but…uh…

No, I haven’t died. I’m still here but working like crazy to finish things before the holidays. I have lots of things I plan to write about here but I’ll get to those when I have more time. For now I’ve got just a few minutes while projects are rendering so I’ll do a brief bit of catching up.

I was busy before last week started but, in the interest of seeing if the candle has more than just 2 ends to burn, I decided to take on 2 new projects last Tuesday evening. Both were smallish and should have easily been completed before Saturday. Of course, both projects have now become bigger, more involved, complicated and just will not die!

The first was to make a simple 3 minute football video highlight package for my neighbor, Vanderbilt University, to show potential recruits how wonderful and hard hitting 2 win football team can be. Seems easy enough. But as these things tend to do, the ideas changed, more people got involved and it just got out of control. It’s now an effects filled extravaganza with hundreds of edits distilling about 100 hours of football into 181 seconds. If all goes well, I’ll be delivering the final DVDs this afternoon.

The other was a far more boring HTML image search application. At least it was. It’s now become a full fledged fuzzy-logic search engine for multiple databases (including ones that are decades old and malformed) that also happens to displays pictures.

At least I’m getting paid by the hour.