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as we travel
2004-12-13 10:52:34
There are 168 hours in a week. If I work 66 of them and use 42 for sleeping, 10 for meals, 7 going to club, and 12 for watching football, how many does that leave for writing, drinking, and working on AMVs? Sure, it comes out to 31, but it feels a lot more like zero. That's the problem with a regular job....or more accurately, with working in this industry; people with "regular jobs" get to go home after they've put their eight hours in. I'm getting paid ok, though; maybe sometime I'll even have enough time off to go to the bank and get paid.
Obviously, I didn't do any work on the video this weekend; I'm short a couple utils (which will shortly be remedied), and I was at work all day Saturday anyways. That may or may not be rmedied depending on when and to what degree we can get the machine working. However, I've got a bunch of decent ideas for the short term, and probably a decent stretch of plant shutdown time around Yul to do them in.
I'm not retired, just working on other projects....most of which have to do with actually getting paid. #89 was released today as well, even if it wasn't screened at Animania on Saturday. Being out of the loop, not to mention out of state, I've got no idea.
Grimlock news:
There may be a parody song released under another name in the near future, but I'm not promising anything. There is also the distinct possibility that I'll be able to get another demo (maybe a 3-4-song EP) written and recorded before I clear off to Germany. Just some riff ideas at this point, nothing recorded yet....or really written, which needs to happen with songs to make sure they don't suck.
--Kai out
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so i wait my whole life time
2004-12-10 13:10:12
No video progress last night; I worked late and then basically just mulled. Heroes getting murdered is a bad trip all around; I just turned up Enslaved's _Below the Lights_ and tried to get beyond it....not really with a huge lot of success.
The idea I'm currently contemplating is probably still going to drop before the end of the month, but actual work will probably not begin until after the end of next week. A huge amount of game trials have glommed themselves onto my harddrive, and I want to make sure that it's only the ones that work or that are actually interesting that make it onto CD.
On a related note, I recently got ahold of the OP to a newish eroge. It's got the usual annoying-as-fuck hyper-genki childish female lead vocals, but the backing track sounds like The Haunted or Shadows Fall, including the NSWOTM-style shouted vocals and melodic-death leads. I mean, what the fucking hell? I'm not sure that the metal world is ready for this level of winnage....or much wants this particular fanbase anyway.
--Kai out
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with his axe the corpse will chop
2004-12-09 12:54:56
Some days just suck. Especially the ones in which you wake up and find out that someone you really respected is dead.
If it was Ozzy or Bill Ward, or someone else who had been around for a while, had some previous problems, it'd be less of a shock. It wasn't as immediate when Chuck died, because he'd been on the wrong end of brain cancer for a long while. Dime, on the other hand, died at the hands of a violent idiot with a handgun, way before his time.
This does not happen to metal musicians a lot. One of the guys in Incantation got stabbed a year or two ago, and there was that dude who hit Joachim Cans in the head with a beer glass a while back, and ofcourse the whole Varg-Euro thing, but for "metal musician gets shot by random assbag" you really have to go back to Jeff Becerra, who wasn't shot in the spine until after he left Possessed. It's like a community sticking point: we may not sell as many records as the hip-hoppers, but at least we don't go around fucking shooting one another.
Well, fuck you very much, Ohio. Go ahead and put a permanent blot on the metal community and murder one of our leading lights in the bargain. Fuckers. It's too bad the first officer to respond killed the guy, or the precinct holding cell could've gotten a nice new red paint job when the other guys in lockup found out that the new guy just offed Dime.
I'm pissed and depressed, even if the machine is more or less working and on schedule. Day like this you wanna go and just look for someone to hit.
--Kai out
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kameraden marschieren
2004-12-08 09:08:18
An ion implanter is a large device. It is about twice the size of an average college dorm room. Inside are four distinct robots, more than a mile of electrical or communication cable, more than a mile of various tubing to carry air, water, vacuum, or toxic gases, five high-speed vacuum or cryogenic pumps, and five general-purpose computers running three very different operating systems, dedicated to thoroughly different tasks. The purpose of the machine is to accelerate particles in order to ram different ions into various metalloid substrates; this process creates X-rays and other forms of ionizing radiation. Sitting on the front of it are four cartridges, which means that a maximum of about $5 million in potential product profit may be attached to this $2 million device at any point in time. There are a great many things that can go wrong, but at the same time there is almost no room for error.
The software that controls an ion impanter is extremely specialized, and exists at several layers of abstraction. It must control the machine, but also allow for the simulation of parts not currently attached, as the tool is either not fully built or absent major assemblies for troubleshooting reasons for most of the development cycle. Implant controller code is often written on a desperate schedule and sparsely commented, and in total runs in the neighborhood of 50 million lines, split over several thousand files. When a problem occurs on the machine, an in-depth investigation must be done to determine if it results from a hardware or software fault before any attempt can be made to fix the problem.
In a nutshell, this is why it's very difficult for me to do AMV much any more. Supporting this sort of extremely large theoretical physics instantiation is tough, and it's a rare day when I don't spend 11 hours on the job....and then do recorded seminars at night. Hopefully we'll be able to run beam soon and then I can get some sleep....
--Kai out
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i believe in the power of guitar and drum
2004-12-03 11:34:34
Tonight: either Genshiken or beta installs. Next week I may not make it in to club due to a big push leading into a customer demo, but with the ridiculous amount of money they say I'm getting paid, I figure that a few fifteen-hour shifts aren't so bad. I'll probably make it up in Germany, where they take workers' rights seriously.
I'm getting the urge more to translate stuff than work on videos; maybe one of these days I'll wake up and realize that I DO NOT KNOW JAPANESE and thus CANNOT TRANSLATE GAMES, and then get back plugging on the video. Maybe over the weekend.....
--Kai out
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