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Distilled
After writing the last post , I felt a part was missing. What I wanted to underscore from the start - and somehow lost while explaining the background - was how interesting it is to be moving toward the line of understanding. How everything feels uncertain and risky, and even though you believe you are approaching the line you have little idea of how close or far you are, and whether you are…
Resolved
Several times over the past year, I have been encouraged to learn the video and audio editor (IDE? IME? Integrated media editor?) Davinci Resolve . After stewing on a particularly powerful pitch from Harald Achitz after the recording of Kodsnack 703 , I eventually got around to downloading the whole package. It took me a while longer to read up on features, and finally decide to buy the studio…
Not reading a book
I decided to not read a book. It may not be a first for me, but it is definitely much too rare that I actively decide to stop reading a book. I can leave them around for a long time, sometimes eventually giving up on them. But the giving up is very rare, and a light sense of guilt that I should be finishing them is very easy to awaken. I am therefore happy to report that I am not finishing Ken…
Holiday mode
I have a bit less than a week to go until my summer holiday starts, and I already feel very much in holiday mode. In sync with soon turning off the alarm for a couple of weeks, trying to not feel like I need to do too much during the days, tricky stuff like that. I think I can do fine at it this year. Some years it feels hard to get into the right mindset, but this time I think I have it. Which,…
Moments of peril
Moments when it is easy to fall out of the podcast editing session: Before I have started When I have dragged all tracks into Hindenburg and lined them up When I have found the episode starting point and removed everything before it When I realize that something will need to be added or treated in a special way, breaking the standard flow
Chains
Dependency chains are fun. Yesterday was the first time I ever edited a Kodsnack episode because I realized I needed to get the episode image drawn. Drawing the image means I need the episode title (and, preferably, some additional idea from the topics to base the image on). And so: the need to edit before I am able to draw. There is a lot of time to finish up the actual episode, but what I…
Still winded
I am beginning to feel reasonably recovered from the whirlwind week. Sun, summery warmth (when in the right wind-protected corner), and everything turning green all at once certainly helps too. In one way, it feels like things will now stay calm until the summer holidays. In another, it feels like those holidays are like two breaths away, and there are plenty of things in the calendar before they…
Whirlwind week
Today, I glanced at my watch, mentally prepared to find the time to be late afternoon heading into evening, instead finding it to be five minutes before noon. I felt like a full day had easily passed already. And this was just one day of the week. The rest of it was mainly filled with the whirlwind of work 's yearly user conference, and it was a blast all the way through. From internal…
I turn 2 U
After Spice Girls, Mel C had a period - like so many of us - of experimenting with the cloud. When she came out of it, she wrote this song: When the cloud costs more than I can understand When uptime is not what I had planned When AWS goes out and there's no end in sight When Azure can't keep up all through the night I turn 2 U Like the admin reaching for a Sun I turn 2 U 'Cause it's the better…