CPUC shows its inbred corruption

If I understand this correctly, SDG&E customers can only be saddled with about 25% of that $3.3 billion travesty, due to our minority ownership of SONGS. SCE customers should have to foot the remaining 75% cost? SCE has been engaging in wholesale layoffs, in most departments, for over a year now. There were layoffs that were blamed on SONGS closing, of course, but the company has also been holding ongoing meetings with all of it's permanent employees, wherein early retirements were actively encouraged, or so the rumors claimed. What's not a rumor is that long time employees of SCE who didn't take the package often got the axe. Rumor had it that the excuse given for the layoffs was because of the impending rate increase request that SCE was making, which as we now know, is designed in part to rip off the people who paid for solar energy installations: http://www.turn.org/issues/energy/item/749-utilit… The latest layoffs(~1,000 people) have just now finally rolled around to the festering cesspool of SCE mgmt in Irwindale, where you'll recall: "Indeed, top-heavy management contributed to an "unhealthy" workplace environment at Edison's Irwindale offices, an independent audit concluded after an Irwindale information technology employee, Andre Turner, 48, went on a shooting rampage in December 2011, killing two co-workers and wounding two others before taking his own life with a semiautomatic handgun." http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/15/business/… What's the best thing that you can do? Buy SCE stock, because it's going up, analysts are saying that the future looks bright for SCE. SDG&E will probably also be a solid investment.
— May 6, 2014 4:52 p.m.

Dig a hole: the San Diego Film Commission

an interesting article that outlines the rise and fall of movie making in sd, and the rise and fall of the sd film commission... is there a connection? the excuse that film crews don't come down here because they want to "sleep in their own beds" is not logical, since those crews were willing to travel down here for hundreds of movies in the past. people aren't making movies in l.a. instead of sd, rather, they have taken their business to places like Vancouver(3rd largest production hub in north America), because it's cheaper to shoot and edit there... less bureaucracy, minimal union hassles, cheaper labor, tax incentives, etc. same goes for other places in America, and indeed, the world... it would be interesting to compare the cost of film permits between these places.
— August 11, 2013 3:24 p.m.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

i refuse to watch 3d movies, but i have to wonder if your dissatisfaction with this hobbit 3d movie is more of a theatre-related problem, rather than the creative process of the show itself: "The Hobbit will also be the first 3D movie recorded and exhibited digitally at 48 frames... Jackson, he says, “wants it to be an immersive experience. Once you’ve made the decision to go 3D, you’ve moved away from the ‘normal’ cinematic experience. Traditionally, cinema has been 2D. Once you go to 3D you are trying to make it more realistic.” Shooting at 48fps, notes Olssen, is primarily to reduce strobbing and flicker that causes eyestrain for the 3D version of the movie — the 2D version will be exhibited at 24fps. “You increase the frame rate and it’s more comfortable to watch. Reducing eyestrain is a good thing.” http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Mag… 24fps is weak sauce as well, it's a holdover from the film days, a marginal compromise to save money, it should have been dispensed with on these digitally shot movies... unfortunately there still aren't very many movie houses with digital projectors.
— December 15, 2012 9:48 a.m.