Non-sequiturs and Pre-sequiturs: yet another random thread

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

So, getting film from a video camera onto a laptop is harder work than it seems. Who knew?

[diesel_powered]

What's yr problem? I have knowledge in these areas.

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

I got it now. I mean, first, I buy this firewire 4pin to USB cable - then find out that 1394 and USB are completely different data streams, so the store I bought it from were just scamming me. So I need a 4pin to 6pin, but I have no firewire port at all in my laptop. So I have to buy a firewire PCII card to go into my laptops slot BUT they costed $49.99 and NO WAY am I paying that for a fucking port. So I buy one off TradeMe for $10 and it takes ages to arrive, then the 4pin-6pin cable was faulty, so I get a new one AND NOW IT WORKS. Excuse the constant tense-change, I'm exhausted.

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, that sounds like typical video bullshit. Lots of people get confused about the whole USB thing. Most cameras have them for transferring digital photos (which is pointless as most digital video cameras suck for digital photography) so people assume they can capture video with it. Unfortunately, USB has latency issues that precludes it from being a worthwhile way of transferring video. Although the editing once you get it on the computer is non-linear, DV tape is still a totally linear thing and requires a consistent data stream to be able to log footage.

So that's my overly detailed nerdy reply.

[El_Josharino]

I just saw a craigslist ad from someone giving away a bunch of glasses and coffee mugs. It says that they all "still work great."

How does a glass work "great"? It either holds liquid or it does not. Unless, I guess, if it's animate and is really enthusiastic about holding liquid. But they didn't mention that in the ad.

[diesel_powered]

If they are animate and really enthusiastic about holding liquid, I'd be interested to see some photos.

[girl]

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[morgan]

I live on the top floor of my building (the 18th).  This means that I have a pretty impressive view of the city (if you can call it that) spread out around me.  Generally speaking, I keep my window shades closed because the neon lights annoy me -- there are thousands of them blinking and running and trying to get my attention, and they never go away. 

It's been pretty foggy all day, and earlier when I went grocery shopping, I couldn't see for more than a few blocks, which is pretty impressive considering how abrasive those lights are.  So, I'm sitting here watching The Universe, and I notice through a crack in the window shades that the sky is this weird bright orange colour.  It shouldn't really be so bright, as it's about 11pm, but I figure it's just pollution at first and I ignore it.  Then I think, hmm, I want to have a look at this.  Up go the shades, and WHAM!  I am hit with...


...fog.  That's it.  I can't see anything.  No buildings, no lights, absolutely nothing.  My first thought is The Neverending Story, and guys, I THINK THE NOTHING IS COMING TO GET ME.

No seriously, this is a little scary.  I'm not sure I've ever encountered fog this bad.  Not that I have to go out in it or anything (hah! as if I ever leave my building), but I do feel like I'm stuck in the middle of some horror movie and I'm going to be the next to go because I didn't remain a virgin, or something.

[RoyBiggins]

Fog was so bad in the Midwest yesterday that there was a 100-car pileup on I-90 by madison.

[Maaik]

Wow, so it's not just Georgia drivers who suck balls at bad-weather traffic.

[milesofsparks]

yeah, it was kind of foggy here early this morning (though now it's just cloudy), and I heard there was some fog down south as well.  maybe the nothing IS coming...

[morgan]

It's 1am now, and the fog hasn't lifted at all.  So, this is happening all over the world?  Strange.  Stranger and stranger...

I was in the kitchen about a half an hour ago, talking to another guy who works here about this and that, and suddenly the power went out.  There are emergency lights in every room, but of course they didn't come on, so I stumbled to the door and out into the hallway.  Other people were emerging from their rooms with confused looks on their faces, and I for real started to think that imminent death was coming for us all.  I managed to make my way over to my room by the light of the exit signs (the only things giving out any light at all) and, once in my room, opened the window shade to let the orange light of foggy death in.  A few minutes later, the power came back on (this is the first time it's gone out in this building, by the way), but during the dark time, I was very sure that some creature with glowing eyes would suddenly appear in the middle of my room and silently devour me.

See, this is why I don't watch horror movies.  I don't need them.  There's always one playing in my head, no matter what.

[diesel_powered]

I love fog. When I was in high school, there were two or three days where fog descended on where I lived and completely transformed the landscape. It was bizarrely mind blowing.

Also: http://www.joaopaulofeliciano.com/?page_id=131

(Art installation involving a room filled with fog and strobe lights. Ka-raaaazy!)

[diesel_powered]

Other randomness:

I am currently halfway back to my apartment. This makes me happy as I have grown to miss my poor apartment of late and I would like to get back to work and making myself miserable. I am currently having lunch at Pan(t)era again and people keep walking past me and looking at me surfing the web on my laptop like I descended from Mars or something. It doesn't help that there's an alarm around here that sounds exactly like the flying saucer sound effect.

[hannah]

The JM thread reminded me of this: a few weeks ago I found out that my boyfriend really believed when he was 11 or 12 (and still believes) that the baby raccoons taken by a pest exterminator from his parents' chimney were sent to a farm to play and be cute with other rescued baby raccoons.

[elpollodiablo]

Oh man that's priceless


Just like Tony S and Tippy

[Greg Nog]

Before I was born, my family lived out in rural New Hampshire, and when I was home for Thanksgiving, my parents spent a while reminiscing about that.  Apparently, their neighbors ate a lot of raccoon, and asked if they could hunt on my parents' property.  My parents had no problem with that, but they were surprised to discover that the hunting method was different than they'd imagined: the neighbors' dog would tree the raccoons, then one of the neighbors would climb the tree and shoot the raccoon with a pistol.

[diesel_powered]

My landlord has a bizarre habit of shooting the local raccoons with BB guns. I'm kind of ambivalent about it because I can't quite get down with the whole animal cruelty thing but they also drastically fuck up our garbage and make a lot of work for my neighbor who handles such things.

[diesel_powered]

iiight. Time to hit the road again. See you all in a few hours.

[elpollodiablo]

What kind of fucking BB gun can kills raccoons?

[SPACERACE]

drugs are insane, yo.

[kadiekatRN]

More random weather.  There have been two tornado sightings in SE Wisconsin this afternoon.  In January.

[elpollodiablo]

Fucking 72 degrees here this afternoon. This shit is making my cold 1000% worse.

[Trousers and Pat]

My landlord has a bizarre habit of shooting the local raccoons with BB guns. I'm kind of ambivalent about it because I can't quite get down with the whole animal cruelty thing but they also drastically fuck up our garbage and make a lot of work for my neighbor who handles such things.

Just watch out for Baylisascaris. You too Mr. Nog.
Basically, don't inhale the raccoon feces.

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

What kind of fucking BB gun can kills raccoons?

I don't think it was ever implied the raccoons died. But, who knows?