This link, this link, and this link all link to random tips from ScriptSecrets.net.

I made this random link as a writing tool. If I'm stuck on what to fix on my script, I can read a random tip, and then think of how I would write my script if I made that tip my highest priority. I think it could help force me to approach the script in a new way that will get me unstuck.

I put it on my blog, so you can use it, too, if you want.

There is one rule in the "On The Lot" drinking game.

Every time someone says "literally," take a drink.

[Added later:

I've watched the second episode, and they disappointed me by not saying it. Ah, well.

I am getting sucked into the show, though I'm not normally a fan of reality shows.]

I have had to explain this to lots of people, even people I would have expected to know more about this than me. (Especially them, because I seek them out to ask questions, and then end up explaining it to them.) But here goes:

Here are some common low-budget film formats. I will be focusing on Standard 8mm, which is different from Super 8mm.

8mm stock is 16mm wide, but has twice as many sprocket holes.

This is how I made a simple time-lapse of clouds using a camera and Lego Mindstorms.

This amused the hell out of me.

What is the term for when a purpose behind a regulation is not at all clear?

I was doing my taxes and calculating my Education Property Tax Credit. One aspect of this irks me. It explicitly states on the form that, "If you shared accommodation ... only one of you can claim an education property tax credit ..."

I have a room-mate, so one of us claims the credit and we split the results.

A link I got via Boing Boing:

http://www.jemof.com/epfp.html

Someone created a short clip by printing the frames of a video out onto transparencies (using an ordinary inkjet printer) and then taping them together as a film strip.

Some sketches:

I've restarted my site. I hadn't updated in ages, so I needed to change something.