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After all of the trouble I’d had with Windows Movie Maker during my last project, I decided to upgrade my tools. In addition to this, I’m planning to save my videos primarily in H.264 mp4 format which is higher quality than wmv and is compatible with my PSP and iPod.
Unfortunately, despite what the fall update […]

After a great deal of technical difficulty due to field order swaps on the DVDs and crash happy Windows Movie Maker, I got my new anime music video completed and uploaded for the Ohayocon AMV contest. I also decided that this will be the last AMV I make using Windows Movie Maker, it’s just too […]

Ugh! The AMV is not done yet and I must sleep! One of these days I’ve got to stop using Windows Movie Maker for this stuff, but I’m just too cheap, or a glutton for punishment! ^_^ As usual, I’m trying to get a new anime music video ready in time for a convention AMV […]

A couple of days ago, I had the great pleasure of spying a stunningly attractive woman who, except for the absence of pink hair, looked a lot like Air Gear’s Simca. She didn’t appear to be as busty, but the style of the clothing and her overall shape just screamed “Simca!” Another great reminder of […]

My youngest son is very rules oriented. I learned yesterday that he has labeled our two bathrooms, “Number 1″, and “Number 2″. He does number 1 in Number 1 and number 2 in Number 2!^_^

I guess the best antidote to life is to just live it out. I got a few hours of having the house to myself during which time I got to reprise my yearly role of Santa Claus, wrapping and delivering presents to the tree. This was followed by some very therapeutic house cleaning and the […]

It’s midterm report time again, and again it’s a period of dread and depression here. Most would say that 3 out of 4 good reports would be a good thing. But in this age of standardized testing, ridiculously intense competition, and Ritalin, anything less than perfect overshadows anything good that comes. And so it is […]

In the wake of the Mitchell report on steroid use in Major League Baseball, which names a number of high profile players, one would think that there was a general outcry just watching the news reports. But is this really the case. The very probable use of performance enhancing drugs in American baseball has been […]

When all of the talk about this box or that box taking over your living room and being the mother of all multimedia got started, I could only greet with yawns of indifference at best. I really didn’t want everything ending up in one box (including my PC), and hooked up to the living room […]

Five or six months between conventions is too much for me, so I’m getting ready for my first trip to Ohayocon coming up in January 2008. I’ve been missing my Roger Smith cosplay, so I’ve decided to wear it on the trip. Roger wears normal clothes, so only the initiated would even notice and I’ll […]