Codename: Attoparsec

[gfish]

As if prep for grad school and the summer canoe expedition wasn't enough, I'm starting to work on a video project. It's been way too long since I've done any video work, and it's nice to get back in the saddle.

Today we filmed B-roll of a very beaten up Kia driving in circles, and ran wiring in it to power/control some, um, non-standard features. We'll get the switches mounted on the dash this week, then get started on building the CENSORED and the EXPURGATED devices.

Comments

[rollick.livejournal.com]

You're totally making your own Transformers movie to beat Michael Bay to theaters, aren't you?

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

This will either be excellent or somebody's going to get killed. I can't wait.

[meardaba.livejournal.com]

Why does it say censored and expurgated? If it actually has meaning to the rest of your text, sorry. I just woke up and not much makes sense yet.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I was just being silly. I don't want to spoil the surprise yet.

[meardaba.livejournal.com]

Ah ha. See, that makes sense. I like silly, usually. I just don't understand it at 8 am.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

What's this about a summer canoe expedition?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Four of us are going to do the Mackenzie (http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/rivers/mac1.htm) this summer, Fort Providence to Inuvik. Should take about 5 weeks. :) (I'll be posting more about it as details are ironed out.)

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Flamethrower. See if that reflective anti-laser/anti-photo-radar stuff they sell in the back of Car&Driver actually works. Drive through a one-way Extreme Tire Damage parking lot device. Later in the programme: what happens if you have a blowout at 55 mph? Front? Rear? Two, simultaneously? How about if someone makes a mistake and puts antifreeze in the oil? Or puts 8 quarts of oil in? What does it actually look like up close when someone opens the radiator cap on an overheated engine?

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i didn't open the radiator cap, but i did have a heater hose let go on me, it wasn't pretty!

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I was standing behind someone who opened the radiator cap on an overheated engine. I don't know exactly what happened, but it hurt. (The person who opened it was the brightest human I've ever met: PhD at 23. She didn't, however, believe the little but very vivid danger symbol in the manual.)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i know how much it hurts!

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Adam & Jamie pretty much already busted the reflective stuff...

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind trying out a better chaf system, though. Theirs was kind of lame.

So the editing happened something like this?

[avicado.livejournal.com]

"The Expurgated version of gfish's post?!?"
"The one without explosives!"
"The one without the...?!? They've all got explosives; it's a standard gfish mainstay!!!"
"Well I don't like them... they're too loud!"
...
"All right then, I'll remove them!
*rrriiipppp*
Anything else?"
"The missile launchers."
"The missile launchers, the missile launchers... right! Here they are!
*rrriiiipppp*
There you are, no explosives, no missile launchers! Here's your post... now read it!!"
"I can't read that, it's blotchy."