switches and switches

hmmm.
well we've started building out the rack that will be home to the 70is(s) from across the street
it's all archaic stuff, but it looks nice, it'll be cheep, it's an improvement...
those are the 'talking points'
i love this stuff.
it's all old sync/subcarrier/blanking all sold desperately separately
a hundred foot long cables eating up all of our kings
why are kings so damn expensive
it's got to be more than just the name
it's heart is a grass 100 something switcher
a ten/20 router
a 8500 da frame
some olde leitchy sync gen
a 1910 (my favorite chunk of tech in this rack)
more tek scopes 120/130 (Bs)
panasonics 503
some crappy ass sony 4x
some crappy ass iki 13" for 'shading' (as if...)
the router has it's full compliment of taley/status panels
some crappy ass prime image frame shacker...
it adds some nice dirt if you're into that sort of thing
which i am
but i'm not sure that the see-e-oh would see-it-that way
gawdd i'm obnoxious.
what else what else
there's um
oh, a very nice mps panel from our friends over at sig-t
love'em
don't get me started on the audio
keep in mind that this is purely to negate the need for setup
just walk in and flip a switch
and switch away
no real intercom
no real audio... just 2 wireless and a 3rd wired
no phones... well, maybe one but you'd have to fine someone to figure it out
now you're into hiring an A1
oh, you want projection...
oh, you want real intercom...
oh, you've got a roll in
oh, you want lighting
oh, you want pipe and drape
oh, you want it to look good
oh, you want lower 3rds
oh, you want wiz-bang
well, all that is extra.. especially the looking good part.
that's jenny's job
shell fix you up
she's got the dope and the shillac
well, probably not, but one could always hope
you never know what's going on in that greenie room
i've often wondered about the coke and hookers..
i never really get to see them
i don't think it exists
not in this biz
well... i know that's a fucking lie
but wtf
i did some time working for an aging rock band
popular
and had the whole back stage access and all that shit
but...
a cheese plate
mineral water
these people weren't strait
they weren't hippies (wait, that wouldn't make sense)
they weren't a church band (wait, that wouldn't make sense either)
no coke
no hookers
sheesh
i was expecting to meet tops, bottoms and switches
now i just see switchers

too self for self

so the guy has gone from my place to their place.
the stuff doesn't .... well... work
or work well for that matter.
so i get to barrage the guy with the demands of answers he doesn't have to give.
he's also offering the end of our careers if we dont go on the cruze.
jump aboard, have a laugh, change the world... until the next planned change anyway.
put it on copper, take it off copper and put it over the air. put it into space. back now, but on glass as digits, now back up to the cosmos, but make sure the content is comatose
so noone will notice how bad it looks how bad it sounds how bad it feels how bad it says
is the lowest common denominator self hate?
would you really eat jack in the crack if you loved yourself
would you really enjoy gladiators pummeling eachother if you were capable of love.
are you really willing to give up what you had, and pay more for it
the dream is more for less
we are subjected to less for more
planned obsolescence
buy hd
we're not ready for it, so buy it again in 5 years when we are
it wont matter anyway because what you bought 5 years ago has already failed once. so you'll be willing
buy a raid to house your fliks
buy another now, because the one you had is now... well.... just do it. new is better....
sucker

fix

right
don'r lovit when ya send something out to get a fix and it comes back needing a fix?
we have a scopus with this horrendous audio spat that sends even me running....
well this is what it went out fer, that and the fact that we can't remote to it.
guess what.... it came back, horrible spats in toe and deaf to all tcp/ip traffic.
i'm glad we got that sorted.

next is a particular aj-d960 that's gone out and had 700 caps replaced because in the long long ago there was a bad run of the bastards.
it's actually done this i think 700 times now.
seriously, this deck is alway dead... needing 700 caps replaced. 4 times already and a 5th on it's way as the composite out is out.
maybe there be 701 caps

did i mention that our thunderous boat anchor is now up and running with the best of them.... fyi, 7.1 whatever fixed whatever it wouldn't fix. good show mr. support!
now i'm wondering why the mxf the sucker makes isn't readable my our media composer adrenaline hd? not the same mxf i suppose. that would be just too easy.

btw, our non unity unity is working smackingly. pm and i'll let you in on the secret. it aint perfection, but it could have been if politic weren't stubborn.

simple solutions

after talking to avid (which i have to say was a pleasent experiance)
things are getting fixed.
they're products, marketing, swindeling, extortion and weirdness is trying
but it seems that if you talk to the tech guys, things get done.
kudos
the 40k doorstop was my ticket to the good stuff.
good thing we own acronis, otherwise we would have had to have bought it.
you should buy a least the workstation/client whatever version. best thing out there

today i was told to tell the CEO to get out of our room that we'd reserved.
i decided to wait him out... i went upstairs and got some hot green instead.
came back, got the press conf off and running and all was sweet.
went back to home base to work on the crud and stuff.

for some reason none of our marshalls want to work with our brand laptops... at least the ones we've picked for our shows. i thought that vga was vga. will wonders never cs

why can't i keep up on this?

and the gold goes to...

on a lighter note, i'm designing a studio for nasa
finally working for nasa...
i think i'm the only one i know that hasn't
i'll be sure not to shoot anyone, that's the job of the crew.

also met the chap that builds out the system for the olympics
i'm getting a tour before it ships out. sweeeeeet.

not too much video, more of a rant

well there was a film... or two
fog, bridge... whatever
a girl i know jumped. she was bound. i mourned.
i now have this morbid curiosity about the circumstances
where did she jump
day, night
was it caught on tape
girl afraid .... i'll say.
people say things on either side
bastardize, inflate...
she was she.
everyone that knew knew.
stupid sad.

illustrator

i'm needing to learn illustrator or some other vectory thing. for both a business idea and for a tattoo design. i know that i could hire an illustrator person for this stuff, but i've always been a diyer.