Entry tags:
Closed captioning software?
Does anyone know of good software (either a) produces a good result or b) is straightforward to use) for adding closed captions to existing video? I figure DW is the place to ask, if anywhere.
Entry tags:
Data gathering
Dear dwircle who may be reading/watching Shin Tenipuri:
Are there any characters among the high schoolers who have shown themselves to be decent human beings?
Besides Tokugawa?
(I am still totally not writing this, and most especially not writing the invitational camp story after Nationals, but if I were I would need high school senpai for the last bit and we have very few of those canonically. Since almost none of the Shin HS characters are given a school affiliation so far, I shall take the liberty of plugging them in wherever I need them. Supposing any of them are worth the paper they're drawn on. Are they?)
(Tokugawa, incidentally, is going to be a Shitenhouji HS boy. Or, he would be if I were writing this, which, of course, I am not.)
Are there any characters among the high schoolers who have shown themselves to be decent human beings?
Besides Tokugawa?
(I am still totally not writing this, and most especially not writing the invitational camp story after Nationals, but if I were I would need high school senpai for the last bit and we have very few of those canonically. Since almost none of the Shin HS characters are given a school affiliation so far, I shall take the liberty of plugging them in wherever I need them. Supposing any of them are worth the paper they're drawn on. Are they?)
(Tokugawa, incidentally, is going to be a Shitenhouji HS boy. Or, he would be if I were writing this, which, of course, I am not.)
Entry tags:
Create Anime and Manga et al Metadata
So, Fanlore (which is in no way synonymous with the Fandom History fiasco, despite the efforts of the FH creator/troll) is looking for knowledgeable people to talk about that eternal question:
What do we call this stuff?
I find myself torn, really. I mean, a big part of me says "this should be simple, Categories are like tags, so you create as many Categories as there are Kinds Of Stuff and slap all that are applicable on any given wiki page".
Another part of me says "but that will make the Category structure really unwieldy and hard to navigate!"
One thing I'm sure of is that I do not think Anime should be merged into Cartoons, nor Manga into Comics. The latter are names for specifically Western art forms, and using them for non-Western forms would, in my eyes, be a nasty sort of erasure, given the cultural history involved.
Kind of like using Manga as the Category for something that's really manhwa. Given the cultural history involved.
And so I come back to "a Category for everything". Actually, I'm not at all sure that's a problem. I don't think it would be that unwieldy, in the end. And trying to limit the Categories implicitly assumes that the world is only as big as X number of categories. Which is just plain wrong.
So, what do you think? What Categories do we need?
What do we call this stuff?
I find myself torn, really. I mean, a big part of me says "this should be simple, Categories are like tags, so you create as many Categories as there are Kinds Of Stuff and slap all that are applicable on any given wiki page".
Another part of me says "but that will make the Category structure really unwieldy and hard to navigate!"
One thing I'm sure of is that I do not think Anime should be merged into Cartoons, nor Manga into Comics. The latter are names for specifically Western art forms, and using them for non-Western forms would, in my eyes, be a nasty sort of erasure, given the cultural history involved.
Kind of like using Manga as the Category for something that's really manhwa. Given the cultural history involved.
And so I come back to "a Category for everything". Actually, I'm not at all sure that's a problem. I don't think it would be that unwieldy, in the end. And trying to limit the Categories implicitly assumes that the world is only as big as X number of categories. Which is just plain wrong.
So, what do you think? What Categories do we need?
Entry tags:
In search of a close-knit college in Washington state
Help me, Obi-Web!
Everyone who lives in Washington state, I have a question for you:
Do you know of any colleges or universities that are close-knit? Community oriented? Small, liberal arts colleges are often good for this.
See, my spouse and I both work at a college we like a lot. Alas, that college is in Ohio, which is not currently a very nice place to be thanks to the new governor. *shakes her fist at the people who voted for the asshole* I mean, seriously, can we borrow Wisconsin's judge, please? We need one down here too. And, honestly, Georgia is freaking me out, right now, and the federal government seems to have largely gone batshit insane, and, let's be straight up about this, if everything goes to hell (or to The Handmaid's Tale, which is seeming alarmingly less ridiculous by the month) I want to be living somewhere my fellow citizens will be at least a little less likely to outlaw my love, sexuality, life choices, and religion.
Besides, what better place to be, when the real oil crisis finally hits, than someplace with abundant hydropower? And, at least, awareness and the start of planning for the approaching time when it will be less abundant.
So! Cascadia ho! In, you know, two or three years when we're out from under the damn mortgage insurance.
And this means finding new jobs, and that means colleges that have what we really value: a close community among the faculty and staff (and at least some of the administration).
Any suggestions?
Everyone who lives in Washington state, I have a question for you:
Do you know of any colleges or universities that are close-knit? Community oriented? Small, liberal arts colleges are often good for this.
See, my spouse and I both work at a college we like a lot. Alas, that college is in Ohio, which is not currently a very nice place to be thanks to the new governor. *shakes her fist at the people who voted for the asshole* I mean, seriously, can we borrow Wisconsin's judge, please? We need one down here too. And, honestly, Georgia is freaking me out, right now, and the federal government seems to have largely gone batshit insane, and, let's be straight up about this, if everything goes to hell (or to The Handmaid's Tale, which is seeming alarmingly less ridiculous by the month) I want to be living somewhere my fellow citizens will be at least a little less likely to outlaw my love, sexuality, life choices, and religion.
Besides, what better place to be, when the real oil crisis finally hits, than someplace with abundant hydropower? And, at least, awareness and the start of planning for the approaching time when it will be less abundant.
So! Cascadia ho! In, you know, two or three years when we're out from under the damn mortgage insurance.
And this means finding new jobs, and that means colleges that have what we really value: a close community among the faculty and staff (and at least some of the administration).
Any suggestions?
Troll or merely brat?
Mostly for my curiosity.
Me, I generally do the frigidly polite clue-bat, just to do my bit to discourage fannish idiocy, and move on. It's the user name in particular that is making me contemplate actually contacting the archive in this case, because that seriously rings my troll-alarm.
Poll #5349 Fannish Pesticides
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38
Your immediate response to a commenter who has chosen the user handle "Wandering Beta At Large" is:
View Answers
Troll.
13 (34.2%)
Oh god, not another entitlement-brat.
26 (68.4%)
Free beta-ing, how nice!
2 (5.3%)
Something else I shall mention in the comments.
4 (10.5%)
Your action upon receiving a comment from said user which attempts to "correct" you in some, most likely totally wrong, way:
View Answers
Smack them with a frigidly polite clue-bat and ignore them.
24 (63.2%)
Just ignore them.
14 (36.8%)
Tip off the archive abuse team to what may be a pattern of trollish behavior.
5 (13.2%)
Something else I shall mention in the comments.
4 (10.5%)
Me, I generally do the frigidly polite clue-bat, just to do my bit to discourage fannish idiocy, and move on. It's the user name in particular that is making me contemplate actually contacting the archive in this case, because that seriously rings my troll-alarm.