Here are a compilation of photos from Aiden’s first week. They start in the hospital and follow through the week at home.
Our Son Aiden Was Born
Here are the pictures of our son Aiden and our happy family!
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Gorilla Chases Banana through Union Station
Gorilla Chasing Banana through Union Station from Adam Cavaliere on Vimeo.
This video was taken at Chicago’s Union Station and was done the Friday before Halloween.
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HTC Incredible Video Settings
I have been using Handbrake to re-encode my videos when I want to watch them on my HTC Incredible Droid.
These are the settings being published on the Android forums:
HTC Incredible Settings for Handbrake:
Container: MP4
[Picture]
Width: 800
Keep Aspect Ratio: Checked
Anamorphic: None
Cropping: Automatic
[Video Filters]
All off all unchecked
[Video]
Video Codec: H.264 (x264)
Framerate (FPS): same as source
2-Pass Encoding: unchecked
Avg Bitrate (kbps): 1500 (may change this on next encode)
[Audio]
Source: Select your language
Audio Codec: AAC (faac)
Mixdown: Automatic
Samplerate: Auto
Bitrate: 160
DRC: 0
Shop Tour
Here is a video tour of my shop, with stills following the video.
Here are the stills of my shop, view them on flickr for descriptions of each picture:
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My Movies and Powershell
I have a rather large media collection and wanted to start utilizing My Movies to catalog all of them. The interesting part with My Movies is that every movie must be in its own directory. Since I have too many to want to do this manually, I decided to write a script to do this for me. It creates the directory from the name of the file and moves the file into the directory it just created. After it is done doing that, it then scans the directories to see whether or not the movies have been added to the My Movies database. If it doesn’t detect that the movie was added, it creates a list and displays it with notepad. As you add the movies into the database, every new scan will not show the movie after it was added.
Please feel free to modify – let me know if you think I can enhance this somehow.
Download – Or view the full script below
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Mini Plant Stand Build
Mandy and I wanted a small plant stand for one of our plants in the house. I figured it would be a fun project to do this weekend and was able to knock it out, sans the final finishing coat. Here is a pictoral of my construction. I tried to remember to take as many pictures as possible, but got wrapped up as I moved through the project.
The Glue Up:
Boards for the Aprons and Legs
The aprons and legs
Tapering the legs:
Tapered Legs:
Setting up the Mortiser:
Mortised Leg:
Gluing up the aprons and legs:
Legs and Aprons joined:
Sanded Table Top:
Grain Filler before dye:
Grain filler drying on table top:
Finished Plant Stand:
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Road America 2009 – Alfa Romeo Club
These are videos and pictures from the Alfa Romeo Club’s Road America event in October. The first set is of only Alfa Romeos. If you want to see larger versions or order prints, click on the picture and then choose to view on flickr.
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