RichardBerg: Errands

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Errands

(aka "stuff with deadlines")

Urgent Stuff

Quotidian Priority

follow up Dell RMA (see ScratchPad)
fix bike tire
install tail light
buy & install headlights

Real Life Miscellany

ApartmentShoppingList
do dishes

Projects

Self Improvement

(continuous)

Watch for WarningSigns
Keep Resume up to date, write CoverLetters as necessary.
Update (and stick to!) LifeSchedule (current: FreeTimePlan05)
WorkoutSchedule
Practice euph and bone
Remember to eat -- RecipeList / DietTracker
Keep WikiBlog
Keep personal journal (RandomThoughts), log SleepJournal
Practice at PartyPoker / PokerStars, Poki's Academy, occasional 2+2 posting/reading

Creative Projects

(desired timeline ~6 months)
finished ones∞

CollectedWritings currently of note:
- IntrexFAQ
- VidCapSamples
ThreadsToStart
AviSynth programming:
- GUI of doom! (timeline: infinity at job-possessing task loads)
- automated unit testing
- website/docs refactoring, including: stop trying to make them relevant to all versions; investigate move to Wikka; investigate move to 1&1 (new ftp logins? granular & easy stats? filesystem restructure?)
- fix imagereader/writer once & for all (move new ImageMagick plugin to core?)
- fix longstanding annoyances e.g. everything stickboy-functions work around, various directshowsource snafus
- investigate C# more, bug Cyrus et al. for necessary language/compiler support
- dive into 3.0 development + 2.x plugin support layer
Other programming (no order; 1-hr jobs and impossible dreams interleaved):
- crossfeed filter for headphones (DX? MC/foobar?)
- DScaler driver for Compro Ultra
- poker bot to analyze HHs
- TV/monitor calibrator (Avia / Video Essentials clone)
- script to merge Mirc and Trillian logs
- timed computer lockdown tool (aka sleep motivator)
- anti-snooze alarm clock: slowly increase music & light over 20-40min, then once max volume, require simple math question to turn off
- UPS-driven shutdown script (i.e. enable multiple machines to respond to one shutdown signal)
- script to automate VHS backups that doesn't suck
- add tables to Wikka that don't suck
- video player with modern features + Sasami interface that doesn't suck
- use modern GPUs to accelerate video and/or sound filtering (Avisynth meta-plugin? DSP backend for 3D environment synthesizer of doom?)
- persistent, concurrent STL container library. i.e., a RDBMS wrapper where transactions = handing a functor to the container
- Parser to convert Graphedit files <-> Avisynth scripts
- Virtualdub: Avisynth window
- Virtualdub: MP4 support
- Virtualdub: Launch parallel encodes from Job Control. advanced version: network-aware load balancing
- JScript to sync Outlook calendars across machines (hack around lack of multiple Exchange accounts)
- applet to control all file extensions vs. associated apps from one place. advanced version: Longhorn-style management
- script to convert wikis (esp. avisynth.org) to MediaWiki
A cappella arrangements:
- Glad - Silent Night
- 'NSync - Sailing
- Billy Joel - Longest Time
BrassRing arrangements:
- LOTR
- Brooklyn
- Warrior duet
DUMB arrangements:
- Brooklyn (before basketball-season folios go out!)
Audio editing
- church music demo CD (recorded winter '03)
- senior recitals (spring '04)
Misc arranging:
- Garmarna-ize Les Mysterieux; headbang to chanson 'apataka' ?
Learn software (current skill level / desired in above timeframe, scale 0-5):
- JCreator (1 / 3)
- VS.NET 2005 (2 / 3), SQL Server 2005 (0 / 2)
- GigaStudio (0 / 4)
- Sonar (2 / 4)

- learn El Vito piano part, maybe Liebesliederwaltzer

Organizational Projects