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  • Holiday Cards 2023

    If you received a holiday card from us this year, your card features a unique collection of snowflakes that was drawn especially for you by a robot (with a very generous helping of assistance from a real live human being).

    The particular set of snowflakes, their position, and rotation were uniquely generated for each card […]

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  • Managing Home Media

    As companies start to decide that sometimes it is better for them to remove access to media that you have “purchased” — I thought it would be good to share how I manage my media at home.

    This is a living document that I plan to update with more details and better techniques, as I […]

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  • Uptown’s Dream Screen

    I used to live near DC and went to the Uptown theatre there a lot (sadly, now closed, due to the pandemic). I just came across this clipping I saved while sorting and tossing old papers. It’s from Sunday, January 29, 1995, in The Washington Post, talking about how their old vertical-strip Cinerama screen […]

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  • An East-coast Editor in Los Angeles’ Court

    I was really trying to make that Connecticut Yankee reference work, but it just wasn’t happening.

    As I write this, it’s one year to the day that I was laid off from my job as the in-house video producer/editor at The Omni Group, a small software company in Seattle, WA. The pandemic happened, my wife […]

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  • Limit Handbrake CPU usage under Windows

    I’ve recently transitioned to using a PC for all of my media transcoding and hosting Plex, so I can keep my Macs unburdened and ready for real work. The only thing is — when Handbrake is compressing something, it pegs all of my CPU cores at 100%, leaving not much left for Plex Media Server […]

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