This is your reminder that Data walked around his colony completely naked until he was specifically programmed to stop doing it with a "modesty subroutine."
This is your reminder that Data walked around his colony completely naked until he was specifically programmed to stop doing it with a "modesty subroutine."
Data meets Juliana Tainer, former wife of Dr. Noonien Soong and Data's "mother," but she holds a shocking secret that even she doesn't know she carries. "Captain's log, stardate 47410.2. The Atrean government has requested assistance in averting a natural disaster. Two of their geologists have come ...
She reveals that one thing she and Soong couldn't possibly have anticipated was that Data didn't mind being naked, although some of the colonists certainly did as he is anatomically correct. The Soongs asked him to dress, but he didn't feel it was necessary as he didn't "suffer from the elements." With a laugh, Juliana concludes that they had to resort to writing a modesty subroutine just so Data would keep his clothes on.
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Fionnula Flanagan .... one of my favorite Irish actresses, she's amazing.
Played in my favorite Irish film ... Waking Ned Divine
I was totally blown away when I realized I had already seen her in TNG years before when I first saw 'Waking Ned Divine'
I saw that film in the theater and I have to say I remember absolutely nothing about it. I do remember it reminded me of the Welsh comedy, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain.
If you haven't seen it, you should look up: The Secret of Roan Inish
I haven't. Thanks. I admit, I haven't seen a huge number of Irish films, looking at a list of Wikipedia films. I've seen some of the big ones like The Commitments, My Left Foot and Michael Collins, but that's about it.
Edit: Oh wait, that's the selkie film. I have seen it.
The Secret of Roan Inish is a top five movie for me. Mick Lally doing traditional Irish storytelling is truly amazing.
Not sure if you saw my edit, but I actually have seen it. It's just been a very long time. Again, I don't remember a lot about it. I'm going to have to watch these films again.
Oh cool! It came out in the 90s, so hardly anyone has seen it. I've yet to meet anyone who has. It's such a beautiful film all around.
I worked a part-time job as a projectionist at an art house/indie/foreign film theater for a while in the 90s, and I was a regular patron before that, so I saw a lot of smaller movies in that era.
It's funny because I've seen hardly any new movies since my daughter was born. Too hard to go to the theater for years and I just sort of fell out of the habit of watching them.
I was a projectionist at a 12-plex in late high school through college!
Nice. This was a small time operation. They didn't even have a permanent theater location. We moved 16mm projectors between a nightclub which showed the films twice a week and a theater on campus which they did some sort of deal I knew nothing about in order to show films there. And there was a separate theater on campus that also showed movies, so that was extra weird.
We usually had two projectors and had to wait until the reel ended on one, started the other ASAP, rewound the reel on the first one and then put the third reel (or did this process more than that if it was a longer film) on the first projector.
The nice thing for me was that the nightclub often did standup after the movie and I would stick around and hang out with the host who, also ran the sound board, became friendly with the comedians and eventually became the host myself, which got me into standup comedy and that got me a decent career doing comedy writing and other comedy-related things in L.A., so it all worked out pretty well.
On the other hand, it almost landed me in the hospital once when they decided to have a special outdoor showing of Rocky Horror at one of the dorms on their lawn and it was a particularly humid day and I saw all the moisture building up slowly around the projector as it got darker and darker out until the lamp blew up and the fireball narrowly missed me.
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
That's a delightful movie as well.
Fun fact: the movie is based on a folktale, but it turns out the "mountain" is actually a burial mound and they now have to stop people from trying to climb it so they don't damage it.
I hadn't heard it was a burial mound. That's kind of cool actually.
Great movie.
I loved realizing that no child in the entire village lacks red hair.
Waking Ned Devine is excellent
Actually I think I could use that movie in my life right now... I might watch it tonight or tomorrow.
Waking Ned Divine is one of my favorite movies ever. It's such a delightful movie!
I insist with my Irish Canadian wife that we watch it every St Patricks Day ... she's getting sick and tired of it because she thinks its so cliche ... but once we watch again, she thoroughly enjoys it every time with me.