killermonkeys's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=killermonkeys2002-07-02T05:59:49ZIt was nice working with you (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/It+was+nice+working+with+youkillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2002-07-02T05:59:49Z2002-07-02T05:59:49Z<p>
In the beginning, we passed along <a href="/title/love+notes">love notes</a>, little post-its, drawings, jots only we could understand, we developed a language all our own. We had secrets shared and secrets kept, doubts, desires, silent longings. By the time it was over, we were closer than best friends, we were closer than enemies, we were neither. We had developed together into two different people with two entirely different ideas of the way things were and the way things should go. In the end, I drew the <a href="/title/seppukku">sword</a>. I said the parting words, I left, with promises to remain <a href="/title/why+can%2527t+we+be+friends">friends</a>. We aren't, nor could we ever be. When you are as close as we were, you can't be anything but <a href="/title/gone">gone</a>. And I was gone long ago.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder if I hadn't been sabotaging the whole thing, staying out late, coming in late. Not handling the affairs right. Then I think about all the things he did wrong. All the times he didn't listen, said the wrong thing, and hurt me, and everyone. Of course, it wasn't my fault,<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…VDSL (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/VDSLkillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2001-12-25T07:11:31Z2001-12-25T07:11:31ZV<a href="/title/DSL">DSL</a> (Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line) is the next generation of <a href="/title/copper+loop">copper loop</a> access. VDSL is strategically paired with <a href="/title/Fiber-to-the-curb">Fiber-to-the-curb</a>, and the pair delivers extremely high speeds into homes while utilizing the existing copper loop on premises. <a href="/title/ADSL">ADSL</a> is called a "<a href="/title/last+mile">last mile</a>" technology. VDSL is a last-hundred-feet technology. It is designed to work over very short distances at high speeds, so <a href="/title/fiber">fiber</a> has to deliver data up to the <a href="/title/curb">curb</a> or a similarly close point, and VDSL takes it inside the house and to the <a href="/title/phone">phone</a>, <a href="/title/television">television</a>, and <a href="/title/computer">computer</a>.
<p>VDSL is a hingepin of <a href="/title/telecom">telecom</a>'s <a href="/title/multimedia">multimedia</a> delivery strategy, because a single VDSL loop can deliver digital television, voice, and data into the home. It is similar to the digital fiber cable initiative (called <a href="/title/hybrid+fiber+cable">hybrid fiber cable</a> or <a href="/title/HFC">HFC</a>) that that <a href="/title/cable+companies">cable companies</a> are currently deploying, because it requires rerunning the network with fiber to the neighborhood.
<p>VDSL is technically very similar to ADSL. In fact, it can be<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Dolby Digital vs. DTS (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/Dolby+Digital+vs.+DTSkillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2001-12-14T01:10:18Z2001-12-14T01:10:18Z<p>These two sound systems were originally developed for film, and there are major differences between <a href="/title/film">film</a> and <a href="/title/home+theater">home theater</a> digital systems. <a href="/title/Dolby+Digital">Dolby Digital</a> was the first on the block with <i><a href="/title/Batman+Returns">Batman Returns</a></i> in 1992, where it received rave reviews for being a much more precise and accurate reproduction of sound than <a href="/title/analog">analog</a> systems. It was actually the second digital system, the first was <a href="/title/Kodak">Kodak</a> <a href="/title/Cinema+Digital+Sound">Cinema Digital Sound</a> released in 1990 with <i><a href="/title/Dick+Tracy">Dick Tracy</a></i>. CDS was very expensive and had a tendancy to fail without any analog backup, and was relegated to history. <a href="/title/DTS">DTS</a> introduced a year later with <i><a href="/title/Jurassic+Park">Jurassic Park</a></i>, and received more acclaim, due in large part to the excellent <a href="/title/sound+mix">sound mix</a> done for Jurassic Park. After this, <a href="/title/Sony+Dynamic+Digital+Sound">Sony Dynamic Digital Sound</a> was released with <i><a href="/title/Last+Action+Hero">Last Action Hero</a></i>, it is actually a 7.1 channel system, adding mid-right and mid-left channels. My <i>personal</i> ranking of the systems would go: SDDS, DTS, DD. However, the systems are so similar that the quality<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…swing set (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/swing+setkillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2001-12-09T08:19:21Z2001-12-09T08:19:21Z<p>A <a href="/title/swing">swing</a> <a href="/title/set">set</a> is <a href="/title/television">television</a> <a href="/title/jargon">jargon</a> for a reconfigurable set. Most shows have several fixed sets, usually a living room, kitchen, office, board room, etc where most <a href="/title/scene">scene</a>s are set. They also have one or two swing sets with movable <a href="/title/wall">wall</a>s that are redecorated to fit the script's needs. Larger <a href="/title/production">production</a>s may have more than two, because it generally takes a day to redecorate the set and two shows are often filmed in one day. Swing sets are the sign of a professional production because they allow you to <a href="/title/tell+the+story">tell the story</a> first hand, rather than characters wasting dialogue relating action that supposedly took place. They also indicate professionalism because swing sets are very expensive, as the set must be built and torn down every week.</p>Karl Freund (person)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/Karl+Freundkillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2001-12-09T07:14:06Z2001-12-09T07:14:06ZOne of the most innovative and pioneering <a href="/title/cinematographer">cinematographer</a>s in the early <a href="/title/cinema">cinema</a> and <a href="/title/television">television</a>. Freund's career spanned all moving-picture media, he photographed nearly every type of film: comedies, documentaries, mysteries, horror, color, silent, on and on. He also filmed for <a href="/title/Desilu">Desilu</a> Productions, creating the framework for modern television show photography.
<p>Karl Freund was born in <a href="/title/Bohemia">Bohemia</a> in 1890. He began his career in <a href="/title/Germany">Germany</a> at 15 as a <a href="/title/projectionist">projectionist</a>, moving up to camera operator in a short two years. Creating shorts and newsreels, he experimented with several different technical processes and styles. He experimented with recording sound as early as 1908, and made several <a href="/title/camera">camera</a>s of his own design. His first break was <i><a href="/title/The+Last+Laugh">The Last Laugh</a></i> directed by F. W. Murnau, where he used several innovative filming techniques that used the camera to show the character's mindset and view. In 1927, he worked with <a href="/title/Fritz+Lang">Fritz Lang</a>, photographing the silent science fiction classic <i><a href="/title/Metropolis">Metropolis</a></i>.<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…The common man's view of technology (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys/writeups/The+common+man%2527s+view+of+technologykillermonkeyshttp://m.everything2.com/user/killermonkeys2001-11-30T18:42:18Z2001-11-30T18:42:18Z<p>I am sitting in a stall, in a public bathroom in my office, <a href="/title/pooping">minding my own business</a>. I don't know about you, but I have a little bit of an aversion to making noises when other people are in the bathroom. I'm embarassed by my own body. So I general hush up when someone enters the bathroom until they leave. You know you do it too. And of course, there are certain things you expect to hear, like peeing sounds, flush sounds, and faucet sounds. You aren't supposed to talk in the bathroom. Certainly not when the bathroom is empty except a guy in the stall who is trying hard not to make any noise.
<p>Anyway, I was <a href="/title/pooping">minding my own business</a> when a guy walks into the bathroom. I listened silently from my stall:
<blockquote>"The thing you always need is a light bulb changer."<br>
"And a sweeper."<br>
"You always gotta have a <a href="/title/sweeper">sweeper</a>."<br>
"I'm looking for them to... uhhhhh... automate that."<br>
"If you don't see-- I bet by 2012 or 2021 you see all that stuff, everything automated."<br><!-- close unclosed tag --></blockquote><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…