Protected: A quote I found on the tumbler “sexisnottheenemy” (a nsfw tumblr)
•April 3, 2011 • Enter your password to view comments.Clearly I need to start a novel. ;)
•March 17, 2011 • Comments Off on Clearly I need to start a novel. ;)It seems to me that energy- and energy aquisition-related mishaps and disasters are happening more and more frequently lately.
Maybe it’s a purely subjective thing, but I don’t like it.
Neither my wife nor I are apocalyptically minded, but it does make us feel awfully vulnerable. We’re both hoping to someday have a home that is more or less self-reliant, and that seems to be easier and easier to do every month.
Last night, I read the first short story in Metatropolis (this one by Jay Lake). It brings out the idea that as we reduce the massive costs of creating technology and ‘doing business’, it helps not just the people who create massive corporations, but individuals and small groups of people who can work together to make things that were unbelievable twenty or even ten years ago.
I’m glad to be an occasional part of the hackerspace community, where people get together, share knowledge and tools, and work together to create amazing things for all of us. I wonder if and when hackerspaces-as-such will make their way into future fiction. ‘course, Doctorow’s Makers is pretty close to that, but not quite what I want to see.
Weird
•March 14, 2011 • 6 CommentsAfter our fun weekend in Columbus (walking in the sun without a coat, board games, pizza from scratch with friends, late-night conversations and a hot tub!) I popped in the game Dragon Age II to get a little further.
I’ve discovered a peculiar bug that happened in two different places where, with a single button press, I could (if I wanted) gather unlimited experience and gold.
Since then I’ve shut down, so I don’t know if it will be the same when I start it back up, but it was just super strange. I am amazed that something so obvious and easy would be broken like that, and that it hasn’t been corrected via update yet.
It is very difficult not to take advantage of that bug, heh. I had fun getting a couple of extra levels, but I felt like any more than that and I would spoil the game for myself by removing any challenge.
Nom Nom
•March 7, 2011 • 14 Comments |
| New Martha Bakery From The Great Bookmove |
Day-Before-Paczki-Day!
I picked up a dozen paczki’s for Lucy this morning from ham-town, because she was about to commit the crime of the century and get them from a gas station. I may have taken a paczki tax in the process… ;)
The old polish ladies behind the counter were pretty funny; they started off a little dour, but I softened them up with my charm. :) I now have a lovely sealed container of a dozen paczkis for m’love, and coworkers circling like sharks for the extras.
This weekend was our great book shuffle, where we finally consolidated and alphabetized our library (or most of it anyway), and set out a box of duplicates and no-longer-wants for other people to pick through. We can’t find Harry Potter 5, though, wonder where that wandered off to…
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| Fiction only From The Great Bookmove |
Our place looks so much better with that whole area organized! I forgot to keep separate the books we bought recently, though, so I might have to hunt through the books to figure out which ones I wanted to read…
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| Sci-Fi and Fantasy pile From The Great Bookmove |
… which means I’ll find a bunch of books I wanted to read from before …
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| Sci-Fi and Fantasy sorting – no more H and S authors, please! From The Great Bookmove |
… I really don’t see a downside here. In a crazy unintentional coincidence, nearly all of our favorite authors ended up in the center column bookshelf.
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| Our completed Sci-Fi and Fantasy bookshelf From The Great Bookmove |
Potential schedule for NAB conference
•March 1, 2011 • Comments Off on Potential schedule for NAB conferenceThis is not going to be entertaining for anyone. ;)
Saturday
FCP Cert Class Day 1
Sunday
FCP Cert Class Day 2 (and test)
Monday
- 9-10:15 — Titling with Apple Motion: Mastering Text Animation (or show floor visit)
- 11:45-1 — What is Final Cut Server?
- 2-3:15 — Increasing Efficiency in Final Cut Pro OR The Replicator: Apple Motion’s Best Kept Secret OR Creating a 3D World in After Effects – Part 1
- 3:30-4:45 — Third Party Plugins for Final Cut Studio
- 5-6:15 — Media Management in Final Cut Studio OR Strategies of a Successful Motion Graphic Designer
Tuesday
- 10-1 — In-Depth: Mastering the Final Cut Studio Workflow OR Advanced Tracking, Stabilizing, and Rotoscoping Techniques in After Effects
- 2-3:15 — When Time is Of the Essence: Motion Graphics on a Deadline OR From Storyboard to Final Delivery in Adobe Production Premium
- 3:30-4:45 — Creating Motion Templates for Final Cut Pro OR Combining Effects Creatively in Adobe After Effects
- 5-6:15 — Creating Custom Backgrounds
Wednesday
- 10-1 — In-Depth: Secondary Correction and Grade Management for Apple Color OR In-Depth: Advanced Lighting Techniques for Video Pros
- 2-3:15 — Designing Title Sequences OR Securing & Storing Tapeless Production Media (or visit show floor)
- 3:30-4:45 — Archiving Media From Tapeless Video Production OR Nesting and other Time Saving FX Techniques OR The Law of Copyright: Basic Principles to Advanced Practice ORRRR Work Faster in Photoshop: Get More Done with Automation and Scripting
- 5-6:15 — Speeding up Your Edit: Advanced Editing Techniques OR HDSLR for Run and Gun Productions (if I need a freakin’ break)
•February 22, 2011 • 12 Comments
A very proud and hard-working friend of mine has been suffering from an unknown, undiagnosable illness (along with chronic fibromyalgia and serious GI issues). She has been mighty the past few years, running FeliciTea hardcore, but she is in such pain and so swamped with medical bills that her business is almost certain to disappear.
I don’t often “send out the signal” or whatever, partly because I usually feel conflicted about them, partly because I do not want my friends and family to be inundated with requests for help and the possible guilt involved there.
What I will say is that this person who hasn’t asked anything from anyone before has been reduced to begging in order to make it through the next two weeks. I intend to donate because I could probably do with one less night of eating out in order to help someone I know personally, who is trying their hardest, to survive. If you’re interested, please read her blog entry where she asks for help, and help if you wish to do so.
Router + hard drive doldrums
•February 19, 2011 • 4 CommentsIf any of you linux gurus think you can help me patch the kernal on my dd-wrt router to recognize NTFS hard drives, please let me know. I’ll totally feed you. :D
•February 17, 2011 • 8 Comments
So I’m feeling like a big of a geek demi-god after last night’s escapades, involving helping Lucy get her computer working and installing the open source DD-WRT firmware on my old Linksys router for better work as a hub.
I wouldn’t feel so mighty about it if it weren’t for the WRT wiki, which says at every step, “YOU WILL BRICK YOUR ROUTER. DON’T BE FOOLISH!” I was not, as it appears, as foolish as that. So I am shocked to say that all of our “permanently” emplaced technology can now use a wired cable! In the gaming sense, I’m occasionally getting a latency (stop rolling your eyes, Melanie, I’m almost done!) of 90ms … which is three times as fast as before I replaced the router. Who knew they made such a difference?
Meanwhile, to cement my geekishness, as I walked to the office through the mounds of melting snow, I couldn’t help but think of Super Metroid, which I miss playing. None of the console Metroid games since SM have been as good.
•February 16, 2011 • 4 Comments
Anyone have a mic like this sitting around that they aren’t using?
My mic headset is pretty well and truly broken, so I’m looking to buy a new mic… but I like the style of the old Silver Eagle mics, so I want to take one apart and use modern mic innards. :) I know, crazy like a fox!
If one of you estate sale junkies sees a decent one for less than 30 bucks, please pick it up for me!
EDIT: I see there’s a swap meet in Livonia on Saturday morning, so I might check that out!