by Jim Stitzel | Nov 28, 2005 | Technology
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire How do you condense a 734 page book into a 2.5-hour movie? The answer is that you don’t. _Goblet_ was an exercise in thumbnail moviemaking. Each scene was little more than a visual sketch of each chapter in the book, jerking...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 23, 2005 | Technology
With the weather outside the way it is, one would think it was Christmas vacation this week, rather than Thanksgiving. It is beautiful out there, though, and it was a pleasure to walk in it this morning. Snow is definitely preferable at 28 degrees to rain at 36...
by Jim Stitzel | Nov 20, 2005 | Technology
In the interests of trying to really get started with syndicating my writing, I will be mirroring everything from my Xanga site here for a while, and vice versa. Once I have a pretty strong readership, I will probably fold my Xanga site and write here exclusively. The...
by Jim Stitzel | Sep 17, 2005 | Technology
If you haven’t checked out my discussion forum recently (or not at all), please stop by and check it out. It has been a little slow there recently (due to everyone being extremely busy lately), but I’d love to see a little more activity there again. There...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 27, 2005 | Technology
Don’t expect any great and wonderful words of inspiration from this post. Oh, no. This is simply me saying that I am now enjoying the wonderful world of Halo 2 as experienced through Xbox Live. I don’t know how many of you are Halo fans and who play...
by Jim Stitzel | Mar 1, 2005 | Technology, Writing
A couple of things that I find slightly annoying about different Xanga sites: – People who refuse to embed their links under text (like so), so what you end up having to do in order to read the post/comments is to side-scroll back and forth. Seriously, people,...
