Asides

  • New experience:  a hard pretzel so fresh that the insides are still soft.  Yum.

  • How to convert audio format in a video file: ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec ac3 -ab 448k output.mkv

  • I can’t believe that Game Developer Magazine is ending in July! I hope they don’t switch my remaining issues to some Windows publication like the last two computer magazines I subscribed to did when they ended.

  • The upgrade from LibreOffice 3.6 to 4.0 on Windows wants you to reboot the computer. I expected better of free software.

  • It is night time.  David is in bed.  Deb is sitting next to him reading a book titled “Hey! Wake Up!“

  • Onions, garlic, jalapenos, beef, tomato sauce, and sazon goya went into the oven.  Only one supper will come out.

  • I want to see a 100% open source android distro. The first pass could be AOSP or CyanogenMod without the closed source GApps. F-Droid would be pre-installed, along with a selection of basic apps like K9 Mail and aCal. I found this post: http://www.jethrocarr.com/2012/01/04/100-pure-freedom-phone/ talking about the same thing, but I don’t see anyone who…

  • Postgres Upgrade

    I just upgraded from PostgreSQL 8.3 to 9.2.  In doing so, I also went from a Sun optimized build (since I installed their supplied version before) to a self built version where I didn’t fiddle with optimization at all (the documentation suggests -O5, but I let it go with the default of -O3).  Despite the lazy build, it…

  • Convert flac to mp3: flac -cd track.flack | lame -h – track.mp3

  • When David falls down, Deb says Whoopsie-Daisy. I, however, say Whoopsie-David.