb. 25th.
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What is this "pictures of a package that someone got with the code in it and a giant red burst model" of which you speak? Is there a link?
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07:20:35:20
(days, hours, minutes, seconds)
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it's LOSt... and when it gets to zero you have to enter those damn numbers!
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Just read Celicynd's post, and yeah, that's correct. Damn.
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http://tinyurl.com/ygro5n5
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And whatever happened to www.tronkillerapp.com? There was something that you could install?
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Because he cares, but could care a bit less. Always room for pie.
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thanks haha you made my day with that link!
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If you care it is counting binary coded decimal. Each column is a number from 0 to 9.
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where is the damn trailer?
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I think there needs to be a website that lists every time that saying is used incorrectly in a movie, tv episode or interview. Because it happens a freakin' lot and it drives me effin' nuts!!
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Time hasn't changed my opinion on this. Fucking nerds.
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You know, in person? Not on Cinemax at 2am?
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Best telepathic intercommunication I've ever had. Might have been a man.
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I've never seen the original (presenting torn off "geek stripes"), but based on the trailer, the sequel looks to provide something visually different from the usual sci fi fare.
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I will jet ones and zeros all up in your face. And you will love it, program.
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I'm so hoping this movie will be good and that i liek it. I really want to like this movie. I hope i'm not disapointed.
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I'm Having it on DVD, and mine says ages 12+
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Dude, you've got to see the original. It's really retro-chic now, but you should be able to appreciate the primitive CGI for what it was. And enjoy the sequel more because of the time between films.
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I'll check out the original over the weekend.
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