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Name: Amanda
Birthday: 8/14/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Whoa, too many... film:watching, creating, acting, the whole kit 'n kaboodle...equestrian(horse riding, for those who don't know) the arts, photography, the care and keeping of my friends, oh, and God, can't forget the Savior of my soul and Love of my life!
Expertise: Ah, so you want to know what i'm really good at? But i think of myself as a 'jack of all trades'. I can do a lot of stuff fairly well. This includes photography, writing, editing, teaching, dancing, equestrian, and sluthing. What is sluthing, you ask? Let's just say, i find things out...
Occupation: Other
Industry: Media
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
2/2/2004
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| For those who wish to support you friendly neighborhood film makers, i.e.
Judah and Myself, I highly recommend you visit both these links and greenlight
them so we can get them on t.v. Popman vs. The Kernel: http://www.current.tv/watch/17930245?s1=...This one
was written, directed and edited by me, with Judah as Assistant
Director. Top Secret: http://www.current.tv/studio/media/17990...This one
was written, directed, and edited by Judah, with myself as Assistant
Director. | | |
| The GOP pattern determines the ration of P- to B- frames within a GOP.
The most common patterns used for DVD are IBP and IBBP. All three frame
types do not have to be used in a pattern; an IP pattern is also used
in special circumstances. IBP and IBBP GOP patterns, in conjunction
with longer GOP lengths, produce the most efficient encodes.
I challenge everyone to guess #1. exactly what that means and #2. what I'm reading it from...
P.S. It sounds even more absurd when you read it outloud in a british accent.
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| I am an adult...scary prospect, I have decided. With being an adult,
comes the various different levels that you reach as you
become..well...more adult. And this week, in the lovely month of April,
I have reached the adult level of taxes. Yes folks, I now am required
to figure out taxes since I am out of college and actually making money.
Now, the idea of paying someone money to figure out how much
money I have to pay the government just does not sit well with me. So,
i determined to figure out the SAT-like forms of the National and State
tax commissions. I discovered that there is something called the
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, which basically states that they tell
you how much time it should take to fill out these forms. They are as
follows:
Recordkeeping........45 min
Learing about the law or the form.........4 min
Preparing the form..........35 min
Copying, assembling, and sending the form to the IRS..........20 min
Times are subject to change.
Now, due to my fluctuating job status last year, I have 1 W-2 form, and
2 1099's. So, laying in bed the other night, I pull out all my tax
information that i gathered in the day and proceeded to read through
it. I discovered that the way easy form is not going to work. So thus
began my circular reasoning. If i have extra income, (the 1099's) then
i write it in the one box in the 1040, unless it's a 1099, then if it's
a 1099 I have to fill out the C form unless it has money in box 7 of
the 1099, if it does(and mine did) then i have to fill out an SE form
and a C form along with a 1040 and pledge my firstborn to them, because
that would mean I'm self-employed, except I wasn't self-employed. So,
after an hour's worth of that circular reasoning, i threw it on the
ground and went to sleep, frustrated with the prospect of having to pay
someone to tell me i owe money.
The next day, lunch hour comes around and I call the person that
everyone should call if they find themselves in a confusing
prediciment...my mommy. Afterall, she's been an adult for much longer
than I have...and she's watched the people that she's paid to tell her
to pay money to the government. So, for another hour and a half, we
pour over the forms, discover the C-EZ form that will work for me and
fill out the 1040 and C-EZ form. And another hour that evening we fill
out the Oklahoma tax forms, which, I must say, are friendlier than the
IRS ones.
And so, just now, I made copies of all documents one could hope to
stuff in an envelope-1 W-2, 2 1099's, 2 tax forms, and 2 1098's(bank
and student loan interest) and sent out both the state and national
taxes, complete with checks to each. I have officially reached another
adult level...woohoo for paying money to the government!
Oh, and i think those times for the Paperwork Reduction Act Notice are a little off.
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| The Evolution of the Lunch Box:
Elementary school: Cute square plastic boxes (or the occasional tin) with
your favorite cartoon on the outside, and matching thermos.
Jr. High: Insulated water-proof nylon or canvas bag, sometimes colorful,
sometimes your standard black.
High School: Ordinary brown paper sack.
College: Whatever fits on your tray.
Workplace: plastic Walmart sack. No joke. Our fridge is filled with them, as
well as the occasional Target or Reasor's. So sad... | | |
| I've recently had some thoughts on call waiting...that lovely little
modern convienence that people become addicted to. But think about it,
you're having a nice little conversation with a friend, maybe one you
haven't talked to in a while, and suddenly, you hear the 'beep beep' of
your call waiting, letting you know that someone else is crying
out for your attention. What is your first reaction? Do you instantly
stop what you were saying and apologetically tell the person that
someone else, who you would much rather converse with, is buzzing in?
Or do you realize that you know exactly who's calling you and they can
just as easily leave a voice mail, even a more lovely little modern
convienence.
I suppose it all comes down to our type of communiation in
today's world. Multi-tasking relationships. And I admit, I have
been on the landline phone with one person and answered my cell phone
at the same time. But the more I think about it, the more I realize the
message that I'm sending. I have one friend who refuses to answer his
call waiting because he thinks it's rude. And it's true. You are
telling the person you are talking to that they are not as important.
You are not listening, truely listening and becoming engaged in their
life.
So, i have determined to focus completely on the person I'm currently
talking to, realizing that once I have finished talking to them, I can
simply call the missed calls and thus give my attention,
whole-heartedly, to the other person.
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