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Eric’s insights on politics, technology, free software, photography and everything else

The Perils of the Edge of Change

Eric Mesa | October 30, 2007

We’re on the edge of the largest disruption in Tv technology since color Tv became mainstream. In 2009 all analog television transmission will cease. Although the two terms tend to go hand-in-hand that doesn’t mean that all channels will become HD. There just isn’t the bandwidth for that in the cable pipes [...]

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Trick or Treat: The Director’s Cut (Part 2)

Eric Mesa | October 29, 2007

Ok, I got a better version uploaded. The video is MUCH better quality and the audio is better as well. However, the conversion to flash caused it to go a little out of sync. It’s still not as bad as it was before. Still, for someone like me who’s trying to [...]

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Trick or Treat: The Director’s Cut (Part 1)

Eric Mesa | October 29, 2007

I’m not really impressed with the way that the audio was left out of sync when I converted my video to xvid as well as the strange artifacts in the videos. I intend to re-upload a director’s cut in the next week or so. When I do, I’ll announce it here.

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Trick or Treat

Eric Mesa | October 29, 2007

I’m happy to announce that my third animation, and second micro-short, is now complete. You can watch “Trick or Treat” by going here.
Thanks everyone who’s helped out in various ways!

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Quotes that are funny out of context

Eric Mesa | October 25, 2007

“That’s pretty fruity – you’d probably like that”
Context: T telling Lauren about fruity beer. Our boss just heard this part out of context and almost spit out his coke.

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An Over-Reliance on Wikipedia

Eric Mesa | October 24, 2007

Another great comic brought to us by xkcd:

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Sugar should be out by next June

Eric Mesa | October 24, 2007

I decided to get a little more organized for this animated short, so I put my tasks into the Gnome Project Manager. (Similar to MS Project) I also figure this way I know how long it should take so I won’t rush myself and compromise in quality. I want this to be [...]

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Rigging on Nick’s body is done

Eric Mesa | October 23, 2007

I finally finished rigging up Nick’s body. His face is yet to be done, but at least I finished up this milestone. At this point I’m not sure if I’m going to start work on the facial rigs right away. I’m leaning more towards beginning modeling on my next character, Wallace. [...]

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Sorry for the Outage

Eric Mesa | October 23, 2007

We keep losing power around here. I’m not sure who’s to blame. This time even the server lost power. That means that the power outage lasted longer than the UPS could handle. That’s quite a few minutes, so it wasn’t just a blip in the electricity.
Sorry if the outage kept you [...]

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Quote of the Day

Eric Mesa | October 21, 2007

“Oh no you’re bleeding. And you’re bleeding on my face.” – Danielle

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Gutsy Gibbon Released Today!

Eric Mesa | October 18, 2007

No lame jungle puns from me. Just go here it here. Or, if you already run it (as I do on my laptop), then just use the upgrade tool. I’m upgrading now. If anything major breaks, I’ll let you know.

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Incongruitastic

Eric Mesa | October 17, 2007

When I first began to study about Salvador Dali, I looked up surrealism in Wikipedia. The article mentioned that surrealism was not limited to the art of painting. It also extended to video work. I always wondered what a surreal movie might be like. Well, I have found one that, for [...]

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Quotes of the Day

Eric Mesa | October 16, 2007

J: What meal is that?
Alex: My second lunch
J: You’re like a giant Hobbit!
Eric: So, what’d you eat at Chipotle?
Lauren: Chips
Eric: Just Chips?
Lauren: And water

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Crank That is the new Mashup Sensation

Eric Mesa | October 14, 2007

This annoyingly catchy rap song with crazy dance moves (there’s even a video online by the rapper to show you how to do the dance) is being put into all kinds of mashups. For some reason, these all seem to involve kiddie movies and Tv shows. Anyway, this gave me a pretty good [...]

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Eric Mesa | October 13, 2007

Visited this National Park last Sunday. It is pretty beautiful scenery. I’d probably rank it a 7 out of 10. It’s a very nice walking trail. Here are some of the pictures I took last week.

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