This afternoon I showed my mom how to download a video from vimeo and burn it to dvd on a mac, and screencaptured what I was doing in the process. This video is a bit rough around the edges but you get the idea.. Basically you download the file from vimeo, put it in your “Movies” folder, open iDVD and create a new project, adjust the theme and settings as necessary, add your video to the project, and burn the dvd. You can view the howto video here: dvd_from_vimeo.mov
I decided to separate my blog out into four different wordpress instances. That seems like a bit overkill, no? Well, it isn’t, and here’s why. Its important to have a relatively consistent writing topic when you’re attempting to have more than a personal blog that only friends and family will care about. I have so many interests that I’d like to write about, that it just doesn’t make sense to contain them all on one site. People who are about reading Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Zen more than likely couldn’t care less about my interests in music, or fitness, or cars. On the flip side, people who are interested in reading Jeff’s Locost Build Log probably have little interest in hearing about technology, or piano stuff, etc. Having a dedicated personal blog will be useful for things that I think only friends and family will care about, such as trips abroad or other interests of mine, and having a dedicated Work Log will be useful mostly for my own reference down the road. Feel free to check out whichever of them interest you, I don’t mean to hide any of them from particular groups of people, I just don’t want them to be IN YOUR FACE for those who don’t share all the same interests that I have.
I found this wonderful piano sheet music site the other day, and just thought I’d post it here to share with you. This blog is where I got the sheet music for Comptine d’un autre: http://my-piano.blogspot.com/
Enjoy!
So. You have a piano sitting in your dining room that never gets played. You have a bed that’s tucked away in storage. You have a car that you need to sell. You wish desperately that you could easily sell these items without paying someone to display your ad somewhere, but you don’t know what to do!
Paging Mr. Craig on isle 4, Mr. Craig on isle 4, please
Craig’s list, that is. Craig is a man from San Francisco who decided to make a very simple and free website, called craigslist.org, to allow people in his same town to easily buy and sell just about anything, back in 1995. Initially, the service was only available for San Francisco (the Bay Area, specifically); however, it has grown to almost every major city in the U.S. nowadays. The beauty of the service is that it is localized, i.e. the ads you see will be posted by people within a 50 mile radius (give or take) of you, so you can go look at the item before buying. No more sending money on the internet and then wondering whether your item will actually show up! Conversely, if you’re selling something, its much nicer to deal with local buyers, rather than to have to worry about shipping something.
Right about now, you’re probably thinking that you don’t know anything about computers, and aren’t comfortable with selling things on the internet, even if it is craigslist. Wrong! A few weeks ago, I showed my slightly computer-challenged mother (no offense Mom!) how to post an ad on craigslist. She was selling a canoe. Within only 5 hours, the thing had sold! Oh man, was she hooked! Since that time, my mom has sold or helped friends sell nearly a dozen things through craigslist!
Good for her, but I’m not your mom, genius. How are you going to teach me?
I thought you’d never ask. For your viewing pleasure, I have created a video which goes through all of the steps required to post something on craigslist. This is just the first in a series of videos I plan on creating about craigslist.. Video #1 is all you really need to post something on craigslist, while the future videos will be tutorials on how to make your ads look nicer, and have more and bigger pictures on them.
Hope you enjoy! Please leave comments if you think this video rocks, or if you think it sucks, and you want me to do it differently somehow.
This song is from the movie Amélie, which is itself quite a beautiful film. This is my new focus on the piano.. Hopefully I’ll film myself playing this sometime soon.
I’ve just recently become infatuated with Flickr, in combination with my iPhone. Specifically, there is a third party app called iFlickr that makes uploading pictures from your iPhone a snap (pun intended). For people with a non-jailbroken iPhone, sending a picture to Flickr involves taking a picture, and then emailing it to your Flickr email address. With iFlickr, however, you have a customized Camera application, where upon taking a photo you get the option to “Send to Flickr”. Once you tap this button, within a few moments your picture will be displayed on your Flickr site.
By your powers combined..
Now, combine this coolness with the awesomeness that is WordPress, and a neat little plugin for it made by tantannoodles, and you get something that makes posting pictures on ones blog so streamlined that you may need some aviators goggles. Observe:
And that’s it! All you have to do is click on one of your pictures, and it becomes one with your masterful writing. As you can see, this plugin makes the addition of photos to your blog posts a piece of cake. I’m enthralled by it.
Well, I finally have my very own build log. Almost a year ago, I became interested in lotus 7 replicas. I’m not even really sure what happened to make me interested in such a car, but I’ve been researching and considering building one for a few months now.
Over Christmas, I got a couple of books I was asking for. The two that mattered the most were: How to Build a Cheap Sports Car, and Build your own Sports Car: On a Budget. Also, I’ve done a lot of research and reading on the http://locostusa.com forums.
Anyways, after reading through those two books, and also buying a Lincoln Electric Pro-Mig 140, I made up my mind that I was going to get started on building a locost. My plan was to build my chassis based on the “book” frame, and to use a Mazda Miata as a donor vehicle.
I want to use a Miata for a few reasons:
Anywho, I’ll post some pictures of my garage and when I construct my “build table”.
Pics of Blackie
My kitty cat, with my camera, on a bored Friday night. He’s too cute not to be photographed.