The theme from the old LucasArts game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders seems to be especially popular for latter-day remixes. Case in point — I was digitizing an old mixtape, and discovered I had both a basic remix and a “House” version created as Amiga MOD Tracker remixes by a friend of mine, Mark […]
My friend Rob Rhyne has been suspended from Twitter for the past week or so because of circumstances beyond his direct control. I submitted this to their support ticket system today:
Rob has essentially lost his voice in this matter to the Twitter community, so I’m trying to help bring this to the attention of […]
Many times in my edit review screenings, I’ve had a need to pull up a timecode display quickly and easily in Final Cut Pro, so the producer can see where we are and make notes about the cut with at least rough TC. But unlike Avid editors who are used to being able to easily […]
Two months ago, on my birthday, I decided to treat myself (and my wife) to see Watchmen opening day on a big-ass IMAX screen. Now, Watchmen wasn’t shot on IMAX like parts of The Dark Knight were (which we’ll get to later), but I’ve seen the IMAX blow-ups before, and they do a damn good […]
My client who ran into this problem is using a brand new Mac Pro (Early 2009/Nehalem) with two NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 display cards. This dual-card setup seemed to be the most expedient option, since they wanted to use two of the new 24″ LED Cinema Displays, and each GeForce GT 120 has one Mini […]
Commemorating the legendary consumption of Strawberry Napoleons at the NSCoderNightDC meetings at La Madeleine in Bethesda.
Inspired by @amyjane‘s tweet in February of 2008 about her husband falling down the stairs, which kicked off months of geeks in the Mac community using the word "Jiminy!" as the exclamation du jour. This is the tee that I sketched out a design for over a year ago, but just finally got around to making, for no other reason than I still want one. If you want one too, then by all means, have at it!