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04/07/2002 Archived Entry: "I'm here to tell you how busy I am"

This looks like a good time for a 6,000-word diatribe about how busy I am, but I'm too busy to write about how busy I am, so I won't.

I'm making what was supposed to be a quickie one-off documentary with minimal footage. Well, the problem is I've got about an hour's worth of good footage. I figured it would take me an hour to figure out what story to tell with that footage. Bzzzt! Guess again, Farq.

I've found about 20 minutes' worth of the best footage. Based on the story I want to tell, I can cut half of it. Then I can take what's left of that and edit it in half pretty easily, giving me a manageable five-minute biography/documentary.

I always underestimate my video projects.

You'll hear back from me when it's done. But for the next couple of days until then, I don't know how much I'll be here. Fair warning.

And once it's done? Well, I think I might know how to do streaming Qui*kTime-compatible video with a Linux server. Wouldn't that be a cool project?

If you find yourself missing me, go have a read about a missing spyplane and how someone, after making 20 trips, spending more than $6,500, involving 9 different people, and finding three other wrecks, finally found the elusive plane.

You'll also learn that the SR-71 wasn't the most advanced U.S. spyplane of the 1960s. (That image on the front page of the link looks an awful lot like an SR-71, but it isn't!)

It's a long story. It'll easily occupy you for a few days while I'm gone.

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That's an awesome link. I'll post it up on the D/FW UFies mailing list for their perusal (referencing your site as where I found it first, of course).

Good luck with your video project.

Posted by Dustin Cook @ 04/08/2002 02:39 AM CST

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