Looping a section of a DVD

October 4th, 2008

My contribution to ACF is small this year, but practical:

  1. Play the DVD from which you wish to create a loop using DVD Player application in OS X.
  2. At the starting point of your loop, select Controls > New Video Clip  (Fig. 1)
  3. This action opens the New Video Clip dialogue with the starting point you selected marked as the beginning; the video is paused (Fig. 2)
  4. Set the clip name and press play (Fig. 3)
  5. When the endpoint of your loop arrives, click the Set button to mark the end of your loop (Fig. 4)
  6. Now be sure to click save or your effort will be wasted (Fig. 5)
  7. Now select Go > Video Clips (Fig. 6)
  8. Double clicking your clip from the Video Clips menu starts playing the given clip (Fig. 7)
  9. To make it loop select Go > Video Clips > Repeat Clip (Fig. 8)
  10. Enjoy chilled or over ice.
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Scars

January 15th, 2008

Lots in here, but I can’t really stop long enough to get a window open to write it down in.

For some reason my head tells me that a laptop will help solve this. But I know it to be a lie: I need to prove the corp. vmware image runs in the osx version of vmware and migrate to the new server first.

I want an easy widget to include a “song of the day” via. hopefully a stream.

Anyway, I was repairing the scars on my and thinking about it and here are a few of those:

snowboard scard

  • This deck has been with me since 2004. And it has seen more than its share of whoa.
  • The p-tex candle trick does fill in the gashes, but it requires a pretty healthy sanding the repair is made.
  • Trying to sand it too early is a mistake and will compromise the repair job.
  • The repair requires a lot of heat.
  • If you rush it, you will have to do it over, eventually.
  • After some sanding, the injury will be smoothed over, but the mark will always be visible.  It may not be felt, but it will always be seen.
  • It will never be “what was”
  • Avoiding the rocks is a good way to avoid having to do this.
  • Getting a new deck is a arduous, expensive process and I don’t want to deal with that — I like this (cheap, scratched, imperfect but loved) deck.

It somehow seemed to relate to everything else in my head at the time.

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Apple Ads

June 13th, 2006

Apple has a new series of TV Ads out which I hadn’t seen until I went to the apple website. I’ve got to hand it to these people, they’re really clever. Even delivering a direct punch on the competition, you start to feel like they’re trying to be “nice” about it and say “hey, we’re better … you don’t have to hate the competition to love us!”

My favorite is this one because it includes the instantly classic line:

This light grey area could represent hangout time whereas this dark grey area could represent just kicking it.

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