Tag: Video

The Irish Finale

I departed the Enterprise starving, and in pain a bit from the ridiculous amount of walking in Belfast. I went down the stairs to the tram station and the Google Transit app said there were no more trains but there was a dot-matrix display showing next tram in 7 minutes with a group of at least fifteen people waiting for the tram. Then a local said to the group no more trams tonight and the screen was for the next station down the line. A vocal man with an American accent convinced the group of people that the local was wrong. I looked at the sign and noticed it said “Busáras” and the blank one said “Connolly”. Since I can also read perfect Gaelic, I recognized that Busáras means Bus Station and Connolly was the name of the train station. I decided the local was right and since I didn’t know where the Bus Station stop was, I just followed the track, and it was not even a block away. My plan for the night was to go to an Irish Pub and grab dinner there, but once I got off the Luas (what Dublin calls trams/streetcars) near my hotel…

Europe 2018 #33 – Part 3

After a well rested night, it is now my birthday. I slept a bit late and left the hostel to wander around Dublin. The most important first stop was the local Costa Coffee shop across the plaza, and to pump up some energy for the day, and to Facebook creep what was going on in the world. After coffee, I went to the waterfront (river the passed through the city) and walked towards the area that the hostel said was where all the tour tickets could be brought about a 25-minute walk away. I took a lot longer taking photos and resting due to my limitations every couple of blocks. It was at this point that it hit me that, I was near no one I knew, in a place I knew nothing really about. This got me really sad. The first bridge I came across I thought was the famous (according to my map) Ha’penny Bridge. I Facebook Live posted a video going across it. (Which had no viewers.) Then as I continued on to the next bridge it had a sign that it was the Ha’penny Bridge. It looked cooler but yet less impressive and had about a…

Google Translate Songs

I found this video on YouTube today it is a parody of “Call Me Maybe” with bad but not terrible lyrics. Then from there, I found a Fresh Prince version that went through all 64 Google Translate options, and back to English. I then thought about what would it look like if Farewell to Nova Scotia lyrics were translated to all 64 languages and this was the result. Chorus:Vita Nova Beach.A bronze tart Residues.Be careful, because the salt.Or hate it? evening prayerSufficient trees and birds.but theBut I do not do it for more information. Chorus There is no need for me to go abroad.This was intention to friend.appropriateChildren / workout. Chorus Note that the drums.Lord of the universe.If Scotland can Hey, Michael.to Chorus sheInterior dimensions.However I know.Black holes and valleys from other women. Chorus x2 As you can see it is quite humorous. Now I can’t perform well enough to make my own video, but if someone does let me know and I’ll link to it.

I have a new Camera … again

I have a new Camera … again

About a week ago, I caved and bought a new piece of technology. Yes, as the title of this post suggests it is a new camera. Not just any camera it is the Canon PowerShot SX120 IS. Although not that much better than my S5 IS it is really the form factor that made me buy it. On the downside first, it is a smaller lens and only mono audio of the video, I can’t see the viewfinder for taking great one try self-portraits and I can’t set voice memos for the photos. On the good side, it only takes 2 AA batteries, and it is a 10 megapixel with a 10x optical zoom (my old cam is 12x). If you are wondering what the pictures look like, the strawberry waffles were taken with this camera. This has pushed me to update my SnapShots gallery that it is now run by WordPress and Gallery is about to be shut off, I just have the 2 largest albums to go through.

Parkway Mall

List of Shops August 14, 1973 Boutique Jack and Jill Canadian Acceptance Corporation Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Dairy Snack Bar Francine’s Beauty Salon Forget-Me-Not Gallenkamp G.B. Murphy Gem Photo Jean Junction LaBoutique Chez Helene Liquor Store Lumac Fabrics Maharaja Gifts Mariner Book Shops Mary K. Florals McAdam Optical Metropolitan New System Nordic Art Shops Parkway Cinema Quik Food Kiosk Radio Shack Reitman’s Sally Shops Save Easy Shoppers Drug Mart Silver Shears Sportique Ltd. Sweet Side The Villager Restaurant Tip Top Tailors Villager Shoes Zeller’s County Fair 1980 Zeller’s County Fair Ltd. Parkway Optical CAC Realty Mortgages New Brunswick Liquor Save-Easy Jean junction Ltd. Silver Shears People’s Jewelers The Hobby Hut Music World Francine’s Beauty Shop Gem Photo & Photographic Productions Canadian Acceptance Corp Ltd. New System Laundry Parkway Cinema I & II Reitman’s Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Thrifty’s Tip Top Tailors Ltd. McAdam Optical Forget-Me-Not Novelty Shop Sally Shops Ltd. Circle of Sound The Villager Restaurant Radio Shack Gallenkamp Shoes Shoppers Drug Mart M&D Transfer Ltd. Book Mart Metropolitan Stores of Canada (MET) 1985 Zellers Bun King Bakery NB Liquor No Frills Grocery Wicker ‘n’ Things Big Deal Gift Shop Silver Shears People’s Jewelers Mable’s Yarn and Crafts…

My MacBook and Twitter vs. WordPress

Okay lets start by this stupid article from Wired: Steven Levy on the Burden of Twitter wired.com — The shame and remorse of not keeping up with Social Networking… I’m digging this story in honor of Steve Levy as he’s never ‘Dugg’ before… I think this article is a crock, just because this guy doesn’t update the Blog as often as he used to doesn’t mean that Twitter is to blame. For ages now it had become a popular thing in Windows/MSN/Windows Live Messenger that people would change their name to include a “status”  of what they were doing that it was eventually permanently added as a feature. AIM, IRC, Facebook, Twitter… the short message is usually the perfect size to let others know what you think. I am still certain however that this does not replace the need for the long format that a blog allows to express your full thoughts on a topic. Generally speaking I use Twitter to update something quickly as I’m usually only using me iPhone or Macbook while laying in bed in the morning so I can tell the world quickly my thought or things of interest, and have it auto populate to the…

Again another post and another year!

While since it is a new year it just seems different. 2006 was a very bad year as I posted a year ago now that I look back at the posts I made and 2007 went by without many successes or failures. But, now it ’tis 2008. I can’t wait this looks to be the year that every thing seems to be heading to. This spring there is another one of those municipal elections. Not to say that I would run again seeing as how things are going, but who knows what will happen. On the political side of things I don’t see me doing much this year as there is still uncertainty as to where I will be come the end of it. I’m, along with Tony Tompkins are working on a web cast series titled “The Badger Hunter” the editing of the pilot episode is almost done on that and is slated for release on February 29th. We are currently about to begin filming of the second episode. I’ve been going over some of the code for my photo gallery and seem to have it fixed despite the unknown reason that the background of the main section disappears on…

WWWeeee….. I’m one of those shoppers.

Okay so I thought that I would post a YouTube video that I think is killer! But on another note on what I just realized I am an “Impulsive A**hole Bargain Shopper”. Today at work I learned that a shipment of “on-sale” Miracle Whip came in and customers were buying lots of it. Knowing how fast it ran out on Saturday I could not help myself but buy the limit of 2 bottles. Now I don’t really eat miracle whip too much, a bottle half the size would last me 2 months, but I could not stop myself (I just couldn’t) I just had to buy it. Knowing full well that it probably would not get eaten, kinda like the soup and Kraft Dinner from 2 months ago that are still in my cupboard uneaten. I always laughed at those people so it is really depressing to realize I’m one.

The pics are up, the question of Life, and other stuff.

Okay, to start off with I have posted the pics that were taken during my Toronto trip on my camera phone in my gallery https://cefm.ca/category/snapshots/ if you are reading this via RSS or Facebook) I still have some more that were taken with my Digital Camera. Remember the Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. Crushed Beautifully 2 has now been storyboarded and my other video project, working title is “Remember…” has been rewitten and just needs some more casting. And than filming. I am hoping to get it submitted to a film festival by this fall. As for movies I have seen recently I have to make a three really good recomentations, in order of greatness is Oceans 13 (CEFM Rating: 4.5/5), Knocked Up (CEFM Rating: 5/5), and Pirates of the Carribean 3 (CEFM Rating: 5/5). I cannot wait until the Simpsons movie (CEFM Rating: 5/5) comes out and Licence to Wed (CEFM Rating: 3.5/5) with Robin Williams.

Facebook vs. MySpace

So for the last few weeks I have used Facebook a lot. It is really easier than MySpace, and does more. Like these posts for an example. As I write these I am using by blogging software on my website called WordPress. And it makes XML files for an RSS reader. Now Yahoo360, Windows Live Spaces, and Facebook will get my blog directly from this site, but not MySpace for MySpace I have to copy and paste it. The best thing about MySpace is the videos because I can post those on here but I can’t do a YouTube Video easily. Also I have found a lot of long-lost acquaintances on Facebook which is really cool. I guess that is it.