NYT: Restoring Slumberland. Peter Maresca’s quixotic reprint project restores a selection of Winsor McCay’s amazing comic strip to full-size, on newsprint-like stock. The 21″ x 16″ book is priced at a bargain $120 and was printed in an edition of 5,000. The books are available for purchase via sundaypressbooks.com.
sleepy
Man, long day. We met a contractor at the new house, ate at Cyndy’s Pancake House, showed the house to some friends, and then I picked up Dan, Spence, and Manuel for a League meeting in Georgetown, from which I have just returned.
Some statements.
The video iPod is not yet in Apple stores.
There is an Apple-hosted page on converting or creating video content for your iPod here. In essence, downsize it to spec using Quicktime 7 tools.
There is a page here which covers working with Tivo To Go content, importing and exporting it to and from the DRM the content comes wrapped in. In essence, use one of a few tools to save it as plain MPEG.
Unknown until tested are the undocumented features that may or may not be found in association with the S-Video out port on the new iPod dock; in particular, can the S-Video port support higher-resolution playback than the built-in screen’s native resolution of 320 x 240, quarter-VGA. Standard NTSC is 640×480, if I recall correctly.
Finally, will the iTunes store’s current podcast support seamlessly allow videobloggers to deliver content? Could an extant podcaster with a currently-supported podcast stream available through the Store slipstream video content to the new device?
Hmmmm.
just looking
To my interest and surprise, ebay is chockablock with 1/8″ video-input headmounted ‘iGlasses.‘
Surely Apple can do better than this.
flickgrrr
Oh man, flickr is driving me batty. The iPhoto module flickrexport works well, but a) does not successfully apply privacy settings in all cases, at least for me and b) I couldn’t get it to upload to an extant group. I only noted this after uploading all 1200 photos from 2004. Upon cursory googling, I found no hint of any large-scale batch management tools for photos uploaded without an assigned group, making it nearly impossible to move all of these photos to one group, and definitely impossible for me to change the privacy settings.
(UPDATE: It appears that for whatever reason the Organizr link ‘batch operations’ was invisible to me. Dunno If I missed it or if it didn’t render in the flash.)
My preferred course of action was to upload everything – five years’ worth – into year-long groups, locked down as fully private. Then, I would go though and find what I wanted to unlock.
At the same time as I have been doing this – overnight and so forth – I have been reuploading to my old Gallery install. So far, I’m afraid, old, piggy, runs slow as winter molasses Gallery is beating the pants off Flickr. I can see where once it’s all uploaded the incremental updates and sharing features are pretty cool, but geez, if you’re a completist pack rat like me it’s nearly as fun as going though your deceased family member’s forty-nine racks of slides dating back several decades.
I did try Uploadr, but it craps out on me every time somewhere around picture 250. It, at least, creates sets, uploads to existing sets, and accurately assigns permissions.
Have an error
A while ago I concluded that I had accidentally eaten part of a habanero, a conclusion not embraced by all but one which remains in place in my mind. This belief was reinforced when last night I unthinkingly popped a whole roasted pepper into my mouth and then thought to ask, just as my diaphragm went into convulsions, “Was that a habanero?”
It was. I’m still feeling it. The immediate, five-minute symptoms last night and last May were quite identical. Happily, we were able to flag a waiter down to bring a shot of rum in short order. The rum was quite helpful.
gDisk
gDisk, via James.
Beans
Stacey has a delicious sounding bean soup recipe. I imagine I’ll skip the whole pureeing nonsense, as the texture of a toothy bean is a sublime thing. If attacked on the grounds of non-puree, i will simply leap behind my Cuban relations.
Tasteful decoration
It’s always halloween at my house!
Also, sometimes I try to post several thousand photos at a time to flickr, which makes me swear and cuss.
Also also, it seems that flickr and MT don’t always see eye to eye, imagine that.
GAOLgle
NYT: Google, Comcast hanker after AOL.
A little bird told me about some impending uncertainty at AOL. I wonder if this news would have a positive or negative impact on that uncertainty?