Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

My Week in Movies: June 27 - July 3

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:34:35 GMT

I think I've petered out on Mass Effect. While I still have a couple of different playthroughs I can do, I've been playing these games for a month straight. I've switched to Outer Worlds as a breather game, especially as there is DLC I haven't played.

Finally socialized for the first time in over a year, going over to airawyn's place for a small gathering. It was a lot of fun and I didn't forget how to talk to people! I think.

Here's the very short movie list:

Fate of the Furious (2017)

I'm all caught up on Fast and Furious movies that are out on digital disc. I still need to see F9, though.

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Busy busy busy!

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:47:07 GMT

So. Dreamwidth. I should catch you up. And stuff.

echan and I celebrated our five-year wedding anniversary on December 13th with a trip to Legoland. We stayed on the pirate-themed floor in a pirate-themed room. With bunk beds! Which I did not fit into well. The park itself was pretty cool. As an amusement park, it's so-so. As a display of the wonders of LEGO craftsmanship, it is a modern marvel. Miniland USA and Star Wars Miniland are very, very awesome. They also had miniature golf! I bought... many many many many LEGOs. I'm using them for purposes related to the last item in this post.

Speaking of echan, ze bought me an awesome thing for the holidays: Borderlands 2 replica Loot Chest. I'm using it store LEGOs.

Been side-watching Gilmore Girls with jmtorres (wherein she watches it and I pop in and watch it with her when I'm around). It's a fun show, but it's getting increasingly less happy-place as we get into the sixth season.

[redacted Festivids discussion]

Went to the Kings/Coyotes games on Saturday with niqaeli. Had a great time. I'm not into sports, really, but I enjoy a good game every now and again.

I have jury duty next month. I am... ambivalent.

I'm currently prepping to play Dungeons and Dragons with brokenallbroken, airawyn, rhi_silverflame, lizbetann, and diannelamerc. Our first session is January 3rd and I am... slightly obsessive. I don't want to get caught off-guard, basically. I did build a pretty cool dice tower out of LEGOs though.

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Blind Item

Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:13:38 GMT

I had a friend email me out of the blue and tell me that they "continued" to not want anything to do with me. Which is the first I've heard of it. We used to be close, but drifted apart, and I hadn't heard from them in over a year prior to this. I can't ask them what this is about because they specifically requested I not attempt communication or contact of any kind and I'm respecting that. I can only guess.

The memory goblins are compiling a litany of every potential offense or slight I've ever committed within a five-mile radius of this person. I thought I'd been really good about not being a total asshole lately, but maybe I just got cocky.

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Vividcon 2013 CON REPORT Part 2

Sat, 24 Aug 2013 03:17:35 GMT

Where was I? Oh yes. I went to bed on Friday night feeling like my legs were in revolt and not giving a crap.

However, I had to be up early on Saturday ( This is where we talk about Saturday )

Aaaand up again early on Sunday morning ( All about Sunday morning here... )

( A moment of navel-gazing... )

Back to Sunday!( Here we go... )

Next post will cover the last two Fiasco games, the end of the weekend, and vid recs.

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VID: Wonderful World (multi)

Mon, 06 May 2013 05:14:06 GMT

Title: Wonderful World
Artist: Louis Armstrong
Source: All of them.
Warnings: Excessively gooby. May not make sense if you don't know the recipients.
Made For: diannelamerc and lizbetann

Summary: Dianne and Lizbet got hitched and I expressed my joy for them in the best way our kind knows how: I made them a vid with all of their favorite things in.

Password: buffalobuglet

wwwdl from Jetpack Monkey on Vimeo.

Download 20.4 MB MP4 file (right/ctrl-click + "Save link as...")

( Notes below the cut... )

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Sick sick sick

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:53:02 GMT

I've been fighting this weird rolling illness where one or two low-level symptoms will present themselves, mess with me for a little while, and then step aside for other symptoms. I'm talking stuff like wooziness, aches and pains, sore throat, congestion, low energy, etc. Never all at once. It's super weird. It's been going on for about a week now.

I'm convincing myself that my body is doing last minute upgrades to prepare for the release of Jetpack Monkey 30 in a week and a half.

I haven't been able to respond to all the comments on my Festivids yet, but I will get to every single one. Some day.

What else? sweetestdrain has been guiding me through some of the major vids of the past 10 years that I've missed. There are some excellent vids that I've completely missed. [Edited to add: wow I really am sick]

Finally watched Scooby Road last night, for instance. I became all sniffly during Here Comes the Sun. I like how the vids start as looks at a handful of episodes or a particular character relationship, but then expand to consider larger thematic concerns within Buffy. With that said, a lot of the power of the vid album, especially in the later tracks/vids, hinges on Buffy Summers's emotional journey holding resonance for the viewer already. Buffy's character arc was not the one that hit me when I was watching the show; I was far more invested in Xander, Willow, Tara, Anya, Giles, and, to a certain extent, Dawn. So the parts where people promised me I would be a bawling wreck I... wasn't.

Revisions on the book essay have been turned in now, so my part in that is done.

Ugh. So out of it. I'm gonna go read a book with pictures.

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Don't forget, vidding IRC chat is a thing!

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:48:03 GMT

There seems to be a downturn in #vidding chat lately, so I thought I would gently remind my vidding friends that it's there and awesome. Gently. With a chainsaw.

Server: irc.sff.net
Room: #vidding

(borrowing the following from a post by laura47)

If you don't have an IRC client and have java working, you can use the web client here: http://irc.sff.net/

When you enter, it will ask you for a nickname. give it one, hit enter. then type "/join #vidding". you can change your nickname by typing "/NICK vidderface" if you wanted to be vidderface. :-) To send a personal message, type "/msg username message goes here". You can also type "/me loves festivids so much!" to get "vidderface loves festivids so much!"

There are many, many clients for IRC.

I've used http://www.pidgin.im/ which works for many OSes.
Windows has http://www.mirc.com/
Mac OS has http://www.ircle.com/
I use http://www.andchat.net/ on my android phone, and I'm sure iPhones must have a client too.

There are many guides to using IRC. Here is one.

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Two quick things, vidding-related

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:19:31 GMT

THING THE FIRST: Today's the last day to submit fandoms to the Pre-Festivids Fandom Rec Festival! There are nearly 70 fandoms listed, so please wander over and take a look at the masterlist, watch a couple, and then request or offer those fandoms!

THING THE SECOND: I have, of late, a sudden yen to chat online with my fellow vidders. While I do frequently lurk in the Festivids chat, I was wondering if there's any of you fine vidders who follow me that are on AIM or GTalk so I may add you and jibber jabber? Comments on this post are screened if you don't want to publicize your info. I am MagneticYapp on AIM and I don't really want to post my GTalk name on a public post, but it is realfirstname.reallastname.realfirstandlastinitials@gmail.com. Which is boring, I know.

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Dreamwidth only -- Looking for friend recs

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:00:47 GMT

I'm more committed daily to making Dreamwidth my journaling home and Livejournal that place where I catch up with people who haven't moved over yet.

Please recommend some awesome folks to follow!

I'm a white, mostly-straight cis male eagerly looking to overcome his own privilege.

I am into vidding, classic horror movies, classic Hollywood, film criticism, Doctor Who, Community, Star Trek (particularly DS9), MST3K, all things Joss Whedon, Monty Python, The Prisoner, and Alias. I'm not really a shipper, because given sufficient chemistry, I am happy to see any two characters together (that said, get me started on Bashir/O'Brien sometime -- HEART).

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Things That I've Decided

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:19:15 GMT

This year (as in vidding year, which runs from Vividcon to Vividcon), I'm going to make at least two vids that scare me a little. Beyond those two, I'm going to try to amuse myself before anyone else (and learn a few tricks while I'm at it).

I am going to do Festivids this year.

I am going to post more to Dreamwidth, talk more about fandom, watch more vids as they come out, be more friendly, leave more feedback.

In short, at Vividcon I gained new confidence as a vidder and I made all sorts of friends. I'm going to work my damnedest to keep both of these things.

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