Gray Sky and Beeping Vehicles

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No sleeping in today. They are under my window!

Sharp HDTV with Blu-ray Drive Homemade DVD Test

With some reserve I made a DVD to test the Blu-ray playback. The manual has a convoluted list of yes, no, maybe, DRM fickle don't even try that disk with stupid footnote references to other pages of user manual. Shoot me now! I may take the TV apart to see the little demon they put in the TV. No regular person will understand that stupid book, i.e., my wife and every grandmother I know.

(Maxwell, my black cat will eat the plastic demon if I get it out).

A photo of test disk.

What! The dam thing works! More info and credits click photo.

Sigh, 10 hours of computer time to make a disk that is butt ugly because I did not have source video [uncompressed]. Wait, this is a playback test not a video quality test. Microwave time in 2 days for this critter. Done.

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Dvorak's CAGE MATCH

-- For more on RedLetterMedia's video that is on the test disk and my reason for skipping the movie Avatar. Star Wars & Avatar -- a trap for writer and director via computer shortcuts

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What Would Einstein Say?

It never ends....

The wonderful world of photoshop and other art tools. Create anything, any time you want. Handy for print media. Moving along.

Need an eye catcher for your print ad in People's Sexiest Man Alive issue? Got one. Go home all of you, that includes you 110 of the Hottest Guys on the Planet. GM did not pick you.

Behind the cover (page 0) on page 0+1 is a buff Albert Einstein ready to kick ass. With that look and his brain you are tools, Mr Hottest Guys. The Bad; wife took Albert and the Victoria's Secret Holiday book with her. The Good; said I would pull document shredder duty and fetched magazine for a couple of photos. And! The Ugly; A great man's likeness has been parodied to sell GMC Station Wagon to my Ford Taurus X Station Wagon driving wife. Better luck next time GM - you are a day late and a dollar short. Make that many dollars short.

I will conclude with a thought experiment. What would Albert Einstein say about this. I think he would be laughing. Still, I cannot refrain from saying it is a little tacky. Credit wife for bringing Albert looking like a abs-climber-bowflex ad model on TeeVee (morning TV before 7:00 AM).

Photos: I took a picture of the magazine layout to illustrate my critique.

I do try not to giggle. (photo: HP ps 733 )

(Compare photo at right, a cropped G1 phone photo with above. Nothing like real camera controls. Even lame control is better than none. Or worse, software sims that muck up shot. Tried that here and software trashed 3 shots. I am still winning by 6 [1 out-of-focus, 1 wrong filter and 2 pilot error. Rest are bad comp.)

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To repeat; It never ends.

Holy F* S*, Holy F* S*, OMG. The Shadow! They are back?

Not sure the reference to an excellent 1990's science fiction TV series (Babylon 5) works but that is what I thought. Shadow are hard to see. Maybe a more modern 'thing' like the Replicators from Stargate-SG1 would be better. Everybody dies, I mean buys!

Thanks for the find, http://curry.com/?p=1951

Film - LUX Prize 2009 (via European Communities, 2009 [EbS])

I found this a refreshing moment after the Hollywood (MPAA) and NewsCorp's control all media content. In the can - USofA film makers that means the rubbish bin. Hundreds of TV channels and 2 web portals and it is all junk save a few well written shows or films. Where are the 'media moguls' of the past who wanted to preserve an identity; dead of course. The current batch of producers/distribution brass here in the NaU (North american Union) have not bothered with anything except the profit margin (in a per minute price if they could).

Harsh? Yes, but I do get to spend 80 to 90 percent of my time with 4 cableTV sets and 2 Satellite Radios on 24 hours a day. I may be a bit saturated on Hollywood's Rx for the masses.

What do you think of this video? Make a comment. [Note: Not on my words, they kill english comp teachers & I will rot in hell for ranting. IamNotaWrtr]

LIVE LUX Prize 2009
EP roundtable with:
First Part
- Fatih AKIN, Director of "Auf der anderen Seite"("On the edge of heaven")
- Hanna SCHYGULLA, the film's leading actress
- Leonard ORBAN, EU Commissioner for Multilingualism
- Christian LÜFFE (Goethe Institut)
Second Part
- Kamen KALEV, Director of "Eastern Plays" (contending for Lux Prize 2009)
- Philip Boëffard, Producer of "Welcome" (contending for Lux Prize 2009)
- Doris Pack, Chairwoman of the EP Committee on Culture and Education

Save File: Blogger_ Journal of a High-Tech Cat - Edit Post _lux_.mp4

Credit © European Communities, 2009

Talk, Talk, Talk -- Right!

Added Chatdango so the page will load slower. Ordered by a semi-famous tv ad turtle. Hint: the turtle is on dsl ....

Broadcast via G1: Can I Tolerate My Video Looking Bad?

When mobile video recorders bite back: Where is film when you need it?

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Fifth-Gen iPod Nano..taken to The Outer Limits!!! from Andy Ihnatko on Vimeo.

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The player on newspaper page was not friendly to my browser. Let google eat it, google eats anything.

For mobile video compare there should be some control video. I think a low price outdated camera that does AVI video will work. The sturdy hp photosmart 733 with 3.2 MP 3x optical zoom fits.

----- Flickr video. Produced by G1 native app Camcorder. It is actual size. There is a glitch at 1 minute 09 seconds frame 16 to 1:13 frame 05 (flickr smoothed it some during transcode).

Need edit more .....

iBook G4 gets 2nd life as a dinner plate.

Honest the sidekick using my iBook G4 for a snack tray was not staged. Wife casually put turkey with gravy on it because he wanted hers. I was twitter'in on G1 phone and snapped a few shots. The dim light made it necessary to B&W the picture in order to cover up the tungsten lamp color (deep orange for G1's hardware).

Picture cropped to size. No computer damage and I changed her password (did not tell her what it is) for making me hunt down some cleaner.

Apollo 11 Week without Conspiracy Theory? NoWay!

I think starting a commentary with the facts would be proper. No! Start with the other stuff. The UFO gang, Faked Mission groups, Hide the film because money in 2009 will be a retirement boost essay kind of talk is a better starting point. So without fan fair Coast2CoastAM vs NASA. George Noory gets 1st move.

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Cat stop! Sit! People need to know something! Most of the popular fake photos talk and a movie set is where LEM really landed "proof'' is a variant of Nash Entertainment's sketchy show "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon". [1] Reader, you may skip this part and visit it after the 2009 video. History lesson first or jump in the water now?

[1.1] NASA gets news that they faked the moon landing. (has audio version read by author)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23Feb_2.htm

[1.2] A well researched and thoughtfully written analysis of the show. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

[1.3] FOX gets heat for Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon. Producer of show calls it a Reality Special. We all know what that means. http://www.nashentertainment.com/television/

[1.4] Since 2001 lunar orbit cameras have taken pictures proving we are moon litterbugs. That will not stop the folks who must get public exposure for their theories. They will just change the story as if the "never landed" never happened. This is the where the tapes of the mission are lost because there is something we should not see story begins. We now join the program already in progress ...

Thank You http://www.youtube.com/user/BannedUfos
The entire 10 segment video is there for your viewing.

NASA gets 2nd move and a bonus move. These are from NASA's http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision

The play is stalled by an amazing death. Walter Cronkite I hope you saw the new slow scan restore work. Good night sir. The official NASA statement.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-169_Cronkite_Death_Bolden.txt

July 17, 2009

Bob Jacobs  Headquarters, Washington  202-358-1600  bob.jacobs@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 09-169  NASA MOURNS THE DEATH OF WALTER CRONKITE  

WASHINGTON --The following is a statement from NASA Administrator  Charles Bolden on the death of veteran journalist Walter Cronkite.   "It is with great sadness that the NASA family learned of Walter  Cronkite's passing. He led the transition from print and radio  reporting to the juggernaut that became television journalism. His  insight and integrity were unparalleled, and his compassion helped  America make it through some of the most tragic and trying times of  the 20th century.   "From the earliest days of the space program, Walter brought the  excitement, the drama and the achievements of space flight directly  into our homes. But it was the conquest of the moon in the late 1960s  that energized Walter most about exploration. He called it the most  important feat of all time and said that the success of Apollo 11  would be remembered 500 years from now as humanity's greatest  achievement.   "It was Walter Cronkite's impassioned reporting on America's inaugural  moon landing that inspired me to join in the dreams of many to travel  to space and accept the risks that this exploration brings while I  was a student in naval flight training.   "In honor of his ethical and enthusiastic coverage of our nations'  space program, NASA was proud to honor Walter in 2006 with an  Ambassador of Exploration Award and presented him with an Apollo  lunar sample.   "For decades, we had the privilege of learning about our world from  the original 'anchorman.' He was a true gentleman. Our thoughts and  prayers are with Walter's family and his millions of friends and  supporters."     -end-