Mom was going through some old files recently and discovered a strange envelope labeled
Eric HoughDo not open until June 2003
Accidentally shoot a video upside-down with your iPhone? Don’t worry, it’s easy to create a flipped copy that retains just about all the quality. Here’s how to do it using free tools on Mac OS X, though this should work on any *nix platform.
# sudo port -d install mplayer-devel +mencoder_extrasmencoder -oac pcm -ovc x264 -vf flip,mirror -of lavf -x264encopts subq=6:partitions=all:me=umh:frameref=5:bframes=3:b_pyramid=1:weight_b:threads=auto input.mov -o output.movOf course, replace input.mov with the path to your input movie.Ideally we would just flip the video without re-encoding it, but turns out this is impossible. I’m not a video encoding expert, but this will produce a copy of your video that has no noticeable quality degradation. I like H.264′s quality/compression ratio, so I grabbed a few of their recommended high quality settings. One minor issue is that the flipped video has no video stream, only audio, in Quicktime Player 10.0. Oddly, they’ll play normally in a browser with the Quicktime plugin. Plus the videos will upload to Flickr or YouTube just fine.
See the difference for yourself
Three weeks late, but I wanted to share what an awesome time Melissa and I had on New Year’s 2010. My favorite local brewery, Port Brewing of Pizza Port fame, teamed up with my favorite local beer bar, Toronado San Diego.
After 14 hours and a nearly cancelled flight coming back from Pennsylvania (with a delightful free upgrade to first class), I arrive in San Diego around 6pm. We hit Toronado around 830 to find it not too crowded. I think we were both expecting it to be slammed. Instead we sat right down at the bar and ordered the IPA flight, which consisted of 11 IPA’s at 4oz each. Being good students, we took notes on each…
Oh but the night was just getting started! We then decided to switch gears and did the stout and porter flight. Another delicious 11 brews with notes…
We both agreed the best beer of the night was the California Honey Ale, of which we both got a pint or two. Pizza Port also brought down some sort of a mobile pizza oven to cook really cheap pizza in the alley out back. Sweet. All in all a great time. Made me love Port and Toronado even more, and I hope they do something like this again!
My dad worked with Carlisle High School Athletics for as long as I can remember. He would do the physicals for the athletes before each season, and he stood on the sidelines during football games as the team doctor. I could tell he enjoyed the work – much of it was volunteer based.
At the first football game of this season on September 25 2009, Dave Hutchinson (a friend of Dad’s) read the following tribute before kickoff.
Ladies and gentleman, about six weeks ago, one of the most dedicated friends of the Carlisle High School athletic programs passed away.
Dr. Rodney Hough was just 65, but throughout his life had spent countless hours giving of himself to others –and our athletes here at Carlisle were frequently on the receiving end of his generosity.
Dr. Hough was a pretty fair athlete himself; a scholarship football player at the University of Virginia, who went on to graduate from the UVS Medical School. He established a practice here in 1975, and as the years went by, became a constant presence on the sidelines, often caring for injured players at his own expense.
His sons proudly worth the Green-and White a decade ago, and contributed to the championship squads of the late ‘90”s and 2000.
We ask that you please rise, and help us observe a few moments of silence to honor the memory of Dr. Rodney Hough, an Air Force veteran during the Vietnam War, and remain standing as the Carlisle High School band plays our National Anthem.
My father, Dr. Rodney Hough, interviewed by CBS back in 2007 regarding his recovery from addiction to pain pills. This aired on CBS 21 News, which servers central Pennsylvania, in February 2008.
It seems surreal to post a video that was forwarded to me. But as the email stated, “The Steelers are a religion and thus must be worshipped.”
These kids are all 11, 12, or 13 years old. Lots of talent. I’m most impressed with the lead vocals. Go Stillers!
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