A man walks toward you.  He has his pants hanging down around his knees, gold necklaces around his neck, a baggy coat on with the logo of some sports team, and two gold teeth.  When he passes you, he measures you with his eyes (scans up/down, ending with brief contact).

My first thought, gangbanger.  Or at least, concealed weapon potential.  I’ll admit, I might be wrong, but this is going to be my knee jerk reaction based on years of just “living”.  I’ve lived in dangerous neighborhoods, safe neighborhoods, slummy neighborhoods, upper class neighborhoods.  Television plays a part in the image we build in our heads as well.  Where do THEY get their idea for what to dress an actor in to portrait a certain type of person?

In actuality, the process is scientific.  I view elements of the subject and based on what I think I know about that element, I come to a theory that best fits the situation at hand.  My theory may be ultimately wrong, but it’s a loose interpretation of Occam’s Razor and for my survival at the time, I’m not going to override instinct.  That can be deadly.

So, I’m no stereotyping.  I’m using science!

I’ll update you soon, hopefully with a video link!

Haven’t gotten much done though.  Started working on my Microsoft Certifications and a friend’s website.  I need to get back to my video.

I’m distracted :p  Someone suggest some focus techniques lol

I finish editing the video together and low and behold, it won’t compile.

I should have seen it coming considering that every time I split a video, a new FFDShow icon would appear in the systray.  It gets to about 30% and fails due to “disk space” (nope) or “some other error” (….??…..)

So I uninstalled the ffdshow codec and installed the newest DivX full pack.  Got to 75% this time.  I think the answer is ditching Movie Maker.  The problem is, it’s free and I don’t have the budget for anything really decent.

I may give it a go again though.  Maybe having ffdshow in there dorked up the project.  Will let ya know.  This weekend I’m going to tackle it again.

I’m working outside at night with little lighting, so it’s tough to get the shots I want but I edited what I could get into a decent effort.  I’ll provide more detail about the script and such soon.  Just wanted to let anyone who reads this know that “doing it” beats sitting around and “wanting to do it.”

Keira

This is Keira, a (presumably) mix German Shepherd / ?.  I think she has the face shape of a Husky puppy.  Her first vet visit is this afternoon, maybe he can tell us what he thinks.

She’s playful, full of energy and seems to be remarkably intelligent.  My wife and I are excited about this, it’s something we’ve wanted to do for years.

By the way, I no longer require login for comments, tell me what breeds you think she is!

There’s nothing quite like being comment-spammed while not present to fix issues accordingly.  If anyone visited in the past 3 days, I apologize for the crap appearing in the comments section.

That aside, I have corrected the comment spam filtering and I am going to post tomorrow with several items i contemplated during the past several days.  Thank you, all of the devout readers.

We’re done moving and my Internet service is back in action, you’ll hear from me soon.  Hopefully with less crap spam in the comments.

Peace.