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Dec. 22nd, 2004 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kamomilI am having great fun tracking the IP addresses of visitors to lorrainequirke.com. I look them all up in samspade.org, and there are definitely patterns as to who is visiting. Some local ISPs, and several cities have one or two ISPs dropping in. It's like when I collected stamps when I was a kid, and had to find out that Nippon was Japan, Hellas was Greece, and no country name was England.
"Tracking" is a funny word. However not as funny as "ride" I guess. They are both audio terms for the same thing: adjusting levels on the fly. I have heard people from one company use "track," and "ride" everywhere else. "Ride" brings to mind a bucking bronco image. "Track" sounds far more technical and cool. Film and TV are funny industries; they are populated by both old stalwarts and tech-savvy newcomers, so some terms sound venerable but dusty, and some sound cutting-edge-state-of-the-art. Don't underestimate the tech-savvy old stalwarts though. The best example is a camera tech that I met with muttonchop whiskers, grey hair, and opinions about 4:2:2 tape formats. lol Computer knowledge? Some engineers I've met not only have shockingly current knowledge, underneath a scruffy image, but all the cumulative knowledge of having built their first computer (and I don't mean assembling a PC. I mean pre-Commodore 64 computer-building.).
"Tracking" is a funny word. However not as funny as "ride" I guess. They are both audio terms for the same thing: adjusting levels on the fly. I have heard people from one company use "track," and "ride" everywhere else. "Ride" brings to mind a bucking bronco image. "Track" sounds far more technical and cool. Film and TV are funny industries; they are populated by both old stalwarts and tech-savvy newcomers, so some terms sound venerable but dusty, and some sound cutting-edge-state-of-the-art. Don't underestimate the tech-savvy old stalwarts though. The best example is a camera tech that I met with muttonchop whiskers, grey hair, and opinions about 4:2:2 tape formats. lol Computer knowledge? Some engineers I've met not only have shockingly current knowledge, underneath a scruffy image, but all the cumulative knowledge of having built their first computer (and I don't mean assembling a PC. I mean pre-Commodore 64 computer-building.).
