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I've watched it 5 or 6 times, it was by far the best movie of the year.

I thought this was a new skin.

It is, to an extent. It's actually about 2 years old now.

The problem is a security issue and requires the board upgrade. Invision just upgraded us 1 step but a larger upgrade will be needed by July or so. It's very annoying to have to do this but I guess it's necessary. Hopefully this skin will just need a few tweaks to make it work with the new software though because I'm not going to pay someone $300 again to make a whole new skin. I'm just going to try to make this one work and tweak it till it does. It's just time consuming.

Due to some security issues, Invision will be upgrading the board at some point in the very near future. When that happens, the portal and any custom modifications will be lost until I can re-install them. Then, once I have more time I have to work on a new skin that will work with a whole new version of the board for yet another upgrade.

So there's going to be some things change over the next few months but they're necessary.

July 29th?

 

Is that date significant?

Not specifically, no but it's a week or 2 after my summer semester ends and I'll be in the middle of a month long break so I might just hop on an Amtrak and head down for the launch. I'll have to wait and see how things are going, I'm also planning to tear down my privacy fence and build a new one so I might be deep into that at that time.

I'm having trouble getting validated? Is the system down on stargatefans.net, cause I can't contact the admin over there. It says I do not have permission to use it yet. So I was wonder why is it taking so long to activate... I'm sorry don't mean to post this in the wrong section... I've come back from a long long hiatus...lol

I let Dill know about this, he's the one thatr takes care of SGF.

If she was, she was cloaked. Her profile says Private.

Well, Odie next time you log in say hi.

Has Odie been on? These aren't supposed to auto post unless the member has been online within 3 or 6 months.

Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/ap_on_..._robert_culp_11

AP – FILE - This May 5, 2002 file photo shows Robert Culp arriving at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration in …

 

'I Spy' actor Robert Culp dies .

 

By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas, Associated Press Writer – 44 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his manager said. Culp was 79.

 

Manager Hillard Elkins said the actor was on a walk when he fell. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead just before noon. The actor's son was told he died of a heart attack, Elkins said, though police were unsure if the fall was medically related.

 

Los Angeles police Lt. Robert Binder said no foul play was suspected. Binder said a jogger found Culp, who apparently fell and struck his head.

 

"I Spy" greatly advanced the careers of Culp and Cosby and forged a lifelong friendship. Cosby said Wednesday Culp was like an older brother to him.

 

"The first born in every family is always dreaming of the older brother or sister he or she doesn't have, to protect, to be the buffer, provide the wisdom, shoulder the blows and make things right," he said. "Bob was the answer to my dreams.

 

"No matter how many mistakes I made on 'I Spy,' he was always there to teach and protect me," Cosby said.

 

Candace Culp, the actor's ex-wife, said she was devastated.

 

"He was a wonderful, creative man who contributed so much to his business, as an actor, as a writer, as a director," she said.

 

Robert Culp lately had been working on writing screenplays, Elkins said.

 

"I Spy," which aired from 1965 to 1968, was a television milestone in more ways than one. Its combination of humor and adventure broke new ground, and it was the first integrated television show to feature a black actor in a starring role.

 

Culp played Kelly Robinson, a spy whose cover was that of an ace tennis player. (In real life, Culp actually was a top-notch tennis player who showed his skills in numerous celebrity tournaments.). Cosby was fellow spy Alexander Scott, whose cover was that of Culp's trainer. The pair traveled the world in the service of the U.S. government.

 

Culp followed "I Spy" with his most prestigious film role, in "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice." The work of first-time director Paul Mazursky, who also co-wrote the screenplay, lampooned the lifestyles of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Bob and Carol (Culp and Natalie Wood) were the innocent ones who were introduced to wife-swapping by their best friends, Ted and Alice (Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon).

 

Culp also had starring roles in such films as "The Castaway Cowboy," "Golden Girl," "Turk 182!" and "Big Bad Mama II."

 

His teaming with Cosby, however, was likely his best remembered role.

 

Cosby won Emmys for actor in a leading role all three years that "I Spy" aired, and Culp, who was nominated for the same award each year, said he was never jealous.

 

"I was the proudest man around," he said in a 1977 interview.

 

Both he and Cosby were involved in civil rights causes, and when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 the pair traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to join the striking garbage workers King had been organizing.

 

Culp and Cosby also costarred in the 1972 movie "Hickey and Boggs," which Culp also directed. This time they were hard-luck private detectives who encountered multiple deaths. Audiences who had enjoyed the lightheartedness of "I Spy" were disappointed, and the movie flopped at the box office.

 

"His proudest moments were when he was writing and directing 'I Spy' and 'Hickey and Boggs,'" Cosby said. "Bob was meticulous and committed."

 

After years of talking up the idea, they finally re-teamed in 1994 for a two-hour CBS movie, "I Spy Returns."

 

In his first movie role Culp played one of John Kennedy's crew in "PT 109."

 

His first starring TV series, "Trackdown" (1957-1959) was a Western based partly on files of the Texas Rangers. In the 1980s, he starred as an FBI agent in the fantasy "The Greatest American Hero."

 

He remained active in movies and TV. Among his notable later performances was as a U.S. president in 1993's "The Pelican Brief." More recently, he had a recurring role as Patricia Heaton's father in the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" and appeared in such shows as "Robot Chicken," "Chicago Hope" and an episode of "Cosby."

 

Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington drama school.

 

Then at age 21, a semester removed from his degree, he moved to New York, where he began landing roles in off-Broadway plays. One of them was in "He Who Gets Slapped."

 

"I saw it in college in Seattle, and I said, `My God, that's my part, that's my part,'" he once told an interviewer. After he won the role in a Greenwich Village production "the floodgates opened," he said.

 

Good reviews and an Obie award led to offers from Hollywood.

 

Culp was married five times, to Nancy Ashe, Elayne Wilner, France Nuyen, Sheila Sullivan and Candace Culp. He had four children with Ashe and one with Candace Culp.

Again, I say wow. Time goes by so fast!

You know, I Still pull out the STF poem from time to time...

http://www.startrekfans.net/index.php?s=&a...st&p=101434

Happy 7th!

Wow, 7 years? Seems like it was just yesterday that we had the Soong Sisters running amok

July 29th?

Maybe it just had to be calibrated like the Hi-Def TVs.

No, I was just lacking a little tidbit of knowledge on my first viewing.

The glasses have to be turned on to work

Turn the glasses on and the 3D looks ok. It more or less adds a level of depth to the video, I didn't see a whole lot of stuff "flying out of the screen" though.

I was back at Best Buy yesterday and checked out the TV again, it looked better this time around. I still wouldn't pay $3000+ for it though.

Hopefully there will be a sequal. This movie will go down as one of the greats

On one hand I'd really like to see a sequal and see them continue the story. On the other I'd hate to see them mess it up.

I wouldn't mind having one myself, but if the one that I experienced is typical of the state of the technology then I'll wait a few years.

Stop by a Best Buy one day and walk through the TV section and see if they have a display and check it out.

I was unimpressed to say the least.

pamphlet

In the mood for some Garth Brooks, looks like YouTube has removed most of his stuff though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOaP-3a2ojk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c__kqe7dcgU

I wore my green Eagles hat today, of course I usually do wear my Eagles hat anyway but today I had a proper excuse lol.

I was in Best Buy earlier today and they had one of those new 3D TV's on display (something like $2900). I put the glasses on to see how it was and it was total crap. I couldn't detect anything in 3D and in many cases in the few minutes that I watched it looked the same with the glasses on as with them off with the picture being 'blurred".

They need to do some more development on them and bring the price down by about $2000 before I'll even consider a 3D TV as a possibility.

Has anyone else seen one of these 3D TV's? What's your experience?

The way it ended, I think it's sure to have a sequal.

I've watched it 3 times and may go again later this week. My 73 year old mother has watched it 3 or 4 times and her 2 sisters (both in their 70's) have also watched it multiple times and none of them are "sci-fi" fans. So that tells you how good the story is.

The 3D effects are very good, I think this is the first 3D movie I've been to since Jaws was in 3D back in the 80's (I think it was Jaws 3).

That's great that it won one. I'd never even heard of the best picture winner and have no desire to see it. Avatar probably deserved to win but politics always rears it's head in these kinds of things.

I watched Avatar for the first time the other night, I'd heard tidbits here and there since it's release and had seen a few commercials but other than that I knew nothing about it. I've been almost totally out of touch with the entertainment industry (TV, movies etc...) for about a year (maybe more) because of how busy I've been.

So when I watched the movie I knew almost nothing about it going in. In fact I had low expectations for it. I was plesantly surprised though and really liked the movie.

I found out later that it's also being shown in 3D and IMAX, though it's been out for so long that it's hard to find anyone in my area thats still displaying those versions.

I did find one place (an AMC theater) that has it in 3D so tomorrow I expect to be watching the 3D version.

Very good movie for anyone that hasn't seen it yet. I suggest looking into going if you haven't yet.

Thanks, I know I've been absent for a little while but school has been keeping me pretty busy since last August.

Yes February 16 (2003) was the birth of STF. I remember it very well, it was a Sunday morning (early Sunday morning around 6am). I had to be at work at 8am (Bank of America). I did the initial setup at home and then finished up when I got to work. Sunday mornings were always dead until about noon so that gave me 4 hours to just mess around.

Anyway, that was 7 years ago. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

I heard this the other day, I don't believe I have ever seen anything she'd been in at all.

Sad story though, too young to die.

I got it from Netflix yersterday and watched it last night, I really wish I was more excited about this movie but all of the things that annoyed me in the movie theater still annoyed me on the DVD and that's annoying.

I won't go into all that again, but I just really wish the movie had been different so I could enjoy it more. I've thought about getting the Blu Ray version but honestly don't see myself watching it many more times if at all.