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My Weekend
I went to see The Losers on Saturday. It's your basic high-octane thriller, lots of guns, lots of explosions, token babe-who-kicks-ass and a fairly predictable plot. But it has Jeffrey Dean Morgan, so that makes it a little better than average. For me, anyway.
If you've seen the trailer, you've seen all but two of the best moments in the film, so unless you're a particular fan of the genre or JDM, skip the movie and just watch the trailer. Still, I enjoyed it. It's a good popcorn movie that doesn't demand much of the audience.
Sunday I sent out the assignments for spn_summergen. Naturally a bunch of them went astray. The days when email was reliable are long gone, I guess. In this case, I'm guessing that including links in the emails led to a bunch of them being trapped as spam. And, of course, there's the usual quota of people who misspelled their email addresses, or gave an @livejournal addy which - of course - bounced.
Still, it went pretty well. I've had acknowledgments from all but about 20 recipients (out of 74). Given that it was a holiday weekend I expect a few people didn't check their email yet, that's not bad. I'm going to need to chase up that missing 20 though.
Monday...I'd been thinking about heading into Cardiff but transport on a Bank Holiday is just too much trouble. In the end I stayed home and caught up on my work for Geonn. I've finally found a way to create epub format books! I'd tried a gazillion tutorials before but it never worked out. Now I know why: they all left out important details they assumed I'd know. So did the latest one I found but I was able to puzzle it out from what was said. So that's a win for me.
Now I just need to sort out the artwork for that project and we'll be ready to go.
I also watched more True Blood. I just love how well-produced the DVDs are for this series. I bought the BluRay, so I'm not sure about the regular DVDs but there's an 'enhanced viewing' option where certain of the characters pop up and comment on certain scenes as you go along. On the S1 release it was Lafayette; on the S2 the commentary comes from Steve Newlin, Pam and Hoyt. And it's really great. Pam supplies snarky snippets of information about vampires in general and Eric specifically; Newlin is deliciously evil and Hoyt talks about his relationship with Jessica and is just as adorable as ever. Then there are 'flashback' and 'flashfoward' points where you can see how certain scenes and plot points intersect. Or, of course, you can turn all that off and just watch the episodes. There are also commentaries, but I haven't got to those yet. For me that's the least interesting part of most DVDs.
A nice, relaxing weekend. Now I'm back at work - it's publication week so things are a tad stressful.
If you've seen the trailer, you've seen all but two of the best moments in the film, so unless you're a particular fan of the genre or JDM, skip the movie and just watch the trailer. Still, I enjoyed it. It's a good popcorn movie that doesn't demand much of the audience.
Sunday I sent out the assignments for spn_summergen. Naturally a bunch of them went astray. The days when email was reliable are long gone, I guess. In this case, I'm guessing that including links in the emails led to a bunch of them being trapped as spam. And, of course, there's the usual quota of people who misspelled their email addresses, or gave an @livejournal addy which - of course - bounced.
Still, it went pretty well. I've had acknowledgments from all but about 20 recipients (out of 74). Given that it was a holiday weekend I expect a few people didn't check their email yet, that's not bad. I'm going to need to chase up that missing 20 though.
Monday...I'd been thinking about heading into Cardiff but transport on a Bank Holiday is just too much trouble. In the end I stayed home and caught up on my work for Geonn. I've finally found a way to create epub format books! I'd tried a gazillion tutorials before but it never worked out. Now I know why: they all left out important details they assumed I'd know. So did the latest one I found but I was able to puzzle it out from what was said. So that's a win for me.
Now I just need to sort out the artwork for that project and we'll be ready to go.
I also watched more True Blood. I just love how well-produced the DVDs are for this series. I bought the BluRay, so I'm not sure about the regular DVDs but there's an 'enhanced viewing' option where certain of the characters pop up and comment on certain scenes as you go along. On the S1 release it was Lafayette; on the S2 the commentary comes from Steve Newlin, Pam and Hoyt. And it's really great. Pam supplies snarky snippets of information about vampires in general and Eric specifically; Newlin is deliciously evil and Hoyt talks about his relationship with Jessica and is just as adorable as ever. Then there are 'flashback' and 'flashfoward' points where you can see how certain scenes and plot points intersect. Or, of course, you can turn all that off and just watch the episodes. There are also commentaries, but I haven't got to those yet. For me that's the least interesting part of most DVDs.
A nice, relaxing weekend. Now I'm back at work - it's publication week so things are a tad stressful.