Feb
18
Plug and huge thanks goes out to whoever created car-part.com. Simple site to search the inventory of scrap/salvage yards all over the country. Allows you to search for specific items by year, make, model, and condition.
Broke down and bit the android bullet after Verizon finally pissed me off for the last time. Only problem i have run into so far is the lack of an easy to find driver for Windows7 64 bit. Took a little bit of google work but thanks to the great folks at Softpedia.com i was able to find a solution. Check the PDF linked to at the bottom of this post for details on how to make this happen.
TV Comparison
I’m like a giddy four yr old on Christmas Eve. Finally took the plunge into the big screen game and it comes on Wednesday. Above is a small size comparison.
Aug
26
Aug
13
Storm cell hit my town today with wind speeds gusting upwards of 80 miles and hour. Power outages, small hail, and torrential down poors causes damage all over town. Reports a church steeple being blown off of a church and countless trees downed blocking streets and damaging homes and vehicles.
My cars front fender was damaged by flying debris and my a third of my Hawthorne tree was downed. Do to the rapid approach of the storm, i was unaware of the impending power loss and lost two hours worth of work… Some one buy me a UPS please.
Shots are tree after all is said and done, damage to car, tree half way though cleaning it up.
Jun
15
I have a few dead/brown spots in my yard that i have wanted to take care of and didn’t want to take care. I could have placed some grass seed but i think I’ve missed my window of opportunity as it is now well into summer. However I came across a product at the local big box home improvement store and decided to give it a try.
The product appears to be ground up and shredded paper compacted with fertilizer and grass seed. I won’t pretend to know what the concoction does but i thought i would document what happens daily through its seven day course. Here are a few pics of its application.
After attending a recent SCCA SOLOII event, that some friends competed in, i’ve been working on compiling some video footage into a meaningful format. I have 17 runs recorded and wanted to be able to show/analyze the individual runs to show where improvement can be made. watching each run one after another proved useless so i wanted to quad view (display four frames at once) to see how each car looked in each sector. I ran into problems when i realized what i thought would be a staple feature seemed to only exist on professional clients.
Then i found AVSynth. Great little scirpting language that allows for this feature and a ton others and its OSS. To tie a little bit of a gui into it, i recommend also looking into AvsP as an editor. Any text editor will work but this will provide you will a visual preview of your output. Here is an example of the script i used to create a 2×3 grid of video. If you are used to windows shell scripting this should read like english to you.
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v1=AviSource(“L:\7.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
v2=AviSource(“L:\9.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
v3=AviSource(“L:\11.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
v4=AviSource(“L:\13.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
v5=AviSource(“L:\15.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
v6=AviSource(“L:\17.avi”).LanczosResize(400,300).AddBorders(4,4,4,4)
StackHorizontal(StackVertical(v1, v4), StackVertical(v2, v5), StackVertical(v3, v6))
#~End Script
BestWeekEver.tv has recently placed a poll to select the movie that most represented the 90’s. My choice would have been a toss up between Clerks, Wayne’s World, and Airheads as those are the ones i most enjoy and still quote most of. Due to the flocks (200k+) of fellow @ThatKevinSmith followers, Clerks was pushed through and rained champ.
To that i can say two things.
See kids, every vote counts!
and
Fly fat ass. Fly!!!
