In order to grade I had to log in with my old AV Club account after having switched to using Disqus, and now this all gets confusing.

I've been drinking a lot of wine as of late, steering away from rum as my typical go-to. My office party was alcohol-free, but my final class for one of my grad school courses had an in-class party with 14 bottles of wine for 16 students. I drank two bottles myself.

I just hadn't used After Effects in so long that I couldn't remember which codec I used to use or even how to operate its render queue (since it seems to have changed in the past updates). The project was only two minutes, but the first render came out to 20GB, so obviously uncompressed even though I thought I had…

I have forgotten the misery that is rendering your project in After Effects. After six hours, it is now nearly 4:30am and my project is rendered to a file size appropriate for Vimeo so that the assignment can be turned in (many hours late).

I'm still not sure how I feel about this. It's not the worst idea for a spin-off. The premise itself isn't completely old - but if its dragged out for several seasons (nine years) like HIMYM then that's annoying. I'd like to see that premise adapted into some kind of anthology series with a different "how we met"…

disregard - misread a part of that article

The trailer for Jonathan Groff's new HBO show about gay men in San Francisco, Looking, was released.

I've really been enjoying catching up on Arrow. I finished episode 12 the other night. It's definitely been a mixed bag, but usually the episodes I'm less fond of are the ones that feel self-contained, but there's been enough callbacks by now where it felt more like world-building than case-of-the-week, so its getting…

I really enjoyed the final season, aside from some of the election stuff which was relevant at the time but feels wasteful of a short-order season when rewatching.

The Voice.

TVLine has interview with Mike Schur about the decision for the recall that gives some nice perspective on it.

I'm not sure what the cancelation of All in the Family back in 1979 had to do with Parks and Recreation's 2013 hiatus either.

Part of why How I Met Your Mother's laugh track is unobtrusive is that:
1) they are aware, as characters, when they are being funny and normally even laugh or smirk along with each other's jokes, so the laughter feels more organic
2) they don't pause for the laughter, and just keep up the pace of rapid dialogue instead.

I feel like a multi-camera sitcom without laugh track would feel weird, either because we are so used to seeing that set up with a laugh track or because the multi-camera set up evokes a feel of watching a live play, and if there's no laughter then it feels like a bad crowd/performance/etc.

It's not filmed in front of a live audience, but the camera set up is almost definitely multi-camera on a set in a sound stage.

You would consider How I Met Your Mother to be single-camera? I'm pretty positive that it's multi-camera most of the time on their main sets, with some single-camera usage every now and then.

I think it's too generic even for the people who prefer broad comedy.

I don't know if Michael J. Fox Show is really a gamble. It has a pretty likable former movie star with a sympathetic personality in a fairly traditional family sitcom. It would have been a pretty safe bet, but unfortunately it's not really entertaining enough to stay interested.

Any weirder than the person who figured out that if you kill an animal and chop it up, you can find meat that can be eaten when heated by a fire?

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