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Well…I got nothin’, folks. As you can tell by the content here the last week or so, I’ve not been spending much time online, so I haven’t a lot of prime weirdness on display. By way of an old means of generating weirdness, here’s a recipe for Cthulhu cookies.
Sorry. I’ll try to do better next time.
Hey readers,
What’s a good freeware video editing program? I have some AVI files that I’d like to edit down a bit, but I don’t have the software to do it. I just need something pretty basic here; all I’m looking to do is isolate the two minutes I want out of a five-minute-long file.
Hey readers,
I appear to have completely lost all of my tech marbles this weekend. First off, they’re not AVI files but MOV files, so Windows Movie Maker won’t do the job. But Nero 8, which I’ve had installed on my computer for several months now, will. And I knew this. So why did I ask the original question? Because apparently this weekend I’m a complete doofus.
Thanks for the responses, though. I do appreciate the attempts to help.
This season is pretty gripping stuff already, but I’m wondering if the writers may have reached a boil too soon. It’s getting really dense on this show, and one particular plotline — the bit with the President’s husband and his crusade to uncover his son’s murderer — is threatening to spin out of control a bit.
Anyway, I’m resorting to keeping notes now on what’s going on. If this season runs true to form, the show will lose some steam between hours 9 and 14 (this year, roughly between 5 pm and 11 pm) before ramping it back up again toward the finale. From what I’ve read about how the writers work on 24 — that they don’t really plot it all out before they start — that’s generally when they reach the point where they don’t know where they’re going.
Oh, and Agent Walker is the prettiest FBI agent on teevee since Dana Scully.
A beautiful theme from the film Princess Mononoke, composed by the masterful Joe Hisaishi. Here’s “Ashitaka and San”.
Ashitaka And San – Joe Hisaishi
Enjoy.
OK, I’m almost caught up with this series thus far; one more pic remains, from this week’s episode. This is the last shot from the first four episodes, that all aired on Sunday and Monday last week. Wow!
Anyway, here I’m noticing a pretty blond FBI agent and realizing that she’s played by Ever Carradine, an actress who formerly appeared on one of my favorite shows of all time, Once and Again, wherein she played Tiffany, the girlfriend of Jake Manning, the cheating ex-husband of Lily Manning (Sela Ward). What’s funny about this is that Jake Manning was played by Jeffrey Nordling, who on this season of 24 is playing…FBI Agent Moss, who is the boss of the Ever Carradine character! It’s a small TV world, huh?
Oh, and Jack Bauer rules.
Well, my little roses that follow each blog post are missing, as is my American flag in the sidebar. This is because Earthlink has apparently reduced the amount of data transfer allowed for people like me who use its free webspace to store graphics and whatnot. Right now I’m averaging hitting my limit in about ten days’ time, so I’ve had to create three accounts (they’re free, you get up to eight or something like that) for my graphics, and then each month when one hits the limit I have to go through the template for this blog and change the HTML to point to a username whose transfer limit hasn’t been exceeded. And then on the first of each month it all resets. The problem is, on the username I’m using right now, I don’t have my roses or my flag. This irritates me.
So, in the next week or two I’ll be signing up with an actual hosting company. I’m looking for a cheap one so I can just host my graphics and not have to worry about things disappearing. I’ll get that taken care of soon enough, but anyone wondering why the blog sporadically looks weird, this is why.
Last reaction shot for this episode. I thought I was done, but then Jack did something really awesomely Jack Bauer-ish. He was trapped in a parking garage, with FBI agents on either side of him, so he broke into a car, hotwired it, crawled down onto the floor, put the car in gear, and then floored it with his hand on the pedal, sending the car smashing through the outside wall of the garage and into the surface lot next door, allowing him to escape. Before doing all this, Jack said: “This is gonna hurt.”
But nothing ever hurts Jack Bauer too much, because he’s Jack Effing Bauer.
Several reactions to this episode. Here I’m wondering just who Tony Almeida is working for. Did he become a bad guy for real? Or is he so deep undercover nobody knows about it anymore? WHO IS TONY WORKING FOR?!
What’s the opposite of “Fail”?
And….
I didn’t get to see much of the festivities at all, just the two Oaths of Office (I bet Chief Justice Roberts is slapping himself in the forehead all night), the John Williams piece (which I loved), and a the first bit of the inaugural address. I was at work, and the room I was in at the time had the Inauguration on streaming internet, which wasn’t as reliable as we’d have liked. Oh well.
I just hope that whichever one of Obama’s kids it was always remembers the day a Marine in full dress uniform plunked down a box in front of her for her to stand on.
