# Friday, October 31, 2003

Well, Peter wants to develop his spying abilities, so I thought I'd brush up on my own as well.

I think that before the fighting, shooting, skydiving occurs, it's important for a spy to be able to gather background information on enemies or assets.  So I decided to do some digging.  Let's just say I uncovered some rather disturbing things.  I'll be posting some more of my results in the coming days.

posted on Friday, October 31, 2003 3:47:49 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [4]
# Thursday, October 30, 2003
Object Persistence for any medium
posted on Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:11:29 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Wednesday, October 29, 2003
posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:15:11 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Well, my monitor appears to be failing.  Even as we speak, I'm being wowed with a beautiful assortment of flashing colors.  Unfortunately, this time the cable is not the culprit.  I fear the worst...

Looks like I'm gonna need a new monitor sooner than I had hoped.  This is probably as good a time as any to jump headlong into the LCD flat panel world.  I went to Fry's to check some out this evening to check some out.  To keep me in my current feature set, I would need 1600x1200 resolution.  This doesn't appear to be possible for under $1000.  My LCD-related requirements are:

  • At least 500:1 Contrast Ratio
  • At least 400 cd/m2 Brightness
  • DVI AND Analog (VGA) inputs -  This way I don't have to upgrade my video card immediately
  • At least 1280x1024 resolution

Fry's got a nice 19" Sony and a 19" Samsung that meet my requirements.  I'll have to figure out which one soon.

posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:42:02 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Sunday, October 19, 2003

I'm going to try to explain this as concisely as possible.  For a long time now, I've wanted to do a video where a character does really dramatic slow motion things to the music from "The Natural" specifically the part where he hits the home run and the stadium lights explode.  Then, as the video progresses he does more and more mundane things until at the end he's doing something really stupid like dramatically eating cereal in slow motion.

I've never really had a good ending or any kind of real plot to it...until today.  He needs a partner, one who at first is completely obsessed with being as dramatic as he is, but whever he tries it, he fails miserably, falling on his face or running into something, or dropping/breaking something.

Then, as the dramatic character does more and more mundane things dramatically, the roommate (or however he's related) gets more and more annoyed that he's not as dramatic as his roommate.  Then, during the one-upsmanship, the lesser roomate dies somehow, like leaps to catch a falling knife and gets stabbed.  Then, the final scene is of the dramatic guy reading the newspaper in slow motion with some stupid headline like, "Non-dramatic man dies".

So, what I need are some things that would be really funny in dramatic slow-motion with "The Natural" music, and some things that could go wrong if the not-dramatic guy tried to do them.

posted on Sunday, October 19, 2003 8:34:25 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [4]
# Saturday, October 18, 2003
I'm interesting in if people are having problems
posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:26:48 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [2]
# Tuesday, October 14, 2003

I've updated my PDC Wishlist.

posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:22:24 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Here's an experimental entry
posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:57:48 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]
# Tuesday, October 07, 2003
I can't wait
posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:05:17 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [4]