Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 05:34 pm
excited
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Skype 2.0 Beta + Webcam
PoeticIntensity
Earlier today I wrote about my experience trying to get a Logitech Orbit AF webcam installed in Gentoo Linux.
About 2 hours later, I finally got Skype 2.0 beta to work (after figuring out a problem with QT), and upon loading it, configuring it, and finding someone with whom to test it (thanks, mindjuju), I finally got a webcam to act as a streami...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Wed - Dec 05, 2007 : 01:16 pm
content
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Logitech Orbit AF and Gentoo
PoeticIntensity
This morning, I ended up with a new toy in my hands and as luck would have it, I also had a couple of hours to mess with it.
The device is a Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF webcam.
I've always had a little interest in videography (nothing compared to my interest in audio, however), and from time-to-time I've tried to get various webcams to work in L...
Computers / Gentoo / Linux
Sun - Dec 02, 2007 : 01:22 pm
grateful
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Happy 5th Anniversary, Jason
PoeticIntensity
When will I ever learn to trust my wife, my brother, and my instinct? Probably never.
You see, Ryan, my brother, noted how bald the tires are on my Mustang GT about a month ago. My wife also noted the same thing, as well as a pretty big storm coming this weekend. Anyway... I'll get on with the story.
Sarah and I celebra...
Personal
Sat - Dec 01, 2007 : 06:56 pm
happy
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Windows 98 Product Key
PoeticIntensity
I was floating around the webosphere, when I came upon this key, which, evidently is released by Microsoft themselves. It is claimed to work on all Windows 98 CDs
VP9VV-VJW7Q-MHY6W-JK47R-M2KGJ
I've personally verified that it works with Windows 98 1st Edition (helping my neighbor with computers too old to run XP efficiently...
Microsoft
Wed - Nov 28, 2007 : 03:33 pm
tired
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The Value of Words
PoeticIntensity
Recently, I have had the opportunity to have my mind opened to various opportunities having to do with mortgages and investment properties, and whatnot, and in the midst of all this, we have had to contact the lending company on our primary mortgage.
Yesterday, I was on hold for 1.5 hours with Citibank's collections department, after being transf...
Miscellaneous
Sun - Nov 25, 2007 : 09:44 pm
grateful
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Another Wonderful Sabbath
PoeticIntensity
Sitting here before I begin this entry, I have to sit and sigh... A sigh of gratitude.
Today has been a Sabbath of great spiritual confirmations of simple truths.
While reading this entry, I suggest you click the "play" icon button in the upper right-hand corner of this entry window. Instead of playing the usual En...
Spiritual
Sat - Nov 24, 2007 : 10:48 pm
exhausted
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We Finally Cut It Down!
PoeticIntensity
Wow... I can't believe I'm still awake. For future reference, the day after Thanksgiving is a day of pain. It is a day of fear and dread. But today was better.
When I got married to my wonderful wife, she told me she would marry me on one condition. Okay, okay... That's a lie. But if I wrote down all the conditions u...
Personal
Fri - Nov 23, 2007 : 10:54 am
grateful
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Happy Thanksgiving!
PoeticIntensity
Well... It came and went yet again.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Yesterday was a day filled with gratitude, family, good food, and fun.
We woke up, got the family ready to go, and we took off for Farmington in my Mustang GT (Hehe... Yup.. We packed a crib, casserole, oreo pie, two kids, and two adults into this wonderful sports ca...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Wed - Nov 21, 2007 : 02:47 pm
happy
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Women's Roles / LDS Beliefs
PoeticIntensity
A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in my car driving to and from Salt Lake City. During the trip, I had the opportunity to listen to one of the best talks on Women's Roles in the LDS faith. I was so impressed by the contents of this talk, I had to listen to the entire thing twice.
Both times, both my heart and my eyes were fille...
Lds / Personal
Tue - Nov 20, 2007 : 04:48 pm
content
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Life as Usual
PoeticIntensity
Beyond yesterday's post, I haven't posted anything in awhile. I guess it's because nothing really interesting has happened lately.
My kids are growing like weeds, and I try to enjoy them when want to, and I'm trying to want to more often. That's kind of a sad statement, but I don't believe I am a "born-to-parent" type of guy...
Miscellaneous / Personal
Tue - Nov 30, 2010 : 04:55 pm
grateful
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3 Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
It might be that I'm a techno-geek, but the first thing I thought of when I read this was "social media". People went from house to house and "labored exceedingly" all through the night to let it be known where Jesus was going to come the following day.
Also interesting are the activities of the people when the arrived t...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 02, 2008 : 04:59 pm
sick
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Mosiah : 8
PoeticIntensity
Very interesting that they took the time to tell us that Ammon not only rehearsed what King Benjamin said to the Nephites, but that he then explained it to them that they might understand it. Not sure why that struck me this time, but it did. (verse 3)
According to verse 13, a man who can look into and see (and translate), is a seer. ...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Mon - Jul 20, 2009 : 06:21 pm
blah
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Alma : 35
PoeticIntensity
I noticed in this chapter that even though many threatenings were made to the king of the land of Jershon (most likely an Ammonite), he didn't seem to care at all. His concentration was on the many poor people of the Zoramites who were coming to his city.
Eventually, I believe this action was the tipping point for the wars forthcoming throu...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Spiritual
Tue - Sep 15, 2009 : 04:10 pm
ecstatic
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Workin' The System
PoeticIntensity
Okay... Quick story...
Last Thursday, I was looking around the Internet for a great deal on a new pre-amp I want for my studio. Happens that about 2 hours into searching, I found a deal almost too good to be true. I found my 8-channel Focusrite Platinum Octopre for $300.00 less than anywhere I could find ($400.00 less than retai...
Audio / Life
Tue - Sep 16, 2008 : 10:21 am
happy
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Mosiah : 10
PoeticIntensity
The first thing I noticed this time reading this was that even though the Nephites under Zeniff were at a time of peace, after the war, Zeniff was diligent in continuing his building of weaponry. Not sure why that struck me this time, but the very first verse jumped out.
Maybe it's because they didn't make any assumptions about their enemy....
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Religion / Scriptures / Spiritual
Tue - Apr 01, 2008 : 11:39 pm
happy
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Jacob : 4
PoeticIntensity
This chapter is full of doctrinal nuggets.
Some things I noticed this time around which I haven't noticed before are the following:
Verses 6-8 are primarily about the importance of revelation. We are told this importance is denounced by our time's people in 2nd Nephi 28:5-6. I had never made that connection before.
Interes...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Tue - Oct 26, 2010 : 09:49 am
excited
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New Samples
AudioGuru
So, we've been busy at the studio lately. So much so, I've neglected to update the site's samples. We've got a few new ones up, and so I thought I'd let everyone know a bit about em'.
ScramJet : Tread Softly - ScramJet is a band out of Salt Lake City, dead-set on bringing their musical vision to life. They kn...
Audio / Mixing / Music
Thu - Apr 01, 2010 : 10:26 am
amazed
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Best Recording So Far
AudioGuru
We've done it. We've hit the mother load. The golden goose has landed.
I had the opportunity yesterday to work with one of the most talented musicians I've ever met. It's somebody I've highly respected the past few years, and have wanted to work with ever since I heard him play. He's largely unknown, and has requested me om...
Music
Sat - Oct 06, 2007 : 11:44 am
spiritual
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Conference 1
PoeticIntensity
Brother Packer's talk about everyone in the church being the same, and no office being more important than the other was very inspirational to me this conference, along with Thomas S. Monson's talk about Sister Patton and the talk he gave in 1969 concerning her and the death of her son in the Navy.
I feel inspired as I sit here listening to the l...
Lds / Spiritual
Wed - Mar 05, 2008 : 08:59 pm
lonely
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importance
lovelessfool
it gets hard when you realize your not as important in someones life as you thought you were.
it gets even harder when their the most important part of yours.
love is something i long for. am i convinced that i have found the man for me, but does he even think of me in the same way. I feel like just another co-worker to him. i would give...
Fri - Jul 20, 2007 : 12:02 am
grateful
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My Dearest Collin
PoeticIntensity
I was just up holding you, Collin. You awoke for some reason after we put you to bed, and I decided to be the one to go see what was the matter.
As I picked up your stiff body, muscles taught by some uknown fear, I sensed a connection between you and I which I haven't felt before.
You put your little head on my shoulder and continued to rid...
Fri - Sep 07, 2007 : 07:55 pm
grateful
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One LONG Day
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... The last time I woke up (apart from a nap I took today) was Thursday morning, and HOLY COW, craziness has happened.
The whole mohawk thing, which I thought was over, escalated to a point where it pretty much boiled over causing Kim to attack my and Sarah's parenting skills, and for them to leave in a rush without allowing Julia to ...
Personal
Wed - Jul 25, 2007 : 05:17 pm
amazed
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2644 total views
Right vs. Wrong
PoeticIntensity
Holy cow, there's some weird crap on the Internet.
I was just sifting through Youtube for some comic relief from the daily grind when I wondered where in the world Marilyn Manson had gone. When I was younger, I was pretty much disgusted and amazed at the slim amount of MM media I was exposed to. I haven't heard anything about him for y...
Wed - Aug 01, 2007 : 09:13 pm
pensive
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Financial Decisions...
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I keep on runing into these people who have learned what I want to learn.
About a year ago, I met a guy named Rick Koerber and he seemed like a normal guy. About 6 months later, I find out he's a freaking multi-millionarie. I also find out that he teaches how he did it, and so I learn about it. It seems really legit...
Sun - Jul 29, 2007 : 01:13 pm
peaceful
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2648 total views
Transcoding subtitles
PoeticIntensity
Today I needed to encode a movie I bought on Friday (Fearless), and I wanted to encode it in its native language, but have english subtitles. The command I ended up using was this:
transcode -a 0 -i Fearless.dump -M 2 -w 2200,250,100 -A -N 0x2000 -y xvid -o Fearless.avi -Z 854x480 -J extsub=2:0:0:0:0:100:255:2:3
The "a" takes care...
Wed - Sep 05, 2007 : 11:14 pm
exhausted
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I'm Glad I'm Not Crazy.
PoeticIntensity
Okay... I've got to start off here on a postive note, or I'll bring up all sorts of crappy emotions which I'd just rather not get into right now. I'm sure they'll be brought up sooner or later, but for now, I'd like for you to just take a moment and sup in the absolute goodness found in the photograph on your right.
Yeah... Just ...
Personal
Mon - Mar 10, 2008 : 09:41 pm
irritated
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2nd Nephi : 19
PoeticIntensity
"...and his hand is stretched out still."
I love that phrase. To me, it's just another way of saying, "I will be here for you, no matter what you do or where you go. I will always be here for you."
What a comfort that is, knowing there will always be someone there for you. I know it is for me, and I've felt...
Book Of Mormon / Lds / Personal / Spiritual
Sat - Sep 01, 2007 : 04:01 pm
exhausted
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2007 Monterey Trip - Day 1
PoeticIntensity
Wow.... Today has been crazy.
I woke up around 2:30am this morning, put the suitcases in the van, woke the kids up (actually, Luci was already awake and excited to be going to "Shugee's House"), put them in the van, said a quick prayer for safety and health, and we were off!
I'm tellin' ya... If you have kids and a 10-hour...
Personal
Tue - Jul 31, 2007 : 01:39 am
tired
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Drum Corps. 2007
PoeticIntensity
I just got back from a wonderful evening spent with my wife, Shaun, Tiffy, Shane, and Becca. We went to Weber State to see the annual drum core competition.
Let me just say.... Amazing. Yup... Amazing.... That's what it was.
It also got me to thinking about a lot of things. For some reason lots of normal things...
Thu - Aug 30, 2007 : 05:30 pm
content
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Did I switch too soon?
PoeticIntensity
Today was a good day. I didn't get enough sleep, so after our work lunch party, which enabled us to eat large amounts of Korean food (seasoned beef 'n' stuff wrapped in lettuce was good, but I didn't like the "kimchi" which was nothing more than hot and spicy rotten cabbage), I felt a bit tired... Too tired to work.
So, I wen...
Programming