It's That Time Of Year
It must be getting close to Christmas.
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Don't Know What You've Lost 'Til It's Gone
I find it's amazing how quickly the internet has become a integral part of my life. Today at work our internet connection was down most of the day and it was remarkable the number of times I was frustrated because I couldn't go online. I have two editors working out of their homes and the picture department is on the other side of town. So it is certainly easier to exchange certain files over the net than it is to drive there in a car. Recently we've had some ADR sessions in Toronto and Montreal. With an ISDN hookup to a local stage we were able to get immediate recordings of those lines but with the internet I was able to download the original files within an hour or so of finishing the session. Even faster than FedEx overnight.
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Figure Out When Things Are Good Enough
Sometimes it's best just to leave well enough alone. Things might not be perfect but they're good enough. Sure, you're sitting there. Taking stock of things and you say to yourself, "Hey! I know I can make this better."
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Eat Your Heart Out, Jonathan Swift
This is one of the funniest damn things I've read in a while. Funny because it's so true.
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I Woke Up Early The Day I Died
You know that part in horror movies where the hero is chased by some crazy murderer and attacked with a knife or an axe or some other implement of death and just before the killing blow lands, the hero wakes up screaming? And just as relief starts flooding through the hero's body the crazy murderer comes crashing through the door or the window or the wall and you realize that the nightmare isn't over? It's just beginning.
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A Reflection On The Little Things In Life While Picking A Lock
Pants? Check.
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The End Is Nigh
From the AP:
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A Genius Named Jon
Not me.
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Goodbye To Peel
This just in from Reuters:
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A Busy Weekend
My cousin is in town from Norway and we are going to see some sites today and then tonight I'm off to a minor league hockey game for a friend's birthday. Tomorrow will probably be some more touristy things with my cousin. I'll try to post pictures when I can.
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We're On A Road To Nowhere
This is one the scariest things I've read recently. I never liked our president but I didn't realize we had such a blind zealot in the office who pushes his own personal beliefs upon this country whether they have a basis in reality or not.
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Fall Is Here
This weekend was the first time it really felt like Autumn in Los Angeles. We had our first big rain starting late on Saturday and continuing off and on throughout Sunday. In fact we are supposed to have rain through Wednesday. I'm glad it's raining. We certainly can use it. It continually amazes me though how quickly an arid landscape like LA can flood with just a few tenths of an inch of rain. Today I drove over the Los Angeles River and it was a raging torrent. Of course not nearly as bad as when we had an El Niño several years ago, but still with what many areas of the country would consider a light rain, Los Angeles floods like crazy.
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Farewell To A Place Now Gone
Yesterday morning I met my father for breakfast in Pasadena. He was in town most of last week teaching a seminar at the Hilton, just outside of Old Town. We were saying our "goodbyes" before his flight back home to Florida. After a buffet of scrambled eggs, hash browns and some assorted melons, I left at about 9:45am to drive back to my apartment in Burbank.
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Head Above Water
Well it has been a long, crazy several days for me culminating in a 26-hour marathon day in the office. But now it is done. The movie has been screened for the studio. Every one is happy. And I was finally able to get some sleep.
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Too Many Hours In The Office
Subsisting off fast food, candy bars and coffee:
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Where Is Jon?
The good news is that I have been working a lot recently. The bad news is that it's been crazy busy and things like reading my favorite websites, writing for my own website and sleep has suffered for it. The show that I'm working on right now makes me wish I could give more details that I can about the movie. It is so goddamned funny I wish I could share with everyone. So I'll say this: there's a moving coming out next summer. It's very clever and quite funny. You should go see it.
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Movers Anonymous
Today I moved offices yet again. Boy, I sure am getting sick of playing pack-horse. My actual office just moved down the hall from the room I was in for the last two weeks. However, several editors were starting on a show today and we had to move a couple Pro Tools systems from the offices / storage rooms at Universal to Burbank. Four hours of manual labor plus several hours of assembling Pro Tools systems. Long day.
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You Can Call My Laptop, Popeye
From the Washington Post as reported in MIT News:
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I Am Un Chien Andalusia
Dear Pixies,
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If The Bard Had A Sweet Tooth...
...perhaps "Hamlet" might have been a little different:
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I Dub Thee, Temp
Today is the first day of our temp dub. For all you non-movie-industry-types, a temp dub is a kind of mini-mixdown of the movie's soundtrack at its current state.
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Party With Pierogis
Yesterday was my friend's 30th birthday and in celebration her husband rented out the patio behind Warszawa, a Polish restaurant in Santa Monica. I've never had "fancy" pierogis before. I born outside of Detroit and lived there through my early childhood years, and I went to college in Chicago. I have had plenty of Polish influence and cuisine in my life over the years but this is the first time I have encountered the trendy, hipster Polish spot. It was very nice.
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Hub Heavy
Is there a legitimate reason why USB hubs can weigh a few ounces but their power supplies need to be made out of 5 pounds of lead? Can anyone answer me this? My cellphone power supply--charger is small and light. The little white square that Apple ships with its iPods is very portable. For some reason I cannot fathom this does not seem to be possible for USB hubs.
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Goodbye, Johnny
From the AP newswire:
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Beneath The Radar
I couldn't get to my website for about 20 minutes this morning. Pair.com, my hosting company, now has this up on their status page:
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Moving Day
Today I'm saying 'goodbye' to Universal Studios. The show that was giving us space (not the show I'm working on right now) had an audience test screening last week and now it's hunkering down for some additional shooting and lots of editing. They're putting the sound crew on hiatus for several months.
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Hello Kaiju!
Last night Cameron, Dana, Jesse and I experienced something extraordinary. We learned the true meaning of fear. We learned that "Danger Can Happen". We went to the Avalon in Hollywood for the Los Angeles premiere of "Kaiju Big Battel". I think Xeni Jardin described it best when she referred to it as part Japanese Monster Movie, part Mexican Wrestling Match, part Indie Rock Concert.
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Hero At Large
It's very hot today. And very muggy too. We've been having this heat wave in Los Angeles and it hasn't been pleasant. I work all day long in a well air-conditioned building. So well air-conditioned that I often have a sweatshirt with me. To step from that 68°F indoor temperature to 100+°F outdoors is rather shocking.
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Another Week, Another Lounge
Once again I find myself sitting in the customer service lounge of Robertson Honda working on my computer. When I took my car in nearly two weeks ago for a check-up, there was one thing they couldn't complete without special-ordering a part.
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Me And LBC
I spent the day down in Long Beach enjoying good-natured political arguments, BBQ chicken and a 60" HDTV with my aunt and uncle. I can't believe how hot it was down there---easily in the 90s. That's very strange, especially for this time of year. I took some pretty pictures out the window on the drive home as the sun was sinking low in the sky.
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Ghost Town
You can always tell if it's the Friday before a three-day weekend on a studio lot. The place will be a ghost town. Yesterday was no different. We were cruising around in our sad little golf cart passing row after row of empty parking spaces. Streets between sound stages that normally bustled with activity were quiet.
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My World Of Film Sound
Yesterday I started working again with the fine folks at Universal Studios. Yes, those damn trams full of tourists are once again driving by my window every 5 minutes.
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HD Has The Sharpest Pictures
You know I was at my friends' house tonight enjoying good company and great tacos. They have a monster flat screen TV and an HD Direct TV box hooked up to it. I hadn't been over there in a while and I was disappointed to discover that a couple of the very few HD channels that are offered were only showing the damn Republican National Convention.
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Tinker Toys
I am still here. I've just been busy tinkering away behind the scenes. I've been wanting to do a major revamp of this website for a while now. Some of you may have noticed a few bits and pieces as they've been installed, like my photo moblog. I've been working on a new look to go with it---and practicing my CSS.
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Some People Are So Very Annoying
There are several of us sitting here waiting for our cars in the customer lounge at the Robertson Honda service center. Most people are reading or just sitting. Two young men walked in about 20 minutes ago and they are quietly to each other in Spanish.
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Brave New World
Ok, this is cool.
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The Long Walk
Well I'm finally home from work---8am to 1am yesterday, 9am to 12am today. It's getting tough to concentrate. Thankfully it will all be over after tomorrow when I enter back into the world of the unemployed... wait a second, maybe that's not as cool as it was sounding. :)
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What A Crazy Day!
I've been so busy the last week. Most days at work have been 8am to 10pm. I've been trying to squeeze time in for testing ecto before I go to bed but there's not a lot for that. I was having a lot of trouble posting to my weblog with ecto. I think I have all the bumps worked out. I'll write about it later when I'm sure.
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Say 'Hello' to Mr. Murphy
Tape wouldn't print. Pro Tools kept crashing on "Save Session Copy In". The copier decided it wanted to smear the right half of all pages so they'd be unreadable. The printer overheated so we couldn't even print things outside of Tape. The narrow SCSI drives refused to mount. A crew member's grandmother suddenly got deathly ill. And even though someone was nice enough to give us the left-overs from Brett Ratner's dub stage for dinner, it was all Chinese food and I don't really like Chinese food.
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Never Forget
The Shoah Foundation is set up in the building I'm working in. They're all about documenting the Holocaust through survivor testimonies. It's a remarkable undertaking.
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What Up With That?
So I'm over here at Universal Studios working away. This place has to have the absolute slowest internet connection I've ever seen! And it's a major film studio! I don't know if the IT guys are throttling things back so that employees can't waste bandwidth with streaming internet radio or something but it can absolutely crawl at times.
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Monkey Hate Clean
Who can forget the Bathroom Monkey?
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For Whom The Coffee Breaks
I'm helping out a new show. Tomorrow we are going to do a temp mix on a couple of reels so that a studio executive can give notes over the weekend. Unfortunately the first reel just showed up this morning and the I haven't seen the second one yet. Might be a late night.
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Eat Your Heart Out On Plastic Tray
Wow! What a wacky couple of days. And it's not quite over yet. I've been in super-geek tech mode for a while now. I succumbed to temptation and decided to get a new cellphone. Motorola's überfon, the V600.
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Once Again The RIAA's Claims Are Shown To Be False
This is a good article from the UK's Guardian about a study of illegal music downloads versus music sales. (Of course I found it because of Boing Boing. Those guys have everything.)
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Occasionally Glancing Up Through The Rain
I've been listening to a ton of Pink Floyd recently. You know how you get in those "moods"---there's that one album or maybe a particular genre is really speaking to you at the moment? I'm going through that with Pink Floyd. I'm not sure what sparked this. I've always been a fan, but I've only had the big four albums on CD. Ok, maybe the big 3 plus a smaller 4th: "Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "The Wall", and "Meddle". Oh yeah, I did have "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" for a long time too. Oh, and "Momentary Lapse Of Reason" and "The Division Bell". Oh well. So I had a few of the very well known ones and some others.
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Why Can't I Touch The Sky?
Thirty-five years ago today Neil Armstrong stepped on to the surface of the moon. He was the first human to walk on the ground of something other than our own planet.
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Unfortunately Frank's Not Around To Save The Day
Since I've already started out the day with a political stance, I might as well continue. Paul Krugman wrote a fascinating editorial in the "New York Times" yesterday called "The Arabian Candidate" where he puts forth the idea that despite all the bumper stickers to the contrary, Al Qaeda would probably much prefer a second term Bush to Kerry.
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It's Ok To Say The President Is An Idiot
I found this quote at the top of the Download for Democracy website:
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Copyright Law And Public Domain
Yesterday I read an interesting article from Reuters by way of Boing Boing.
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Working For The Man
I picked up another week of work assembling and phasing dialogue tracks for a friend. She likes the fact that I'm willing to start on Saturday so I can turn over things to her Sunday night for the editors to work on Monday. It's been taking up my time and focus but at some point I'll take a break and offer up some more insights into things.
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What Is Popular?
I find it interesting to see what others consider interesting articles on my site---or at least which ones are popular. A few a pretty obvious. In one post I listed all the links Avid Quicktime Codecs. Avid does not have a very well orgainzed site and they're extremely difficult to find. After the second or third time of spending an hour and finally finding them, I put together the page so that if I ever forgot, I could go there. Of course I'm not the only one who's had that trouble so it gets a lot of visitors.
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What Kind Of Japanese Geek Are You?
This was posted over at Boing Boing:
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I'm A Writer Because The Pizza Delivery Person Says So
I ordered a pizza for a little nourishment this evening and it was just delivered. Thin crust. I've decided it's really the only way to go. I went to college in Chicago so I know how thick pizzas can really get but I have to say that thin is better. Thin and crispy.
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Time Is Of The Essence
It's been quite a busy week for me, in fact it seems to have slipped right by me.
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This Is Not My Beautiful House
Oh come on. You know you've done it. Everyone does it. At some point, no matter how many times you tell yourself that you're not going to give in, you type your own name into the search field at Google. Just to see what pops up.
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Damn The Machine
Recently I placed an order with Amazon for a few goodies. The shipment arrived today. I got this cool Star Trek Star Chart book. (Ok, maybe it's pretty geeky, but it's also cool.) I've always been curious how it all fits together. Where's the Federation--Romulan border? In fact the Federation also has borders with the Klingons and the Cardassians. Where are they? Sure it's all a fantasy, but I have a great Atlas of Middle Earth which I love too. Those kinds of things always fascinate me.
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Instant Karma's Gonna Get You
I stopped by Barnes & Nobles this morning and picked up a couple of books on writing style---the AP one, and Strunk and White. I figured it couldn't hurt if I refreshed my memory on the best ways to put things to paper (or screen, as the case may be). Maybe gussy this place up a little bit. Comb its hair, and slip on a nice button-down shirt.
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Express Yourself In 10 Easy Steps
This is my new favorite smiley:
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Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous
The iTunes Music Store has a new music Tuesday just like every record store in the US. Tuesday is the day that the new albums come out. Ever since the introduction of iTunes 4.5, Apple has offered a free track for download on Tuesday. Sometimes it’s rock, sometimes hip hop but it’s always free.
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Qualification: You Are An Organic Meatbag, Master.
Knights of the Old Republic is perhaps the greatest game I’ve ever played. I literally spent a month last year trying to finish it. I was in the middle of doing the sound for a movie, I think it was “Honey”—might’ve been “SWAT”, but I’m pretty sure it was “Honey”. On a normal night, I don’t get home until 8pm and I’m usually off to work at 7 or 7:30 the next morning. Sometime during that short period of time, I try to catch my 8 hours of sleep too.
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I'm Quickly Using Up My 15 Minutes
Would you look at that! I guess I’m famous now. I’ve been quoted in eWeek. :P :)
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Zombies = Power Interruptions
This is an awesome article: When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?. Those of you who’ve read my take on zombie movies know that this is right up my alley.
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I'd Buy That For A Dollar
Actually I did.
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That One Person Who Spoils It For Everybody
Since I was talking about how much people can suck earlier, I thought I would share this with you. Ever been in a situation with a group of people and one of them totally sucks? I mean where that person can make things so miserable that you’re not sure if you want to shoot them or yourself first? My friend Ben recently got back from a two month trip to Japan and Australia. He relates his misadventures with a fellow camper in Australia:
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Lessons In Japanese
Now that I own a license to Movable Type 3, my weblog is listed on the “Recently Updated” sidebar at MT HQ whenever I post a new entry. This always results in a burst of traffic from Japan. I’m assuming that it has to do with the fact that I have Japanese characters in the name of my weblog. And it might even possibly say something meaningful.
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People Can Really Suck If They Put Their Mind To It
I got a call this morning as I was driving into work from Cameron. We are trying to finish up the sound for a scene that’s due in NY at noon on Monday. Since that’s 9am here, we basically need to get it all done tonight and load it up to the internet. (Just a side note, it was only a few years ago that this would not even be possible. We would have had to hire a courier to buy a plane ticket to NY and take a red-eye there.)
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Goodbye Mr. Quine
I didn't see this one from Reuters:
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Cool Song Intros
The other day Retrocrush posted their list of 50 Coolest Song Parts. Since it was listed on Fark I'm sure that everyone and their brother has already seen it. It's really a fun list to go through. I don't agree with some of their choices. (They are completely crazy with the whole Lionel Ritchie thing.) But it will definitely bring a smile to your face.
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You Are Entering Another Dimension
I wrote this on:
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On The Road Again
Tomorrow morning I'm getting up quite early to go to the airport. I'm flying to Memphis, TN for my uncle's wedding. The 5 hour flight to Memphis isn't the truly fun part though. The truly fun part is the 4 hour drive I have to make after the 5 hour flight to get into the remote part of Missouri where this is actually taking place. In fact I'm staying at a hotel that is half-an-hour drive from the place where the wedding is being held because that's the closest hotel.
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What's It Gonna Take?
Dear Pixies,
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You're No Rock & Roll Fun
Last night I was able to make it to the Sleater Kinney show at El Rey. It was very cool. Quasi opened for them. Yes, Janet is doing double-duty on drums for both bands. This show is part of their "mini" tour before they go into the studio to record their next album.
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Totally Devoted To You
Let me tell you a little story:
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Insert Aphorism About Rain Here
Today was a very busy day at work. Sometimes I wonder why we even bother to plan things out ahead of time. It always changes. Of course I'd rather be organized about my job and have to modify my plans, then rely on total chaos. Chaos theory makes good quirky movie characters as played by Jeff Goldblum. It's makes real life a pain in the ass if you have deal with it.
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set mt3 to "good" as string
(What can I say? I'm more of an AppleScripter than a programmer.)
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MT3. Is It For Me?
The thing that everyone who has one of these websites was talking about yesterday is the new version of Movable Type. Six Apart, the company that makes the software, unveiled Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition complete with a new licensing scheme. The uproar began.
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Looking At Iraq Through A Soldier's Eyes
I stumbled across this very interesting weblog written by a female soldier in Iraq. It's cool to find someone in an extraordinary situation doing something that many of us would have trouble imagining ourselves doing, and yet talking about life in a very ordinary way.
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My 'To Hit Armor Class 0' is 12
Some time around third grade, probably about 1983, I had my first encounter with Dungeons & Dragons. My friend Dave, his older brother John, and I would play it after school with some of the other kids in the neighborhood. I still remember the day my mom took me to the local hobby shop and I bought my very own copy of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set in the red box. John was the person who introduced me to J.R.R. Tolkien, and that year I read "The Hobbit" for the first time. We used to spend hours making characters--using the lists in the back of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion" for names--and playing adventures.
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Weird Stuff I Found On The Net
There's a Kikkoman Soy Sauce commercial on TV here in the US which is totally insane. A mother yells "Kids! Dinner!" and they all come running from where ever they are playing. Except it's some bizarro "Crouching Tiger" thing where they run across tree tops. It can't hold a candle to this one. (Thanks to Neil Gaiman for pointing it out.)
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How Old Will I Be When I Finally Learn?
Since I haven't been working for the past few months, I've been spending much more time outdoors than I usually do. It mostly consists of reading books in a park, but it is still outdoors. So I have managed to develop somewhat of a tan. Considering my typical color is very white--"clear" might be the appropriate word--I consider myself to be quite tan right now.
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Birthdays, Pizza & TV
Today was Dana's birthday. For those of you who don't know, Dana is Cameron's wife. And for those of you who don't know who Cameron is, we work together doing sound. For the past several years we've always gone to Little Tony's, a local pizza place with red-and-white checked table cloths on the tables, for Dana's birthday.
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I Was So Much Older Then, I'm Younger Than That Now
Today I spent several hours teaching a friend Pro Tools 101. It was an unusual experience for me. I have taught people things before. My work study job through college was working in the various computer labs around campus teaching people how to use software they didn't know, and also doing telephone tech support. I had a lot of training in how to take a problem, break it down, and work through it in a logical progression. Plus I taught a series of classes on Pro Tools at AFI on three different school years. Teaching is something I'm some what familiar with.
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Smell The Glove
What bridge have I been living under for the past few years? How did I miss these guys?
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Great Googly Moogly!
... or How To Blow Your Website Statistics Right Out Of The Water.
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And The Winner Is
One of the fun things about keeping statistics about my website is seeing how people managed to find it. Referrals will tell me which pages linked to me when someone clicks that link to get to my site. It also tells what words someone entered into a search engine thereby finding my site. Today I believe that I have found my favorite search that resulted in someone getting to my little corner of the web:
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Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul On Fire
I'm writing this entry from Las Vegas. It's quite the town. I usually manage to make it out this way once or twice a year. Though I think this is the first time that I've ever come here for something other than gambling and booze. (And since I gave up the booze three years ago, there's only gambling.)
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The Horror. The Horror.
I just bought tickets for the two Sleater-Kinney shows at the El Rey here in Los Angeles from everyone's "favorite" legal scalper, ticketmaster.com. Fifteen dollar face value on each ticket. Twenty-five dollars after Ticketmaster has had its way with you. Sixty-six percent markup?! WTF?! Loan sharks offer better interest rates.
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Maybe It Won't Be That Long
Ok, so in just a few hours after my last post, I did some more research into various weblog and BBS software, and got Movabletype installed on my server. It's a very cool piece of software. I didn't realize. It's not all that different from iBlog--though it definitely has a lot more "bells and whistles." The authoring software just runs on the server as a set of perl scripts instead of on your local machine. But then it generates all the pages. I was thinking it was going to rely more on pages that we generated "on the fly". That's how a PHP-based system like Geeklog would work.
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I Don't Think I'm The Only One
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But I Don't Want To
Sometimes it would be much easier if I could just accept things they way they are.
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We Passed Upon The Stair
Everyone and their brother is talking about the fact that 10 years ago today, Kurt Cobain killed himself. You can check out Wil Wheaton's take on it or numerous other writers over at Black Table.
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Spring Ahead
Note to self: Don't stay up half the night watching movies when you're going into Daylight Saving Time. Losing that hour is killer.
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A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall
In fact it is right now.
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Goin' To Las Vegas With An Aching... In My Heart
Well, I'm already in California.
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I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
A recent study by professors at Harvard and the University of California shows that illegal MP3 filesharing has not hurt the record industry. They said that "downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero...." Of course the RIAA thinks this is completely untrue.
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Problems
I seem to be having a little trouble with my program. Grrr.
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Who's A Big Dummy?
I am.
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Maybe It's Because I'm Now 30
I had a conversation with my mother today about buying my own house. (Or more probably my own condo.) This isn't exactly a new conversation, in fact we've been having it more or less regularly for the last year now. It's a bit of a scary proposition, especially here in Los Angeles. Property values are very high--that's why I say it's more likely that my first purchase would be a condo. I can still live in the Los Angeles area are actually buy a condo for something around the $200,000 to $300,000 range. And by "the Los Angeles area" I mean LA proper, Hollywood, near Valley areas like Burbank, Glendale, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks. Something on the westside might be nice. Closer to the beach means cooler weather. Of course if often means higher prices too. I have no desire to go live out in the high desert, Palmdale or some such place, just so that I can own a cheap home. And an actual house in the areas I'm talking about is going to start at half-a-million for a piece of junk.
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So Long And Thanks For All The Tracks
I was driving around looking for lunch--as I often do in the 12pm - 1pm timeframe--listening to Steve Jones' radio show on Clear Channel's take on indie radio here in Los Angeles, 103.1 FM, when Jonesy said that J.J. Jackson had died of a heart attack last night. It was like someone hit me with a hammer.
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Get In The Ring For Round Two
I've mentioned before my trip to Saginaw for my cousin's wedding. It was great to see a lot my relatives from my dad's side of the family. I hadn't seen some of them in 10 years or more. A big problem with the wedding is that my cousin is 21 and I'm 30. So of course it was open field day on Jon time.
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Monkeys + Robots
Wil has a new show, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! Reminds me of some of the things talked about in an old zine I worked on. Of course the new show sounds like it's going to feature robot monkeys. As we all know monkeys and robots don't usually get along, sometimes they just bicker, but often it results in all-out fighting.
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Say What You Mean
I've recently seen several ads of TV supporting G.W. for prez. In fact G.W. himself says something like "Approved by George W. Bush" at the end of all of them.
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It's Too Damn Hot
I don't know what the weather is like where you are but here in Los Angeles it is literally 90°F (32°C)! In March! Yes, this is Southern California. Yes, we have warmer weather than other places. However, it is still technically winter and we are having temperatures that many places have during the summer. I just checked the weather on the South Shore of Boston (my hometown)... IT'S SNOWING! 90 on one coast, snowing on the other. Crazy.
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Days Go By So Slowly
Illness really isn't all that fun.
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I'll Be Back
I've been half-watching The Terminator in the background while working on the how best to use this program to publish a weblog. I have to say, even twenty years later, it's a pretty great movie. Yes by todays standards a lot of the special effects are definitely dated. But still there's something about practical effects--miniatures, puppets, and other pieces and events that interact with the actors in "reality"--that is so much more convincing than CGI. Yes, you can get shots now that were never possible in 1984, but somehow sticking an actor in front of a green screen and painting in the special effects later doesn't seem as realistic as an actor being menaced by an actual evil robotic arm.
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