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Ping Pong (or is it Table Tennis? – phh – Ping Pong!!)

To quote Weird Al’s song White and Nerdy – “I could sure kick your butt in a game of ping pong!”

Well, maybe not.

But, I am getting better. We had a tournament a few months ago at work and I got schooled. I haven’t played Ping Pong since way back in the day at the Chisholm Rec in the summer, and then, I was good.

So, knowing I am moving soon and I won’t have a lot of time to hang out with some people at work that are good friends, I decided to play ping pong at least once a day.

I usually play Chris and Brad. At first I would maybe win 1 out 3 games, usually the last one (winner takes 2, but we usually play 3 just for kicks). Well today I finally won 2 out of 3. You see, Brad and Chris are like playing every day for months, crazy. Surprised they aren’t going to quit to become professional ping-pong players. All I can say is Chris – Brad smoked you today, and I beat him, so you know what that means. No going downstairs just to volley, this isn’t Nam, there are rules, dude.

Anyways, it’s a good time. I am pretty picky on my paddle, ball, and even the table. We have two tables at work and one is really dark, and there is a space below the net – I hate that table. There are some paddles that are just really bad, the new ones they got are nice. Some balls are heavier, I really don’t like those, or the colored one (like basketballs, etc) – just plain ol white is good 🙂

It is a good time and a fun way to break up the day, for sure. Out in Portland I am going to have to find a place to play. PPPP (Portland Ping Pong Players?)

Here is a video of our latest match:

Ok, yeah, we are crazy I know. I am in the Red 🙂

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Windows Media Player 11 – Video Support

I really like Windows Media Player for the music library features, organizing, rating, etc. In Vista, the Photo Gallery takes care of pictures well, and videos too (tagging) – gotta love it, the photo gallery handles the videos. But the Video organization in Windows Media Player is, lacking.

When you are in music, you can organize by Album, Artist, Genre, etc. Video just has Actor. I have like 250 music videos, and organizing them becomes a pain. One other thing that is just missing in my opinon is, video preview when you are in the library view. With a song, you don’t need this obivously, you just listen. But a video, you can’t see it unless you goto the “Now Playing” tab. So you end up switch back and forth just to organize, quite a headache.

Maybe as I use it more, I will uncover an easier way to organize all my media, photos, music and videos. A “de-duping” feature for music would be great. That is one thing Itunes has that WMP is lacking.
With 80+ gb of music, organizing becomes a part time job 🙂

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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker: I'm the next Steven Spielberg – "Star Wipe!"

So, I have a ton of pictures that I take with my Sprint Pocket PC 6700. I decided to take some and make probably the most basic movie, slideshow with some music. Works pretty well. You can just import the pics, import the music, say “AutoMovie” and then edit the beginning and ending credits.

The transitions are added automagically and it actually looks pretty good. Reminds of the time Homer tries to make a dating video for Flanders

Lisa: OK, I finished editing the gardening sequence. . .
Homer: OK, from here we star wipe to a glamour shot of Flanders paying his bills, then we star wipe to Flanders brushing his teeth
. . .
Lisa: Dad, there are other wipes besides star wipes. . .
Homer: Why eat hamburger when you can have steak?
Lisa: I’m taking my name off this thing.

Homer Simpson - Star Wipe

Anyways, you can publish out different formats (well, not different formats – just WMV from what I see) , but publish out different sizes (email, your computer, etc) which just makes the quality better or worse depending on size.

Might next gadget just might have to be a digital video camera. It’s only the next logical step. 🙂

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I so want to goto this – South By Southwest

It is in Austin, TX, and its like a geek and artist fest – Music, Film, Technology. Its close enough to South Padre that I could go visit my grandparents too. We will see whats up in March.