Started the fixed Closed Captions out to tape, working them in-between the big job. Found out why one episodes got rejected – it had the wrong captions for the wrong episode! That was bad. Not sure how many deaf filmmakers Read more…
And life rolls on. ‘Connecting’ with people virtually through a machine via sites like Facebook isn’t really connecting as much as a filtered interface where you can pretend to be something you aren’t to impress people who are equally creating Read more…
Here’s a terrible realization. I’m no longer particularly relevant. Less than a week off Facebook and it’s as if I don’t exist in most people’s lives, even those I was somewhat a part of for a time. Strangely, this has Read more…
I actually LOGGED IN to the post apocalyptic hellscape that is Myspace yesterday. That’s how bored I am online without Facebook. There’s nothing there. It’s just an empty soulless place where profiles go to die. I think Myspace needs to Read more…
Still no Facebook, no cheating. This must be what a “timeout” feels like. My parents were of the era when they used to paddle kids for being bad, so I have no clue what the non-violent parenting model feels like. Read more…
I deleted the link to Facebook from my shortcuts. It was just too easy to accidentally hit it. I mean actually accidental, not I’m pretending it’s an accident so I can cheat accident either. I feel like I just locked Read more…
No Facebook for 30 days. So far so good. I have a routine. Wake up, feed cats, check email, log in to facebook, check webstats, and read some news. Removing #3 wasn’t that big a deal today. I’ve got so Read more…
Another Closed Captioning Crisis resolved. It didn’t take that long, but it was a headache and a half. The solution was to use a standard DV timeline, turning off the Mercury Playback Engine of the NVIDIA card and to roll Read more…
So all the work done on the closed captioning over the last year has a major snag. There are ‘dropouts’, meaning whole sentences that aren’t making the cut. Because of broadcast standards and practices, this is unacceptable. Now I have Read more…
Great literature brings great comfort in times of need. “Do not be afraid. Our hope cannot be taken from us; It is a gift” – or “[i]to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond Read more…
Every year I read J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. I don’t just read it, I totally geek out and go into the BOOK OF LOST TALES, UNFINISHED TALES, and CHILDREN OF HURIN to make it a somewhat complete reading experience. This is Read more…