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  • Police
    Sunday, 9 August 2015

    Since the events in Ferguson, MO, I’ve been tuned into many occurrences where the police have threatened or shot innocent people in our country. In fact, you are six time more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist in the US.

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  • Lost
    Monday, 13 July 2015

    For some reason I was thinking back to the TV series “Lost”, and for some reason I thought of the character Rose. If you don’t remember, she was cured of cancer while she was on the island. Besides the candy and other supplies they found and a few fruits they found, they seemed to hunt for boar and fish for most of their food. I know it’s fiction, but maybe that diet was what caused that miracle. Was JJ Abrams promoting a ketogenic diet?

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  • We
    Monday, 13 July 2015

    I heard the phrase “we made it to Pluto” in regards to the New Horizon mission reaching the faraway (dwarf) planet. The word “we” made me stop and think. It is not “we” = NASA, it’s not “we” = Americans, it is “we” = humanity. That’s pretty awesome, this goes up there with other accomplishments that are too big for someone, some group, some nation to claim. There aren’t too many things like that (good or bad – “we” did WWII too), events that define history, that get to use that word to mean everyone, all humans. The “we” that represents the pinnacle of our accomplishment as a species or as a planet (considering “we” are the product of a lot of events on this planet before humanity existed). Mr. Tombaugh was there (his ashes were aboard the mission to Pluto), but unfortunately no longer living to witness our arrival at this other world as we are lucky enough to do.

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  • USB Disk Performance
    Tuesday, 9 December 2008

    I recently got a drive enclosure that allows it to be connected via eSATA or USB2. I got a nifty ExpressCard eSATA adapter for my MacBook Pro since eSATA is theoretically faster. Guess what? It is a lot faster!

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    • apple
    • performance
  • Synchronizing audio and video with DVDImport 5.0
    Monday, 17 November 2008

    DVD Import 5.0 is much improved as far as keeping the audio in sync with the video on imported media. However, there are some cases that still cause DVD Import to get the audio out of sync. Never fear, there is a new Audio Processing option that lets you override the Sync.

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  • Oil :(
    Thursday, 19 June 2008

    With the price of oil spiraling out of control, people are getting upset at the cost of gas which got me thinking, “why is this a big deal?”

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    • energy
  • More Help for Unsupported Formats on the SX
    Friday, 11 April 2008

    I’ve been working a little more on my little utility for fixing files to play on the SX servers from Tightrope Media Systems. I’ve added the ability to process files other than MPEG files (such as WMV or most AVI files). It will convert audio in these files as well as fix problems with the video by scaling to 720x480 and converting frame rate to 29.97. When fixing the video, it will transcode the files to the ubiquitous MPEG2 format to play on the server (so don’t process files you don’t want to have re-encoded).

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  • Automotive Advancements
    Tuesday, 1 April 2008

    The worst innovation with automobiles in the past few years is the automatic sliding side door on mini-vans.

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    • rant
  • Computer Bliss
    Friday, 21 March 2008

    In response to my co-worker Brandon’s recent post about his computer upgrades… and possibly a little follow-up to my previous post about the MacBook Air…

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  • Trouble with audio sample rates and SX Servers
    Thursday, 6 March 2008

    One of the things I’ve been hearing from our support guys at Tightrope Media Systems is a lot of people have legacy content that is 44.1kHz audio that they would like to play back on their SX Server. The server, however, requires the standard DVD sample rate of 48kHz. This leaves everyone sad.

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