Living the Liminal

April 10, 2007 / General

Very Silly and Damn High on the Cute Scale

I wanted to try out the soundtrack function on Garageband so I grabbed a very low quality video I had taken with my Vivicam 3765. This is also an excuse for me to figure out how to post a Quicktime movie.

Yes, it’s of the cat.

I promise, unless there are extreme circumstances, I will not post more pics or films of the cat . . . I refuse to become one of those bloggers that is all about their pets.

[Update: Why host movies on my own server when I can host them on YouTube and link to them on the blog? Good question. That’s why I signed up for a YouTube account and you are seeing a YouTube video above instead of a Quicktime movie. If you click on the video and get a message that the movie is “no longer available,” the message should read “not yet available.” Check back in a bit and the movie should be up and available.]

April 7, 2007 / General

Amazing Short Film by Guilherme Marcondes

Thanks to Neil Gaiman for posting this on his blog. While this YouTube video is pretty good quality, I would also suggest you check out Marcondes’ website for a greater quality version as well as other short films. I had never heard of him before today, but hope to see much more of his incredible work. Check it out.

Technorati Tags: animation, fantasy, film, marcondes, puppetry

April 7, 2007 / Mac

Mac Trick

Last night I came across this relatively useless but fun little Mac keyboard trick.

Pressing the following key combination does a cool color reverse on your display:

Cmd+Opt+Ctrl+6+8

I’m not sure what the utility of this could be, but it’s a fun little trick. Actually, I could see using this if working in a dark room in order to reduce the brightness of the screen (I know, you could just adjust the brightness as well). I might also invoke this if looking at photographs for use in promo materials–postcards for shows or theatre programs or websites–to see if a particular picture might look more startling or powerful in negative.

Currently listening: Alpha Yaya Diallo – N`Dare

Technorati Tags: keyboard, mac, osx, shortcuts

April 4, 2007 / General

Your Opinion Needed

Should I go through the code for this theme and change the German words to English ones?

nein (100%)
yes (0%)
what is this twitter thing and why have you succumbed to it? (0%)

Total Votes: 2

April 10, 2007 / Creative Writing

Starting & Finishing

I have great ideas. I love starting new projects. I tend to be pretty terrible with follow through however. D. Keith Robinson’s article Starting vs. Finishing, has some good thoughts on the process of finishing a project. In particular, his argument to make sure you finish before you re-start something instead of starting-over in the …

April 1, 2007 / Music

Jim White Video

If you haven’t heard of jim White, I recommend his album “Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See” (Jim White). “Static on the Radio” is one of my all-time favorite songs–you can hear it on NPR’s “All Things Considered” 2004 archive site. Here’s a fun video of a lighter song:

March 29, 2007 / General

The Beast Nicotine

I have smoked cigarettes too long, far too long considering the history of heart disease in my family. During the past several years I have “quit” several times, going several months sometimes without a cigarette but then something would set me off and I would start again. However, for the past 16 months, I have …

March 31, 2007 / General

Some Minor Adjustments

I have taken a bunch of the Hawaii pics off the site because they were slowing everything down too much. I will set up a separate page instead of putting them in an entry. Heck, maybe I’ll even set up a Flicker account. ~~Between that issue and my ill-informed tinkering, I’ve temporarily gone back to my previous theme for a day or two.~~

~~The header pic is by Jo Cose and you can check out more of his images at his~~ ~~Photo Blog~~.

March 27, 2007 / General

Can’t sleep

I must still be on HI time because it ls 2:12 and I’m wide awake. The cat is sleeping peacefully next to me as I post this from bed using my old Toshiba e755 pda. It’s not the most efficient way to blog, but kinda cool nonetheless.

This afternoon I put on a shirt that I had in HI and, even though it had been washed the night before I left to return to NY, I can still smell the ocean and the Hawaiian air. I’m still not entirely sure how I didn’t manage to convince myself to simply stay there!!

So, I had planned on going to bed by 10:30 and getting up at 6:15 to go to the gym before work. That’s about 3 hours and 45 min. away. I’m going to give it a shot, but knowing myself , and how tired I will be, I’d say the odds of my making it are about 4:1 against.

Well, I guess I should try to get to sleep. Hope your night has been more restful.

March 19, 2007 / General

Hawaii – First Days

We arrived in Honolulu at around 7 pm, after 10 hours of flight time. Hungry and very tired. Picked up the car at Enterprise–a Saturn Ion–and then headed over to the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani hotel. Once settled we looked at the room service menu and decided NOT to pay $17 for a sandwich, and so …