July 19, 2010
July 18, 2010
Daily #199: Fixing the damn html (dammit I suck!)
[meta: seriously, this is how bad its gotten, i am reposting a blog i posted earlier tonight, only i made the damn thing almost work.]
With this I think I am officially caught up, even though its technically A day behind.
I’ve got an awful lot on my mind, so I think I might just post some awesome rap videos, instead. [redacted, just videos.]
(ok, not a rap video, but they talk fast, it has tom waits, and is awesome.)
I always liked this one for the imagery, not really defending the lyricism, but he did manage a big club hit, and this is the group that produced lil wayne (not a fan, but its always interesting to see the origins. Lil wayne might actually be in this video, but he’d be about 13-14, I remember he had a source interview and was completely incoherent, could mostly talk about his necklace. whatevs.)
[juvenile - ha]
And just a random classic:
[nasislike]
I know I promised more, but I’m in major ketchup mode.
July 17, 2010
Daily #198: Bleghz0rz.
And actually composed a damn response.
[deleted some bitchy whiny bullshit about how much work it all is.]
[still catching up. yes I know I suck.]
[long weekend soon. it may only get worse.]
July 16, 2010
July 15, 2010
Dilay #196: ScriptReview.
A friend sent me a script he had received and sent it to me to check it out, I’m reading it now. Been on the backlog for a bit. I’m not releasing it, I am not editing it, and have no other part other than a friend of mine thought I would like it.
July 14, 2010
Daily #195: And now a week behind.
Well, after the last catchup, I fell off the writing wagon again. Its been a hell of a couple weeks and I am going to be off in the wild yonder again in a couple of days.
Funny, I actually started this a couple days ago as part of yet another half-hearted effort to catch up, of course it didn’t catch. Its interesting that it fell apart a little after 6 months, I wonder if I try to get on the horse with something else that I will have the same period of failure, or if I just actually uniquely had difficulty working through this time of the year. In all fairness I have been really busy lately, there have been a few changes at work that make me actually liable for a lot of pieces of work going on. While I don’t think that actually cuts into my time on the creative front (since I usually don’t do outside work at work, too many issues), it has left me working different hours and feeling a bit overstressed with the rest of life.
Also, I’ve been pretty busy, I was at a wedding a bit over a week ago, and a lot of random life-type things have filled up the schedule.
Of course there is a better reason: burnout. I’m actually writing this about a week behind, but overall, I have just been burn out on everything. Which is weird, because I know what its like to get sick of work, or routine, or even a chaotic situation, but to have just a sudden, complete burn and feel unmotivated even for things that you are continuing to do can be a little unsettling. I recently have managed to not make time for things as simple as playing easy videogames or just getting ready to go to work. Its been going in fits and starts lately, and I think getting back on the horse with this will help, but there is a lot more miscellania coming in the future.
Whatevs, time for more bpaacdkfill.
July 13, 2010
Daily #194: The Closer.
With this I think I am officially caught up, even though its technically A day behind.
I’ve got an awful lot on my mind, so I think I might just post some awesome rap videos, instead. [redacted, just videos.]
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(ok, not a rap video, but they talk fast, it has tom waits, and is awesome.)
I always liked this one for the imagery, not really defending the lyricism, but he did manage a big club hit, and this is the group that produced lil wayne (not a fan, but its always interesting to see the origins. Lil wayne might actually be in this video, but he’d be about 13-14, I remember he had a source interview and was completely incoherent, could mostly talk about his necklace. whatevs.)
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[juvenile - ha]
And just a random classic:
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[nasislike]
I know I promised more, but I’m in major ketchup mode.
July 11, 2010
Daily #192: Soundproof
If it seems like there are a few missing post numbers in the fill-out from the weekend, its because they are marked private, and deal with something of a time-sensitive nature. I will make them public in the future. Otherwise, if you know me, contact me and you can see them, just for personal reasons I can’t make them public just yet (and yes, everything is fine).
July 9, 2010
Daily #190: Transcription.
[This is a series of backfills from the last weekend where I was pretty much away from computers.]
I made a switch to google voice recently. Not for the complete service, just for the voicemail forwarding and its already been indispensible, but humorous. Throughout the weekend, I actually was out in my hometown which still has spotty cell coverage at best. Typically, I never check my voice mail, but I just call or SMS people back directly. Google voice was handy because i was getting SMS transcriptions of the actual message, even when I didn’t get the call.
However, transcription is not a perfect art, yet. The results can be entertaining. I just received the following from an indian restaurant:
I’ve got your auto. From are eat 2040. Please give me a call before I start making your order. Thank you. My number is 6 political 4 and 53451028. Phone Number (415) 245-1028. Thank you.
My dad saw the service and was very hopeful, he has been dreaming of a good Speech-To-Text system for years, so he doesn’t have to learn how to type.
I would rather play typing of the dead.
July 8, 2010
Daily #189: Unprepared.
I lost a lot of retail value with this comment:
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OMG! Gruber farted an opinion about apple!
I wonder if he thinks their new products and direction are the future of technology.
If anything, he might have been too hard on apple, in suggesting that they do something different than the exact thing that they did, because apple is flawless with marketing and product differentiation. And the iPad is _fast_.
I can’t wait for more footnotes from the revolution.
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It was in response to this: http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/wwdc_wrapup
I think people went through my old comments and downvoted them to prove a point.
The point being that they are better entrepreneurs than me because they like apple, and have flagging privilege on an internet forum.
Fight the power!