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.
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…
Its been nearly ten years since we revisited the old neighborhood in Downtown Chicago. A kidless week revisiting those places that were so familair to us was refreshing and rejuvinating. I forgot how many people actually show up for Taste of Chicago until they closed the streets around Grant Park to let the partiers exit…
Damn, It seems that I managed to book the “best dry fly fishing in the world” at the worst time ever. River X was a big ZERO. The river was blown out by water release in the reservoir and we spent the week at the Rocky Ridge Bed and Breakfast fishing the local pond–Dipping Dot Reservoir (actual…
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…
It seems so familair. I have never returned to Christmas Island in Kirabati on two consecutive years. Last year we were told, “You dont want to come to Christmas Island right after the full moon because the fishing is too easy and the fish are too big.” Personally, I like easy and big and so…
Whats better than taking your son out of school to go fishing in Mexico for a week? Nuthin’. This mid school year expedition took place near Mazatlan at a lake called El Salto, home of the next world record largemouth bass. This trip was special in that my cousin Wayne and my Uncle Yun were…
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…