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2009-05-18 19:50:41
I HAVE HIGH SPEED INTERNET (at home) AGAIN!!!!!!!
After more than two years of suffering the evil that is dial-up...I am...FREE again!!
DSL only, but still...good heavens this is so wonderful... I don't even know what to do first... -
I'm feeling very old and run down
2009-05-15 21:15:11
Ever have something someone else says really wake you up and make you realize something? "I used to be a much more interesting person," this other individual said. There's not much one can say in response to that (if one is interested in being polite), but in my case I said SOMETHING...which I now can't remember. The whole exchange has stuck with me, however. Perhaps I'm hitting my "OMG, I'm 31 years old and what the heck have I accomplished??" rough patch, but it still seems to me that, in certain respects, I WAS a much more interesting person 10-15 years ago.
Why is that? For one thing, what's different now? I'm a lot more jaded, surely, my life experiences are adding up - a little more wisdom here, a little more bitterness there and it's a fine cocktail of "life experience" I've got in the blender. Yet, surely it's wrong to say that I'm LESS now than I was half a lifetime ago; I'm who I was then, plus a decade or so. But I'm not, and sorting through all the reasons and occasions by which I somehow managed to detract from myself and become...less interesting...would be quite the endeavor.
What I really hope is that all the best things in my life are not in the past. While that's certainly how it feels, it's also true that for most of my life I've been quite convinced that's the way things are. This doesn't logically work out, of course, but people being people, most of us fail to recognize the good things we have going until we're looking back on them and regretting their absence. Makes me rather gloomy, I admit. I often lecture other people about appreciating their good health, for example, since someday they're not going to have it, or taking a few minutes to just stand still and listen to the sound of snow falling in the woods. Why do I appreciate things so many people take for granted? Should I also be taking them for granted? Am I capable of truly enjoying good experiences when I am aware of their inevitable end?
No doubt this partly explains why I avoid getting into discussions about "global warming," among other issues which predict horrible outcomes. If I can't look at the natural landscape without seeing it falling to ruin, then really, what enjoyment am I truly getting out of that landscape? Given the choice, I would rather see the beauty in something than the ugliness, which is a weird statement coming from me, She-of-the-Glass-is-Half-Full mentality.
Makes no sense, really.
p.s. So now not only am I not, once more, unable to attend the Editor's Dinner at Anime Boston, I seriously need to figure out what the heck I'm going to do about going to the con at all. Why? Well, today I got thrown what is possibly the last bump in a very rocky road planning my annual AB outing. That wretched ankle injury indirectly caused by my AMV (Takeout now has cost me, indirectly, what I estimate to be $500, and my health insurance company $900...and counting) has befuddled the physical therapist and it's now recommended I have an MRI, which I chose not to do b/c I was going to see a physical therapist instead. *sigh* Rumor has it an MRI will cost me an appalling bundle of cash, cash which I do not have and certainly can't afford to throw away by attending a con for three days. Aforementioned doggie diagnostics were not necessary, I diagnosed her myself, however the conniving veterinarian's office did get $140 out of me, $100 of which would not have been spent if they'd just refilled my pooch's prescription for antibiotics. Dogs with recurring Lyme disease: BAD. I've got Lyme too, but aside from tons of weird health problems no one's yet blamed on the little bugger that bit me, no long-term effects have shown up.
*SIGH* In some ways life was easier when I truly had no extra money. :| Right now I can fake having extra, which is a very bad position to be in.
ok I'm done writing weird things no one cares about but me, now. Just haven't had a major need to vent, recently, and obviously old habits die hard. -
Woooo!!
2009-04-30 15:33:41
Company Internet security software...not so secure anymore...must abuse...fleeting window of freedom...
*frantically downloads AMVs*
Weird. I can download them, but I can't stream them? I get a video not found error...
:(
Also, god help me but I want to make XII again. It's the only video, other than one other one, I can think of which I would really regret not making.
But you TRIED and you FAILED.
No, I tried and I gave up. There was too little footage, despite it being a 26-episode series and me doing nothing but recapping the events IN the series. Plus, I'm not a good enough editor to make XII.
Mmmhmm...
Don't mmmhmm ME. It's...I can't...it won't...I TRIED.
And gave up.
No, I - well yes, i did give up, BUT that was because I got mad when it wasn't working and I figured it was best to just not "go" there if I can't pull it off. Maybe this boyfriend of mine could assist with crafting the AMV's *gasp* storyboard, though...he's never seen the series and that would probably lend a new perspective to my dilemma.
/me plots -
I am an inquiring mind and I want to know.
2009-04-24 10:27:08
Nice feature that we can keep track of how many previews our videos get. It makes me wonder how many people will deliberately alter the beginning of their AMVs - whether it be the intro splash screen or the video itself - to leverage the preview into more favorable results. This also makes me wonder how many people will download a video after watching the streaming version, whether it be only a preview or the whole thing. Will the downloads go down in inverse proportion to the streaming going up? Will it make no difference?
Are people less likely to leave an op on a video they've streamed vs. a video they've downloaded? How about the star ratings? Does a preview experience cause you to change the way you rate videos? Does it make you more critical? Less? More inclined to leave average (aka 3) ratings? If you download a video you streamed, are you automatically more inclined to leave it a higher rating? Methinks yes on the last one. I can't think too many folks would download a streamed video they didn't like.
The analyst in me is going to go nuts with this. I would like to see some threads in the forum asking these sorts of questions someday. Or perhaps a survey sent out to people asking them about their amv.orging habits. Make it an annual/semi-annual thing. Yes yes.
Also - thank you amv.org for not piling onto the twitter bandwagon. Every time I see some other company/person/thing urging me to embrace the twitter, I think "I'm not a twit, you twits. I know exactly what you're doing, and what twitter is doing, and you can't make me!" -
Also..
2009-04-18 13:27:21
...streaming video = petty cool. However...
After 30 seconds of continuous playback you may rate and quick comment below without interupting the video.
....isn't "interrupting" spelled with two r's? Yah.
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