Warm winter nap

A cruel nor’Easter slammed Central New Jersey early today, and tonight I’m entrenched alongside the girlfriend and her two cats, Abra and Mooshy at an undisclosed location. Over pizza, we watched a bunch of DVD’s and plotted a weekend of criminality. If only we could dig out past the front door . . .

School is on winter recess. Amen. On a related note, my associate and I began disseminating a new series of random email signatures when informing the community or individuals about technology on campus.

Maxims in circulation:

” . . . Please pick up your laptop in the tech office, we need room for our nunchuks . . “

” . . . Generally speaking, a mouse is not a foot controller . . .”

” . . . Pedro offers you his protection. And so does the Tech Office . . . “

Savvy readers might note the heavy Napoleon Dynamite influence. Or not.

Oh, did I mention someone got a sparkly manicure in the middle of the snow storm?

Quite

On Sunday, the local Bassett club unleashed 25 hounds on campus, which is an annual tradition. Well, 25 hounds and this little guy. He kept losing the . . . ahem . . . scent.

Before the hunt

On the scent

A gaggle of bassets

Also this weekend, met with the film editor before he left for Puerto Vallarta. The long touted media project is almost done, as Steve is putting the final audio tweaks–and a few visual ones–in place. Hard to believe the collaboration stretches back to August. His wife is about three seconds from killing me because of the amount of his weekends and evenings I have monopolized these past few months, but I think in part she believes his efforts are for a greater good; thus I might live another day to celebrate his toil. Hopefully that’s her logic.

So perhaps the horse head outside my office was left by a student.

Well, by the time Steve returns Stateside, three of the four pieces of the marketing strategy will be complete. I’m dedicating January to the final leg. On Wednesday February 13, 2009, everything will make sense.

And I’ll be a year older.

More stills

Untreated and unused still from the media project. Would have used it, but there’s a bag of gear in the background. Ack. Due to interlacing the exported picture appears far more pixelated than the same shot in the film. Oh well. Steve has some nice footage regardless. Or so he assures. 😉