Comment Re:Taco Bell (Score 1) 155
As much as my doctor would advise against it, I'd take Taco Bell's content over Bell Canada's content any day...
Doug Grindstaff, 'Star Trek' Sound Effects Maestro, Dies At 87 (hollywoodreporter.com) 36
Doug Grindstaff, a five-time Emmy Award winner behind Star Trek's Tribble coos, communicator beeps, and Enterprise bridge door whooshes, has died at 87. The Hollywood Reporter looks back at Grindstaff's contributions to the Star Trek universe: [Grindstaff] received 14 Emmy nominations in all -- including one for Star Trek in 1967 -- and won for his editing on The Immortal in 1970, Medical Story in 1976, Police Story in 1978, Power in 1980 and Max Headroom in 1987. Working with Jack Finlay and Joseph Sorokin, Grindstaff created the background sounds and effects used on NBC's Star Trek. These sounds included red alert klaxons, the whoosh of Enterprise bridge doors opening/closing, heartbeats, boatswain whistles, sickbay scanners and communicator beeps and the acoustics that invoked phasers striking deflector shields and transporter materialization (and dematerialization).
In a 2016 interview for the Audible Range blog, Grindstaff noted that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry "wanted to paint the whole show [with sound] like you were painting a picture. "And he wanted sounds everywhere. One time I asked him, 'Don't you think we're getting too cartoony?' Because I felt it should be a little more dignified, but he wanted sound for everything. For example, I worked on one scene where [Dr. McCoy] is giving someone a shot. Gene says, 'Doug, I'm missing one thing. The doctor injects him and I don't hear the shot.' I said, 'You wouldn't hear a shot, Gene.' He said, 'No, no, this is Star Trek, we want a sound for it.' "So I turned around to the mixing panel and said, 'Do you guys have an air compressor?' And they did. I fired up the air compressor, squirted it for a long enough period by the mic, went upstairs, played with it a little bit and then put it in the show. And Gene loved it. So, that's how Gene was. He didn't miss nothing!" Grindstaff said he created Tribble coos by manipulating the sound of a dove.
In a 2016 interview for the Audible Range blog, Grindstaff noted that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry "wanted to paint the whole show [with sound] like you were painting a picture. "And he wanted sounds everywhere. One time I asked him, 'Don't you think we're getting too cartoony?' Because I felt it should be a little more dignified, but he wanted sound for everything. For example, I worked on one scene where [Dr. McCoy] is giving someone a shot. Gene says, 'Doug, I'm missing one thing. The doctor injects him and I don't hear the shot.' I said, 'You wouldn't hear a shot, Gene.' He said, 'No, no, this is Star Trek, we want a sound for it.' "So I turned around to the mixing panel and said, 'Do you guys have an air compressor?' And they did. I fired up the air compressor, squirted it for a long enough period by the mic, went upstairs, played with it a little bit and then put it in the show. And Gene loved it. So, that's how Gene was. He didn't miss nothing!" Grindstaff said he created Tribble coos by manipulating the sound of a dove.
Comment NEWSFLASH (Score 1) 62
Machine designed to read credit cards hacked to read credit cards. Story at 11.
Comment Ruby?? (Score 4, Insightful) 80
I do not want to install Ruby on my firewall/gateway along with all of its douchebaggy dependencies and gems/crystals/unicorns/whatever-the-fuck-they're-called. This is networking, not some hipster web 2.0 app.
Comment Awesome... (Score 1) 65
The device looks great. Can't wait until they release a version for heterosexual males...
Comment It's simple.... (Score 1) 104
iPhone + reTard = gTar
Comment What a shit article... (Score 1) 79
Seriously, can be shortened to: Slide uses gravity. Water lubricates. Kindergarten science really.
Also, Mr. Hunter sounds like a real dick:
"I'm not going to take riders into a short-radius curve right away"
"I'm constantly thinking about the depth of water in every part of the ride"
The constant use of "I" makes one wonder:
1 - Is this a one-man show?
2 - If not, what the fuck do the rest of the employees do since Mr. Hunter makes it sound like he does ALL THE WORK.
Comment Carnivorous Worms... (Score 2) 124
Just a matter of time before the worms feed on enough blood-infested stool from anal fissures and hemorrhoids to turn carnivorous. Queue real-life Ghoulies II re-enactment..
Comment Re:Beef jerky lolwut? (Score 1) 430
We don't have time for Starbucks...
Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 5
I would rate the title slightly misleading at breast...
Comment Awesome... maybe... (Score 1) 236
Enter car, press START button. COMPUTER FAULT light comes on.
YOU: Computer, explain "Computer Fault" light.
COMPUTER: *crickets*
YOU: Computer, unlock glove compartment so I can read printed manual.
COMPUTER: *crickets*
YOU: Ah fuck it. I'm gonna bike to work.
Comment Obligatory TF2 Reference (Score 1) 651
Of course we have plenty of Engineers. It's just that they keep getting picked off by those damn snipers while trying to build forward base Sentry Guns.
Comment Paper was their second choice (Score 1) 516
It seems that a shortage in stone tablets and required etchers resulted in them having to painstakingly print out all the emails.
Comment Drafting a constitution? (Score 5, Funny) 157
There's an app for that....
Comment Jailbreak DOES work on iPad iOS 3.2.1 (Score 1) 154
I beg to differ, but my iOS 3.2.1 iPad was jailbroken within 10 minutes of the jailbreak release.
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