Now look at the tables below that relates to one of the hypotheses. The nominal variable “Happy now?” is the dependent variable, and whether or not you have a handicap or chronic disease the independent variable (also nominal). How do you choose the test? I think it’s by the dependent variable. If it’s nominal and you’re looking to predict one variable from another the test is logistic regresion. In this case, if you work with logistic regression the dependent variable is the “criterium variable” (Happy Now?) and the independent variable is the “predictor variable” (Handicap?). You are looking for how much % more or less the addition of the predictor variable can predict that someone will be happy or not. SPSS pukes up some numbers:

According to this the addition of a chronic disease or handicap results in a 67.2% of succesfully predicting whether someone is happy or not. So, the addition of the predictor results in a 2.5% more chance of succesfully predicting against the 64.7% in general. NAO, the result of this test is significant because in “Variables in the Equation” the column “Sig” says .034, which is 3.4%. Anything below 5% is a significant result. BUT! You have to check the B-value. B = -1.139. That means: a low value on one is equal to a high value on the other. Negative B-value is opposite, positive B-value high/high or low/low. In other words: If you’re high on happiness, you’re low on handicap. If you’re low on happiness, you’re high on handicap. In other words: HYPOTHESIS CONFIRMED.

A guy named “Wald” also has something to do with results being significant or not, but somehow never got why if “Sig” can tell me everything?

Who said I don’t do numbers? WIKIPEDIA? Y U MAKE IT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? This:

Hell will freeze over before I understand it. I’m IT man, Big Calculator should do what it’s good at: CALCULATIN’.

Kolmogorov-Smirnov is another one of those tests…. Screw it, at around this time it’s “Da comrad, some vodka“. Whomever said a BSc / MSc Psychology is “fun stuff” is badly mistaking.

p.s. Professor-kuns. Do know I can chart these rules in one A4 so any idiot can understand. Y U SPEND 50 pages on it?

It’s been too long! I haven’t watched anime in ages, but I’m really interested in seeing this movie. Other than that, one AMV video editor made a lasting impression on me back then. He/she edited Kenshin on a Megadeth song called “Trust”. I’m not sure, but I think the amv is based on this one.

It somewhat resembles a “Mini” I think, only it’s bigger. New completely unaffordable with the engine I want need. The problem with this car is, it’s only been on the market for about 2 years, so there’s only …. expensive occasions. Oh yea! Exactly that color, with the white rooftop. Preferably 1.6 because that’s what I’m used to. However, I’ve noticed from my parents car the engines have improved quite a bit. Even though Doiha-chan is more powerful than the diesel version 1.6 lemon, I might be shocked driving in this car.

I want a lemon! If only they put this car on the market a few years earlier! I’ll look around, see if the amount still makes me faint.

Mérde, the competitor sure knows how to fffuuuuuuuuu a good car:

Left is the model I got, only 5-dr, and the right is their ‘new model’ (out a long while by now). No, I say no!

Next time take it easy on the wine. lol. Beer is the beverage of choice haha. I was totally confused when I read it, the only thing mildly scandinavian about the rest of the entry is that most good metal comes from Scandinavia.

Recorded some more summaries today, while cooking. Every once in a while before what is in the pan is going to burn, I run back and forth from the stove to the stairs to hear if my computer is still yapping to itself. If it isn’t I run up the stairs and put on the next text to read and record.

Do I get tired of myself? Yes! Yesterday I fell asleep with my netbook still on my tummy until I figured out that I was hugging my netbook instead of my pillow about halfway through the night.

Oh, and somewhere this weekend I hope I can finish the colours on the website I’ve been building for that good cause. Holding it back because even though that color looks good on my screen, the downstairs pc made it look ugly as hell.

I really should be searching for a new kah tomorrow. I have my doubts about Doiha-chan’s longlevity. I mean: I had doubts my car would live through winter, but since I drive so much these days I start to notice more and more things that make me worry.

Here is the first episode, they’re taking a lot of time introducing the people but it gets better after that:

[Subbed by iSUBS-squad.com] 100711 RME01 (1/5) door isubs

In regards to the weather: 10th of May it was really hot and humid and then it dropped almost 8-9 degrees. Perhaps it’s the same in Japan. What can I say, it makes me sick twice a year but it’s what I call home. Luckily it’s without tsunami’s and earthquakes. Still got the gift of the land of the rising sun burnt on my pale white face. You people gotta fix your sunlight over thar. I’m not landing on Narita without 50 sunblock ever again. Frog not like it! We know Tomo really likes his sunlight, but I’ll be doing the raindance everytime he mentions it. On the other hand, crispy yello-ish brown really suits him. The crayfish look I get from our god “Ra” never was a plus for me even though o-bachans in Tokyo tell me I look great. /sarcasm. Remind me to go to Japan when I’m feeling guilty about not getting a tan.

expl. Synchronicity, Carl Gustav Jung.

Gehobelt (strips in english, schaafsel or geschaafd in dutch)

or

Geriebelt (grated in english, geraspt in dutch)”

Geriebelt I knew, but gehobelt is new to me too. So is that parmasan shaped into the humpback of Notre Dame?

Looks like every chapter is about an hour to two hours. If this works well, I’m filing for exam next week. Anything to prevent hating my time on the road!~

Hmmm. Maybe I should upload this for other students?

Want to see my mom’s rad error reporting skills?

<– I say she has talent xD.

You see, that’s why I bought an iRiver when the iPod first came out. It had the bigger hard drive, it cost less, and after almost 8 years it still works without a hitch. No bloat software needed. I must say I always get comments from people looking at that thing as an antique. Specifically because I’m in IT, I often get snarky remarks about my stone age phone and anything else electronic I’m carrying that’s not from last year. I’m from the walkman age, where you can just toss the thing down the stairs and smack the two halves back together. We like durability over fancy.

In any case, I sincerely hope the tv devil is not the same as the sad iPod but there’s a fairly high chance it is.

Next to that I have another fail to mention that SnowMyth also seemed to have: a satanic netbook. If you’ve been paying attention and have not clicked the “automatically update” button on your Adobe Flash, you will have noticed it updates faster than a serious case of the runs. At least two times a week. What do I mean by satanic netbook? Your Youtube video might stop playing all of a sudden and the audio track slows down to sound like there’s some kind of forbidden message coming from the other side. SnowMyth used to reboot, but if you wait long enough (max 2 minutes) – when Lucifer is done speaking to you – it will continue where it left off. Thanks Adobe.

Afterwards we went for an ‘all you can eat’ sushi binge. Over here that’s with the Chinese. lol. Usually you don’t eat Chinese food because it isn’t real Chinese food because it’s adjusted to Dutch taste, but, since the joint was loading up with actual Chinese people our best bet was that we should have had Chinese! One of these days, I’m going to be find the absolute best Chinese joint that makes Japanese food. haha. There’s always something wrong with it. Close to my friend there’s a restaurant that doesn’t serve wasabi with sushi, even if you look under the fish it isn’t there! After nagging, I got my wasabi, which I could eat with a spoon it was that mild. Excellent meat dishes though, fish was fresh enough to pass, and the man did not lie they put a lot of effort into the rice making.

This restaurant we went to today has some of the better filled miso soups, portion sizes are huge. Their gyoza sucks beyond belief, I make better gyoza than that. It’s like they were trying to make steamed soup-dumplings. Rice a little too dry, and depending on the type of fish it can be really fresh or … “you won’t die eating it”. If you want to check, you need to order tuna straight up. If the color is pretty lifeless, don’t eat any more and skip to meat. I also ate something I will never _ever_ eat again: “spicy tuna rolls”. I don’t do spicy too well, and I believe I’m going to scream spicy tuna rolls at 3 am in agony.

This white couple came in, sat down, ordered drinks and left shortly after without having a meal. My friend heard the husband say: “Don’t they have saté here?”. *facedesk*.

Now that I mention JGS, I still have to watch his latest: “Love Rain”.

What a waste of hard drive space.

The article also discusses single women’s view on ‘open relationships’, not surprisingly, nearly all respondents were negative on this. I’d have to agree, nothing as pointless to hang out with a man you can’t even call your own and waste a hell of a lot of time that way. It’s funny because it’s apparently emotional support women seek in relationships, but if you want that you’re better off with your friends chatting over a cup of joe. Oh, and of course I have a proven track record of emotional trainwrecks I had to support myself, which kinda left things very off balance.

I’m also not much of a relationship type. Don’t have this weird thing other people have about ‘spending time together’, ‘claiming each other’ and then get into constant fights about it.  It is sort of true that I’m double standard in that. If a guy would treat me as uninterested as I can come off, good luck, it would never work.

To me it has always been pretty simple: I’m always the one being counted on in life. I learned to count on myself, and it’s basically a sport of mine to make myself feel as secure as possible; if must be, jumping in strange curtains to make that happen. When man spells danger or drainage instead of loyal stability there is nothing I’m interested in.

It appears VideoLan is possibly taking/skimming off ‘silences’ from the audio file, making it shorter than the actual video file. So the original AAC is just fine coming out of dgmpegdec, but it’s VideoLan’s conversion causing the length difference.

That’s nice… but if Winamp won’t play my AAC and I can’t use disk write mode and VideoLan is cutting off unwanted milliseconds or even seconds from my audiofile… what do I do then?

Solution:
Drop the AAC into Yamb, and convert it to mp4.

The mp4 will play in Winamp, and therefor you can use disk writer. Winamp does not cut bits off it thinks it doesn’t need, hence the end product has no sync problem. I know VideoLan is a popular player, but it certainly isn’t any good for converting AAC.

The problem:

• VFapi reader is an old program, this is why even after running the *.bat and installing the *.inf virtualdub gives you the message: “Could not locate decompressor VIFP” once you want to frameserve a converted d2v project from dgmpgdec (“fake avi”).

The solution:
What you need to do is place the file VFCodec.dll in both %System32 and %SysWow64. %SysWow64 ironally actually contains the regsvr32 which enables registering 32 bit dll’s. Then you need to open up a cmd window (run as administrator) and type in:

cd \windows\syswow64 [HIT ENTER]
rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\PATH_TO_VFAPI\
vifp.inf,DefaultInstall [HIT ENTER]

What you’ve just done is tell the correct regsvr32 to register the VFapi dll.

The problem:

• There is a 64-bit edition of virtualdub available for download. Do NOT download this edition, because it will never work with VFApi.

The solution:
Use the 32-bit edition.

The problem:

• You’ve installed Lame mp3 encoder but can’t see it in Virtualdub. It’s the same problem as VFapi.

The solution:
Installing Lame for mp3 encoding also only succeeds if you do type in cmd:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection
DefaultInstall 0 c:\PATH_TO_LAME\LameACM.inf [HIT ENTER]

Make sure it’s the 32 bit edition you’ve downloaded! Don’t forget to run cmd as administrator.

That’s it. You can download x264 from here and install without further problems.

I’m still looking for the solution, but for the time being I’ve found some info on the program’s User Manual. Next time I’ll do a conversion which requires aac stripping, I’ll try and figure out the answer for you. If anyone already knows, please share!

To be quite honest, I even thought of closing Solstice Productions for a while because I release so little these days. Nonetheless this site has some useful video tutorials I want to keep around. Like you, I consistently forget what settings I need to use when I’m encoding or converting something.

I’ve developed a new theme for the website since the old one was getting more and more problems with newer browsers. I’ll come back sometime and update / correct some information on this site. Enjoy!

Required programs:

• dgMpegdec (successor of DVD2AVI)
• VirtualDub
• VFApi
• Winamp

Open the TS file in dgmpegdec.
Check if the option “Demux tracks” is enabled under Audio -> Output Method.
File -> Save Project.

This will create a D2V project file and an AAC audio file.

Processing the audio
The AAC file must be converted to WAV first, as it is a readable format for virtualdub. I usually convert audio files by using Winamp on disk writer mode.

Processing the video
Open VFAPI and load the D2V file.
After that click convert.

A file is created that is basically a “fake avi” which will read out the TS content.
Open the fake avi in virtualdub and apply filters like resizing and compression settings under Video.
Make sure you select the wav file you created under ‘Audio’ and to apply compression settings.
Now do: file, save as.

Title: 7 steps to Buzzer Beat
Used footage: Buzzer Beat, Fuji tv getsu 9 drama, summer 2009. Additionally a scene from Natgeo’s “The Universe” series for the rocket.
Score: Read the roll off titles at the end, there are just too many used.
File details: RAW 706 x 396, in the following versions:

• Divx 1 pass quality based (2)
• Xvid 4030 Kbps
• MPEG2 4000 Kbps
• audio all 128kb/s mp3

HARDSUB

• Divx 1 pass quality based (2)

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FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION CONTAINS SPOILERS!

And here is a short description for the 7 steps of Buzzer Beat.

Step 1: Cavemen; exaggerated agression [Basketball scenes]. I got this idea because I was still listening to Humanaut by Mnemic while starting up an episode of Buzzer Beat. The opening for Buzzer Beat just happened to match the “lift off” feeling of this song.

Step 2: Satan. I always thought Yoyogi was a creepy guy. The little beard just made it all the worse. It didn’t take long to match that with Stephen Lynch’ BEELZ.

Step 3: Betrayal. Here we see Naoki walking in on Yoyogi and Natsuki. From there on I gave Naoki some spunk by using Revolucian – Bale out. The way Naoki SHOULD have reacted.

Step 4: Meaningful male dialogue. Secretly I made this because Yamapi said “this and this dialogue is very interesting” (gehehe). This one came into play when I was looking over my music collection for really crude dialogue. I found it in Crotchduster.

Step 5: Anticlimax. Where would Buzzer Beat be without the blooming romance between Naoki and Riko? I’m so not good at doing sappy editing, so you’ll just have to forgive me for making a prank.

Step 6: Meaningful female dialogue. I figured, if I were going to do a “male dialogue” I would also need to do a female dialogue. Since I am neither genders but an alien, I thought the pranks should be equally shared.

Step 7: P-Cup ω to Strauss. That’s right! I edited all the yummy Yamapi “in the shower, in the bath tub, squeezing tits” scenes together on nothing other than classical music. A fancy rack like that deserves some fancy music.

I spent most of the editing so far on getting the intro right, of which I will give a sneak preview by a screen capture.

As you can see the intro has a pretty big warning icons. Contains violence, sex, drugs, mobbing and swearing.

Generally this OPV is all about exaggerating. I simply took 7 bits of pieces of this story and exaggerated it to no end. The end result will be so evil it has no equal. Especially somewhere in the chapter ‘Meaningful male dialog’, I’m trying really hard not to let Yamapi say the last sentence to that but I make absolutely no promises hahaha. God help me if it fits with the facial expression and mouth movements…

Let’s just say the one thing I’m not exaggerating are the warnings on this video.