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I've been posting a 27-part movie to YouTube that I made from the cinematics of the video game "Mass Effect" on Xbox 360, and it sure is taking a while to upload each little part. I get a few in each day. It's already been done before, but I think the story is really pretty good and worth the watch. I had to buckle down and make the decision to break actual scenes in two and therefore not make it quite as serialized as I wanted (each part having a solid ending/beginning) but instead clipped off conversations at a sentence and resumed them in the next part with the remark that followed it -- in order to make it within the 10-minute window that YouTube limits uploaders. It actually includes a sex scene and a rare-ish ending that makes it worth posting (if not for the nice story on its own), as the posting of the entire story has been done already at least twice that I could find, so I'm not exactly ahead of the curve in that regard.
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the original Spock character, was on my favorite radio program on Saturday, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and I liked it so much I recorded it. I found a nifty recorder for the PC that "records any sound a computer emits thru speakers" and I've taken to recording various streaming things with it, such as music videos on YouTube that are now mp3s.
While at hastings looking up books on Medical Transcription (they had none, according to Searchy McBootherson), I stopped by the teen fiction section to see how much the Twilight book ran for, and it was a bit much for my tastes, figuring I could pick it up online cheaper. My eye was instead caught by another book on the same shelf (almost typed "shame self") called Sucks To Be Me about a girl (the narrator) whose parents are vampires and want her to decide whether to become one or not. Apparently some local Northwest Vampire Council found out when a Vampire Tax dude visited their house and discovered a mortal living there and squealed on them. I only read the first few paragraphs, and actually laughed out loud (really) a few times right there in hastings. It was going for like 10.99 or so, so I wrote down the ISBN and actually bought it thru an eBay auction just tonight for $2.50, with $4 shipping. Pround moment for the day.
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the original Spock character, was on my favorite radio program on Saturday, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and I liked it so much I recorded it. I found a nifty recorder for the PC that "records any sound a computer emits thru speakers" and I've taken to recording various streaming things with it, such as music videos on YouTube that are now mp3s.
While at hastings looking up books on Medical Transcription (they had none, according to Searchy McBootherson), I stopped by the teen fiction section to see how much the Twilight book ran for, and it was a bit much for my tastes, figuring I could pick it up online cheaper. My eye was instead caught by another book on the same shelf (almost typed "shame self") called Sucks To Be Me about a girl (the narrator) whose parents are vampires and want her to decide whether to become one or not. Apparently some local Northwest Vampire Council found out when a Vampire Tax dude visited their house and discovered a mortal living there and squealed on them. I only read the first few paragraphs, and actually laughed out loud (really) a few times right there in hastings. It was going for like 10.99 or so, so I wrote down the ISBN and actually bought it thru an eBay auction just tonight for $2.50, with $4 shipping. Pround moment for the day.