So I just realized that the way I do dishes is influenced by basic supply and demand. Here’s the skinny: I don’t wash cups and utensils. Because I believe my roommates are too loose and wasteful in the use of both. So by refusing to wash them, I artificially decrease the supply of available cups…
Read More Economics and DishwashingWith the rise in food and commodity prices, I’m concerned about my favorite local ice cream manufacturer, Blue Bell. So I’ve decided to buy Blue Bell ice cream at every opportunity, no matter what the cost. Partly in support for them not downsizing their containers (I’m looking at you, Breyers!) and for nostalgia purposes later…
Read More I <3 Blue Bell Ice CreamSo I get asked to make reference samples off of DVD based material fairly often. Here’s my current quality emphasis workflow: Rip relevant portion of DVD with DVD Decrypter Create DGIndex project, decompress AC3 to PCM Import DGIndex project to Avisynth AudioDub() the decompressed PCM WAV into the Avisynth project. Add any decomb/deinterlace/resize filters as…
Read More My new DVD to Quicktime workflowHmmm, I think that for every environment and every situation, there exists a minimum density of pens such that the average time it takes for a someone looking for a pen is less than the amount of time before frustration sets in. d = minimum density of pens p = density of people v =…
Read More Pen Density FunctionLast January, I had to author a blu-ray disc. This reminded me of the old days of making DVDs years before iMovie and point and click software came out. The specs were to make VC-1 blu-ray discs and WMV files. These are the programs I ended up using to do that: quicktime – process original…
Read More Authoring a Blu-Ray discAt first, I thought the little shroud on the Antec P182 (also on the P180) was a little annoying because it broke up the horizontal space that I could otherwise use for piling up misc crap. Lately, I’ve been putting my external hard drives on top of the shroud. The airflow helps cool them down.…
Read More Chassis blowholes are good for other thingsI’ve been really happy with the Promise NS4300 network attached storage (NAS). It’s biggest weakness is its noise. I got sick of it so I pulled it apart to see what I could do about it. The PSU fan was a 40x40x20 fan (model AD0412UB-C50). Here’s a spec sheet. The noise level is rated at…
Read More Modding the Promise NS4300NUncompressed Quicktimes are the most requested format requested from me. But it’s a lie! Most uncompressed Quicktimes are compressed. Wikipedia is a good place to start reading. Search for stuff like RGB, YUV, 4:4:4, 4:2:2, digibeta, chroma subsampling, ntsc, pal. You back? Ok. So a typical “uncompressed” quicktime is usually compressed color-wise. But we don’t…
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