the panda bear video on good stuff reminds me of that one Beastie Boys video, you know the one.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Apr 13, 2012 12:02:05 pm PDT #858 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Zenkitty - Apr 13, 2012 12:08:17 pm PDT #859 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
WTF? Are they counting on a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing?
Yes, they do. The "timey-wimey" thing they're counting on is their editors working as long and hard and fast as necessary to get the job done.
That's not merely my cynical perception, that's pretty much verbatim from the Department Overlord.
Steph L. - Apr 13, 2012 12:08:55 pm PDT #860 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
My next one thing is a bitch. I'd rather declutter.
My next one thing is either dusting or cleaning the bathroom. And I do not want to do either one, on an epic scale.
We accept Word or LaTex files. The conversion vendors convert these files to .xml which is what we edit in, in something called "Epic".
WHAT. You edit in xml???
...I feel better now.
many pubs have been "outsourced" to being edited by the same vendors
Holy. Shit.
Zenkitty - Apr 13, 2012 12:09:04 pm PDT #861 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
shrift, I like that Unfuck Your Habitat site! I can use the inspiration.
Zenkitty - Apr 13, 2012 12:12:18 pm PDT #862 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
WHAT. You edit in xml???
I KNOW. It's ridiculous. I can't even describe how ridiculous it is.
...I feel better now.
Good, good. Is your company hiring?
Holy. Shit.
Yeah, that's one of the things we are not supposed to even mention to the Editors-in-Chief at the upcoming conference. For obvious reasons. We staff editors are specifically not allowed to speak up in the meeting.
Steph L. - Apr 13, 2012 12:16:12 pm PDT #863 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Good, good. Is your company hiring?
Ahahahaha. No, we aren't even replacing my co-worker who died. We're cut so close to the bone it's comical.
Sheryl - Apr 13, 2012 12:19:22 pm PDT #864 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
My folks are here, so the weekend plans involve them. Haven't figured out where we will take them for touristy stuff tomorrow. (Sunday is meals with Gary's folks-brunch with his mom and dinner with his dad and step-mom)
Toddson - Apr 13, 2012 12:19:47 pm PDT #865 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
We outsourced final editing and printing of our magazine; the first company pretty much drove it into the ground. We've started with a new company and it's better ... it's now a quarterly journal and the content is much better (they've arranged for some freelance writers to do some sections) although advertising remains in a slump. The point of this is that they insist on receiving all materials two months before they hand it over to their production people. Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.
Zenkitty - Apr 13, 2012 12:24:43 pm PDT #866 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.
Right-o, Toddson. That's where we're headed.
Toddson - Apr 13, 2012 12:31:56 pm PDT #867 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm just ... amazed ... that they can say they need two months to edit, copyedit (badly), fact check, etc., before it goes to production. And this is much smaller than the version I did pretty much by myself. Oh, and I also dealt with the ads - kept track of what was sold, the size, contact, etc. There was the awful night I was in the office until 11:00 because the printer had switched our job to another branch and rather than downloading the image files from the company's FTP site (it'd take too long, since they were in a differnt office) so I had to zip and e-mail every single image.