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Spudger

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One who spudges.

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Touching moment chimp sees outdoors for the first time (www.bbc.com)

Vanilla, a 28-year-old chimpanzee, had never been outside of a cage or enclosure. She is one of the surviving chimps from the New York-based Laboratory for Experimental Medicine & Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP). Vanilla and her sister, Shake, have a new island home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, Florida....

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The article says it has no tomato and no cheese. Where I come from we call that bread.

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Mrs Spudger has a vast collection of Apple cables so she came to the rescue. I just prefer the aesthetics of the StarLabs cable. It’s well within warranty so I’ll have a word with Support.

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I’m with Mike Langberg on this:

Intelligent agents are the technology of the future, and always will be.

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Blame the subeditor. I just copy and paste :)

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As Gil Scott Heron may have said if he was alive today, The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged.

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:)

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Same on the desktop version.

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Cutie :)

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When it removes the entirety of LTT from YouTube it will worth a try. There isn't much in this world that makes me seethe but that plonker is one.

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I'm glad he saved you money. I just wish he'd learn the basic grammar of production.

He's not the only bad YouTuber. 99.9% of them are clueless. Take the ubiquitous jump cut edit. They are everywhere. This is fine if you're a nouvelle vague French film director in the 1950s and 60s but have no place in a YT vid. It's unprofessional. None of these people seem to be able to get through a paragraph of text without fluffing their lines and consequently having to jump cut over the mistake. Watch an Andy Edwards music analysis vid and you'll see he can get through 45 minutes without a single edit. He knows his subject well and therefore is less prone to errors. If he does screw up he's smart enough to explain it and just let things flow without interruption.

What's with editing every breath and pause between sentences? Anyone that tried to talk like than in real life would die of oxygen deprivation before the end of their vid. It's unnatural and destroys the flow.

Then there's the unnecessary use of effects. It reminds me of the early days of desktop publishing when everyone and his dog suddenly became typographers. The horror, the horror. Just because they have 49 installed typefaces doesn't mean they have to use all of them in their poxy one page newsletters but that didn't stop them.

The basic principles of film and TV production were established over a century ago. If some spotty oik with a computer and a cam in his bedroom at his parents' house thinks they can do better then bring it on. I have yet to see any evidence of this happening. Putting some Star Wars toys on a shelving unit in the background and draping some LEDS over it is not visual innovation.

Let me summarise: Know your subject. Write a decent script. Learn it. Rehearse until you are perfect. Don't use SUPERFLUOUS capitalisation in the TITLES of your latest MASTERPIECE.

I've been in the business too long and amateurs irritate the f**k out of me. There's a lot more I could mention but life's too short.

Ok. grumpy old man rant over :)

Doom_Cough, to retrocomputing
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Anyone using their retro machines to make music or for live use? I experimented with making live Acid music with a C64, using Mssiah, and a 303, etc. The timing of the 303 clone wanders sync too much as is but maybe adding a better midi clock like a modern drum machine to help keep it all synced.

Thought, opinions?

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Does a PS2 count as retro?

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Thanks for the head up.

The lovely Mrs Spudger and I met on IRC in the previous century. At the time we lived on opposite sides of the planet. This year we celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary

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Sometimes the random ones are the right ones :)

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British weather at its finest. In ten minutes it'll be completely different.

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What is it with the Kennedys? Look back over the generations and they're either corrupt, philanderers or nut jobs. Or any combination thereof.

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In a cage? Why not a small sub near the Titanic?

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Best was coming second in a non-competitive 26 mile walk. Worst was the swimming certificate for a width of the local municipal pool whilst clinging to a lump of polystyrene foam. With hindsight the award was probably for not drowning.

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When I lived in the UK I had a wasp nest in the loft. I called the council for advice. A man in a space suit with a sprayer was there within the hour. No charge.

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Same here. Kpat is the first application I install on a new machine.

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