Alan C. Baird's Open Salon Blog

+ 2 = 10 formatters.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:11:33 -0500

I just created 2 more free script formatting templates, enlarging the Screenwright(R) family to 10:

1) screenplay,
2) A4 screenplay,
3) sitcom,
4) A4 sitcom,
5) theater/stage play,
6) A4 theater/stage play,
7) audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film,
8) A4 audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film,
9) radio, and
10) A4 radio.

Whew. I need a nap.

Things are looking up...

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:11:05 -0500

"The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare" [Sky & Telescope Magazine]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Oh, wait... (Repeat after me: it takes 20 katuns to complete a baktun, and 20 baktuns to make a pictun. In the Mayan calendar, 2012 simply marks the beginning of Baktun 14, a lesser version of Y2K. And the secret planet of Nibiru is just swamp gas. Darn.)

Ow, we want debunk / Give up debunk / Ow, we need the funk / Gotta have that funk. --with apologies to George Clinton

"The Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes teamed up with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to provide a glimpse of our galaxy that shows far more than our human eyes can see." [Wired Magazine]

I can see my house!

"LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon" [NASA]

Finally: definitive proof that Armstrong and Aldrin dropped a bottle of Evian.

Space rock buzzes past Earth [30 times closer than the moon, with 15 hours warning]: "[...] the close encounter serves as a reminder that someday a much bigger rock may well hit us and that it's best to be prepared." [MSNBC]

With what, umbrellas? Let's face it, we're f*cked. Time to par-taaay!

Two more script formatters...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:11:55 -0500

have just been added to the five I created last week:

6) audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script, and
7) A4 audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script.

UPDATE: I was just informed that the Screenwright(R) script formatting family of templates will be featured as "Solution Of The Month" in the next OpenOffice.org Newsletter, which is read by more than 100,000 users.

The Pine Tree State.

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 08:11:27 -0500

I was born in Maine. But I still can't understand how those Maineacs could vote "yes" on pot and "no" on gay marriage in the same night. I should probably buy some of these teeshirts for my relatives...

Five new formatters!

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:11:12 -0500

Last year, I created the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatting template for OpenOffice.org's word processing program, and it won a cash award from Sun Microsystems. I've always wanted to make more free script formatters available to OOo users, and I finally got around to it:

1) A4 screenplay (for the 8.27" x 11.69" ISO 216 paper format),
2) sitcom,
3) A4 sitcom,
4) theater/stage play, and
5) A4 theater/stage play.

The above links point to OOo's Extensions site. Here's the number of downloads ("Hits") initiated from another OOo site, Templates.