JOURNAL: Bowler

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  • BwahahahHAHAHAAaaaaah. 2002-04-09 13:24:52 1337 hits. Can't believe I caught it at that.

    I now return you to your regularly scheduled journal perusal. 
  • Eetsa gole! 2002-04-09 09:50:18 If you like soccer (or football depending on what country you hail from), or even if you don't, and you like Nike's treatment of commercials (I do), get thee to

    www.nikefootball.com

    ::WARNING:: BROADBAND USERS ONLY. VERY VERY FLASH/AUDIO INTENSIVE ::WARNING::

    Click on the "secret tournament" link, and find the "see the commercial" link.

    Just a fun, cool concept. We were going to do something like this for our Redcard game, but didn't. I'm hoping we do a side-game like this for Redcard 2. 
  • You sir, are an idiot. 2002-04-08 12:02:57 Had some fun today at Alpha Graphics.

    I've been on an anti-Kinko's stint now ever since the last time I was there and practically had to shout at the doorknobs working behind the counter so I could get some service and leave.

    When customers have to leave money on the counter and walk out because no one behind the counter will help them, your business could use some customer service.

    So anyway, I had ten color prints to make at AG today.

    So I walk in, and notice that there aren't any prices on the service board. I ask the first guy I see. He looks like a manager.

    Me: "Excuse me, but do you have any rate sheets?"

    M: ::snide look, as if he were talking to a mere child:: He obviously thinks I'm just some stupid kid in his orange coat who wants to print out some porn, not a businessman. "No...just what you see on the board."

    Me: "Well, how much do you charge for color prints? I'd like to know what your difference is between Color Laser and Techtronix Phaser prints."

    M: ::stupified look:: Now dumbfounded that this 'kid' might know something about his business. "Uh...this guy here can help you."

    Dumb Guy walks over. He looks to be about 40, and overweight.

    DG: "Can I help you?"

    Me: ::sigh:: "I need 10 color prints of this file on this disk."

    DG: ::doubtful tone of voice:: "What...*program* is it?"

    Me: "It's a jpeg."

    DG: "What kind of disk is it? Mac or PC."

    My brain reels at his stupidity. It doesn't f'n matter. If *only* had PCs in this establishment, I could see it being an issue if I had a Mac disk, but there's an iMac posing as a cash register right there, and Macs read both PC and Mac format disks. So why even ask the question? Oh that's right, because you're STUPID.

    Me: "It's a PC."

    DG: "Well, we *might* be able to help you. Let's take a look."

    Yes, lets! He waddles over to the only PC in the entire place (can't say I blame them, I'd use all Macs too if I ran a print shop). He interrupts the defrag that's currently running (why didn't they do this overnight?!?) and restarts the system. Win98 boots up. Win98. That's the newest OS they could get? It's FOUR YEARS OLD. The PC doesn't look much better, either. It's a Compaq Desktop. Looks to be a PII 400 at best. Probably more like a PII 200.

    DG puts disk in, and copies the file to the desktop. Then he tries to open Photoshop. It's Photopshop 6.0, so it's takin FOREVER. I'm in a hurry. I'm getting late for work here. Just give me my disk back so I can go, thank you.

    Photoshop locks up. He doesn't realize it.

    DG: "Why does Photoshop take so long to load?"

    Me: "You're locked up there."

    DG: "Huh? Oh!"

    At least he knows how to use task manager and shuts down Pshop manually. I'm still in a hurry.

    Me: "You know, you could just use Internet Explorer to open the .jpeg if you just need to check if the copy worked."

    DG: "Oh, we need to make sure it opens in Photoshop because that's what we're going to print it from."

    GET. OUT. You mean to tell me that you can't fucking transfer a Pshop .jpeg file from PC to Mac if it won't print from the PC?!?! Are you that f'n retarded? Why are you working at a print shop if you don't know how to make your way around a computer?!?!

    I swear to god, it was all I could do to keep from yelling "Lemmidoit!" and pushing the guy out of the chair. It took me less time to burn that file (and more) onto the CD than it did for him to figure out how to copy it to his desktop and check the file. I have no patience for retards.

    Hope this was entertaining. 
  • Bla bla blabbity bla. 2002-04-06 21:48:34 At my friend's house tonight waiting for LAN goodness to begin. We're going to CounterStrike it up 'till the break of dawn, evidently, as dawn is coming an hour earlier tonight. I just know I'm going to have one of those video gaming head/body aches come morning from lack of sleep and muscle tension when playing.

    This basement has to be seen to be believed. Right now there's HALO being played across four X-boxes. Four guys are splitting the big eight foot wide projection screen, one guy's playing on the monitor on the N64 in-store kiosk screen, and four more are splitting just your average 35" high def TV. The other Xbox is being run through a PC monitor, but it isn't being used right now. I should also mention that there are no less than eight other monitors plugged into gaming devices (Dreamcasts, Playstations, PS2s, etc) throughout the basement going unused right now.

    ::drool::

    I'm in gaming heaven.

    So anyway, all this demo reel video editing has me itching to go back and do my Bebop video that I gave up on. I'm still having two major problems.

    One: I still can't figure out how to rip .avi clips. It's the most basic beginner thing to do, and it's like I just don't get it. The .avi clips I rip are un-useable in any application, so I must be doing something wrong. I'm going to attend the video editing seminars at Acen this year, and hopefully someone will be able to walk me through it. I've tried Ermac's guide, and I follow every step, and it doesn't seem to work. If I could figure out how to rip useable .avi clips from the .vob files I can successfully rip, I'd be in heaven.

    Two: Storage space. I had no idea how much space you need to edit one of these dealies. 0_o It's going to take me longer, but once I figure out how to get .avi clips ripped, I'm going to start ripping a .vob, and then rip all the .avi's I need from it, and then delete the .vob. Then, if need be, I might burn all the clips I'm going to use onto CD and then transfer it over onto my home PC, which has a lot more room, and then edit there. I don't think I'll need to do the last CD transfer step, though.

    I think next weekend I'm going to sit there and WORK on getting just one single file to rip properly. I had to do that with the altamira genuine fractals program today until it *finally* worked properly, so maybe all I need is some patience.

    I JUST WANT TO EDIT ALREADY!!!! :)

    Argh. 
  • I don't want to wake up naked in front of the class... 2002-04-04 17:01:26 Amizadai:

    Augh! Your class thing totally reminded me of my senior year of college. All four years, whenever I'd come back to school from break, I'd forget my class schedule, and I'd panic that I was forgetting to go to a class or something (I still have nightmares about it). I think it stems from me forgetting my locker combination in high school every time I came back from a break.

    So anyway, senior year, I had this class that was called "Introduction to Medieval Society and Culture." I needed one final credit in that compulsary section, and thought "hey, cool! A beginner's guide to the Middle Ages. Sweet!" thinking it would be all about swordfighting, damsels in distress, the Renaissance, castles, kings, et all.

    Well, it was a fricking class on the fall of the Roman Empire, the Pax Romana, and the rise of Western Civilization, thus "introduction" to the period of culture.

    The teacher was a complete moron, and was more interested in drinking 3 pots of coffee and smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day to stain his white beard yellow rather than teach. So I approached my advisor, who told me that not only did I *NOT* need the class to graduate, it was too late to drop the class or switch to pass/fail. So I decided to "fuck it" and just stopped going altogether so I could concentrate on my artwork.

    Fast Forward to the end of the semester, when my friend tells me that the teacher's been asking about me, and that if I submitted a final paper for the class, he'd still pass me! WTF?! I had totally forgotten about the class, and suddenly I realized that I was blowing my Dean's List candidacy on failing this idiot's class.

    I didn't have time to write the paper (I had to put my portfolio in order, and employers don't hire based on grades), so I took a gamble that the guy is just a complete idiot and forget about me.

    Turns out he *was* a complete idiot, and gave me an "incomplete" for the semester. IT WAS MY GRADUATING SEMESTER. I got my diploma, made the Dean's List, and got the hell out of town. About two months later I got an "addendum" to my transcripts that listed me as failing the class. Too late! I'm already gone! You fools! MuhahhaHAHAHAHAHAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa.

    In retrospect, it's not that great a story. Doh well. 
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