Went to the
Mac Filmmakers meeting yesterday. We watched people's videos, which is
relatively boring. I guess it can be interesting if you are a filmmaker
and ask questions. Then there was a presentation by the Everest Peace
Project and mostly I was thinking "what's the point?" Then we got to
see a half-hour film, Ball Lightning.
Technically fairly well done but the story was really boring and there
seemed to be no point to it. Dave did see a point to the film and I
agree if you concentrate on a the last few minutes of the film and
ignore everything else.
So overall the meeting was not very fun. It's nice that it's on the
Apple main campus and the facilities are nice (including wireless
access). For the most part I only went to hang out with Dave and Woo.
We then went to eat at a small oriental eatery near Ranch 99 in
Milpitas I think. Hung out at Woo's for a few minutes then came home
about 23:00.
Today I stayed home and worked from here. I've been trying to get the
ICM CallManager adapter 11.5.10 code to compile, without success. I did
get the 11.5.9 code to compile. I'm starting to suspect that 11.5.10
requires Visual C++ 6.0 which is what the project settings indicate.
I'm not sure exactly what's wrong since I'm not experienced using our
C++ environment.
We don't have a copy so I need to buy one and I have a bid on a used
copy on eBay. Positive is that it's a lot cheaper because it's a fairly
old program and there are lots of used copies around. Negative is that
you have to wait for the auction to end and then payment and then
shipment so it takes a while to get the package and I don't think I
have that much time. At least he accepts PayPal and I'm hoping that I
can get him to ship it Express Mail.
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The only
problem working from home on my NT box is that it's really slow because
I'm VNCed into the box. Over a DSL connection. It's not that bad for
occasional use but doing it all day is really a drag. Maybe I should
get Virtual PC. Problem is that it's expensive (since I'd need to get
it with Windows 2000) and it would be rather slow even on my PowerBook.
And it would take up a lot of space, which I sort of have but I tend to
cache big things.
Kind of sore after basketball. We didn't play that much. A couple games
of 21. A couple games of Tip. A couple of games of 21 to 11 points.
Lots of mosquitoes today and I probably got a couple but they seemed to
go after Woo and Eric more even though they had repellent on. Today I
disdained the repellent and just kept moving.
We went to eat at this Italian place across the street from Chili's but
apparently is now closed. So we went to Chili's which was kind of empty
for Chili's. I had the Grilled Shrimp Alfredo and it was ok. Only six
shrimp though. I wasn't that hungry. I went grocery shopping today and
bought this huge pack of catfish. I think like 6 pounds -- 15 catfish
fillets so I guess that's 7-1/2 small catfish. Ate three of the fillets
for lunch. Very good. Fried catfish is my favorite.
Dave sold his house. Actually escrow closes in 45 days but it looks
like a sure thing at this point. He's probably still going to do
DaveCon, though it'll be a bit of hardship since he'll also be packing
and getting ready to move out. Since he doesn't have a house, I'm not
sure where he's going to put all his stuff because he had a whole bunch
of stuff when they moved to LA. He says he'll put it in storage.
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