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Thursday, 3 July 2008 (realms of study) 1:08pm It's nothing millions of fairly dull people before me haven't already figured out how to do, but I've finally learned how to rip a DVD to mpeg4, and then upload it to YouTube. Go me. All I've been able to do so far is that video which Puzzling Evidence shot of the Drive-Out Theater Superhero Skating trip from last January (in which me, Ennui, Bunny, Chicken and KrOB can all be seen at times), mainly because it's the only thing I've had handy at work which was short and at all relevant, but it's a start. Now I just have to dig up the other stuff at home, and—scary!—learn to how to convert VHS. | ||
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Wednesday, 2 July 2008 (the dead flag blues) 5:30pm At Caffe Trieste, getting some writing done before going to Ilene's to continue watching Battlestar Galactica with her. Since we're watching together, it slows the process down some. Pete and Sarah Goldie, on the other hand, are watching it at their own pace and have just finished the second season. In fact, it turns out I got to Bad Movie Night on Sunday just a few minutes after Pete had shown up and subsequently left. Rhiannon called him and told him I made it, so came back to The Dark Room and asked me to go up front and grab a microphone so he could use his megaphone (it's his thing) and ask me questions from the back row: so, if there's a sharon on cylon-occupied caprica with helo and a sharon on the ship who's having an affair with tyrol, then how... It was funny to us, anyway, which is kinda all that matters. My work computer had been officially declared fried. It wasn't anything I could have seen coming. The power supply just up and died, because that's what things do. They break. Thus far we haven't had much luck rescuing the data from my hard drives, especially the stuff on F: with my last three years' worth of office work and passwords and such, not to mention the personal stuff. Nothing is truly irreplaceable—like I said, all my writing is backed up, and that's what means the most to me—but I'm really hoping I can recover it. If not, well, c'est la vie. Things break, they fall apart, and if any of the rumors I've been hearing are true, the second half of 2008 is going to be a major reshuffle. I can't really picture what June 2009 is going to look like, and that's okay. It's part of the adventure. Speaking of times changing, specifically of a time when Vash and I were solid together and Maddy and I were still speaking to each other, I came across a DVD last night of The Gong Show Live! at The Dark Room from February 4, 2006. I was a "celebrity guest host" that night along with Dave McKew and Mikl-Em. It's coincidentally been on my mind lately because I need to put together a more complete curriculum vitae that just my existing readings page. Which ain't bad, as it lists over two hundred performances from the past six years, but it's still incomplete. I need to put together a better demo reel, too. Or one at all. I have various bits of video floating around from assorted shows, and Puzzling Evidence tells me has a bunch of stuff he's shot over the years. (It occurs to me that I don't have work on Friday, being a holiday and all. Which means, in theory, that I can do his show on Thursday night, provided I don't mind severe sleep dep on Friday. Hrm.) Anyway, the video happened to be shot right next to me, so I'm frequently in the foreground, capturing many of my nutty madcap hijinx!, which were both some of the trickiest things I've ever done—the pressure to be funny on the spot was intense—and some of the most rewarding. In any event, it's time to push the career forward, and one of the ways to do that is an ample record of stuff I've done. And even if the career goes no farther, it's nice to have the evidence that I've worked hard. Maybe my mom will be proud of it. | ||
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Tuesday, 1 July 2008 (roll another number) 8:02am Though my archnemesis was not in the office when I arrived this morning at a quarter to eight—that'll learn 'em!—my work computer appears to be fried. July is not getting off to an auspicious start, but at least I didn't get ticketed for driving while talking on my cell phone. Of course, it helps that I didn't use my phone while driving this morning. 12:42pm According to the IT guy—who's actually quite sweet, unlike his predecessor the troll—my computer's power supply is dead, and may have taken the main hard drive with it. If so, I'll need a new system altogether. Whee. Fortunately, all of my writing is also on my laptop and on the Ossuary server, and on a personal level that's only the truly irreplaceable stuff. (A lot of audio and video will be lost, but, well, easy come, easy go.) A couple years' worth of work-related documents would also be kaput, and that'll hurt, but I'll manage. All the important material would have been backed up, but I got the computer in question during the troll's reign, and so it didn't have burning capability. Trolls are like that. Meanwhile, at least I'm getting some work done on the book. Not a whole hell of a lot else I can do. | ||
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