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No Sanity Just Vanity

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Yes! Finally got to watch The Matrix. I bought the Matrix Revisited Video CD pack. Oddly, Windows Media Player could play Revisited but not the original VCD! So much for original VCDs. 🙁

I could blame it on my Sony 8x4x32 CD-rewritable drive – it’s sensitive as heck. Then my friend suggested other installing programs. Roxio Video Player didn’t work so I installed, of all things, MSI DVD Player. Never mind that I didn’t have a DVD-reading drive, it worked!

I have been enlightened.

My family is now catching up on the amassed collection of VCDs that never worked before. 🙂

Since Everyone’s Blogged About It…

Yes, I watched The Matrix Reloaded on its opening day and thought it was fantastic! How did it compare to its prequel? I don’t know. I never watched the first, The Matrix.

I look forward to watching the finale to Lord Of The Rings. I haven’t watched the first, while I was sick when I was supposed to watch the second. I’ll be bloody blur but heck, I’ll do it for the fun of it. My sister watched the second without the first and she wasn’t that blur! (She does seem rather blur…)

Then, I’ll watch the second one and first one! Oh yeah. I’d be going “OHHHHHHHHHH” and “OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” all over the reverse screening.

Oh yes, people do say I look like Neo after watching it. I hardly think so; see this?

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Yesterday I went out with some friends and we discussed the predictable end to the Matrix trilogy. We hypothesized on and on and came to one simple plot. It would involve Neo flying, in button-time, to press the button. For two hours. Sure, there would be cameras spinning around to make it look less mundane. Why would Neo press the button, effectively destroying himself? The movie doesn’t explain it because the Wachowski brothers wanted to take fanboys on a ride. The Matrix’s plot, really, is what fans make of it. 😛

Oh yes, I succumbed to pressure two days ago and bought the original VCD pack with The Matrix Revisited. I haven’t watched it though; been busy with college work. 🙁

P.S. Thanks to the person who made sure one of us did not pay for our own tickets. 😉

Playing With The Threshold

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Get a creepy bony sulky picture
Copy and paste the shot as a layer
Image, Adjustments, Threshold, make darker
Ignore the lighter parts that disappear
Paste another copy, set its threshold
Set it lighter for more parts to behold
Keep adding lighter layers until told
That this artwork is worth its size in gold
Now the topmost layer is mostly white
Some were cleaned out because they were too bright
Erase layers to bring features to sight
Go down layers till the outline is right
Keep down the file size, it is a safe bet
To save in Graphics Interchange Format