From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theo Honohan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] sam vs acme In-Reply-To: <20010719061912.6DB8B199E8@mail.cse.psu.edu> References: <20010719061912.6DB8B199E8@mail.cse.psu.edu> Message-Id: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:30:41 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d0e1cd3a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thursday 19 July, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote ("Re: [9fans] sam vs acme "): > > >>yer base level sysadmin in france. that was a bit of a shock. sysadmin > >>pays real well, but it's just as boring for an ex-code cutter as being > >>a bodyguard is for an ex-legionaire. > > i noticed in the Shrek credits that sys admins appear to have replaced > key grip and best boy. there were quite a few sys admins. For extra software-schadenfreude points[1], see Shrek in the DLP Digital presentation. The version I saw (Warner Village, Leicester Square) had ugly flickering noise in areas of fine detail (e.g. wolf's fur), presumably avoidable aliasing artifacts due to sloppy format conversion at some stage. Ouch. [1] We're all collecting these, right?