http://jigsawfanclub.com robots, mad scientists, and other incredibly important things Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:27:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think it's fair to say December has been rough this year. Well, this Year has been rough this year, but purely from the standpoint of time management, December has been ridiculous. Case in point: tomorrow will be my first day off in 16 days. Amendment: tomorrow will be the ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/hppy-nw-yr/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1619192&dest=-1] Watch festively in Quicktime. Silent Night cracks me up every time. (seasons greetings in the comments) http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/jigsaw-ep319-xmas-carols/ Andrew over at the Puppetvision Blog wrote a really lovely piece on the show the other day. Puppetvision is a great resource for news and clips of and about puppetry; absolutely all of the good puppetry stuff I saw online in the last year or so I read about on ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/puppetvision/ Last night, I was uploading the new video to YouTube. This turned out to be the hardest part of my day (harder, in fact, than setting up a wifi router, or dealing with confused and bickering artists in a production meeting, &c). First, it was too long. So the first upload ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/make-me-cry/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1598096&dest=-1] Watch in Quicktime hereabouts. One thing that is nice about this new era of Hope is that I suddenly feel less pressured to preemptively defend sincerity. Yes, this video is 15 minutes long, and is a fairly straight-forward behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Regibor puppet. Not a lot of ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/jigsaw-behind-the-scenes-02-building-regibor/ Number of messages sorted through: 262 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 2 Number of real messages marked as spam: 0 FROM: Kermit Couch SUBJECT: Don't be ashamed of your wrist anymore. I totally want a Kermit couch. Comments always welcome. http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/this-week-in-spam-121608/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1577216&dest=-1] Watch this video with QuickTime. I was setting up to film Thursday evening. I was frustrated that the script had taken me so long to work out, but I was pretty sure I'd be able to knock it out in a couple takes and get it out before the end ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/jigsaw-ep318-comic-time/ You are no longer allowed to add the artificial suffix "-gate" to a context-specific noun to refer to a controversy. We are sorry for not clarifying this ten years ago during the Lewinsky scandal, but we were under the misapprehension that the trend would die out on its own. This ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/new-word-rules/ Number of messages sorted through: 274 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 4 Number of real messages marked as spam: 1 FROM: Daren Watts SUBJECT: Welcome to the world of big monsters in pants and big possibilities. http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/this-week-in-spam-120908/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1549160&dest=-1] Watch this episode in Quicktime. This one tortured me. Figuring out all the ins and outs of the insert shots. Contemplating how exactly I could make various puppetry moves happen in a single shot. (Kranium and Regibor. Regibor leaves. Milton enters. Milton and Kranium. Milton's hand moves. This crap ain't easy.) ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/jigsaw-ep317-the-frank-transmogrification/ Number of messages sorted through: 348 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 5 Number of real messages marked as spam: 2 The lateness of this column is due to my waiting to see if anything interesting actually showed up in spam this week. Apart from hearing cheap Viagra called "testromaniac pillules", it's ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/12/this-week-in-spam-120208/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1520881&dest=-1] Watch this episode in Quicktime at this here link. I did mention that this was an old routine, yes? You didn't think I'd throw it away in such a cavalier manner, did you? Of course not. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Last night I had a dream where I found myself having to ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/jigsaw-ep316-seven/ Number of messages sorted through: 170 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 7 Number of real messages marked as spam: (2) I am often disturbed by my spam. Oh sure, it's occasionally unsettling to get email from yourself proclaiming great advances in member-hardening technology. It's even yet still more heebie-jeebie generating to get an ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/this-week-in-spam-112508/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1495346&dest=-1] Watch this episode in QuickTime. Two weeks without a computer. That's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of when I built two extra weeks into the season schedule. Of course, I expected the time to be used for sickness or sudden travel, but being without a computer works, ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/jigsaw-ep315-nanowrimo/ Number of messages sorted through: 172 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 3 Number of real messages marked as spam: 1 From: Chiefjusticemohammed Uwais Subject: GOOD DAY You know what? You're right. It IS a good day. It snowed today. That probably does deserve all caps. From: Anita Mansah Subject: PLEASE READ WELL Oh, I intend to. ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/this-week-in-spam-111808/ A quick note, because I have mostly been ignoring you. My computer is finally back from the shop, and all appears to be well (apart from the mysterious switching on of system noises). Actually, potentially better than well; only a few days of hard use will tell for sure, but the ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/not-dead-merely-rebooting/ note: due to the election last week, this week has a bit of catch-up involved, and twice as much spam to sort through. For, you know, anyone who actually gives a fig. Number of messages sorted through: 465 Number of spam messages missed by filters: 39 Number of real messages marked as spam: ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/this-week-in-spam-111108/ It is starting to rain in Virginia. I woke up this morning thinking about the moment in the West Wing when Joshua Malina, in charge of a hopeless Democratic campaign in Orange County, a campaign that for some reason is neck-in-neck with the Republican incumbent despite the fact that the Democratic ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/11/this-week-in-spam-elections-110408/ [blip.tv ?posts_id=1420914&dest=-1] Watch this episode in Quicktime. I'm as surprised as anyone that I didn't take advantage of the fact that this was episode 314 to make a reference to pi. But then, it's sort of a miracle that there's an episode at all. Too busy to even explain how busy I am. ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/10/jigsaw-ep314-bedside-manner/ So what with the world being the world, and projects being added to my schedule that require immediate action, I've been a bit slow in getting planned merchandise into the Jigsaw store. But those winter holidays are coming up, and I figured I really ought to get cracking. First off, stickers. Durable, ... http://jigsawfanclub.com/2008/10/merchandise-update/