Monday, April 20, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Choosing a House
After our full day or running around Harry and I went over the email our realtor sent us on potential houses. Out of 31 homes we liked 8 and marked them as a possibilities and had 1 favorite, but rejected the rest for being to small, to expensive, an auction, or just not to our liking... we even had one next to a cemetery which creep me out but Harry found my reaction hilarious. So now we send this back to our Realtor and she sets up appointments to view them next weekend.. we're very excited.The house pictured to the right is the one we liked the most.. will see it next weekend.
Stealing Gas and Running Errands
After getting gas we went to CVS for prescription, Bank to deposit money, Target to buy some tools, Vet to pick up some skin pills for Daisy, Barnes and Noble to buy a book on house buying then had lunch at PF Chang's (first time and it was very good), then I had to go to work for a few hours and Harry helped me transfer files, then we went grocery shopping then home were we watched more TV and I did a little bit more editing of The Ready Room podcast..
All in all a very packed day.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Never judge a book by it's cover
Last Saturday on a British TV show called Britain's Got Talent as very modest and quirky woman took the stage to laughs, eye rolling and ridicule from the crowds and judges. Then she opened her mouth and this angelic sound came from it. The crowd went crazy with applause, the judges jaws dropped and this very sweet older lady blew away this crowd.My friend Tim Tweeted and posted on the Treksf forums the video of this since being in the US I wasn't able to see this. I watched it on Monday morning and was in tears. It was so inspirational, moving and the perfect way to start my week.
What is more is this woman's background and the life she lead. She had been taking care of her dying mother for years and years until recently when she passed away. She lives with her cat Pebbles and has never been kiss. So the song she sang I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable just fit her life so well, it added another dimension to this lovely woman's performance.
Now five days later I still cry watching her performance and am moved beyond words.. I've watch it about 20 times so far. Her video on YouTube has had more then 16 million hits in five days, she has become a worldwide celebrity over night and I couldn't be more happier for her.
Today I watched her first (of many) US appearance on CBS Morning Talk Show and she is very quiet and awkward and you can tell she still not quite sure what is happening.. but she sang again live and it was FANTASTIC.
Bottom line is we put FAR TOO MUCH emphasis on looks and FAR TOO LITTLE on just accepting a person for his or herself. And shame on us. I have never been one to judge people on look alone but this video and Susan's courage to stand up there as inspired me to double my effects in accepting everyone. Susan, you are an inspiration. You are a BEAUTIFUL person with a voice to match!!
If you haven't seen her check her out on you tube.
Recording The Ready Room
Friday, April 17, 2009
Still at Work
It's One of Those Days
Besides those uploads we have DC special and webisodes that we have to upload to the network.
It's going to be a long night.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
New Harry Potter Trailer
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Knights of the Guild Ep 3
- First up we have our monthly Vorkism, every month Vork will bestow his words of wisdom to us.
- Our location today is Clara’s house, babysitting her kids
- We talk breifly about Season Three.
- For our Fan interview we have die hard fan Chris F.
- We update you on the Cast and Crew and what they currently are up too.
- For our BTS segment we discuss our experience working on Season Two Episode Five: Sacking Up.
- We have a very special cast interview: Vince Caso who plays Bladezz
- We have our Fan Feedback section with our very first audio feedback.
- We ask for Donations.
- Then we have our final words and we say goodbye.
- Captain Dan Dixon vs. The Moth Sluts From the Fifth Dimension http://zombiejoes.homestead.com/CaptainDanDixonVSMothSluts.html
- The Crew http://TheCrew.tv
- The Guild http://www.watchtheguild.com
- Delta H Con
- Kim Evey’s Workshop http://www.swamp.org/workshops.html
- Knights of the Guild Feeds/Downloads http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com
- Knights of the Guild Daily Blog http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/
Knights of the Guild Episode 3 <--- click on link to go to feed
Show Notes:
Here it is Episode 3 of Knights of the Guild. We hope you enjoy it.
Today’s show features:
Please send your audio or written comments to knightsoftheguild@gmail.com or you can leave your comments in the comment section of this site.
Check out our daily blog at http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/
Follow us on twitter @knightsofguild
Thank you again for all your support, we do this podcast because we are fans for the fans.
Kenny & Jenni
Other Important Links
Podcast Promo’s played during the show this week:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Knights of the Guild Ep 3 - Editing
Paley Festival - Dr. Horrible Sing Along Blog
Today I went to the Acrlight Cinerama Dome to watch the Paley Festival presentation of Doctor Horrible Sing Along Blog. My friend Chris got some tickets and knew I was a huge fan so he asked if I wanted to go with him.. of course I said yes. We had such great seats.. about seven rows back but right in the middle.The night started with watching Doctor Horrible on the big screen which was FANTASTIC!!!! After that Joss, Zack, and Jeb Whedon along with Nathon Fillion, Felicia Day and Maurissa Tancharoen came up on stage and talked about filming, producing and acting in Doctor Horrible. Then they took questions from fans. It was a very fun night but the best part happened when it was over.
As soon as they said goodnight hundreds of crazy fans rushed the stage for autographs. I wanted to say hi to Felicia and introduce Chris to her. I tried to fight the crowd but soon gave up and Chris said we should go stand where the exit and about ten minutes Felicia started to head out as she was leaving she had to get her purse and as she was walking back to her seat I got as close as I could and said hi. She looked up and saw me, she gave me that wonderful smile and said "Kenny.. it's so good to see you, I'm so happy you came." and gave me a hug. Of course folks were clamoring around us trying to get her autograph. She signed a few then introduced me to George Ruiz (her agent) as he went to shake my hand as Felicia mentioned that I was the one who did the Behind the Scene stuff for season two and he gave me a give big smile and said "Oh Felicia sings your praises, thank you very much for all your work." I was beyond flattered. I then was about to introduce my friend Chris to Felicia she greeted him with a smile and hand shake. She then went to sign more autographs and I decided to leave as I got to say hi and it was going to be a while before those guys would be able to get out of there.
It was a great night and again it just re-enforced how wonderful Felicia Day is. Can't wait to get back on set for Season Three.
Home Loan
Now the fun begins by looking for a home.. I'll keep you posted.
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Ready Room Podcast
Still want to do one final pass on KOTG #3 before I post it on the 15th.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Lunch
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Finished KOTG #3
Today I finished editing Knights of the Guild Podcast #3. Since I did most of the work the past few days it was pretty easy to finish. I was laughing out loud several times and I think this is my favorite we have done so far. I'm now sending to Jenni for her approval but it's 99% done. I'll do a little more polishing and it will be posted on April 15th.
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
Today Harry and I watched the second of four Doctor Who TV specials for 2009/2010. This one was titled Planet of the Dead. It's been a while since we saw any new Who and it was nice jumping back in with our favorite Doctor. It was really good, interesting story, and I love that everyone survived, well except the bus driver and the two fly aliens. I was expecting each person to get picked off one at a time like the Xmas special.. so that was fun and I really liked Michele Ryan as a companion. Very much The Doctors equal, too bad she's not sticking around. Loved the warning, he will knock four times.. I wonder who she is talking about .. the Master?? And the preview for The Waters of Mars special was super creepy.. can't wait.
House Hunting
Friday, April 10, 2009
Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword
Today Harry and I watched a new Fantasy/Comedy TV series called Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword. They say it's a cross between Legend of the Seeker and Spaceballs and they were not wrong. It was stupid, cheesy and way too funny. Both Harry and I laughed out loud. It airs on Thursday nights at Comedy Central.. if you like slapstick kind of comedy set in the world of Fantasy then you'll love this.. can't wait to see the next episode. You can find out more here.
More Podcast Editing
Thursday, April 9, 2009
TV Time
Podcast Editing
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
We're Buying a House
So Harry has a rather nice amount of Euros in the bank. He suggested that we use some of this money to put a downpayment on a house. I could not believe it. I had come to the conclusion that we would never own a house since it takes two incomes and with Harry's special circumstances we would never be able to afford a downpayment... well thanks to Harry's loving parents we can.
So the first night in three weeks that I thought I would be going to bed early because I didn't have to edit anything I spent with Harry looking at houses till the wee hours in the morning.
So we are official looking for a house to buy, with low rates and falling house prices I'm hoping we can get a good deal. Going to starting looking this Saturday in the Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena area... wish us luck..
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog
Because of limitation on the Podbean website I have decided to create a Knights of the Guild Podcast Daily Blog. This new blog will have semi-daily updates on what's going on in the world of Kenny and Jenni and updating you on the progress all our the Guildie goodness.Knightsoftheguild.podbean.com will still carry our feeds, have direct downloads and show notes but daily info will be on http://knightsoftheguildpodcast.blogspot.com/
So check it out!!!
Monday, April 6, 2009
FINALLY DONE!!!!
Today after work I digitized a few problem tapes and did one more polishing pass. At about midnight I finally finished these Guild BTS DVD Extras. Even though it was a rush I think we came up with some really good pieces and I can't wait to see what the fans think when the DVD comes out.Of course I have a ton of footage and I will continue to create more BTS pieces for Watchtheguild.com website as well as The Guild's You Tube channel.
I'll keep you posted on when this stuff will be out.
Murphy's Law
LOL.. just my luck, been killing myself for the past three weeks to get this stuff done and on the day that I'm about to finish, after a 40 hour work weekend, they push back the deadline.
Oh well the good thing is that I'm almost done. A few more hours tonight I'll my pieces will be complete.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Digitizing, Digitizing, Digitizing
Today I got up really early and continue to edit my Gulid BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. At 11am Kim Evey came over and sat with me for four hours and went over each piece until we were happy with the results. Once we were done I exported the pieces and email them to Felicia for final approval. While I waited I started the long process of uprezing the footage.What I mean by uprezing is this, I have 60 hours of footage and if I digitized this footage 1:1 it would take up a very large amount of drive space, space I don't have so I digitized all the footage at 15:1 so I could get all of it in my system and take up very little drive space. Now that the pieces are done I have go go back through and re-digitize the footage that I am using in each piece.
This process normally has it's issues like timecode not matching so you digitize the wrong clip, or the tape can't find a pre-roll time and has issues digitizing. So I was anticipating problems but I have to say my first piece uprezed with not a single issue... at about 1am when I started my second uprezing I ran into a few problems and by the time I finished at 11am the next day I only had about nine clips total that I'm going to have to find manual and re-digitize and cut in.. so all in all a pretty good uprez session.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Editing All Day

From 8am to 1am I have been editing several of the Behind the Scenes DVD Extra pieces that I am doing for The Guild Second Season DVD. I have a screening with Kim Evey (Producer) Sunday AM so I have to get these done. I think they turned out pretty good. Now I just have to show Kim then Felicia.. I hope they don't have many notes.. can't wait till I get these done.
Friday, April 3, 2009
KOTG Microcast #3 - Quest for the Streamys: The Results
- Best Ensemble Cast
- Best Actress (Felicia Day)
- Best Comedy Web series
We go back to last Saturday and join our intrepid reporter Penny Jowell as she reports on the Guild cast and crew while they walk the red carpet, watch the Streamys live and head to the after parties.
The Guild won three Streamy Awards
Ms. Jowell was joined by Robert Welkner. Robert is one of the hosts of COIN-OP TV LIVE, which is part of TheStream.TV network. Along with his co-host Hailey Bright, It is the second longest running show on the network with one of the largest loyal followings. Highlights from the live show include interviews with famed video game composer Tommy Tallarico, professional gamers Fatal1ty and Stermy, the team behind Screw Attack and Director of Operations for Nexon, Min Kim. COIN-OP TV LIVE airs every Thursday at 8PM PST / 11PM EST on www.TheStream.TV!
http://coin-op.tv/ http://www.thestream.tv/series.php?s=4
Here are some photo’s of our lovely reporter Penny Jowell, yes we know she looks like Jenni Powell but there’s no relations.
Check out more picture and video at Watchtheguild.com
Editing KOTG Microcast #3
No Delay in Delivery
Thursday, April 2, 2009
More Editing
Emailed Felicia and Kim
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
What a Day!!!
Of course I had no idea it would take another six hours to upload it. For some reason my upload speed on my computer is really slow and though the piece was 1.2 gigs when I first went to upload it directly to the companies website it said it was going to take 200 hours, well that was just crazy so I decided to upload it to my personal ftp site. Well that was going to take three hours so I started the process.. at about 82% it decided to delete the upload so I had to start all over again.
Well I was uploading for a second time I went back to cutting my third piece, the one that I was suppose to be doing all day today. I managed to get a very rough cut put together but by this time it was 1am and I was way to tired to continue. About this time my second upload had worked and my first piece was ready to go.
There is no way I'm going to be ready for Friday.. gonna have to email Felicia and Kim.
Deep Space Nine Action Figures
Today I got my Deep Space Nine Series 2 Action Figures... I had pre-ordered these almost a year ago and they finally arrived. There are four characters, Kira, who looks AWESOME, O'Brien who looks pretty good... it's funny because they even gave him his double chin. Brashir who from a certain angle looks like him but from some angles he doesn't look like the actor at all and the final one Margon who looks spot on and if a very cool figure.I'm not collecting may action figures these days but Diamond is still producing some very cool Star Trek figures.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Internet Issues Resolved??
Working on Notes
Monday, March 30, 2009
TV Night
Internet Issues Continue
Sunday, March 29, 2009
More Editing
Since my of my Saturday was busy with Harry's BBQ and then Streamy Awards I didn't get much done in Editing of The Guild BTS DVD extras. So I knew today I need to kick it up. I have finished one piece and was about halfway done with a second. I really wanted to finish the second and at least get halfway done with the third. But the second piece took a little longer then planned. I had gotten up at 8am and only took two breaks (lunch and dinner) and didn't get done until around 11pm. After that I was so tired and my hands and fingers were killing me. I had been in front of that computer for 15 hours. But I finally got a cut done and sent it off to Felicia and Kim for notes.I then started on my third piece. I spent the next two and a half hours pulling interview bites. It was now 1:30am and I was too tired to continue so I called it a night. All the prep work is done for the third piece and know all I have to do is cut it together and find cover shots. I'll have to work on it at night when I get off work but I hope to have it done by Thursday night.
Then the weekend Felicia will be coming over to my place to do one final pass on the three piece, we will lock them and then I can uprez and do final outputs to send to Kim on Monday and this part of the Guild craziness will be over and I won't lie.. I am looking so forward to that.
TNG on Family Guy
I stopped for a half hour to watch this very special Family Guy which reunited the original cast of Star Trek The Next Generation.Some of my friends were disappointed with this as they have be heavily promoting this with clips of the TNG stuff. But the TNG/Stewie storyline was a very minor B story. And the Meg/Brian Religion story was the A story. But both Harry and I laughed out load at all the TNG pieces and loved every minute of it. Of course it would have been great if the episode revolved around the TNG story but what they did give us was hilarious.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Steamy Awards
Tonight was the first annual Streamy Awards (Oscars for Webseries) and The Guild and Legend of Neil are both up for awards. I had worked on the second season of both webseries. Felicia Day was kind enough to get me a ticket for the show tonight but with Harry's BBQ which we planned a month prior and my deadline for The Guild BTS DVD stuff I opted out and instead watched it live online.As I watched and read reports of folks who were there I kind of was bummed. If I wasn't so crazed I could have planned things out better and might have actually been able to attend.. but oh well I'm sure The Guild will be up for more awards next year and I'll be able to go. So instead I enjoyed watching it live and reporting on tweeter what was happening.
The Guild came away with three wins. The first one and I think one of the better ones as it's encompasses the entire cast "Best Ensemble Cast" of a webseries. Next Felicia Day won for "Best Actress" in a Comedy webseries and finally the big upset, The Guild was "Best Comedy" webseries beating out the favorite and many many award winner Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog. I was hooting and hollering at my computer screen I was so happy. The Guild may have lost out on some of the technical award to Dr. Horrible but it won some of the biggest and top awards. I'm very proud to call the cast and crew of The Guild, friends and know all their hard work paid off.
PS... Felicia Day was up for Best Writer of a Comedy Webseries and the clip they used was the one where I am a Bum on the streets from Episode 3. I almost fell out of my chair to see me on the huge screen. How cool is that.
Harry's Birthday BBQ
Today was Harry's Birthday BBQ. Ever since we moved into the house we have had a birthday BBQ as we have a great backyard for entertaining. We had a nice group of friends and family show up. We had some delicious hot dogs and hamburgers and all the sides. It was a very low key and nice party. I woke up earlier that morning in a panic because I forgot to bake his birthday cake the following night. But everything worked out great, cleaned up the house, which Harry did most of the night before, and prepped all the food and finished the cake. Everything was a success. Thanks to all those who joined us.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Internet Issues
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Editing Guild BTS and KOTG Microcast
Star Trek TNG on Family Guy
I heard about this a few months ago but Fox has up a preview of the upcoming Family Guy that features the entire reunited cast of Star Trek The Next Generation. I have watched this clip over and over and I laugh out loud every time. I can't wait till this Sunday and watch the entire episode. Check out the preview here.. you won't be sorry.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Daily Booth
Monday, March 23, 2009
8000 Visitors and More Editing
Today our Knights of the Guild website http://knightsoftheguild.podbean.com has just hit it's 8000th visitor in a month and a half. I'm so happy that folks seem to enjoy the podcast that Jenni and I work so hard to produce.On another note I continued to edit The Guild BTS pieces for the upcoming DVD. It's alot of fun but very tiring as I only have time to do it after a long 12 hour work day and stay up till 1am every night. The good and bad thing is it will be over in a few weeks as all the pieces are due then. I'll keep you posted on news of The Guild second season DVD and when we might be seeing for sale.
Knights of the Guild on Twitter
Tonight I opened a Twitter account for our Knights of the Guild podcast. Seems like I have alot of folks, almost 400 people and I'm sure the majority of them are following me because they are Guild fans, which is fantastic. So I figured it was time for KOTG to have it's own following. So if you Twitter you can follow our podcast at @KnightsofGuild or if you want to follow me on Twitter you can find me at @geekyfanboy

