The Animatrix on Cartoon Network!

[thomas7g]

For those of us who have not seen the animated version of the Matrix, the AniMatrix airs tommorrow (saturday) night.

The show is 120 minutes and features 9 different features. All of different styles of animation. I especially would recomend the Flight Of The Osiris which is so close to realism it can fool the eye if you aren't paying attention.

Gentlemen and ladies, start your VCRs!

:thumbsup:

[jewels]

Um, Tom? How do we find out the time??
Jewels

[thomas7g]

uhm.... I think its 11PM est and pst. But you can find out for sure at tvguide.com They have tv listings. You can also go to cartoonnetwork.com and click the listing link at the top. But tvguide is better.

:D

[jewels]

YEA! I can set the VCR and hope it tapes then! :)

Jewels has that "I spent the day in fresh air and now I'm tired" feeling.

[thomas7g]

I hope you had fun on your horse. With any luck you will have something to watch tomorrow! ;)

[jewels]

Ah, the horse is only a heart's longest desire at this point. I was out doing the gardening. It's almost a cheaper habit than horses. And my husband enjoys all the crazy things blooming all spring/summer/fall.

My mom got me a t-shirt that says "Plays in the dirt" with gardening tools all around it. I have very little left to do until the frost-free days begin in mid-May. Thomas, you just don't know how lucky you are to live in California. Flowers are gorgeous out there.

[thomas7g]

Thanks Julie!

I'm really in love with warm weather. I do not do well in cold. So this is probably the place for me.

Though I really do envy people who can actually drive around without a constant traffic jam.
:)

[jewels]

You know when I told Richard I was a 5 hr. drive from Chicago, he told me I lived in the boonies. I had to inform him that halfway between Dayton & Cincinnati is not the boonies. I think it would be an absolute hoot to take him up to my parents area though--a big town is 3,000 people and they are surrounded by farm fields.

Our traffic jams are caused by any of 4 things: 1) wrecks 2) construction (orange barrel) season (Feb-Nov) 3) precipitation (rain, snow, sleet, ice, etc.) 4) (this is my absolute favorite!) SUN DELAY! -- these tend to happen in Cincinnati in the spring and fall: the sun is in the wrong place at rush hour and people slow down because they can't see.

I bet you don't have jams because of sun delay. :)

[thomas7g]

I haven't been to chicago but I waould assume its alot bigger than a 5 mile radius. :D

I remember visitint my uncle in Michigan. And I was amazed you could just drive fast across a long stretch of road! In LA we got some stretches that are always clogged during the whole day! At best they are thick but flowing. And worse than that comes really easily!

Actually we don't have jams because of sun delay, but we have jams cause there are a TON of people traveling in the morning and sunset.
:)

Though direct sun does cause slowdowns even worse.

I really want a helicopeter! :)

Well.. I want Airwolf. But any copeter would do. :D

[jewels]

Tommy: the town I grew up in was exactly 1 mile square, with streetlights. The town platte was laid out by a German cartographer (map maker) in 1832. To this day the airlines use it as a marker for flying into Dayton and Columbus especially. Most Dayton bound planes go right over my parents town, so you never see the town. The town has grown a little outside that grid. but the square, gridded street part is still noticable enough on the mostly rural flat fields of northwest central Ohio. The city I currently live in is about 55,000 people about 70 miles south of where I grew up (or as much as 10 degrees different in temperature sometimes!)

[thomas7g]

hehe! you grew up in a small town ;)

I actually wouldn't mind moving to something alot smaller than LA. But then I don't know if I could survive without the big city. I'm so adapted to it! Oh that sounds so tragic! But well... Big city living is the life for me until I can meet some Ava Gabor to lure me to a small farm.
:)

Though life without a computer really has its appeal right now!

[jewels]

Technically, I grew up in a village. (My Dad's a village councilman so we get drilled if we call it "town council", lol).

I live in an average size city now though. LA is just not something that many places on earth compare with, so when my other LA friend (that mutual friend of ours) informed me that I currently lived "in the boonies" all I could think of was if he saw where I grew up, he'd just completely freak. bwahahahaha. Maybe I should invite him for our Oktoberfest. I think we get the Budwieser Clydesdales this year. (Translation: Town of 3,000 swells to 70,000 to 100,000 for 2 days. Much beer is drunk and you hope it's cold enough to keep the yellow jackets away--they like beer and Pepsi and sting hard.)

[thomas7g]

You should invite him! I think he would love it!

he probably has enough frequent flyer miles to visit ya if he can spare the time. :D