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Yes we do, but not particularly frequently... Heck, it's probably a cultural thing. Perhaps in Brittany they do, perhaps in the Alps... I don't know, I don't have any studies on this. It just doesn't happen a lot.

It's 11.11.2011, not 11/11/11. Blood English speakers :P

I failed to watch TS last Christmas so I guess I only watched it once, at Christmas 2009... :^^;:
Will definitely re-watch it this year.I never watched the thing, so I wouldn't know. I never even bothered with the main tune. At the time. Heck, even today, I think it's by far the weakest part of The Tubular Bells... :^^;: (Probably the most interesting part of it, is the fact that it's loosely inspired by a rather interesting French composer who was recording at the Manor at the same time.)Yeah, I think I have it somewhere but it has no subtitles or something, so I never watched it...Me neither. Anything that was made to offer counter-programming to Harry Potter doesn't strike me as made with love, unlike the animated movie I mentioned, which with its very tight budget managed to do something interesting.I know about the names, hey I watched the show this year, I probably mentioned it :P
In France it's just called "Black Adder - La Vipère Noire" for the entire show, and most promotional material actually spells it Blackadder. They... Are just unsure :P'Pure' colors are good for size reduction, and particularly good to establish a brand, I'd say (Nike and stuff.) I'm still not a specialist though... Is it better in color?Because you think I had the tools and skills to begin with...? A few months ago I had never even touched a vector graphics program... ;)The main point with vectors, is that you can work in an iterative way like in code: you start doing a rough drawing, then you add elements, remove others, essentially you add 'steps' to the picture, it's like coding. "Okay, first you draw this line, then you distort it with that effect, then you color it that way, then you add a mask around here to hide that bit, then you add a drop shadow at 50%... Oh, it's too much, I'll edit that step... 25%, that's better. Hmmn but what if I did the drop shadow before I added the mask? I'll just move it one step earlier... Good... And what does it do if I move the line this way?"

It's basically trial and error. And you just put the finger on it (probably just a French expression), I like this because it's like coding!

- I'll test with Packer.
- I haven't been using preparsecode, as I said before. It's something I'll have to deal with, too.
- Sidebar box doesn't show a parsed thought because the Ajax stuff doesn't return anything. It was done this way on noisen, never cared to develop further... Obviously, I *should* return a parsed string to show. And I will.
- BTW, if you add a URL between nb tags, it won't be parsed into a url tag. Just a limitation I noticed yesterday in here... Dunno if it's in Wedge too, but I suppose so.
- I'm kind of on a break right now because, well... I thought I was done but I started logging a lot of items I should do, and I figured, oh crap this is going to take me another week... So right now, it's all you get :P

- Color stuff: ah, yes, thanks for the tip...

Update: not getting any problems with Packer...?

Okay, the only landmark I know of in Brighton, if I'm not mistaken, is that casino in the sea (?), or building anyway, connected to the land by a bridge... And I don't remember seeing that in HP. Was that in the bank escape scene? I thought they were dropped in Scotland or something... It always feels like Hogwarts is in the Highlands, especially given that in episode 3 they actually shot many scenes in the valley where Rob Roy fought battles or something, IIRC.Starting with great children's cartoons! I also loved The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe... That cheap BBC film from the late 70's. It had a really great soundtrack (and it was recently released on CD :)).That's what I'm saying... I'm the girlish one here :P
I didn't cry much during movies when I was a kid but they tended to stick into my mind (e.g. the final scenes in The Black Cauldron at the movies), but then when I turned 13 I started rooting for anime shows with a tendency for emotional scenes... For those who ever watched Captain Tsubasa/Olive & Tom, a silly football anime, there was this guy who actually had an heart attack during a match, the picture turned black & white, it was a very emotional couple of minutes. The guy recovered after that, but the show never did, it just turned into mindless matches. Then I had this show, Creamy Mami, about a girl who can magically turn into an adult singer singing cheesy songs (yeah................. even at 13 it felt a bit childish), it just had nice characters and halfway into the show, they had a few episodes where the girl lost her power while stuck in her adult form, it was a heart-breaking episode. Well, to me anyway. Then I discovered Saint Seiya... Well, I gave up on trying to interest you into anime (you never followed up on Paranoia Agent etc), but when it comes to anime soundtracks, you can't do better than StS. Just look at the 16:10 mark in episode 57. You probably won't get what's happening because there's no English dub or sub available on YouTube (the blond guy is fighting the blue-haired guy and progressively removing his five senses, while the blue-haired guy tries to get him to understand he's fighting for justice blahblahblah), but the music...! My oh my. It still turns me into a wimp, even now. This particular episode, directed by Shigeyasu Yamauchi, turned me into the #1 French fan of him. He's greatly revered in the director community because he's as close to an 'innovator' as you could describe him, but sadly he's overseen by everyone else. Nowadays, he has to rely on his ex-assistants turned stars (thanks to his teachings), to give him a job. Sigh.

Anyway... End of my rant.Lol... I guess everyone here will have their own interpretation of the logo ;)
Okay, I tried for a monochrome version with a slight modification of the upper 'petal', and a different font (not that it matters much but I like this one, too)... How about that?

Hard not to shed a tear for this one. Especially after THAT song :P
(And yes it's a typical British tradition to watch The Snowman. It's totally unknown in France. Thankfully I've got one part British blood in my family-in-law ;))I wouldn't know where to start when it comes to making me cry systematically... The ending of Batman The Animated Series' Babydoll episode. The Quantum Leap scene with Georgia on my Mind. The last few minutes of The Killer (well, at the time at least.) And every other Saint Seiya episode. (You wouldn't understand. My entire youth is in Saint Seiya... I wouldn't be where I am without it.)

I'm a softie at heart. I cried at the end of the last Harry Potter.