Reasons why I like my job

Right now, I’m using four separate Macs…

One of them is rendering a series of Final Cut Pro video filters to color correct and sharpen a heart surgery that was filmed in the 70’s and transferred to VHS tape some time in the 80’s. When it’s done rendering I’m going to put it on a DVD, and in about 20 years or so someone will probably transfer it to optical crystal or whatever they’re using then.

Another Mac is burning a DVD of a different video project. The third is busy compiling Apache 2.0.50, Berkeley DB and Subversion for our web developers. I’m writing this on the fourth while simultaneously using it to monitor the other three.

So, yeah… I haven’t updated for a bit. It’s been busy.

Squirrel With an Itch

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Spotted this guy on the way to the car from work. Actually, to be more accurate he spotted me. It was kind of a surprise to be walking past a tree and suddenly realize that part of the trunk is watching…

He eventually decided that I wasn’t a threat, climbed down, and started advancing on me slowly, probably thinking that the camera was some novel method of dispensing food.

Then he was overcome by a bout of itching…

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Alas, poor logo…

BlueMedia.pngWhen our office moves, we’re likely to be changing names. It’s got something to do with re-imaging our identity, brand freshening, name brain-space expansion, or some similar corporate-speak claptrap that I don’t necessarily buy into. On the other hand, it does mean that I get to have fun coming up with different logos. This particular one goes with a name change choice that we’ve since had to discard, mostly because there’s too many companies already out there with names that are awfully close to “Blue Media.”

It’s a fun logo though.

Bowman!

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For all you Akira Kurosawa fans out there, it’s “Throne of Blood” – the home game!

Just click on the image and see what sort of on-the-job day care situation William Tell’s kids had to deal with…

I need to map this

My office will be moving in the next few months. We’re heading to a much nicer place, more centrally located for our clients, easier to find and more publicly visible. The new office is a touch smaller, but we’re getting secondary space off site for an auxiliary location too, which will give us both storage and a place to hide and work on tight deadline projects.

One thing I need to do for this is set up a map of the lights in the two locations, so that I can start testing a theory we’ve got. Y’see, it seems like most of the burnt out bulbs we have to deal with are located above wherever my desk happens to be.
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Up, down, up, down, left, right, fire…

Upgrading your house is so much easier in the Kingdom of Loathing. None of this messing around with drywall and cement board. No inconveniently placed plumbing. Just grab a decorative fountain, a set of windchimes and the Feng-Shui for Big Dumb Idiots book, and tah-DAH!

That’ll make sense for about three people out there… Ah well.
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Tile Madness

There are some times when I really like driving a small car… This morning, for example, I wound up with the last parking spot in the lot because all the other cars that were circling around were big SUV type things that wouldn’t fit.

On the other hand, sometimes it can be a pain. Especially if you need to haul heavy things. Right now, I’ve got the tiles, mortar, grouting and other gear for the bathroom floor in the back of the bug, and it weighs a ton.
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No idea…

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I have NO idea why I thought of this… Something to do with logo design or something.

Cool rotation

Have I sung the praises of GraphicConverter lately? Because if I haven’t, then I’m long overdue. It’s possibly the coolest shareware graphic conversion and editing program out there for the Mac. Without Graphic Converter, I’d still be lurking around in Minnesota, working on the first days’ pictures for the Webcast.
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Webcast Day 4 – Late Night

This seems an appropriate modified quote for you Dune fans out there:

It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion.
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