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Am trying Semagic again. Strange, as I'd really gotten used to the LJ web interface. Couple it with Firefox and BBCode and it's just about as versatile. Hh.
Am using Comskip to automatically detect commercials in some of the recordings from the TV computer. It's an impressive little piece of programming -- not quite user-friendly right out of the box, no UI, but smart. It can detect commercial breaks based on several different criteria: black space, silence, absence of network logos, closed-captioning (and you can define words on white- or blacklists; "MythBusters" goes in the white list while "Cialis" goes in the black).... And Comskip doesn't actually cut the file -- it outputs files in a variety of formats for the most popular MPG editors so that you can load and verify before snip-snipping. Clever. Highly recommended.
Still processing yesterday's pigskin apocalypse. I've been blessed in that the other three of the four "big sports" in this country, my favorites have, at one time or another, won the big one. In basketball, the Celtics had Larry Bird and a flickering of glory that would've been a dynasty had Len Bias stayed alive. The Royals had one glorious World Series win before the entire structure of professional baseball became infested with ballooning salaries, performance-enhancing substances and an economy that insured small-market teams became farm clubs for the big spenders. Hockey, well, the Bruins have been abysmal, but at least Ray Bourque got to lift Lord Stanley's Cup, and that's good enough for me. Football, though? The Chefs won the fourth Super Bowl, albeit before (even) my time. The Bolts won the AFL championship shortly before it merged with the NFL, but since then...yeah, nothing. There was the Epic in Miami, but there's at least two Nate Kaeding season-ending misses to make up for that. Mutter.
Still, I predict Colts-Saints, Manning's monkey off his back in a win. Please, God, let it happen to make sportscasters talk about something else other than how lousy of a QB Peyton is for not winning a Super Bowl.
Am using Comskip to automatically detect commercials in some of the recordings from the TV computer. It's an impressive little piece of programming -- not quite user-friendly right out of the box, no UI, but smart. It can detect commercial breaks based on several different criteria: black space, silence, absence of network logos, closed-captioning (and you can define words on white- or blacklists; "MythBusters" goes in the white list while "Cialis" goes in the black).... And Comskip doesn't actually cut the file -- it outputs files in a variety of formats for the most popular MPG editors so that you can load and verify before snip-snipping. Clever. Highly recommended.
Still processing yesterday's pigskin apocalypse. I've been blessed in that the other three of the four "big sports" in this country, my favorites have, at one time or another, won the big one. In basketball, the Celtics had Larry Bird and a flickering of glory that would've been a dynasty had Len Bias stayed alive. The Royals had one glorious World Series win before the entire structure of professional baseball became infested with ballooning salaries, performance-enhancing substances and an economy that insured small-market teams became farm clubs for the big spenders. Hockey, well, the Bruins have been abysmal, but at least Ray Bourque got to lift Lord Stanley's Cup, and that's good enough for me. Football, though? The Chefs won the fourth Super Bowl, albeit before (even) my time. The Bolts won the AFL championship shortly before it merged with the NFL, but since then...yeah, nothing. There was the Epic in Miami, but there's at least two Nate Kaeding season-ending misses to make up for that. Mutter.
Still, I predict Colts-Saints, Manning's monkey off his back in a win. Please, God, let it happen to make sportscasters talk about something else other than how lousy of a QB Peyton is for not winning a Super Bowl.
