Two week vacation to the glorious island of Bali, summer 2010.

(specifically: win7 era P788K, 8" 1600x768 display, 2B RAM, GMA 500 graphics, 64GB SSD)

Hunter and I really really liked this film shown on PBS this week. It nicely wanders in its storytelling and is really thoughtfullly done. John Adams (I think) said his best piece of lawyer-ing was defending the British in Boston after the Boston Massacre. The military officer who defended the Gitmo detainee here is a true American hero.

From the airplane of a July trip. We sailed through a thickly overcast morning only to reveal this perfect white cottonball carpet flat layer topped with hidden brilliant buttery vitamin D sunshine! 😎

I just listened to this as a podcast and then watched the video online after that.  It’s a really interesting slice and view into the Iraq war – where they just focus on one specific platoon.  “Wounded” refers more to the psychological rather than physical wounds – although the latter relates to the former…

Cutest teddy bear kitty helps me with laundry.

Woohoo!
So after over a year of owning this site w/ little more than 10 posts and pages geared towards AIDS LifeCycle fundraising and training, I’ve finally merged my personal site into this site and updated it.  So now this is the

So I wanted to sit down in my updated home theatre and watch one of my favorite films, “Star Wars”. Problem is, I have two versions on DVD, and neither are ideal. The 2004 DVD version has remastered audio and video, but also added scenes and changes I really don’t like. The 1977 DVD version is a poor quality transfer and encoding.

I now use the FFMPEG package compiled locally on my Mac Leopard laptop.
If you want to take a bunch of JPEG images, you can turn them into a “motion JPEG” AVI video file (which is ideal for time-lapse). What’s neat about ffmpeg, is you can turn a directory of JPEGs into an AVI and later recreate the JPEGs from the AVI.