User talk:Garrett Albright/Archive 1

Identifying Spider Image

Re: Spiders, thanks! No idea why I didn't think of that! Mark Richards 04:26, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)

11-M pictures

I got them from a Spanish newspaper website, all the Spanish media websites have similar pics at various sizes. Have a look at Spain Newspapers. Adam 03:32, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

11-M flag

Thanks very much for the black-ribbonned flag at the Madrid 11 article. As you imagine, it is very important for us. Pfortuny 17:56, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Mysterious fruit image

Thanks re:eggplant. I've uploaded a renamed version. Secretlondon 20:30, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Tag

You've never heard of "alley alley oxen free"? It's the only way I've ever heard it played.  :) You must have had a deprived childhood. (just kidding).  :) RickK | Talk 20:29, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Kimba

Thanks for the tip on the Kimba the White Lion DVD...! It was fun to poke around and find plot synopses and resurrect all those old memories. I'm looking forward to inflicting these on my family soon and proving I was NOT hallucinating this cartoon show! Thanks so much.... Catherine 17:40, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Fathers' rights

Re your question about abortion. Presuambly you are interested in whether fathers' rights campaigners are addressing this as an issue and whether there are any jurisdictions where fathers' rights in this respect are recognised. I also infer from your comment that you are interested in whether a father should have the right to veto an abortion if he wants to keep the child, or perhaps to insist on one where he doesn't. Sorry for your disappointment - I can only say if you yourself research this area then I'd be interested in any updates you make to the article in this regard. The only area where legislation does touch on your point, although in a different context, is in cases of in vitro fertilisation where, in the UK, the father's permission is required before any embryo produced from his sperm can be used. Aside from that I do not know of any instances where the father has any rights in regard to decisions over abortion. It is also not an area that has so far aroused the passions of rathers' rights campaigners, and the ethics of abortion in relation to fathers' rights is not something I have heard discussed. I would be interested if you came up any material in this area. Matt Stan 17:10, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Also see http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Unborn_Victims_of_Violence_Act Matt Stan 17:17, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Hi! I removed your edit on the article for the animated TV show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Your little edit called the Powerpuff Girls "wildly popular", but in fact it was never even very popular. If Powerpuff Girls is wildly popular, then Stevie Wonder is Italian American. Marcus2 20:06, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"Little edit?" I hope you weren't being belittling, because I practically rewrote that article: [1] As for the PPG not being "wildly popular;" give a gang of five-year-olds a picture of Mojo Jojo and a picture of Foghorn Leghorn. I'll put $20 down that more of them will be able to identify the former than the latter. But I won't complain, as "wildly popular" was perhaps a bit POVish and it's not that big of a deal anyway. Garrett Albright 01:12, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Mojo Jojo is not well-known to five-year-olds at all, as far as I'm concerned. They'd say something like "Who is that?" Looney Tunes, of which Foghorn Leghorn is one of, is by far more well-known than Powerpuff Girls. OK, you lose $20. Tough luck. It's just like putting $20 down that Pope John Paul II is Jewish. Marcus2 12:49, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Dude, with all due respect, you are off your rocker. Cartoon Network shows PPG every day during the prime after-school timeslot, as well as Friday evenings. The closest thing it shows to Looney Tunes nowadays is Duck Dodgers, once a week; for Looney Tunes, you've got to turn on Boomerang, which is on very few cable systems, or find their latest movie on DVD, as it flopped in theatres. Those over fifteen are probably familiar with the Looney Tunes; those younger probably have only a vague idea of their greatness. And, by the way, your smarmy remarks in this discussion are very rude and off-putting; I don't know what you're trying to achieve with it. Garrett Albright 01:04, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I just looked up a picture of Leghorn on the internet [2], covered up the title bar, and asked my twelve-year-old sister to identify it. She knew he was from Looney Tunes, but could not identify him. However, she knows the names of all of the major PPG characters. Garrett Albright 01:34, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

How am I being rude? By the way you're wrong about the PPG programming schedule. It's not on prime-time every day of the week. In fact, there's little programming for Powerpuff Girls compared to programs such as Codename: Kids Next Door. Looney Tunes have been around for generations and Cartoon Network has only stopped showing them on their channel to make more room for new programming. Besides, I believe that Channel 11 (WPIX) still shows Looney Tunes. And what is this about this latest movie on DVD? If you're talking about Space Jam, that was a smash hit in theatres. I can't understand why you perseverate on this topic. I have just two more things to ask you, 1. How am I being rude? and 2. What is this Looney Tunes movie you're talking about? Marcus2 12:32, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Good gravy, man, you mean you don't know what you've been talking about all along? The movie is Looney Tunes: Back In Action. PPG is on every day of the week: [3] Okay, I got the after-school time slot wrong, but that's semantics. And, okay, so some regional channel in your corner of the world still shows Looney Tunes. You think that has the reach of the nationwide Cartoon Network? You tell me to turn to Channel 11; where I live, Channel 11 is some crazy hippie/commie-oriented public-access channel. As for you being rude, it starts with "little edit," and continues with "tough luck," Stevie Wonder and the Pope, and your stubborn denial that children nowadays do not watch Looney Tunes. I did as a kid, and apparently so did you, but it looks like their time has passed. Now please, do not continue to reply unless you can make an informed and polite statement; I feel like quite the fool for arguing with you thus far. Garrett Albright 01:44, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It could be that this movie was just of bad quality. Looney Tunes is often identified as a classic. And Powerpuff Girls is shown on Saturdays, but only on one time slot in the early morning. And what's so rude about my references to Stevie Wonder and the Pope? Marcus2 15:28, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Waking Life

Perhaps I didn't choose the wording carefully enough. I said the movie was "a digitally manipulated film, similar to an animated film". I think you mischarachterized that when you said, "I find it odd that you say Waking Life is not animation." I do think it is animation just not the typical Disney kind. I know it is latter referenced but I think much of the movie's appeal is in the odd visual qualities so I thought it should be added to the intro. Besides the point though I think it was so poorly written on my part and that it should just be reverted. As to Bakshi's American Pop I am sad to say I know little about that movie and I will leave to you the question of its animatedness.BrokenSegue 02:03, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Political Quizlet

Salutations, Garrett!
A couple weeks ago there was a question at WP:RD about whether there was a site where someone could answer questions and have the computer tell them which candidate was closest to their positions. A friend pointed me to this site. Since it only talks about Bush and Kerry some people are out of luck--like me. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 19:21, Oct 27, 2004 (UTC)

Craig McCracken

Hi! I found some blurbs of misinformation in your article on Craig McCracken, and one of them is "The Powerpuff Girls has since become Cartoon Network's most popular and marketable show." If this is true, so is that John Lennon died of a heart attack. The statement is almost totally wrong since Scooby-Doo has always been more popular than Powerpuff Girls. Marcus2 22:05, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Oh, Jesus Christ, not you again. Fine; it's CN's most popular original program, then. Unless you're now going to sit here and tell me that the PPG cannot stand up to the might that is Cow and Chicken… Garrett Albright 01:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I'm sorry to be disturbing you again, but I can name a few CN cartoons that are more popular than Powerpuff Girls right now. Take Codename: Kids Next Door for instance. I believe that this has more showings than Powerpuff Girls. I'm sorry if I was getting on your nerves, I didn't mean to. Marcus2 13:04, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

FBoFW books

In response to your comments on the For Better or For Worse discussion page, FBoFW Online Store would seem to be a list of all the compilation books in publication order. And judging by the artwork on the covers, I'd say they cover the family's development in chronological order as well. MrItty 17:56, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Wikinews demo up and running

Hi!

I'm writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project. There's now a fully operational English demo site at demo.wikinews.org. This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week. demo.wikinews.org will become the English version later.

You voted for the Wikinews project, so I'm asking for your participation now. Everything is open, nothing is final. What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you. There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project. If you are interested at all, please subscribe -- coordination is of key importance. There's also an IRC channel #wikinews on irc.freenode.net. Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles.

If you're looking for something to do, check out the articles in development and articles in review. Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace, or ignore the proposed review system - it's up to you. I hope you'll join us soon in this exciting experiment.--Eloquence* 02:01, Nov 17, 2004 (UTC)

Football at Sonoma State?

Sonoma State had football? I hope you don't mind my asking when they dropped it, what conference they played in, and what stadium they played in... Thank you if you can answer these... --fpo 03:59, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't. I just can recall from my days there that they used to have it, but dropped it some time in the past for safety and/or cost reasons. I assume the "stadium" they played in was just a grass field lined with benches, just as is the "stadium" of the comparably-sized uni closer to where I grew up, Humboldt State University. I remember that there were occasional campaigns by some of the student body to re-start a football program, but they never went anywhere. Perhaps if you emailed someone at SSU's athletics department they could fill in more details? Good luck. Garrett Albright 16:03, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

HSU's football is in real trouble. Some of their conference members in Oregon are leaving, and they're the only D-II school in California, and in a remote area as well... HSU's stadium is officially called the Redwood Bowl by the way... I don't see SSU or anybody else restarting football, especially after St. Mary's recently dropped theirs... --fpo 15:41, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I really don't know squat about college football, so that's all greek to me. :) "Redwood Bowl" sounds right, though. It's been a while since I've been up there... I'm currently living on the other side of the planet. Garrett Albright 16:44, 3 August 2005 (UTC)