Just found this tiny little gold nugget from the end of 2015 in Wikiloops, from Ms Patty and Mr Paul:
Awesome. Thanks Patty & Paul – and thanks to you for listening.
Cool :)
One of the neighbours’ cats just walked over my notebook, pressing the key combination to take a screenshot. So he’s an IT cat… interesting…
… and yes, we’re open for visitors. Both human & feline… 🙂
As always, thanks for reading 🙂
Looking forward to seeing “Bullseye”
As I wrote to my brother yesterday, the next version of Debian Gnu/Linux 11, codename “Bullseye” (like always it’s named after Toy Story characters), now has a release date announced. It was fully frozen ten days ago, so it was only a question of time…
Can’t wait to see this next stable version of the universal operating system, as the Debian devs call it. And I can say thanks already, like I always do (used to help the team a bit, and who knows, maybe I’ll do that again in the future). It’s a system for us all.
Setting output levels in Ardour
Some fellow musician in Wikiloops asked about output levels of songs, and how to get these. I tried to answer it to my best knowledge, and also explained how *I* do this using Ardour. Since version 6.3 of Ardour there are two ways to export to a certain loudness level, and I hadn’t fully explained that before, so I did it now – and made a short howto video about it:
In case that is useful, I’m glad that I could help. And as always, thanks for reading, and watching/listening.
A “selfie” with my “webcam” at 720p
Toying around with my camera and OBS again because in less than a month from now, I won’t be an employee of IBM anymore, and so I’ll have to give back my current notebook, iPhone, and all what belongs to them. And on my own desktop machine I don’t have a webcam. But I have a very nice photo camera which is my Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2, and my latest lens is the 17mm/1.8 Micro Zuiko which has that awesome manual focus “clutch”, very useful especially for videos… so here you go, tried this one in 720p:
OBS is currently set up to use Full HD (1920×1080), but that isn’t enough to show my whole desktop which would be 1920×1200, so I’ll have to experiment and to decide how to use that camera. A video stream of 720p would certainly be enough for video calls, since normally you’ll have more than one other person on the screen at the same time anyway.
But yes, let’s see how that goes – would like to use it with my fellow moderators from Wikiloops for a test, so I’m excited to see them again as well 🙂
Anyway, thanks for reading and viewing as always.
Birds in our garden
I played around with my phone first, but later changed to my normal camera. Here’s a short cut from a longer video I made of the birds in our garden:
As always, thanks for watching…
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Partly in the shade
Took this one of “Cookie” today, with a Panasonic 35-100mm zoom lens (set to about 64mm) on my camera:
I used an Ilford HP-5+ film simulation within RawTherapee, and corrected the exposure about hald a step down.
As always, thanks for viewing.
Prof. Moustache about alcohol
Zuleikha recently asked what’s so great about alcohol. I tried to explain why people still consume it despite all the negative effects, but who could explain it better than Professor Moustache? That’s a series from the French/German TV channel ‘Arte’, and here it is with English subtitles:
As always, thanks for reading, and viewing. And thanks to Arte.TV for the explanation.
Ron Carter – The Shadow Of Your Smile
Look at this photo. And listen to this music. If that ain’t perfect, I don’t know what is…
Thanks Ron!