The Freshman Make History! Winning second place in the skit competition beating out the Seniors and the Sophmores in the highest place finish ever for a freshman class. Mark Syn and Madie Perretta Writers, Producers and Directors…. Leland High School Homecoming Skit Freshmen 2008 from Meng Syn DDS on Vimeo.
Thanks to Frank for showing me a PC laptop with XBMC working flawlessly on Linux! This weekend I loaded the XBMC on Ubuntu Linux (Hardy) and I can honestly say this beats the heck out of the my TivX, my HTPC running Media Center, my I-O Data AVeL LinkPlayer, ShowCenter, Rhapsody N-35, Kiss, Linksys … and the various…
This last year Ive taken an Xacti HD1000 around the world, from Kirabati to Alberta. I am a big fan of the Xacti Series of High Def SD cams from Sanyo that record to QPIXEL H.264 at 720p and 1080i resolutions. I decided recently that I need a second camera to make my editing more interesting so…
The Class of 09 performed their final skit at Leland today which I had the opportunity to film. Using an HD1000 with fish eye and an HD800 for closer shots I edited the short film in Adobe CS4’s two camera mode in half an hour. Leland High School Senior Homecoming Skit 2008 from Meng Syn…
Finally found a solution to the ability to playback Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i camera captures back on a PC. Its called the CoreAVC Codec. Next step is to test Premier CS4 with native Xacti HD h.264. The CoreAVC High Definition H.264 video codec is widely known as the world’s fastest and most efficient H.264 video…
In what might be considered a major victory for the underdogs, my son Mark and his partner Kian, both freshmen novices, were victorious in there first National Forensics League tournament together in Duo Interpretative Speech. The tournament was held at Leland High School and the Duo event attracted 28 pairs of competitors from elite Northern California Schools like…
While renewing my domain names, I stumbled upon the blog of the CEO of GODADDY.COM. You might remember them from the mega expensive super bowl adds they use to run with the good looking girls. This guy is like on of the most successfull CEOs around. He grew up poor in Baltimore where he dropped…
The other day my buddy Frank turned me on to a cool device that allows you to boot and load Mac Leopard OS X onto a PC from the standard retail CD!. Its called the EFI-X. Optimized for several Gigabyte motherboards. No more messing with hacked kernels. A must do install. Wonder if Final Cut…
The Sharks Opener against the Ducks…4-1 Sharks! Maybe this is the year with a coach that has actually won a Stanley Cup! Actually this post is an experiment, using the WordPress Iphone Application to upload a picture directly to the blog.
Gina and Mary Ann completed their second Rock and Roll Half Marathon today, eclipsing their last years time by a few minutes. The weather was great and after the race we had a nice lunch at the Fairmont and waited around until Credence Clearwater Revisited took the stage to close the race.