Creeping socialism is like....the Blob.

DaveA,

Sorry I thought is was you. Anyways I have a full disk and I found where all the space has gones (sorta) 250 gb is taken up by the "user folder" with my name on it. That file contains folders titled documents, pictures, desktop etc.

The thing is when you check the size of each folder in the main folder and add them up they don't even come close to the amount of disk space used by the main folder.

If you add all the folders up that are in the main user folder you only get about 4 gb but the size of the main folder is 250 gb.

anyone have a clue why that is?

19 Remember the swamp thing tv series?

Yeah....that was before the scourge of the Reality Show began.

Now there are several reality shows about 'swamp people'.

The Blob was....an illegal alien.

Saw this flick when it first came out.  Had to sneak away to see it because the folks didn't want a 9 year old to watch something like that.

For the time, it was wonderfully scary.  Gave me nightmares for a month, but it hooked me on genre.  Another early movie that had me shivering in the dark for weeks was "Mr. Sardonicus". 

@33

As far as creepy endings go.....the ending in the movie, 'The Mist', is just horrible.

It spoiled that movie for me. 

Steven King didn't write it. The ending in his book was very different.

When the screen writers came up with that horrible ending....King read it and loved it, so that's what they ran with.

Posted by: pep at July 07, 2012 04:17 PM (6TB1Z)

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Nothing unusual.  The world has always been like this except for our own country.  We still are the shining city on the hill.  For how long, I don't know.  But I'm hoping for a bit longer.

If the US goes down, there's no more hope for the world.  And that's no exaggeration.

Steve McQueen: least plausible movie teenager ever.

So, if I recall correctly, 'The Blob' introduces "Steven McQueen".

That right?

Posted by: Soona at July 07, 2012 04:24 PM (dR/wR)

No.  There is another.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 07, 2012 04:32 PM (6cOtl)

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There was a tv series that came out in the early sixties called "Thriller" and was hosted by Boris Karloff.  Excellent, excellent series for it's time.  Some really scary stories for  the impressionable youth that I was.

52 The Birds scared the hell out of me.

I still flash on that movie....every time I see black birds flocking into trees.

If I lived on the coast, I don't think I would ever turn my back on a gull.

Posted by: Yoda at July 07, 2012 04:35 PM (6j180)

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Costa Rica?

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 07, 2012 04:32 PM (6cOtl)

I remember watching that on tv when I was a kid. You know the scene where they're looking through the house trying to find some women?

Well, right then the damn dog scratched on the sliding glass door in order to be let inside. And my sisters' friend let out a scream that I can still hear to this day...

56....The Obama Horror?

The ending to this one is still with the writers.

Posted by: HH at July 07, 2012 04:40 PM (v+ExF)

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The best one for me was "The Grim Reaper".

wheatie- that's why I pray everynite.  And try to talk to everyone I know about how bad the SCoaMF is.

Posted by: teej at July 07, 2012 04:39 PM (F1lOF)

Say what?

Can't say as I've seen any around these parts...

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 07, 2012 04:42 PM (C8mVl)

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Okay.  I give up.  As long as it's not somewhere in Africa, I'll listen. 

59 Wheatie I live in Kansas and there are lot of gulls around here.

We have a few here too....they hang out around the bigger lakes.

I'd momentarily forgotten about those fuckers.

No, down by KC. But gulls here in the mid-west? Hell, when I lived in L.A. it was rare to see them in my neck of the city, and I was only 8 miles inland.

Posted by: HH at July 07, 2012 04:51 PM (v+ExF)

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They seem to go nuts about an hour before a big storm too.

Posted by: DaveA at July 07, 2012 04:53 PM (864A5)

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I kind of liked the re-make.  One of the few re-makes that actually worked well.  Another one is "The Thing", the one with Kurt Russell.

There are gulls in Utah.

I've wondered how they happened to get there.

There's an ancient North American Flyway that runs up through OK, KS, and up.

I had always figured that is how the gulls and egrets got here to OK.

There are also the remnants of hurricanes and tropical storms that end up here....maybe some of them got blown up here that way.

Scary movie favs --

The Thing with Kurt Russell - still scary, my 16 y old loves it

Carrie  - the original with Sissy Spacek - also still scary

Scary now - Lanny Davis trying to hook up with Megan Fairchild on twitter - too funny

Posted by: Soona at July 07, 2012 04:58 PM (dR/wR)

I've always been ambivilant about that . True, the re-make was very close to the original story, but I always felt that some of the special effects went way over board.

Plus the first version had some great dialog...

@83, garrett

Yeah, Pelicans.....I've seen them migrating overhead.

They do this amazing-looking spiral formation....a vertical spiral, that moves very slowly. 

also  The Exorcist, Halloween, Psycho (the original)

I think suspense is way more scary than actually seeing the blood and guts

Oh and Lanny Davis trying to hook up with Megan Fairchild

"I think suspense is way more scary than actually seeing the blood and guts"

The original "The Haunting" is very suspensful.

Posted by: Dang at July 07, 2012 05:04 PM (Ky1+e)

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I'd almost tell you not to bother.  It's not that good.  It  steals too much from the  Kurt Russell version.

Posted by: HH at July 07, 2012 05:09 PM (v+ExF)

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The written version is still the all time best.

Seeing a bunch of gulls shut up and scurry away is one of the benefits of seeing eagles.

Heh.

Maybe that's why the ones around here are so skitish and well-behaved.

The times I have been to the coast....where there are great numbers of them....the gulls are very brazen and cocky.

Posted by: DaveA at July 07, 2012 05:03 PM (864A5)

Ok I will try that. I am doing defrag and WinDirStrit now so I don't think I can do anything else until they are finished and looks like that might be sometime next week.

The thing is that if users is my stuff there is no way I have 250 gb of my stuff on it. Plus when i check the properties of the individual folders in my user folder there are no folders that even come close to containing 250gb.

That is why I think there is a hidden folder or file that contains malware or something.

The WinDirStrit program has been searching the user file only for about an hour how and it is the only folder it is still searching. It has so far only found 1.5 gb so I imagine it is working it's way through some giant malware file now.

 The original "The Haunting" is very suspensful.
Posted by: HH at July 07, 2012 05:09 PM (v+ExF)

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The written version is still the all time best.

Posted by: Soona at July 07, 2012 05:16 PM (dR/wR)

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Plus it has one of the best opening paragraphs of  all time.

"The written version is still the all time best."

Indeed. Although, if I remember right, the movie opens up with the main character speaking the opening lines of  the book.

And that has got to be one of the best openings of a book I've ever read.

It has so far only found 1.5 gb so I imagine it is working it's way through some giant malware file now.

Perhaps one of ace's movie reviews got on there?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 07, 2012 05:17 PM (piMMO)

Do you see many Ring-necked Doves in Florida, NDH?

They are bigger than our native dove species....and are from Africa.

I'm seeing a lot of them up here.

Probably because there are companies that breed them, and release them at events....like weddings and such.

They breed like rats, apparently.

And have the ability to grow extra down underneath their feathers, to survive the cold.

Posted by: DaveA at July 07, 2012 05:24 PM (864A5)

I thought that might be a problem. Ok thanks I will do that.

Posted by: wheatie at July 07, 2012 05:24 PM (MbB0O)

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Yeah, there's at least one of those ring-neckers that keeps shitting on my car.

Yeah, there's at least one of those ring-neckers that keeps shitting on my car.

I first saw a pair of them about 7 years ago, Soona.

They showed up at my backyard feeders.

Had never seen ones like that, so I looked them up online.

Being a softie....I was even worried about how they might survive the cold.

But now....

There are hundreds of them.

They come in and empty my feeders within a few hours....and are driving the other backyard birds away.

But the big hawks must find them tasty....because they swoop in and grab one or two almost every day now. 

Posted by: Cicero at July 07, 2012 05:25 PM (6j180)

"Earlier, in response to questions about the Alaska Bear H intrusion, Marine Corps Col. Frank H. Simonds, Jr., deputy chief of staff for NORAD-U.S. Northcom, also defended the Russian bomber intrusion as nonthreatening.

“NORAD does not consider these flights a threat,” Simonds said, noting “Russia and NORAD routinely exercise their capability to operate in the North.”

Simonds identified the Alaska defense zone intruders as Tu-95MS bombers that were met by U.S. F-15s and Canadian CF-18s."

So if they were non-threatening, why were American and Canadian fighters scrambled? Fucking lying assholes.

Not sure what film it's from, but I've always loved the lines...

"Get OUT, get out NOW! The calls are coming from INSIDE the house!!!"

Dunno  if it was 'Black Christmas' or what, but I always like to use that  whenever someone near me gets a weird call...

Posted by: epobirs at July 07, 2012 05:41 PM (kcfmt)

Ok thanks I will try that too. Yes I do get a bunch of email attachments. Most of my email has large attachments like spreadsheets, large pdfs of building and site plans and stuff. I will try that thanks.

I kind of liked the re-make. One of the few re-makes that actually worked well. Another one is "The Thing", the one with Kurt Russell.

Remains to this day my favorite horror movie.  Russell was at the pinnacle of his looks and career in that.

Posted by: Vic at July 07, 2012 06:04 PM (YdQQY)

So Vic, which do you think is better? The original 'The Thing', or Carpenters' re-make?

I love it. My cousin would sleep over on the weekends and we munched dry cereal during the weekend 'Double Creature Feature'.

Good times. Good times.

Posted by: epobirs at July 07, 2012 06:17 PM (kcfmt)

Very well said. Like I stated, I'm ambilivant as to which is better. The original was a 'US vs It', whereas the Carpenter film was full of paranoid persons, which certainly is what the original story "Who Goes There?" was all about.

Another film  and re-make that comes to mind..."Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

Not only is the first version great (and creepy). but I also really liked the re-make, changing it  from small town to S.F.

Both versions work, in my opinion. Although the large city undergoing the transformation is actually far more unsettling to me.

Posted by: HH at July 07, 2012 06:06 PM (v+ExF)

Always go with the original.  Besides, the original had Matt Dillon.