Pcottraux's Tuesday FReeptoon

November 22, 2005 | pcottraux

[pcottraux]

Yeah, I want to build on that more. You know, have her putting on a public persona, making speeches, appearing at charity events, making herself look like some sort of great humanitarian. Then contrast that with her on the hologram, her face hidden underneath the cowl, making ominous commands to the donkey.

[tuliptree76]

Good job!

[tuliptree76]

Congrats!

[pcottraux]

Thank you!

[Army Air Corps]

Dean appears too reserved. :-)

[pcottraux]

Just like my Clooney picture was too kind, and my Hillary isn't ugly enough, I know. You just can't capture such things in real life, LOL.

[Eurotwit]

hehe!

[Rca2000]

My script is at page 177. I am nearly done. Rewriting a novel into Script form, seems to be about as hard as doing it from Scratch.

In order to conform to the script format, some dialog needs to be added, or deleted, and such. Not too mention, you CANNOT use the whole page, for the dialog, a margian of about 2" more is necessary on either side. This of course means more pages.

I added a bit about HMS memory, to make it CLEAR in the story that they were a LOT more advanced than CD-r's. I had envisioned a flat, photosensitive plate, as i said, that was scanned by a laser, (just like a cd-r, so far), BUT-- In my HMS idea, there are NO moving parts. Somehow (I don't explain how, as I can't) the ENTIRE many-gigabyte array is scanned holographically by a laser, can be re-written in WHOLE, in well under a microsecond!! No cd-r or DVD-r can compare to that! ( a non-volitale memory array, that holds data, without power, like a cd-r, BUT is as fast, or faster, than ordinary DDRAM.) THAT is my idea, behind the holographic mamory devices, in my story.

BTW about the 2000- it has normal, delta-type convergence, with the associated control board.

[pcottraux]

For people who might have missed last Friday's, the big announcement was that I've rounded up all the archives of my past toons and posted them on my home page, for anyone who might want to take a gander.

[pcottraux]

There are 19 altogether, including this one.

[Anselma]

Tres neat. LOL!!!!!!!!

Keep 'em comin'!

[DollyCali]

Getting here late but thank you for the ping & for the fun. Love your humor PC.. ready for Thanksgiving? going home? maybe you live in home town. we are in the early stages of a major storm. Hoping we dont get too buried.yuk!

[pcottraux]

Since I don't have to do any of the cooking, I am very much ready for Thanksgiving. This is the first one in as long as I can remember where we're not going all over creation visiting all these relatives to eat...we're simply staying at home and eating lots of turkey. My Mom is relieved and happy as she can be.

We just got done with a yucky storm.

[Nowhere Man]

I added a bit about HMS memory, to make it CLEAR in the story that they were a LOT more advanced than CD-r's. I had envisioned a flat, photosensitive plate, as i said, that was scanned by a laser, (just like a cd-r, so far), BUT-- In my HMS idea, there are NO moving parts. Somehow (I don't explain how, as I can't) the ENTIRE many-gigabyte array is scanned holographically by a laser, can be re-written in WHOLE, in well under a microsecond!! No cd-r or DVD-r can compare to that! ( a non-volitale memory array, that holds data, without power, like a cd-r, BUT is as fast, or faster, than ordinary DDRAM.) THAT is my idea, behind the holographic mamory devices, in my story.

Hmmm, again, it sort of reminds me of how a plate in an old orthicon or plumbicon camera would work as the plate reacted to the light as it would be scanned by an electron beam but as you put it, the beam can write as well. Wouldn't mind one of those for my computer or Playstation but on second thought, maybe not, I don't want the computer to do things to me like try to kill me, erase "Howard Melvin and the Blue Notes" from my CD-ROMS, or whatever mischief it could get into. B-) As to Damocles in the Morrow Project, wish I had the modules for it, would like to do research on how the writers of the game did him although they wrote about him back in 1980 so I wonder what tech they used for him. I know in the movie "2001," they used crystal blocks as memory units and that was the mid to late 1960's so it sort of like your idea I suppose. I know I played T$R's (TSR's) "Gamma World" post apocalyptic game a lot and the sentient computers usually used a biological artifical brain although a few were electronic only. "Gamma World" was OK, but it resembled more of a 1950's movie than hard science although I've heard the idea of a biological brain as the heart of a computer being kicked around for a long time. Come to think of it, would be cool if your story would take off, would make a good Playstation game too. B-)

BTW about the 2000- it has normal, delta-type convergence, with the associated control board.

I think my Chromacolor is a delta gun configuration while my System 3 is an inline model. I know the convergence pots for the 1970 Chromacolor is behind the speaker. BTW, I like the talk of the RCA 2000 on AK, learned a lot about it where you need at least two guys to lift it at each end because you have to watch you don't break the pedestal. Yech, it makes me cringe to think about it. I know Zenith came out with some space age styles TV's too, I remember my buddy had one, it was a 1972 Chromacolor in a space age looking case.

[pcottraux]

250 views, doing good.