Buying a DVD player
Posted by rae in hardware
at 8:42 pm on Wednesday, 30 July 2003
Well, we’re in the market for a DVD player.
My Mom wants ours and we’re going to buy ourselves a new one in the process.
Features I’m looking for include:
at 8:42 pm on Wednesday, 30 July 2003
- progressive scan
- plays mp3 CDs
- plays all my SVCD’s
- plays DVD-R’s that I burn on a Mac with iDVD or whatever
- plays JPG CD’s (I’ve seen this feature listed; didn’t know about it before)
- plays mp3 DVDs (hah!)
- (optional) handles > 1 disc (i.e. it’s a changer)
- (very optional) plays HD-DVDs
David likes Wil
Posted by rae in friends
at 7:55 pm on Tuesday, 29 July 2003
David Barker** recently wrote
about
Wil Wheaton
and his recent foray into
audio blogs.
It’s a
cool service
— you get to phone in and dictate up to two minutes of audio (Wil gets to go over that limit .. for some promotional reason, I’m sure) and it’s automatically posted to a blog for you.
Excellent idea.
It’s an interesting bit of syncronicity that I had downloaded a bunch of Wil’s audblogs (maybe all of them, I’m not sure) onto my iPod just before leaving for Wasaga last week.
It was a kick in the pants when the last one was Wil dictating that he had just reached a huge turning point in his life and wanted to remember the moment, even though he couldn’t say exactly what it was that happened.
D’oh!
Talk about frustration!
Geez.
When I got back and checked, the only thing he had mentioned was his role in a new (very dark take on) Peter Pan movie.
I don’t think that was it.
Anyone else know?
Ah well.
at 7:55 pm on Tuesday, 29 July 2003
** I can’t just call him David, or even “David B” because there’s also David Brake who even shares a whole bunch of the letters in the last name!
Waaaa-saaaaaa-gaaaaaa
Posted by rae in family
at 7:39 pm on Tuesday, 29 July 2003
at 7:39 pm on Tuesday, 29 July 2003
3 gorgeous women in front of the cottage
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Side note: Just before leaving Toronto, I had copied my Mac OS 9 folder from my G4 onto the iMac. When I tried to boot my iMac, it was looking for a partition named “Home”, which just happens to be the name of the partition on which the Mac OS 9 folder lives on my G4. Weeeeird. |
Time spent driving is wasted time
Posted by rae in Reid
at 5:25 pm on Monday, 28 July 2003
I was just reading
a posting of Harald’s
and thought I would spit out my opinion about driving.
I know some people who really enjoy driving.
Jeff K has gone on immense car trips in the past for instance, and I think Iain enjoys puttering about (at high speed through stop signs of course).
The only time I come anywhere near enjoying a drive is when I can put the cruise control on, with lots of room behind and in front of me.
When I drive, I tend to drive somewhat fast.
Upon some self-reflection, I believe the reason I do this is that I feel that time spent driving is time wasted.
I used to take the subway to work, and while riding the subway I could read a book.
For that reason, I didn’t feel like I was completely wasting my time.
If seating permitted, I could even sit with a laptop and type something.
That was prett rare though (both for having a laptop and having seating, let alone both at the same time).
These days I tend to load up the iPod with some form of talk show or another (usually Sean King’s
Your Mac Life
or CBC’s
Quirks and Quarks),
reverting to music when that runs out.
I think at some point I might try to get a car CD player that can play mp3 CDs.
Even better, a DVD player that plays mp3 DVDs!
Listening to an mp3 player while driving isn’t too easy;
I tried buying an
iRock,
but that didn’t help.
at 5:25 pm on Monday, 28 July 2003
Live Action Ping-Pong, Matrix-style
Posted by rae in the Net
at 12:12 pm on Sunday, 27 July 2003
This link
may not wrk too well for Mac users.
But I’ve gotten mail from people who *have* made it work okay on a Mac.
It’s a movie of what looks to be a Japanese TV show where two guys play ping-pong with Marix-like bullet-time effects.. in real time, with an audience. No computer or video effects are used, it’s a live performance, and really has to be seen to be believed.
Incredible imagination was all it took.
at 12:12 pm on Sunday, 27 July 2003
Back from Wasaga (2003 ed.)
Posted by rae in family
at 12:02 pm on Sunday, 27 July 2003
We’re back now.
Much laundry to be washed and man is it humid.
Weather was a lot better than expected.
Only rained once, and was able to swim almost every day.
I’ll be uploading pics as usual later on.
Btw, I have added links to browse my blog by MT “categories” on the left there.
I have not yet looked into the styles, so you will get the bleak and in my opionion badly-designed and hard-to-read default Movable Type style for now.
at 12:02 pm on Sunday, 27 July 2003
Slides galore
Posted by rae in family
at 2:04 pm on Friday, 18 July 2003
My Dad was a big one for taking pictures.
However, he *always* used film for slides.
At the time I thought it was silly not to get prints.
His reply was that slides are higher quality and they last longer.
Well, seems like he was right.
at 2:04 pm on Friday, 18 July 2003
Me at Expo 1967
Me again at Expo 1967
Penguins at Expo ‘67 — note reversed text on sign
Italian for beginners
Posted by rae in entertainment
at 8:44 am on Wednesday, 16 July 2003
Luisa and I watched
Italian for Beginners
last night, which is a Danish film with English subtitles.
Three things put me off the film right at the beginning: it was shot on video, it was shot hand-held, and the sound didn’t sound professionally recorded — it was almost as if *I* could have shot this film.
I was complaining to Luisa about the movement of the camera, and how the scenes didn’t seem to be edited very well for the first half hour.
But then, somehow, it all started working.
I’m not sure if it was the professionalisn of the actors that shone through, or if it was the power of the script — probably a combination of the two.
By the end of the movie I was totally captivated, and loved the movie completely.
Two thumbs up — but be prepared for a bit of a jittery ride at first. at 8:44 am on Wednesday, 16 July 2003
Kaarel’s 40th last night
Posted by rae in friends
at 11:54 am on Tuesday, 15 July 2003
at 11:54 am on Tuesday, 15 July 2003
Auto-backup of bookmarks
Posted by rae in software
at 10:58 am on Tuesday, 15 July 2003
at 10:58 am on Tuesday, 15 July 2003
I’ve been using a new feature of Apple’s
iSync
recently, and it is very, very cool.
They’ve added the ability to synchronize your bookmarks for Safari, and I’ve set up my home and work machines to automatically synchronize every hour.
This mean that when I get home, by the time I get on my Mac (after supper some time), all my bookmarks form work are there!
This is soooo nice, and something I’ve been wishing for for a long time.
The negative thing is that this is tied in to the .Mac service, which is pretty expensive for what it does.
I’m going to see if there’s some way to configure the setup to use your own server instead.
Here’s hoping..