3672: Spaceship (XTD)
The Fall 2010 Shmupmeet was excellent [link: starting with image #9]. With some difficulty, I captured something like three hours of video, though uploading fifteen minutes took an hour, so... maybe later =/ [I did want to post all the Strike Witches footage since that was this meet's theme, but the first one needs some editing to be - um - less incriminating, I guess.]
I know I'm a Luddite and have this terrible-assed time adapting to new tech despite my disposition towards change, but I just can't get excited about the idea of having to upgrade things I know I need to do. Some are little things [like how I'm watching ferretface1's Ustream and he has flood fill that actually goes to the line edges and GAD I WANT THAT PROGRAM] and others are major [like the whole "buy a new car" fiasco], but the process of getting used to a whole new system has always been a hassle for me. I barely learned how to do things in basic HTML, and most websites use advanced CSS and PHP and all kinds of abbreviations I don't remember but it's a shitload more dynamic than the way I do it.
I suppose my fear, as it were, is jumping onto X thing, and that thing suddenly becomes obsolete, forcing me to update to Y, and so on. I can still do, for instance, video editing in After Effects Ancient.1 *IF* the video uses a simple or no codec. Otherwise, I can't even open it for editing. I mentioned getting an updated Paint Shop Pro [it sucks]--I dread the prospect of going through the same process for all of my other prior favoured programs.
...I dunno. I feel as though I've reached the point where I've hit early middle age: Everything new is scary and confusing, especially since people YOUNGER than me are starting to bald/turn grey.
[Granted, greying is cool, if it's all over instead of a hair here and there like mine.]
What is my point? I have no idea.
I'm to Chapter 4 in this year's Nano, which is a mixed bag this early in the game. It sounds like good progress, but it also means the chapters are kind of short [especially 2, 3 even more so]. I wouldn't mind finishing "on time" as such, but I also know a novel that actually is 50,000 words is crap. That's too short for a proper build-up and resolution unless it's a script. The only thing going for me is the whole Five Man Band element, that I can change focus to a more interesting character when needed... though the Eigen Plot will be a troublesome part to manage correctly.
Anyway, my fingers hurt. Time for sack-hitting! =p
I know I'm a Luddite and have this terrible-assed time adapting to new tech despite my disposition towards change, but I just can't get excited about the idea of having to upgrade things I know I need to do. Some are little things [like how I'm watching ferretface1's Ustream and he has flood fill that actually goes to the line edges and GAD I WANT THAT PROGRAM] and others are major [like the whole "buy a new car" fiasco], but the process of getting used to a whole new system has always been a hassle for me. I barely learned how to do things in basic HTML, and most websites use advanced CSS and PHP and all kinds of abbreviations I don't remember but it's a shitload more dynamic than the way I do it.
I suppose my fear, as it were, is jumping onto X thing, and that thing suddenly becomes obsolete, forcing me to update to Y, and so on. I can still do, for instance, video editing in After Effects Ancient.1 *IF* the video uses a simple or no codec. Otherwise, I can't even open it for editing. I mentioned getting an updated Paint Shop Pro [it sucks]--I dread the prospect of going through the same process for all of my other prior favoured programs.
...I dunno. I feel as though I've reached the point where I've hit early middle age: Everything new is scary and confusing, especially since people YOUNGER than me are starting to bald/turn grey.
[Granted, greying is cool, if it's all over instead of a hair here and there like mine.]
What is my point? I have no idea.
I'm to Chapter 4 in this year's Nano, which is a mixed bag this early in the game. It sounds like good progress, but it also means the chapters are kind of short [especially 2, 3 even more so]. I wouldn't mind finishing "on time" as such, but I also know a novel that actually is 50,000 words is crap. That's too short for a proper build-up and resolution unless it's a script. The only thing going for me is the whole Five Man Band element, that I can change focus to a more interesting character when needed... though the Eigen Plot will be a troublesome part to manage correctly.
Anyway, my fingers hurt. Time for sack-hitting! =p