Once I found out that YouTube is a mine of commercial free content, I had to check out some of the shows that I'd always been meaning to get around to watching but never found the time for. This week it is "All Creatures Great and Small", which appears to have run far more seasons than I had originally given it credit for. Consensus? Great series and excellent acting which outshines anything seen today.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Small Screen
Let me be the first to say that blogging from a phone is not the most fluid of data entry choices. It works, but that is about all that can be said for it. The main reason to do it at all is to have the treasured iPhone descriptor. For example: Sent from Ted's iPhone. I don't think it is worth it. Still, it is better than nothing. I finished printing off the church songbook covers and will see about assembling them tomorrow. Jesus is on the cover in front of a pentacal. We will see if anyone notices. It wasn't intentional, but couldn't be helped. The design needed it.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Swimming in Tech
I am having good success in bringing broken tablets back to life. This is being written from a Galaxy Tab 3!
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Doc Savage and Guys and Dolls
Not one. Not a single deck of cards. I knew it!
When I created the Guys and Dolls deck of cards for the Snowline Players production of the play I knew the key to selling them was to have them available for purchase right from the start and right in the lobby. But because of events surrounding decision making (read: not my fault) the decision as to whether to place an order for the decks didn't come until much to late. Typically, I'll be lucky if an order gets shipped within two weeks of being placed. Considering all that is involved in the manufacturing of these things, that doesn't surprise me. If anything, I'm happy that they can complete the order in the time frame specified anyway.
But I knew that if I told people during the play that if they wanted a deck they could order it online and then wait two weeks for it to arrive, that proposition would be a nonstarter. I mean, the whole point of a souvenier deck of cards is that it's bought the way you normally buy impulse items. You buy them right then and there without any planning.
So while lots of people did come to the play and expressed interest in ordering a deck for themselves, no one actually did it. And that's ok. But it is still a missed opportunity that makes me feel bad. We could have raised additional funds for the little production company. Guess I'll have to hope I can get them onboard more quickly next time.
Doc Savage on the other hand is something that I don't have to go through anyone's approval process. This is something that I'm doing for my own enjoyment and that's the sort of project that I love the most. If you haven't had a chance to read any Doc Savage before, I encourage you to do so. They are great, if brief, stories of high adventure and daring. However, the author really needed to have a good editor go over the work before publishing. Yes, the author was under constant demands from a grueling publication schedule but the stories would have been greatly improved with a little more polish. I'm going to apply the polish to a few random stories over the next few days, and I'll post the results here.
When I created the Guys and Dolls deck of cards for the Snowline Players production of the play I knew the key to selling them was to have them available for purchase right from the start and right in the lobby. But because of events surrounding decision making (read: not my fault) the decision as to whether to place an order for the decks didn't come until much to late. Typically, I'll be lucky if an order gets shipped within two weeks of being placed. Considering all that is involved in the manufacturing of these things, that doesn't surprise me. If anything, I'm happy that they can complete the order in the time frame specified anyway.
But I knew that if I told people during the play that if they wanted a deck they could order it online and then wait two weeks for it to arrive, that proposition would be a nonstarter. I mean, the whole point of a souvenier deck of cards is that it's bought the way you normally buy impulse items. You buy them right then and there without any planning.
So while lots of people did come to the play and expressed interest in ordering a deck for themselves, no one actually did it. And that's ok. But it is still a missed opportunity that makes me feel bad. We could have raised additional funds for the little production company. Guess I'll have to hope I can get them onboard more quickly next time.
Doc Savage on the other hand is something that I don't have to go through anyone's approval process. This is something that I'm doing for my own enjoyment and that's the sort of project that I love the most. If you haven't had a chance to read any Doc Savage before, I encourage you to do so. They are great, if brief, stories of high adventure and daring. However, the author really needed to have a good editor go over the work before publishing. Yes, the author was under constant demands from a grueling publication schedule but the stories would have been greatly improved with a little more polish. I'm going to apply the polish to a few random stories over the next few days, and I'll post the results here.
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