So this weekend Bigg’s came up for the weekend to cover the election for his Broadcast Journalism class at Columbia. Basically he was technologically inept and couldn’t get past recording sound clips to mini-disc.
- I drove him to Bridgeport.
- He forgot the microphone cable making it a worthless 3 hours in the car.
Wasted trip aside he was able to make it to an event in Hartford to hear Lieberman talk. Basically he wouldn’t have gotten any sound bites of the senator if I hadn’t have helped him with the technical aspects of producing a short radio spot
- I downloaded the clips to his laptop.
- I converted them to wave files.
- Showed him how to open them in audacity.
- Instructed him on how to upload files using FTP.
Take into account that he’s going to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and he can’t figure out a couple of pretty basic computer programs for importing and editing audio and it really boggles the mind as to how he got into such a good school . He’s a Ron Burgundy in training. Good job bud, I hope you are lucky enough to get a very talented producer/engineer if you ever make it to be a reporter.
Last Tuesday Final Fantasy XII was released. I’ve gotten in about 2 hours of game play so far and I am more than impressed. My, and I imagine, others allegiance to the series stems from the fact that no other series can create such characters or universes that are so compelling as to make a gamer willing to invest dozens upon dozens of hours into a game.
I quit WoW cold turkey so I anticipate using this game as a sort of MMORPG patch. And as a plus this game has an ending that I can tell from the little bit of the battle system and gameplay elements I’ve experienced will prove to be very rewarding.
Unlike previous final fantasies where story elements revolved around coming of age events in a teenagers life this installment seems to be more political in nature. The fate of a kingdom with multitudes of people seem to be at stake versus coming to terms with teenage angst that a lot of the others contained heavy themes of throughout the game.