So I’ve been crazy busy with lots of work and school projects and whatnot. Currently, I’m holding 2 jobs: My pet sitting job and I’m back doing Layout for the school newspaper. Tack all that onto the fact that Marcus, Alex, and myself all got Bogarted into working on a project the first week of school, and that adds up ti quite the plate full.
Since things have really piled up and I’ve got a few topics I could post about, I’m not going to be able to post about everything. Specially considering that it’s 3:45 a.m. right now and I wanna gets me some sleep.
here goes, though:
The Best XKCD strip ever
I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with XKCD; it’s a comic strip that’s really smart with it’s humor. Lots of nerd references and even more jokes about math and coding that go way over my head but it’s funny, regardless. Anyways, I know you guys have heard me go on and on about the House of Leaves and how it’s such an amazing book. Well, I was checking up on XKCD today cause it’s been a long while and the latest strip was a killer one.
You probably won’t get it too much unless you’ve read House of Leaves but if you remember the post I made a few months back, it might make a little more sense. Anyways, the strip is awesome.
iPod
I was always firm about never getting an iPod. I always found them to be overpriced pieces of hipster gear that had much cheaper and equally matched alternatives. My Zen stopped interfacing with the PC. it still played just fine but I could no longer add new music to it which, obviously, presents a problem.
Since the iPod touch’s release, apple showed a pretty good dip in price for the iPod classics, specially refurbished ones. The refurbished ones come with the same warranty as the new ones and they give it a new body so it’s not all nasty and scratched up. Also, the iPod is pretty much the only 80Gb mp3 player out there and I wanted to up my storage limit from my old 60Gb Zen Vision M.
I was able to snag an 80Gb iPod classic for $175 bones which isn’t bad at all considering just a year earlier, I paid close to $300 for my zen (granted, at that time a 60Gb iPod was around $450.)
I got it on the conditions that I would NEVER have to use iTunes and that It wouldn’t cost me way too much money. Well, it’s good because both of those conditions have been met. I use a program called Floola to manage my ‘Pod which is great because it’s incredibly light (just a straight up executable with no install) and I can store it on the iPod itself so I can manage the player from any computer I want to.
All that being said, the iPod’s interface isn’t really intuitive to me. I find it pretty clunky and annoying to tell you the truth…
Dragon*Con ’08
Last weekend was Dragon*Con and it was killer. I only took about 160 pictures this year (and I say “only” because last year I snapped about 3 times that many) but it was a freakin’ blast.
we got 4 day passes and went all 4 days. I got to see a bunch of cool panels and costumes and everything.
My favorite panels include:
• Adult Swim’s Dragon Panel
• Master Tai’s Demo
• Venture Bros Q&A segment (hilarious)
• Comedy Shorts
• Mr. Star Wars (though not as funny as last year)
• Animated shorts (yes, eve that crazy, long annoying one)
I don’t really feel like putting up any pictures right now but I did get some good ones so maybe I’ll take a select few to show you guys at some point.
Independent Study
3 weeks into the semester and I finally get some free time to start working on my Independent Study of motion graphics. My goal is to make a short for each one of m friends that demonstrates the qualities and personality of each person through visuals and animation. I’m starting with D and it’s really exciting so far. I’m coming along with it but it’s a pretty slow process. I put about 7 hours into it today and I’m sitting at about 20 seconds of animation. I’m aiming for at least 30 seconds for each one. I’ll be sure to put it up as soon as it’s done.
tags: animation, design, dragon con, house of leaves, music, thoughts, weekend
1 Comments for Finally an update!
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Wooo updates!!!
Hey, at least your last post isn’t 36 days old!!! COUGH Alex COUGH.
I must admit that i don’t really get the XKCD comic, but having looked through the book when i was at your plac,e i can definitely tell similarities. I really do think that you have to read it to fully get the humor though :P.
I fully support you on the iPod front. I also bought a Zen back in the day, thinking that the Pods are weird and too expensive. Now, my Zen’s USB port broke as well, so i didn’t use it. My dad actually asked me if he could have it and he fixed it, after claiming that it’s broken (i told him that it was) and wanting a refund O.o.
For a while, i was using a little iPod Nano, and i must say that the sound quality is far superior to the Zens. However, one fateful day, i forgot that little crap thing in my pants and washed it… first time i ever washed an electronic item :-(. Needless to say it’s dead…
Now i’m using the integrated MP3 Walkman player on my phone, and i’m really happy with it. Mind you, i only can carry 2 gigs of music, but it’s alright for me, really. For now at least. Sound quality is extremely good as well and has allot more adjustability than the Pods.
Definitely want to see some pics from Dragon Con. Saw D’s already and it looked like a ton of fun!
JakobB · Sep 8, 07:49 AM