Motives
Friend in the Shadows
The whole time he is alone until he one day notices someone standing in the shadows on the other side of the river. The person can't really be seen and is just a dark figure. The man calls and waves out. The person doesn't say anything, but the man assumes it's because they're too far apart to hear each other. However, the person seems to motion or signal back before fading back into the shadows.
The man doesn't see this person again until one day he injures himself along...[More]
Peace
When your mind is at peace, your mind isn’t doing anything and you are doing nothing and it is the same thing a mind does when it is dead.
Monkey Bars
Sense of achievement is what you feel the first time you are able to skip every other monkey bar. Sense of age is what you feel when you realize you can reach the monkey bars without jumping.
The River
Be the rock that holds against the river or the water that flows with the current but not the fish that dies swimming upstream.
Diagonal Lines on Video Capture with TV Tuner
This has been bugging me for some time, but I always assumed it was just the monitor or editor program. Basically what’s been happening is any video I capture from VHS or TV to my computer ends up with every so slight but definitely visible lines going diagonally across the screen. I’m not sure how to explain it. It’s not interlacing (those are horizontal and a whole other issue) and it doesn’t actually hurt the video that much like other artifacting. You actually have to pause the video to notice them (at which you’ll see diagonal lines frozen across the image). They’re kind of like crosshatches I guess - or honeycombs. There really ought to be a name for it, but I can’t seem to find any references to it on Google.
Here’s a picture of what I mean:
Basic solution I’ve found so far is to keep the capture device and cables away from cables (especially power lines) if possible. The issue was that I had the video cables crossing over a number of other cables to…[More]
Untapped Potential
Potential that refuses to be tapped is potential that was never there to begin with.
Ignoring Someone
Trying to Find Storage Trunks
Right now, I just have too much stuff lying around, and I’m not usually one to throw things away. Normally at this time of year, I’d be stuffing them into trunks or footlockers to store away, but I can’t seem to find any.
I’ve checked online but the prices range from $120 upwards, not even including shipping. Many of these don’t even have wheels or handles. -_- The ones I have currently I bought for $20 at Walmart so anything over $60 is already way out of my price range. None of the Walmarts I visited nearby seem to sell trunks anymore though.
If anyone knows any stores, local or online that sells these boxes for cheaper - please let me know. Thanks
Remembering Everything You've Ever Learned
Yeah, I’m bored. It’s summer time. And I’m forgetting things.
Searched the subject of memory on Google just for the heck of it and found an interesting article on how memory works, as well as how to improve and maximize it. The header claims you can remember “everything” and I suppose if you keep at it long enough, it’s possible but I doubt I’ll get enough time to pursue that.
Article: Remembering Everything You’ve Ever Learned
According…[More]