Browsing the blog archives for October, 2006
Here is just a taste of what HD College Football has to offer. Keep in mind this is compressed to where it’s not full quality (but I’m a great video encoder now so it’s pretty darn good).
You’ll need an xvid codec. If you don’t know what that is then why are you here? No seriously just ask in the comments. If you have the guts!
Right-Click > Save-As
gonzo_catch_HD.avi (13 megs)
No Comments My two favorite sports are Baseball and College Football.
For baseball, the greatest two points of the season are the two weeks leading up to the playoffs, and the playoffs themselves. What’s funny is, for the rest of the country, if two specific teams aren’t playing in Post-Season, no one watches. With both the Yankee’s and Red Sox being out, viewership for the post-games this year is way down. I still love watching no matter who plays.
The greatest points of a college football season can happen almost every weekend. The reason I think college football has become so much more popular over the past few years is because with the way the BCS system works, every game matters. Even if your team isn’t playing, you’ll watch two teams because if one of them loses and is ahead of you, all the better ranking for your team. It’s an interesting situation that I don’t think happens in any other sport. Besides the fact that this past weekend’s Auburn/Florida game was a great game of football, the fact that Florida lost a) helps USC in the rankings and b) helps M*ch*gan in the rankings which in turn helps Ohio State in the rankings because those two teams will play each other.
Speaking of the Buckeyes, last week I finally got around to purchasing an HD Capture card for my PC. Now I’ve been enjoying the greatness that is HD Television for over a year now via my Costco Purchased Vizio 50″ Plasma Monitor, but I’ve never been able to recording anything of my choosing (usually I’ll just download aquire from alternative sources). Now that I have this capture card I can record all the Buckeye games in wonderful 720p. This week I’ve really gotten into video editing and encoding and have been able to put together some awesome looking clips from the Michigan State/OSU game. If I get a chance I’ll post some links later.
Well it seems as though everything is back up and running like normal. Not too much has changed visually, but there are a few things on the back-end that I’ve updated which will make future additions a lot easier to make. One may difference you may have noticed is the sidebar. Now I can add a lot of cool “gadgets” to the sidebar. You’ll notice my Xbox GamerCard and Last.FM stream on the About page, but I’ve also added a neat Flickr flash gadget as well as a new “News I like” section. This will replace the “Asides” section.
I talked a while back about how I was totally into aggregate news feeds and the websites that have taken off due to the use of RSS. Ever since that post I’ve continued to use bloglines as my main choice of RSS reader. That all changed about a week ago when Google updated their reader. Now google.com/reader/ is my prefered method of viewing headlines and news content. Some of the highlights that won me over are the ability for GR to realize a post as read or unread on a post-by-post basis instead of by feed. Also I like Google’s “Staring” and “Sharing” system much better than Bloglines. Now I’ll have an updated list of the 5 most recent stories I thought were interesting enough to include on my site (though I still need to work with the css to make it blend more with the scheme of my site). For a compelte list you can get see the full page here or use my rss feed here. I’m going to try and see if I can somehow work the full page version as an aditional page into my site.
I’ve finally gotten around to posting pictures of both my TV and PC setup on Flickr. Check out the link below for more shots.
Yes I do realize that 3 screens is a little excessive and uncessary, but from the first time I saw it I knew I had to make my own. Plus the two 17″ screens are used from Ebay so the whole setup really wasn’t that expensive.
I feel as though there were quite a few things that I wanted to post about, but now I forget them. More later I suppose…
I am currently making some changes to the behind the scenes workings. There may be some things not functioning properly for a bit.
10 Very Cool Workplaces - Yea, I definetly wouldn’t mind working at one of these places.
Oct 17, 2006 
