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Comment on Congratulations, Nelson! by Nelson

Nelson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:46:31 +0000

It was a very exciting Friday afternoon!! Thank you, Mick!

Comment on Help me to start reading again by Gik

Gik — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:18:23 +0000

The reader of an audiobook can make a big difference. They changed readers during a series I’m reading and it drastically changed the feel of the story. Thing is, I suffered through and started to get used to the new reader, all the while still heavily biased toward the original reader. Fortunately, the author says the original reader will return for the next installment of the series.

Other books, it takes a lot to get used to sharp voices or tinny audio.

With all that as a given, I still drive through audiobooks faster than eyes to surface. If you can find the time to sit down with a book, you can put on headphones and press play. The experiences are largely the same in getting the story into your head.

Comment on Why I like California by Wysz

Wysz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:15:44 +0000

Another mention of an “avid cyclist” in a Google video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5_NBSu7Lw

Comment on The problem with search engines by reid

reid — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:46:19 +0000

maybe:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/13551.html

Comment on My 2009 video archiving strategy by Mike McCormick

Mike McCormick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:56:42 +0000

My Vhs tapes go back to 1982. from an old tube sharp camera fed thru a wire connected to a panasonic vcr that weighed about 80 pounds. Thank God i copied them in the 90s because the originals look like crap now. I copied the vhs tapes to dvcam using an old sony DHR-1000. my first DV cam was a Sony DCR-VX1000 I got in 1996, still works great today, but now I use the HDV cameras but I still pull that old baby out sometimes. I had a couple of Sony Hi8s that i used for years too. they finely went bad, sent them to Sony and they said they where to old to repair. i pretty much do the same thing you do but i have a PC machine. I do a step that you dont, i save the raw AVI file to hard drives and blue ray data disks. Cyberlink works the best. its a little corky but once you get a system down it works ok. I just dont trust the hard drive only. DVD is ok but the file is compressed from its original form, i never liked the sound of that. I do all this work, time and money and most likey my kids will throw them out after i die, lol. I thought I was the only nut that wanted to save these old tapes.

Comment on Long division by Jason

Jason — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:41:22 +0000

At work Wysz constantly accuses my team of practicing the evil art of “long division.”

Comment on My 2009 video archiving strategy by SpectateSwamp

SpectateSwamp — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:35:51 +0000

Doing video is fun and cheap. Easy to delete them if you don’t like it. If you like pictures you’ll love video. I keep my clips short (2 minutes and under) and shoot lots of them. No editing required if I want to put it up on the web.

Comment on Help me to start reading again by Wysz

Wysz — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:12:48 +0000

I’ve heard that some people really love audiobooks. Unfortunately, I’m not really sure when I would listen to them since I don’t have a long commute, which is when I think would be an ideal audiobook time. I’m also not sure if I would be too annoyed by the readers. (See my comments about NPR)

We’ll see how things go with the iPad.

Comment on Help me to start reading again by Ming Jack Po

Ming Jack Po — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:50:44 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried audiobooks, but I really like them. If you are going to get a ebook reader, maybe wait to see how well the ipad does?

Comment on That’s a dealbreaker by Wysz

Wysz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:31:42 +0000

I think the browsing I would use it for would be read-only stuff where I’m not even actively searching, such as catching up on Google Reader or email. Hulu would be great, but I’m assuming this device doesn’t have Flash. And now that I think about it, the kitchen may be a more likely location than my couch, where I also already have a laptop.

In any case, I don’t think I’ll be buying this time around. When they cut the cost in half for Christmas, I may be interested.