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Monthly Archives: December 2010
And One For The Drummers …
A joke from a friend:
I don’t want to leave the drummers out in the cold …
This can be told in anyone of a number of politically incorrect settings, but let’s go with white settlers crossing the plains into hostile Indian territory. They know they’re being followed and feel it’s only time before they’ll be attacked.
One night they make camp and realize that from a distanced they are surrounded by hostile natives. Suddenly they hear the sound of war drums coming from the surrounding natives. One settler turns to the other and says, "I sure don’t like the sound of those drums!"
From a distance in the Indian camp comes the reply "…It’s not our regular drummer…"
Video Capture, Stage 2
A couple of years ago, I converted all of my old VHS-C tapes to DVD — 24 DVDs in all. Now I’m starting stage 2 of the process of converting all of my video tapes — the miniDV collection. Estimated storage required for raw video capture is 300 GB. Today the approximate cost per GB is 8.21 cents (about $25 for this project). 3 years ago (where the collection ends), the cost was about 3 times higher. While still practical to do 3 years ago, it amazes me to think about how much storage costs have dropped. When I first bought the mini DV camera (1999), the cost of per GB was around $16 — putting the total cost of this project at about $4800. This site has a great history of the cost of storage.
Home Stand Up Desk
I just read this blog post about stand-up and walking desks and realized that I hadn’t posted a picture of my home stand-up desk. I needed something less complicated at home so I purchased a bit of Ikea furniture to raise the monitors and used the original desk shelf to raise the keyboard. Worked like a charm.