Here's a photo of me about to fall off a roof.

("Roof" is climbing jargon for an overhang that is horizontal.)

...got 18 brights LED to the eyeballs, ordered a new replacement part, put it back together, waited another day, took it apart, installed this second replacement part, and our TV works again!

Our TV died. My 12 year old daughter and I took it apart, diagnoses it, put it back together and bought a replacement part, waited three days, took it apart again, installed the replacement part, put it back together and it still didn't work, so we poked around with 24v power supply...

Bedroom producing in progress

That's cool looking spectrogram, if I do say so myself.

"If you're employed right now, you're probably feeling some level of anxiety about how long that's going to last. If you're unemployed or underemployed, you're probably some combination of anger and despair about how hard it is to find stable work."

Looking at the transcript for this AI slop podcast about AI taking everyone's job. If I put this into a song, everyone would I assume I cut it up to make it say these things...

www.spreaker.com/episode/beyo...

Nine Inch Nails photographed by Rob Sheridan in 2005 with blocky digital static projected onto them. L to R: Aaron North, Alessandro Cortini, Trent Reznor, Jerome Dillon, Jeordie White

Nine Inch Nails band photos, 2005, taken in a studio in front of a white cyc wall using a low-resolution digital projector for lighting; experimenting with new ways to incorporate the digital glitch art elements of my "With Teeth" album art into the promo photos. 🧵 1/

I had so much fun doing that AI slop video that I was looking through some other AI podcasts to see if I could do another one.

And even when they talk about different things, they are all somehow the same.

Kai, The Friendly AI YouTube video by Bugh's Cut and Paste

I took some episodes of one of those AI slop podcasts, cut them up and turned them into a song. Then I made a video using creatice commons photos of dolls.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4x...

#podcasting #creativecommons

I know that everything is awful, but last week my washing machine died. I watched a youtube video, ordered the part and tools, they arrived the next day, and then I fixed my washing machine. Total cost: $40

Today, our TV died. Watched some videos, just ordered the part from ebay....

Firefox for the win

Dodgers victory brings much-needed joy to L.A. during a year of unprecedented challenges After the Dodgers clinched their first back-to-back World Series Championship, exuberant Dodgers fans took to the streets to celebrate with cheers and fireworks. Police said there were no arrests.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Not a huge baseball fan, but this is my mood.

and the best part about all of this? the yankees don’t get to experience this feeling

Toronto gets the film production jobs, we get the series. I'd reverse those, if I could.

Shit, I went tribal pretty quick there

Aw, shucks

Also, Bruce Springsteen lyrics show up surprisingly often in "How to write" articles. I read one article that pointed out how the opening of Thunder Road is written very much like the descriptions in a screenplay.

This is about non-fiction, but man if these lessons don't apply to fiction...How you frame the important moments is so important. Writing with imagery.

Nancy Updike Nancy Updike - Transom

Back in 2006, Nancy Updike wrote one of the most helpful manifestos in our archive.

Inside is a treasure trove of wonderful tips:

Pounding on the keyboard and swearing loudly? That sometimes works

Hm. Can you share a bit of audio?

Going through the basic troubleshooting...

-Have you tried recording with a different program? Different microphone?
-Have you recorded some audio and played it back? Verified that it's a not just a monitoring issue?
-Restarted the computer?

"Something's up with Jack" song is literally about Jack trying to figure out what he wants--the antithesis of Drama.

It's an example of a movie that's carried by the visuals and music, and not the story/characters. Like a Jackie Chan flick, but for goths.

Honestly, that whole script is kinda of a wreck. It hits all the beats of a classical musical, and it hits them so directly they get kinda of stupid. 90s Disney has the good sense to combine the "Our Little Town" and "I wish" songs. Not Nightmare.

Agreed! Although I'd quibble that she has agency--she slips away from her dad, takes risks to save Jack--but the only thing she wants in life is to help Jack, who has no interest in her at all.

Is "spacial audio" turned on? It's a windows setting

Don't listen to music that suits the mood you're in. Listen to music that suits the mood you want to be in.

Humor funny vs Comedy funny is a good way to think about it.

I'd be a shitty
tv movie.

I remember in the 90s, if you shot a feature film on 35mm, it counted for a lot, even if the film wasn't great. Just getting the cash for that much film was feat of its own.