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Harlan County U.S.A and Hoop Dreams are pretty much mandatory viewing. For a laugh, I quite enjoyed Monster Camp.

I think making the sliders a bit larger and centered on the page would help, and though I do like "cloudorado", it's a bit hard to spell. Maybe playing around with misspellings like "clouddorado" or abbreviations like "cloudr" could work.

The sky really is falling :/

e: Dang, maybe I should have used a snark mark.

What in the world is a social genius?

Oh, while you're at home depot, get yourself a little cart to serve as a ghetto dolly, and don't forget to buy a tripod. You can fake a good steadycam with these two, but you should always use a tripod. Oh, and add "Guerilla filmmaking" by Robert Rodriguez to the reading list.

The best book on video editing, bar none, is Walter Murch's "In the Blink of an Eye" so, get that and read it like 20 times. Then get yourself a copy of FCP and use export for web.

To shoot good video, the choice of camera (at least, prosumer) is not as important as lighting technique, I recommend getting a film production textbook from eBay(they're all pretty good really) and a trip to home depot to buy materials for a green screen, and make yourself a cheap lighting kit. For compositing and effects software, I can't really recommend after effects, but that's what I've used before. (eagerly awaiting an open source JavaScript replacement :( #wildestdreams

That should leave you in good shape. as for actors, yeah, it's worth budgeting for. Some folks can do multiple voices. That's how you can tell the good ones. Plenty of talent in any city though, just go to a local theater show and ask around.

...and twitter integration! Let's get rich!

#8: A gadget to cook beans/lentils/vegetables/rice for the same amount of time (quicker than what can be done in a slow cooker.)

Ah dang, I was just about to re-invent the microwave too!

Why almost as a last resort? And, are you aware of what a weasel word is?

This usually just means that your taste has grown more refined and you no longer find the culling upsetting. Just keep doing what you're doing until you hook the big one.

I'd start by really looking at that list and start scratching off the bad ones. You can probably get down to about 5 or 6 in a few minutes. Then get down a shitty first draft of each one and figure out which one people seem to like the most.

I hope, for my own good, you're right. I gotta pay student loans on the 15th, and can't find anyone doing anything other than social networking games to take people's money, "sexy" data-mining to take people's money, or mobile fads to take people's money.

I wish I knew. I have yet to see anything like it outside of Austin. The Alamo nailed the best way to run a theater, really.

Ah, the Alamo Drafthouse, I do miss the place.

I don't think the word innovative should apply anymore to social networking games, to-do lists, or rounded corners.

Probably the biggest reason why you shouldn't work for a startup is that the word "passion" seems to be so carelessly thrown about.

So, what do you do, exactly?

I wouldn't do it unless my webapp made at least $0.25 a month (but I've been accused of hastiness before).

No offense, but I actually picked Ruby because everyone just seemed so damned excited all the time, gushing over the latest Rails release or coming up with weird names for gems, and when you're knee-deep in bug-infested legacy code or banging your head against the keyboard wondering why you're the only hacker in the world that doesn't get it, that's actually very important.

Is there anything bugging you that won't let you focus and concentrate?

I understand if you don't want to share, but what was the reason behind you and your girlfriends break-up? Is it possible that it has something to do with the way you feel now?

"...but the project seems to be on the right track again, slowly building momentum"

Enjoy it! Looks to me like it's helping.