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I find MMORPG subculture very fascinating,
although I am not good enough to really
participate myself. This is a funny
look into the lives of a group that had up
until now only known each other on line. |
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Doogie Houser and the captain from Firefly
(directed by the creator of Firefly) come
together in this absurdly touching and
creative musical |
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Paul is a good friend of mine from high
school. This is his professional
website for his marriage and family therapy
practice. His love and compassion are
only some of the qualities that I am sure
make him a great therapist |
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As the goddess of fertility and the hunt,
Artemis IT, a company started by a good
friend of mine from high school has
definitely flourish. |
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This is my friend Matt's personal blog.
Matt and I are friends from high school.
Back in the day Matt and I shared a great
passion for music . . . perhaps this is
something we still share, but I have not
seriously played my sax since college. |
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Matt's family blog maintained by his wife
Becky. |
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Anna and I were the best of friends when we
were very little. Its always fun to be
able to keep up with friends for so long.
We haven't seen each other in quite some
time, but she built a successful career as a
photographer and this is her professional
site. |
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I actually don't know this guy . . .and he
for sure doesn't know me, but I know his
brother. Ben is an artist and a master
at Flash. I enjoy seeing the things
that he comes up with |
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My old employer has an interesting
perspective on political philosophy that he
expounds on in this web site. I am
embarrassed to admit that I am a sheeple .
.. baaaaah. |
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Netflix |
I have been a part of netflix for a while
and it is OK . . . Blockbuster does the same
thing for the most part, but Netflix has on
line movies too which is a great way for me
to catchup on a lot of old cheesy 70's sci
fi movies. |
ABC |
I am still a fan of Lost and so I am happy
they ABC carries episodes on line.
Lost only has 1 or 2 seasons left . . . I
look forward to enlightenment, although I am
betting that the ending is going to be
without any closure or enlightenment, but if
done well that could be good too. |
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USA |
Two words . . . Burn Notice. Catch the
episodes on USA's site. I am also a
sucker for USA's "Characters Welcome" slogan
. . . I think it works. |
NBC |
I had fought it for a long time, but I am
not a mega fan of 30 Rock and The Office.
I am also enjoying Kath & Kim, which I don't
understand why. I think it is because
Molly Shannon is actually fairly well
balanced in the role. |
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I find MMORPG subculture very fascinating,
although I am not good enough to really
participate myself. This is a funny
look into the lives of a group that had up
until now only known each other on line. |
Jonathan Coulton |
This guy used to be a programmer I believe
but then found his calling with music.
A number of World of Warcraft (MMORPG) music
videos have been made, and then he got
catapulted into nerd history by having
written a popular song for the hit video
game "Portal". I enjoy the portal song
and one called "drinking with you" |
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How It Should Have Ended |
Some of these are funny. I know that a
few of my friends and I have often
considered how different stories would be if
that 'one' little thing wouldn't have
happened. |
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Doogie Houser and the captain from Firefly
(directed by the creator of Firefly) come
together in this absurdly touching and
creative musical |
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GameSpot |
I do love to play video games and I have
found GameSpot to provide useful reviews on
games |
The Line Game |
You may see McDonalds commercials now that
use line rider in the background. It
was developed several years ago and is a
pretty intriguing physics program with an
open ended challenge to just create the most
absurd obstacle course that the little guy
can traverse without wrecking or falling. |
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Free Music |
This has a bunch of free music that you can
use as filler for videos. |
Sound Effects
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Here are some sources where I get sound
effects |
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Creative Cow |
This site has a lot of useful tutorials for
how to use some of the software that I use |
Lynda.com |
This site requires a subscription but it has
been very useful for getting most of the
basic understanding of much of the software
I use. In many cases reading is a
better way for me to learn, but these videos
are things that I can play in the background
while doing other things and pickup tidbit
as I go. |
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Adobe |
There are a lot of different flows and
specific pieces of software and although
Final Cut Pro for the Macintosh is still
much of an industry standard, Adobe is the
PC standard I believe for a lot of video
editing. I am pretty familiar with
Premiere Pro and Encore right now, but am
trying to wrap my head around After Effects,
PhotoShop, Flash, InDesign. So much to
learn so little time. |
celtx |
As I am considering how to best organize
scripts and other information pertaining to
pre-production information, I stumble across
this program. It is a database that
houses scripts, organized by scenes and
characters, with casting and setting etc.
too. I don't know how to use it but it
was a free program that I thought might be
interesting to learn how to do it. It
formats the data in standard ways so that if
I were ever to share a script with a
professional the hope is that it would be in
a format that he/she could easily
understand. |
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Windows Moviemaker |
if you have windows, Microsoft has packaged
Moviemaker with the OS. This is a
pretty reasonable tool for modifying and
doing some basic editing with home movies. |
TMPGEnc |
For those who want to convert file formats .
. . this program is very useful, effective
and very efficient. It most useful
function for me is that it is a way to get
DVD video into another format that can be
edited. This is also a great way to
backup video if you have home movies stored
on DVD etc. Most if not all hollywood
type DVD's are copy protected and so this
program is not able to do anything with
those videos. There are other cheaper
and probably even free programs that do
similar things, but this has been the most
effective for me. Another one such
program that caught my attention but didn't
necessarily hold it was
badaboom. |
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Picasa |
This is a tool from Google that helps
organize photos with some basic photo
editing capability. I also am using
Adobe's bridge which has some good things
with it, but I tend to use bridge as my link
to photoshop but use Picasa to do general
organization etc. |
Google
Earth |
This is mostly just for fun, but there are a
lot of tools here for pre-exploring areas
that you may be visiting in person. I
also think that a tool like this could be a
great hub for travel logs and photo albums,
but I am not sure if you can use it as such
just for personal use without broadcasting
it to other people. |
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Free
Commander |
If you want a little bit more powerful file
explorer this may be up your alley.
Many years ago I was on the search for a
good explorer (one with ftp,
synchronization, filters, customizable hot
keys, multiple tabs etc.) and I came across
Enriva's
Magellan Explorer which served me well,
but sadly it has issues in Vista x64 (or at
least I do), but a was introduced to this
program which is free unlike Magellan, and
is seemingly as powerful. |
Notepad++ |
As a low grade programmer I love good text
edittors. I had loved Codewrite for a
long time which is a very expensive tool and
I did not even scratch the surface of what
it could do, and although I was more
familiar with that tool . . . again due to
Vista x64 issues, I had to find another
program. Again this is a free program,
and although I have not learned how to use
quick key macros or other things, this
program has proven to be a very capable text
editor. The one thing I really like it
codewrite was the ability to select columns
of text . . . this is actually a very cool
ability in programming I think. |
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Filezilla |
I think free commander has FTP, but this is
also a very good ftp program |
SonicWall |
My friend Travis with Artemis has introduced
me to this, and it had essentially changed
my professional life. As a general
computer person that wants to access his/her
computer outside the home or office there is
a site/service call
gotomypc, in general this is a useful
tool if you need some basic access to your
computer while you are away or travelling,
but it is web based and pretty slow.
Sonicwall has routers that help you setup
virtual private netwoks (vpn) that allow you
to work on you computer at home or the
office from anyway as if you were sitting
right in front of it. When my last job
got this, it had changed the way we did our
work, and enabled us even more when we were
on business trips. |
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JAlbum |
With lots of free blog and picture sharing
site, this program may not be as generally
useful as some of the others, but this is a
HTML album generator that I use and been
happy with. It is what generates the
the albums I use on my site. |
Vista Voice Recognition |
Out of curiosity I had purchased
Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking.
I was completely impressed that it works so
well, especially for a guy like me that has
issues articulating clearly. I tried
to get it installed on Vista x64, but it is
not supported and it didn't work properly,
but in trying to get it to work, I realized
that Vista has a built in voice recognition.
I don't think it works quite as well as
Naturally speaking but it is still very
good. A big part will be the
microphone I think. Anyway, I keep
thinking I am going to dictate some clever
things one day, but sadly I type faster than
my brain thinks anyway (and I type very
slow) and so dictating hold no immediate
benefits for me, but I thought I would pass
this information on. |
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