I need to decide if I can get a good quality DV for around $1,500-$2,000 or if it’s worth it to make the jump to a more expensive camera.
Please mail me at lisarein@finetuning.com if you have any specific advice. About digital video editing equipment software/systems too.
I’m about to re-enter video/filmmaking and I’m going to need all the help I can get catching up on the last few years of technological advances 🙂
Thanks in advance!

I’ve decided that Richard Stallman is right about “Intellectual Property” being a poor choice of words for lumping together several very different subjects (Copyright, Patents and Trademarks).

With that in mind, I’ve renamed my Tales of Copyright Royalties and Copyright History categories appropriately.

I’ll tell you one thing: it sure takes more effort to describe them correctly. I had to do a lot of reading and thinking and stuff when I used to just be able to say “IP”.

I just found out my ISP got hit with spam over the weekend and I haven’t been getting much of my mail for the last three days. Email me at lisarein@fastmail.fm if you want me to see it today. (And resend anything important I haven’t answered back about!)

Bear with me this weekend as I get everything up and running smoothly in between postings.
I’ve decided to make my Blog the central location for that which is me, rather than just another one of several off shoots that never seem to connect in the middle: http://www.finetuning.com, http://www.lisarein.com, etc.
Talk soon!

I spent the weekend in Tuscon, Arizona — my first time to the anywhere in the “Southwest.” (Not counting Las Vegas — although one thing that both cities have in common is that I’d last about 10 minutes in the outside heat in July 🙂

Anyway, my friend put the car top down on the way back to the airport this morning (4:30 am) — and I had a chance to see what a totally beautiful place it can be at night! It’s pretty in the daytime too, but you can’t tell, really, because you’re either inside breathing cool air or outside trying to make it to your car, or to a pool or lake or some other kind of water source — which makes everything OK again untill you get out of the water.

What if you don’t have air conditioning or a water source? Wow. I’m pretty sure I’d be dead before long.

I hear you can go outside in the Winter, though.

(Later that morning…)

Of Interest: the Tuscon and LAX airports still don’t have wireless networks. Bummer. Get with the program guys.

Jim Griffin, his royal phoness, has assured me that email subscribers are not required to subscribe to the new Pho features to continue receiving the list.

Email from Jim:

Dear Lisa and others:

I did not write the paragraph in question, but I can tell you that the
pholist website is an additional offering, not mandatory for phosters.

There will continue to be a pho list, just as there is now, and if you do
nothing you will continue to be subscribed to it. I highly recommend the
pholist web site — JP’s building it to supplement and enrich the Pho
experience, and like any summer shakedown cruise it’s likely to have its
moments, like these, but stick with it and give it a chance.

The pho list will continue as is and there is no requirement with which I am
familiar that requires any current pho list participant to register with the
web site. Over time it may well prove a good interface to which we can
migrate, but I can’t imagine ridding the list of people who choose
otherwise. My servers at onehouse.com will continue to operate this list as
always, and John’s web site as I understand it seeks to offer a more
enriching community experience, which I support wholeheartedly.

Jim

I’m totally bummed. My favorite mailing list now has a terms of agreement and wants me to login and accept a bunch of cookies just to continue participating on the email list. Why does everything simple and useful have to get complicated and intrusive once it gets popular. It just doesn’t seem fair. (John Parres, pho list admin, clarified a few points later: “Some of you are going to have fun with the legal page. I bet I can predict who
you will be. Nothing is set in stone. The language has yet to be
‘pholosophised.’ I am not a lawyer. If some of the eagles want to help
tighten/clarify things I will be most appreciative for the assistance. Please
know that Jim and I have the utmost respect for your privacy and are making
best efforts to ensure that this always remains true.”)

To learn more about the new Pholist features, check out a text file of E-mail sent out to phosters this morning.

Excerpt from above email that started all of this (that Griffin refers to above.):

No one is required to list any information on the site, however, everyone is required to activate their account as a condition of remaining on the Pho list. Yes, the site utilizes cookies so this function must be enabled in your browser for the site to work for you. Please don’t complain, that’s just the way it is.

Happy Birthday to the Radar!

(You may now go back to your normally scheduled activities.)

Captured by the Paparazzi while visiting an old friend on the Harvard campus during my trip to Cambridge last week.