finally started digitizing all my home videos (that include work documentation over the years too) to MP4 format. I have at least 100 tapes (8mm and miniDV). I import about 3-4 a day and then let FCP batch process them while I sleep. I can still edit them if I want, but I've already done that with the ones I want. Right now I just want to be able to skim through a 2hr video to find something without sticking the tape into the machine.

OP was a joke, referencing Michael Dell's 1997 comment about how he would fix Apple at the time. His response: "Close it down and give the money back to the shareholders"

We had an odd problem with the U-Verse phone service where it would not display the Caller ID for my MIL.
My wife won't answer the phone if she can't see the Caller ID, so if it says "UNAVAILABLE" she will let it ring.
I tried to get them to figure out what was wrong and after about 2 hours they figured it out.
The rep was very apologetic and offered to "make it up" to us because we were so "understanding"
He offered 1 month of Free HBO

I asked him what was our obligation after that free month.
He paused.
I asked him if we would then get billed for the second month if we didn't cancel.
"Well, yes" was his reply
I asked him if there was ANY other way he was authorized to "make it up" to us.
He told me there was nothing else.

before they got in the car?

"GET IN THE CAR!"

Proteins take longer to digest so that's why you feel "full" longer. And it doesn't take a lot either.

Got me interested in concepts that made me want to go to the library at a young age to read science fiction.
How the book got in our house is a mystery to me, when I went back to try to recover it, its existence was denied by the caretakers of my youth.

Probable-Possible, my black hen,
She lays eggs in the Relative When.
She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
Because she's unable to Postulate How.

Flappity, Floppity, Flip!
The Mouse on the Möbius Strip
The Strip revolved
The Mouse dissolved
In a chronodimensional skip.

look up PLANTCAM on Amazon. Several models by the same company. time-lapse pics also video, motion activated uses batteries and an SD card I think.

Other person: **# .....this doesn't work
Me: that's OK, try my other line STAR STAR STAR STAR
Other person: **** ...wtf?
Me: No, press the star button twice, then spell STAR twice. It's like 1111 or 0000 only much easier!
Other person: Tell you what, why don't you call me instead?
Me: OK, what's your **ME number?
Other person: **POUNDSAND

inside with a window that is separated from the "real" outside wall by a few inches.
You will be surprised at how effective this is while leaving the original "look and feel" of the room.

has dueling auto-play videos that have nothing to do with subject. so turn down yer volume.

one of these
then I would stay home and pilot everything via my iPad.

That way when the ship capsized, I would be fine and still be able to send out my backup ship.
You DO have a backup ship right?

that Walt Jr. can have BOTH pancakes AND cereal for breakfast?

Give your mom a box of backups and ask her to hold on to it, it is "stuff you made"
She'll never get rid of it.
and if the house catches fire, it will be the first thing she grabs when she runs out.

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