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There are now two groups of five questions going around! I will try to answer all ten questions here.
Last night we were looking for something to watch on Netflix and found *Sister, Sister* -- the show starring Tia and Tamara Mowry from 1994 where they play long-lost twin sisters. The pilot was nostalgic, corny, hilarious early-mid-90s teen comedy. I'm excited to get back into that show :)
Depends on the re-imagining. I think the main thing, for me, is whether it's a well-made story, and doesn't rely on the shtick of it being the same as <big cultural phenomenon> but with <change>. I thought the remake of *Ghost Busters*, for example, was much funnier than many gave it credit for, though not without its share of issues, all of which were unrelated to its relationship with the original film.
That being said, there are cases where I think the remake is unnecessary or even a cynical cash-grab -- all of Disney's "live-action" remakes (quotes because *The Lion King* was CGI!) come to mind -- as well as the remake of *Avatar: The Last Airbender*, forthcoming from Netflix. The originals were so good in these cases that I'd rather see a further exploration of the worlds they created, or some crossing of genre or story lines. Something like *Lion King 1 1/2* did well in that second category, for example, as well as (so I've heard) Julie Taymor's Broadway production. For *Avatar*, I'd love to see other stories in that universe -- give us a Kyoshi series, or hell, a *Silmarillion*-style, epic overview that would be huge and unwieldy and not enjoyed by anyone!
It kind of depends on the *kind* of bad mood .. sometimes I want to go lie down and curl up on the bed, sometimes I want cuddles. My dogs are always welcome to come cuddle with me though! They've helped me through some tuff times.
In undergrad, I took a History of the English Language class, and it was so interesting and wonderful to take. I absolutely loved it. I'd gladly take many more classes on that subject or even, like, get a degree on it!
I think NYC because traffic in both cities is pretty terrible -- but LA is pretty hard to walk around, whereas NYC is built for walking. I've only visited either one of them a little bit though, and I'd absolutely love to spend more time in both. The weather in LA was pretty perfect all the time (I realized why everyone went there!), but NYC has that *culture*, so ... I'd honestly take an opportunity at either if I could move there for free.
I really really love UNO, but with house rules. Vanilla UNO is fairly boring, but when you add rules like stacking (playing +2's on top of each other, Skips and Reverses, etc) and draw-until-play, it can get really fun.
I actually don't think I've seen either of these in their entirety; I've seen Breakfast Club a few times on VH-1 (the "eat my shorts" edition) and I think Ferris Beuller as well. So ... I'd flip a coin?
Ummmmmm storage? So I can data-hoard? I always kind of wanted to get into that. I do work in a library so I could borrow and rip all the DVDs they have :)
Firefox, definitely --- I think it's less foundational to the modern computing landscape. How many servers run Linux? They'd all suddenly stop working!! Whereas Firefox is already pissing me off, and maybe we'd all get together and turn, like, NetSurf into the Chrome-buster that it could be if enough people worked on it together.
These were fun! Thanks yall :) Maybe someday I'll have some questions of my own to ask ....