Whoever set off the fire alarm at 5:35 this morning is going DOWN.
And T-Barr is my savior! Mac ladies (and gents, if there are any mac gents that read this blog), is everything peachy?
Aaarrrugh, why are none of you online? My hallmates are all great, fun people, but I need to talk to someone Fandom. I can’t wait until I meet some of the DMD kids, as they’re more likely to share some common interests. None of the 10 hallmates I played Taboo with had even read Harry Potter. Wah.
And the notion that I will have no one to share Talk Like Pirate Day with is rather depressing. Come on, DMD students! Well, the PhD student I did the motion capture experiment with made references to the first X-Men movie… *crosses fingers*
Bleh.
Dude! How cool is that? On IE at least, huge tables and such don’t break the layout! Of course, I remind myself that on non IE-browsers, the layout is already broken. PLEASE, I beseech you. If anyone knows how to make this stuff work on Macs, I will *heart* you for eternity.
(written yesterday) Alas, today I surf the ups and downs of technology. Fortunately, there are more pros than cons. But the con is a really big, annoying con and it equates to maybe 3 or 4 pros. Wah. Oh well. This morning, I got my laptop hooked up to the Penn ethernet, which is quite lovely and keen, and brushed up all my virus protection update stuff. Then, I went over to the Engineering building (right across from my dorm, w00t) to meet with a PhD student who needed guinea pigs for his thesis. I spent an hour in the brand-spankin’-new motion capture suite, arm wired to the gills with sensors and infrared thingies I won’t pretend to understand. I heaaaaart the motion capture suite. Be still, my heart! And in short, because I’ve spent enough time on-and-off writing this entry. My beautiful scan/copy/printer is not working. Wah. But it will work soon, so yay.
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What Is Your Battle Cry? |
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Hark! Who is that, skulking across the desert! It is Priscellie, hands clutching buzzsaw hand extensions! She cries gutterally: “I’m going to bludgeon you with such zeal, I will be high on life for years to come!” |
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And I have a really cool roommate, huzzah! I foresee smooth sailing.
Microsoft Word hates me. I thought I could make HTML coding massive documents faster and easier if I used Word’s “Convert to Web Page” function, then just tweaked the code, everything would be easier. But it didn’t. It made it convoluted and scary and it tried to eat my babies. I had to fend it off with a pointy-end stick and a cross made of garlic bread. Whoever is behind that function should be shot at dawn.
And pleeeease, be lovely people and add your thoughts to the special effects post, two threads down. I’ll love you forever and lend you a dollar if you get in a pinch!
ALICEY IS MY HERO AND I <333333333 HER AND I WANT TO HAVE ONE MILLION OF HER BEAUTIFUL, ARTISTICALLY GIFTED BABIES AND SHE IS QUEEN OF CG AND DRAWING AND EVERYTHING AND *HEART* *HEART* *HEART*!!!!!!!!!1111
My godfather is Ambassador to Belgium.
Just thought you might like to know that. :)
Okay, ladies (and gents. of which there are like, two). I need suggestions. As part of orientation, we have these nifty Proseminar lecture thingies, and mine is on Special Effects. I need input on which special effects in movies you found especially impressive, memorable, or striking. For example, anything and everything relating to Gollum, the opening scene of X2 (particularly the triple-bamf. gravy on a stick.), bullet ripples (that sounds almost like an ice cream flavor) in The Matrix, and hobbit proportions.
So what do you guys think? What special effects make you go “woah”? Or better yet, make you not go “woah” because they’re so subtle?
You know what? If anyone was serious about stalking me, they could find this kind of information easily.
Priscilla Spencer
Hill House
3333 Walnut Street, Box 111
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6193
*tips hat*