• Sympathy Weather

    As anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock is well aware, there’s been some severe weather down around the Gulf of Mexico. In what could be construed as a sympathetic action, our own weather decided to go into “sturm und drang” mode… just a bit. Okay, so it rained off and on, and there were lightning strikes. It’s as if our climate was attempting to show some solidarity with the climate elsewhere in the country.

    And if that’s not an egregious use of anthropomorphism, I don’t know what is. I do know for certain that the heaviest rainfall this evening was saved until the very minute I got off the last bus before home, however. The sky absolutely unloaded for the three or four minutes it took me to get home from the bus stop. Things cleared right up by the time I got inside and up to my room. Go figure.

    If one were the highly paranoid sort, one would take that event coupled with the earlier “it’s not raining, I guess I’ll take this box out to be recycled, oh look it started raining just as I got all the way out to the dumpsters” event as a sign that someone up there isn’t happy with me… good thing I’m not that paranoid, huh?

  • Who had the bright idea of putting ME in charge?

    All I was going to do was check email. Then I was just going to check my RSS feeds.

    Suddenly I’m the head of a small nation. What the hell happened, here?

    It’s all her fault, I tell you. Bah.

  • Video, Games, Video, Games…

    The DVD came out half-right. The second half, that is. For some reason the audio sync on the first episode started out correct and then, about a minute into the show, went horribly wrong. I think I know what went wrong (attempting to trim the video within Nerovision Express, which wouldn’t have been a problem except I was replacing the original audio with a reworked separate track), but I suspect the only way to fix it for the next test burn will be to find a way to trim the raw capture file from outside of NVE, demux the audio track from the resulting file, re-tweak the audio, then put those two files into NVE and not worry about trimming.

    Sure, that should only take a couple of hours. Did I mention that remastering the files takes about five hours for the two episodes? Whew. There’s a day’s work.

    So, today, I’m not going to bother. Instead I’m going to bring over to the kids’ place a bunch of UT2004 stuff… the latest patch, some map packs, a couple of new mutators, a mod, some models, and a stats generator. We’re gonna have fun today! Heck yeah.

  • It Can Be Over Now

    The only thing worse than a hot day in late summer is feeling too lousy to go to work on a hot day in summer, and thus missing out on the joys of air conditioning at one’s office. I understand that tomorrow the temperature’s supposed to top out at around 80. That’s a big step in the right direction. Huzzah, and stuff.

    In other news, a VHS-to-DVD project I’ve been working on for a few days now will bear its first fruit some time in the next hour or so, if all goes well. Wish me luck, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

  • Not Okay, Okay?

    Sitting peacefully in my chair, then suddenly feeling lightheaded and completely disconnected from my body, is not okay.

    This message brought to you by the “I Hate Summer” Committee. I’m ready for more 70-something high temperatures now, thankyouverymuch…

  • Skip the Spider Genitalia

    Who says science can’t be beautiful? Check out the winners and other contestants in the first annual “Art of Science” competition…

    Art of Science Gallery