When You Been Running The Lamps At Full For So Long, The Burning Gel Makes It Look Like We're Running

When you been running the lamps at full for so long, the burning gel makes it look like we're running a hazer.

Press F for those poor colour frames.

I think the amazingly talented Canadian artist Kate Beaton has a plausible explanation for why the Newfoundland site was abandoned.

It's probably less amusing if you're not familiar with the Newfie accent. It's a beautiful thing.

There I was, trying to pronounce the site all French and proper, or as close I could reason to it. "Yah, I'm travelling over to see L'awn-se Oh Meh-doe" I'd explain. They'd give me a curious look, then brighten. "Oh! Lance o'medows! Beautiful place, that. Right, b'ye, you be takin' care of yerself. First bike we've 'ad through this season, yet."

Amazing people, every meeting was pure generosity and warmth.

When one say vikings sailed to america it might sound impressive

It gets less impressive when one realise that the america mostly spoken about in that context is greenland

And this is the distance between greenland iceland

Now greenland is a gigantic island, Kulusuk was just a place in greenland i found which were near iceland but STILL

Baaaaddddd modem! Yay!!

So we can't use the remotes for lamp check until it's replaced, but we have control once again.

And the audience had a show locked in one lighting state.

Which got a good natured chuckle when the power is supposed to be shut off in the second act.

"My word, the lights seem to have gone out..." -fully lit stage- "We had best get the candles to dispel the darkness." /sigh

THE SHOW. IT GOES ON.

Honestly, I find quirks like that make the event more memorable, the audience gets a little extra for their experience, and brings out the bond of "we're all only human after all, telling stories to each other in the dark." Like living an outtakes montage.

It’s Liiiiiivvve Theatre!

So I’m doing an understudy track for Glass Menagerie, everything’s good, preshow went fine, up in the booth behind the board operator, half paying attention since it’s just a “Go” show.

When suddenly…

“Console has lost control of the system…”

Thankfully we run a parallel backup.

Except.

It’s not advancing the cues?

And now it’s “searching for master console…”

And the lights still aren’t changing.

And I know it’s terrible. But there’s a part of me that’s like. “For once… This happened to someone else…” Because I’ve been dealing with system glitches like this in here for years.

So we announce to the audience. Please stand by. Technical difficulties. We will resume shortly.

Turn on the works. Except we can’t access the Paradigm system. So we pop on the emergency lights. And reset the boards. They look good! Except still not controlling the lights.

So we reset the dimmers!

Which does nothing.

So we reset the network!

Which does nothing.

So now we’re waiting for intermission.

Thankfully the dimmers locked on in the last cue, and it’s a bright stage look, so THE SHOW GOES ON.

Liiivvvveeee theaaatrreeee.

One of the problems of being the only technician under 45 -

Is when one of the carpenters doesn't unhook enough coils off the air hose holder, and calls over to help him out, and I holler:

....

No one else gets it.

Ah well.

It's Liiiiiivvve Theatre!

So I'm doing an understudy track for Glass Menagerie, everything's good, preshow went fine, up in the booth behind the board operator, half paying attention since it's just a "Go" show.

When suddenly...

"Console has lost control of the system..."

Thankfully we run a parallel backup.

Except.

It's not advancing the cues?

And now it's "searching for master console..."

And the lights still aren't changing.

And I know it's terrible. But there's a part of me that's like. "For once... This happened to someone else..." Because I've been dealing with system glitches like this in here for years.

So we announce to the audience. Please stand by. Technical difficulties. We will resume shortly.

Turn on the works. Except we can't access the Paradigm system. So we pop on the emergency lights. And reset the boards. They look good! Except still not controlling the lights.

So we reset the dimmers!

Which does nothing.

So we reset the network!

Which does nothing.

So now we're waiting for intermission.

Thankfully the dimmers locked on in the last cue, and it's a bright stage look, so THE SHOW GOES ON.

Liiivvvveeee theaaatrreeee.

https://twitter.com/TraceyKent/status/1129216728603480064?s=19

THIS.

IS.

UNACCEPTABLE.

This is not behaviour fitting for Canada.

We used to be a world leader in progressive rights and support.

Shame on you, Ford!

An already highly at risk for suicide group and you do this?

Every person who just had their excitement and hopes of a happy, normal life; who have just had that pulled out from under them with no discussion or announcement; who risk teetering at the edge of bottomless despair.

Any Trans person who end their lives because of this news, their deaths are on your hands. No amount of money 'saved' justifies any cuts to health care. And it's not like you'll save it anyway. You'll just pass it off for some rich friends tax break.

You are deplorable, disgusting, corrupt, and vile.

I hope you have to get ten colonoscopies. And since you've cut funding for anesthesia during them, I hope you feel every quarter inch of the camera tube probing into your fat ass. And I hope it's terrible.