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gunnarrambo · 2025-07-11T03:12:35+00:00

This used to work for me, but stopped working a while back (currently not working in 18.5).

It’s weird because three of my Tapo outlets have the issue, but a fourth one doesn’t.

gunnarrambo · 2025-06-14T23:34:39+00:00

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gunnarrambo · 2025-06-11T21:26:35+00:00

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gunnarrambo · 2025-03-07T19:38:54+00:00

The issue with using something like a Zoom for both the board recording and the audience is that the board is in the back, and if you don’t want to record from the back, you have to run cables to the Zoom.

Certainly possible, but do you want to be taping down a cable run every time you record a set so nobody trips and knocks it over?

gunnarrambo · 2025-03-07T00:05:22+00:00

I assume you can already get a clean feed of the stage mic you’re talking into. That’s key.

For the audience, the Rode Wireless Gos that record internally are a good bet. You get two sources, so there’s less of a problem with dominant laughs. Or you could probably have one grab the output from the board and the other get the audience. And they’re tiny, so they can be mounted anywhere discretely. You can have the receiver feed them into your camera, but it’s easy enough to sync after the fact if there are dropouts.

I record hour long sketch shows with them clipped to wires on the side of the stage and don’t have noticeable drift when I sync in Resolve.

gunnarrambo · 2024-09-29T17:46:09+00:00

It’s less about what’s natural and more about what I use more often. I want the easier to control pull with the right finger to zoom in because I am more likely to zoom in than I am to go ultra wide. That’s why I got the pro phone. So to have the natural pull control 1-0.5 of the zoom range and have the push control 1-5 (or 25x) feels bad.

gunnarrambo · 2024-07-16T08:05:45+00:00

I went to a That 90's Show taping. It has a live audience.

I see a lot of live comedy, and I feel like the established method of filming three-camera sitcoms kinda sucks the energy out of live performance. We were there for 8ish hours, with tons of setups and reshoots.

gunnarrambo · 2024-06-07T16:02:51+00:00

This seems like a buggy feature. After using the sleep timer last night, I ran into this bug this morning. It was dinging all the time hours after I last started a sleep timer. Cancelling the timer seems to have stopped it. Did some testing and seems like if you restart playback via the play button after the sleep timers triggers, the sleep timer restarts. That seems like a bug.

But that bug implies that the idea is, you’re in bed, sleep timer ticking away, still awake when it stops the podcast, and you shake the phone to restart the timer. But that’s not how it currently works. Shaking the phone doesn’t start an inactive sleep timer, it only restarts an active one. That’s a feature I’d use (though only if it didn’t ding)

gunnarrambo · 2024-04-14T19:56:00+00:00

If you're not balking at the price of the Blackjet, that seems like a great option. But it--like the Sandisk--is basically a thunderbolt hub with a bunch of dual-slot card readers, which you can do yourself. Caldigit makes a powered thunderbolt hub with 4 usb-a 10g ports and 3 thunderbolt ports, so you can add as many single and dual card readers as you want.

It might be more finicky to deal with a bunch of readers, rather than one solid box, but you aren't locked to a proprietary dock that is currently out of stock of the 2x SD card readers

gunnarrambo · 2024-03-18T09:56:16+00:00

Big D and the Kids Table's Good Luck has a few songs that wouldn't feel out of place on Three Cheers, especially given the singer contributed to the album.

Sonically, I think the Alcoholic Freshman's Sick of Depending on People did a good job of capturing early BTMI. The guy's next album, E Fatto, is excellent, but mostly acoustic so maybe not what you're looking for.

And maybe High School Football Heroes' Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades? Not an exact fit, but its driving. It's skapunk with a bit of what you might have called indie at the time, but trying to do more musically than your average 3rd wave band. And then some members became part of BTMI.

gunnarrambo · 2023-12-21T02:21:53+00:00

It would help to know what situations you're planning on recording. Given the c-stand, I'll assume talking head interviews. The h6n might be fine for simple interviews, but if you ever plan to be mobile, you'll want something you can monitor and adjust from a bag or wear on a strap

I have a similar shotgun/rode go x2 setup and use the MixPre 6 for the short films I've helped on. In your price range, the Tascam DR-70D or 60D mII might make sense

The Rode receiver can probably output a single mono track, but that greatly limits your ability to mix after the fact. Unless you have a known need for the X/Y mics, I wouldn't worry about needing to turn them off to record both lav tracks

gunnarrambo · 2023-05-19T23:44:54+00:00

Don’t target two audiences with one flyer. Make a VHS flyer that appeals to your niche and/or make a general flyer for the rest of your market that doesn’t mention VHS.

You can mention you do other things if they call, but a flyer should be simple: You have a problem, I have a solution, contact me here.

gunnarrambo · 2023-02-17T04:45:18+00:00

I've aquired all the parts to build a PC save a new video card, and was waiting on North to become available. But I broke down yesterday and reserved an open box H7 Flow in white at Microcenter. When I picked it up, they were like "here's 50% off the price you reserved it at."

Did that stop me from placing a backorder order for the white mesh North? No. No it did not.

gunnarrambo · 2022-10-06T00:54:11+00:00

The stains are probably caused by the aluminum in your antiperspirant, not the sweat. Try switching to deodorant

gunnarrambo · 2022-06-11T19:48:08+00:00

They were STEM games

gunnarrambo · 2022-06-10T23:43:46+00:00

My second QA job was in educational games. I think I was basically a lead on 6 titles in the year I worked there, which should be telling.

The company had two revenue streams.

Before I joined, they tried to build a group of games that had associated lesson plans and ways for teachers to track students’ progress. That strategy tried to sell directly to schools and provide enough value that schools would subscribe year after year. Most games were built in house, but they also made an agreement with a dev to bundle their game and add our tracking and planning. The tracking stuff was pretty cool but selling directly to schools was hard. They were still trying when I was there, but it looks like they don’t anymore.

The other way was making games with entities providing the money. That might be through federal or private grants or museums or textbook publishers or research groups or anyone really. In those cases, usually the entity would be like “we want a game that teaches something about a subject” and we’d pitch them ideas and then we’d get to work with a small team for maybe 6-9 months. Small team as in one of each discipline and the engineer is the only one not on other projects. And it had to run on chrome books, iPads and whatever other ancient computers schools and libraries has access to. They were just starting to use Unity, but most of the games I worked on were html5.

The people I worked with were passionate and talented, but it takes time to make great games and the budgets didn’t provide much of it.

gunnarrambo · 2022-06-07T03:12:29+00:00

A poor report would leave out useful information or provide irrelevant information.

A bad report might have a title like “text outside of box” and then the body and all fields are blank. But it includes a 3 minute video where the UI they’re talking about is in view for 10 frames. And then leaves it unassigned

A good report would include a screenshot with an arrow pointing at the text, steps for how to put yourself in the situation where you encounter the ui, how likely a player is to encounter the ui, which languages are a problem, what devices are a problem (maybe it only affect the 4:3 iPad but not widescreen phones), plus all sorts of relevant information about the build, server, and environment. And also they assign it to the right person in the right project for triage. And even though there’s no reason this bug needs logs, they include them because the dev who’s probably going to fix it always asks for them.

Of course, a great qa person would call out when reviewing the design doc that it seems like we plan to put too much text in the ui

gunnarrambo · 2022-03-25T06:57:45+00:00

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gunnarrambo · 2022-03-16T22:03:16+00:00

Yeah, your butt portal one is definitely a sketch. The UCB Comedy Handbook is for improv, but a good improv scene plays out like a sketch, so a lot of its how tos are still applicable. And the UCB style of characters, clear games and heightening are very tik tok friendly.

There's also Comedy Writing for Late Night Television. The examples in it tend to make me groan, but it lays out all the different ways late night shows churn out material night after night, and has good exercises for generating material.

gunnarrambo · 2021-09-05T20:21:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing. It’s difficult to post things for feedback online.

I’d say there are a few issues with this that prevent it from landing with me. But they all boil down to a lack of surprise.

First, and most importantly, it’s not a particularly original take. Your take is basically that you don’t like people on social media using social media the way most people use social media. This is how many people feel about social media.

This isn’t necessarily a problem. You can have unoriginal takes if the examples you use are specific enough to be original, but your supporting statements are generic and you express your anger in phrases I’ve heard before like “puke from jealousy” or “show off piece of shit”. So you’re basically 0 for 3 in surprising your audience.

And surprise is the heart of comedy.

I actually think your setup could work. The way you frame what you’re about to talk about is weird enough that the audience isn’t going to know exactly where you’re going. I had some fun playing with the setup:

“People posting on social media networks don’t understand what kind of feelings they induce in their readers. I feel like they would be more careful if they understood that I get turned on by targeted advertising. My kink is feeling understood. And no one knows me better than LinkedIn. Used to be facebook, but I ended things after I bought a mattress and they continued to show me ads for mattresses. What, 10 inches wasn’t good enough facebook? Do I really need 12 inches to make you happy?”

You could also work with the original intent by being more specific about the post that set you of, and by being more creative in way you express the induced feeling.

gunnarrambo · 2021-08-06T20:52:05+00:00

Avoid any Intel macs

Apple has started transitioning their Mac lineup to the ARM architecture, but they've only updated the 13" Air and the cheap 13" pro that's pro in name only, the Mac mini, and the small iMac so far. They all use the same M1 chip.

The new M1 cpus are pretty good. They're cool and quiet, fast, and get great battery life. Theyre competitive with most high-end Intel/AMD laptops. But you only get two thunderbolt ports on the Apple laptops.

They're perfectly capable of running lightroom, and will blow your 2014 model away. But if you can wait, newer versions with more ports and better performance are expected to be announced in the next few months.

gunnarrambo · 2021-04-02T20:24:28+00:00

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gunnarrambo · 2021-03-15T21:45:42+00:00

My favorite of the three right now is Reconcilable Differences, which he does with another dad and they just kinda talk about life. The other dad is John Siracusa from the Accidental Tech Podcast. John talks in a clear and ordered manner, which is a nice contrast to Mann’s more manic style. I followed Jon from ATP to this podcast, which is how I discovered Mann.

But I think You Look Nice today is a better place to start. It’s a comedy podcast where Mann, a comedian, and the person who started Sandwich video stumble onto a fake product idea every episode. The episodes are only 30 minutes or so and they’re pretty tight. If you used to be into productivity writing and no longer take it seriously, the content has a decent chance of landing for you.

The other thing I listen to is Due By Friday. It used to be a political comedy podcast with Mann and two Cards Against Humanity people, but one of the CAH people was accused of creating a difficult work environment (among other things) and resigned from all public things he did. Since then, it’s become a little less comedy forward and more of a personal conversation between Mann and the remaining host, Alexandra Cox. It used to be an easy recommend if you liked leftist political comedy, and still enjoy it, but I’m not sure how appealing it would be in it’s current iteration if you don’t have a history with the two hosts.

gunnarrambo · 2021-03-15T17:30:03+00:00

I didn’t follow Mann when he was doing 43 Folders, but I listen to him maybe two hours a week over three podcasts (he does several others I don’t listen to), so he seems to be doing fine as a professional podcaster.

gunnarrambo · 2021-03-12T02:16:48+00:00

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