You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better? Yes. Everything's going to be fine.
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Follows is an interview with Forbes-Reed on the subject of his experience building an unofficial Snapchat app.
With alternation in time, technology has also evolved approximately a
degree that individuals can now facilitate ourselves with such mediums that happen to be cost-effective and handy
too. Where you must use plants to defend your home from zombies.
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First of all I would like to say awesome blog! I had a quick question in which I'd like to ask if you do not mind.
I was interested to know how you center yourself and clear your thoughts before writing.
I've had a tough time clearing my thoughts in getting my ideas out.
I do enjoy writing however it just seems like the first 10 to
15 minutes are generally lost just trying to figure out how to begin.
Any recommendations or hints? Many thanks!
Posted by: m88 at Sunday, August 02 2015 12:13 PM (P8epM)
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You got me to watch the two Equestria Girls - well, what are they? OAVs? Movies? TV specials? Any rate, not terrible, and I say that as someone who barely finished watching the first season of MLP. I'm giving the second season a second chance based on MLP:EG, because hell, if I'm going to drink myself to death in political despair, I might as well do it while watching cartoon advertising for little girls' plastic toys.
Which reminds me, I need to finish watching the last few discs of Card Captor Sakura... I paid for 'em, might as well watch 'em.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Friday, June 26 2015 06:14 AM (jwKxK)
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Technically movies, because they both got a limited theatrical release, but they were animated by the same team that does the TV show - and the first one took up the resources that would have been the second half of season 3.
I liked season one a lot, but never got into season two. I'm planning to give it another try myself.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, June 26 2015 07:55 PM (PiXy!)
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I've got torrents of the first two seasons, haven't watched them, and now I hear there are 5 or 6? Haven't seen torrents either.
Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, July 02 2015 08:01 PM (TJ7ih)
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5 seasons now, yes. The first season is definitely worth watching, and there are only minor spoilers in the movies if you want to watch those next. (It's not the sort of show to have major spoilers.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, July 03 2015 05:49 PM (PiXy!)
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The question is, where to find batch torrents. I can't find them on the usual sites (EZTV was taken over by scumbags, and didn't carry it anyway, and BTChat went dark recently.)
Posted by: Mauser at Friday, July 03 2015 08:15 PM (TJ7ih)
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kickass.to, maybe?
I watched the movies on Netflix, but they don't have the TV show any more.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 04 2015 04:51 PM (PiXy!)
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Maybe they took it off for Australia, I don't know if Netflix limits based on region, but in the US they still have the first four seasons of the TV series available. I'm halfway through the fourth season.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Tuesday, July 07 2015 10:23 AM (jwKxK)
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Yeah, the Australian version of Netflix is pretty limited compared to the US version, though it's improving. It only launched here this year.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, July 07 2015 01:23 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thursday, June 04 2015 02:24 AM (ohzj1)
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I think it's clever that they made the set and a lot of the props out of things that the hamster thought were tasty, like using pieces of pasta (presumably cooked) for the train, or making the building out of cookies.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, June 04 2015 03:09 AM (+rSRq)
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So what you're saying is you enjoyed watching an enormous ham chewing the scenery?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, June 04 2015 06:21 PM (PiXy!)
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Have I mentioned lately how much I enjoy watching Brian Blessed's work?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, June 06 2015 12:00 PM (+rSRq)
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Pixy, have you upgraded the 'tab icon' for mee.nu? 'Cause mine is animated!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Monday, June 08 2015 11:45 AM (ohzj1)
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Well, it's "fixed" now...or at least not animated.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Monday, June 08 2015 12:50 PM (ohzj1)
Sony Creative Software are having a little sale on their loop libraries this weekend.
And when I say "little sale", I mean "buy one, get three free".
I spent a bit. More than a bit, really. But I cleared out my entire wishlist.
I hadn't bought any loop libraries since 2011, when Sony moved to electronic delivery and sold off their old stock of CD-ROMs at a 75% discount, so now I'm all caught up.
Update: Oops. Horncraft for R&B is the subtitle for Crimson, Blue, and Fabulous, which I already had. So I only saved $1108.50 rather than $1148.50.
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What, exactly, was it that you just bought? I don't know what a "loop library" is.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, June 01 2015 12:11 AM (+rSRq)
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They're content libraries for making music. Rather than just having a synthesized piano sound, or a set of recorded piano notes, loops are live recordings of musicians cut into little pieces (typically 1, 2, or 4 bars) and timed and edited so that they repeat perfectly.
Plus each file is tagged with its key and tempo, and the software can shift the pitch and tempo to match that of the song. Though that's not perfect with the software I have; sometimes it works great, but sometimes you can tell. I try to use loops that match the key I'm working in and are pretty close to the tempo so there's minimal change.
So rather than having to sequence everything using a MIDI keyboard or a software sequencer, you can string together these pieces of rhythm and melody to produce music, so that even if you're a no-good talentless like me you can do stuff like this or this.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 01 2015 01:24 AM (PiXy!)
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That is, the recordings are cut into little pieces. Musicians tend to give unsatisfactory performances when diced.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 01 2015 01:25 AM (PiXy!)
I listened to part of that, and the soloist (that guy in the middle) has an astounding voice. When he's singing in his falsetto he sounds like a woman, and for a while I wondered if he was lipsynching.
The guy on the lower right corner looks like he was built out of spare parts stolen from a cemetery. He just needs a couple of bolts sticking out of his neck to be complete.
I looked at their Wikipedia site and it said that their ambition is to be the latest successful a capella group. Which is a noble ambition, but I had to think about it for a moment.
Manhattan Transfer is gone, and Rockapella was never really much of a success, though they're still performing. So I guess the "successful a capella group" slot really is empty right now.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, April 24 2015 04:52 AM (+rSRq)
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They should appear in an episode of Doctor Who as a 51st century pop group. Probably would have worked better in Chris Ecclestone's time, but they weren't around then.
They look pretty different without the makeup.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, April 24 2015 06:13 PM (PiXy!)
