You know the trope about "when you're in the know about something, you see every example of that something which is bad, and you feel bad"?

Like "teach someone typography, and they will examples of it done wrong every day", that sort of thing.

Well, one of the things I have knowledge about and experience with is cinematography - film & video. And here's one I run into regularly.

I watch an online video.

On my 16:10 monitor.

The browser letterboxes it into a 16:9 area of the screen.

It's some bloody stupid video site with vertical video, so it's 1:2 (or even worse), pillarboxed into the browser viewport.

And then the video maker is commenting about another video, so it's a 16:9 letterboxed into a tiny section of the pillarboxed video, with enormous borders on the top and bottom.

This hurts my head, even without considering that it results in trying to watch a video that takes up about 5% of the screen.

#letterbox #pillarbox #video #aspect #AspectRatio #VerticalVideo #argh #aargh #TeachAManToFish

@lenzgr

Yes... but no... it was an article in a monthly Sci-fi magazine. I think it was in 1980s, but it could have been late 1970s.

I wished I could remember author and magazine... I think it was Asimov, but could be wrong.

The author wrote for the magazine each month. Generally a short story of one page.

😱 #Aargh --- why can't I remember.

Too many moves resulted in purges of magazine stacks.

1 hour & 17 minutes.

I have been on a support call this long (including holds & escalations) with the folks at America's Test Kitchen because despite having a confirmation email for purchasing a year of online all access, despite being able to log in & see my account, neither the website or the app allow me access to online content.

This is clearly something at their end. So far, I've had CS ppl have me log out & change my pw multiple times.

I am still being polite.
#aargh

#COVID19 #AARGH #YUCK #pandemic

WHY did y'all NOT tell me about Paxlovid Mouth? 🤮

This is my first bout with COVID (yes, I've been taking due precautions since March 2020, so there).

I'm glad I had insurance access to the treatment, but not looking forward to 4-1/2 more days of this...