My replacement G2 no longer turns on. Not sure what to do at this point since I've already replaced the last faulty G2 and have only had this replacement for a couple of months. Do I just get yet another replacement? Not sure I even want the damned G2 again....
The only problem here is that I am still under contract with T-Mobile and to break it costs about $150. I'm stuck in this limbo for awhile yet. :(
- Jonathan Hardesty
So did Jon and Jandy abandon us? I didn't see them say anything officially. Do I need to kidnap them and put them in a pit in my basement until they put the lotion on their skin, or come back to FF?
We've been spending more time on Facebook lately (and Google+ to a lesser extent). Not really through any intentional "leaving", but just kind of lack of time to keep up with multiple places.
- Jandy
It's been getting quieter and quieter around here. Kind of good for me, though - I've got a lot going on IRL and don't need to be wasting time online.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
I follow the people wherever they go and these guys need to go where the people are since they write and need hits on that blog.
- Eric
Well, I'm already terrible at keeping up with places, so when something like weddings or honeymoons come up it tends to distract me some...and then I forget about posting anything. I even forget to check into places and movies these days. I have barely even touched G+. If I ever truly leave this place, I'll be sure to flip table or two on the way out. :)
- Jonathan Hardesty
My friend and former roommate called me during the honeymoon to mention that he had scheduled a pitch meeting with a studio to try and sell our idea for a cartoon series. Pretty stoked about this! We've been writing and revising our current two-sheet to prepare it for the pitch. Feels kinda good to be working on this.
Conversely, it doesn't really feel like I'm writing much since it's the same two sheet and it won't really see the light of day or get published or anything. And who knows...it might not even pan out either. Long story short, it feels good to work on this and it feels like I'm kind of wasting my time.
- Jonathan Hardesty
"Someone wants another shot at the Doctor (Matt Smith) on Doctor Who. No, no, not at being the Doctor, but at making life for our beloved Time Lord completely and utterly miserable again. (And that's the way we like it, yes?) And guess who-in-the-name-of-Gallifrey is that dastardly villain? Yeah, you all know who it is: It's the Master himself, played by actor John Simm. Two days ago, Simm (Life on Mars) took to Twitter and told fans and followers that he would love to come back to Doctor Who as the Master, after he was asked if he'd contemplate a return to the sci-fi series in the role. The 41-year-old actor tweeted, "Of course! Mr Moffat is a brilliant writer.""
- Soup in a TARDIS
from Bookmarklet
I've only seen three films so far this year, so the list is a little unpopulated at the moment. More will come soon.
- Jonathan Hardesty
from Bookmarklet
Added a list of shame to the page as well as anticipated releases for the year. Now it looks a little more populated. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
I've put way too much time into Dragon Age: Origins to quite now. I've played through one character (built poorly) up until near the end and re-started with a much better character. I've made it back to where I was when I quit, but now I'm just bored with the game. Doesn't help that the other roommates are playing Skyrim.
Because I got them all relatively close to the same timeframe and for the last few months my XBox has been playing Spongebob day and night for my friends kids or they'd freak out...
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
I'm guessing I should start with Skyrim but that is a tall order haha I feel like I should do research before even starting
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Ah, that makes sense. I'd say start with Skyrim since it's the newest. Dragon Age is good, but it's tough to play in parts and has some frustrating aspects to it.
- Jonathan Hardesty
from Android
Okay. Mytubo seems like a pretty decent android alternative for Instagram. Not really feeling the app title, but it seems to share well on other sites.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Lightbox app is interesting with simple filters. None of them have frames. There's no tiltshift. You can crop and rotate photos. A Lightbox.com account is required to enable socnet sharing. Photos are uploaded to an actual FB photo album (versus a thumbnail with a link). Shares to Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, and FB. I think Wordpress too.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from FFHound(roid)!
Myubo is pretty close to Instagram and the one I use the most. Lots of filters, one of them is a tilt-shift. Frames can be switched on and off. Photos can be cropped and rotated. Photos can be set to private. You need a Mytubo account to share photos. Shares to Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, and FB. The rest are socnets I don't recognize because they're from somewhere else.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
MagicHour is simple too but users can create their own filters and share them with others. You can really fine-tune affects on a photo: frames, brightness, contrast, color curves, texture layers. Square-format only and sharing to socnets is slow: one at a time. I usually share to Flickr then use the Flickr app to share to the rest.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Vignette is deceptively simple yet complex. There's a free and a paid version. I have the paid version. You don't crop photos. What you do is choose a filter and a frame and view the photo. Repeat until you find one you like. It's annoying that you can't see each filter's effect on the photo but it has a LOT of filters and frames. You can save the photo or share it but you share it to another app which is weird in itself.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
I would be a horrible parent if I insisted on instilling a sense of grammatical incorrectness, by naming a child Moore Fuller. Not to mention they would have MF initials.
Imma marry Scrivener. Between the outline view, setting word targets, and slapping in what I already have written, and skeletoning some other stuff....yeah. I'm going to need ot take a month off of work so I can just write. Augh. I need a wealthy patron.
I have both a Prologue and an Epilogue. I need to figure out how to make this happen with Scrivener's Compile. As it is right now, it treats the Prologue as Part I and Part I as Part II.
- Akiva
You can double click on those folders and rename them, which retitles the sections, cant you?
- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
Yeah. I just figured it out. My structure is I have four folders: Prologue, Part I, Part II, and Epilogue. Beneath them, each chapter has its own folder. Setting Level 1 folders to having a title and making sure the title is proper, and then setting Level 2 folders to be named without titles using the proper prefix and numbering has sorted it out. I've been using Scrivener for a long time (it was one of the main reasons why I went Mac) and it amazes me what this software can do.
- Akiva
Ive just started fooling with it, and my shit is all over the place. My scenes are out of order because while I have a vague story arc, I write it as it comes to me, and it comes out of order. I'm loving the notecard view where I can fiddle and fix things, but I'm going to have to redo my sectioning, i think.
- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
That's one of the many great things about Scrivener is that it lets you work however you want. I fiddle constantly.
- Akiva
Silly me: I assumed that Scrivener was available for Mac only. I'm gonna have to get me a copy.
- Brent
from iPhone
Still trying to get used to Scrivener while in the trial period. Don't think I'm going to use it for screenwriting (instead sticking with evernote for outlines and celtx/Final Draft for the actual scripts), but will definitely be using it for novel-writing and perhaps setting up a comic book idea through it.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I use Scrivener for writing only. All planning, plotting, etc., goes into Tinderbox.
- Akiva
I've seen you mention Tinderbox a few times and I'm intrigued. I'm really lacking in good outlining/plotting programs that can really organize what I'm trying to write. So far Evernote has come the closest and that's mainly because it syncs anywhere and I can copy and paste it well enough into my writing programs.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Tinderbox is easily one of the best pieces of software I've ever bought. I use it for all kinds of things: general note-taking, plotting and mind mapping, etc. I use it at work to track projects, bugs, tasks, and builds. I also use it to map software architecture. And I developed a GTD-style task manager in it that I use every day all day. Tinderbox is ALWAYS open on my machine.
- Akiva
Writing exercise for my Saturday workshop: I have to write a scene that takes place on a bus. It has to be written entirely in 3rd person limited (based on my comment to the instructor that I think I have POV shift issues w/my writing). Started it today but got distracted by all the other things I have to do.
- Corinne L
I have three things open currently: (1)I need to repop the cherry on a fantasy novel I'm trying to write to at least get it organized and see if it's writable. (2) I need to go over a poetry manuscript that's been accepted for publication to see if I'm okay with the ordering and to decide whether or not to take off the individual dedications on some poems. (3) I have a collection of...
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- ωαřмaiden BrokerPokerface
A couple of things in the ether; not sure what just yet...but one's based in New Orleans and I'm excited about it. Not sure what it'll be just yet. I initially saw it as a film, but there's loads of work to be done on it. And I need to get through this last semester of school before I give it the attention it deserves.
- Derrick
As we speak, I'm working on another entry in my "Memoirs of a Piper" poetry manuscript. The word "rhyme" came to me, and I've wanted to write some entries about the many funerals I've played - mostly Irish, for some reason. Rhyming some macabre subject matter seems Celtic, to me.
- Brent
from iPhone
This week I've been working on a "two sheet" for an animated show that my animator friend and I want to shop around out here. Essentially a "two sheet" is the basic pitch for the entire series, condensing all the ideas down to two pages and giving an idea of the overall trajectory of the show. Mind you, my friend and I have written pages upon pages about the idea so it's been insane levels of editing and honing.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I'm finally getting back to it. Writing that is. I found a notebook with 19k words that I am typing into Scrivener. And as I am doing that I am getting excited about the project. So now I am determined to finish it, and then start revising.
- aden {Wookie keeper}
from Android
Finishing a book manuscript about my pregnancy.
- laura x
Aden: how goes the transcribing? (I tried to DM you, but can't)
- Brent
from iPhone
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
My retweets may fall on deaf eyeballs since I'm not sure anyone reads my twitter feed these days. But whatev. Gotta spread the word! :)
- Jonathan Hardesty
Hey, I feel the same way. My Twitter feed goes to other unemployed actors who are also asking for donations for their projects! It's just like passing it around.
- joey
-Started writing for Flickchart Blog. -Read two books (World War Z & A Game of Thrones) -Started doing bar trivia with a bunch of my former Columbia College alums. -Met my girlfriend’s parents. -Left my work-from-home job to go work for a little company called TOMS Shoes. -Saw Broken Social Scene in concert. -Took a road trip with my girlfriend to Oregon to meet the family for the first...
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- SteVe C
I'll say! There was a lot of good stuff that happened his year. Didn't meet much in the way of goals or resolutions, but the awesome stuf kinda made up for it!
- Jonathan Hardesty
You had a girlfriend? WHERE HAVE I BEEN!
- Melly Botts
Oy. The Android Chase app takes over a minute to get to the login screen (with full connectivity, either wifi or 4G) and then around a minute to finally log in. I suppose I could use the ipad app, but that interface kinda sucks and the ipad doesn't have flash so the deposit process is a huge pain.