2012.01.08 - Resolution Run (De Anza Cove)
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Relinquishing my role as the "Rebound Girl..."
I haven’t had my computer in almost 5 months, I almost don’t know how to get back into the random stories I used to write all of the time.
So to just “re-acquaint” myself, I decided I should catch y’all up on my
love life…or better yet, lack thereof…So that phrase, “Rebound girl” never meant much to me until this last year when I have officially been her three separate times.
Potential #1:
It began with Brent, the ex of a used to be friend who cheated on him… dumped him a month into their engagement….and then moved in a guy AS Brent was moving out.
On top of that, HE couldn’t get over her.
So, we go out for a few months, he decides he is too heartbroken to “have feelings” for someone. Then, about 3 weeks later he texts me to tell me that he has fallen for some chick and he wants to “thank me for showing him that he could move on.”
Again:
Potential #2
Next comes , Shawn the divorcee of about 1.5 years who was just getting back into the dating world. We had dinner, went to the zoo, watched movies, and hung out for about a month and a half. He then decides that he should focus on his career and kids.
A month later he calls me to tell me that he landed a great Executive job with Cabela’s in Minnesota and that he met some one and again wanted to “thank me” for being so “caring” while he was figuring out his little quarter life crisis.
At this point I’m thinking:
Potential #3:
And finally, and not any less confusion-inducing is Aaron, the computer programmer/ex-military guy. He and I met about a month ago and we have spent quite a bit of time together. We’ve had drinks, he’s made me dinner,
watchedslept through several movies and had some amazing sex.He constantly tells me how amazing I am and that I am “such a sweetheart.” Yet….he can’t/won’t let go of his break up from 4 months ago.
Now what is the moral of this story?
Honestly, I wish that I knew. All that I can take from these situations is that I must be some sort of God’s gift to men post-break up and help them see the light for a future relationship.
Now before people go and think I am being all melodramatic and thinking that I do not think I will ever find that “Love of my Life,” I want to clarify a few things:
- I do not have any sort of self-esteem issues. In fact, I believe that I am fucking amazing. Any man who gets me will be very lucky. I am educated, ambitious, mature, responsible. I make hot babies, I can cook like a mo-fo, and I fuck like a pornstar.
- Do I really need a point #2?
- I have tried the “actively looking” thing and it is quite disheartening. I just don’t want to be with someone for the sake of being with someone.
- I do not throw myself at seemingly available men at the bar or wherever just on the off-chance that they may be date-able.
So in conclusion, if anybody knows whatever rock it is that mature, emotionally ready, stable, and commit-worthy men live under…damn, just drop a sista a hint.
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FFMPEG, A breakdown of settings
Recently for a project I was tasked with the challenge to setup a server distribution to handle any video upload, transcode it to MP4 with autostart capabilities and get it looking great on Apple/Android devices. I accepted the challenge, and was it ever fun. I’m not going to get into the gritty details of setting up FFMPEG on a linux machine, but after a few good hours of package installation on a Rack Cloud Debian machine, i got a really solid system running, all that was left was to write the commands to process the file uploads.
Conversion
The goal here was not only to get a small file size, decent bitrate and audio, but also keep the audio/video in sync & get it fully compatible for iPhone/iPad/Android devices./usr/bin/ffmpeg -i /var/dir/in_file.mov -r 24 -vsync 1 -async 1 -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -vcodec libx264 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv+trell -aic 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -s 560x336 -title MetaTitleName /var/dir/outfile_tmp.mp4
The keys to my success on this were as follows:
- -r 24 -vsync 1 -async 1 helped to solve sync issues with the audio/video. I think the win here is to specify the hard framerate with the -async -vsync switches for it to work best
- -acodec libfaac ensured that there was a compatible audio stream for Apple devices
- -vcodec libx264 again, many to choose from but h264 was a great choice and ensured playback properly for Apple devices
Faststart
It’s always a pain when you have to sit there and wait for a file to download all the way before the packet of information is found at the end telling the video to start. Just doing an mp4 conversion isn’t enough, you need to introduce the gt-faststart command which does some lovely magic and allows an immediate download./usr/bin/qt-faststart /var/dir/outfile_tmp.mp4 /var/dir/outfile_final.mp4
Simple, but very effective.
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Interviewer: Black history month you find…
Morgan Freeman: Ridiculous.
Interviewer: Why?
Morgan Freeman: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?
Interviewer: Oh, come on.
Morgan Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month?
Interviewer: (pause) Well, I’m Jewish.
Morgan Freeman: Okay. Which month is jewish history month?
Interviewer: There isn’t one.
Morgan Freeman: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?
Interviewer: No.
Morgan Freeman: Right. I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.
Interviewer: How are we going to get rid of racism?
Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it.
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