e-Zinged
30 10 2006I have been zinged by Reg (The One Who Must Not Be Linked To) on my lack of updates over the last few months. I’ve overcome the urge to Ratbert him and instead decided to brainstorm a couple ideas of ways to maintain this site.
Until recently, writing during my lunch break worked well. I could compose a fairly good length entry in an hour while reaching over my teriyaki chicken. I was also posting two, three or more times a week.
My typing skills have since suffered. I type like a dyslexic speaks. While I’d like to consider myself the next General Patton, I know that it’s really just a lack of practice. My fingers are still fast, just not as dexterous.
Evenings aren’t that good of an idea, since I’m back in class at Ryerson, and I’ve been studying whitepapers on MPEG, VC-1 and AVC video compression as well as DVD, HD DVD and BD DVD formating. I’ve also gotten my hands on a package of screeners from Maple Pictures. There are some truly horrible films in this screeners pack, but I want to see if I can reverse engineer them and extract the unique properties.
Fun stuff!
There’s also the movies that I watch every week that require my attention. I estimated around 1000 unique movies watched between 20 years old and my last day as a 29 year old (which was the Steve Martin Pink Panther movie). I hope to at least match that in my next decade. It’s a lot of hard work to be a geek.
However, there really isn’t a lot of time that I can schedule my updates, so I plan to update at least twice a week. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are the most reliable days right now that don’t have anything specific happening. However, there’s always spontaneous trips to the pub or last-minute homework for my Wednesday night class.
So that’s my plan. Basically, when AlienLovesPredator.com updates, I should also be updating.
If I can pull this off, I may turn to webcomics next!
Additional note: Writing while watching Japanese subtitled movies is very difficult.
