Jul 282008
 

This won’t interest most of you, but I just added a Letterboxing section to my website. You’ll need to find it yourself. This coincides with my new listings today of 3 disc golf themed letterboxes (out of an eventual series of 5 boxes).

Jul 272008
 

Maegan had her 10th birthday party today at the Pineville Ice House. We got there around 12:30 and the parking lot was nearly full. That seemed odd. When we walked inside it was literally packed! Hundred and hundreds of people. The mascot of the local professional hockey team was there too with several of the [...]

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Jul 252008
 

Darah was sick for most of a week last week, and then she was sick again for a few days this week. I took a couple of sick days but Patty took more time off than me to stay home with Darah. Patty’s employer was “not accommodating” and let her go yesterday, making it clear [...]

Jul 222008
 

Patty and I have been parents for a decade now. Today is Maegan’s 10th birthday. Wow. Maegan is having her birthday party at The Ice House in Pineville on Saturday. I’ll post stories/photos later.

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Jul 192008
 

* Tuesday was the MLB All-Star Game. I stayed up late and watched all 15 innings. Unfortunately the junior circuit won again (the NL’s last win was in 1996) but that was an amazing game with four extra-inning outs at the plate and the game winner was a split-second play too. * Maegan just completed [...]

Jul 122008
 

During spring training I tried to sign up for Major League Baseball’s Gameday Audio so I can listen to Mets games on WFAN through the internet. I ran in to a brick wall when I refused to give them my telephone number. (MLB has a reputation for taking liberties with your privacy. They claim it’s [...]

Jul 122008
 

I’m still not a fan of social networking sites but I just can’t ignore their popularity any more. Thanks to Facebook’s “friend’s suggestion” feature, I’ve been connecting to a lot more people lately. Perhaps more importantly, I’ve helped four times as many other people connect by using the same feature. I currently have 44 social [...]

Jul 112008
 

Adobe After Effects is the tool for professional film and video post-production effects. I’ve been editing video on Avid for thirteen years (mostly Media Composers) but I never had the opportunity to enhance my own work with After Effects’ high-end compositing effects. I was promised AE training for years but it just never happened. I [...]