Less ambitious than the Tammy and the T-Rex project that came later, but this simple menu gets the job done. Nukie is one of the worst films ever made, by the way -- but in the good way. Not in the Flightplan way. Nukie's not offensive or insulting; it's just bloody awful.

So after authoring a few basic DVDs, I tried to go for a more complicated one with a chapter menu and even the friggin' trailers from the VHS. Fun. Pretty time consuming, given that I actually had to watch the movie again to pick spots for chapter breaks (ugh), do quite a bit of image work for the menus (about as much as your average Scary-Crayon article, if not slightly more), and learn about the use of variables in the xml structure of DVD authoring programs to get the thing to behave the way I wanted, but I'm now pretty satisfied with my Tammy and the T-Rex DVD. Note the cute little T-Rex selection thingies -- I made those from Joe and Mac screencaps. Pretty cool, eh?

Aaaand now I need to get back to work. Then, Scary-Crayon updates!

The origins of this weblog are kind of convoluted, given that it first began as Blog of Wes on a subdomain of Scary-Crayon and, upon its conversion to Wesoteric, not only got all of the Blog of Wes posts ported into it but also a number of entries from the personal site I used to maintain back on my Yale webspace. Sort of calls to mind the existential questions concerning the ship that is rebuilt with different planks and whether a person is the same person if all of his/her memories are ported into the brain of a French poodle or something. Anyway, the Blog of Wes began on January 16, 2004, so I've been around in this current run for just over two years. Yep. It's really been that long. 😛

Scary-Crayon's official two-year anniversary was yesterday, so feel free to head on over there if you want to check out the zany celebratory articles. In addition to an action figure flip off, a guest Hot Flash from Jax, and an unrelated Crayon Haiku, there's a detailed piece that may prove amusing to you, though my experience with it was rather horrific. Remember those expired boxes of cereal I found while cleaning my room last month? Enter: The Stale Cereal Wars. Bloody hell.

By the way, have you all seen this fish screensaver? It came with my laptop -- it's probably the demo version -- but if you don't have it you can get a demo at Prolific.com. Assuming you want it, that is. It's freaking amazing -- almost like having Duncan MacPhish of the Clan MacPhish back with us. If only there were a way to make the water cloudy and yellow.

All for now -- ja ne, minna-san.

I spent the better part of the last 48 hours mucking around with a multitude of programs in an attempt to figure out how to burn DVDs and encode various video and audio files.

I am frustrated and exhausted.

So now I shall sleep.