Sunday August 19, 2018 -Its been a month since I’ve fished the Big lake having been blown off the water basically the whole month of July. The last time I fished the lake was with Steve and we caught a bunch at the racks fishing deep. I was hoping for a repeat. It turned out…
Sept 1, 2017 (6:30-1:00) Basking in the afterglow of last weeks Solar Eclipse Fishing experience, I was feeling a bit skeptical of fishing San Luis this weekend. Most of the reports were mediocre and the really knowledgeable guys were going to the Delta for big stripers. The Wind report was great but there was…
Its been years since we took a vacation to Maui without the kids and we have Erin and Ken to thank for a wonderful time in Hawaii. Yesterday was EPIC with beautifull weather for the ceremony despite rain and clouds on both days before and after. The beach was fantastic, a small intimate setting just a mile…
For parents and friends that would like to have some of the photos I took yesterday and for those looking for the Freshmen and Senior Homecoming Skits, The Videos can be found on Vimeo.com and the Photos can be found at FLickr. My Vimeo (for video) and Flickr (for Photos) memberships are under “Meng Syn DDS” .
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…
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…
Its time for Collage tours in Southern California. What better way to see SOCAL than after a Disney Cruise around the Mexican Riviera. The goal- Tour UCLA, USC, Claremont McKenna. Loyola Marymount, and Azusa Pacific after a week boat ride in Mexico. For only the second season in the Disney Cruise History, “the Magic” is…
We spent the weekend in San Francisco cramming fun into the last weeks of summer with the kids. This weekend was for Mia. Mia’s junior year ( the last academic year) was brutal. I can’t believe how hard she works and where she found the motivation to take 4 AP classes, while being a page…
Summer is over and I wish I fished more this year. In retrospect, one of the best days I had was not catching one fish–the day I spent at the Palmer Ranch in Alberta fishing for large cruising fish in shallow ponds. The epiphany of the day was , “I think I need a small compact expandable net…
Disney Cruise lines sailed the Med for the very first time this summer and being that our family is addicted to Disney Cruises we had to see Europe for the first time on a Disney Yacht. In what turned out to be one of our best vacations ever, we sailed for 14 days, and saw…
Snow in April! We packed for heat and fished in rain and snow. Mark and I took a trip to the Bidwell Ponds in Lasson County to excersize some trout over spring break. The high point of the trip was when I accidentally lit my self on fire priming the carburator of our motorhome…
On July 31st 2006, my father passed away from complications during heart surgery to repair a regurgitating mitral valve at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 79 years old and had been suffering from congestive heart failure for months prior to the surgery. He is missed and we think of him often. In Memory…