Congratulations Al, Mo and everyone at Bagel Zone on a great review in the New York Daily News this past Saturday. The article was written by Irene Sax, who was awarded Food Editor of the Year by the James Beard Foundation in 1995 and seems to have a very good reputation in food reviewing circles.
The DV Show FXScript talk went really well. Thanks to everyone who was there, I hope you all got something from the presentation.
Overall, the room was about as crowded as I thought it might be, but most everyone stayed and seemed to be understanding what I was showing them. The 90 minutes went by faster than I expected and I ended up showing Joe’s Filters 3 after the time was up. We would have kept going except the hotel kind of kicked us out.
OS X worked flawlessly on the iBook, as usual. I’m still having trouble accepting how dependable it is. The video mirroring worked instantly, FCP, PowerPoint 2001 (in classic), Exporer and BBEdit were all running the whole time. My OWC portable FireWire drive with all the files worked perfectly too, technology was not an issue.
I walked home, burning some extra adrenaline and loving New York City. It had been a while since I’d been up to West 34th St, and the long walk was nice despite the cold. Giving the talk was a major accomplishment to cross off my to-much-to-do list, now hopefully I can finish the filters for release and actually relax a little. You know, before buying an apartment, moving, getting a mortgage and having a baby. My plate is full, can I have another?
Mastering FXBuilder with Joe Maller
Monday February 11th, 7:30 –
9 pm
The New York DV Show 2002
Willya lookit that there ad banner. Hell has apparently frozen over.
Yes, this comes from Apple’s marketing department, but the fact that last year more people downloaded QuickTime than RealPlayer is encouraging. QuickTime has always been better quality and RealPlayer is ugly and full of bugs.
Now if everyone would just download Pageot and use the correct QuickTime <object> and <embed> tags in their code. Me included.
Pageot is an incredibly useful freeware tool for generating proper HTML embedding code for the QuickTime plugin. When this code is used, missing QuickTime components will be downloaded and installed automatically.
28 High school sophomores were caught cheating by their biology teacher and received failing grades. Parents complained and the school board ordered the teacher, Christine Pelton, to give them credit anyway. She resigned in protest. Good for her, except now she’s unemployed and the students learned that cheating is fine if enough of you do it.
AP story found on Metafilter. There’s also this angry but mostly vapid editorial in the Denver Post.
What does it mean when all of your electronics break at the same time?
Late last year my DV camcorder (Sony PD-100) went to Sony for repair. Four times. It’s probably going back again. At $450 flat fee for repairs, they’re damn well gonna get it right.
Two weeks ago, my Digital camera (Powershot G-1) went to Canon for repair. They fixed it for free, even though it was out of warranty by a month. Yet another reason my next camera will probably be a Canon.
Tonight, the VCR on my desk (JVC sVHS) decides to stop ejecting tapes. It seems like the eject motor or the contact which controls the eject motor has burned out. Even though it’s a fairly good VCR (used for analog capture and dubbing) and I’m sure it would cost more to repair than replace. I’ll probably take it apart to see if I can fix it whenever I get a minute. I doubt that will be anytime soon.
Apparently Michael Buffington is being plagued by ALF. I knew Michael lives pretty close to where I grew up and I immediately recognized the background in the photo of the rude ALF-car. He took the photo while driving north on the 5 (Santa Ana) Freeway at Red Hill Avenue in Tustin. I spent most of the first 20 years of my life within 5 miles of that offramp and my parents still live two exits away from there.
Anyway, the last time I saw ALF, I was flipping channels late one night a year or two ago and he was guest DJing on the The Cindy Margolis Show. So I watched, and it took several days for my brain to recover.
Who knew? Deutschland liebt ALF!
Only loosely connected to ALF, but I found this site really funny.
I wrote a few one-click translation bookmarklets, if you want to read these sites in English.
