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The question remains� if the moon were made of barbeque spare ribs, would you eat it? It�s a simple question, a baby could answer it. As for myself, I think I would not eat that moon.
The world as I know it is interestingly boring. A lot of up and downs in my life the past several days. Sunday afternoon, just mere hours after I finished that Terminator movie marathon, I was supposed to do a bunch of taping for a class and of course nothing went as planned. Some people weren’t there on time etc. I had to leave early that evening from taping to prepare for the fraternity meeting that night. I am in my second year of college and 19 years old, I have a Junior standing. This means that I am already starting to feel my college time slipping away. So, what this means is that I ran for recording secretary for my fraternity and won. This means I get to be on the exec board, which is pretty dang cool. So Sunday night was a long night yet made me quite happy.
Around midnight my roommate and I decided to go to Hardee�s for some Swiss and mushroom burgers, we had forgotten that the new Hardee�s menu made all their burgers much bigger, so we bought 2 each to sate our impressive hunger. This proved to be a bit of a mistake, 2/3 pound of beef piled high with sautéed mushrooms and Swiss cheese is more than mortal man was meant to ingest.
Now it�s suddenly Wednesday and I have no idea what happened to the first 3 days of the week. As far as actual school work goes, I have had very little to do this week. A little video editing last night, and a test yesterday morning were the extent of it. I now have an assignment to finish up in freehand, but I can luckily do that assignment away from the lab.
I had quite a nice length of time this afternoon where I had nothing to do so I took a nap and excelled at doing nothing. I just don�t feel right not having anything to do or anywhere to go for multiple consecutive hours. I�m sure I could have found some pressing task to take care of at that time, but I didn�t.
This rant has had very little to do with anything that anyone other than myself would really care about, so how about I actually get down to a little ranting. I suppose it isn�t the smartest idea to hide real content within my inane ramblings about my personal life.
My opinions on Adobe premiere are not exactly wonderful. We have to use Adobe premiere in the labs at school for video projects, that is the program that everyone learns because it is a sort of industry standard for NLE. Sadly I am not so naive to think that Premiere is the only option out there. My buddy Aaron turned me on to Vegas Video which is a simply awesome video editor that far surpasses the compositing abilities of Adobe Premiere. Vegas allows for such simpler operation and makes producing more precise and complex projects that far exceed what is possible with the rather pedestrian premiere. As far as functionality goes it is more of a combination of Premiere with After effects all in one seamless package. I�m not going so far as to say that I don�t like After Effects, it really is a powerful tool, but not as beautifully simple as Vegas Video is.
One program that I desperately wish to use is Final Cut Pro, they have it installed on the brand spanking new G5s over in the art department, but that doesn�t do me a lot of good. I have heard that Final Cut Pro really blows Premiere out of the water as well as fulfilling some people�s masochistic desire to spend money on Apple computers.
Aside from my forays into video editing lately I have been still looking at portable digital audio players. The complexities of all the options is really frustrating, the deciding factor for me at this point is that I cannot actually afford to purchase any of the devices that I have been looking at. Perhaps if I get another job or two I will then be able to� nah never mind I always have something more important to spend money on. Speaking of which, I will get to see my wonderful woman Becca next week for thanksgiving break. I can hardly wait 
My contacts on the inside tell me that wal-mart now has Dance Dance Revolution for sale, I mean they have the PS2 game as well as the whole metal pad to stand on. I have been trying to convince a friend with a PS2 to purchase this game and allow me to come over and get my boogie on. This is probably the only way that I am going to get any sort of physical work-out as a college student, excepting the walk to the union to get some T-Bell.
I will leave you with the most interesting linkage I can remember coming across in the past few days, a detailed analysis of the ever important question �What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?� You just have to know these sorts of things when you�re a king.