WikiPedia stuff

Wrote my first article in a while, on three-point lighting. Another example of me hoping to learn something practical from WP, finding that it knows nothing, so I sigh and spend a couple of hours (slowest writer ever) teaching it what I know instead. (You can tell I don't know much about the topic beyond theory; I'm still seeking some practical knowledge.)

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Going to a Boston WP meetup this weekend, if the assembled can actually decide on a locale. I predict it will be either really cool and interesting, or really lame and annoying. (rikchik, we should go over together maybe?)

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There is a WikiPedia Perl module. Hmm...

Oooops

In other news I just remembered it was NaNoWriMo, and there's less than two weeks left and poop.

Someday I'll learn not to blog about any fun project ideas that I actually want to do.

SF30

To my surprise and delight, the 30th annual Boston 24-hour SF film marathon is next happening at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square! According to this post, it'll be there from Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005 at noon, continuing until noon the next day. (That's President's Day weekend, so most get Monday off.)

They're treating it more like a convention this year, too... instead of selling you a ticket for 24 solid hours of movies, you buy a $40 registration for a weekend of events, centerpieced by 24 solid hours of movies. (Not sure what the other events are, yet... some sort of prelim stuff on Friday evening and wind-down on Sunday night. But since it's all inescapably in a movie theater anyway, I suppose they can only do so much...)

This will be my fourth time going, and I've always had a great time; you can get a taste of it from my writeup of my first 'thon. Since then I've actually become a little annoyed at some of the rote stuff, especially those audience members who are convinced they're the next Joel Hodgson (sigh), but the pure energy and love for film that the whole audience envelops itself in (so that's what that smell was) always carries me through.