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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
netmouse
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6:02p |
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netmouse
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5:21p |
W00T!
What he said! (Brian and I have the honor of being your new TAFF delegates. What a lovely surprise for Christmas. Planning is commencing with joy.) |
flinx
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12:48p |
It's official...
Anne & I are going to England in April! We won the 2010 TAFF contest!I haven't a clue yet for how long we're going, beyond attending Odyssey 2010, but I don't think I care right now! Planning will happen! Merriment will be had! Fandom connections will be reaffirmed! Travelogues will be written! Pictures will be taken and (mostly) not manipulated! All shall be shared! (Brighton may still be destroyed and London gently ravaged by a deliquescent pox, I'll have to converse with Dr. Wu about that.) I thank all of you who voted for us, and my thanks to Chris Garcia and Steve Green for managing this year's contest. Also, I offer my condolences to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) frankwu and his wife Bri, and my thanks for making this a fun contest. I yet look forward to meeting you in person some day (Frank, I've been told to watch out for the Mariners going all the way in 2010...) Current Mood:  excited |
| Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 |
lunarbitch
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4:28p |
I hope you're OK little guy...
Last night about 4:00 something in the morning I was driving home on M52 out of Owosso. Running along the shoulder of the road was a beautiful white w/cream spots basset hound. I did a U turn and went back and tried to coax him into my car but he took off. I did another U-turn and tried to bribe him with a treat, but a semi was coming up behind me and he ran off into the field next to the road. I was in a skirt and platform boots and couldn't go after him. It was snowing and so cold and I can't stop thinking about him and wondering if he's OK. Did you get loose from your owner and go for a joy run? Did some scumbag drop you off next to the highway and leave you? Were you lost and scared? I hope you're OK where ever you are. If anyone out there hears about a lost basset hound near Owosso, please let me know. Current Mood:  worried |
| Monday, December 21st, 2009 |
netmouse
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11:22p |
Baltimore is a nice place to visit.
I just had a lovely dinner with Jon Singer and Jennifer Page - and arrived at the hotel with a last-minute gift idea in hand! We'll see if Amazon.com comes through on their 2-day shipping (Brian, if you get a package from them wednesday, it might not be for you, sorry). Oh, and I also wanted to mention that the fundraising auction we did with Frank Wu (fellow TAFF candidate) brought in $2486 for TAFF, so thanks once again to all our authors for donating Tuckerizations: you guys rock. Seriously. And I'm kind of babbling now, so I'll say goodnight. Goodnight! |
jedwardtremlett
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7:15p |
A happy, lucky Yule
Today counts as one of the better Yules in recent memory. I spent the early afternoon at the car shop getting a problem taken care of that, if it hadn't picked today to go off, might have crimped travel plans for later in the week. I also got to test the "holy shit" emergency friends network and found it was in excellent shape (she knows who she is, and she rocks). And then, after Bluestreak was all fixified, Ceej and I STILL had time to run some campus errands, hit the bookstore for things for people, whereupon we saw that Greg B still lives, and do dinner at Claddagh, whereupon we did see our pal Eric and some of my favorite waitstaff in action. A very good day, hopefully to become a very good evening, too. I hope everyone else out there is having a similarly very good day... hopefully without luck-affirming trips to the car dock. |
atdt1991
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3:10p |
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atdt1991
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9:41a |
Codecs == fun!
This has been a mostly fun and warm weekend, occasionally peppered with shocking experiences of people judging others without a shred of empathy. I went to a birthday party with people I haven't seen in years, and it was a good thing, with catching up and the usual comedy. I also went to a holiday gathering I try to make every year, and it was warm and full of laughter and good food, as always. Yesterday I had the aforementioned downs, where I was appalled at the kind of statements people make as if they understand anything about where someone else is coming from. It's precisely why I think outrage on an interpersonal scale is so dangerous - it usually requires a hell of a lot of presumption and is dangerously shy on facts. Rather than dwell on the one thing that can fill me with a deep and abiding anger (the abuse of my friends and family), though, I'd like to talk about my other frustration. Codecs*.See, if it weren't for codecs (not to be confused with the hottie from The Guild, codex), my job as a video editor could almost be considered a normal creativity-based career. Instead, half the time I need to do something new, it is a chaotic mess with thirty tabs open and general pleading with my computer to allow SOMETHING to work right. Like at work, I'm trying to set up for future high def videos, and saving in the format we need, which should be cake, is looking to be quite difficult in Final Cut Pro. At home, I spent hours last night (almost the entire night) recovering the video capture I made of our guild doing its first boss kill in Icecrown Citadel (a big deal for us, trust me on this one). This involved no less than four applications, attempts to re-screencap a video already screencapped and editing the files with a hex editor, comparing FUNCTIONING videos and copying code into the SCREWY one. Ultimately it's a little choppy and the first 4/5ths are gone, but damn it, I have the part that counts. Now I just need to get Premiere to understand it so I can actually edit it. *sigh* * CODEC stands for COmpression/DECompression, and it is the standard by which a given video is saved. Multiple companies can create their version of the same codec. To make things more complicated, a given CODEC can live inside a number of wrappers - containers that tell applications how to work with them.
So Quicktime is a wrapper, and Flash is a wrapper, and Windows Movie is a wrapper. All of them can contain H.264 video, as that is the CODEC of the video. I expect 3 people out of my flist to have read this far, and each of them already knows goddamn well what a codec is. For those diligent readers I will mention that I am wearing my santa hat today, and it has kept my head warm, and had the security guard grinning as I drove in to work. Don't tell those slackers who didn't read this far! |
netmouse
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12:28a |
I am up much, much later than I ought to be
considering I leave the house at 5 in the morning for Baltimore. I got a lot of good work done on Wellspring, though - it will come out this month! Just not today. In the meantime, Frank tells me we raised $2547 (minus paypal fees) for TAFF with our auction, so that's Awesome! Thanks again to all the authors who donate character names (Tuckerizations) in upcoming work. Word is, Cory Doctorow's Tuckerization is already inserted into a work, as is David Brin's! |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
netmouse
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6:03p |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
netmouse
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6:01p |
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| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
cjtremlett
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6:30p |
Balls!
The majority of the holiday cookies I make involve at some point rolling dough into balls. Walnut balls (Russian teacakes/Mexican wedding cakes/whatever other names), snickerdoodles ... tasty, tasty balls! Current Mood:  dorky |
netmouse
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6:01p |
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jedwardtremlett
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8:54a |
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jedwardtremlett
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8:46a |
sci fi 12 18 09
Yep, we're on! The pre-Christmas sci fi of 2009! Tonight we have Supernatural, Sanctuary's mid-season finale, and...? Food, folks, and fun. 8 pm, casa cthulhu :D |
| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
jedwardtremlett
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11:49p |
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sionell8
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8:45p |
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jedwardtremlett
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2:18a |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
netmouse
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11:29p |
Christmas lights
 Check it out!
Originally uploaded by netmouse.Last night I spent some quiet time Decking the Halls with my housemate. I treated myself to lights on my dressing table in my rooms, and we trimmed the tree:
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netmouse
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6:01p |
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lunarbitch
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3:53p |
Can you give me a couple of minutes please?
OK friends, I'm asking for a favor. This costs you nothing but a little time and will pay for some vaccinations for some rescue dogs. iGive.com is going to attempt to donate $5,000 in just 24 hours to DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA and other causes. For each person who joins iGive using the special link below and does just ONE WEB SEARCH on our site between NOW and NOON THURSDAY, we'll give DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA a dollar. This is the link: http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=2934515,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary. Of course, if they search more (or buy something) they'll earn even more money for DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA. Right now, we're donating $.02 per search and a bonus $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage. Here's where you come in. The only way DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA will get new supporters and that free $1 (or more) is if you invite them. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the link below in an e-mail, tweet it, do a Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it's free! You can even just forward this e-mail. Once again, here is the link: http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=293451 We're really proud of our search capability, powered by Yahoo! We've made tons of improvements over the past four months, so we want lots of people to try it out and put it to the test. If they keep on searching or shopping after testing us out, so much the better for DACHSHUND RESCUE OF NORTH AMERICA and iGive.com. The details: - Offer active between now and 11:59 a.m., December 17, 2009 (Chicago time). - New members only (never have been an iGive member previously). All the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site has the details. - Once we've given away $5,000, the offer ends. Current Mood:  hopefulCurrent Music: safely napping weens |
atdt1991
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2:50p |
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kelcore668
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12:49a |
As I was saying; it's about damn time (Thrashgasm, pt. II)
Warning: this post will contain severe gushing about how great things are "In My World" (heh, already I start with the clever metal references...) about the recent news of the "Big Four" sharing the same stage all at once for some festival dates in Poland and the Czech Republic. I will be gushingly crawling up their asses and my own about the greatness of these bands, and how great it is to be a metalhead. So, move along if you don't want anything to do with it. You can also keep walking if you want to bring up the whole "metallica sold out" blah-blah. Yes, they did. And personally I think it's better than them writing "Ride The Lightning" eleventy billion times just to appease a demographic of fuckwits who bandy about buzzwords like "True" and "keeping it real" when self-same fuckwits a) weren't there and b) wouldn't know their ass from a hat and c) the extent of their fandom and connection to Metallica's music being the equivilant of rocking out 4 stars playing "One" on Guitar Hero on Medium difficulty. They also got better and there's precious few bands that are better live. Okay, for those still with me: thanks for hanging out. Megadeth, Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. All veritable gods in my favorite genre of music. All in the same place. All being adults, all getting along. All showing some GODSDAMNED UNITY FOR FUCKING ONCE!!!! Yes, I realize that there's a rather lucrative aspect to this that I'm sure is a strong motivator for all parties involved (and I'm sure Joey Belladona and Dan Spitz are currently kicking themselves for bailing like they did after the Anthrax reunion not too long ago), but dammit, I'm just going to ignore that aspect, throw up the horns, and praise this event in history for the godsend it is. THRASHGASM!!!!! \m/ Here's where I get pretentous and crap: these giants have been walking the earth for some time now, but never, ever have ALL of them been in the same place. For those of you not as enamoured (more like entrenched) with metal as I am: think of it as...well, wait, you can't think of it as anything but what it is becasue metal's pretty much the only scene where the unity of fandom's pretty much a lifelong, almost familial thing, so: never mind. Anywho: Came close in '91 with the Thrash of the Titans tour, which was basically this big four thing minus Metallica. It was a great show. It was also soon after that show that metal just seemed to up and die and give rise to the worst era in musical history: the 90's But, I've gone on and on about how much I despise what all that selfishly introspective/self-destructive grunge-pop-indie horseshit did to music, and I'd rather not kick the gelatanous chunks of what's left of that dead horse in this post. Though the smiliarities of the timing has me a bit nervous, and if metal goes away again after this and I have to put up with another decade of Billy Corgan's wailing or Manson's pretentous moaning or most of all, Weezer's oh-so-snotty ham-handed sarcasm then there WILL be murders.... I had more I wanted to write, but to be honest I'm both oout of practice with this whole blogging thing and getting a little choked up thinking about HOW significant this really is. There's ALOT of bad blood between these people, these HEROES of mine and many others, that's being put aside, hopefully forever, for the sake of a very angry form of music that boud alot of us together and made us feel that we were indeed NOT alone in this world. It really, truely is great to be a metal head. And if this doesn't turn into a full blown tour that hits the states eventually, there had damn well BETTER be some serious video documentation of this. I'm talking AT LEAST a 4 DVD set. "In my world I'm home..." Speaking of video documentation: |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
netmouse
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6:02p |
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flinx
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1:49p |
1 week left to vote for me and Anne in TAFF!
Hi there! Anne and I are running for the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund this year, and we would greatly appreciate your support. If you have already voted, I appologize for bugging you, but I wanted to remind people that we are fast approaching the deadline of December 22 to vote! Short version: Go to http://www.taff.org.uk/ballots/taff2010.html for a ballot to vote. Long version: The fan fund sends fans one way or the other across the ocean each year, to either a major event in North America or to one in the UK. This year's TAFF delegate(s) will go to Eastercon in London. See http://www.taff.org.uk for more info. Anne's never been to England, and both of us would love to see more of the UK in general. We would very much like to go meet fellow fen there, and would probably extend our trip to Ireland and possibly Germany. TAFF, like other fan funds, is supported by donations. Anyone sf fan who wishes to vote is requested to send along at least a small donation to the fund with your vote. Other than that, any fan can vote (If you don't think the TAFF administrators will recognize your name, you are asked to name a well-known fan who knows you and can vouch for your fannishness. This is to keep us from passing out ballots on the street corner, but is not intended to discourage fen from voting. If you do this, you have to name someone other than ourselves or any of the people who nominated us for TAFF). The voting deadline is December 22. The TAFF ballot is available online at http://www.taff.org.uk/ballots/taff2010.html. You can print it and send it with a check to vote. Or, if you want to vote online, you can; there are directions at the bottom of the ballot. It involves sending a paypal donation (please add extra to cover paypal fees) to one of the administrators (e.g. Chris Garcia at garcia [at] computerhistory.org) with all your voting info in the paypal comment. If Anne and I are chosen we'll make sure there's a full online voting form in future years. We are committed to going to Eastercon if selected, and to administering the fan fund diligently (raising money for it and running the selection process) for two years, as well as of course producing a trip report. As to other destinations we might take on our trip, we're not quite sure, but they would definitely include Edinburgh, Scotland. Here is our platform from the ballot: Brian Gray & Anne KG Murphy He's a microbiologist. She's an engineer. Together they run cons, playtest games, sing and dance, concoct gustatory delights, write zines and blogs, perform sketch comedy, and generally have a good time doing anything from reading sf to chopping wood. (We didn't say they aren't weird. Oh YES, they're weird.) They promise to use their powers only for good, and not run scientific experiments upon unsuspecting international fandom... however tempting that might be. But as trained observers, they look forward to documenting cultural differences across the Atlantic divide in a trip report. An eeeeeevil trip report. With photographic evidence. And tissue samples... Nominated by: John Scalzi, Steven H Silver, Geri Sullivan (North America), Paul Cornell, Cheryl Morgan (Europe) You can also see more about us, and our friendly competition (Frank Wu, frankwu), at Chris Garcia's fanzine The Drink Tank, issue 231, http://efanzines.com/DrinkTank/DrinkTank231.pdf. In addition to voting, if you feel comfortable putting in a word for us in your blog or twitter or what-have-you, we would really appreciate it. Thanks! Brian and Anne |
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