If the genre title “Space Asshole Simulator” doesn’t catch on now, I suppose it never will. Well played, Hamilton.

Edison Park is terrible. It’s really just the half of Park Ridge that is in the city limits and is populated entirely with WEALTHY white people. Jefferson Park severely lacks diversity, but I find poor white people to be much less insufferable than the wealthy ones. I say this as a poor white person, though I am…

We too had the “hey, why not Ravenswood?” talk with our realtor. It lasted about two minutes. We did get a lot more house for our money by moving to not just Jefferson Park, but the bottom corner of Jefferson Park, where it’s houses for blocks and blocks. And blocks. And they are too close together.

Nothing has ever lifted my spirits as much as “at least you didn’t move to Naperville.” Though I think Schaumburg might be worse.

Chicago is amazing as long as you don’t try to buy a house but can only afford something big enough for your two kids in the Jefferson Park neighborhood which is the whitest collection of white people on the planet and there are no good places to eat NOT THAT I’M BITTER OR ANYTHING.

Your final 56 hours!?! Sweet Jesus does your school have M.A. Programs and when can I start?

I had that idea, but it turns out that CLEP acceptance is AMAZINGLY unregulated, to the point that even schools that claim to accept the results often have so many hoops to jump through that it never pans out. I had planned on CLEP’ing out of two gen eds, but got so frustrated at trying to get approval that it was…

It’s definitely unique, but man that’s a huge pain in the ass for a nice but not mindblowing look. It also seems like PS is doing most of the legwork here.

Oh yes. Now that my daughter is three, I pretty much sleep fully clothed so I’m prepared for whatever two in the morning adventure I’ll be taken on.

My pleasure. And I apologize for implying After Effects was the worst of the three options and I slightly envy your line of work.

That’s the saddest, most accurate and depressing back of the napkin calculation that has ever been done. Good on you, mate.

Dammit Chomsky, why do you ruin all of my fun?

Kids these days are THE WORST.

Wait, is “Photoshopped” now just a term for any special effect that makes someone look different? Cause it’s more likely she was “Nuked”, maybe even “Fusioned”, or if it was a cheap studio she might have been “After Effect-ed”.

I got a Wacom tablet just for this purpose. I do studio and portrait photography so I don’t do it too much, but sometimes I need to make an accurate mask to do background work and tracing is the best way to go. And every time I consider billing extra for it, cause damn. Tedious as fuck indeed.

I was going to say that everyone involved with that went on to crush awards season with their film “Crash”.

Same here. Our first kid required espionage levels of planning to conceive. Our second kid was like “Hey, let’s go off birth control and see what happens”. Literally the next day.

You’re Adobe CC skills are moving on up, good sir. I like it. (Assuming you’re using Premiere, as I thought you had mentioned in the past.)

Is no one else seeing the ghost of Bill Hicks in the back seat?

For what it’s worth, Saving Private Ryan used more off-set shutter than shakey cam. Still a lot of camera movement, but a different effect/feel. Also hard to do convincingly with digital, apparently.