Freecycling a Dobson book

Back when Dr. Dobson's ministry was more about personal choice and not the political monster it has become today, and back when I was in my younger 20s and still reconciling the differences between reality and "my childish things" of faith that Paul so eloquently writes about, my mom gave me a book of his, When God Doesn't Make Sense.

After the statement he made last night when the Moderates reached their compromise, I decided that it has to go and there will be no reference made of Dobson in my house ever again.  Cyd's putting it on FreeCycle today.

AP reported: Dr. James C. Dobson, head of the Focus on the Family, one of the conservative groups that had made an end to judicial filibusters a top priority, said the agreement "represents a complete bailout and a betrayal by a cabal of Republicans and a great victory for united Democrats."

This is not a ministry for God, this is a political machine for an agenda of control, and I want nothing to do with him or anybody who follows such madness.

When God Doesn't Make Sense, indeed.  God makes perfect sense.  Always has.

Its some of his "believers" that I have a problem with.

DNR on cartoons can remove real elements

As this WSJ report discusses, most Digital Noise Reduction software is designed for live-action movies and works by detecting when a line appears in one frame and disappers in another, on the assumption that line was dust or noise or maybe a scratch and needs to go, so it wipes it as it assembles the digital master.

That's all good and well in live-action, but in animation, lines are extremely precise and as such, the digital process has "removed" things, especially in high-speed sequences like, say, Woody Woodpecker's laugh.  And unfortunately, quality control experts don't review the results of the process to see where its screwed up and the stuff goes out on DVD that way.  Even the Looney Tunes 2 boxed-set releases have a problem or two.  (Note: Disney's restoration process is hand-supervised for quality on *every single frame* so their releases are generally immune to this sort of thing.)

"I feel like I'm in a military acadamy.  Bits of me keep passing out."

personal quote for today

"I'm getting more coffee.  My blood pressure isn't nearly high enough for this..."

(yes, windows locked on me. again.)