I hate Apple

I had this great idea to use CNN Student news (I know, it sounds like I've sold out to the enemy. But FOX doesn't provide a student news program) in the morning at Bethesda/PATH. So Sunday night I download the news and try to xfer it to my Zen.

Error. Try again. Error.

Four in the morning and I'm still trying to resolve why my video converter will not work. No luck.

Tonight I finally find a discussion group that addressed this problem. Seems like Apple set up the latest version of Quicktime so that it would crash my Creative Video Converter.

I deleted Quicktime and installed a shareware version. Now everything is working fine. Yippee!

Silly Motivational Posters

Court Inequality

Well, I only had 5 responses to the poll. I posted it because of a court case in Perry County. The few Poll results I did get were what I expected. People seem to agree that people should get relatively stiff penalties for having sex with children.

What concerns me is the double standard. In Perry County, a 24 year old woman received a 3 to 18 month suspended sentence for having sex with a 14 year old boy. She is also a the mother of a baby boy. The baby is the son of the 14 year old boy. The judge (Kathy Morrow) doesn't want the baby to suffer from separation from the mother. Hence the lean (non-existent) sentence. I suppose the message is, ladies, if your going to have sex with a minor, make sure you get knocked up.

What if the roles were reversed. If the 24 year old were the father, he wouldn't get out of jail until the baby was 20 years old. I know that the role of the father is just as important as the role of the mother. Why do we treat the sexes difference in these cases?

Trace's First Christmas

A quick video I made off of a friends video. Her husband is stationed out of the country. I'm posting it here so that he can view it, but you can watch it too.

Baby Goes Boom breaks a Grand

One of my first editing jobs just broke 1000 hits on YouTube. Check out "Baby Goes Boom" on My YouTube and help make this video go big.

Knoebel's

Instead of posting the second half of the cooking vid (which can be watched on my YouTube Channel) I'm posting our Knoebel's Trip Video.

Cooking With Courtland

Junior's boys are in for a week or so. As promised, we filmed Courtland cooking. We stayed simple - spaghetti, meatballs, veggies dip, rice krispie treats. The whole video is a bit long, so it is in two parts. Here is part one of Cooking With Courtland --

Paintball Warriors

Mia and her gang all bought paintball guns. We decided to take them out for a test game on some of Frank's family property. Pretty exciting. No serious casualties. And I can still hold my own with my Tippman Pump Gun.

Dan and I worked real well together and managed to flank our opponents fairly regularly. Jerry - no surprise here - was a super athlete. He was a one man paintball killing machine.

Hopefully everyone will want to continue playing and we can get out again soon.

TV Widget

Added a TV Widget to my MySpace.

Get your own widget.

New Section Finished on My MySpace

I've finished adding the music section to my MySpace. I tried to get a sample of bands I like, but not necessarily the most known songs by the artist or band.

Ocean City MD

We left Wednesday morning on a semi-spontaneous trip to the shore. The ride down was great. No traffic jams, construction, or any other problems. We made it to the shore by lunch.

I spent most of my time reading on the beach or flying my kites. Jerry bought a body board and beat himself up with it in the surf. He also went to H2O, the only under-21 club in OC, in the evenings. He had a great time at the club and it was probably the highlight of the trip for him so far.

Today we head north to Rehoboth Beach.

Vacation Time

Going on vacation. Jerry and I are leaving this AM and will return early next week. Stay tuned for updates.