We’re coming up on some deadlines today, so this week at work has been kind of crappy. I came in this morning, and my manager was like “I need to speak with you.” He had a really disturbed look on his face, and he was carrying a thick folder. I was pretty sure I hadn’t done anything that warranted immediate termination, but it sure didn’t look good. However, he then informed me that a coworker in our small team had passed away yesterday. No details were given, but it was really a huge shock. He was one of the newer members, but probably also one of the nicest and most energetic guys in the company. This is the first time I’ve experienced this in the workplace, and I’m not sure how to describe the feeling. I don’t think it’s even really sunk in yet.
We bought a mirror that is rather large, and we have been waiting for it anxiously (well, Bunky has). However, the shipping company in charge of getting the mirror to us is horrible to deal with. They keep calling and leaving messages saying to confirm the delivery before 7 PM. Unfortunately, it is virtually impossible to ever reach anyone there, and 99% of calls end up in their voice mail (and they never follow up). The mirror was supposed to come today, but I got a voice mail saying I needed to call to confirm again (WTF?!?!) to get the mirror delivered on Wednesday. Since I didn’t have time to make another ill-fated attempt at calling them, I delegated the task to Bunky.
Bunky pretty much had the same results; however, she went and looked up their VP and called him up. She then proceeded to ream him for the craptacular service that their company provides. Apparently our mirror has been in their warehouse since October 11th, and yet there were no records of the mirror being ready to deliver (WTF?!?!?!?!??!). The VP was greatly displeased about this turn of events, and said he had to “get this fixed.” The VP then paid a visit to the customer service center. Damn. Supposedly the mirror will be here Wednesday, or else Bunky is going to have to call up the company CEO.
Nothing gets me excited like the thought of some hot Dumbledore x Grindelwald yaoi fanfiction.
A 19-year-old from Colorado asked about the avuncular headmaster of Hogwarts School: ‘Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?’
The author replied: ‘My truthful answer to you…I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.’ The audience reportedly fell silent - then erupted into prolonged applause.
I never found Dumbledore’s love life to be of any relevance to the story, so this revelation doesn’t really affect how I feel about the series. I think it’s admirable that there were no stereotypical indications that Dumbledore was homosexual, but this snippet opens the door for so many inappropriate jokes.
She added: ‘Yeah, that’s how I always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read-through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying, “I knew a girl once, whose hair…” I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, “Dumbledore’s gay!”‘
Haha, I wonder what the scriptwriter thought!
Amazed by the warm reaction of the audience, Rowling, on her first US tour in seven years, joked: ‘Just imagine the fan fiction now.’
Oh yeah, I already am.
It took a while to figure out how to encode video, but it was rather easy with DivX. It came out really nicely, but the quality decreased when I uploaded it to Veoh. Still, it came out much better than when I uploaded it on Google Video. The video recording on the Canon S5 IS is incredible!
The compression rate was quite good, as it dropped from about 120 Mb down to about 10 Mb. It was hard to record and wave the cat toy at the same time, but I was just testing to see how good the frame rate was.
General | Kabitzin 10/25/2007 | 
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