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I know that I’ve probably said this to every single person who might ever read this post, but, just in case there’s a budding film-maker that might stumble across this:

Seriously, every time you think you have a spot for a music cue in whatever movie you’re making, remove it.

If your imagined movie relies on music cues, it will not only fail, it probably sucks.

This is a picture of the building Matt Damon lives in with his wife and his daughter.

That must be odd to come home to.

From The Smoking Gun via Fark.

… use dollars to pay for your drinks. At least on Continental; they charge $5 or £3 (which works out to $6) per libation.

So stash some greenbacks for the trip home.

Thanks to the newly-available Iris software, I can make time-lapse movies with the camera built into my mac. They’re funny.

Here’s one at around 26 Megs, Here’s a smaller version (8.6 Megs).

Enjoy.

I watched “Dead Man’s Shoes” last night, and (this is only a spoiler if you aren’t familiar with how everyone seems to end their ‘tragic’ movies) was annoyed by the death of the protagonist at the end.

I don’t need a ‘happy’ ending, I just hate endings that seem cheap. I wish people who make films would get over the whole Shakespeare thing and come up with something more original, or at least more honest. Why go to all the trouble of getting your ‘tragic’ character all the way to the end of the movie and then leave the viewer saying “I didn’t see that one coming — NOT!”

I like it so far. It’ll take some getting used to.

A bloggy blog post.
On my way home from Belfast, NWA offered me a bump on the EWR->DTW leg. I had a seat up front, but, as it happened, my ‘travel plans were flexible,’ so I took the vouchers. (One for a north-american round trip and a second one for a hotel room.)
Northwest had a bunch of cancellations on Saturday that caused my flight to end up overbooked.
I’ll be sitting in the back for my replacement flight, but I did get a bulkhead.
The Newark airport isn’t in a terribly grand area, and I was five time-zones of tired, so I just ate dinner and crashed.
[UPDATE: I got bumped on Sunday, too. Now I have two round-trip vouchers!]
Random:
●The immigration agent asked me what I did; after I answered (”I install newspaper software”) he said “do you have to train the software too? Man, I’d hate that.” The dude knew.
●I had a dream last week where Marilyn Manson brought two undressed women to my house. He said they wanted to meet me, and since he knew me he figured he’d bring them over. Odd. Sexy, but odd.
●My $14 can of cigarette tobacco lasted almost the entire two weeks I was in Ireland. I had to buy one pack ($12!) on the last day there. When I landed and got to where we could finally smoke, a woman saw me smoking and asked if I could spare one and I offered to roll her one (I had bought some duty-free rolling tobacco). She looked conflicted, but then I remembered that last pack (of filtered cigs, the only kind you can find easily in Ireland); there were over ten left. I said “wait, you can have these.” Nice moment.

If you’re trying to use GraphicConverter with AppleScript to set IPTC captions and are getting the “GraphicConverter got an error: Some data was the wrong type.” error, you need to coerce your caption variable to Unicode text:

set myCaptionVariable to myCaptionVariable as Unicode text — that’ll fix it.

No one on them internets seems to have posted this before. This little post should have enough keywords for flummoxed people (like I was an hour ago) to find it.

According to this review, I can continue to go back to what is now the Bourne trilogy for that calm space I need. I haven’t seen the film yet, but the reviewer (and the people Todd works for) are people that I trust.

Takin’ a break back behind the Coleraine Chronicle. Happy birthday to you, too.

For a project I’m doing, figured I’d share:

10.0 March 24, 2001
10.0.1 April 14, 2001
10.0.2 May 1, 2001
10.0.3 May 9, 2001
10.0.4 June 21, 2001
10.1 September 25, 2001
10.1.1 November 13, 2001
10.1.2 December 20, 2001
10.1.3 February 19, 2002
10.1.4 April 17, 2002
10.1.5 June 6, 2002
10.2.0 August 23, 2002
10.2.1 September 18, 2002
10.2.2 November 11, 2002
10.2.3 December 19, 2002
10.2.4 February 13, 2003
10.2.5 April 10, 2003
10.2.6 May 6, 2003
10.2.8 September 22, 2003
10.2.8 October 3, 2003
10.3.0 October 24, 2003
10.3.1 November 10, 2003
10.3.2 December 17, 2003
10.3.3 March 15, 2004
10.3.4 May 26, 2004
10.3.5 August 8, 2004
10.3.6 November 5, 2004
10.3.7 December 15, 2004
10.3.8 February 9, 2005
10.3.9 April 15, 2005
10.4.0 April 29, 2005
10.4.1 May 16, 2005
10.4.2 July 12, 2005
10.4.2 October 12, 2005
10.4.2 October 19, 2005
10.4.2 October 19, 2005
10.4.3 October 31, 2005
10.4.4 January 10, 2006
10.4.5 February 14, 2006
10.4.6 April 3, 2006
10.4.7 August 7, 2006
10.4.8 September 29, 2006
10.4.9 March 13, 2007
10.4.10 June 20, 2007

My new passport arrived today, two days before my departure for Coleraine.
That’s a relief.

This is my parent’s cat Molly getting some exercise.

Here is what is probably the last smoking room I’ll ever see at a newspaper. It is in the Le Devoir’s offices in Montréal.

Sniff.

Available here is a quickie remix of the Beastie Boys “That’s it” that I helped DJ Projet (AKA Patrick Walters) do using Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. Henjoy.

My observation:

He could play Gary Busey in the (I’m sure to be up-coming) Gary Busey story.

Fer serious.

Including this one of a seagull (shot from my 9th-floor balcony).

More on my Flikr page.

That would be Montréal’s old port area.
I got a lot of sun and a few pictures. Here are some of the pictures.


Later I noticed that Bob Harris (of Prisoner of Trebekistan fame) seems to have figured out the last episode of the Sopranos. Very interesting.

I guess there’s not much I can add to this beyond that you could find it yourself in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Select on Rue Viger in Montréal, Quebec.

MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage
11:07 am Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.
11:07 am crowd goes wild
11:08 am “it’s all the same… most people are gonna buy the ultimate version :)