U.S. Officials Investigate Case of Flying Pig Apparently pigs do fly – First Class.
Month: October 2000
School Suspends Girl for Casting Spell An Oklahoma high school suspended a 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that caused a teacher to become sick. Betcha every kid in the world would like to talk to this girl.
The Fat Project – Eric and Nicole set out to gain 30 lbs in 30 days. This is their story.
A step in the right direction? Napster and Bertelsmann, parent of one of the five major music companies that is suing Napster, have announced an alliance to develop a new secure file-sharing music service. Bertelsmann agreed to withdraw its lawsuit once Napster successfully introduces the new membership-based service.
It’ll be interesting to see how this all works out – will Napster’s 20 million users stick around if they have to pay a membership fee? Or will they flock to the likes of gnutella or other file-swapping services?
A client approaches you about a fairly substantial project with an already fairly tight time-line. You take on the project because it will be good experience, and it will look good for you and your group in the long run. You spend a lot of money and time having a script written according to what the client has envisioned. The client then chews up most of your production time with re-writes and bullshit politics. The script is finalized with maybe two weeks of production time left for a project that should have at least a month of production time. You pull a bunch of 13 and 14 hour days to get the thing done, following the script (which they’ve signed off on) to the letter. The project is mostly done with about 4 days to spare so you present it to the client. All hell breaks loose – the client makes all kinds of comments and suggestions – things they want changed – big things – things that were written into the script that they signed off on. And they’re giving you a day to do it. You want to scream. You want to pull your hair out. You want to hit the client with a bag of hammers. What do you do? You pull an all-nighter to get the bitch done. Because it will look good for you and your group. grumble grumble.
Sorry there haven’t been any posts lately… Been pulling 12-13 hour days at work. Been crazy busy with a multimedia project. It’s strange – since I left school I haven’t touched this type of stuff – it’s all been web-based work – I’ve had to dust off whatever Director knowledge I had tucked away for safe-keeping in the far recesses of my brain. Good thing it’s still there – just gotta dig deep sometimes.
If you’ve known me for a couple of years, you know about my Halloween parties. This year is no exception – been pretty busy, but the party is still going ahead. This year it will be pretty rockin’ – it’s our Fifth Anniversary party. It’s really too bad Kat’s going to miss it, but she’ll be there in spirit. Come one, come all – and bring your friends – it’s going to be a helluva time! Here’s the details:
Dave & Kat’s Fifth Annual Halloween Party
Saturday, October 28, 2000
Royal Canadian Legion
330 Kent St.
8pm – 1am
All Tix: $5 (contact me)
Big Lights! Big Sound!
Plus the return of the
Haunted Hallway!
The Dialectizer – View your favourite website in any of a number of dialects, including : Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, Pig Latin and Hacker.
My brother Phil proposed to his girlfriend Emily this weekend. She said yes. Congratulations guys! (that’s them on the right)