What I Was Planning On Doing: bike to work hang out, sync up with Austin @ work go to a local bike shop and check out pedals / new brakes P. Terry’s What I Did Instead: spend an hour taking off old corroded toilet lever bike to Home Depot get new lever / longer supply…
Read More What I Did TodaySo I installed AVG 8 Free. I think was using 7.5 Free before. The new interface is nice, but AVG seems to be going the Microsoft/Norton/Nero philosophy of adding as much junk as possible to get as many bullet points for their sales departments as possible. I also scanned some Microsoft Word macro viruses, and…
Read More AVG 8 Free: slicker interface, more bloat, less functionalitySo when I get frustrated at work, I work on this list of things that annoy me while working on Macs. Of course when the problem shows up, it’s things I hate about macs.
Read More Things I Hate About MacsSo I finally got around to doing some compression tests. My source was a 1280×720 23.98fps 10bit 4:2:2 “uncompressed” quicktime. That is a typical file that comes across my desk. I wanted to see what compression I should set my Final Cut Pro timeline to. At first, I opened the quicktime in Quicktime Player and…
Read More Working with 10bit 4:2:2 QuicktimesI used to use this Greasemonkey script for my todo list, but it stopped working months ago with no fix in sight. A good place to start looking for things that let you pretend to be productive is lifehacker, and they do not disappoint. http://lifehacker.com/399985/five-best-to+do-list-managers Some factors I’m considering: I don’t want to register for…
Read More The Search for a TODO ListSo I just realized that the way I do dishes is influenced by basic supply and demand. Here’s the skinny: I don’t wash cups and utensils. Because I believe my roommates are too loose and wasteful in the use of both. So by refusing to wash them, I artificially decrease the supply of available cups…
Read More Economics and DishwashingWith the rise in food and commodity prices, I’m concerned about my favorite local ice cream manufacturer, Blue Bell. So I’ve decided to buy Blue Bell ice cream at every opportunity, no matter what the cost. Partly in support for them not downsizing their containers (I’m looking at you, Breyers!) and for nostalgia purposes later…
Read More I <3 Blue Bell Ice CreamSo I get asked to make reference samples off of DVD based material fairly often. Here’s my current quality emphasis workflow: Rip relevant portion of DVD with DVD Decrypter Create DGIndex project, decompress AC3 to PCM Import DGIndex project to Avisynth AudioDub() the decompressed PCM WAV into the Avisynth project. Add any decomb/deinterlace/resize filters as…
Read More My new DVD to Quicktime workflow