He was looking for a particular stuffed animal, and he said "you know Dad, when a kid is looking through his basket of stuffed animals, he sure goes through a LOT of memories."
Very true, my boy, very true.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Feisty Fawn Foul-Ups
Well, overall, the upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 went OK. Problems so far:
* the hrxcode script I found for transcoding HD recordings to smaller Divx files no longer works. Not sure why. Wrote to the author with no reply. Will have to investigate... luckily it still works on my MythTV backend.
* There were some strange delays when ssh-ing over to some of my other computers, and bad delays when scp-ing. Found this post which solved the problem. Whew.
* Firefox crashes on me more, particularly when watching video.
* On the printing front, finally! Success! Instead of banging my head against the Samsung unified printer driver, someone pointed me to foo2qpdl (nice catchy name NOT) and this page which described exactly how to set it up. Worked great.
* the hrxcode script I found for transcoding HD recordings to smaller Divx files no longer works. Not sure why. Wrote to the author with no reply. Will have to investigate... luckily it still works on my MythTV backend.
* There were some strange delays when ssh-ing over to some of my other computers, and bad delays when scp-ing. Found this post which solved the problem. Whew.
* Firefox crashes on me more, particularly when watching video.
* On the printing front, finally! Success! Instead of banging my head against the Samsung unified printer driver, someone pointed me to foo2qpdl (nice catchy name NOT) and this page which described exactly how to set it up. Worked great.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Edgy to Feisty
Ubuntu 7.04, goofily codenamed Feisty Fawn, has just been released... I decided to post a link to a guide on how to (easily) upgrade the 6.10 Edgy Eft version to the latest and greatest. Not sure of all the advantages but there's a new thing called Ubuntu Studio that will run under Feisty that looks intriguing IF it works. Which reminds me, I still can't get my new Samsung laser printer to work via Ubuntu. Who knows, maybe Feisty will fix that. Yeah, right.
Upgrading Edgy to Feisty
Upgrading Edgy to Feisty
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
VA Tech shooter -- round up the usual suspect
Namely, videogames. It's a horrible tragedy, and people naturally want to grasp for answers to how someone could do something so monstrous. And, of course, the easiest thing to blame is videogames. Again, I can't believe I'm agreeing with Rush Limbaugh, but he points out that there are any number of things that could have caused this guy to go insane, and videogames are only one aspect. And Rush points out that millions of people play videogames, and millions have guns, but not everyone kills multiple people. Of course, if the guy didn't have the guns, I doubt he'd have been able to kill as many people with his CD of Counterstrike.
Kotaku: Rush Limbaugh
Kotaku: Rush Limbaugh
Vegas and NAB
Well, Vegas was much less kind to me this trip than it was a week ago. I didn't lose big but I certainly lost. In a strange twist of fate my mom was actually in Las Vegas at the same time I was, along with two of her friends and my godmother! Small world. I got a chance to hang out with them a bit and talk. My mom was doing much better than I was slots-wise
As for NAB, it was the usual gigantic zoo experience. I watched many of Apple's demos of the various parts of their new Final Cut Studio 2; was very impressed with the new versions of Motion and Soundtrack Pro. It will also be nice to do watermarking in Compressor and to have multiprocessor support, albeit kinda kludgey.
I was not willing to wait in line to see the Red camera, but I did see Peter Jackson's footage in action at the Apple booth.
Adobe's new suite looks very nice, and they're definitely integrating Flash and Flash Video into every part of it, which has some good advantages.
It's hard to decide what kind of HD camera to get at work. As one might say at an ice cream store, they all look so good, how can you pick? (I've already made my pick at home and sadly that was about a month too early... Canon upgraded the HV10 I bought and gave it HDMI out and a different form factor. Oh well.)
I got to see three famous people: Garrett Miller, inventor of the Steadicam, Bob Heil, inventor of many different microphones and loudspeakers, and Sinbad. OK, two famous people.
Right now I'm just chillin' at the Las Vegas Airport... 3 hours until my flight departs. I will likely get no sleep on the plane as usual, but I'll give it a go.
As for NAB, it was the usual gigantic zoo experience. I watched many of Apple's demos of the various parts of their new Final Cut Studio 2; was very impressed with the new versions of Motion and Soundtrack Pro. It will also be nice to do watermarking in Compressor and to have multiprocessor support, albeit kinda kludgey.
I was not willing to wait in line to see the Red camera, but I did see Peter Jackson's footage in action at the Apple booth.
Adobe's new suite looks very nice, and they're definitely integrating Flash and Flash Video into every part of it, which has some good advantages.
It's hard to decide what kind of HD camera to get at work. As one might say at an ice cream store, they all look so good, how can you pick? (I've already made my pick at home and sadly that was about a month too early... Canon upgraded the HV10 I bought and gave it HDMI out and a different form factor. Oh well.)
I got to see three famous people: Garrett Miller, inventor of the Steadicam, Bob Heil, inventor of many different microphones and loudspeakers, and Sinbad. OK, two famous people.
Right now I'm just chillin' at the Las Vegas Airport... 3 hours until my flight departs. I will likely get no sleep on the plane as usual, but I'll give it a go.
Friday, April 13, 2007
TV recap rundown random thoughts thing post
Ugh, haven't posted in a while, work's kept me pinned down. But I thought I would mention a few items on the TV front. Not really sure why, maybe it's because I had a lot of TV catching-up to do after being gone for a week on vacation.
* I'm really liking 24 this season. Lots of good twists and last-instant turns. It worried me for a while to hear that the producer of the show might really buy into some of the right-wing fantasies of the show (e.g. torture is always reliable, so what if freedoms are being infringed, etc.), but in general they do seem to not make the show be too harsh in either direction. I hate to agree with Rush Limbaugh of all people, but hey, it's just a show.
* How is it that Paulina Porizkova and Leeza Gibbons have been booted from Dancing with the Stars, yet Clyde Drexler and John Ratzenberger are still on? I mean, I disliked the Miss USA chick that got booted, but still, she was better than those two guys in a heartbeat.
* In other Dancing thoughts, Cheryl Burke must NEVER wear hair extensions again. She looked silly. And Apolo's partner, Julianne Hough, is insanely cute. Oh oh, she's from Salt Lake City and has 10 siblings. Guess we know who's voting for Mitt Romney...
* I'm enjoying 30 Rock more and more. Yes, I think Tina Fey is cute, but the show is funny and current (I liked their recent Mitt Romney reference, wow, and here I am making two Romney references in the same post), and Alec Baldwin is hilarious in it.
* Lost is still dead to me. I'm still recording it but I haven't watched it in months. I read the synopses on ABC's website instead. Much more efficient.
* I'm really liking 24 this season. Lots of good twists and last-instant turns. It worried me for a while to hear that the producer of the show might really buy into some of the right-wing fantasies of the show (e.g. torture is always reliable, so what if freedoms are being infringed, etc.), but in general they do seem to not make the show be too harsh in either direction. I hate to agree with Rush Limbaugh of all people, but hey, it's just a show.
* How is it that Paulina Porizkova and Leeza Gibbons have been booted from Dancing with the Stars, yet Clyde Drexler and John Ratzenberger are still on? I mean, I disliked the Miss USA chick that got booted, but still, she was better than those two guys in a heartbeat.
* In other Dancing thoughts, Cheryl Burke must NEVER wear hair extensions again. She looked silly. And Apolo's partner, Julianne Hough, is insanely cute. Oh oh, she's from Salt Lake City and has 10 siblings. Guess we know who's voting for Mitt Romney...
* I'm enjoying 30 Rock more and more. Yes, I think Tina Fey is cute, but the show is funny and current (I liked their recent Mitt Romney reference, wow, and here I am making two Romney references in the same post), and Alec Baldwin is hilarious in it.
* Lost is still dead to me. I'm still recording it but I haven't watched it in months. I read the synopses on ABC's website instead. Much more efficient.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Spring Break Day 1
What a day yesterday was. Got up at 6AM, got a cab at 7AM, not to the airport, but to the start of our annual spring 10 mile run. Ran it at a good clip, just under 8 minute miles. Yay me. Walked 2 more miles to our car which we parked as near as we could get the night before.
Drove home, got the kids (they had a sleepover at the neighbor's house), packed some more, got another taxi at noon, drove to the airport, got on the plane, flew 5 hrs to Vegas (thank you Nintendo), got a van, drove 2.5 hrs to St. George Utah, got our room, zonked at about 12:30AM Eastern time. Yipes, what a day.
And now, we're up. Still dark here. Gonna get some camping gear and food, then hit Zion this afternoon. I'll post pictures when possible.
One funny story for the trip to St. George. We had stopped in Vegas and gotten dinner, but didn't get anything to drink for the road. We'd started driving and the kids started saying they were thirsty. Makes sense, we're in the desert. Of course, we had no water in the car, and the nearest stop was 45 miles away in Mesquite. We kept hearing how thirsty they were, and we kept not getting to Mesquite. Anyhow, Anna had been drawing, and she said "Look at my drawings!" And what were they of? A raincloud. A tall glass of lemonade. A bottle of Dasani water. The ocean. Ha ha, very funny.
Drove home, got the kids (they had a sleepover at the neighbor's house), packed some more, got another taxi at noon, drove to the airport, got on the plane, flew 5 hrs to Vegas (thank you Nintendo), got a van, drove 2.5 hrs to St. George Utah, got our room, zonked at about 12:30AM Eastern time. Yipes, what a day.
And now, we're up. Still dark here. Gonna get some camping gear and food, then hit Zion this afternoon. I'll post pictures when possible.
One funny story for the trip to St. George. We had stopped in Vegas and gotten dinner, but didn't get anything to drink for the road. We'd started driving and the kids started saying they were thirsty. Makes sense, we're in the desert. Of course, we had no water in the car, and the nearest stop was 45 miles away in Mesquite. We kept hearing how thirsty they were, and we kept not getting to Mesquite. Anyhow, Anna had been drawing, and she said "Look at my drawings!" And what were they of? A raincloud. A tall glass of lemonade. A bottle of Dasani water. The ocean. Ha ha, very funny.
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