{"id":2419,"date":"2009-06-30T21:35:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T02:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2009-06-30T21:35:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T02:35:32","slug":"on-the-mid-week-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"On the Mid-Week View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work made my brain melt.<\/p>\n<p>This happens sometimes.  The problem is that there&#8217;s only so much cranial capacity, there&#8217;s only so much mental space that words can be drawn from.  And what happens, on days that I have to write a <i>lot<\/i> (and this was one of those days), is that the gears in the brain overheat.  Smoke pours out of the ears.  The eyes glaze over.<\/p>\n<p>The brain melts.<\/p>\n<p>By 3:30, I felt mentally useless.  So, I switched gears.<\/p>\n<p>I did some more writing; I wrote an article about Mickey Mouse comics.  I&#8217;ll be honest; it&#8217;s not a great article.  I&#8217;m not even sure that it&#8217;s a <i>good<\/i> article.  It&#8217;s just&#8230; <i>there<\/i>.  But it was different than what I&#8217;d been writing the first six hours of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I did some proofreading.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, the hamster that runs on the wheel inside my computer decided to die.  My computer chugged to a halt, so I rebooted.  But by this time it was 5:30, and the day was nearly done.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start fresh tomorrow.  Write about toys.<\/p>\n<p>I need to spend some quality time with Excel tomorrow, too.  Oh, yay.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On a different note, did you ever imagine what would happen if paleontologists visited the Creation Museum outside Cincinnati?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine no more!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/30\/science\/30muse.html?pagewanted=2&#038;_r=2&#038;ref=science\">The <i>New York Times<\/i> has the story&#8230;<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done anything with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2407\">the outline I wrote on Saturday<\/a> as yet.  It&#8217;s currently out with a few people for feedback.<\/p>\n<p>I reread it this morning on the train, and wrote half a page of notes myself.  The notes ranged from changing a name to planting a plot seed earlier to changing the story&#8217;s projected title.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Cubs :cubs: confound me. :-\/<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The reason for the loss of channels 11 and 13 from Baltimore, and channels 7 and 9 from DC that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2416\">I ranted and raved about<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a longish story.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the official changeover from analog to digital, these stations were all broadcasting digital signals in the UHF spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>After the official changeover on June 12th, they changed the frequency at which their signal went out.  Specifically, each of these four stations changed from a signal in the UHF spectrum to the VHF spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the VHF broadcasts these stations are now using are of a lower power.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 13, for instance, will be installing a higher-powered VHF transmitter in mid-August.  Channel 11 has no plans to increase their power that I can find.<\/p>\n<p>Their loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work made my brain melt. This happens sometimes. The problem is that there&#8217;s only so much cranial capacity, there&#8217;s only so much mental space that words can be drawn from. 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