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<\/p>\nHere’s something that I waited until the last minute, and then some, to do last year:
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Actually, if you remember correctly, I waited a long<\/em> time to design the Lightscribe label for the first PDF DVD, because I didn’t even have<\/em> a Lightscribe drive until the first rush of orders came in and I could afford to go get one! Hence the infamous “First Fifty” DVDs which were hand-labeled, hand-numbered and hand-signed – really, who the heck cares about my signing the disc? That was just me trying to tiptoe around “I don’t have the money for Lightscribe yet.” If I had waited for that, it wouldn’t have been done in time for last year’s OEGE. Most people seemed okay witht he hand-labeled discs; some folks seemed a little less sure<\/a>…but that’s okay. The initial batch of PDF 1 was done in a hurry and on the cheap, and nobody knows that – or fesses up to it – more than I do.<\/p>\n One of the things I learned from the CGE DVDs this year was “if you’re going to do R&D on stuff, don’t wait until it’s the last thing holding up the release.” That was the case with the on-disc artwork on the CGE sets – it was literally the last hold-up. I knew vaguely what I wanted the Level 2 on-disc artwork to look like, so I did a few variations of it, got a single spindle of Lightscribe discs and tried it out. The variations were really differences in the background “circuitry” pattern:<\/p>\n …which my camera picked out okay, but my eye has a little bit of trouble detecting in certain lighting and\/or certain angles. And that’s exactly the effect I was looking for! I wanted to do a disc that would appear to be just text if you looked at it a certain way, and then you’d turn it slightly and the circuitry would kind of “pop out” at you. Or maybe I shouldn’t use my own eyesight as the barometer for that – I can see the sticker on the front cover now: NEW DISC DESIGN MESSES WITH EARL’S EYES!<\/p>\n Now, I just need to finish – by the end of this month! – the actual content to be burned on the other side of the disc…but once that’s out of the way, I’m already ahead of the curve on having labeled discs. I really intend for this release to be a smooth and orderly process, or as close to one as I can manage.<\/p>\n Before anyone asks, there won’t be any difference between the on-disc artwork for Level 2’s single-disc release and the ones that’ll be in the “Brown Box” bundle.<\/p>\n There’s already an ordering page up for Level 2…minus the actual “ordering” part of course. I’m considering the possibility of pre-orders for OEGE itself – i.e. pay before the show, pick up the disc at the show – but I haven’t decided yet. It’d help me in terms of having a ballpark figure of how many copies to bring, though I think that number can probably be arrived at by doing a head count of Retroputing<\/a> and Digital Press<\/a> forum members who say they’ll be there. I’ll try to have 20 copies over and above that number, but who knows, I may go bugf$#k crazy and have a bunch more. (I should also have about a dozen CGE DVD sets on hand as well, if anyone at OEGE hasn’t picked that up yet.)<\/p>\n More news…as soon as I know what the heck it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s something that I waited until the last minute, and then some, to do last year:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toiling-in-the-pixel-mines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Phosphor](\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q1-09\/pdfdiscs1.jpg\")
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