Year: 2004

  • Small Children + Outings = Fun for the Whole Family!

    ramblings

    Oh, did I say "fun?" I meant "illness."

    I haven’t been online or talked to anyone (aside from a few fact-finding missions from the office) since late Sunday night now, because I have been seriously ill with whatever the rest of the family had last week. So many, many hours in front of the TiVo have been called for, and as a bonus, I am now waking up in the middle of the night feeling like I’ve just won a pig-greasing contest.

    I love my kids to pieces, but I sure as hell wish I could seal them in plastic bubbles at the first sign of sickness. I’d be fun! They could roll around the house like gerbils!

  • Anti-Spam

    geek

    Wow! Finally, a way to combat comment spammers that seems it will work! I found this excellent comment verification code on Jeff Barr’s blog. Instead of the type-in-a-name method, I went with the simpler checkbox next to the phrase "I am not a spammer." Simple to implement and easy to use for readers. Yay!

  • A photo of a box billed as a "green bean casserole kit", containing a can of cream of mushroom soup, french cut green beans, and French's fried onions

    Thanksgiving Fixin’s

    ramblings

    I got into an interesting discussion with several people yesterday about what unique dishes they always have at their Thanksgiving table. My family always had the usual fare of mashed potatoes, gravy, bread stuffing and the seemingly ubiquitous “yam bake” made with sweet potatoes and marshmallows. I remember there also being celery, sweet pickles, dinner […]

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  • 16fps Countdown

    flicks, geek

    I found this awesome little 16-frame-per-second film countdown leader on an old tape, and reconstructed it, bringing it back to 16fps from a wrong-speed transfer, and removing the timecode burn-in. If anyone wants the full-rez version of this let me know, and we can work something out. Enjoy!

    [The original is in the SheerVideo codec, but I’m looking for a way to convert it and post it here. Might not happen, since I don’t own a machine that can actually read the old codec, though —Ed. 2015-08-15]

Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

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