Videos
A collection of short videos capturing life on the go: cycling along Vermont’s Colchester Causeway, pedal‑blending smoothies, lightning storms and the occasional wildlife cameo. These clips are little windows into our travels and everyday adventures.
- Where is the real-time telemetry for each car? I want to see scaled MPH for each car.
- I’d love to see the G’s that they are taking on the turns. It seems like a guarantee that these cars are taking turns in a way that no human could actually do.
- Where is the POV video from each car?! Must have streaming video from each car, imagine the POV shot when the aerial pass happens?
- Made the stingers 5 seconds long. The first ones were 7 seconds and just a little too long.
- I added the Creative Commons license information that I apply to my videos so it is clear what terms apply to reuse of the video.
- My first stingers weren’t as high-resolution and didn’t look as good in HD.
- I made sure the aspect ratio defaulted to widescreen.
We visited Minneopa State Park today and I can’t believe I haven’t seen these falls before. Impressive double falls with great viewing areas.
Extreme Sandbox Heavy Metal Drive-Thru
We joined my sister and her family for the Extreme Sandbox Heavy Metal Drive-Thru tonight. We had a fun time watching all the heavy equipment play. There were a lot of very excited little kids in attendance honking horns. 😊
Nice talk on Automate Your Context at Monitorama 2018 from Andy Domeier of #TeamSPS! 👏 Teams that ship more, win more!
DevOps Minneapolis: Changing the Enterprise Session
I had a great time talking about Changing the Enterprise at this week’s DevOps Minneapolis Meetup with Heather Mickman and Bridget Kromhout! My mic wasn’t working in the beginning but gets fixed a little later in the video.
It was a fun opportunity to talk about some of the concepts I’ve thought about with risk management, refactoring costs, how Agile and DevOps come together.
Pro RC Racing
Some friends sent me this video from a European Pro RC Race. It’s the most amazing thing ever! Worth a watch. Check out the speed, the passes and the jumps!
So much more they could be doing!
This would be even more fun, and those are just the immediate ideas that come to mind!
Great, fun interview with John Gruber and Phil Schiller of Apple.
Dirt Conveyor
If you need to take seven inches of dirt out of a basement floor, it is best to have a cool portable conveyor belt.
You can see this laying on the floor in yesterdays shot of the basement.
New Video Stingers (v2)
A little over a year ago I created a handful of stingers to use on video content that I create. The stinger serves a bunch of purposes. On the practical side it gives the movie player and data stream to get going. I often notice that in the first couple of seconds of video there are some breaks and with a stinger that happens before the content starts. Also, you can name your site and show what license terms apply to it (the later is something I forgot to do in my first stingers).
I decided to redo them and improved a number of things:
Several of my friends asked me how I create my stingers. It is really easy actually. I use Keynote to make the stinger itself, using transition effects that are on a timer. I then export the presentation to a Quicktime movie. I import the Quicktime movie of the transitions into iMovie and do trimming as well as adding audio. I then export them out of iMovie and re-import the completed stingers into iMovie to use in other videos. It sounds more complicated than it is. If you would like to use my Keynote file to start with go ahead and download Video Stingers v2.1.key.
For fun, here are the five new stingers.
Convergence
Flip
Zoom
Fade
Spinner
It’s hard to make these go both on the web and on a large television. I might have to make everything bigger and thicker on these.
Update: I did a recut because I didn’t like how the video looked at very small files. I also made it work better with 4:3 aspect ratio as needed.