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Who Wants To Buy Me This..?

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admin
on May 27, 2008
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This is the SONY HDRSR12. It is awesome. 1920 x 1080 resolution recording for 880 minutes to the 120Gb HDD. This will be particularly useful for my travels because i wont need to upload all the data to my computer every day (I doubt I’ll be recording 880 minutes every day), so i’ll have more free time. 880 minutes = 14.667 hours which is plenty. That should be at least a week of recording time (I hope), so once a week I’ll sit down in the evening, transfer all the video & still photos I’ve taken during the week and edit up a video podcast or something. Once video podcast a week should be good. About 10-20 minutes per podcast. Although I’ll only upload podcasts in SD to save upload time. When I finish the trip I’ll edit up the footage into a documentary-type series thing, though, mainly for myself to look back on all the experiences, etc.

Anyway, back to the HDRSR12. It is awesome. Apart from the 1920×1080i recording, it also can record still photos simultaneously, has 5.1 stereo input, touchscreen LCD, face detection, microphone and headphone jacks, manual settings and more. It kicks ass. It’s also only $1640 at the cheapest place I’ve found (+ shipping) which is pretty darn cheap for an awesome HD Video Camera. Now if I can just get Final Cut Pro and this awesome camera, I’ll be all set for my video-making needs…

More camera porn…

Awesome Travel Video/Documentary

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darcy
on May 10, 2008
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This video is simply awesome. Just watch it. A little corny at times, but what the heck.

Goals: Ten Thousand Things

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darcy
on May 2, 2008
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I’ve recently started a list of things that I want to do, see, drink, taste, smell, or experience in my life time. You can find this list here.

If anyone has any suggestions for additions, please comment here.

Posts will now be two weeks late…

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darcy
on April 28, 2008
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When I’m traveling, I won’t have access to a computer all the time, so I’ll have to write posts up in bulk after the fact, so you’ll have a steady stream of new reading/listening/watching material. For example:

Basically you’ll read everything 2 weeks after It actually happens. This will give me time to make sure I don’t miss days for posts (though I’m sure this will end up happening) and to make sure I don’t need to worry about getting to an internet cafe at the end of every day.

So, to get into this habit, and to avoid a big gap in posts when i actually start traveling, I’ll start posting now two weeks in advance. This means you’ll see things two weeks late. You should see at least one post every day, though, which would mean there will be nearly 600 posts by the time I actually leave (wow!).