http://www.themediaman.com Digital Video Editor and Web Programmer Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:33:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Less than sixty seconds before they decided to go ahead with a scheduled fire drill at work, a bolt of lightning blinded Production, and the thunder hit only a second later. When the fire alarm rang my options were thus: Option 1) Stay inside with fake fire, or Option 2) Go out in ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/07/31/fire-drill/ While bathroom graffiti is usually of some entertainment, it has become rare to find anything of note.  Although my first interest is often sparked by the inexplicable concept that someone went to the bathroom with a pen-in-hand, most of this modern philosophy has been reduced to three words or less. When ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/07/17/the-state-of-modern-philosophy/ Following a difficult search for last year's Die Hard movie at the Blockbuster, I just dug it off the "Previously Viewed" shelf and paid the $6.99 to take it home. It wasn't until later that I realized I was searching the shelves in the "D" section, while the full name ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/07/07/how-to-name-your-hollywood-movie/ A bad pun I had to create a posting for just to use it. The company Syl's working for, Dynacon, is putting a Micro-satellite into orbit with help from the CSA. Very cool. I've never worked for a company Slashdot-worthy. I kind of pictured a "Micro-satellite" as something that looks like ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/06/27/slegaults-briefcase-is-out-of-this-world/ Following the dismissal of Peter Silverman and the final nail in the coffin of Speakers Corner, it's been announced that Ed The Sock is also leaving the recently purchased station. While it's reasonable to think that Silverman can relax in a belated retirement his services have been invaluable to many "small ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/06/26/citytv-losing-city-image-and-canadian-content/ Playing with the random entry link, I found this post I made a while ago. I've noticed that my last several posts have numbered between two and three billion words each (or so it feels if you're reading them), and postitioned once every week or two. So I'm going ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/06/25/shut-up-and-make-with-the-funnies/ In the interest of full disclosure, I write the following previews and scathing sarcasm while also committing myself to 90 minutes of Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. This means you can either interpret my anticipated slagging of half-assed movie productions as hypocritical, or as coming from someone willing to spend ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/06/10/summer-movies-preview-june-2008/ Simone and I went to the Docks Drive-in last week. We got to see both Indiana Jones and Iron Man for $13 ea. The relatively low price and intimate setting was worth the lack of contrast in dark scenes (which is any scene in a cave... of which there were ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/06/05/god-bless-double-features-indy-and-iron-man/ Well, normally I would only be writing this about a week late since Memorial Day just passed a couple of days ago. However, as I stated in my Summer Movies Prologue the movie season seems to be starting early this year. In fact, I think this is the first ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/05/28/summer-movies-preview-may-2008/ For one reason or another, Simone and I haven't been to as many concerts over the last few months as we would like. I won tickets to see an Edge "Next Big Thing" concert with The Constantines. These concerts are getting worse as time goes on. Mind you, the first NBT ... http://www.themediaman.com/2008/05/27/people-in-planes-stephen-in-audience/