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a man of god would say i was in hell
2004-03-05 16:30:14
I shouldn't be here. I've got a lot of work to do tonight and I've got to get sleep stockpiled now in case I can't use any between tonight and Tuesday night. Good thing the weather's warmed up, now I don't have to take the time to get my coat together when I have to run off somewhere. Demo will be done and posted shortly after its debut at the end of the month; I will be gone and potentially in the ground shortly thereafter.
If I could jsut find the time to DO this stuff, it'd probably be easy. But finding the time is damn hard.
--Kai out
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we bring the war
2004-03-04 00:21:22
Pool is almost over. I may actually pull through, but DOkool is most likely to come out on top.
Crypto exam is easier than anticipated. I may actually be able to do all of it without asking for much assistance. The same should be true of the compilers HW, once the op-listing bit is posted. Sometimes it sucks having a teacher too preoccupied to put up basic parts of the homework, but at least I can mostly work around these issues.
I've been assiduously ignoring effects and post work by sleeping, writing, doing homework, and going to class. This may change over the weekend if I get anything done early, or I may waste more time mixing a new oskulumObszenum (electronica project) track.
Regardless, as soon as I get paid, I'm going to invest in a DVD drive; too many good ideas and I'm too proud to let other people rip for me. There shouldn't be that much of a difference between 98 and 98 SE; that's what chapters are for, so that you don't have to read the disc as a single 4+ GB file. Whether this will get vids done any faster or not (may involve severe amounts of time if VBR->CBR processing is needed), but at least I'll be able to do stuff that I want to in better quality. Music may involve Antimatter, Nina Gordon, and/or Unleashed, depending on what I have available.
--Kai out
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for freedom through my blood
2004-03-02 11:13:00
Today, project discussions and exam work, maybe a little effects work if I can get to it before I have to come up to campus. I'll be up again tonight, waiting in vain for the server to roll over...good thing I've got plenty of stuff to work on, including rebuilding the net's Lovecraft library.
www.gizmology.net no longer has any HPL materials on it, which atrociously sucks; Arkham House must have got another cash infusion from some filmmaker and waved a lawsuit at them. I've tracked down a couple sites still offering Lovecraft e-texts, which I'm going to re-format into classic gizmology style and host for myself; the rest will have to wait until I can get home and re-enter them manually.
That's the problem with really well-done sites like this: single point of failure. Virtually nobody had any mirrors of this domain because it was so well-run and so available, so much content in a classy presentation, but all of a sudden it goes down, and we lose part of our culture. I was very lucky to be able to snag the contents of a "Bert is evil" mirror shortly after 9/11, because that was an important cultural meme in the preceding time, and it didn't really need to be destroyed by a bunch of idiots in Pakistan who didn't bother to check that there were Muppets in some of their pictures of Osama. Maybe that will be hosted as well.
To work, to work: start in on exam (after lots of stumpage), steal bagels, try to get caught up on papers. Boring reading for class, not stuff I have to write.
--Kai out
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shot through the heart in the blink of an eye
2004-03-01 12:47:21
Where do they come from? These crappy banners I mean. I vote down six, take a look at my code, and come back to find another seven looking for a slapdown. At least the spelling's gotten better. Unfortunately, the taglines haven't. "What does it take to get an opinion?" -- at least 100 downloads, something memorable in the actual video, popular music and/or anime, and a whole lot of luck, that's what. Stop being bent because nobody tells you you're as lame as you are. I've somehow managed 19 ops on 15 videos (2 ops I've got would have been much better off as emails or PMs), which have a total of 9596 hits between them. 640 hits per video or 505 hits per op. When they come that infrequently (and this is probably a better than average rate), you can either twist yourself up in knots about why you don't have any new ones, or just stop thinking they matter. The second leaves a lot more time to concentrate on important stuff, like going to class and working on new videos.
STOP CARING. IT AINT FUCKIN IMPORTANT.
Of course, having Vital Remains' latest turned up real loud and slowly getting a handle on some really impenetrable crypto stuff makes it easier to not care. This stuff is due in a week, so it better crack like it's starting to. No sleep till....
--Kai out
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we're coming down
2004-02-29 19:50:50
The demo is all edited, and for a demo, it looks pretty cool and hits an almost alarming number of beats. The end is a little kludgy, and there are a lot of little things with regard to aspect ratios, etc, that I need to smooth out, but for the most part it's pretty cool. Effects, finalization, and post will probably drag out over all of the coming week.
That's the fault of homework, which I'm finally getting started on. I guess I took a spring break after all. Fortunately the compilers stuff is CSE and register renaming, which should be EASY!! And since I'm starting on this a full week before it's due (and will have no-problems access to source at work), I've got no excuses for bollixing it up like the last one.
--Kai out
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