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A smashing success!! It's 1:30am and I am happy to report that the viewers loved You Got It Twisted! They laughed a lot! Thank God. A good crowd showed up, the theater was actually stadium seating with awesome speakers. I heard things I'd never heard before while editing. The Pan African Film Festival gets to use the Magic Johnson Theaters at Baldwin Hills Plaza, a state of the art commercial venue. The screen was huge. I got to check the picture and sound before opening the house, like a real editor! Like Walter Murch! I didn't get a photo of the electronic board of movie schedules that listed our movie right under Pink Panther and Big Momma's 2. That was the coolest, like getting to feel what it's like to have your movie playing in the local multiplex. Now, to submit to other festivals or not?
--ErinMaru
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2006.02.16
Geek History of the Moment
"The mouse cage was pretty funny. We knew mice would eat the insulation off the wires, so we got samples of all the wires that were available and put them in a cage with a bunch of mice to see which insulation they did not like. We only used wire that passed the mouse test."
ENIAC co-inventor J. Presper Eckert, in this interview making the rounds.
ENIAC was one of the first, if not the first, electronic computers ever built.

Toy of the Moment
And now we can use computers for such silly fun as this Super Mario Brothers Sound Machine...didn't realize how many different sound effects there were embedded in that game. My favorite music is defintely the "underground" theme, second from the top on the left side.

Swap of the Moment
I really love the whole proto-Mickey Mouse Oswald-for-Al-Michaels swap betweem Disney and NBC. Admittedly it was funnier to me before I realized I was thinking of Al Roker in place of Michaels, but still.
Of course it reminds me of that old quote from Dylan, thinking about the corporate influence stuff like Dilbert has wielded: "You know, sometimes it annoys me that these cartoon characters have more power in this world than I do."