Tune into messages from the Eastern avenue, lock on to the ether

[hazelchaz]

One of the parties at Baycon I didn't get to hang around and check out thoroughly was "Heisenberg's Attic" which was some kind of a mini-LARP. Can anyone post and tell me what it was like and how it went?

Uploaded another batch of photos - Baycon Sunday Evening, the photo at right is of "Mr. Graves" at the "Heisenberg's Attic" party. Still working on getting the new name cross-reference engine up; the work is going well, but I've got to get to work in the morning so I'm knocking off for now.

Comments

I'm amazed

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

I really marvel at the work you put into taking your pictures and making them public. To me, it seems like so much busy work. I know how long it took me to download, rotate, resize, and label just a few pictures I took over the weekend. You have my respect.

Re: I'm amazed

[hazelchaz]

One program I downloaded that helps a great deal is IrfanView (pronounced EarfanView), a Windows program which has a lossless JPEG rotation feature (make sure you download the JPEG plug-ins) - and when you use that feature, it keeps the timestamp on the file so you can still tell when you took the picture. It's also easy to rename the files as you view them, which means that I can quickly (shortly after getting them onto my computer) type in the names I've written down on my little notebook. It also allows you to view your pictures and to set slide shows running from your files.

And I'm a programmer by trade, so I've built a few tools to help with the process and speed it along. One program I wrote myself that helps a great deal is the one that automatically creates thumbnails and viewable-size images, which I built using the GD Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell.

The rest of the stuff I've written is mostly Perl programs to do things like bulk renaming and renumbering. (One handy program I use all the time simply takes two same-length lists of filenames and when one line is different from the corresponding line in the other list, it renames the file.)

I switch off between writing programs for Windows and Unix, which I can do easily because GD is available in source packages on either platform, and I got the "Active State" Perl for Windows which I use a lot. The server, of course, is a Unix box.

Granted, if you're not a programmer, the only thing that'll help you in this message is the link to Irfanview. But you should certainly try it out.

I use that!

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

Huh. I always thought it was spelled "Infranview". With an "n". I use it to help speed the process along. I love how I can crop so easily! But, it still seems tedious when I have a lot of pictures to go through.

Re: I'm amazed

[dafstar.livejournal.com]

heheh I ran that "larp", if you have questions lemme know, for the troupe site
www.momeraths.org

Heisenberg's Attic

[zyxwvut.livejournal.com]

I didn't have time to go up to the 8th floor and check out Heisenberg's Attic -- I had my own party going during that time -- but since I was running my party right next door, I had ample time to chat with "Mr. Graves", who was impressively in character.

I am somewhat sad to have missed it; OTOH, I have trouble thinking of how I could *possibly* have had more fun than the ego-bask of the EitE screening. %-}

Z

P.S.: When I get caught up on my LJ entries, I am *SO* linking to your pix. Are you done with Sunday? I am trying to remember whether you took one of myself and Beth, with signage...?