Not a front for a secret organization.
Written by Rob Schultz (human).
My second set at this particular show. It's the first time I've done this bit on stage in over a year. Felt pretty good. So I'm sharing:
PS: This audio clip is my first production made in FCPX. A rousing success! How will it stand up to additional experiments, with picture? Stay tuned!
What a day!
So I'm getting ready this morning for MaxFunCon (3D!) and what happens? The delivery truck shows up with my Apple Design Award! They brought it on a flatbed, so all the neighbors knew what it was pretty much immediately. Once the movers left, I had to go grab my camera to show you guys:
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Giving my award a hug:
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Unfortunately, because there's a step to enter the house, the movers had to leave it outside. Something about their contract. It's bloody heavy.
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Actually, I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to get it into the house.
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I'm in a hurry this morning, to do airport runs and then get everyone out to the 'Con, so I'll just have to figure it out when I get back, I guess. I hope my roommates aren't going to be mad. I had to just put it on a cinder block so it doesn't kill as much of the lawn.
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Apparently, one of my hobbies lately has been writing most of a new post and then saving it and then not finishing it at all. But what I wish my hobby had been lately is... Polluting bittorrent trackers with copies of films that are indistinguishable from the original. Except that I've gone through and replaced any existing titles with virtually identical titles that match in content and size, motion, function, etc. And they're in some asinine typeface like Mead Bold.
I'd sneak my way on to trackers under a variety of addresses and accounts, seed my copies of popular movies, and vanish into the night!
This would work especially well on movies where the title doesn't display until the very end of the film. It'd be hard to check for, and make a lot of piratey people swear.
inception
aladdin
the killer
APES! - 04 - Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes.avi-1
enfants terribles
new jack city.avi
I can't quite decide if it's better on a serious movie or a ridiculous movie:
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I like the laziness of this one:
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And I suppose this was a given:
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Now all I need is the maniacal fanbase that can spread out and do my evil bidding for me...
Mr. Hodgman recommends 30 minutes of writing. I got a bit of a late start, but 22 minutes is like a network half-hour of writing. For your Convenience, A List of Popular Cardboard Box Manufacturers of the Victorian era, in order of preference of the throne:
Don't kid yourself, we're living in the future over here.
Think of that storage! How many times could you store the data of your first hard drive on, for instance, your phone? Crazy.
It's not like I've operated a punch card computer here, but the rate at which neat stuff passes us by is fantastic. (Although, as Louis CK reminds us, we're still not happy.)
I noticed it today as I sometimes do - in an electronics store. And not for the first time. It's happened to me before, in a gamestop, when an employee was trying to describe the then-elusive and sold-out classic controller accessory for the Wii. Because I'm very helpful, I jumped in and said it looks just like a Super Nintendo controller. Yeah, says the clerk, but with sticks. Kid customer turns to me then. "What's that?" What's what? "What's a Super Nintendo?" Right. I'll just be going now. Can't be late for the bus back to the retirement center or I'm stuck in gamestop for a week.
Today, it was by my lonesome, in a Best Buy, checking out camcorders. And for around $100, I can get a thing that fits in my pocket and shoots 1080p. That's one hundred United States Dollars. That's crazy. And I considered it briefly. It'd be just fine to shoot some shorts for the internet, and I could do some post trickery and make it look perfectly usable - more than youtube needs, anyhow. The hardest part would be trying to get actors to take it seriously when it's sitting on its tiny tripod. The SVHS shoulder mounted monstrosities I shot on at SCTV weighed a ton, but at least you had an air of authority during an interview.
And even then, what I was doing was more or less a technological miracle! This used to be so hard - at least by comparison. It used to require taking dozens of actual photographs per second! You had to wait until Thomas Edison invented a way to develop your film before you could even see what you'd shot! And what do we do with all this completely amazing stuff? Well, we do the exact same thing humans have been doing with motion picture technology for the past 120 years. If only Étienne-Jules Marey and his big luxurious beard could see what he'd started....