Protected: Losing My Religion
•June 11, 2007 • Enter your password to view comments.•June 10, 2007 • Comments Off on
Frankly, most things at thinkgeek are kind of boring toys. This, on the other hand, is totally worth the 80 dollars.
(Of course, I have no idea where I’d put it, but as it’s less than 2″, I imagine it’d go just about anywhere :) )
Johnny!
•June 9, 2007 • 9 CommentsI can’t wait for the day I go to watch Johnny Mnemonic and chuckle after it’s done, saying, “isn’t -that- quaint?” And then I’ll pick up my completely wireless i-glasses (powered by WiTricity, doncha know) and wish my personal neural network “good afternoon”. I’ll put on a ring or two for navigating, unless of course I’m using a ballcap-like neural interface. “Jacking In”?! That’s so… 20th century.
Johnny: I can carry nearly eighty gigs of data in my head. – talk about increasingly irrelevant dialogue. My laptop holds more than that, and Solid State Drives are coming along swiftly. We are in a time where movies should not contain direct references to digital storage space, because it will take no time at all for them to be obsolete.
The Lucinator Returns! (briefly)
•June 9, 2007 • Comments Off on The Lucinator Returns! (briefly)Lucy made her way home from the camp yesterday evening, having flown the coup as soon as humanly possible. She was very insistent that nothing would get in the way of her and the shower, and I soon found out why – she was finely dusted by horses. Hehe.
I did her laundry while she showered, and gave her a nice backrub (4 nights on a cot and horseback riding every day… I could work on her for hours and still not make headway) before we jetted off to silver_bits‘s celebration.
… ‘course we were there at 9, and most people didn’t show up until 10 or later, so she was already nodding off, it being past her current bedtime. It was sporting of her to come out, even though she had to get up at 5:30 this morning to make it back to camp.
I was delighted to see Jen, Joe, and Carrie again, and K.T. was clearly pleased to be getting “The luvs”. All in a day’s work, all in a day’s work. ;)
Protected: Today’s CSL
•June 8, 2007 • Enter your password to view comments.Inimitable is a great word.
•June 8, 2007 • 9 CommentsSo I’m listening to the radio on the way to work, and I hear the inimitable In the Summertime, and I heard this part for the first time:
If her father’s rich, take her out for a meal
If her father’s poor, you just do what you feel
I just had to laugh. It’s an old song, of course, but it brings up all sorts of strange thoughts and questions.
silver_bits is graduating today with her degree for interpreting sign language (my apologies for not knowing the exact wording), and we’re going to celebrate with a bunch of fine folks at the TGI Friday’s in Auburn Hills. Many of you have heard me chat about K.T. – you are more than welcome to join in the revelry! We expect to be there shortly after 9pm.
Does anyone have any welding or fencing gloves I can borrow for awhile? I wouldn’t be giving them back until late fall, so make sure you don’t need them. ;)
I went to bed early last night, and have plenty of energy today. Of course, having a sometimes-unreliable shower that suddenly went ice-cold might have something to do with that as well. I get out at 5pm today, and have plans all weekend (summarized with the words grad, Jess (et al.), Lansing, Junie, pool, Netmouse!). Mm boy!
Meanwhile, the Chuck Roast video has been delayed while the original tapes are located, and the trip to L.A. (and the wedding immediately after in Cleveland) is coming up awfully fast.
Protected: Weird
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•June 7, 2007 • 2 CommentsAlso, this morning my boss shows me font style he wanted to recreate in photoshop (beveled, blue-to-white graduation, 1px grey outline). In the span of 30 seconds I had shown him two keyboard shortcuts and three commands he had never seen or heard of, and had talked him through making it himself. I’ll make him use layers, and maybe one day he’ll stop handing me flattened photoshop files to work with.
Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn’t teach Photoshop classes in the evenings, since I seem to be so good at it.
I remember visiting my high school and talking with the journalism/creative writing teacher, who asked me kindly to teach her student a little bit about photoshop. I spent 10 or 15 minutes with her, explaining the importance of selections, how to make them, and what you can do with them, and I left feeling like that was exactly what she needed to figure out the rest on her own.
Regarding PS, the next time I pick up a nice d-SLR camera, I’m hoping to do some experimentation with HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos. I’ve done a little already, but I’d really like to get my fingers into it. I’m of the opinion that cameras need to stop growing in megapixels and start increasing their dynamic range.
(Dynamic range is refers to the lattitude of saturation or luminosity captured in any one image. Take a picture in bright sunlight, and your shadows will be pitch black, without interior detail, or if you aim for that, the rest will be blown out and uselessly white. Unless you have a high dynamic range. I made a post about HDR photos a few months ago. This is an example of an HDR photo. )
My new business cards should come in next week.
•June 7, 2007 • 6 CommentsI am now, officially, the Multimedia Editor for Automotive News. In the future, I may share an office with Brian, the podcast guy for AutoWeek. Yes, an office, not a half-size cube wall area – technically, it used to be the Publisher’s office. We’d paint one wall with green-screen color, and, perhaps, kick out the jams with impunity. I’d miss my beautiful 5th-floor view of Detroit, but I’ll have privacy, which I like awfully much.
In this vision, I will actually be producing video for AutoNews, AutoWeek, and possibly Crain’s Detroit Business. I will be busy enough with creating perhaps 3 or 4 videos a week that I will not be working on that other ‘crap’, and figuring out whether a video justifies travel will more-or-less be my responsibility (within reason).
This will give me the opportunity to turn our productions into something better – some basic script-writing, well-organized B-roll, and a little creativity.
While all of that won’t happen immediately, I think of the challenge of producing 4 videos a week, and it sounds … tasty. I’ll have to spend more time talking to reporters and editors, join in on ‘budget meetings’ (about future stories, not money) and otherwise keep on top of things. I’ll have to contact resources to acquire advance footage and come up with my own ideas for videos.
Aaaand the more -good- video we have up, the more likely we are to have interested advertisers, and the more advertisers we have, the more likely it is I’ll -really- get travelin’.
:)