The night the video gear slept

Trying out a new Winamp crossfader plugin today. I’m sure that’s old hat, but I didn’t even know that such things even existed. It’s quite a bit of fun, actually. I gotta try this out with an all-soundtrack mix and a hot game of Dune 2000. Seriously, when massive corporate ownership has leached local news (and therefore any local value to anyone other than advertisers) out of radio, do we need radio anymore with stuff like this around?

Dave gets a mention in USA Today in this article about Lost and the unusual number of characters named after prominent philosophers, and whether or not that’s a coincidence. I thought it was a pretty interesting article myself. Dave also writes our nifty Lost guide, and I’m sure he’s already wondering how to tackle this week’s episode. Which, for those who might’ve missed my last entry, I loved. 😆 Be sure to check out his blog, which is rapidly becoming more frequently updated than mine.

With some of our first bad weather of the year inbound, I’ve powered the Avid down, possibly for a couple of days until things clear up. If one operates by the axiom that doing a lot of powering up and powering down of a computer is less stressful on the machine than simply leaving it on, a computer with external SCSI drives and outboard modules and a VTR is even more susceptible to problems. So it gets a day off. It’s on a pretty robust surge protector, but I’d rather not take a chance with it.

Congrats to Doctor Who, Galactica and SG-1 for their Hugo nominations. SG-1’s 200 was nominated, which I’m kinda iffy on, but it’s been the most entertaining episode of the current season to date, so I’ll give ’em that. Unlike the Nebula nominations, which went to the Galactica boxing episode, the Hugo nod is for Downloaded (see if I didn’t call that one here). Again, The Girl In The Fireplace was nominated, this time accompanied by School Reunion (ehhh…I loved the episode, but I’m not sure I really see the great SF storytelling in it) and Army Of Ghosts / Doomsday (ehhh…see above). I guess nobody watched The Idiot’s Lantern after all. My prediction: Downloaded will take the trophy.