Have fun this weekend omnis. I'm sure the only thing needed to make it all work perfectly is the addition of a bunch of expensive microphones. Not that those aren't a good piece of the puzzle, but they are just one piece.
I'm happy to play with expensive shiny tools. But the problems are thus:
1) The room is designed for non amplified, spoken word shows
2) our speakers suck. Cheap speakers made for rock. You really have to give a lot of umph to get full range out of them
3) when you play loud sounds from multiple speakers, the room gives you lovely standing waves in the middle frequencies, which the director/music director/composer/arranger folks think are the mics distorting, even when I say its the room resonating. Why listen to the sound guy?
4) our mixer is a young, inexperienced punk who doesn't take notes very well, and will probably get all emo on me and need to chain smoke when the Music Director starts giving him orchestration mix notes. also, he tends to mix too loud. he also doesn't grasp the concept of take this section back some, so you have room to swell at the end. If we wanted the same volume the whole show, we'd put an automix in line and compress the hell out of it.
5) we have a lovely acoustic orchestra, 6 piece chamber jobber, and the set designer & director choose to squirrel them off stage behind 3 feet of concrete, so we HAVE to mic the hell out of them, and the only way they are heard in the house is through those crappy speakers that you have to turn up loud to make sound half decent that then causes the room to resonate. (are we sensing a spiral of futility here?)
ugg. Thankfully the Artistic Director has a sense of a lot of the issues, pointed them out even, and knows that this rental won't solve all the problems.
Sorry for the ranty tech bandwidth.
That reminds me of this commercial, which I love.
awwwwww! My dad was totally that guy. I particularly like the way he really looked in the aisle. I've told you the "period! period! period!" story. My dad rocked.
Which, really? Didn't make me feel any better because again, I felt like she pointing out that I have all this free time she doesn't have and while she may not have meant it, it had the net result of making me feel like a futless loser.
Honestly? I don't think it's a "whoo you have so much free time" so much as it is something that I'm going to guess plagues all buffistas from time to time - we're on the internet, lots, and we link each other to all the cool stuff, so we
have
generally seen anything of note before someone not so internet-inclined passes it along. So while I don't think you were or are in any way obnoxious, I do sometimes try to make sure I'm not stepping on someone's squee when they link me to something that we've already hashed to death over here four days earlier.
(And seriously - that video was all over the news last weekend, so it
is
old stuff regardless of how internet addticted one may or may not be. So extra not-obnoxious points for you.)
What brenda said. But still, {{Barb}} anyway!
Last Friday, my sister sent me the Amazon link to the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book, but I had to tell her that we'd been talking about that here for a few weeks already. I think she had the same reaction that your friend did, but she kept it low-key.
I love those Middle English words that transmogrify into other words that we use all the time!
My favorites are those that have the "n" from the article "an" drift over to the vowel-beginning noun that they're modifying, so that the new words begin with the "n," such as "newt" and "nickname." "Apron" did the same thing, only in reverse (it was originially "napron" from the same source as "napkin," but the "n" drifted back to the article "a" instead).
So while I don't think you were or are in any way obnoxious, I do sometimes try to make sure I'm not stepping on someone's squee when they link me to something that we've already hashed to death over here four days earlier.
True, but you know, what was I supposed to do, lie? I said yeah, I'd seen it and wasn't it wonderful, especially how he held it together after Simon stopped him and asked if he had a better song to sing, since something like that would've made me dissolve into a puddle of incoherent goo.
I dunno... I didn't THINK I was stomping on the squee, but I guess I can see your point. I probably just shouldn't have responded at all.
Respond--just leave out the part where you've already seen it maybe? Sensitive folks might feel you're one-upping them?
Somewhat relatedly, I share a TON of links with my boss, and she always says, "How do you find this stuff???" Just to be safe, so she doesn't guess how much time I spend on teh interwebs trolling for stuff, I always say "Oh a friend sent me the link". That's what b.org and Facebook and LJ really are...right? :)
Barb, one more thing, you don't need to feel bad at all, but remember how good it feels to pass on a link to a friend who hasn't seen it? Or show something new to someone? Your friend is probably just feeling the absence of showing something new to people - seems small but hey peoplez are weird.
You just respond and say that was cool without the "I already saw it." I have a friend that sends me things WAY late all the time and I finally learned not to say "Already saw it: and just be pleased she wanted to share something cool.
"Apple" used to be "napple" - "a napple" became "an apple."
