Another “Today I Learned”, except I was more “doing” than learning. Back in 2024 I was happy to find that the camera I invested in to monitor my kids doing homework back in the COVID days supported RTSP. I made a note to see if I can take it a bit farther, and if it wasn’t for the fact that the DCS-8526LH was eating Micro-SD cards and I was losing valuable information I wouldn’t be where I’m at now.
Enter the “Home DVR”…
Read MorePreviously on Optimizing Video: 2021 Honda Odyssey RES I had a beautiful ffmpeg 1-liner to convert videos to “space-saving-letterbox-loving-USB-sized” videos to be played on my Vehicles Entertainment System. Unfortunately, some of the videos continued to fail to play to the point where the system would reset and would need me to cycle the vehicles power to cold reboot the entertainment system.
Suffice to write it’s led to much trial-and-error, with much more excitement on success.
Read MoreI had read a story awhile back about a 12-year young lady that wrote a letter to her future self 10 years later (today.com). Her name was Taylor Smith and she ended up making headlines not only for the novel idea of the letter but for unfortunately passing away from pneumonia.
That Christmas in 2014 I decided to start this as a family tradition, getting the kids down at the dinner table, telling them this story and informing them that they would love to hear about today much farther down the line from them.
It’s been 10 years and last night I read my letter. Suffice to say I’m proud of myself.
Read MoreToday my second child officially turns 21 years old. It’s another milestone in being a parent and watching a child grow to an adult. This reminded me of a spreadsheet that I created when I realized that, on my 43rd birthday my oldest son was exactly half my age.
It’s not a difficult calculation: Determine the difference in age in days between your child and yourself, multiply that by two, and add that onto your Childs age.
When determining my all my kids’ 2x birthdays (TwiceDays? Triple-Quad-D aka Double-Dad-Days?) I went ahead to find out when those dates existed for my parents.
For my Father our PairDemiJour is June 21, 2009.
For my Mother our HalfMomMirror is September 28, 2008.
In all this birth date calculation I learned that I fathered my first 4 children earlier than my parents fathered me. Nothing to brag about, numbers do that for themselves.
So, the point? Maybe to create another special day that bonds parents with their children? Maybe. I just think when I rolled the cosmic dice and realized that on my 43rd birthday I’d be twice the age of my firstborn it was a gift from myself half-my-life away that I was glad to discover.
Graduation is an amazing accomplishment, and getting quality photos is also another accomplishment.
This year our daughter walked the stage and the school hired a studio to take the Diploma-Holding photos. Today they provided us a link to their pixieset.com shop to view those photos.
These are great photos, and as much as we would like both of them at $27.00 per photo we just cannot afford it. They even went the extra distance of overlaying their advertising/copyright as well as adding in copyright and tag exif metadata within each photo to hammer it home that it’s their property.
…except they forgot one tiny thing about their Canon EOS R5 camera…
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