Reported this morning on some difficulties. Those seem to have now been resolved. Most of it had to do with a degradation of audio quality in the Quicktime encoding. I tried encoding it with a different program and, so far it’s pretty good.

Between this, trying to use Magic Bullet Suite, forgetting to shoot our very first footage in 16:9 and having to figure out what to do with it, multiple recastings of the Frannie character, the thing we went through to get needed shots (like driving around the top of Mount Mitchell and making it look like it’s the Rockies of Colorado), and a bajillion things that happened to each of us on our own personal ends, and now ridiculous issues coming up here at the finish line…

I swear that I’m going to go out and get good and drunk this evening. And I ain’t even a drinking ...

…yesterday there was a geomagnetic storm relating to solar activity that registered 9 on the K-Index, that got measured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to the link on NOAA’s website the affects of this kind of storm…

…include widespread power system voltage control problems; some grid systems may experience complete collapse or blackouts. Transformers may experience damage. Spacecraft operations may experience extensive surface charging; problems with orientation; uplink/downlink and tracking satellites. Satellite navigation may be degraded for days, and low-frequency radio navigation can be out for hours.

I’ve noticed during the past couple of years that whenever Earth gets hit with a massive dose of these particles from the sun, that we start having a lot more active earthquake activity. It happened this past December before the quake and tsunami in southeast Asia, and its happened a few other times lately. Maybe the nickle/iron mantle ...

Awright, Forcery should be finished by this afternoon, I think. Had to re-export a few of the projects ‘cuz of interlacing issues, on top of the redone sound. I know this is getting perilously close to the deadline of beating Episode III but I’m pretty confident it’ll be done in time. Gonna try anyway.

Good news is every time I watch this, it gets funnier and funnier.

A while back on this blog I mentioned how much Revenge of the Sith is a thingly-veiled jab at President Bush. That’s starting to get picked up by the established press ever since advance screenings began the other week. I don’t think it’s a personal thing though: Lucas had this all plotted out thirty years ago and if it wasn’t George W. Bush destroying liberty in America, it would probably be somebody else. Lucas is just resonating with a pattern of history. ...

It sorta came while reading Kyle Williams’ new piece at WorldNetDaily this morning. Which reinforced my belief all the more that he and Vox Day are two of the darned few serious Christian intellectuals we have operating in America lately.

Anyhoo, I don’t know if anyone else has ever thought of this but I like to think it’s pretty clever:

Don’t Worship

Fake Cowboys
Maybe stick a lil’ caricature of Bush wearing an oversized cowboy hat or something.

I don’t want any money from suggesting the idea. I just wanted to be the first to suggest it 🙂...

There’s a meaning here, I’m sure of it.

I hadn’t caught it regularly since the first few episodes, but last night was the series finale of Star Trek: Enterprise, and despite a lot of negative criticism I thought it was a pretty good way to end all things Trek for the forseeable future. This franchise needs a rest though: it’s gone to the same well for darn nearly 20 years and a big chunk of that time, there were two separate Star Trek series running at the same time! Don’t call me a die-hard Trekkie ‘cuz that’s never been me, but I did enjoy keeping tabs on whatever was going on in that particular universe, and Enterprise really got me excited during its first season… then it fizzled out. Heard the episodes this past year rocked the house though. But somebody please tell me: did they ever reveal who ...

The end is finally in sight. This thing is going to beat the deadline by about four days. And this crazy notion I’ve carried on my back for going on four years now will soon finally be laid down. Hopefully you’ll like what it is.

Should have more to report later today....

This is so damned digusting I can’t even come up with words for it. Friend sent me this link tonight. Behold the BushFish:

Do you believe God belongs in government?
Do you believe President Bush is doing The Lord’s Work?

If so, then show your love for God & the USA!
If this country’s legislature and judiciary are supposed to reflect the values and beliefs of The People, then send them a message that they are WAY off course!

If you are tired of secularists telling you that The Lord has no place in our government and our public institutions, then show them that you disagree.

This symbol, this site, and this car magnet have been created for the millions of Americans who support the President and his vision for a government that embraces religion, morality,

I’ve little doubt that he did either. Have spoken to a couple of people who’ve seen Star Wars Episode III already and they’re warning now to bring Kleenex to the theater. Sheer, unrelenting brutality. If it can possibly go wrong, it goes wrong. If it COULDN’T possibly go wrong, that goes wrong too. Almost nobody gets out alive this time. How bad is Revenge of the Sith? One friend said that “it’s more devastating than Titanic.”

Man this is going to be the longest week of my life. Three decades of wondering about new Star Wars movies comes to an end in ten days. Whatever shall I do with my life now…? 🙂...

Over at WorldNetDaily, Day cuts through the smoke and mirrors deluding even the elect and ponders mightily: who is “The Devil’s own?”...

It’s been awhile since I lived there but some of the contacts I made and cultivated in the curious lil’ burg of Asheville paid off bigtime last night. Got to share the thing about East Waynesville Baptist Church and how its pastor excommunicated nine people because they were Democrats, and SEVERAL hours before most newswires picked it up. Granted, WLOS, the ABC affiliate in Asheville was the outlet that first broke the story, but looks like at least mine was one of the first blogs to pass it along.

So it’s out there now, the Asheville Citizen-Times just posted a story about the situation and a little while ago WorldNetDaily made it the top story. Meanwhile I’m hearing that this Chan Chandler guy is nowhere in sight but is sending statements defendings his actions as justifiable according to the Bible. Ummmmm ooh-kaaaay…

If no one minds my saying ...