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Another Saturday? More work? Right-o...
Sep. 15th, 2007 09:38 am...but no more of these for a few more days, I mean it. Seriously. I do get tomorrow off, though, so I should be up and running at home by the end of that day. Probably a good thing, considering even though I have lots of work to do on it, I'm not going to get that much closer to finishing all the postgame Disgaea work even with marathon gaming sessions. Just doesn't happen like that. And I have to go shopping for foodstuffs tomorrow, too. It's the third week of the season and I won't be able to watch the padded rugby squad. Ah, well, things happen.
( Braaaaaains )
Zo. New CEO in at SixApart. No word yet as to whether this will be a positive of negative change for the subsidiary service known as LiveJournal. I'm still waiting for the point where all LJ customers find out they've been changed over to a Movable Type or other such software, with an interface that looks mightily like what we're used to.
For other Internet things, Eric Burns, at Websnark, wants webcomics to take up where For Better or Worse will stop, when the artist eventually freezes the timeline and, at least from the sounds of things, retires from making the strip. The idea that the comic strip characters would grow and change over time is not always something considered. (After all, the round-headed kid never really grew up for quite a few years. And Calvin, bright kid that he is, suffered through Miss Wormwood's class for ten years himself.) I haven't read FBOW with any attention, even when I had it in the newspaper, so I can't really say anything at all about the good or bad that's been done to it. Maybe I have to go back and take another look. If I get time and inclination.
Renters squeezed by the housing market. Renting prices are up, people's incomes are definitely not matching the increase, and there's not a whole lot of housing that's staying affordable, especially in places where the salaries are still abysmal, or for those on fixed incomes.
Andy Serkis, in Wired, on motion-capture and digital acting. I would always think that aside from voice-acting, green-screen acting has to be the toughest gig in the business, by virtue of not seeing the things that you're supposed to be interacting with.
The SCO Group, made famous for its attempts to claim that Linux has proprietary System V UNIX code, and the subsequent fees that would be associated with licensing such code, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. Just before they were going to go to trial on the countersuits. The filing stays court cases, and so now those seeking to obtain costs or back licensing fees will have to work even harder to get them. Well, I suppose that in one way or another, people predicting that SCO's case would bankrupt itself were right. For the moment, anyway.
The Denialism Blog makes a request - please bring back or create a non-partisan government office devoted to critical study of science, that will also have access to legislators and government officials so that the sound science can be communicated to the bodies that are making laws and regulations supposedly based on that science... or at least can be shown to be in stark contrast to whatever method those bodies are using to create laws and regulations. Less reaction, more action, and so forth. Perhaps, if such a non-partisan group were to be reconvened, we'd make headway on issues that have lots of emotional and religious baggage wrapped up with them - people might still vote the way of their upbringing, but they'll at least know what parts are science and what parts aren't.
More political suicide - City Council member is being investigated for possible sexual abuse, resigns his position, then terminates his life. There's really something disturbing about how abuse allegations like this tend to have lethal consequences. Perhaps this is at least part of the harm of the NBC show?
Best-in-list for tonight gives a gold star and then some to Central Kings Rural High School Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price, for purchasing and distributing pink tank tops to the student body in a show of solidarity after a Grade 9 male student was harassed for wearing pink. The student body took them up on it and plenty of men wore the tank tops and fashioned accessories out of pink material that was also available. Kudos to the two and the students who wore pink.
Last-in-list: It's Ganesh Chaturthi today, which makes several festivals all having happened this week, including Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of Ramadan, and Patriot Day. I sincerely hope that all obstacles in my path for the next year will be overcome. I know several of them for the next month will go away once I get paid.
It's a little weird being three hours behind, waking up early on a Saturday EST to look at your clock and know that it's still the middle of the night here. Still, we'll adjust to the new time requirements. In some senses, I'll be staying up even later than I ever was before, hahaha.
( Braaaaaains )
Zo. New CEO in at SixApart. No word yet as to whether this will be a positive of negative change for the subsidiary service known as LiveJournal. I'm still waiting for the point where all LJ customers find out they've been changed over to a Movable Type or other such software, with an interface that looks mightily like what we're used to.
For other Internet things, Eric Burns, at Websnark, wants webcomics to take up where For Better or Worse will stop, when the artist eventually freezes the timeline and, at least from the sounds of things, retires from making the strip. The idea that the comic strip characters would grow and change over time is not always something considered. (After all, the round-headed kid never really grew up for quite a few years. And Calvin, bright kid that he is, suffered through Miss Wormwood's class for ten years himself.) I haven't read FBOW with any attention, even when I had it in the newspaper, so I can't really say anything at all about the good or bad that's been done to it. Maybe I have to go back and take another look. If I get time and inclination.
Renters squeezed by the housing market. Renting prices are up, people's incomes are definitely not matching the increase, and there's not a whole lot of housing that's staying affordable, especially in places where the salaries are still abysmal, or for those on fixed incomes.
Andy Serkis, in Wired, on motion-capture and digital acting. I would always think that aside from voice-acting, green-screen acting has to be the toughest gig in the business, by virtue of not seeing the things that you're supposed to be interacting with.
The SCO Group, made famous for its attempts to claim that Linux has proprietary System V UNIX code, and the subsequent fees that would be associated with licensing such code, has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. Just before they were going to go to trial on the countersuits. The filing stays court cases, and so now those seeking to obtain costs or back licensing fees will have to work even harder to get them. Well, I suppose that in one way or another, people predicting that SCO's case would bankrupt itself were right. For the moment, anyway.
The Denialism Blog makes a request - please bring back or create a non-partisan government office devoted to critical study of science, that will also have access to legislators and government officials so that the sound science can be communicated to the bodies that are making laws and regulations supposedly based on that science... or at least can be shown to be in stark contrast to whatever method those bodies are using to create laws and regulations. Less reaction, more action, and so forth. Perhaps, if such a non-partisan group were to be reconvened, we'd make headway on issues that have lots of emotional and religious baggage wrapped up with them - people might still vote the way of their upbringing, but they'll at least know what parts are science and what parts aren't.
More political suicide - City Council member is being investigated for possible sexual abuse, resigns his position, then terminates his life. There's really something disturbing about how abuse allegations like this tend to have lethal consequences. Perhaps this is at least part of the harm of the NBC show?
Best-in-list for tonight gives a gold star and then some to Central Kings Rural High School Grade 12 students David Shepherd and Travis Price, for purchasing and distributing pink tank tops to the student body in a show of solidarity after a Grade 9 male student was harassed for wearing pink. The student body took them up on it and plenty of men wore the tank tops and fashioned accessories out of pink material that was also available. Kudos to the two and the students who wore pink.
Last-in-list: It's Ganesh Chaturthi today, which makes several festivals all having happened this week, including Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of Ramadan, and Patriot Day. I sincerely hope that all obstacles in my path for the next year will be overcome. I know several of them for the next month will go away once I get paid.
It's a little weird being three hours behind, waking up early on a Saturday EST to look at your clock and know that it's still the middle of the night here. Still, we'll adjust to the new time requirements. In some senses, I'll be staying up even later than I ever was before, hahaha.
