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daerr. I liked it and recommend it, though can't call it a great movie because the whole Janet Leigh subplot is kind of dopey. (LITERALLY HA HA.) Excellent and stylish piece of noir, though. Try to see the less-bastardized cut that was assembled in 1998; this is what the TiVo grabbed from TCM.
The movie is personally notable since I remembered seeing the beginning of it many many years ago at the home of a friend of my mother's, maybe in Florida. I was bored, and she put in the movie for me, thinking that I'd like a story that begins with a car blowing up. I remember _exactly_ the car blow-up scene, and also the fact that the movie was old, black-and-white, and boring outside of the exploding cars, of which there was only the one. I had forgotten the title, so it was funny to see it was that movie, and of course I liked it much more this time.
It occurred to me that learning Inform 7 by porting 1999's Calliope to it is not a terrible idea. I have started to do this, and am having a great time.
Looking over my old game is interesting. I remember it as being somewhat embarrassing crap, but it's actually a tight and often clever little exercise. The main problem with it is that its basic premise is somewhat inaccessible, and terribly naive. At the time, I truly thought that everyone would love a game about writing games! with another game inside it!! Also I thought that putting "I wrote this to learn Inform" in the intro text would be a smart move, too.
Well, whatever. It's fun.
Applied to two more angel groups last night. Hm, there's one left that I can think of, and I'll hit them today or tomorrow. There's a kind of futility in this because an unsolicited funding application is a lot like an unsolicited manuscript submitted to a publisher. They're obliged to look at it, but its chances of getting caught in a first-pass filter is very high, no matter how "good" it is.
Actually, it's a little worse than that. Professional tradition dictates that publishers at least send you a rejection slip, which can sometimes hold helpful advice on it if the editor felt moved to provide some. Capital groups are under no such expectation and usually just ignore everyone they're not interested in having a conversation with.
On the other hand, experience suggests that the capital groups remember previous applications, whether or not the acknowledge them. Since I applied to a bunch last year, I'm taking the opportunity to frame my cover letter as "Remember me?", detailing all that we've done as a company since I last darkened their doorstep. (Which is quite a lot, actually.)
The solution is to go to more networking mixers. Prerequisite to this is business cards. We will have these soon. I hope.
No lack of other stuff to do in the meantime. Still haven't fleshed out the plan outline at all, and I have a real deadline now, since I'd like to be able to bring it to a meeting with a money dude that's coming up on the 7th. This is the only money-dude meeting on the calendar, and the only thing we've got going for us is that I last year impressed someone else at $MONEY_DUDE_PLACE who is no longer there. I feel both hopeful and not hopeful about this.
daerr. I liked it and recommend it, though can't call it a great movie because the whole Janet Leigh subplot is kind of dopey. (LITERALLY HA HA.) Excellent and stylish piece of noir, though. Try to see the less-bastardized cut that was assembled in 1998; this is what the TiVo grabbed from TCM.The movie is personally notable since I remembered seeing the beginning of it many many years ago at the home of a friend of my mother's, maybe in Florida. I was bored, and she put in the movie for me, thinking that I'd like a story that begins with a car blowing up. I remember _exactly_ the car blow-up scene, and also the fact that the movie was old, black-and-white, and boring outside of the exploding cars, of which there was only the one. I had forgotten the title, so it was funny to see it was that movie, and of course I liked it much more this time.
It occurred to me that learning Inform 7 by porting 1999's Calliope to it is not a terrible idea. I have started to do this, and am having a great time.
Looking over my old game is interesting. I remember it as being somewhat embarrassing crap, but it's actually a tight and often clever little exercise. The main problem with it is that its basic premise is somewhat inaccessible, and terribly naive. At the time, I truly thought that everyone would love a game about writing games! with another game inside it!! Also I thought that putting "I wrote this to learn Inform" in the intro text would be a smart move, too.
Well, whatever. It's fun.
Applied to two more angel groups last night. Hm, there's one left that I can think of, and I'll hit them today or tomorrow. There's a kind of futility in this because an unsolicited funding application is a lot like an unsolicited manuscript submitted to a publisher. They're obliged to look at it, but its chances of getting caught in a first-pass filter is very high, no matter how "good" it is.
Actually, it's a little worse than that. Professional tradition dictates that publishers at least send you a rejection slip, which can sometimes hold helpful advice on it if the editor felt moved to provide some. Capital groups are under no such expectation and usually just ignore everyone they're not interested in having a conversation with.
On the other hand, experience suggests that the capital groups remember previous applications, whether or not the acknowledge them. Since I applied to a bunch last year, I'm taking the opportunity to frame my cover letter as "Remember me?", detailing all that we've done as a company since I last darkened their doorstep. (Which is quite a lot, actually.)
The solution is to go to more networking mixers. Prerequisite to this is business cards. We will have these soon. I hope.
No lack of other stuff to do in the meantime. Still haven't fleshed out the plan outline at all, and I have a real deadline now, since I'd like to be able to bring it to a meeting with a money dude that's coming up on the 7th. This is the only money-dude meeting on the calendar, and the only thing we've got going for us is that I last year impressed someone else at $MONEY_DUDE_PLACE who is no longer there. I feel both hopeful and not hopeful about this.