The visible parts of the letters read *what*?
Discovered last night the hard way that certain fansubs are built on computer to be viewed on computer – in other words, the subtitlers added the dialogue to the very bottom of the video image, an area which doesn’t completely display on many tube-type TV sets. Growl.
The most noticeable downside of this new job is that I have plenty to do simply keeping people’s computers running, and am not involved in the game creation process at all. The conversations I hear while doing yet another re-install sound so interesting, too! But then, I probably get paid more than the entry-level creative people. Oh well.
Downtown Norfolk is quite toasty today – at least the second floor air-conditioning is finally up to snuff this afternoon.
Climbing up on Salisbury Plain
I’ve got a desktop picture of Stonhenge, and it just occured to me… every picture I’ve ever seen of Stonehenge (“one of the biggest henges in the world”) has it backed by a moody gray sky.
Is that the result of photographers looking for the ghostly feel, or is it just that a sunny day over Stonehenge is rarer than Merlin giving interviews on Sky News?
First weekend back
Got back to Virginia Beach this evening, from a weekend trip back to Roanoke. Got some more of my personal things, but more importantly, got to spend time with Rain. It’s going to be a while before I see her again, which sucks rocks. Big chunks of volcanic pumice rocks, still blistering hot too. 🙁
But I did get to see her, that’s what’s important. Even got to see rhaps and shrewlet for a bit on Saturday, and trenn for an even briefer bit.
I should be back up in Blacksburg in two weeks, to catch up with calandra and much of the B-burg crowd. Jesse Braxton told me to pass along her regrets that she won’t be able to come up that weekend, but life made other plans for her.
Weird drive. Because of the deep layer of cloud cover over Roanoke, and the clear skies over Norfolk, this is one of the first afternoon drives I’ve taken where the sky got lighter as the afternoon wore away.
Yubbie’s not dead- yaaaayyy!
Happy birthday yubbie!
I second eeedge‘s comments – LJ makes it so much easier to keep track 🙂
Driving home every day, I drive past the Holiday Inn where they held a lot of Sci-Cons and at least one KatsuCon that I know of. Ahhh, memories.
Got home a lot quicker today, since my car was where I left it.
Today I met the art department, who gave me a nice welcome seeing as they’ll only see me when something’s wrong. Of course, I’ll be coming to fix it, so I guess I would be a welcome sight.
The mall a block away from work (where I park) is huge, four floors. I am trying to avoid going there because I don’t want to spend money, and don’t want to wish I could spend money.
That’s all for right now.
Dude, Where’s… oh, you know.
it’s about a 10-minute walk from work to the parking spot. Good exercise, unless it’s raining. But when I walked back to the parking garage today, my car was completely gone. I looked for it for 30 minutes of ever-increasing panic.
Turns out that this place has two completely identical parking garages. I was in the wrong one. Grrrr.
Anyway, the people at Decipher are very nice, and I’m thinking I’ll do fine there. Though I don’t have my own office, my desk is in an isolated corner, which felt a little weird – I’ve never worked that far away from co-workers before.
I’m pooped. Probably go to bed before too long.
“Olliur Base here: The Griffin Has Landed.”
A Baby’s Diary: “Day 1 – Still tired from the move.” – Steven Wright.
I’m all set up in my new place here in Virginia Beach. Room is nice sized, roommates are nice, and I’ve got the Internet connection working, so I’m as comfy as possible. Went to the grocery store today and, for the first time in over 35 years, bought a week’s worth of food for only myself. Weird.
I miss Roanoke already 🙂 I hope my first day at the new job is a smooth one.
dot/Hack//Chocobo
The registration / software update process to get Final Fantasy XI Online running took 2 hours last night. We were afraid no one was going to wait for us, and I don’t want to look at another License Agreement screen for a long time – there must have been a dozen of them.
The dot/Hack PS2 game begins with the player registering for a (simulated) online RPG, going to meet the friend who got them to play, trying some simple actions and battles with that friend, then being attacked by a mysterious force hiding in the game which puts said friend in a coma.
Last night raininva registered for an online RPG, went to meet kittenchan, and tried some simple actions and battles with with her help. Rain and I both couldn’t help thinking, “If Skeith attacks now, vond will never forgive us.”
I am clearing the personal effects from my desk and this machine’s hard drive, on my last day of work here. Everyone’s saying how much they’ll miss me, and meaning it, which is nice. I’m just refusing to think too much about all this change; it’ll probably hit me hard Sunday night. Monday morning, hello Decipher!
I just love scanning for pixels
Junkyard Geek got his old Umax SCSI scanner to work on his G4 tonight – a desktop machine that doesn’t approve of third-party SCSI cards, and certainly doesn’t want to talk to obsolete Umax stuff. Luckily, other hackers insist on writing *nix drivers for their obsolete hardware, and some among them are amused by tweaking said drivers to work on Panther (with a little fiddling).
Thanks very much to those who contributed to Rain’s early birthday present. She got an almost unwilling smile on her face, saying, “how dare our friends make my day like that!” Good job, guys 🙂
It was an odd feeling leaving work early on a Tuesday, This may be the first time in 5 years that I arrived home from a Tuesday session while the sun still shone. I’m gonna miss some of my co-workers; at least I know I’ll still get to catch up with VTSFFC and Starfleet folks from time to time.
A botanical hero arises
Many friends have asked for a copy of Bob’s Quick Guide to the Apostrophe:
I know, too small to read, but I don’t want to pollute people’s friends pages with the full-size version.
