Monday, August 8, 2011

Wishlisting

I've got a hankering, but its so multifarious its hard to describe it as anything more than a hankering to spend money.  On the list at the moment:

  • More 3.5" hard disk space for MythTV.  This is in competition with getting mythtranscode to work conveniently and reliably, but is currently winning.
  • More 2.5" hard disk space for my laptop, which has a large collection of podcasts, lecture series and Librivox - a 500GB or even a 750GB would be great (although terrible for the already terrible battery life).
  • Final Draft, a screenplay drafting and editing software package. I have downloaded the free demo and it seems to be very helpful in building your plot, designing your scenes, writing them, re-ordering them, re-writing them, filtering by each character etc.  It will also do a reading of the screenplay in the voice of Stephen Hawking (who gets a suprising amount of voice over work).
  • Allen Palmer's (he of Cracking Yarns) course at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
  • Books: The Island of Dr Death, The Death of Dr Island and the Doctor of Death Island, and everything else of Gene Wolfe's that I have yet to read.
  • And so on...

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