It’s Sunday night and I’m half watching the Superbowl. I really don’t care for either team, but I guess I hate the Raiders more so go Bucs. It’s 20-3 in the 3rd right now and hopefully there will be a lot of dejection on the TSS set tomorrow. Let’s face it, anytime they openly and obnoxiously cheer for a team (World Series anyone?), that team gets crushed. If you’re a betting person, anytime the TSS set gets obnoxious about ANYTHING — put all your money on the other team, it’s the curse of death.
Since no one is around (hey everyone has a life), and I’m not working tonight, I decided to convert some of my mpg captures to bmp then I’ll convert them to jpg file for use on the site. I capture in mpg-1 format then I take a program called VideMatch (http://www.videomatch.com) to convert them to bmp files. It crops out the noise that the channel produces at the top of the capture (any time you see lines at the top of a screen shot, that’s what I’m talking about), and resizes them back to 320×240 bmps for me. I then take them into paintshop pro and batch convert them to jpg files since psp produces smaller jpg files natively than videomatch.
27-3 Bucs now.
I’m not totally off-line. I have my AOL pager up now. Just checking my mail (an obsession). Watched the Saturday Night Live Superbowl special instead of the lame ass ABC halftime show. Okay, so I flipped back to see Sting with No Doubt, but it was still total crap. Last year with U2 they did it perfectly. It was subtle, it was awe inspiring, and it was tasteful. This year? Eh.
34-3 Bucs now.
Last year was a great game that came down to the last second. This year? Along with the return of the horribly bad half time show, ta-da, it’s a blowout. The Raiders have no chance. They need a major miracle to have any chance to get back into this and I hope to god one of the Raiders comes on TSS and beats the hell out of everyone. It is the TSS curse.
Okay Raiders coming back 34-10 now. Maybe the TSS curse is letting up.
Wow. Blocked punt and 34-15 Raiders. Maybe something is happening. Nah. Just getting tired in the 2nd half.
Once these captures finish converting, I screen the conversions and take out shots that I don’t need or shots that contain text that I can’t use. It’s one thing to have a great shot of Morgan that I can use, it’s another with her having a great shot of her with “Windows XP Sucks” underneath it. Okay, I know no one cares, but I do. I like to use shots that make logical sense so I don’t have to refer to them in the strip to explain them.
34-21. Hmm.
41-21. 1:18 to go. TSS curse. Remember that.
48-21. 0:02 to go. Just remember, next time the TSS set gets obnoxious about something, put your money on the other team. That’s one thing you have to remember. If you had put money on the Bucs tonight you’d have thanked me.
I’m outta here,
k9