Yearly Archives: 2024
Jeep: 4WD, Low Range
Had a small brush pile to get rid of but the pickup was full of mulch. Tossed the brush on the back of the Jeep, put it in 4WD/low range and headed down the hill to a big pile. Doesn’t look like much of a hill in the photo above but it’s steep-ish. The Jeep pulled it with no problem.
Decided to add a bit of flair to the Jeep.
Jessie, Riley and Steve
“What if this is as good as it gets?” Good enough.
Blog maintenance: Video
When I started blogging in 2002 it was really hard to include video in a post. YouTube was still three years away. Google had a video player for a while but streaming just wasn’t a thing. The first video files I uploaded were tiny because they had to download before they could be watched. But all that changed with faster computers and more bandwidth. And, of course, smart phones that could record video.
YouTube made it very easy to upload and share video from a website like mine. I have 677 posts on this blog that include video. Most of those were created by someone else but I’ve created a couple of hundred. My first was in February of 2006.
There are other streaming platforms besides YouTube. Vimeo, TED Talks, and WordPress has a player for streaming mp4 files. Fifty-nine of my posts use something other than a YouTube embed.
My posts with video now fall into several categories under Media & Entertainment:
- Best Scenes
- Commercials
- Documentary
- Music
- Short Films
- Steve TV
- TV Clips
- Trailers
Of the 200+ videos that I’ve posted here, 44 of them were me talking to the camera. Not sure these would be considered “selfies.”
Audio
Seventy-nine of my posts include audio. Interviews, funny songs, old radio jingles and commercials, etc. Some of my favorite stuff.
Quotable
“By populating the world with so many different minds, each with its own point of view, God gives us a suggestion of what it means to be omniscient.”
— Quicksilver (Neal Stephenson)