| What didn't happen |
[Jan. 27th, 2010|04:16 pm] |
From what I saw, this is what I took away from the iPad launch.
- No wireless update.
- No camera.
- Display will be just as dim in sunlight as the iPhone.
- At 1.0 the interface is lacking anything revolutionary.
- No pen input option.
- No pressure sensitivity.
- Doesn't support full HD.
- 1024 resolution is a bare bones resolution.
- Locked OS, no normal Mac OS version.
All that said, a $500 option for replacing my 5 yo PowerBook is a really good option. But what I'd really like it to hack the hell out of it in a separate boot mode. |
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| You can't have my money anymore |
[Jan. 20th, 2010|11:05 am] |
Back in 2000, I voted for Al Gore. I didn't want to. I wanted Ralph Nader. This was in Oregon where Nader was really popular--for at least 5% of us. The election could have gone to Bush had it not been for enough politically minded bean counters who saw the possible result of splitting the vote and advocated for Gore.
My friends warned me of the doom and gloom to follow a Bush victory. They told how bad it would be for LGBT equality. So I voted for Gore. In the end, Gore barely won Oregon.
The lesson learned was that a third party is a dangerous thing to Democrats and Republicans.
Last year, I voted for Obama. He was going to be our fierce advocate. We would se an end to DOMA and DADT.
Nothing has happened. There has been no measurable progress in these areas at all. In many respects, things are now worse. Obama has openly mocked protesters, his justice department has defended anti-gay laws, police are unlawfully arresting people like in the days of Stonewall, state marriage laws are eroding away.
As a community, we're told to be patient. That the president has a lot on his plate. To that I say, one thing to can do to take things off your plate is to repeal DADT. It literally takes more effort keeping that policy in effect than it does to stop enforcing it. I also expect my government to multi-task.
To all this, I've decided that until my party starts actively--and fiercely--advocating for us, they can't have my money nor my vote. We've giving them all of our support (save LCR) to no avail. I don't see the point.
Same goes for you assholes at HRC. |
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| I'm my husband's fierce advocate |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|07:34 pm] |
I remember there was this one time...
I was at my husband's store hanging out with the crew, and customer's we knew came and went as they do. I was profoundly struck by how obtuse customers can be. It's probably why I would never survive in retail (and I tried), because I see Richard and Barry "on stage" every day and manage people who act like children. They dump their kids at the store and leave, the sit on the floor and read entire issues, they keep months and months worth of comics in their pull box (combo of a mail box and layaway) at a time, and it's all good. Why? Because Zeus want's their business.
And these customers say the darnedest things! "I saw those at Target for less," when looking at some toys. "Are you closing?" they seem to ask that every time Zeus has a sale. And my personal favorite, "I already read that online." |
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| The Variants Web Series Episode 5 |
[Dec. 3rd, 2009|10:34 am] |
It's here (despite whatever AWJ might have mentioned at The Voice, we were live by 7am on YouTube). My best man, Scott Kurtz, guests stars with Dave Crosland in this episode.
Right now, I'm putting together a "how I did it" video for the special effects shot. Should be up in a day or so, in the meanwhile, enjoy!
[meanwhile...]
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| Hey, what's that game? |
[Dec. 2nd, 2009|01:09 pm] |
On the mac, there was this 256 color adventure game. It looked like a flat shaded cartoon, very minimalist.
The intro is a guy who arrives at his office at night in his sports car, sits in front of his science machine and gets zapped to another planet. It reminds a lot of Prince of Persia, but the art style is really simple and almost of a 60's retro look.
I seem to recall a second game by the same company in a similar vein.
Anyone?
[update] This is it: http://www.mobygames.com/game/out-of-this-world |
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| The Variants "Halloween" Promo |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|11:00 am] |
The Variants Episode 4 is coming. It's spoooky!
Watch more of this web series comedy about life at a comic book shop at our site http://www.thevariants.com and twitter @variants
The final edits of Ep 4 are almost done. I still have a couple of transitions to insert, some color and sound correction. Plus, we're working with a composer to get some soundtrack work.
The promo was really fun to put together, though I have to admit that I'm really novice at After Effects.
Enjoy! |
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| dvd presales |
[Oct. 5th, 2009|07:14 am] |
Episode 3 of The Variants is going live Wednesday. Now that that's out of the way, I'm looking into what involved in dvd production. I could go the way of Red vs Blue and just burn them from my machine and mail them out. I could also create one master and have a distributor handle all that.
I guess it would depend on the number of sales. |
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| Google Reader |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|08:55 am] |
Who here uses Google Reader?
I used to make use of NetNewsWire but between my job and at home, I found it much easier to use Google Reader because it doesn't require syncing.
Ana Marie Cox started posting shared items she read and recommended/commented on and I thought that was a nifty idea. Here's mine: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/12623364959904645728
Let me know if you have one! |
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| For the nerds (including mattycub) |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|10:22 am] |
Before hitting up the generally unfriendly tech forums, I though I would ask you folks first.
On my mac, I run Parallels for .NET web development. When I build my solution, it launches IE to http://localhost:3873/
However, this won't work on any mac browsers. Does anyone know how to get my "pc" localhost to work on the mac? |
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