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Archive for September, 2005
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2005DC Pics – Its About Time
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005Finally got back in to using iPhoto after some time spent with iMovie and finding other programs that do what I need. I’ll have more about all that eventually. The iPhoto web page export is not good at all. It doesn’t give you enough options to make the page look half way decent. I tried a few programs that either cost money or froze up iPhoto. I finally found Galerie. It appears to do everything I want and then some. I can create a template just about any way I want and it will generate all the photos and HTML. I didn’t even try that though. I just set the basic settings and used the default template and it looked just fine.
DC Video
Friday, September 9th, 2005Been playing around with the Mac Mini for a day now. I’ll have a lot more to say. First up is a video of the pictures from this weekend. I started using iPhoto but there are still some bugs in it that kept me from using that. iMovie takes a lot longer but gives you a lot more control. This file is around 7mb. Its encoded in h.264 and AAC. It will play in Quicktime 7 (which comes with the iTunes 5 download). Not sure about working in anything else right now. I have a bigger version if you want it I can get it to you somehow. I’ll have the pictures up in some form later tonight or tomorrow.
More DC
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 |
While taking pictures all day we were trying crazy stuff and attempting to be ‘artsy.’ It has continued at home as I attempted touse some filters for a B&W/grainy subway pic. Is there any other kind?
Also, my Mac Mini just surfaced in Lewisberry, PA after its 6 day drive from Sacramento. Hopefully that means it will be here tomorrow. Posted via flickr. |
Fantasy Football Draft – AOL League
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005This is the first time in many years that I’ve moved away from Yahoo! I barely remember the pre-Yahoo! days of buying a program and doing a lot by email. This year there were some new free contenders to Yahoo! that were worth checking out. ESPN should put out a quality product although their fantasy games are usually a pain to get in to. Fox Sports offered free leagues with live scoring as did AOL. AOL looked a little better so we decided to give them a try.
We’ll get Fox out of the way first. I tried to access their site last night and you couldn’t even make a team. I read the message board and people were saying they did their draft on Fox but decided to move because it was always down. Problem was it was never functioning long enough to get the rosters.
We had planned for a 9:30 draft and every one who I expected for the live draft was on time. Except of course for the draft room on AOL. It did not load at all. It should be mentioned that AOL was the only one that did not schedule drafts. Thats great since I never know when we will actually get started. However it didn’t work out so well for the servers.
A backup plan was developed to move over to ESPN. I had created a league there before I heard about AOL. We were able to get everyone signed up over there and schedule an auto-pick draft that would be done Thursday morning, plenty of time to set rosters for the opening game.
Around 10:30 AOL amazingly starts working. The draft room was incredibly slow to respond, its was really designed terribly. I had to set the absent members to auto-pick after a few minutes, it couldn’t figure out that if someone wasn’t there that they wouldn’t be picking? I guess this is possible if I had someone on the phone and I could pick for them. The auto-pick went along with the AOL rankings, which heavily favored defensive players. These teams maxed out on DL, LB, and DBs before picking any offensive players in some cases. Really, really dumb.
We are keeping the ESPN league cause, why not have 2? Plus, in that one punters and head coaches are included.
Anyway all this chatter just to annouce my roster …
“This is Florida Football”
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Really? FSU-Miami? A poorly played game with very little offense? The worst game I’ve seen since the 6-4 PSU-Iowa game. If either of these teams played Penn State the game would never end. No one would score.
Tomahawk Chop
Monday, September 5th, 2005Why do the Braves and Seminoles do their chop to the same music? Is it that Atlanta and Tallahassee are so close that its the same tribe? Isn’t there another chant that could be used, at least for varity?
A comment posted on 10/1 to my old system, so I’ll put it here:
It started at FSU w/ the Seminoles. Deion Sanders brought it back from his alma mater (Florida State University) to the Atlanta Braves back in the early 90’s, where we adopted it. (I’m from Atlanta).
All the Pictures Will Take a Few Days
Monday, September 5th, 2005 |
Here’s another selection from my weekend pictures. I will be doing something with them by the weekend after my mini gets here (sadly not the car but the computer (that’s right, a mac, more on that later)). I’ll try and tease you with all these excellent shots until then. If you do want the originals I can send them to you whenever, so just let me know.
Posted via flickr. |