tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3063517361119366292010-08-06T17:29:40.893-05:00Music-writing, web-media loving, crazy scifi geek. Also creator of @ndl. Chris's IT pro feed see: @feyrertechChristopher Feyrerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13299672702112027207noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306351736111936629.post-57332930239150052742010-08-06T17:29:00.000-05:002010-08-06T17:29:40.900-05:002010-08-06T17:29:40.900-05:00

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After poor World of Higlet struggled to pronounce my obscure German-Austrian last name in this great interview with Mediocre Films' Greg Benson at approximately 4:10 --- I decided it was time to go ahead and make a video explaining exactly just how to pronounce Feyrer! Enjoy. If you still can't say the name after viewing the video, feel free to call me Chris....Jackson. :)

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Parts 1 and 2 of Empty Throne: Apotheosis, the medieval murder mystery web series I am composing music for, are online at http://www.emptythroneworld.com/.  It's been great fun to be a part of Jason Bigart and Jay Erickson's medieval fantasy.On Part 2: The WitnessMy favorite piece I've written so far comes near the beginning of part 2.  In that scene,  the two Inquisitors go through a magical

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While the majority of my online friends were watching live improvisational comedy from Los Angeles, I was watching "The Curious Tale of Benjamin Button." If any of you have seen this film you can understand that it left me in a somewhat melancholy mood. Thankfully, this usually leads to really interesting music, laugh. So, without further ado, here's the song: "Lament" Melancholy by Edgar

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This is the first of a 3-part series on Leadership.I work at a medium sized datacenter in Madison, WI.  My job as a Unix engineer is to act as queue lead for iSeries (AS/400) based systems and babysit Unix-based servers.  As I've worked my way up at CDW I have noticed one thing that is very clear; with great power comes great responsibility.  The higher you go, the more is expected of you as far

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7 years in the making, my recording studio is now complete.  This means I will finally be able to make music for personal and professional use the way I've wanted to for the past decade.  People are saying it's like being around a com- pletely different person.  Not only that, thanks to Jason Bigart and Jay Erikson, I'm scoring the web series The Apotheosis of Life a chapter in The Empty Throne

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Kenny Mittleider always wanted to be popular. What he didn't know was that he would be some day, hosting the Internet podcast Knights of the Guild, the official podcast of the web series The Guild.Mittleider, in his late thirties, is a post production supervisor in southern California and a huge self-proclaimed geek, with a major Star Wars collection and a sweet, huggable teddy-bear

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I've become obsessive about improving both my attention to detail and time management lately. To this end, I've been implementing several techniques and would be willing to share them as well as take some feedback from the world regarding the way you manage your time.On time managementOne of the tools I find myself using quite frequently is Reqall, a technological successor to Jott. It's

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Time is against me but I am determined to blog regularly! What better to start with than  a snapshot review of The Guild Season 3?Video: Season 3 - Episode 1: Expansion TimeThis season of The Guild is high on character development and moves at a frenetic place. For those that aren't aware of The Guild, it's a great web series by Felicia Day about addicted gamers. See the end of the post for a

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http://www.dadlabs.comhttp://www.artofmanliness.comand in a more popculturey wayhttp://www.askmen.com

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Felicia Day knows what it is like to be addicted to video games. Indeed, she has talked about her World of Warcraft addiction quite openly.Her web series The Guild  (www.watchtheguild.com)has given gamers a rallying point of readily identifiable personalities and mannerisms that they know from their own lifestyle, and shows all the different dramas that can take place when people interact in a

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Ah, the operating systems of the past.  Here's the computers I've owned, along with a few memories of each.Commodore VIC20. My first computer exposure, in a summer camp.  Wrote choose your own adventures in BASIC.Commodore 64/128 - First computer I owned.  Had to put ice packs on the power supply. Very slow modem,  lots of hacked software.  Wrote games using Gary Kitchen's Game maker. Wrote

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It's been a long time since I've been creative on the Internet. It's been a long road rebuilding my life and career, growing, organizing, coalessing, digesting.  But, the time has come to give back again.  Edgar Garcia, Felicia Day and the Guild, online friends, real life friends in church and  all the great people I work with at CDW, my family, they all have taught me some very important lessons

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Sometimes I don't know how to feel about the Naked Dancing Llama homepage I created in the 90s. I wrestle with revamping and investing in the site, ending it, acknowledging it, denying it, feeling entitled because of it, feeling belittled because of it. This showed up in the Naked Dancing Llama forum earlier this year and made me smile.horray for retro 1990s sites:AGS : internet history, llamaI

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I've been thinking about this for quite a long time, and I am finally going to say it: Fox is treating Dollhouse much like they treated Eliza Dushku's previous television outing, Tru Calling - but unlike Tru Calling, I believe that it will be comissioned for a full second season to great fanfare unlike its predecessor.The difference? Joss Whedon.I will elaborate as time permits.

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In Dollhouse, Joss Whedon attempts to balance his cerebral takes on investigating what human personality laid up against a classic backdrop.A lot of the critics of the Dollhouse premiere, and of the three episodes available to the press, don't understand something, and here is what that something is.Anyone can write a show about vampires.  Anyone can write a show about people that are hired for

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I have a confession.  For me, Whedonverse and The Guild are only about 30-50% about the shows themselves, and the same goes for Dr Who.  In reality, it's all about the people. I'm serious, it's about the people. People are my books, which is why my Goodreads.com is so short. I love to get to know people, and to understand them.  Ironically, I am trying hard not to do what Joss Whedon says in the

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Last night I had a dream about Tennant's regeneration. It's actually the second scenario I've had in my mind, but this one is more interesting than the first.---In the dream, someone has reverse engineered the fob watch and has learned how it works. They decide they want to see what makes the Doctor tick. So, they kidnap him, the TARDIS and the fob watch (having reverse-engineered all that

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I have seen maybe 4 complete episodes of Battlestar Gallactica; and maybe 4 complete episodes of Babylon 5.  They are both epic, great series, and for whatever reason, I end up not watching them. I think it's because they start with a B?  But with the scheduling of BG final season against Dollhouse, maybe this will be a blessing because I'm not conflicted? I smell a DVD marathon in my future. I'm

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People are crossing their eyes at this one. Transhumanists are basically people who believe humans can reach their potential -- peace, harmony, "the Singularity"..through technology. They believe that technology is a component of nature and not against nature, among other things.  They also believe in human modification by technology to extend human life. It always makes me laugh when people are

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So it came to pass that after 4 specials in 2009, David Tennant, the 10th Doctor, will be no more. First of all, I totally agree with Tennant's reasons for leaving the part and trusting his instincts. He spoke of "wearing out his welcome" and I believe this may have happened not necessarily with Tom Baker but with other actors who choose to stay with a role for too long in any series. Star

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Hardcore Firefly fans will get this right away. For others, brief explanation: Got Joss a shirt that features the logo of a fictional megacorporation featured both in Firefly and the movie Serenity -- since you know, his namesake is Joss Whedon who created both.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_SunA picture of Joss in his new Blue Sun shirt followed by a picture from "Firefly" featuring the Blue

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I haven't had time to do the Doctor Who portion of GeekKon overview because of "Real life" and work. However, I recently discovered the website TV Tropes. For those who have never heard of it, it basically takes every writing convention and puts them in one place. It's great! Doctor Who of course uses lots of conventional plot elements and devices. Especially suspension of disbelief for the sake

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Today I got to meet the very talented and very busy Felicia Day, star of The Guild and Penny in Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog at GeekKon : http://www.geekkon.net !First the good news: Early in the morning on Sunday, September 28th I got to chat with Felicia Day over Skype for a video introduction to the Con's viewing of "The Guild: Season 1"!  Yay!The bad news: the audio and video capture I

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