June 2011
29 posts
FCP X
From David Pogue’s simultaneously illuminating and infuriating rebuttal to those of us who are upset about Apple’s latest FCP offering (via alba):
Complaint: Can’t export EDL files. These are Edit Decision Lists: a 30-year-old, ASCII-text, single-video-track export file format that can be moved from tape machine to tape machine, in order to continue working on a project on another...
This made me sad
So a few weeks back, I go to my ‘danger local’, a bar so close to my house that I can nearly get on my own wi-fi network and which serves delicious and powerful drinks, and I pull up a stool and start hanging out.
I eventually find myself in conversation with a couple, he from Pennsylvania, she from Denmark, they seem perfectly nice and, like me, they’re drunk.
We talk neighborhood,...
Wait, what.: I drive to work and I drive back home... →
whydoihaveablog:
I drive to work and I drive back home and I drive to the car wash to throw out the rotten meatball sub someone left in my backseat without telling me. I wonder how much of my grief is for the right reasons, and how much of it stems from my heavily selfish tendencies.
I went to the wake and asked…
I mean, just ‘liking’ this seems kinda weird, so I’m...
“In the last quarter alone, Apple sold 18.65 million iPhones, a record for the company, with sales growing 113 percent year over year. And even with what was said this January to be a 4 percent share of total mobile phone units sold, Apple takes in more than half of the mobile industry’s profits.”
Uhh, wow.
From an Appleinsider article about how Apple has enough cash lying...
Woman allowed to write television scripts.
In a brave experiment, Molly McAleer, a biological woman who lives in Los Angeles, has been hired by showrunner Michael Patrick King for CBS’ “Two Broke Girls,” which was picked up by the network in mid-May, and will allegedly air between “How I Met Your Mother” and “Two and a Half Men.”
The repercussions of having a woman writing TV are unknown but we...
there is no god
molls:
I can say with confidence that whatever version of “God” most of us Judeo-Christian types were raised to believe in is non-existent because I just looked a possum in the face.
I would guess that most of us who have ever looked someone or something truly sinister in their eyeballs could not say that they were more disgusting than the creature depicted above. I have been to several Los...
I am neither the biggest nor the angriest nerd I...
The intern at the company I’m working at was at a bar the other night and got into a heated argument about 3D animation software. It ended in a fistfight.
Now, in his defense, the person he ended up punching was holding up Houdini as the top dog, but still…
