Linake means Lindsay

I've had some fantastic times here, but I think I'm done posting on LJ for now. Time will tell if I return, but getting a clean start at Wordpress feels nice. This is entry 853 on my LJ, so it's tough to leave, but I just don't feel connected to this blog anymore. Besides, no one but myself reads it :P My friends have changed, my former quasi-best friend actually defriended me on her LJ, and so I am going where my other friends are. People would call me a follower, but it's nice there. It's totally ad-free there.

I'll still come check my FL, since that's my only relationship with LJ for awhile now. Plus, with new people not being able to have ad-free account I sort of feel like LJ is selling out in some respect. I know it's Six Apart doing it and not LJ itself, but still. I love you guys, so I will visit and comment. . . just not post. I will become a troll *^_^*

Cheers to you all. See you around my friend's list.

I need to get up in three hours to go to the school and edit, so in all sane worlds I should be sleeping. . . but instead I'm updating my iPod's firmware and adding my Sigur Rós library to it. I'll need some music to listen to while I sit at the computer all day tomorrow. I was exhausted today, too, but then when it comes time to sleep I can't. Oh well, it's been like that my whole life. By "it" I mean me?

I'm actually really excited about the project we're working on right now. It's based around a campaign that our college began two year ago about respecting everyone, no matter what. . . We have some strong interviews already with people like the President of the college, the student counselor and various members of the student council. Tomorrow we have one last interview with the guy who pretty much runs the campaign, and then we need to shoot some b-roll of students in halls, eating lunch etc. in the hour that Jeremy has between his classes to teach. During that time I will be editing, and hopefully we will have it done by 4:00 on Saturday! We have until Monday, but there is a shag (our name for a "Stag & Doe" party in Northern Ontario, don't think inappropriate things) on Saturday night and I'd really like it to be a celebratory drunken one.

With the help of Motion I have already designed the lower thirds and beginning titles. Exporting those with different names will take no time at all, but I do have to work on the end credits and finding music. In any case, that's one of the LAST things to do, then you can tweak the cuts to the music a bit.

Today we went in at 8:00 and worked pretty much non stop on it until 4:00 this evening. We began with just the dumped footage, but it actually looks like something now. Jeremy made a hard copy of what he thought the layout of the video should be, so it's more or less set, I just have quite a bit of sound mixing to do tomorrow if I can figure out the proper way to make a noise print. Also a bit of colour timing because I didn't light the interviews consistently at all, and now I'm kicking myself for it. We shot the president on Valentine's day so she wore a bright red jacket and we were shooting with DV! It bled like crazy, but after a bit of colour timing it looks decent.

I think we can have it done by Saturday, no problemo.

Off to bed/more CD importing I go. I'm in the process of picking and choosing only a few of the 2000 picture on my computer for my iPod, too. Cheers!

*Do you think the US government will hack my LJ for this phrase? I mean we shot her interview!

I have a new toy and it's called Psychic Paper. That's pretty much what it is!


Only 8GB, but I really don't need more than that. Plus, it's the difference between $300 and $400 for the 16GB. WOOT! I'm in the process of downloading the new weather, maps and email apps right now. No hacking for me!

We're having a Lunar Eclipse and beer drinking get-together tonight! Tune in, we all get that channel*.

Newfoundland ~ 11:30 p.m. - 12:21 a.m.
Atlantic ~ 11:00 - 11:51 p.m.
Eastern ~ 10:00 - 10:51 p.m.
Central ~ 9:00 - 9:51 p.m.
Mountain ~ 8:00 - 8:51 p.m.
Pacific ~ 7:00 - 7:51 p.m.

Cheers!

*Unless you are in Asia or Oceania.

I'm listening to Jagged Little Pill (the album). It brings back grand memories of laying on the couch in 1997 and reading along in the liner notes as Alanis  sang her little heart out. I'd never say the swear (I still rarely do) as I sang, in case my mom was around! I remember arguing with my friend Amy about whether she only says "chicken sh" or goes all the way with "chicken shit" in Jagged Little Pill (the song). Amy was right, it turned out, because I had only then heard the radio edit -- then we'd play with Amy's immense Barbie collection. It all seemed so important in those days.

That explains why I haven't listened to it in a very long time, yet I still know every word.
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I had to make a huge decision today.

My friend, and her beautiful daughter Odessa, are possibly moving to Vancouver in a few weeks for the summer so the former can work on an important film job. She Booked (Facebook messaged. . . I wanted to use a short verb, but now had to explain it) me today asking if I would go with her! She'd pay rent, I'd just have to buy my own groceries and take care of Odessa 4 days a week since her job would be 16 hour days. She'd pay me, of course, but even still it'd be a great opportunity.

Unfortunately there are a lot of plans this summer, in terms of my own future. If I eventually wanted to end up in Vancouver for my film career I would jump at this chance that she has given me. . . but to be truthful what I want more than anything is to help start a new industry here in Thunder Bay. Our mills are closing, people are moving. . . we're being rated one of the worst places to live in Canada and I am not going to just sit at the sidelines or move away to let my city rot. A few of my friends and I are going to make a difference. This summer is when it all starts! Television shows to be made, movies to be shot. . . I want to be in the thick of that. Why start at the bottom in larger cities when you can start near the top in your own home town? People think because I haven't moved away yet I am not job hunting, or not advancing. Truthfully I have been working on client work for corporate videos. Everyone starts somewhere. So as much as I love the pair of them, I can't give up what is possibly the most important summer of my career.

Trust me, it's very hard to say no to this face:

I'm not even going to lie, Odessa is the most adorable baby I have ever seen.
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I've been working at Eric's house for days now trying to transfer some High 8 tapes to an old Mac (with 9.2 as an operating system. It's terrible.). Everything has been acting up,: the tapes aren't in sync at all, the camera is being fussy, the Matrox box is screwing up, the computer is generally slow. . . These are full tapes, so they take 2 hours each to capture and turn into .mov files, and there are 18 of them! So, finally we had to go the Super 8 Deck route. Woot to expensive, old, but trustworthy technology!

Anyways, the real news is that in our search for a better solution Eric found another computer for me! I originally bought the one I had before (PowerMac G4, not much RAM, only one working hard drive with 15 GB left on it) for $200 from the school. It was such a great deal that how could I pass it up? It was equipped with thousands of dollars worth of programs (Photoshop 7, Final Cut Studio complete with Soundtrack, Motion, DVD Studio etc.) and was supposed to have two working hard rives, but one crashed shortly after I got it. That was this summer, and I've only been using it for Internet and word processing.

I told Eric about how I was talking to my dad about being able to edit on my computer, and my dad basically said that whatever I needed to make my Mac run well enough to edit sufficiently he would help me pay for. At first Eric told me to bring my computer into the school and he'd see what leftovers he could dig up, but then he found a whole new tower! It's still a PowerMac G4, but now it has twice as much RAM, Final Cut 5 (the one I used in school, as opposed to 4 which I had before), and two fully functional hard drives! That's more than 200GB of space, which i a huge improvement from 15GB! I don't even have t pay Eric any more money, he just told me to Firewire the towers together so I could copy all of the files I needed from my first tower, then give the crap one back to him. I'm more than excited.

Now I can EDIT AT HOME!! I'm not sure anyone else really gets it, but editing at the school, especially when you are no longer a student there, is awkward.

It even has a louder internal speaker, if that makes sense. The only down side so far is that I have to update from Mac OS X 10.4.6 to 10.4.10 by installing 10.4.7 - 10.4.10 one at a time. You can't skip any of the OS updates. Before I can begin that process I have to get the password from Eric, so I can install things, change the user from "Film Student" to my own name, and the password to something I will remember. Once I do all that i can finally use my keyboard shortcuts properly!

I can't believe the boys were using it to keep the dryer door closed when they did their laundry. Then again, yes I can.
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Tomorrow is an early morning for me, so I'm off to bed.

Cheers!

I wasn't going to really do anything for Valentine's Day, but I think I have blank paper and a few pencil crayons downstairs so why not? A few hand-made valentines for my close friends, I'll pick up some chocolates tomorrow. . . it's going to be a good time *^_^* When you have no one particular person you can visibly express your Valentine's Day Love for, why not everybody?

I made a new icon! I'm rusty so it's crap (they've always been rather crap, haven't they?) but I was inspired but Sweeney music.

I should probably sleep. It's 5:45 a.m.

I missed The Daily Show and Colbert Report last night, but holy hell was Conan ever amazing! I need icons of it, stat. *searches*


(I fully expect this to be taken down by NBC, but for now I will watch it endlessly.)
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Also, not as exciting (actually, maybe) I finally found the extended Sweeney Todd soundtrack. As if that wasn't good enough, I had no idea that it came with an 80-page full-colour booklet with all of the lyrics and picture of the film! I have an unexplainable love for CD booklets and this one is top notch! None of those lower notches, but the TOP ONE!

I also am the proud owner of a new long coat from Smart Set! My friend works there so she offered to buy it for me so I could get her 50% discount. Now it's only $42 (with tax)!

While we're on the money topic, what is with a subscription to Geek Magazine being $19.99 in the US but $44.99 in Canada?! For 12 issues! I've seen terrible rip-off price inflations before, but NEVER this severe. You're dollar is practically the same as ours, and taking the US price off of magazine covers and books isn't going to change it. We know we're being ripped off. Books and magazines in the US are still $5 or more cheaper than they are in Canada. Hell, a lot of them are printed in Toronto so it can't be shipping cost! Walmart has gone down to US prices on books (not magazines), but who buys books from Walmart?

Some shops in the states around the Canadian border won't even acknowledge the exchange rate properly and are still ripping us off. As someone who lives just 40 minutes from the border of Minnesota it really peeves me. Just give in to your weak dollar and let us buy things! We just want to buy rare candies and oddities -- like chips that taste like BK Whoppers -- that we can't find in our home and native land! You loved when we bought stuff back when our dollar was worth 60 cents of yours. . . you can't pick and choose when you'll except exchange rates just because they're not beneficial to you. We feel used! Big meany heads. . .
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On another note: My brother is a complete self-righteous snot.

I know that people on the ship treat him as a higher authority than them, but not here. He is no better than me, especially as he's spending his 3 months home sitting in the same place on the couch watching endless hours of TV while eating my parents out of house and home. Junk food used to last weeks here. . . he had eaten 4 bags of chips within a week of being home. I realize he works 7 days a week on the cruise ship for 4 months but there is no excuse for him to not lift a finger when he gets home. He's not even paying my parents rent. . . and he has plenty of money to pay it! He made me drive all the way across town from my friends house so he could use the car, when he could have driven my dad's van. . . instead I had to take the van and go all the way back to my friends house again. It seems backwards to me. The atmosphere around here has certainly changed since he's been home. He's the cause of 95% of the arguments that happen in this house, and when he's not here it's peaceful and lovely.

I wouldn't mind if he had some redeeming moments, which he usually does, but not this time. I even bought myself two bags of chips, and offered him a bit of one. I made the mistake of telling him that the other was mine because they are my favourite kind (Miss Vickie's Sea Salt & Malt Vinegar) and he had the gall to say "Yeah, Lindsay. Alright. . . not like I got you a free cruise or anything. Yeah." in the most condescending tone I have ever heard. Really, Greg? Is that how it's going to be for the rest of our lives? You work on a cruise ship, took advantage of a perk all of the ship's crew get, Devin and I visited you and now you think you have the right to anything I own or buy? Sure Greg, you can have anything I have. It's all yours. Want this computer? Take it. Would you like my first born? Take it! I owe you everything! I thought it was a gift, but now I see anything you do for me you will keep track of and use to your advantage later on in life. Selfish prick. Where did you get this attitude? Mom and dad don't have it, Devin has always been kind to everyone. . . it must be because you're the middle child.

The higher his rank on the ship gets, the more he looks down on everyone. He's ignorant, annoying and I want to punch some sense into him. I really do.

If you consider yourself at all a geek and you like a quirky one-hour serial drama then I think you will love jPod. If you're in Canada it's on Friday's at 9:00 EST on CBC.

It's base on the book of the same name by Douglas Coupland:


ETA: Apparently you can only watch them on the site if your IP address is Canadian. I've run into the same thing when I try to watch shows on NBC.com, Hulu.com etc. because I don't live in the US. I wish they'd make it all of North America since I get NBC anyways. . . and so you all can watch jPod!

I don't watch football, and I didn't watch the Superbowl. . . but I am glad the Giants won. I'm not sure why. I have nothing against the Patriots, just against Tom Brady.

I have to applaud Shreddies. This is one of my favourite ad campaigns in awhile.


I've seen the commercial a few times on TV, as well as the ads on billboards. Genius.

The sad thing is, some people probably watch this and think they are a different shape. . . until they pour them into their bowl and are utterly disheartened.

I don't really have the money for it, but I can't help but buy DS games!

I think this is the last one for awhile (though there is one more that I want) because the line-up for the next 6 months isn't super exciting. . . but when I saw an adorable little yellow Chocobo staring at me from the shelf I had to buy it. It wasn't really spur of the moment, i did research the game a bit a few weeks ago but couldn't find it until today when I wasn't looking for it. That's the way things go, sometimes. I can't find the extended Sweeney Todd soundtrack in stock anywhere but I'll probably come across it when I intend to buy something else.

Just yesterday I picked up Animal Crossing: Wild World and about a week ago Super Mario 64 DS (confusing title). It' a terribly fun addiction! So my DS game count is 14 and rising. . . but hopefully not too quickly.

I badly need to update my icons. . .

I saw Sweeney Todd last night, finally! Don't ask why it took me this long, because I feel bad about it. At any rate, I just downloaded (soon to buy) the soundtrack. A few times Johnny Depp sounds like David Bowie when he was just started out (in his self titled album). I'm so turned on by his singing! It's low and growly like Gerry Butler in Phantom and that's just sexy. Though, even if it were horrible I would be in love with it.

Helena isn't bad, either, but my second favourite singer is a tie between Mr. Rickman (because he also has a sexy voice no matter what) and the boy who plays Toby because he's adorable.

Then, of course, there's the point in 'Pretty Women' during which Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman whistle and bumbum together. (Bum bum together?) *dies of sexiness*

Who's-it, on the other hand, is a long haired wussy singer like Raoul. Not that it's a bad thing. Should I really be comparing the movies for Sweeney Todd and Phantom of the Opera? Completely different.

Now, on to my icons! *aways*

My brother came home from the ship today, probably for 3 months. I've already had to pick him and his friends up from the bar at 2:30. . . hence why I am awake now. It's okay every so often, but let's hope he doesn't make a habit of making me his taxi. At least all of the recorded 30 Rocks are new to him and he'll watch them with me! I never mind watching a 30 Rock for a second (or third/fourth) time!

Oh God, my brother is talking to me in his sleep on the couch. . . but not in any sort of known English Language way.
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On the other side of things, I am sending in my resume and cover letter for a Law Office Assistant position tomorrow. It'll be just like Boston Legal!

I wish.

Cheers!

I just saw Ghostbusters on the big screen. I hadn't seen it since I was a very small child. . .

It was awesome.

I really need to get my resume printed and start handing it out to anyone who will take it! I'll even give one to my own parents, maybe they'll hire me to do exactly what it is I do here every day. Jeremy and I are making a big get-a-cool-job-soon plan for Monday and then hopefully by the end of next week I'll have heard from somewhere.

It's really tough being without work, and I've never really had to worry about it before because I was in high school back then! No worries, I had something to do every day. . . but now if I'm not sitting at home I'm out with my friends fighting with myself not to buy a cool DS game (which I did buy yesterday, mostly with gift cards though). I need a relaxing but fun and SAFE job which will give me money. Any sort of money. It can me Euros for all I care. I was only making $9/hour at The Deek so even going back down to minimum wage would be fine.

If it has to be a receptionist job I have found one where no previous experience is required -- it's at an Addiction Center, but apparently it's not dangerous. If I have to work at a book store like Chapters, so be it! Again, as long as I will enjoy it for the most part (getting a good discount helps) and I am safe. If only the jobs on the net and in the paper weren't for University educated people. I need a job to tide me over until summer roles around, then the film gigs will keep me going for a few months *^_^*

Better yet, I'll just get back on the Golden Princess and not worry about anything:


*sigh* That was a relaxing week.

Cheers!

Just a quick update.

Buying a new keyboard gave me the urge to type again, and that means it gave me the urge to once again immerse myself in the world of Livejournal. Facebook, although addictive, only gives a few minutes of pleasure until collapsing in an old-news heap every time I come online. It doesn't help that the "News Feed" only updates about your friends every 5 hours it seems, and things they did the day before show up hours later when they are often no longer topical. I still love it. . . it's a great way to stay connected and make plans. In many ways Facebook messages have replaced email for me, because I now have a Mac and Adium doesn't tell me when I have new mail. I can always look at my Facebook Inbox and see if there is a little number surrounded by parenthesis. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!

So, after looking at my old journal layout I decided a total rehaul (Total Recall?) was in order. Brown, I love brown. not fond of how the Music and Mood are at the bottom of the entries but I coud get used to it. . . or find another. As long as it is brown.

I have to get going to buy more games for my DS, and fold towels.

Cheers!
-- The long lost Linake.

(Also, Rest in peace Mr. Ledger.)

I am currently writing an entry on my Nintendo DS! It takes a little while to type, but there is also a handwriting recognition where you just write with the stylus on the touchscreen. Too awesome, in a completely nerdy way. It was $40 for the browser, but it works at any wifi.

Anyway, I'm at a barbeque and I'm being made fun of for being antisocial *^_^*

Cheers!

Wonders are things that make people WONDER. How long has it been here, how did it come to be? Does anyone really wonder about a canoe? Or igloos in general? Prairie skies. . . so the land is really flat and the sky goes on forever because the land is really flat. Amazing.

And can you just swap Cabot Trail for Igloo on national television just because there aren't enough wonders in the NWT?

It's not even just that the Sleeping Giant didn't get the title, it's that neither the Bay of Fundy nor Niagara Falls did! If anything Niagara Falls is one of the most popular tourism spots in Canada -- which means people wonder about it. Canoes can be found everywhere, which is also part of the reason the Stanley Cup was such a ridiculous nomination. The votes counted for nothing, really. To cast the last 15, and then not even the top three were chosen by the panel of three elderly folk from Southern Ontario? It seems like a waste of time. At least we know what Canadians think are the seven wonders.

If the CBC thought the votes crashed their computers, just wait for the emails after this show.

ETA: Turns out the Falls did get in, well there's one!