Two minutes on the train

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Steve Mays

Video Stew

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Steve Mays

Readings of newspapers from Northwest Missouri

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Steve Mays

Clip Gumbo

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Steve Mays

Moving mulch

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Steve Mays

The Mulch Fairy visited my house this morning and left these two piles. Barb recently had some landscaping done and this is the culmination. She and a dozen gal pals are in Destin for a week and she expects this mulch to be… whatever you do with mulch… by the time she returns.

Knowing me as well as she does, she has hired some big strong lads to do what needs to be done, which –I assume– involves the red wheelbarrow thing you see peeking up from behind Mount Backache. Just so you know, if I choose to.

What’s wrong with Folgers?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Steve Mays

Captain Blood

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Steve Mays

I love grabbing snippets from old movies or TV shows and sharing them here. The process goes something like this: I hit the record button on the DVR. Then I hook up my old Sony camcorder and pull the video off the DVR. Next, I import the video from the camera to the MacBook. Now, thanks to a new little video capture widget from Elgato, the drill got much easier. (Mac only, sorry)

One end plugs into the video/audio out of any device and the other is a USB connection to the MacBook. And the software is simplicity itself. If you need to get video from your TV or DVR over to your computer, the Elgato Video Capture is a near perfect solution.

My test clip is from Captain Blood, starring Errol Flynn.