Saints:
St. Christopher was introduced to me as the patron saint of travelers, and later, of surfers. Then he got kicked out. Something about historical accuracy.. Stupid journalists. Anyway, here’s a list that’s almost manageable.
St. Lucy, that’s the one, I guess. Although, St. Benedict is a good call, too.
Number 13: Feeder Road
(It’s the Houston influence, I’m sure of it.)
My space:
In the past couple of months, I’ve had several people send me “my space” links. My limited aesthetic sensibilities are offended. It’s not the content, that’s hardly a problem. I realize there’s a bit of backlash aimed at the revealing nature of some of the material published, but that doesn’t bother me. I’ve been at this game for a while, and I’ve been online since we had to bang two rocks together to make binary code.
It’s the “look & feel” of the space. But perhaps that’s part of the message, too, less about the style and more about content.
I clicked through on one extended network link, and the next page opened up with searing guitar. While, in another life, I’d be tempted raise a fist in the air, and rock out, on a web page, it’s just annoying. And on anything less than DSL, less common these days, the audio track probably stutters.
Meeting Minutes:
I took a meeting with the production staff. For the curious – and for the paid subscribers – the production crew runs in the credits for the weekly video, well, sometimes. Think it’s in there for this week’s.
In an effort to streamline the production schedule and clean up the process, streamline and automate as much as possible, the staff decided it was okay to run the current weekly audio file, or “podcast,” usually updated on Monday, in the free section. It means a lot fewer steps in the production schedule, and greatly simplifies the access situations.
Record the video, edit it down, add the audio, which is all one step, and can take up to several hours, then burn the video to disk. Then, import the video clip and extract the audio, convert that audio file to mp3. Then, there was keeping track of what file was where, but updating two files instead of updating four or five is a lot easier to manage. Less work for the underpaid staff. The bonus for the paid subscribers is the video section, with enhanced audio tracking. And, of course, the graphics.
Mercury & the iPod:
I’ve been struggling, in a geek way, with a recalcitrant iPod. Older model, and for the last few years, all I did was burn music onto it, like, buy a CD, transfer the tunes and leave the ‘pod plugged into the stereo. It started to crap out, and that meant it was time to nuke the ‘pod. Which has been a 24-hour, then 48-hour nightmare of fried connection, fried drives and fried everything. I was diddling the ‘pod, chatting with a client, and she suggested I just park it until Mercury was no longer retrograde.
Smart ass.
Don’t think for a minute I won’t take my own advice. Or, for that matter, quit messing with a piece of electronic equipment. Only took about two days of intermittent work to get the little item to finally work right.
Clues (in books):
“Our ancestors knew this, they had the time to read the glyphs, the patterns of stars carved on the belly of the night sky.
“The zodiac?
“Everything’s there, Sony, clear as a good meal of beans, chile con carne, and tortillas.”
(Rudolofo Anaya’s Jemez Spring, page 62.)
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Mac links:
Apple storage, huh.
Mac info-tainemnt and media center.
Crack a Mac (manque).
Daily Show now available on iTunes. Paid-for-Podcast?
Where to buy that iPod?
Macs are cheaper. Means I’m an illegitimate penurious reprobate.
