So, I’m still at work– look at that timestamp!! …after a particularly brutal weekend bout with Final Cut Pro, who made me its bitch. I’ll spare you the gory details, and leave it at this: I had to redo nearly two days worth of editing today. Errr… yesterday. So, I’m sitting here, waiting for the…
Category: ramblings
Shiny new cell phone, same old number
Well, it’s not new honestly— it belonged to my wife. But it is in fact shiny, so there’s that. Anyway, the upshot is for all of you who tried to call me in the last week or so, but couldn’t get ahold of me because my damn Treo wouldn’t ring on incoming calls (amidst other…
Hudson Leick
I really enjoyed her as Callisto on on Xena, but honestly— she scares me. But in a good way.
Blowers mar the joy of leaves
I find that I often agree with Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies, and again, I agree with him here, in a small essay against the most evil of powered lawn implements: the leaf blower. http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-edt-ebert14.html As a side note, I have often said that if, at some point, I am to be responsible for a…
Humble pie.
I had a humbling conversation this morning with an editor friend, about how when you’re around people more creative than you, you feel energized, like you’re going to suck some of it up just by being around them; whereas when you spend a great deal of time around people duller than you, you’re made to…
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
I have never seen so many bad Terminator, Total Recall and bodybuilding puns in all my life, and it’s all because of this: Schwarzenegger Wins Davis Is Ousted as California Governor in Recall Election
Microwave Grape Plasma
Don’t try this at home, kids. http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/lpl/grapeplasma/