YES.

The challenge was to create a new mini-episode of Jigsaw every weekday in the month of February. Today is the final day.

Monday through Friday. 5 episodes a week. 20 episodes total.

Not only did I succeed, but I managed to get all but one of them up before the end of normal East Coast business hours. Only two of them were posted after 2pm EST. And both of those were lengthy renders.

Wish list for season 4?

• MORE RAM. Or perhaps a new computer altogether.
• A better lighting kit. So the lamp doesn’t surge halfway through a take, exposing camera tricks.
• Mic that actually feeds into the computer, for voice over work that doesn’t sound crappy. This may require item 1b.

Comments? Thoughts? What would you like to see in the next season (keeping in mind that I have no idea when that season will be, apart from “at least three months from now”)?

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I found this pen in the first couple days of February, and brought it home, knowing that if I got stuck for subject matter for season π, I could always do something with it. I mean, it really does say “Economic Stimulus Payment” on it, with the website of the IRS. Completely boggles my mind.

After a month, I still hadn’t used it. Today would have to be the day. But of course, I also hadn’t been able to figure out a punchline for it. So it dawned on me last night that the punch line could be the delivery. And so, this episode.

Sorry, awesome amazing person who sent me fan mail this morning talking about how much your kid loves the show; I hope you don’t mind a little drunken humor.

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I had the basic idea for this last night, but was too tired to film it. Then I woke up with more of the idea finished, but realized I had to clean my desk in order to film it. Which was sort of a good thing, because the desk was an unusable mess.

File this under “more ideas for weird inventions I may come back to if I ever develop a longer, big-budget Jigsaw for any reason.” If nothing else, this Jigsaw π experiment has helped flesh out the show bible a bit.

One of these days I really should write the show bible.

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A little insomnia last night led me to Hulu once again, and led me to discover they have Robocop in their library.

I must have had a copy of that movie in high school. That is the only thing that would explain why every frame is completely imprinted on the back of my retinas. I must have seen Robocop 50 times. And yet — and yet — I don’t know that I ever understood half of it.

It holds up surprisingly well. May be forced to actually buy it. Largely because watching Peter Weller work the robo suit is pretty astounding. Also, Kurtwood Smith. Dude.

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No, I have no idea what prompted this rant.

It could not possibly have had anything to do with work. That’s just crazy talk.

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