tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58071632012-02-16T09:25:46.493-05:00The inside of my head in convenient html form.Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-60080321897516266222008-04-25T17:32:00.001-04:002008-04-25T13:45:14.511-04:00

How does a company redeem itself for one of the strangest gadget designs of our modern era? This video/game/novelty is a darn good start. It's amazing what designers will think of when they're given the freedom to explore.

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Hey, a new web 2.0 toy in the right column. I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but I got Twitter so I could follow a few of my favorite comic writers. Fun facts on Twitter- Barack Obama is way at the top according to twitterholic. Hilary Clinton is on the top 100, but Warren Ellis, a comic book author, ranks above her. Geeks know what's up.

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LinkThat's my job in a nutshell, especially this past month or so. Most of the work I do really does resonate with me, but now and then I do something for someone that makes me wonder who would ever find it appealing. Those are the jobs I get overridden on, the vanity pieces and fixations of people with no design sense and an overwhelming sense of self-importance. It's been nice to work on fund

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Picture a room full of sweaty, mostly-drunk rock fans and punks of varying stripe clamoring for the headline act of the night during a sound check that includes a banjo and an accordion at full volume from massive Marshall stacks. To those unfamiliar with the Dropkick Murphys this may seem like a strange juxtaposition. Hell, I've been a fan of the band for nearly ten years and I thought it

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How to Build a Better Flu ShotI had the flu last week, despite having gotten a flu shot in November. My illness coincided with several news reports of the vaccine being ineffective. Given enough time on my hands, I came up with this list of models and methods for producing a more effective vaccine. It seems the first one in the list, the Sony, was used this year.The Sony model of influenza

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Edinburgh, Scotland is an absurdly beautiful city in which you are never more than two hundred feet from equally epic history, coffee, and beer. I spent a week wandering the streets with various combinations of my brother, his girlfriend, and my parents. The former two are currently legal residents, and she was good enough to secure me a place to stay in the room of one of her flatmates who had

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"And you will know them by the ticking of their biological clocks." I loosely paraphrase Stephen Crane here based on conversations I've had recently about post-collegiate women in Indiana. It seems that at a certain age, salary is blood in the water. So I'm told. Details are sketchy, but apparently I'm a blip on the radar as an available 20-something. I really only know what Chris Rock has

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The first rays of sunlight filter through my blinds, beatifically contouring the form of my sheets as I confidently sit up in bed to stretch and greet the day. For I am into "fitness" now, and I can't be bothered by anything. My blood is vicodin puree. Zen from stem to stern. I only eat food from packages with trendy sans-serif organic labels and only off of plates designed by Swedish art

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I feel I would be remiss if I did not mention the Crossroads guitar festival concert I attended last weekend, but it's taken me this long to mention it because this is the end of the second week in a row without a real break. I flew out of Indy last Friday, spent all Saturday at the show, and flew home Sunday morning. The concert was really great. It was like five years of concerts in one day-

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My life is not entirely dissimilar from a cosmonaut living on the International Space Station in that I now rely on scheduled deliveries of items formerly available within thirty miles of my front door. In fact, this may be the first time I've lived in a town lacking both a comic shop and a music store. No small wonder everyone's married here; there are no geek vices to keep them celibate.My

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(spoilers ahead for anyone who has never seen a summer blockbuster)This past weekend was my first chance to sit and relax after a week of moving, work, and unpacking. Not that I actually relaxed, but I had the chance. I saw Transformers on Saturday, which would seem like a leisure activity, though it ended up being wildly confusing. Once you get past all the giant robot action, it turns out to

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This song would have fit right in on Machina II, matching the "what the hell is this frantic fuzzy noise that I must hear over and over again?" vibe. This new Tarantula video reminds me of the Cherub Rock video- lots of filters and nonsense going on but fifteen years later. The Cherub Rock video was shot on film in the woods, then deliberately processed wrong, bleached, and thrown down the

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My new apartment is a mess of boxes and bags, but I'm adjusting pretty well to this new town and new job. My office is smallish, but nice, with a window with a nice view of a tree and an old church. This week is going o be slow for me while I get acclimated. I'm waiting for the HR office to process my paperwork so I can get my new e-mail address and parking pass.My new machine is an iMac (

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My new comic shop:Giant Silver Surfer. I don't really care about the rest of the movie, but this is cool.I canceled my pull file at the shop I've used for years here in Fort Wayne. I can't say I'm sorry, really, even though I was pretty much only keeping it for the sake of supporting the shop that got me started as a comic geek lo those many years ago. They had a habit of leaving books out of

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You believe it was... Muur-der?!(edit- click to play the video)

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The new design is a result of Blogger telling me about lots of cool new features, then telling me my old template wouldn't work with the new stuff. They added the ability to add RSS feeds to the sidebar, something I've been eager to do with my Netflix queue. Technically, this works. The problem is that the feed doesn't update right. Netflix updates the feed automatically and the list stays

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The following is true:I got a job at DePauw* University as a multimedia guru for alumni relations. Moving shall commence in the coming weeks. New clothing has been purchased to make me presentable. More on this as it develops.I will probably still graduate, to answer the many who have asked about this. I don't know when or even how exactly, but the consensus seems to be that I should finish

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It's about time. The new album comes out July 7, hopefully followed by a US tour. They're playing a few dates in Europe in June, so hopefully someone will record the concerts.

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I took a few notes while watching Armed and Famous tonight. What insight about Muncie can be gained from reality TV? Here's what I learned:They came in the back way through the arse-end of townWee-Man is serious. Seriously.Latoya has the Jackson family nose.Eric Estrada looks good for his age.Jack Osbourne has not seen the Mythbusters episode that shows how cars are not bulletproof.Wee-Man can

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The start of my "me" semester has been, essentially, two additional days of finals week. I worked for about twelve hours total yesterday finishing my animation for the Terri Dreams, currently rendering behind this window. I also went to the IDMAA meeting to get feedback on a grant proposal I wrote last month for their double-secret project. The forthcoming revision should look great, and if the

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The long, arduous process of sorting through my stuff, packing boxes, and driving back and forth between cities is finally complete. I'm no longer a Muncie resident, so it's back to Fort Wayne to finish my projects and my degree. No more Heorot, Fickle Peach, Moe's, Motini's, Scotty's, Pita Pit, or Greek's. I suppose I'm alright without these establishments, but what really hurt was closing my

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John Battelle has some interesting insight on "conversational media." This is a better term than "user-created content." The simple explanation is that conversational media is any sort of media published on the internet that isn't expressly for commercial purposes. My current favorite example:Singing skeleton marionetteAdblockHee hee, he dances and so does the pair of legs behind him. This

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It got cold here in a hurry this year, after a pleasantly warm Thanksgiving week. I think we're fighting nature's population cap by living here at this time of year, but until we get satellite powered ubiquitous wireless internet, we're not leaving our northern population centers for warmer weather. I have the heater in my apartment blowing full-blast whenever I'm there and awake, though the

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Tom Waits was on Letterman last night. If you're interested in turkey vultures, watch the first video. Otherwise, the song is in the second video.Tom Waits on David Letterman - Pt1AdblockTom Waits on David Letterman - Pt2Adblock

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I'm getting back to normal now, not missing the bus and getting used to the food here again. I never noticed how used to the food I was, that everything tasted the same to me after two years of eating the same four meal combinations in rotation. The Terri Dreams project is coming along nicely. My segment director made a rough mockup video with the storyboards timed to the music for reference.

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I'm pretty tired tonight, as I couldn't get to sleep last night on account of a still-huge stack of comic books saved up over the last month while I was away. I just feel the need to update this blog before it gets to be a month between posts. It's been strange being back this past week. I wasn't gone to Chicago for that long, not a semester, certainly, but I've had to readjust to life here.

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Well, I'm here in Chicago now, so all my blogging for the next three weeks will be over here.

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Sepultura Refuse resistNobody has ever rocked this hard in a pokemon shirt. If there was ever proof that music is good for kids, this would be it.

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Every now and then an opportunity comes along here at BSU that allows me to do what I came here for- production and interdisciplinary learning. I'm working on an animated short for a giant project here called The Terri Dreams. The site explains it, but it's basically a series of five dreams. My part in this is the beginning of the second dream, with two pairs of lips and the universe. Or

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Why? Because nature hates me. It's not enough to fill the outdoor air with pollen anymore. I woke up last week to find this on my toothbrush. Thanks to my morning disposition and indoor plumbing, it won't happen again. Now I need a little "Keep Off" sign for my new toothbrush. This is what I get for living next to ever-encroaching nature.

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Barring postal holiday delay, Wednesday is new comic day. The day when all misanthropic sons of Krypton fully and gladly expect to shell out between three and thirty dollars for the latest dead-tree serialized entertainments. Today, though, as Gerry and I pulled in to the lot at Alter Ego Comics and approached the door, we were halted by a sign on the door stating that the shop was closed on

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"Overweight people now outnumber the undernourished." Link Should I be nervous?

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Last night, under the fog of a head cold and in lieu of doing anything constructive, I watched the movie Brick. I haven't been this enthusiastic about a movie since Primer. It's a film noir set in a California high school, but it really isn't a teen movie. The dialogue is all based on the prose style of Dashiell Hammett, so the lines are all in short clipped sentences. It's tough to describe,

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Since I can't ever actually take a vacation from the warm glow of a computer, I've spent my holiday break searching for music videos. These are my favorites:Hurra Torpedo- Total Eclipse of the Heart I hate this song like poison, but this version is one of the coolest/funniest performances I've seen online.Smashing Pumpkins- Pug This is my favorite live performance video from the Pumpkins, and

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Yup, it's true.I've been reading The Long Tail, a book about the new economy evident in the online marketplace. It takes a book to explain it if you aren't a digital storytelling student, but here's a good example: (link) The "long tail" comes from the sales graph (say, from iTMS) where online sales peak with the predictable popular hits, then drops off sharply with the less popular songs. The

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The mass influx of denim-clad academic acolytes to this jerkwater burg signals the start of the Fall semester once again. I've seen a few people I know walking around, and I can't help but notice the looks I get suggesting that people had thought I graduated. Not yet, kids- I'll be leaching off the state until December. In the meantime, I have plenty of projects to keep my busy, many of which

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My first attempt at 3-D modeling in Second Life:I had to fight it a bit because the shapes can only scale down so far, and the ability to make 2d shapes is conspicuously absent (a low poly-count is desirable, one would think), but I'm happy with the result so far. For those of you who haven't read Warren Ellis's early-career Transmetropolitan comic, the odd-shaped glasses are a prominent

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Oh, how I want a burrito now.

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The new apartment is quite nice, though I'm not totally settled yet. I'm working more until the semester to finish a couple big things at work, so I'm usually tired when I get home and end up going to bed early in order to catch the first MITS bus I can in the morning. The bus isn't bad, and the human menagerie is entertaining enough. I'm lucky to be on a line that stops right by the building

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This is intentional, don't worry:Read that last line carefully: why would the IRS need a copyright? I found this spam in the BSU question/comment e-mail account that I've been working in. I don't normally read spam, but this one caught my eye because it was funny. Also note the processing time of 6-9 days. I don't think the IRS can change a coffee filter that fast.

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Like the Flannery O'Connor story I read and forgot in undergrad, I am currently a displaced person. See description: that's me, but not in Africa. My landlord needed me to get out when my lease expired right as my employment status solidified for next semester, so I've been scrambling around with the help of several friends and family to move out and find somewhere to live. My next apartment

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We left the pristine grounds of Chautauqua yesterday and drove straight on to Taco Bell in Cleveland for food served on cardboard by teenagers who were neither pretty nor talented- a sharp contrast to the previous week of watching children play Mozart's recognizable hits in the park while eating grilled veggie sandwiches. Before we left we attended a Q&A with Arlen Specter and Lee Hamilton, and

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Things old people like:High waistlinesSittingIce creamWalking slowly and looking aroundPaying attention to anyone who happens to be talkingLarge glassesT-shirts with buttonsFlowers, both fresh and as floral print on wallpaper and clothingBreakfastEating together (any meal)Nodding at thingsWhere they used to liveTheir grown children and each offspring’s marital state and vocationThe term “Digital

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I sat down here in the library to get a strong wi-fi signal so I could upload pictures I took last night and as I was checking Penny Arcade (a tri-weekly staple of life), an old lady walked by and paused to express amusement that I was reading a comic strip on the internet. Imagine that- humor has endured well after the twilight of the rotary phone. Her grandson rolled his eyes and ushered her on

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After a drive across the intrusively placed state of Ohio, I am currently sitting in a preposterously quaint hotel on the grounds of Chautauqua (shuh-TAW-kwah), a town devoted to arts and humanities of every stripe. My initial impression is it’s kind of like Austin, TX for the black-socks-with-shorts crowd. The main parking lot has a handicap section the nearly the size of Fenway’s outfield, if

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Kal-L, I believe.One of the Medici, probably. I don't remember. Michael and I saw this in Chicago.If you don't know Yoda, don't read this blog.Thanks to Michelle, I have two pleasant looking monkies.One of Gerry's old Zorro comics.I saw an idea for cheap fisheye photography on the internet last week, and on a trip to wallyworld I decided to test this method. A one-way peep hole with the inside

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This week saw the similarly abrupt arrival and exeunt of a small orange cat at Gerry's apartment. From what I gather, Monday evening three excitable undergrads presented him with a year-old cat wrapped in a light blue sweater and a smattering of cat supplies purchased so recently the receipt ink was scarcely dry. Essentially, an all-in-one cat care kit, presented with the sincere hope that said

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1149281634768106552006-06-02T15:55:00.000-04:002006-06-02T16:58:01.530-04:00

Those of you who are in or near Muncie ought to plan to head down to Villiage Green Records in the villiage next Friday, June 9th at 6PM. Everthus the Deadbeats will be playing a CD realease show with The Belle Ends. All-ages, so tall people won't have any trouble seeing over the crowd.I thought about reviewing The Da Vinci Code and X-Men here, but I wasn't particularly blown away by either.

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Star Wars Unaltered!It's about bloody time! The special editions were a cool exercise in CGI compositing, and it was great to see the trilogy on the big screen (best valentines day date ever, back in the day), but I strongly prefer the original trilogy as it first appeared. The added elements were mostly just distracting, and now everything that blows up in the SW universe has that weird ring

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1146662973409808522006-05-03T09:28:00.000-04:002006-05-03T09:29:33.423-04:00

There should be a restaurant here.

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True to personal form, I took an academically ill-advised trip on the eve of finals this past weekend. In undergrad I saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the end of two semesters, studying in the car. This time I visited my brother at Kenyon College to go to the senior send-off weekend celebration. The headline act was Talib Kweli (in a rare flyover state performance), and a slew of Kenyon bands. I

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This is a post about comic books, so if you skip it, I won't blame you.This was originally an e-mail rant about big events in comic books I sent Gerry. It's long enough that I decided to put it here too.I’ve seen Marvel fall into this pattern before, where they keep trying to one-up themselves by building event on top of event. I think the staff gets locked into that because they feel like

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I am basically familiar with the Protestant work ethic, but where in this philosophy does it say that labor must be performed at 9:45 in the morning? This morning I had just rolled out of bed and commenced to relieving myself when I heard a knock at the door, followed by the door opening and the heralding of a maintenance man come to paint my water heater closet. I had worked out with the

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1145567941908123872006-04-20T16:55:00.000-04:002006-04-20T17:19:02.006-04:00

The Smashing Pumpkins website is back up after being down for a few years. There's also a new SP guitar book on Amazon, so I hope my neighbors don't mind hearing the opening riff from the song Siva for days on end this summer.

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Legal AnimaticsOne possible place for my skills to pay the bills. Cracker got to get paid, son.

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1144442843478566432006-04-07T16:41:00.000-04:002006-04-07T16:54:24.130-04:00

I found this article on Slashdot, about how computer design software has weakened drawing skills in the current crop of art students. It's kind of reassuring to know that I'm not alone in thinking that, and also that there are others with my same problem. When I started pursuing art in a serious manner my approach was from a musical and theatrical/technical background. These parlayed well into

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Quick link: The Simpsons Movie trailerJust links and no actual content pertaining to me? This is called the Gerry method. :)

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2 remixed with Dubya doing the vocals. Pure ineffable genius.

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Star Wars TV series confirmed"It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers."Hmm... this sounds so familiar. An adopted farmboy with paternal issues who is destined for greatness hangs out with his friends in the middle of nowhere and eventually meets an old person who tells him of his future. Perhaps the planet Coruscant is so

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1142631422264512422006-03-17T15:11:00.000-05:002006-03-17T16:37:02.336-05:00

The once steel tough fabric of a Union man Was sold and Bartered away Fed to money wolves in the Reagan years, Caught in a drift in greedy nineties days So inside this song is our rally cry chorus: Your dreams are in danger, and "We Must Rise" Our time has come we are under the gun "It's Do or Die" Its not a rebel cry of some socialist Scheme to push for human rights Just the facts an

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"And finally I'm going to thank all the booksellers of the world. Remember, "Brokeback Mountain" was a book before it was a movie. From the humblest paperback exchange to the masters of the great bookshops of the world. All are contributors to the survival of the culture of the book. A wonderful culture, which we mustn't lose. Thank you." - from Larry McMurtry's oscar acceptance speechThis speech

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I saw this on the Onion A.V. Club- set your mp3 player to random and list the first five songs that come up without skipping any, then comment on each. I used my iPod, which only has a small portion of the music on my computer at work, hence no Smashing Pumpkins bootlegs or Muncie music.Lonely- Tom WaitsA Tom Waits song all about being alone in a room full of people- of course it resonates with

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1140907079954292062006-02-25T16:23:00.000-05:002006-02-25T18:29:53.786-05:00

Since moving here, I've found that this area lacks many the resources that I enjoyed in Fort Wayne, such as access to independent and foreign films. There's a theater that shows a few independent movies, but most of the really interesting releases never make it this far into no man's land. I've subscribed to Netflix in order to fill this void. So far, my movie cue consists of a couple classic

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"Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair." -John SteinbeckThis is from his acceptance speech for the 1962 Nobel prize in literature. It resonates with me, hence it goes here for digital posterity.

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First off, here's an embedded Google text ad from the spam folder section of my gmail account:Spam, bacon, sausage and spam, if I'm not mistaken. Google ads work by scanning the page for any word that matches the meta tag words in their ad database. As a result, the overzealous ad script found "spam" (used as a negative term here) and served up an ad for MRE-grade meat-based spam fajitas in a

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I'm not actually dead, though the prospect loomed unnervingly close in the past two weeks when I had the flu and then a pretty bad sore throat. I couldn't talk, but it took me a few days to realize this, as I don't talk much. I came down with the flu during the last DS Halo fragfest- cold sweats, nausea, headache, the works. I still managed to win four out of five rounds either by myself or

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Two excerpts from Sweeney Todd:"Mrs Mooney has a pie shop.Does a business, but I notice something weird,lately all her neighbor's cats have disappeared.""There's a hole in the world like a great black pit,and the vermin of the world inhabit it,and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spitand it goes by the name of London. "Why? Because I just read a rumor that Tim Burton will direct a movie

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Most news blog sites have lists of notable events, memes, and novelties that made an impact on various factions of society in 2005. The compulsion to code and quantify such ephemera is not lost on me, and while I can't really explain this, I recall Nick Hornby explaining the phenomena of lists in his novel High Fidelity. Anyway, here is my list of things I enjoyed in 2005.Comics:I met Geoff

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The sonuvabitch works!!!! Bwa-hahaha! The button states all highlight correctly, the menu doesn't jump nearly as bad as it used to! It all links back to the main screen like it's supposed to! It was due at noon, and I just got it working now seven and a half hours later, but by Yoda it's working.You just can't rush art. Or this, either.

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1133974682992985912005-12-07T11:39:00.000-05:002005-12-07T11:58:03.056-05:00

Last night Jessie and I saw the Empire Brass in concert in Sursa. I was pretty worn out before that from a day spent working on projects, but I walked out feeling great. One of the many highlights of the evening was hearing Rondo alla Turka played on a tuba. These people are amazing.The documentary is pretty well in the can. I'm going to add some music that Scott and I forgot last night and

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1133462475025340102005-12-01T15:02:00.000-05:002005-12-01T13:41:56.116-05:00

Here's something for visual-types and internet tab users such as myself- foxpose. It adds a little box at the bottom the browser window that displays clickable thumbnails of all the tabs you have open. Install 1.5 first, though.The rough cut of the IGT documentary is done, so this weekend we'll go back to editing. Nothing major needs to change, thankfully, just a lot of cutting in one

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1133363731344399172005-11-30T10:06:00.000-05:002005-11-30T10:28:35.420-05:00

Here are two reasons so far this week for me to feel smug: article and article. The first article says that introverts get more out of independent thought than people who require external stimuli to constantly entertain them. The second article is my favorite, though: visually-minded people have better creative ability and often filter out a lot of information.Scott and I were up quite late

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1133292521114480972005-11-29T14:28:00.000-05:002005-11-29T14:28:41.130-05:00

So it's come to this- I'm a media darling again. (If I wasn’t so opposed to wearing yellow and purple, I could be a Laker) Last week I got to test the new xbox for the CMD, and then I was interviewed by the CMD, newslink, and the star press for the aforelinked story. The console that I tried ran pretty well, with none of the crashing bugs that I read about on Slashdot last week. There don’t

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1132159430962078922005-11-16T11:07:00.000-05:002005-11-16T11:43:51.023-05:00

Here's a little preview (no video, sorry) of my forthcoming documentary with Scott on the Indiana Ghost Trackers: I have footage of one of them interviewing a moderately mentally handicapped guy about a ghost of a little girl that talks to him though an oscillating fan in his room. The fan had no comment at the time of the investigation.SNAFU: my animation project is behind schedule, to the point

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Here's me incrementally burning my fifteen minutes of fame: iPod finger. I was interviewed last week by a collumnist for the Star Press that my boss knows and who is married to a guy I'm working with in the Journalism department, neither of whom know Kevin Bacon. The print piece has my mug grinning above an illustration of what using an ipod is supposedly doing to my poor joints. Honestly, I

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You've got to be kidding me. Pretty soon it'll be possible to do the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.Halloween weekend was fun, ergo I didn't get anything done, ergo I haven't had time to blog this week. Last Friday Gerry and I went to a basement party at the house next door. Usually these are worth making an appearance at, as the young lady of the house is quite pleasant to be around, but

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On the issue of USA Today altering a photo of Condi Rice:I used to do digital image correction for a living (well, at least for Taco Bell money) during undergrad. It's standard practice to sharpen the eyes of any subject, as it makes the photo more attention-grabbing. People notice eyes more than anything else in the photo. I don't believe that this was done on purpose. I don't really even care

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I was under the impression that the universe and I had an understanding: don't bug me when I'm eating alone unless you know me. Seems logical, right? Today, this social contract was broken by a bespectacled tablewipe with a penchant for gab. I was sitting at a table, just reading a newspaper and eating my waffle fries, when the cleaning guy came to wipe down the table next to me. He asked me if

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1130350327242199462005-10-26T12:44:00.000-05:002005-10-26T13:12:07.300-05:00

Back to the academic grind for me today. Not academic in the traditonal sense, perhaps, as I'm rendering a movement test right now. The arms get a little weird when they're raised above shoulder level.I bought a new amp yesterday- a decently badarse 500 watt that's a behemouth compared to my little practice amp. I had resisted getting a larger amp before now because I didn't need anything huge

Loyal Vhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05347021090724974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807163.post-1130141783728653252005-10-24T02:25:00.000-05:002005-10-24T03:16:23.853-05:00

Thanks to what I suspect were updates to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in blogger, my old blog template didn't really work anymore. You may have noticed the gaps in the top of the page large enough to insert a proper analogy about the size of the gap, and then some. I'm still trying to decide if I like the monochrome green.

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Trading one campus for another, I'm currently sitting in the Middle Ground coffee shop in the middle of Kenyon. I'm here for the family weekend, when the students somehow drop what they're doing to indulge a mob of blood-related tourists. Michael has been gracious enough to show us all the places he would be going to anyway, like his room (messy as mine), the newspaper office, and other points

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And Dummy begat Dummy:This is the first render I've done of my latest creation- a marionette for my animation project.All of the joints are articulated like a puppet would be, and it even has kung-fu grip modeled after GI Joe circa 1968. My next challenge is to build a skeleton for it and make a cloth kimono that will move realistically, then see if I can make some sort of gravity field. If I

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Serenity was awesome. Comparing it on its own merits to the Star Wars prequels on their own merits, Serenity is a better movie. I think it helps to have seen the Firefly TV series that precedes the movie, but most people I've talked to disagree.I'm really tired. My days are filled with things I really enjoy doing, but I think I've reached a saturation point. I'm doing all kinds of production

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The transition to cooler weather here is usually one of my favorite times of the year because my allergies don't bother me anymore. This week, as the pollen count dropped, I got a cold, so I felt kind of crappy for a few days. Especially Sunday, when I had allergies and a cold. Monday night I quarantined myself in my apartment to get healthy again, and got a fair amount of reading done during

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I haven't blogged lately because I've been helping so many other people with their blogs lately that I'm a little tired of it. The university is sponsoring a group of students to blog and podcast about life at BSU. That is, everything is furnished by the school, but the school doesn't have any editorial control over the content. It should be a good project. I did research over the summer

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Yesterday this blog turned 2. The past year (as marked by this blog's age) passed much faster for me than the first year when I was working in Fort Wayne. My posting regimen has dropped off considerably, due to the ammount of work and other opportunities I have now. I started this blog because I had nothing else to do, and now I'm so busy that I often can't think of good topics.

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While I've been away at school my parents have carried on with various forays into modern technology, at times without the direct supervision of my brother or myself. A few weeks ago my Dad got a camera phone, so now I get pictures of the dogs in my e-mail every once in a while. This is innovative in a way, as the intended use of a camera phone is to take blurry, washed-out snapshots of car

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Things are starting to approach stability here. My schedule is free of conflicts and I think I know my weekly routine for work, class, and school work. Computer animation will be just as time-consuming as I remember it from USF. Visual Storytelling, it turns out, is a documentary film-making class. I don't know what I'm going to do for that project yet but I get to work with a friend who

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After much running around, I believe I have a workable schedule:Grad-level Computer Animation (art)Digital Story Design (icom)Visual Storytelling (journalism)My work hours are mostly in the mornings, and my classes are in the afternoon/evenings.I really hope this works. I got used to drawing up my own schedules in undergrad, where my advisor would sign anything I put in front of him. Now I'm

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Let me be clear: cookies and I go back a long time. Despite my slight build, I love cookies in a very deep and meaningful way. When I saw a new kind of soft cookie for sale, the "soft baked Chips Ahoy," I naturally wanted to try them. The competing (and far superior) "soft batch" cookies from keebler are a favorite of mine, and they always remind me of one of my old roommates. This new kind? Not

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Yesterday:At a quarter after 7:00, I awoke to the sound of trees being pruned and the wood being shredded in the parking lot outside my window. As I was leaving for work, I discovered that all of the music on my iPod was gone after some technical difficulties I had the previous night. I was digging in my bag and got a paper cut. I got to work and was told that because the icom grant dried up, my

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I've been messing around with the beta version of M$'s new "Acrylic" vector graphic program. I like what I see thus far. Hopefully this is free like windows paint. It's quite useful if you know Adobe Illustrator well. One thing that I love about it is the tracing option. Illustrator has the option of tracing vector lines over raster graphics, but it's just point, click, hope for the best. Acrylic

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I thought about sending this link only to my brother, but this is the sort of thing that must be shared with as much of the world as possible: Conan O'Brien vs Bear.

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Hypothetical situation:If you ran a big expensive web server, would you delegate the responsibility of fixing a mid-grade but oft-recurring security issue to a sleep-deprived student worker making minimum wage? How many other state-funded institutions could get away with this, or do get away with this? Just a hypothetical, mind you.

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I was in Hobby Lobby earlier (craft-kitsch for miles) looking for linoleum for ink prints. That's not the point, though, just the context. As I was searching through the bizarre menagerie of truly awful decorative crap, I passed an old lady in a wheelchair being pushed by another woman. The elderly matron was stooped forward with that sort of listless expression that old people get upon the

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Things I have accomplished at work today:Unlocked door.Found that I am the only one here.Logged in.Checked work e-mail, confirmed that half of the department is out for one reason or another.Checked personal e-mail.Turned on music, updated podcasts.Started working on Emens calendar stuff.Found conch shell, blew into it. Nobody came to investigate.Worked on Emens calendar stuff.Watched the

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On Saturday I went to Indy to see the movie Howl's Moving Castle and a Black Keys concert. Between these events, I wandered around as I am prone to do when given leisure time in a city. Howl's Moving Castle was great. Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli have created another fun, complex children's movie full of amazing characters and locations. I thoroughly enjoyed it. After the movie, I drove to Broad

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Those of you who use Google Earth, try this:Go to 29˚ 20'16.54 N, 101˚ 42'17.56W. The object itself is diffacult to see, but the shadow on the ground is unmistakably a giant easel. This is the world's largest Van Gogh sunflowers copy, located in Goodland, Kansas. I was marooned in that little town during a blizzard while on a trip during undergrad, and I haven't forgotten this landmark.Edit: The

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I work as a happy little cog in the university PR machine, so periodically I look at what other schools are doing to promote themselves, then figure out how to do it better. Case in point, the map. Well, I just got a link that blows us away. Franklin and Marshall University has a great little animated pitch for applying to their school. If you like Terry Gilliam or historical humor, then give

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This is my new clock. It came with a craptastic Office Depot logo on the face, so I painted over it. It's a cloud from Super Mario Brothers, those of you who missed the 8-bit era. Click on it to see the full-res version and my decidedly sub-pre-Raphaelite brush control.

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