A fella I follow on Twitter posted the above link.  I wanted to reply in kind with an article.

I’ll call this a bucket list, but loosely.  I don’t intend on kicking the bucket for a long time, so this is more of a “Nudge the bucket list”.  Granted, his point is valid, we have little time on this planet.

Here goes.  It’s fairly mundane, but it is a list of what I thought about first, and not filtered into some kind of a pander to people’s likes thing.  It’s simply me and my mind.

1. Fly an airplane.
2. Dive over 100 feet under the ocean, preferably around a reef.
3. Finish one of my numerous books, all of which I have started.
4. Publish an article that saves a life (hard to quantify).
5. Bring about change on a large scale, preferably regarding education and how damaged the system is.
6. Travel in space.
7. Find a gemstone in the planet, and make it into a family heirloom to pass to my son.
8. Write a children‘s book.
9. Visit the previous site of the Berlin Wall.
10. Create a piece of art, a painting, of a dragon, that is beautiful.

I don’t think I’ll be able to do any of these things in the next year, but maybe.

Jeremy

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.”