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Everything is wrong
2002-07-09 15:51:28
Apparently, I have done much that is wrong on my AMVs...
all technical.
The music is at the wrong speed and the AVIs are at the wrong resolution.
The result:
For me to have my AMVs on a DVD, I have to do them ALL OVER AGAIN... from the top...
well... not completely from the top... because I have them completed... so I know what footage I used... but it's all gonna have to be redone...
the ripping, the editing, the music files adjusted... all of it.
I don't plan on working on another project until I have all these done.
The good news is I can fix a few things...
LIKE: On my "Lurking..." AMV, I can fix the sound quality and change the red background on the credits.
On my "Outsider" AMV, I can fix the fades a little...
On my "Flash..." AMV, I can shorten the Spoiler Warning.
The only good news is that 2 of my AMVs still have all the work on the computer... so all I have to do with them is change the music... and hope the edits don't get screwed (which according to my friend... shouldn't be a real issue).
Well... it looks like I have months worth of work ahead of me to fix all this. Some of my AMVs I'm very worried about because of the hard work I put in the first time.
Still... the end result of all this work is that I should have a DVD of all my AMVs... and who knows... maybe they'll look better, now that I know my ULEAD program that much better.
Well... that's all for now...
save that a pipe in the plumbing fell out... and now plumbers are invading my apartment...
Later all
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Something Awful
2002-07-03 04:18:01
I was at the Something Awful web page and read this quote from one of their game reviews.
"You know this guy is evil because he never once mentions Jesus Christ."
I don't know why... but that line got me laughing pretty hard.
I don't have much else to say.
Anime Expo is just around the corner... all I have to do is get through this day at work.
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FAIL
2002-07-01 02:26:15
Well... as I suspected, I was outbid on the EBay thingie...
I've been so busy - it's been ridiculous.
I won't be at the ANIME EXPO AMV Contest as I had hoped - but I don't want to go into it.
I had hoped that this person would help me and he didn't and that's all there is to that.
I'm too depressed by the news and the lack of concern anyone has in what's going on in the news. Our president doesn't care about the ideals of the nation and the Republican party seems bent on raping this nation... leaving our future uneducated and in debt... the price we have to pay so they can live the high life.
It just is hard for me to smile
Men in suits with money think they are smart because they have money
They eliminate the general public's views on anything that has value other than money
Then they seem confused why morals are going down the toilet.
Who needs morals in a land where greed is the important factor?
I just have nothing to do here at work other than dwell on things that make me miserable.
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Editorial
2002-06-26 01:55:19
This was a very good Editorial from the LA TIMES - Give it a read.
Bush Overplays the Terror Card
It's 'unpatriotic' to say that corrupt business is ruining our economy.
Has the war on terrorism become the modern equivalent of the Roman Circus, drawing the people's attention away from the failures of those who rule them? Corporate America is a shambles because deregulation, the mantra of our president and his party, has proved to be a license to steal. Yet to question our leaders' stewardship of the economy has been made to seem unpatriotic.
Although combating terrorism is of compelling importance--and should have been before Sept. 11--one is likely to be branded a nut for daring to suggest that the administration might be using current security threats as a smoke screen to obscure our floundering economy.
Yet, after the miserable performance of the stock market these past five weeks, the forced resignations and indictments of corporate titans (not to mention the conviction of a top accounting firm), the humbling of the dollar and a rise in the trade gap, isn't it time to ask whether the war on terrorism isn't being milked as a convenient distraction? The question seems particularly relevant when our man in the White House has had close personal and financial ties to the company--Enron--whose demise is the most glaring symbol of the broad moral disarray of the nation's corporate culture.
Is there any doubt that the chicanery of Enron executives and that of a growing Who's Who of top CEOs has done more long-term damage to the U.S. economy than the efforts of anti-American terrorists? And while sending in the Marines to clean up the boardrooms is not feasible, we ought to wake up to the reality that business greed is subverting the American way of life--and hurting the image of American capitalism and democracy--more effectively than the ploys of any foreign enemy.
When even Martha Stewart is ethically suspect and her company's stock has plummeted--though not quite to the depths of Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco, Dynergy, Wal-Mart and Rite Aid--it is time to return to the wisdom of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Depression-era president who saved capitalism from itself.
Wealthy from birth, FDR had a healthy awareness of the tendency of the upper classes to destabilize society and even destroy themselves with their greed and hubris. Unlike Karl Marx, however, he believed the unraveling of capitalism was not inevitable if these excesses could somehow be corralled. Thus was born the idea of government regulation as the vital support structure for the powerful, fertile but unstable free market.
Unfortunately, greedy people and institutions don't like being monitored, and they have the means to corrupt governments and skirt laws.
Since the so-called Reagan Revolution, powerful corporate interests have succeeded in profoundly damaging the foundation of a properly regulated economy. Company auditors, for example, have become accomplices to deceptions of the public that should be considered criminal but that often do not violate statutes written by corporate lobbyists.
Enron provides a startling illustration of a company jumping through loopholes that its D.C. lobbyists have created. In fact, the Enron scams made possible by deregulation in the first Bush administration are still being revealed, such as last week's reports that the company hid billions in income during the California energy crisis while publicly denying it was profiting excessively.
Yet former Enron officials continue to play an important role under Bush the younger. The Bush family, in fact, has never been seriously confronted by the media or Congress as to its questionable ties to former Enron Chief Executive Kenneth Lay, a close family friend and top contributor to Bush family presidential campaigns.
To be fair, the corporate corruption of our political system has long been bipartisan. The Clinton White House, for example, sponsored major deregulation acts, including the Financial Services Modernization Act, which reversed consumer protections enacted under Roosevelt, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which effectively ended all public accountability for the communications industry and has permitted a few media giants to gobble up vast markets.
Clearly, the problem is bipartisan when a Democrat-controlled Senate moves so hesitantly to confront the myriad examples of sickness in our economy and corporate culture.
The politicians hesitate to act because candidates of both parties are lavishly financed by the very people who are conning a gullible public.
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2002-06-25 10:06:34
Because I want to keep them!!
Anyway... I'm still the #1 bid... I might just win this thing after all.
Good things:
Got vol 3 and 4 of Big O... Now I can get caught up in the series! I already watched 3...and I love this show more and more with each new episode. Dorothy is a great character! Also saw the "Christmas" episode of Big O that starts DVD 4 and that has been one of my favorite episodes since the series started! DOROTHY ROCKS!
Got SEASON 2 OF FUSHIGI YUGI!!!!! I CAN FINALLY SEE THE REST OF THE SHOW!!The boxes for Season 1 and 2 are gorgeous! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the title, because my next project is a FY AMV... but I said I wouldn't make it until I saw Season 2 and had all 52 eps to work from!
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY
Oh... my folks have come to visit - they come up from Massachusetts to visit me once a year in July (and then I go home in December) so I only see them twice a year.
Unfortunately, they're going to be here while I'm at Anime Expo, so I won't be able to see that much of them while they're out here.
Which is some of the bad news.
The only bad news is that my bathroom is flooded.
I was in the shower and my neighbor in the apt below mine HAD to have heard I was in the shower... but they got in the shower as well!! I was hit with scalding water... and so I turned on the hot tap to my sink in the bathroom... but the sink was stuffed up (and I didn't know it was THAT clogged) and while the tap allowed me to keep from getting burned during my shower, I finished to find my floor was completely submerged! The toilet paper had absorbed alot of the overflowing water from the sink (hence, ruining a WHOLE ROLL) and then I had to sponge up as much water on the floor as I could... all the while, I was getting later and later for work...
oh... and my bathroom is infested with ants. Want to know how I found out? The water had entered their ant holes (which I didn't know about) and they swarmed out by the hundreds up my bathroom wall.
I dropped the sponge and got the raid... but I was all out of raid...so I got the TYLEX surface cleaner... and I sprayed the entire regiment of ants...and you know what? It worked! And my shower is sparkling clean once I wiped the ant guts off the wall!
All this while I was getting late for work...
so I sponged up most of the water, threw away the soaked toilet paper, got dressed and jumped into my car...
and I was only 10 minutes LATE!!
Oh... I forgot to mention that my alarm clock didn't go off for some unknonw reason and I missed dinner with my parents... and had little time to take a shower as it was...
What a crummy way to start the day
(and for those who are confused by the phrase - woke up late and couldn't have DINNER with my folks... just know I start work at 10pm and work until 7 am... then things make sense)
AUUUUUGHHH!!
What a day!
"Not only do I think the world owes me a living,
after all I've been through, I think I deserve a raise."
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