Podcamp Arizona is coming up next week! November 12-13 at University of Advanced Technology. Click over for the full schedule of speakers and sessions and to get registered if you haven’t already. It’s free, so there is no excuse.
I’ll be giving 2 sessions. On Saturday at 10:15 I will be discussing podcasting and answering your questions. On Sunday at 11:15, I, with my pal Evo Terra, will be doing a session on actually making a podcast. You will be able to hear those at IMadeAPodcast.com Sunday and they will be available in iTunes. If you actually want to make a podcast, make plans to be there!
I will also be on the live stream for Podcamp AZ from 10:45 – 11:00 on Sunday morning. Details to follow. Make sure to follow me on Twitter for details as we get closer.
Can’t wait to see you there! Also can’t wait to make a podcast with you!
For those of you that aren’t playing the home game, I’ve been in the process of catching up with Dr. Who. It’s taken me a few months to get through season 5, but I finally did last week. Not only that, but we’ve been recording season 6 from BBC America so that when I did finally get through season 5 we’d be ready!
Also, Stella has been working through here 40×40 list, and thought Dr. Who night would be a great time to clear another 2 items from her list; cooking all of the 10 most difficult recipes according to Epicurious. On for last night were numbers 6 and 8, paella and baked alaska. (Read on…)
Pictured above is the 6 remotes it takes to run the entertainment system at Camp Stella.
6 devices. 6 remotes. Until now. Thanks to our friend Jason, who, after seeing the above photo, sent us this.
That is the Logitech Harmony 670 Remote. You’ve seen this at stores thinking that it would be cool if you had one, right? I can say, without a doubt, that it is very cool to have one!
After a download and about 1 hour of programming I had it set to operate almost everything in the rack. When the TV button is pressed, the TV turns on, sets to the correct input and fires up the cable box (if it’s off). It would turn on the receiver and set the correct input too if I was using the receiver with the cable box (I’m not, yet). Watch a movie? Press a button and the TV changes to the Roku XD|S, stereo sets to the correct input and it even triggers a HOME button press on the Roku box. Listen to music through the Soundbridge is just as easy!
The controls make sense and the device seems pretty easy to use so far. In as much as it only takes one remote to do what previously took 2 or more, that was an easy task.
Don’t worry, full write-up to follow after we use it for about a week or so. I’m positive that it will be favorable.
HUGE thanks to Jason for hooking us up, quite literally! You should add him to your circles in G+ (he takes pretty rad photos) and follow his blog.
I’ve always been fascinated with stop motion animation (remember Gumby?) and time lapse photography. Since I do not have the time to make clay bits move about, photography is more my speed.
It’s really simple. Find what you want to shoot, set the focus, set the invalometer to the desired time and walk away. Come back to a either a dead battery or full CF card (yes, my camera is old. Let it go) and transfer them in. The video above was created from over 500 shots taken every 3 seconds.
I have a photoshop action that I use to resize the images to 720p, bring them into Google Picasa (yes, on the Mac), set the frame rate and turn ‘er loose! Once I have a completed movie, I can edit again in iMovie (to add sound or mix it with something else), which I have done here.
As a bonus, this one is short enough that I was able to post it to my Flickr stream, something I haven’t updated in months!
For those of you that might have missed this post from back in ’05.
I have about 3 red shirts actually. Everyone gets concerned or excited when I wear them because strange things usually happen. I become super creative. My thought processes become a bit more random, allowing me to come up with ideas nobody else even thought about. I get a little hyper.
It has actually been requested that on certain days for a certain meeting or function that I wear the red shirt. Or something comes up that “you’re gonna need the red shirt for that one db” gets thrown around.
I’m all about the red shirt.
Now usually, the red shirt is saved for that poor, unfortunate soul on Star Trek that dies a horrific and painful death caused by an alien laser death beam or something similiar. That’s not my case.
Used to be, the red shirt gave me power. It made me better than I was. Better. Stronger. Faster. And I think the power is back. Wearing the new red shirt today and I’m feeling a bit of a buzz.
I know it’s crazy. You can be skeptical. I know what I know.
And I know the red shirt is back.
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