Here are my guesses for today’s results, light colors being the places where the candidate carries the state by 3% or less. I sure hope I’m right.
Meanwhile, today finally sees Obama go off the charts at RealClearPolitics.com, according to their aggregate tally of national polls:
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What an amazing advertising campaign. I mean political campaign.
Either way, I’m a thousand percent happy to help.
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 So my housemate says to me that she doesn’t want to know anything about any of the new fall TV shows. She already has enough shows to follow, she says, and would prefer not to add anymore timesuckage to her schedule.
Pish tosh. If she cuts back on viewing hours, whom’m I gonna veg on the couch with? Knowing that she reads this blog, clearly it’s time for me to review every single new show this season. |
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 I really need to commit to taking a trip home in September. I saw Washington’s quarter for the first time today (I guess they went into circulation in April) and I desperately wanted to be right there, in the picture on the back.
I may be biased, but this absolutely seems like the best designed of all the quarters. Mount Rainier, a forest, “The Evergreen State,” and a salmon, all laid out nicely into the space on the back of the quarter. Definitely better than dumb old Indiana, with it’s race car, or Montana, which is evidently the dead cow state. And we get it, Illinois. Lincoln was born there. Get over yourselves. In the early days of my old sketch troupe, I wrote a joke that never made the stage: I thought it would be funny if, when it came Washington’s turn to design their quarter, they put a picture of George Washington’s head on the back. That still makes me laugh. I’m awesome. |
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Transformers isn’t the only recent release that is annoyingly inadequate and yet still has millions of customers.
I had a side job that issued laptops, until they recently ran out of work and asked us to return them. Since, I have been woefully unproductive during my hours in coffee shops, or while waiting for tutees to finish assignments.
So this afternoon I bought myself a Presario notebook at Office Depot. Man, computers are getting cheap. This one was $399 after rebate, and it has 512 MB of RAM, 80 Gig hard drive, 1.6 GHz processor: more than enough to run my copy of Final Draft.
The only downside (besides the hours spent removing pre-installed crap software) is that it comes installed with Windows Vista. You know, every time Microsoft releases something, millions of geeks complain about how lame it is. Usually I take it with a grain of salt. However, this time around, it really does seem to be an annoying product, and there doesn’t seem to be any real reason for the annoyance. It’s as if Microsoft has run out improvements, and is instead just repackaging its products, a little shinier each time. I still use Office 2000, because as nearly as I can tell, nothing of use has been added since.
Anyway, time to get back to trying to figure out how to make Vista do what I want it to. At least it was affordable.
Gold star to the first person who can figure out why I’m including the following picture in this post:
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Dear DVD Manufacturer and Distributor:
I enjoy watching movies on my computer. This morning, for example, I thought I’d have School of Rock playing in a small corner window while I work on a client’s web page. This sort of thing is why people have DVD players on their computer.
Here’s what I don’t enjoy: being greeted each and every time I insert a disc with a prompt to install some proprietary player. I already have the player that came with Windows, plus the other Microsoft one that Windows makes you install if you ever try to watch anything on the web, plus the crappy one that came with my computer, plus the OTHER crappy player that came with my computer… all of which seem to vie for control of my media files. The last thing I want is another stupid player clogging up my system, especially one that doesn’t seem to have a full-screen mode available, and that places an obnoxious studio logo in the corner the entire time I watch a movie.
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 When you’re doing the Hollywood thing, meeting a new person at a party can sometimes mean that they are already looking over your shoulder to see if there’s someone more important for them to talk to instead. It’s nice when you meet someone in the industry who is more interested in being your friend than in stepping on you to get ahead. Besides being one of the good guys, my friend David Lodge is also an extremely talented voiceover artist.
He has a great web site (I’m biased. I built it for him…) where he showcases his work. It’s pretty sweet because you can listen to a hundred or so samples of his work. You wouldn’t think such a range of sounds could come out of one guy. And man, his Darth Vader is just eerily accurate. It’s an entertaining place to surf. If you ever find yourself requiring a voiceover professional, I cannot recommend David enough. |
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I did some freelance work for a branch of the Disney company about a year ago, and that brief experience left me with the impression that their legal army is vast and humorless. Disney has a history of getting petty with the little guy over copyrights, and had much to do with the passage of the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998. Said act protected against, among other things, Mickey Mouse entering the public domain.
The video seems intent to re-open a fascinating legal debate, all but slapping the giant corporation in the face and daring them to bring it to the Supreme Court. By all means, watch this video now, before I get hit with a cease and desist.
(P.S. Go Card!)
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