sigma7: Sims (crazypills House)
sigma7 ([personal profile] sigma7) wrote2007-08-26 02:11 pm
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Sunday miscellany

Am going to have to rerender the Shark Week video; the hammerhead is leaving digital artifacts, due entirely to me choosing the wrong codec (damn you, Cinepak), so I'm now rendering it to a .jpg sequence. Plus side of that is I can render it in chunks and not have to have five uninterrupted hours to render a 33 second sequence. (The background music for the sequence is Genesis' "Submarine," and while I considered making a full-length video for that as an Easter egg, a 5:15 clip would be around 9500 frames. Mmmmmaybe later.)

Had a dream that I was eating at Alan Moore's place and he was handing around bread and a basket of very fine cheeses. I like Alan Moore. More than just his works, though, I like the idea of Alan Moore, that someone with such talent could be so curmudgeonly toward the commercial success that adaptations of his work have found, the whole worshiping-the-snake-god-Glycon thing, the fact that he looks like the portrait of God as a young man.... I simply can't imagine what a conversation with the man must be like. It's a pity that I've become reluctant to travel, because I would like Alan Moore to give me cheese.

Been playing through a franchise in Madden '08, mainly because I'm still giddy that the Chargers actually have a powerhouse team now, and I don't have to rebuild from the ground up in the first year. We're currently in our third year, having won the Superb Owl twice now (St. Louis actually gave us a challenge in the second one, mainly due to losing both Philip Rivers and LaDainian Tomlinson at season's end -- but Darren Sproles is a hell of a fallback). But the strangest message came up after the second season's end -- the New Orleans Saints relocated to Mexico City and became the Mexico City Green Wave. First time I've seen a team relocate, much less to south of the border. DEY TOOK OUR JERBS!

Edit: Further season-three Maddening: after winning the Superb Owl again, in a blowout against the Rams (we upgraded our secondary), the Mexico City Green Wave relocated...to Mexico City and became the Green Wave. Huh? Coach Norv Turner resigned, so I immediately signed the highest-ranked available coach: Marty Schottenheimer. Heh. Bite me, AJ Smith. Unfortunately, in attempting to move into post-season player retirements, the game informed me that...nobody retired. At all. And then the game stuck. So I lost that entire season. Grrr....

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