Monday, January 17, 2011

 

So.... uh.... yeah.

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So things are pretty much meh right now. I got sick over the weekend and that stalled me from writing stuff, but there were a few noteworthy things to happen last week, of course none of them really had much to do with work or college, so this section of the blog is pretty empty. Who cares though right? None needs to know about this crap anyways XD
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The JETS! (NFL) Even after working at Meadowlands all of the past season and watching them go, I didn't think they had it in them to beat the Patriots yesterday, but DAMN! And now they are one game away from the SuperBowl, but there is no way their match against the Steelers coming up is gonna be anything other than a coin flip. But I'm for both teems so that's great, and the Packers on the other side of the League have a fairly easy win over the Bears to put them into the SuperBowl, so this is gonna be interesting!
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Juggle This 1:
Pong Progression 2. I'm officially announcing it here, despite having said multiple times in multiple places that I'm doing it XD Basically I hope to release it either the summer of this year or near the end of this year, I'm not sure which.

The thought to release it at the end of the year comes to me because despite being viewed more than any of my other juggling videos and being featured on juggling.tv's homepage, when it came time fo the yearly top 40 jugglers vote, noone seemed to remember it or even be very impressed by it anymore. I know this is so silly and a bit sad, but after getting such a high vote 2 years ago in 2008 and then not even getting on the list in 2009 (which I can understand why), I didn't want 2010 to be a bust too, hence I finally did my two big ideas that I had sitting on the table and made Pong Progression and Android Hell, and while Android Hell was a bit of a bust in terms of views and such, Pong Progression did great, but I released it during the spring. I know I'm a decent size name in the juggling community, I guess I just don't want to fall out of it yet when I've still got a lot left in me to show...

Back to Pong Progression 2 though, I've already started getting some tricks on video for it, and with this video I'm planning to release it in HD as well, I'm making sure to convert all my footage into 720p after recording it (recording it at 720p also, I never upscale.), especially now that I have 2 HD Camcorders, my old one and my Flip Mino. The tricks I've already gotten are incredible I think. I've made a better version of the opening trick from the original, the spiral bounce trick, and made 2 entirely new shots that one is a long distance shot like you wouldn't believe and the other being a kind of shot you just have to see to understand. Let's just say this video if I keep coming up with ideas and footage like this, is going to easily be my best video yet.

Juggle This 2:
Jugglers On Juggling! My big juggling podcast, I've actually gone and committed to doing it again! Yes you may pick your lower jaws off the floor now. The first episode, despite the audio lag from my co-host being in Australia this week, the show went quite well, ustream worked great, and we had a good number of listeners, I'm really amazed at how smooth and easy it's gotten after all the podcasting experience I've done and the pre-planned format now that I've changed the show to.

There is one snag I hit though with the show, and that's the physical setup for the audio. Since ustream and Skype haven't made themselves compatible with each other yet, my setup is essentially to host the ustream broadcast on my main laptop, run skype on my backup laptop and pipe an audio cable from the headphone port, through a splitter so I can listen to the skype call on my headphones, and run the other split cable into the microphone in of the laptop running ustream. It's a hell of a setup that took me about a half hour to get working right, but once it did I got everything just the way I need it to be so I can run audio and the skype call on ustream.

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

Friday, January 07, 2011

 

Choosing Between Apples and Apples

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Had quite the interesting day at my last day of work for the season, I'll tell you all about it in a bit, but for right now I'm back to job hunting during the semester breaka nd the season break as well.
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I'm still a bit pissed about having my same professor for half of my classes next semester, she really doesn't care at all, but I'm also happy and eager because the opposite is also true, I've got probably my favorite art professor for my other class coming up. It's going to be interesting.
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Well,I've taken the leap and am going tom start the new season of Jugglers On Juggling tomorrow. I've decided to bring it back to the original format of sorts, in that it will be weekly and a review type of show as opposed to the one-off types of shows I'd been doing for the past 2 seasons or so. A couple major differences is that we'll have specific sections now, very well defined, and that it will be streamed live and there will be no live-plays for videos reviews. I think this is going to be a much better show.
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Daily Life:
So my last day of work for the season was last Sunday, and let me tell you, it was quite an interesting way to end! Firstly, let me give you the info, the next event to happen there is on the 28th of March, and it'll be a soccer game, so there's basically two and a half full months of nothing there. So that's going to be, well, a bit long and boring.

On to the game itself though, was a pretty meaningless game for the Jets, as they were already in the playoffs as one of the wild-cards and that's about it, of course I'm glad they won their game because it meant the fans at the stadium were happy for their last game of the season. I came in in the morning a bit tired and hungry as usual, and I go out to the big pump-up meeting inside the stadium bowl where the higher-ups give a pep-talk, which I've never really been for at all. I get amped about doing a good job by myself, I don't need cheers, clapping for the employee of the game, or listening to them go "let's show them how special we can make this place! 8D", I just need to have a customer thank me after I help and solve their dilema or have a nice conversation with them and it makes me feel good.

Of course what I wasn't expecting is after that was done and I headed back out to the team meeting at the gate I was posted at during roll-call when the leader got to my name and I announced I was here, he then hands me an envelope, I was the only one of the group to get one, and I'm standing there a bit wide-eyed at it and opened it to find a fairly decent looking Meadowlands pin inside along with the note congratulating me that I had taken care of a secret shopper during the last game and got a 100& score on it. Sweetness :D

So that pumped me up for the day pretty nicely, and after chatting with my buddy Brian who I became friends with there at work the leader made a call for someone to work the elevators, and since Brian didn't catch it (we both like working the elevators, I'll explain in a second) I was the one to be noticed and then brought over to do the job. working the elevators is pretty awesome to do as opposed to scanning people into the stadium, where you do get a post to lean against, but in the elevators you have a full blown chair to sit in for as long as you're working in there, along with having a TV (granted a muted tv) to watch the game on, and your job is simply to know which floor a guest needs to go to and bring them to it. It was only when I got into my position that I learned that guess what, I wasn't filling in for someone who hadn't shown up yet, I was filling in for a guy who had called out and wasn't gonna show up at all! I would be in the elevator all day! Awesome!

Of course I found out during my day long shift in the elevator that there is one massive drawback to the post, and that's sleepiness. If you are the slightest bit sleepy at the start of the shift, don't go for the elevator post! It's repetitive nature will basically have you falling asleep in your chair around the third quarter or so while waiting for someone else to summon you for a ride. So that was pretty much fun near the end of my shift XD

But the shift did indeed end and I rode the bus out to the parking lot tohave the return of the traffic-jam-lot. They'd gotten pretty good at letting everyone out of the lots during the past half of the season, but suddenly they were doign another different route for people to leave, and man did it back things up. I ended up hanging out for a half hour or so listening to one of the nearby tail-gating post bonfires, and then got a clean ride back home where I then set the Giants game to record and flopped down for a nap.

A Day In The Life Of A Peanut Butter Cup ~ Reeses2150

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