Saturday, January 10, 2004
Well, I have the first few recipes up, and the template is finaly working properly! I had some problem with my stylesheets and some )'s where }'s should have been! I hate those things, they look TOO similar in most fonts at standard scree sizes!!! Go check it out at the link below.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Go check out The Platypi's Kitchen. It's where my cookbook will reside untill further notice. Right now there are no recipes, just the setup for it all and the links. I may add a comment system so that people can post comments about the recipes. Leave commends here and let me know what you think of the setup.
(http://platypikitchen.blogspot.com)
Well, time for a real post.
I just watched the first of the appendices DVDs for the Two Towers set I got this Christmas. Awesome stuff, espically the stuff on Gollum. I had not realized that they only went to using the actor for the part AFTER he had been voice cast and they were doing filming. It was an interesting process how they came to it. In the end they actually were using three animation techniques. One where the actor wears a suit with points on it that are picked up by cameras and interpreted into movement on the cgi model, one where the animators actually animate the cgi model, and one, they actually used shots that had been filmed more-or less only for reference, and then refilmed "mime," as in the gollum actor was not in them and the others just went off what the reference scene had been, they used that footage, erased the actor, and used some of his acting there for the CGI model's movement (or in some cases they totaly altered it).
Basically, when the actor would do the voice part he had to act it out too, because partly some of the facial expressions were needed to make the sounds, and partly just because he was so into it, so after a while they realized that had to be Gollum. They had even designed a totaly different model from what they used in the end, and had to alter it to look more like the actor after Peter Jackson cast him as the actuall Smeagol character that we see in the third film.
Anyway, it was really neat to see some of the shots where they would show the actor's filmed scene side-by-side with the animated scene.
And they showed two renderings from the daily renderings they would do to show the crew how things were going to illustrate how the computer sometimes would render things oddly, like one gollum's hair stood on end and one, his eyes came out of his head and did their thing, floating to the side. computers are fun!
Another nice part, which was on the first set as well, was some shots from the scouting out areas to film particular places, nice to see the place before and after and all.
Anyway, I will be seeing the other DVD soon, and may have more to report. You should find a way to see this stuff!!!
I'm currious about something that has just started happening with my comments script. For some reason (And thus far I have only noticed it on posts by Springstead, but then he's commented to everything anyone else has recently, or has been the only one to comment, aside from my replys to his comments) it lets the text of a post stretch a little beyond the box I have it set to stay inside, untill I hit refresh and then everything acts as it should. Has anyone else had this problem? Please comment and tell me, and make sure to let me know what browser you use.
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Well, I just made 30 copies of my newly updated resume and have put 15 each into two envelopes with cover letters to the DOMs in Augusta, GA and Aiken, SC. (DOMs are Directors of Missions, or basically, the director of the local Baptist Associations. Some associations call them different things, but I am used to them being DOMs.) I'll mail those two things out tomorow when the post office is open.
I also updated my library resume and made a cover letter for it and e-mailed that to the Augusta Human Resources department for the circulation opening at the Augusta Regional library.
*crosses fingers*
I hope to hear back from something out of these things!!!
As for the interium job here in Butler, the pastor wasn't really clear on what I wanted or what he wanted one and it turns out that the church already has someone filling in for them untill they hire someone full time. Ah well.
And I have reached that point of the night when the only person online in my buddy list is myself, so I will go to bed now. Goodnight everybody!
I wonder what dogs dream of. They obviously dream as they have REM sleep and bark and run and twitch in their sleep, so what are they dreaming of? Are their dreams anything like ours?
Goldie came downstairs with me because I had food and I closed the upstairs door so now she has no choice but to stay down here for now. She didn't seem to mind much, as I let her up on the couch and she is sleeping there now. Dogs also sleep very, very lightly. As now that I have started typing she is awake. But watching her twitch in her sleep made me wonder what they dream about.
For those of you who doubt that tea is better when fresh, you should come try some of the old tea that is down here in the basement. I'm not sure how old it is, but it is no longer worth drinking. The fact that the microwave took almost five minutes to heat the water is annoying also. Tomorrow I will make my tea upstairs.
At least I had a pice of Scottis shortbread to go with my tea. Mom gave me a box for Christmas, I love that stuff. It's nice to have something that is packaged and bought from a store but only contains flour, sugar, salt, and butter in it's ingredients.
I've found a recipe for scottish shortbread and intend to make it as soon as this is gone.
I have had a fire going down here in Bag End all day. It's rather nice, keeps the tempreture at about 72 as long as I don't let it become a raging fire, which it will because that stove has a good draft in it. It's pretty amazing when it IS raging. You close the door and slide the vent out all the way and open the flue all the way and it sucks air through it like crazy, you can hear it whistling through the thing. It'll get really hot that way and burn through a log pretty quickly, but also a lot of heat escapes through the chimney. Best to let it burn slow and keep the flue mostly closed.
I've also managed to put away a few more of my things today (though mostly I played C&C Regegade, which I have Mike Roderick to thank for that addiction. I had been planning on getting Tiberian Sun or some such with one of my Wal-Mart gift cards, and when I was at Wal-Mart yesterday I saw a pack which includes Tiberian Sun with the Firestorm expansion, Yuri's Revenge, Renegade, and Red Alert 2 for $20, leaving me with $30 on the card. So I grabbed it. I already have Red Alret 2, but I am not sure what condition the CDs are in, and if they are in good condition I'll sell one copy on Ebay along with a growing list of other items I need to list.
Sunday, January 04, 2004
An observation:
It's weird to not have to plan services, be at church early, direct the music, rehearse the choir... Not to have to worry about getting to church early on Sunday night to get things ready for choir rehearsal, all that stuff. I can even sleep in and not go to church if I am not feeling well (or if, as happened today, I forget to turn my alarm ON, I don't have to panic about sleeping in).
After three and a half years of doing this almost every Sunday, it's really weird.
Oh, and my parents killed their angel fish, Demon, while we were gone. Someone unplugged the heater and the poor, giant, evil fish died of exposure.
Ah, I forgot the most interesting thing about the hymnal! In the Authors index it lists a short biography statement with each name. Like, "Rev. Martin Luther, D. D. The great Reformer; died in 1546; his hymn was put into English for the 'Sabbath Hymn Book.'"
Klasinc&Loncar Duo (Just trying to help it get picked up by Google spiders, I maintain it for them)