December 10, 2009 – Scribblings From The Public Restroom Stalls Of The Gods

Make your own test patterns!

By Earl
December 10, 2009
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This one will probably only be of tangential interest to even the most hardcore teevee geeks, but darned if it isn’t really useful if you happen to be in the production end of the business. … Read more

Television & Movies

Tron Legacy poster

By Earl
December 10, 2009
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Tron Legacy poster

Okay, I’m excited. How ’bout you? The only thing that really isn’t thrilling me about this movie is the prospect that Daft Punk will be filling in for Wendy Carlos. Maybe if they were collaborating with Wendy Carlos, I’d be a bit more at ease. Whoever did the music for the Tron 2.0 PC game seemed to ‘get it’. (I know that there’s not another person on the planet who obsesses over movie music in quite the same way I do, so I’ll just hush up there and wait for the movie.)… Read more

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Gene-ology Mailbag #2

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