Tonight I have had two goals: Get “La Boum” (a french class favorite) and “Tell No One” (also in french, but I forgot the french title) onto my computer. The problem with foreign films are the subtitles. Basically I converted a split movie in two parts to one movie in iPhone format (.mp4). Now joining the two movies together isnt a big deal, but getting the subs right is another story. Basically I had to hunt down programs that’ll join subs (only could find windows prog’s…yay for the parallels) and found a couple apps that would do the trick. However then I had to deal with framerates and the imported framerate and the exported framerate and that was a real hassle. Once I finally got the subs done with each app to see if they were different I loaded up the movie with the subs via a program for the mac called “Muxo”. Muxo is an app that was most likely thrown together because its pretty buggy, but if you know what youre doing does the trick. After loading the movie in iTunes I then proceeded to play it only to find out that my macbook pro would crash due to mismatched framerates. So now I have to reencode the movie all over again because muxo wont let me take out the bad subtitles (i said it was buggy) so I’m awake and complaining. One of the cooler benefits of tonight is finding out about wordpress.
I had blogger in the past but really didnt have a use for it. I found that I wasn’t using it because I’d often forget about it and no one knew my address. Heres where the new plan comes in. Tonight wordpress for iPhone was released. Yup, thats right, I have an iPhone. Not because im a snob who has to get everything expensive, but because I’m a huge apple fan, CS major (hoping to make apps for the iPhone ASAP), and kind of a nerd when it comes to technology.
With wordpress’ app for the iPhone I’ll be able to keep up on a blog. So whoever wants to read it go ahead. It’ll be here so view it.
My goals are to add pictures in the future and maybe start writing better.
Another thing I almost forgot is that today it is my best friend Mack Kolarich’s birthday.
Mack and I have been best friends ever since elementary school. Mack is one of those guys who you always knew would be successful one day. He was always in the honors classes, knew what he wanted, and often aimed to make it a reality. Mack is also pretty stylish, but in a masculine sense (think Armani), humorous (has a similar sense of humor which always makes hanging out fun), and we have other mutual interests (like cooking and women). Anyways to honor his birthday I’m gonna post one of our posters from our RAGBRAI adventure the summer of 2006 where we ran “Mack and Drew’s Energy Stand”
mackdrewstandposter (Warning: PDF)
