And now for something completely different!

I contacted an old friend of mine and it seems like I'm finally getting this video game movie I've been planning for ages rolling. The story has been in limbo forever and I could never find the right folks to help me out.

It all started with a very old game people still play called Jedi Academy. I was fascinated not with the game itself but all the modifications you can download. That led to endless possibilities for stories. Then I found a program called FRAPs. It's a program people use to record their gameplay.

There are two drawbacks to FRAPS.

1. It records at 30 second intervals. That's tedious to work with.
2. The resulting video file takes up HUGE AMOUNTS OF SPACE.

And, although it depends on your computer, it also freezes.

I used FRAPS to record scenes from DVDs. I used to have a series on my youtube channel called "Secrets of the Scenes." It's a series where I talk about movies and critique them and point out, well, secrets. It was going fine with the first movie I had in mind - Raiders of the Lost Ark. But FRAPS proved too messy to use and the series has been on hold ever since. Thus began my quest to find a free program to record scenes from a DVD.

Instead of doing all that "Blah blah of the week" stuff, I'm just going to post something random I found interesting or funny.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110113/sc_livescience/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive

In the land of giants. . .

there's hardly any room for more pioneers.


This is probably the first time I've written two blogs in one day. Technically the earlier one was late at night. Whatever.

I feel pretty dumb since I tried to make a society at my university where we'd critique all work of all media. But then someone told me they have that already. So I was like, "Oh." I had written a note on Facebook and tagged a bunch of people. Then I just deleted it altogether. I hope not too many people saw it and now were like "Wtf, where is it?"

Ah,it breaks the heart when an idea is already taken. But never fear! There's always something else to do. Like in an earlier blog, I sometimes wish we were coming out of the Dark Ages and I was but one of the many scientists discovering new things in the world. It feels like there's hardly anything left to discover. All the lands have had their flags planted in them. A part of me hoped that we'd develop space travel better than what we have now. If we ever do, and I'm still physically able, I'd want to go out there somewhere and be one of the first to discover something.

At least there's my radio show. I'm content with that.

Wow. . .

I haven't posted in a while now. Been slacking. Well, ironically because I haven't in everything else.

So happy new year, merry Christmas, all that jazz.

What's on my mind? Disney's on my mind at the moment. I've been writing a lot of stories lately and handing them out like an assembly line to my friends. It made me think about fairy tales, thus it made me think about Disney. There are some stories I really wish I created. Like Aladdin. If they ever make a time machine I'd be really tempted to go back and stop whoever wrote them so I can have the fame for myself. Mwahahahahaha! I would have to go back to the medieval period in Persia or something to change that one. Also I really liked Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, I said it. And I'm a guy.

But I'm looking at this clearly from a critical viewpoint. I love stories about guys who are lowlifes and fall in love with a girl who's obviously higher than him. They truly tell what love is about. "Yeah, I'm fucked up. . .but. . .I'm trying this anyway. . ."

And the mythos these stories have created have become timeless and endearing. A street urchin who gets his hand on a magic lamp. A prince in a castle who gets turned into a monster. They've become so. . .legendary. Household names.

My favorite though has got to be 101 Dalmatians. It's so. . .classy. You know? Pongo, that ol' rascal. I love the very beginning when he's trying to find a good mate.