Airsoft, Driving and music
Jan. 30th, 2004 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueThose who've encountered my driving style, will probably agree when I describe it as 'individual'. Well, imagine me, crouched behind the wheel, with a satanic grin listening to Rammstein.
I enjoyed it.
Actually, there's one little bit in a one of their tracks I was listening to last night. "Stripped" as in the Matrix sequal soundtrack. "Let me see you make decisions with out your television". Superb.
I've also noticed that roads at different angles have differing amounts of snow on them. The road on which I live is pretty clear. Up at the top, along a road runng perpendicular, it's an ice rink. I don't think that's _just_ traffic, because I saw it again on the way to work. I figure it's got to be to do with how much sun they've had over the last few.
Anyhow, I've just noticed one of the major flaws with 'doing airsoft'. I used to be a projectionist at at a student cinema. This was fun, interesting and enjoyable. It also taught me one thing that I can not avoid. Cuedots. Little black dots, at the end of each reel (each film is broken up into 20 minute sections for easy shipping. At 1.5 feet of film every second (and the film is _approximately_ the dimesions of your average 35mm camera film) it quickly adds up.
You just can't stop spotting them, because you become conditioned into looking for them - they're your cue to change projectors during the film, The first appears 7 seconds before the end of reel, the second 1 second. So you see the first, start rolling the other projector, to take up headers etc. Then you see the second, and switch between the two. Of course most multiplexes don't do that, they just splice the reels onto one big platter.
Anyhow. Airsoft. You get the same problem with guns in films. It's actually rather shocking how inconsistent hollywood are with their guns. In various scenes, the barrel length will change, or the stock will alternate between fixed and folding.
Argh. I have this problem with computer stuff too.
Oh well. Kenya believe it?
(Oh and check out this link. It's for an Imaginary Girlfriend. I kid you not.
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deathboy.
I enjoyed it.
Actually, there's one little bit in a one of their tracks I was listening to last night. "Stripped" as in the Matrix sequal soundtrack. "Let me see you make decisions with out your television". Superb.
I've also noticed that roads at different angles have differing amounts of snow on them. The road on which I live is pretty clear. Up at the top, along a road runng perpendicular, it's an ice rink. I don't think that's _just_ traffic, because I saw it again on the way to work. I figure it's got to be to do with how much sun they've had over the last few.
Anyhow, I've just noticed one of the major flaws with 'doing airsoft'. I used to be a projectionist at at a student cinema. This was fun, interesting and enjoyable. It also taught me one thing that I can not avoid. Cuedots. Little black dots, at the end of each reel (each film is broken up into 20 minute sections for easy shipping. At 1.5 feet of film every second (and the film is _approximately_ the dimesions of your average 35mm camera film) it quickly adds up.
You just can't stop spotting them, because you become conditioned into looking for them - they're your cue to change projectors during the film, The first appears 7 seconds before the end of reel, the second 1 second. So you see the first, start rolling the other projector, to take up headers etc. Then you see the second, and switch between the two. Of course most multiplexes don't do that, they just splice the reels onto one big platter.
Anyhow. Airsoft. You get the same problem with guns in films. It's actually rather shocking how inconsistent hollywood are with their guns. In various scenes, the barrel length will change, or the stock will alternate between fixed and folding.
Argh. I have this problem with computer stuff too.
Oh well. Kenya believe it?
(Oh and check out this link. It's for an Imaginary Girlfriend. I kid you not.
Pinched from the lj of
deathboy.
