North by North

I just found this video by a group called Norwegian Dream..  It contains the great northern lights that I really have started to like and feature in videos that I made.. The song is a redo of Crocketts Theme by Jan Hammer..  What a cool little redo..

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the Rockness monster

The date for the as of now being called "Rock Legend"  but might be better suited to be called rockness monster after that locness monster thing.. maybe not.. The date was going to be around the 18th of January but now I think the 14th will be the date.. And for four entries I think, maybe five.. It's a long lot of words meshed together in sentences and paragraphs that just kind of got away from me.. Some repeat (peat and repeat) and so.. The thinking is rather than do a lot of editing, and because it is such a mass of words that I might just leave it.. Repeats be damned.. But the plan is to have it be published on the 14th of January 2014.. It could have been done this month but I'd rather wait until then.. So there, the date is set.. And this will be the blog it is on.. So.. There.. I guess..

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The third Tuesday of..

Good idea or not???  Getting mom a Roku for X-mas and I'm not sure how good of an idea it really is.. The truth is shortly after I got mine last year (for Christmas) all I could think was I gotta get her one.. First reason not to get one was can our internet handle two streaming players.. Truth is mine is streaming to the 420p patch cord rather than HDMI which my tv doesn't support even though it is a flat screen tv with HD on the front of it.. Did I get ripped off or what??  Not really, I didn't know what to look for in HD tv's at the time.. Now I do, but don't care.. Mom's tv is an old CRT type which means she will hook into the Roku the same way.. I ran an experiment earlier in the year when I was thinking about getting her a box and ran a movie on the Roku on my tv, downloaded a torrent and downloaded from my favorite bootleg site while also uploading a vid to the 'tube and the movie played fine.. Then there was a glitch with the box, and I talked to Roku help about it and gradually it got worked out..  Mothers day came and went without me getting her a Roku, so also did her birthday.. So now we come to Thanksgiving, and my brother was here and he watched something on his laptop computer and I decided to try a movie via netflix on the roku while also downloading something on my computer.. The roku worked fine, a little slow to buffer but played the movie fine, meanwhile the movie my brother was watching played fine and the thing I was downloading got done with no problem.. That kinda answered weather the internet could handle the two roku boxes, I felt it can or should be able too.. The only way to know for sure is to try a second box which we'll do on the day.. Christmas day.. I ordered it on Cyber Sunday.. Cyber Sunday you ask???  Well they told me this would be the price the entire week, so I ordered it a day early.. What was the price??  $39.99..  I was torn between getting the latest box, a model 2, or going with last years HD which was what I got..  I decided on the HD, the "2"  was $58 and although the latest, the only thing I thought might be worth getting was it has a headphone jack in the remote..  So that's that..   Start that one up on her own account.. Should be interesting to see if she can work it.. There are like five buttons on the remote.. Intimidation is not what Roku is about..

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A little story

This is 40.. The movie, and I really liked it so I decided to clip it and upload it eventually.. This is 40, really??  I don't remember it being this way..

The show "Lost" had a running theme through the show.. 

Dark up there... Well you watched it.. 

Funny if you like this kind of thing.. Actually this movie did keep me laughing throughout.. 

The little girl is the highlight of the movie.. 

This is THE scene.. Really great interaction.. And the gadget.. Priceless.. 

Not a call girl as such but.. There was  a lot of improv in this movie.. 

and then the fun began.. 

Melissa McCarthy is fast becoming one of those actresses that just .. Is great.. 

The eldest daughter going off on her parents.. 

To the end.. 

The final credits have the improv scene from the office outtakes.. Sit back and enjoy..


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Simply give it a (re)boot

So with the upgrade of the video conversion program giving me a little trouble the question might be asked is it a good idea to upgrade when one is offered??  Truth is it is in the eye of the beholder type of thing.. Some programs get easier to use and some there really is no noticeable difference when they upgrade/update.. Some are for stability reasons that they are updated.. Some I don't notice.. I have a program that converts audio tracks and rips audio from multiple sources, and the last several upgrades have meant nothing for me.. I got one upgrade that I decided this was it, the ultimate has been delivered so when a new upgrade is offered I read the "what's new" or change log and if there isn't anything worth the risk then I don't upgrade.. What's the risk??  Well some "free" programs have crap you don't want, they might change your search engine, change your homepage (been there, done that) or add a toolbar which they sure seemed like a cool idea.. There was a time when I thought a toolbar was seriously cool to have.. All these things on there and I had two or three or more.. Well that just bogs down the browser no matter which you use.  Today the Fast Stone (FastStone) picture viewer was acting up.. How to fix it?? Check for an update, which it had one from November, ok three weeks ago that works for me.. Got it installed it and still, the issue was still there.. A couple things to try when something like this happens and I did in reverse order.. Uninstall and go and get an earlier version. Trouble with this was I had to restart the computer because it was in not gonna budge mode (you know, like it does) and so the thing I should have done first was done, restart the computer, in this order when a program doesn't seem to be working right, restart the beast then check updates and if that doesn't work get the older version.. There are several sites that offer older versions of just about every program out there.. I did reinstall the older version and it worked fine.. Then I got the latest update and it worked fine so.. The restart of the computer was the fix more than likely.. That goes through my mind when something like that happens, just restart.. You hate to do that but it fixes so many issues..


Cold enough for you??  I was looking forward to the cooler weather.. I feel the same towards the excessive cold that I do the extremely hot days.. Could really live without them.. Oh well, guess I'll wear socks now..

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2 times 1

Ok I did a quick test video today and tried to retrace my steps to see what I did wrong with the videos.. Here the video was converted using the program I used for the videos Thursday.. Every setting is just like Thursday and what I see is mostly default settings which I don't know why I did that.. There are five settings to get the video to come out right, and I did one.. Only one.. The reason I did was before on the program I would set everything and it would stay the way I wanted them.. Now with the updated version the settings revert back to default, so instead of everything being left alone and getting what I want, I have to reset every setting every time I want to convert the videos.. Guess that's only fair..

This video is the settings version.. I will watch what I am doing from now on.. 


I got the "cyber Monday" deals email/FB notification thing yesterday and just out of S&G's I looked at it..  They have HD video cams for nearly the same price as the camera I have now.. I looked at them and just for more shits & giggles I check the big 800 greenbacks cam out.. What a fantastic little toy this would be.. Now when I was looking at the cameras before, trying to decide which I should get they said the HD and SD (standard def, what I got) were almost identical quality because of the price range, that at the range I was looking at they really had to be more expensive to see  marked improvement even though the HD was supposed to be THAT much better.  It was the reason I stayed in that range. That and with a camera that is in the 500-900 dollar range would be way.. WAY THE fuck more than I would want to risk.  Then there is the file size difference.. I have a 250GB storage amount on the computer that when I got the camera was around 150GB free space and now hovers around the 100GB area, sometimes going as low as 50GB after last week..  With the HD cameras the size of the video files would not only double but at the 1080p video resolution would be.. Let me put it this way, the camera I have right now has a 32GB SD card.. The HD camera suggests the smallest card to be used is 64GB.. It has 64 internal and TWO slots for two more cards.. Seriously..   I would have to have at least 1TB external storage drive, if not two or three.. So the tradeoff is a smaller file.. I am happy with what I have.. 


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Program update to shit the bed mode

A massive amount of disappointment in the video shot on Thanksgiving day.. The program I have been using to convert the video files made the videos really small.. There's a foot between the edge of the screen to the video on the screen (the frame).. It's the same settings I've been using, I think...  But the biggest problem I guess is that it updated the other day and I just assumed it was working the same way as it always has.. Found out the hard way it DIDN'T.. So now I have all the video from yesterday in the same exact way as this up above.. Bummed BIG TIME..  I deleted the source material.. I won't do that again..   That was my mistake..


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