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Paris, 4 July 2009
Bulletin C 38
To authorities responsible
for the measurement and
distribution of time
INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI
NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2009.
The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the
International Atomic Time TAI is :
from 2009 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -34 s
Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December
or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every
six months, either to announce a time step in UTC, or to confirm that there
will be no time step at the next possible date.
Daniel GAMBIS
Director
Earth Orientation Center of IERS
Observatoire de Paris, France
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So my first big solo photo show is opening next March at the Lawndale, but because it's part of FotoFest, they're wanting details & specifics much sooner (to get in the catalog, etc)
I'll be showing my blended video images so when I first proposed the show, I'd titled it Cataract Cinémathèque. Cataract having the dual meaning of large waterfall or cascade and a condition which causes blurred vision. Both seemed appropriate to my images, but I'm second guessing myself and thinking it may be too pretentious as a title.
Any thoughts or suggestions? Would you see a show called Cataract Cinémathèque? Or does a title like that throw up big warning signs "Art Noob here!!!"
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The guys that did the Houston Its Worth It book are also publishing a Hurricane Ike book that will have one of my photos in it. Book should be out in September.
Also, just got a message from David Pogue that one of my Twitter submissions will be in his next book. If I recall correctly, the premise was: Add a word to any name to give it a new meaning. I came up with Lee Marvin the Martian: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a chateau-shattering kaboom!" Edit: Turns out it wasn't the Martian he liked at all, it was actually one I'd forgotten I'd sent (a total throw-away gag) Fat Albert Einstein: "Hey, Hey, Oi vey!"
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Perhaps one of the better druidic Segway-riding Philip Glass cover bands I've seen.
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Sometimes I come up with my best ideas in the bathtub or the shower.
Today, such efforts were thrown at some code I was trying to repurpose for an upcoming art project.
 became this: ( Cut for sanity )Currently averages 8992 stills from Last Man Standing with 8992 stills from A Fistful of Dollars. Will be trivially easy to add another 8992 stills from Yojimbo once my Netflix arrives... (Why 8992? 5 minutes of video @ 29.97 fps...)
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via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chaobell,
Pac-Txt: Pac-Man meets Zork
Who know the chomper would work as a text adventure game? 8-bits? Who needs 'em?
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Strangely, as I try to put together the ultimate Beans Barton tribute album in my head, I can only think of the B-52's doing "Birds on the Bus" (with Fred Schneider speaking "It's a matter of attitude, not altitude"). Likewise, only Stan Ridgeway could pull off saying "It's always warm in a nuclear storm" during "This Is It."
*shrug*
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The bibulb is a bad influence... I finally broke down and signed up for Amazon Prime so that I could get my Weber Kettle by Wednesday. Not that I NEED it by Wednesday. But nobody in town seems to have the 22.5" One Touch Gold in stock. (the one with the better ash catcher and the hinged grate... everyone and their brother seems to sell the Silver, but not the upgrade...)
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The other note about Sunday was that I didn't get any actual food in me until 6:30 or 7 pm since I was running from deadline to deadline from 8:30 am on. Scarfed down 1.5 burgers when I got home (with Bacon Salt nam nam nam) and was in bed by 8.
Also, picked up an LG 23" monitor this morning before heading in to work. Looked at that vs the Samsung, but the 3rd input on the LG was HDMI vs HDCP on the Samsung. Seemed HDMI is a bit more standard, and I may eventually consider hooking up a blu-ray player to the monitor. *shrug*
Will have to re-evaluate this need of food thing. Particularly if I'm going to start exercising. Even though I got food last night before passing out, this morning after doing my pushups (5 sets, totaling 46 pushups for my first day) I was VERY hungry by noon and probably would have not been able to go much further. Even now, 4 hours after I ate, I'm thinking a Jamba Juice or equivalent may be in order to keep me going until dinner.
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Friday:
As part of the 48 Hour Film Project, my team drew Superhero as the genre Friday night. Required prop was a ball; required character was Jarod or Janice Puller, an officer (of some sort); and the required line was "I'm just not sure about that."
After work I headed to the theater that was the home base for our team, Renegade Amelia Films and helped a bit with writing the script.
Saturday:
Created a rough of the end credits, along with a few variations on a title card in the morning. Packed up my Mac Pro Tower and accessories to bring the editing suite to the shoot. Figured with all my other commitments for the weekend, that made the most sense. Got to the theater and started to set up, but my monitor was dead. I think the power supply blew when I unplugged it at home. *shrug* Borrowed a monitor from the theater tech and started working on graphic elements and looking at sound cues.
First tape with the interior scenes got to me around lunch. Captured and started that edit process. Later the exteriors were done and I was able to get the first few scenes added in. By 6:30 or 7, I had the first 4 minutes of our 7 minute film roughly assembled.
We went to dinner at Ninfas's on Navigation, and I made it to my Beans Barton concert a few minutes late.
Concert had a great turnout, for an acoustic show on the sidewalk. Audience spilled out onto the street, there was dancing, there was a documentary crew, and the diehard Beans fans that I knew I had to please seemed to accept me as the newest band member.
When the cameraman from the documentary crew asked me how long I'd been in the band, I shot back "about 10 minutes..." It was almost true. Only 2 rehearsals and that was my first show with them. Granted, I'd been a fan for more than 15 years...
Even only doing 8 or 10 songs on my acoustic bass guitar, afterwards the knot in my left shoulder where my strap crosses was starting to hurt. Out of shape in more ways than one...
Sunday:
Woke up early to get to the theater and finish the edit. Worked from 8:30 to 12:30 finishing and tightening the 7 minutes. Burned the first cut to DVD and screened it on the big screen in the theater. Only a few notes, almost all sound related, which I was able to fix before having to head to band rehearsal at 2.
Drummer was sick, but we were able to go through the 11 songs I already knew and add 5 new ones. Adding notes on every song every rehearsal. Jimb is pushing me hard to fill the measures with movement. As part of Ceili's Muse, I was lyrical on a few songs, but a lot of what I did was really hitting the root on 1 and maybe just doing root-5-octave stuff on 70% of the songs.
Made it back to the theater around 4:45 to burn the final discs and got them turned in. Started trying some pushups to see if I can build up my shoulders a bit more.
Monday:
Will look for a new monitor (thinking maybe a 20 or 22" Samsung) and did my first day towards one hundred push ups. And, of course, work...
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I'd seen Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock on The Big Bang Theory...
But did not realize that the original premise goes back to 2005...
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...just a question, really.
What fictional character (book, movie, tv) most influenced the path in your life that led you to where you are today?
( my surprise answer behind the cut! )
How about you?
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I was browsing Disinformation Corporation's online shop, considering the purchase of RIP: A Remix Manifesto and possibly also picking up the Alan Moore and Robert Anton Wilson documentaries on DVD as well, when I noticed the shopping cart was being run by a distributor called The Connextion. I browsed their "Shop By Artist" list and saw a LOT of names I recognized... friends, friends of friends... a lot of folks from the Houston and Austin scenes (Trish & Darrin (separately, not together), Sara Hickman, Skyblue72, Moses Guest, Soulhat, Guy Forsythe, Bad Livers, and a bunch more.) Worth checking out and seeing if there's anything worth picking up, because it seems like a lot of territory is covered!
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Likely only relevant to the PVAers on my F-list, but it seems that the Art History course that I will be taking in the fall, covering Experimental Film, might be taught by noneother than Mike Sicinski, who was PVA class of 90, two years behind me.
I'm imagining that I probably showed Koyaanisqatsi at one of my parties that he attended. The rest, as they say, is history.
Heh.
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Final grades have posted, I pulled a 4.0 for my 4 classes in my final semester.
That got me a 3.80 in my final 66 hours, greater than the 3.75 needed for Summa Cum Laude.
It also pulled my cumulative UH GPA up to 3.037. Considering when I dropped out in Fall 1992, my cumulative was under 2.00, that was a lot to overcome.
Sorry I've been harping on this, but there you have it. (Next semester I'll be bragging my grades from a clean slate, which won't seem nearly as exciting... ;^)
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Had a minor scare with the home Mac tower this morning... at some point in the last day or two it had gone into deep sleep. Hard reboot wasn't coming up all the way, zapping PRAM wasn't doing the trick... finally dug out the OS DVD and booted off of that to try repairing volume & permissions (no problems found) but it did eventually get Pynchon to boot. (He may have taken his birthday off...) Almost got myself to the point of copying the contents of Pynchon to Salinger as a disk image, wiping Pynchon and putting it back.
*shrug*
I was *this* close to making an appointment @ the Genius bar and lugging my tower to the mall. Glad it's worked itself out for the moment.
(assorted oddness witnessed along the way included booting in safe mode and having no audio input or output devices found, and getting through the gray and blue screens only for the screen to turn black instead of re-rezing for the login window...)
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