VIEW SLIDESHOWSame shot with different shutter speeds.
Fading Moon
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Macbook & Macbook Pro Care Tips
Common sense, but, still worth a read for all you new MB owners. Talks about cleaning the display, general care, etc.
I didn’t know this:
Important: Do not place your MacBook Pro on a pillow or other soft material when it’s powered on, as the material can block the airflow vents (in particular, the rear vents)…
I now know why I have “black smoke” marks on the G4, I always used to watch movies with Chun Mei this way. Good to know, good to know…
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via Kottke’s World Map Test. First try. Second try = 49.
Photo Gallery
VIEW GALLERYMoon Moves
These photos were take three minutes apart. I came across this as I was importing a sequence of moon pictures into iPhoto. I used the Italian tripod to try to get more detail of the moon’s surface, but it turns out it’s just my camera and lenses aren’t that great. Anyway, as the sequence of photos imported, I noticed that moon crawling up my monitor!
I never knew it moved this fast! It moved a whole “moon” in just 2-3 minutes.
-BOB-
Power Bill
If I bought 900 KW hours for $47.00 USD, how does that compare to the Bay Area electricity rates?
Walks
SEE ROUTEWe’re now increasing our routine to four miles a day of walking (at 4 mph walking speed.) 30 mins in the morning, and 30 mins after dinner.
YRGZ is very scenic, and I’ve noticed that a lot of people come here to do their wedding photos.
-BOB-
YRGZ Pano
Capitalizin' Chuxiong
The new YizuBucks about a block away from our house. Instead of the mermaid, we have an Yizu tribe lady.
-BOB-
Paying the Power Bill in Chuxiong
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Try the SUPER DUPER CRUNCHED VERSION!
20 kpbs video
50 px wide enlarged to 640 px wide
0.1 mb
Okay, that’s a bit much, but I just ran a bunch of tests and found out that my current settings (1024 video kbps ,etc) is way overkill. Also, audio can be set at the very lowest (mono, 8bit, etc). I just did a test at 300 video kpbs, cut the dimensions by 75%, and it is almost the same as this 11 meg file in terms of video quality, but the file size is 1 meg (of course you have to resize the QT file back up, but for 90% off the file size, I’ll take it.)
-BOB-