Rockafire explosion!

[palabrajot]

I just took in this little documentary on Netflix streaming.  It's quite charming, and friends of mine into furry are likely to see some parallels. :)



(If I can't get the player to display above, well... that's why I don't like using Livejournal anymore.)

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[porsupah]

Not to worry - I disable embedded players anyway, as they take so long to get started, for no ultimate benefit, given I'll only open the URL in a new tab anyway, so I can kill the loading if it's not something that appeals, without affecting my reading.

Perhaps a few words about the clip would be beneficial? Makes it easier to judge if it's of interest, especially on flaky connections, or costly ones; I'm quite well acquainted with both, at present. (Latest develment is an apparent cross-connection at the exchange, hence the lack of DSL carrier when they said it'd gone live on the line..)

I'll have a look on the morrow, on the campus connection, which is a little nicer than the 3G dongle in the warren. ^_^;

[palabrajot]

Yes, the vague description was rather negligent of me, so let's try that again

[porsupah]

Oh, wow.. okay, I'm going to have to make a point of checking that out on the morrow. Sounds like that's more where the Simpsons bit alluding to Chuck E Cheese was really based. ^_^

I wonder if anything like that could launch now? The animatronics could be quite a bit better, though I imagine the pizza would be carefully designed to be legally compliant with some definition of pizza, and no more. =:) 'Course, done well, with the mechanics and programming given some love, and the pizza at least as good as Papa John's, they could really make for something of an attraction.

[palabrajot]

It's hard to say whether a similar model would work today- back in the early 80's, if you wanted to entertain children, the first order of business seemed to involve filling a room with all the latest video game cabinets. Now, that paradigm has clearly shifted